The House of the Planes

The squad, having successfully fought their way through the Underground to the backdoor to the criminal hedonistic nightclub House of the Planes in search of Jeremin Hoff, the corrupt supplier of labor for city construction projects. Hoff is rarely away from the club, preferring to do business within the safety of its environs. Each room on the main floor is given a different theme and decor, with a different plane of the Outer Sphere. 

The squad climbed the stairs to the back entrance and entered via a concealed door into a pantry. The pantry led to the kitchen, where Simi blessed the food and Valcos ruined a cheese plate by stealing a nosh from the bottom. 

Pharasma Imitator

They entered the central room called the Boneyard, presided over by a staff member dressed as Pharasma, the goddess of death, to be "judged". The walls of this room have been painted with an endless field of gravestones under a black sky. Open archways along the walls lead to numerous other rooms. Pharasma was perched on a spiral-marked headstone in the room’s center next to an oversized stone sarcophagus filled with dirt.

The host of the room is a halfling fence associate of Valcos' named Leila Scandrabar. The challenge of the Boneyard is simple; one lays down in a grave and allows themselves to be buried alive. Jorin volunteers for the challenge, and afterward finds out from her that a half-orc rogue named Ralso has been bringing masonry tools and other personal belongings to sell.  

The squad remembers Ralso and her boss Hendrid Pratchett, the owner of Dreaming Palace, in their first case at the Tipsy Tango.

Cass Hamish

The next room is the Nirvana Room, run by Cass Hamish, a human assassin of the Garotte Sisterhood. The walls of this room were painted with rolling hills, pastoral forests, and floating temples. The tables, bar, and seats in the room were mostly carved to look like tree stumps and other natural phenomena, save for a raised stone dais in the center which has a squared-off surface inset with lit torches. The challenge of the room is to wrestle the bartender inside the fire circle. Simi defeats the bartender and learns from Hamish that Cass stalked a target who disappeared in the Dreaming Palace, where Ralso is the Concierge. 

Reginald Vancaskerkin
Publisher of the Eyes on Absalon

Next, the squad visited the Heaven Room, run by Reginald Vancaskerkin, who owns and operates Eyes on Absalom, a scandal-filled newspaper. The walls of this well-lit room were painted with blue skies and bright, fluffy clouds, except for the wall behind the bar, which portrays an enormous mountain. Waitstaff drift between the tables wearing revealing white robes and fake feathered wings. A one-foot-high round stone pedestal stands in one corner. The challenge of this room is to confess one's most scandalous sin. 

Valcos relates when he visited Lord Graniosh during his 40th birthday, and seduced and then stole the jewelry from Lord Grandiosh's wife... then his mistress...then his mother. He finished by producing the signet ring of Lord Grandiosh as a souvenir. 

Afterwards Reginald said that he has come to the conclusion that the disappearances must be a serial killer 

In the Elysium room, run by Ahmoset Nez, who makes a living procuring rare animals and items for discerning patrons.  Simi undertakes the challenge of the griffon, placing her head in the griffon's mouth. From Nez she learns that Nez has supplied Pratchett a large Ocre Jelly as a garbage disposal for the hotel. 

The griffon

In the next room, entitled Hell, the squad finds Jererimin Hoff. The challenge in this room is to undergo the torture of the Tian Xia Butterfly Boots. The Butterfly Boots involve lying down and putting one’s bare feet inside an apparatus of wooden boards. When an affixed rope is pulled, the boards rapidly close, painfully smacking the feet and ankles in a motion like the flapping of butterfly wings. Jorin lets himself be tortured for information, and finds out that the builder crew provided by Hoff for the Dragonfly Pagoda complained about their quarters and ended up staying at the Dream Palace.

Jeremin Hoff, Labor Organizer
(who is not related to Jimmy Hoffa)

In Abyss, run by Molly Crimson, a gnome madame, they find out that some of her streetwalkers have gone missing near the Dream Palace, after Jorin reach into the tos of the glass case with their bare hands and fish the bottle of brandy randy from a Woodsedge distillery surrounded by boreworms. 

In Abaddon, run by Lomo Dibashi, Pumpelly drinks from the disgusting Plague Chalice chalice. Dibashi related that his last job was an attempt to rob a new hotel in the Precipice Quarter called the Dreaming Palace. Almost as soon as he broke into one of the bedrooms, however, two statues in the room came to life and attacked him, and he barely escaped.  

In Maelstrom, Pumpelly takes a puff from the hookah containing the latest offering of a drug developed by Sharim and Halan Muzullah. They inform Pumpelly that Hendrid Pratchett has been aggressively buying soporifics and hallucinogens. 

In Axis, the party solves a riddle challenge and is told that Willifred Stoneburrow, a shady real estate mogul of the Argent Syndicate, sold the property for the Dreaming Palace to Pratchett. As part of the transaction, she saw some of his early architectural drawings, which struck her as eccentric and remarkably inefficient, with lots of extraneous chambers and nothing properly standardized.

After leaving the House of Planes, they report to Sgt. Rollo, who agrees that the next step is that they investigate the Dreaming palace and question Pratchett and Ralso.