Mansion's Maniac Mysteries - Season Three, Mission #3
Rollover and Finale written by Aleena, Sebastian Dash, Mary Kate O'Toole, Shelldor and Catrina Whiteclaw
(Graphic logo courtesy of SnowCatCuties & SnowCat's Designs)

Historical recap: Wow, has our version of the World of Loathing changed since the first adventures! The cast has grown and continues to grow this mission. Of course, the stories have changed quite a bit. Just like Season one started in the shadows of the backstory-only Peretene/ KOKOL war, Season 3 starts in the shadows of the world nearly ending in Season 2.

Although many new adventurers fill our stories, several season two names such as Sassy Snake, Wildfall and Jen are still around. We've even still got names from all the way back in Season one, like Sebastian Dash, the returning Sir Fumblies and Cattaras Whiteclaw (although he wasn't properly a player character until sometime in Season 2). The effects of the events of the first two seasons, such as the collapse of the Knob Goblin Kingdom and the antics of the Penguin Mafia, continue to be felt into the newest Season.

The Story so far: That brings us to Season 3, of course.

We started dealing with Season two leftover plot threads which continued into Catbird as several heroes were tasked with finding either a mission trio of KOKOL allies - Aleena, Sebastian Dash and Catrina Whiteclaw- while others sought out the legendary Toot Oriole (at least, the AIL version), who had been missing since the near-end of the world during Season 2. Afterwards, the focus quickly shifted to the Somber Six, with the current mission continuing that trend as a strange force field has appeared around the Spookyraven mansion shortly after the Finale during the last mission.

Out of character wise, this is the mission that started while I was on a real world vacation with my family, a road trip to Maine, which was pretty much all around awesome. Not perfect but memorable and enjoyable. In terms of the AIL story, we see two debuts by player characters. Of course, there's all kinds of new NPC's here as well. By the end of this mission, we'll have seen five of the Somber Six, in fact. So that's pretty big, as they will probably be our mission focus for several missions still to come.

As mentioned, Iris and SnowCatCuties both debut this mission. Sir Fumblies makes a huge return! Koumori's here too as our adventurers and heroes are mostly baffled by the force field surrounding Spookyraven mansion (and the nearby buildings). . .

Feature character: Iris debuts!  Although only seen in a single solo roleplay, it's a whirlwind of a ride, covering her present and background- oh and it introduces a Somber Six member! It's quite the exceptional piece, I'd say! She debuts a little later in the mission.
Co feature character: Sir Fumblies is finally back in action! We find out where he's been and then he gets involved in the mission. There's drama, mystery and humor here as well. We get to see him hang out with Blackeagle, Becky Joy, and Wildfall, in addition to a couple back to back solos.
Co feature character: SnowCatCuties is our other debut! She is the daughter of a hero from Honorburg- and she's come to the Kingdom hoping to find her mother. She is a clever, creative gal who brings, as our voter mentions, something of a spy or infiltration vibe. She should prove to be another fun addition to AIL.
Mary Kate O'Toole nails it again this mission, turning in what the voter called her strongest showing to date. She scores co-writes in this mission with a few different player characters and scores her own solo as well. She meets interesting NPC's and shows off all kinds of different sides of herself in this mission.
Koumori again graces us with his presence and we again get to see him united with Mary Kate. This time he runs into Wildfall as well. He plays a big part later in Mary's stories, in fact.
Sassy Snake is back, and although less active this mission, she's as good as ever. She runs into a few surprising NPC's as well. Always fun to see our visitor from the "Mirrorworld!"
Blackeagle- the groundbreaking duo of John and Sherri - are back. We get to see them settling into the ninja town and being sent to search for Sir Fumblies, during which they end up fighting clowns from clown rock.
Wildfall's around and hanging out with Mary, proving a calmer, more sarcastic voice which blends well with her. We start to see just how much he really cares for her here- and how complicated the relationship can be at times.
Beck Joy brings her unique humor back for a couple of co-writes, meeting up with Tomato, Blackeagle and Sir Fumblies in Seaside Town.
Aleena continues dealing with the loss of her cysuit - and she shows off an exceptionally clever way of getting around that!
Cattaras Whiteclaw, once a sworn enemy to his sister and to KOKOL, shows why he's a hero - and now a powerful ally to a once former enemy, that being . . .
Sebastian Dash. Dash continues to show his heroic spirit, as the "original Adventurer" of AIL always does.
Jen's here again, so we get to see her concern for her Morlencir leader/ queen Aleena. As well as the continuing relationship between Cattaras and Jen.

Seaside Town adventurers and others around the force field: Bob, Bristle, the Council of Loathing (and lackeys), Uncle Crimbo, Dottie, Watt "Sparks" Farrad, two Knob Goblin brutes, Gem, Bob's ghost pickle on a stick, a goblin dock worker, Bob's grue, Hardwire, Linger, Doser Crystal Ice, Blizzard "Frosty" McChilledice, Sailor McGuffin, a panda monk, Carlo Penno, lil Pete, random adventurers around the forcefield, random Knob Goblins, several young ninjas, Shelldor, Bob's spooky gravy fairy, Bob's spooky pirate skeleton, Tomato, a trio of Vikings, and a wounded town guard.

Others: Alys, Arena Suzie's baby yeti, Todd Blackpaws, Burly Sidekick (cameo), candy shop assistant, the child ghost in Sir Fumblies' armor, Cottonmouth Joe, the council of ninjas, a council scribe who mumbled, an elf or two, Fahari, Finn, forest folk, four Quiet Healers (cameo), "Gobs' Gadgets" shopkeeper, Knollish folk, Lumber the clumsy troll, a martini drinking Council penguin, Omar, Naomi, ninja village elder, ninja village guards, old timey ninja, Pete's snake friends, the Protagonist (cameo), random ninja kids in training, two spitting sabre-toothed limes, Spunky Princess (cameo), arena Suzie, and Catrina Whiteclaw.

The mysterious force field: Although not an enemy in the traditional sense, it manages to befuddle, confuse, and foil the attempts of our heroes to get past it- so I guess it did the job of a force field pretty well.

Co feature group: The Somber Six make their first impact as a group on this mission. Note: Some of the enemies listed as Somber Six allies (or under Miscellaneous) are speculation as we're not yet sure who is working for them and who isn't.

Somber Six & lackies: Boss Bat, Groar, Groar's unnamed 6'6" dwarven buddy, Trinity member Jerome, Trinity member Mortimer, Trinity's Muri-Dan thugs, Ratfink, Baron Von Ratsworth, Ratworth's minions, Renaissance Giant, six skeletal rats, Lord Spookyraven, thug rat guards, and Thug rats.

Miscellaneous: Bones (cameo), a space bugbear (cameo), clown rock clowns (seemingly endless), Blake Cutler (cameo), a charging burning beast (cameo), Kwadlin (cameo), an unnamed mindbender (cameo?), a muri dan thief, the Black Paladin, an invading accordion thief, Jester King of Beasts, and four goblins (cameo).