Shenanigans: Episode 040

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==Recap==
===Election Fever===
Arty & Nairb return to Bergshire to find the town is in the middle of election frenzy. There are red and blue streamers everywhere. The pair reach Shenanigans and find Desmond kicked out two people for getting into a fight over their candidates.
Desmond explains to the party that the former Major of Bergshire has moved onto bigger things in Cawksport, so that has opened up the position, and there are 2 candidates running. Many people are inside Shenanigans are wearing either Red or Blue hats. The blue hats have the motto "Experience You Can Trust". The ones in red say "Made Bergshire DESEW Again"
Arty asks one of the Blue Hat people, a Gnome, for more information. The Blue Candidate is named Eliot and is from the Spice Isles to the north and apparently has a lot of experience. He lost his last job when the Volcano erupted on Embershore isle. Arty is very offended that the Gnome he is talking with doesn't even try to rhyme.
Arty & Nairb then talks with someone with a red hat. Dawson wants to build a wall around Bergshire to make it safer, and rename it officially to DESEW. He also wants to create more jobs. He wants to also get rid of foreigners by making foreigners take citizen tests and the ones that fail get kicked out of town.
===Campaigning===
Arty decides to try to get campaign funding from both sides to fund a third candidate, and decides to pretend to support Dawson over Eliot and gets some money from the Dawson people. 
After midday today both candidates will be giving speeches in the town square. Arty decides that Colonel Sanders, the owner of a Chicken Store, as the third candidate.
Arty & Nairb two decide to call their team the "Diet Coke Brothers" and work to get Colonel Sanders elected. Before the two split up they go get a disguise for Nairb to make him look like a Gnome. On the way to the shops they see 3 stages set up in the Town Square. The Red and Blue stages are massive and there is a small third stage. Nairb spots a grassy knoll nearby that may be useful later.
Benny the Orcish Moustache Salesman outfits Nairb with a Beard. They then go to Minnie's Haberdashery, across the road, to get Nairb a hat. Arty gets a matching hat.
Arty and Nairb split up. Nairb goes to the Red Party rally and calls out they should all open carry swords & crossbows to send a message. The crowd loves the idea. Nairb then goes back to Benny's Moustache store to get a second beard, a long white beard this time. Nairb then goes to Shenanigans to establish an alibi & also get a second room in Shenanigans. Nairb then camps out on the Grassy Knoll. 
Arty goes into the town square and stands on a water barrel and plays his tuba, then gives a speech about how a third-party candidate will clean up the system. A few people listen to Arty, while the ones with coloured hats ignore him.
Arty then visits the Sheriff to get him to endorse Colonel Sanders. The Sheriff agrees.
===The Third Candidate Arrives===
It is time for the speeches to begin. Dawson the red candidate comes out. From the grassy knoll Nairb casts Charm Person on him. Arty realises he has running out of time and rushes over to find Colonel Sanders at his shop.
As the speeches start with Desmond as the moderator. Some red hats start trouble with some blue hats. Nairb from the gnoll casts hold person on some of the people causing trouble. 
Arty gets to Colonel Sanders and convinces him to run for Mayor. The two head back to the market square.
Nairb, seeing Colonel Sanders on the way in, goes to the smaller third stage, shoots colour spray into the air to get everyones attention in order to give the Colonel a grand entrance as he rides in on his white horse. Arty gets on the stage and makes introductions.
Colonel Sanders takes the stage and gives a speech the crowd seems to enjoy.
After the speeches Desmond announces to everyone that voting occurs tomorrow. The candidates leave their stages.
Nairb, under an alias and still disguised, visits the senior Eliot Campaign Manager and tells them that Colonel Sanders will be stealing Dawson votes. The more money that are donated, the more votes that will be stolen. The Eliot Campaign Manager understands what Nairb is saying. Nairb does the same plan with Dawson himself, who is still charmed by Nairb, saying they'll be stealing Eliot votes instead, then telling them the same inn room number.
Nairb meets up with the Colonel and Arty at Bergshire Fried Chicken. Some supporters have come in and given campaign donations.
===Visitors at Night===
That night Nairb is visited in the room by Dawson himself and some aids. They hand over a large amount of money inside a lockbox (300g) as well as some streaks. Later in the night some Eliot staffers visit, saying they got what little money they could together, since they are desperate to stop Dawson from winning. Nairb ends up with 100 gold.
Nairb then goes to his room, hides the money, grabs the blankets, goes back to the fake room, make it look like someone is alseep in the bed, then fall asleep under the bed.
A few hours later a hooded figure enters the room and stab the pillows Nairb used to make it look like he was sleeping there. Nairb casts to render him unconscious and ties him up. Nairb searches the unconscious assassin and finds thieves' tools and a Eliot supporter pin. Nairb hogties the assassin and suspends him from a beam before he wakes up. After threatening him intensely, Nairb says he will let the assassin live if he is quiet for the next 24 hours.
Nairb then goes to his own normal room and falls asleep.
===Election Day===
Bergshire citizens are lining up to get inside Shenanigans to get Voting Papers. Nairb and Arty go out to the market square to look at the voting booths. Along the way they see people from the red and blue parties grabbing people off the street and into alleyways and giving them different voting papers.
The party go to the sheriff. The Sheriff doesn't recognise Nairb since he isn't in his gnome disguise today. They tell the sheriff about the voter tampering. The Sheriff leaves his deputies in charge of the voting area and comes with the party to deal with the thugs.
The party chase after the Sheriff on his horse and they chase down a group of thugs. The thugs get except 2 that Nairb casts Hold Person on. Nairb ties them up as the Sheriff puts Arty on his horse and the two give chase.
The Sheriff & Arty round a corner on the horse into a group of 6 men in red robes holding crossbows who open fire. The horse and the sheriff are hit, Arty and the Sheriff are thrown from the horse. The red robed men surround the sheriff and club him unconscious. Arty flees as Nairb arrives. Nairb casts in full view of Arty, knocking all then robed men unconscious. Nairb then casts on the Sheriff. The Sheriff gets up and arrests all the held people who are now restrained.
Arty is surprised that Nairb can cast spells, but Nairb tries to shift to topic about the robed men. As the are no longer held, Nairb uses Command: Confess on one of them to admits he was hired by Dawson 25 gold to do this. The Sheriff has the party escort the prisoner to the cells and the Sheriff goes off to deal with Dawson.
The party have to walk though the market square that is full of voters to get to the Sheriff's Office and the crowd jeers at the prisoners. Some time later the Sheriff walks though the square with a shackled Dawson. The crowd is far more exited to see Dawson to be arrested.
Inside the Sheriff's Office Dawson is interrogated as Nairb says out of sight. Dawson denies to everything saying his people acted on their own. Dawson, but claims that Arty and the Sheriff are just as corrupt and are tampering with the vote in their own way.
===Election Results===
Desmond announces the election results before the crowd. Colonel Sanders is elected.
== Experience ==
No experience given out on air.
== Significant NPCs ==
* Eliot - Blue Candidate, has experience in the Spice Isles and trading.
* Dawson - Red Candidate, wants to built a town wall & get rid of the foreigners.
* Benny - Orcish Moustache Salesman
* Colonel Sanders - Chicken Salesman, Third Party Candidate for Mayor
== Significant Locations ==
*Bergshire - Shenanigans
Category:Shenanigans Episodes