Sea of Secrets Episode 1: The World's Largest Dwarf

The World's Largest Dwarf is the first episode of Sea of Secrets, the second series of Tales from Demonac's Deathfin Campaign. It is named for the musical number which occurs early in the episode and is expanded on in the post-credits scene.
== Episode Summary ==
The episode opens on an alley in a busy city. A Laric man in formal attire and a large armoured drawf are impatiently for somebody, when they are set upon by a gang of thugs, who address the man as "Jegad" and demand a map from him. When he claims not to have it, they attempt to kidnap him, and his bodyguard, Boulder steps forward to intervene. However, at that moment a large warforged breaks through the wall and looms over them. Cut to opening titles.
The GM explains to the party that Jegad had hired them to help find a magic city, but is late to a meeting with a source of funding. To get a better vantage point, Uhamisho and Pelor jump up to a rooftop, while Adria brings up the others with her Amulet of the Disc.
On the rooftop, they find a claoked woman with one arm and no hands, who asks them where Jegad is. She asks them to find him and ensure he is alright. With some probing, she reveals that she works for the Psionic Academy, and had offered to cover the full cost of the expedition, but Jegad had refused as he did not want to be beholden to any single entity. Jinx bluffs that they have contacts at the academy who want her to help them, but she retorts that she only answers to the director. However, she does agree to ask around on their behalf, before levitiating off the roof.
The party asks around town in a brief musical number **(embed clip)**, following a chain of sightings to a house with a hole in the wall, in which they find Boulder's corpse. They find some footprints, but then the City Guard arrive. Jinx and Adria disguise themselves as the homeowners, using a portrait on the wall as guidance, and bluff the officers to deflect suspicion.
The party then escapes to the roof via a secret door and follows a trail of damaged tiles, until they find some witnesses who describe "something large" being loaded into a cart. They bribe a guard at the nearby west gate who tells them the cart was headed toward Tamboro, a Halfling suburb.
On arrival, they find a crowd of Halflings speaking to some marshals. The Halflings have been forced out of their homes by a large gang of thugs, and the marshals are waiting for reinforcements, so the party enters the warrens to clear them out. After defeating some bandits, the party encounters a pair of Warforged, one with a rapier and one wooden one with outsized jaws, and are then ambushed by the Warforged from the cold open bursting through the wall. This battle is then joined by a man who can shoot force blasts from his hands, although they also injure him, but the party soon slay all opponents.
On breaking through the next door, they find six more thugs and an old man leaning over Jegad, who is strapped to a table. There is also a one-eyed Gnome present, but he turns and flees as soon as the party arrive. The old man also flees after casting Bless on his minions, but is hit by a flying corpse flung by Blue's magic, and then killed by a second attack from Blue.
Pelor examines the corpses and determines that some of them were members of local street gangs, but cannot identify the others. None of them are known mercenaries, though. Jegad claims that his captors were interrogating him as to the location of the map and city, but he told them nothing and Jinx still has the "grapefruit", which Jegad gave her earlier.
They leave the warren, slaying a number of thugs on the way out, including several more strange mutants. It is also revealed that Blue doesn't breathe. Interrogating the survivors reveals that the mutants are experimental subjects from the Gnome's lab, but they know next to nothing else about their employers. The only surviving mutant, #58 seems to know nothing at all, having only memories of the lab.
On emerging from the warrens, they turn their three prisoners over to the marshals, who tell them the One-Eyed Gnome got away, as he had a full-sized horse that easily outpaced the marshals' ponies. The Halflings reward them with pies, and they head back to The Crystal Umbrella in Bankton. Jegad reveals that his one-armed contact is called Bayin.
Just before they reach the inn, they are beckoned into an alley by a Kua Toa with a shield bearing the crest of the Illud. He "invites" them to a meeting with Ambassador Bolraad the next day, as one of the Illud Council believes his expedition will pass through their territory and they insist on assigning an envoy to accompany them. However, Jegaad is not thrilled at the prospect of working for the Illud, and takes the party back to the inn to pack, with a view to leaving that night.