In Morning Star of the year 2016 5E, the crew of the Northern Cardinal II, the Grand Spymaster of the Blades, Sheogorath, and other heroes, ventured to Akavir to thwart a Ka Po' Tun plot and discovered an underground city called Shin Akavir. Sheogorath accompanied the Nerevarine and the Grand Spymaster to the Dragonguard Temple in the city. He stood next to the door in the council room as they discussed with the Dragonguard Council. "I hope Jiggy ain't messing up my pad… or checking the fridge corner. I should've brought a book." Sheogorath commented in boredom. "Ah, I'll just explore while I'm here." he said as he walked out the door.
Being invisible to mortals at the time, he broke into a vending machine with Nocturnal's Skeleton Key he stole, and took off with Akaviri money; paper bills depicting their Emperor and coins with square-shaped holes. He walked outside to the driveway and de-cloaked himself. He took off his top hat and shook up above the road, causing his S.U.V. to pop out of the opening. He entered the car and drove off. He drove into the colourful city road filled with cars below a magical faux-sky lining the cavern ceiling.
"Yeesh, am I in Sentinel, or what?" Sheogorath commented at the bright glowing signs depicting strange characters accompanied by Akaviri text on the buildings. He parks near what appears to an arcade, judging by its glass doors showing a large room with rows of arcade machines. "Digi World? I've heard of that before! Some kid from Akavir I met in Passwall said he was here last before… something screwed up his mind and ended up in the Shivering Isles. Let's go in!" Sheogorath said as he looked at the arcade before exiting his car. He enters the arcade and hands the employee; a young Akaviri man, at the counter a pile of Akaviri coins. "Give me whatever this is worth." he said to the employee.
The employee takes the coins and hands Sheogorath five arcade tokens. "Enjoy." the man said in Akaviri. Sheogorath looks around the arcade machines and the people playing them, immediately understanding the Akaviri script on the machines, due to him previously infiltrating minds of Akaviri who fell into madness. He plays around with some of the games, one of them being a dance-based game in which one would play by striking the appropriate arrows on a platform according to the screen, but instead of using his feet he played while doing a dancing handstand, attracting the attention of the various arcade-goers who cheer him on. Among the crowd was a young Imperial woman dressed in a white long-sleeved jacket with a silver lapel pin depicting a screaming head.
Later as Sheogorath pranced to the exit, the arcade employee stopped him. "Um, a lady told me to give this to you." he said in broken Tamriellic, handing Sheogorath a letter. "Something, something, park… map… revenge… Who is this guy? Riffs? What a weird name." Sheogorath mumbled as he skimmed through the letter. Later he goes to a grassy park filled with trees glowing blue leaves in irregular spots and a large lake. He approaches a red food cart manned by an elderly woman wearing a knitted jacket and skullcap.
"What's this you're selling?" Sheogorath asked the woman in Akaviri as she cooked fried balls of batter in a griddle with small pits that form a half-sphere. "You must be from the lower levels. This is takoyaki, its main ingredient is octopus from the underground lakes that connect to the ocean, chop them up, and put them in batter and form them into balls. You should try one!" the woman explained enthusiastically in Akaviri. "Hey, Sheogorath!" a feminine voice called out from behind him. He turns around and sees three identical Imperial women dressed in the same jackets, but in white, red, and yellow. "You might want to get away from here." Sheogorath warned the woman.
She complies and pushes her cart away from them. "Is one of you Riffs?" Sheogorath asked them. "That would be me." the woman in white said as she took an ornate tuning fork with a screaming head much like the one on the Wabbajack on its handle from her pocket. The buckle on her belt fastening her skinny jeans changes into an ellipse with a slot in the shape of the tuning fork. "Henshin!" she cried as she inserted the tuning fork into the belt.
She bursts into white flames before revealing white Dark Seducer armour with a black form-fitting undersuit, and a helmet resembling that of a white amber helmet, but with a black opaque faceplate. The other two transform into similar armour, but in red and yellow, the red one additionally wearing a wide-brimmed hat that was as wide as her shoulders. The three charge at Sheogorath, but he points a staff with an eyeball at the end at them and with a "Hold!" of the staff, they freeze in place. "Not so tough now, are you?" Sheogorath mocked them. The three simultaneously yell "Encore!" and they transform into more heavily armoured forms and unfreeze for Riffs to punch Sheogorath in the face.
He stumbles under a tree and conjures two Golden Saints to fight for him. Riffs conjures a red guitar with a lute-shaped body and with a single Riffs, shreds the two soldiers into nothing. "Wait a minute… I remember now. According to the Myths of Sheogorath, the previous me killed some lady and made instruments out of her body parts; tendons into a lute, skull and arm bones into drums, and other bones into flutes. Some years ago I unleashed monsters from my realm and in guilt, used the original instruments to make heroes to fight them. Now you're getting revenge on me." Sheogorath explained, in a calmer tone. "You made us out of guilt?" Riffs asked in a distorted voice. "Yep, it happens sometimes." Sheogorath said as he scratched the back of his head.
To be continued…
