Shenanigans: Episode 202

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==Synopsis==
Adrian tricks a group of adventurers into going into Cinder's lair and being eaten. Cinder then orders Adrian to obtain a fat human woman for him to eat. It takes 2 days but Adrian is able to complete this task. 6 Goblins show up in the ruins about Cinder's cave and Adrian tricks 4 of them to go down the hole and get eaten.
Adrian is ordered to Embershore Isle to investigate how Brimstone escaped from their chamber under the volcano Mt. Valsuvius. Adrian arrives on the island and discovers that Brimstone is back in their cave where they were trapped before. The Mayor of Valuton, a fishing village on the island, tells Adrian that Brimstone used their last wish on the wish ring to escape from the Orb of Imprisonment, but their wish of "I wish to return home" had them reappear trapped under the volcano.
Adrian, on the way back to Bergshire, meets a basilisk and is turned into a statue.
==Recap==
Adrian tries to sell a treasure map to a group of adventurers, for 2 gold. He tells them about the history of the ruins where the treasure is and the monsters that await them. A fighter, a cleric of Martha, and a mage go southward, with Adrian leading them. They arrive at the ruins, adventurers lower down into the pit, and Adrian brings the rope up. He hears shouts and a satisfactory growl of a dragon. He lowers down into the ruin to talk to Cinder. 
Adrian loots the armor of the tricked adventurers and sells it in Bergshire and delivers Cinder the gold. He asks about Xorathis, the green dragon of Mahtava, and learns none of the existing kingdoms existed before the Breaking of Arcadia. Dragon expresses his hunger and demands a fat woman to be brought to him.
Adrian notices a few goblins near the pit, and tells them about Lord Cinder, they don't believe it's a dragon and try to rob him. He uses a variant of spell, called Dragon Fear, that the dragon imbued him with. One goblin runs away, screaming, and the other one runs away after a short fight. 
In town, Adrian tails a large woman from the street to her house. He knocks on the door and asks her questions for a 'survey'. Adrian spends the night in Shenanigans, and talks to people to spend the day. When night downs. He sneaks into the woman's house through the back door, but he wakes the husband. Adrian kills the husband as the woman, Eliza, runs into town, screaming. Adrian heads out into the woods. 
Adrian runs into the goblins again and talks to them about their tribute to the dragon. He goes back to town and visits the woman's house. Seeing a guard there, he goes back to Shenanigans and decides to look for a different fat person. He spies on Teresa, a large woman, and follows her. She notices and confronts him but he lies his way out. Adrian follows her to the stables, and comes there at night and tries to walk in, but gets caught by the sleeping guard 3 times. He spends the night in the common room. 
He looks for another fat woman and finds a librarian, and follows her to her house. Adrian goes back to Eliza's house and sneaks in again and beats her into unconsciousness, ties her up, puts her into a wheelbarrow, and heads into the woods. Adrian brings her to the pit and waits for her to wake up and orders her to go down the ladder. When down, Cinders her and eats her. Adrian asks who built The Great Pyramid of Heatstroke.
:Cowardly people who feared death dared to build the stairway to the moon so that they could live forever. Fools, thought, if only they could get close enough to the gods, they would be able to be divine themselves. Their arrogance was met with a cruel fate.
He learns the original creators of the pyramid got their immortality, in form of a wraith. Cinders grants him a new spell, . Adrian spends the night in a tent.
He waits for the goblins to show up again. When they show up he tricks them to make an appointment and visit the dragon in the pit. The boss of the goblins gets eaten, and the three fight for his position. Brig wins. He manipulates the new boss and 2 other goblins to go down the pit. Adrian spends the night in the tent.
===Adventure to Embershore===
The next day, Adrian discusses how to free the dragon from his imprisonment and goes to seek the Ring of Wish. He travels to Kurshwikk and runs into bugbears on the way there. He negotiates with them and fights one of them. Adrian the bugbear to bow and leaves as the bugbear taunts him unsuccessfully.
Adrian travels to Embershore Isle and looks for the dragon's lair and finds out that Brimstone is back. He gets to the dragon's cave and comes across a pair of guardians, two women in plate mail. Adrian tells them he was sent by Cinder and after some questions, they let him in.
He asks Brimstone how to free Cinder, and Brimstone offers her answers in exchange for half of her treasure. Adrian tells he will inform her and he gets back to Valuton and looks for Mayor Diana. He asks her how Brimstone got back here from Gade Isles, and learns Brimstone wished to escape the Orb of Imprisonment and be returned home and got trapped under a volcano, due to fickle wish spells from The Wish Ring. They continue discussing how the dragons got trapped in the first place and Maribel's Marauders. 
Adrian tries to find a job in town, but there is no market for his skillset. He spends 2 months doing manual labor to afford passage on the boat back to Kershwikk. He travel back to Bergshire, and runs into a basilisk on the way there and it petrifies Adrian. 
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