Syruss wants the party to break into a Polybody “Sleeving” facility–a place where the Porcelain Princes place their consciousnesses into a new body–and render it unusable. They are free to do this in any way they wish and can keep anything they find inside. He just wants the facility shut down.
In exchange, their reputation with the Redlanders will increase. He will teach them his fashion sense secrets, which will help them when interacting with others. The party agrees.
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The party is able to sneak into the upper city and find its way to the facility. It is built into the side of the mound and so mostly underground. There are several guards at the entrance.
Johann comes up with the idea of using Syrvelse’s status as a crystalgram influencer and says they want to show the facility’s workings to her followers. The guards accept this and wave them inside.
They find themselves in a “showroom.” Pedestals around the room hold a variety of bodies of various races and genders. They seem to be in some form of stasis.
A Porcelain Prince quickly appears, identifies himself as Salasan-6, and asks if they are looking for a polybody. Johann repeats his story of showing the facility to Syrvelse’s followers. Salasan doesn’t seem convinced of this. He says he can answer any of her questions but can’t let anyone deeper into the facility.
Syrvelse keeps talking to Salasan, and Mortimer starts loudly talking about one of the bodies on display to distract him as well. Johann then opens the flask of the mood-altering gas he got from the Rusted Hand and casts “Charm Person” on the distracted Salasan.
To his surprise, the spell works! Even with the resilience provided by having his consciousness spread over multiple bodies, Salasan falls under Johann’s spell. Plus, since there is only one consciousness, all of his polybodies are also charmed! The party immediately asks for the tour again, and he, of course, agrees.
He leads them through several rooms. Behind the first door, there is a desk where a person wearing an identical mask is sitting, but they do not acknowledge the party in any way.
Salasan leads them through a few rooms separated by security corridors, short hallways with a door on each end where only one entry can be open at a time. He finally leads them to a large room.
There are several glass tubes around the edges of the room, three of which contain bodies. There is an enclosed area in the center of the room, from which beams of light are being emitted that terminate in each tube. Salasan explains that this is where “mental templates” are being applied to new polybodies so that they can become part of the group polybody.
From there, they are lead through another series of corridors until he stops them at a yellow line drawn on the floor. He makes a hand gesture, then leads them onward.
They stop in a room illuminated with painfully bright purple lights. The lights turn off after a few seconds, and Salasan leads them onward, stopping only to make that hand gesture again in front of another yellow line.
He next shows them a room with several operating-style tables. He says this is where the special glands used to link polybodies are implanted into the new bodies.
He is about to show them the room where the glands are produced, but the party realizes that they have been on the tour for a while and that the Charm Person spell is getting close to wearing off. They quickly confer and come up with the idea to get all of Salasan’s bodies in one room for a “group photo.”
They retreat to the “template” room as it is the largest. All of Salasan’s bodies arrive, and every one poses in front of the glass tubes for the photo. Then Syrvelse suggests getting a shot of just the Salasans. The party steps away, leaving the polybodies clustered together. They then prepare to attack.