Shenanigans: Episode 048

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==Recap==
The party are in Shenanigans, The Wrok and Fabhidez are comparing work out routines, and Melissa Silvertongue is feeling disillusioned and has ordered a Shirley Temple from a Desmond. Lizzy comes into Shenanigans speaking with a gentlemen that Desmond does not like, after Desmond and Lizzy argue, Desmond storms out of the tavern out the back door.
After some time Desmond comes back into the Shenanigans with a sandbag and uses it to seal the gap under the front door. Desmond tells Borch the Orcish Chef to finish sandbagging the tavern, then Desmond heads off with a Horn of Blasting. The party help Borch sandbag up Shenanigans. After some time Desmond comes back and starts to drink heavily. He says the person Lizzy was in was Brock, a old boyfriend of hers who came to Bergshire to visit. Lizzy is having Brock stay in the guest bedroom of the house and not in the inn.
Desmond reveals he used the horn of blasting on the start of the Berg River, where it leaves the underground aquifer. The river will back up and reform the pond. Desmond claimed he was the one who made the tunnels in the first place to drain the pond that created the Berg River in the first place. So the town will soon be flooding. Desmond did it to ruin Brock's visit. Desmond gets very drunk so Borch takes Desmond upstarts to an inn-room to sleep it off.
Outside the party can see the town is flooding. Zen uses metamorphose liquids to turn a section of it into rum and then drinks it. Borch tells the party that the Bergshire has flooded one time before and it was filled with electric eels. Borch then works to make the sandbags higher.
After a few hours the water level stabilises at 6 inches deep. Desmond gets up and realises with the flood he has stranded Lizzy and Brock together in his house. Desmond tries to leave Shenanigans, trips over the sandbags and passes out in the flood water. Borch asks the party to undo the flood and to go to Cogwrench Hammerbench to invent a hot knife that will make toast when you cut bread.
Zen heads to Cogwrench Hammerbench alone, using 2 chairs as stilts. Fabhidez and The Wrok head to the Dock District to get a boat. Melissa, who never got her Shirley Temple, goes behind the bar and makes a random drink out of liquids she finds.
At Cogwrench Hammerbench's Shop, Cogwrench Hammerbench tells Zen he could make the knife, but he would need a power source, like an electric eel. 
Fabhidez & The Wrok find the Dock District is the only part of town above water. The Berg River is completely dry and without any water. The party hire a rowboat for 5 gold.
The party meet up back at Shenanigans. Melissa has accidental mixed-in and drunk a magic potion of speed amongst her cocktail. Zen comes with Fabhidez & The Wrok in the rowboat, leaving Melissa behind. The party row to the source of the river. While rowing the party spot an electric eel. Zen casts sleep on the electric eel and put it inside a bucket of water. The party row to Cogwrench Hammerbench's shop and delivers the Electric Eel. Cogwrench Hammerbench begins work on the heated knife, but tells the party he doesn't know the source of the river, and only Desmond would know.
The party return to Shenanigans to question Desmond where they have to go to fix the situation. Desmond drunkenly tells the story how Brock had a favourite pond, so Desmond drained the pond to create the Berg River. The town that used to be covered by the pond was habitable again so Desmond moved there. The party get Desmond into the rowboat. Melissa casts levitate on herself and gets dragged behind the boat by a rope.
Desmond gives directions and they arrive at where the start of the river usually is. Desmond explains that what he did was hire some dwarves back in the day to dig a tunnel. The party examine the collapsed tunnel and decide to just dig it out again. Zen and The Wrok head to the General Store to buy 10 pickaxes. The party then hires some of the ladies who work one the docks to help dig out the tunnel and the river starts flowing again by evening.
It will take a few days for the water to drain from Bergshire. The party take the rowboat, sell back the pickaxes for half price, then row back towards Desmond's house with the passed out Desmond. At his house Lizzy is standing there with her hands in her hips with a look of disappointment. Lizzy gets Fabhidez & The Wrok to carry Desmond upstairs to bed. Fabhidez then talks with Lizzy, and she says she only had one day with Brock 25 years ago when they were in school, and Desmond is overreacting.
The party and Brock head to Shenanigans. Zen gets the heated knife from Cogwrench and gives it to Borch. Borch then makes "The Breakfast of Champions" as promised, which is 6048 calories per serving. Fabhidez & Broock is able to finish the meal, but Zen & The Wrok are unable to finish. Melissa eats parts of the unfinished meals. Brock tries to flirt with Melissa the Chaise, but it doesn't progress that far.
The next day the water level is down to only an inch deep. Fabhidez & The Wrok look around for some dying eels but find none.
Lizzy comes into Shenanigans and hires the party to go visit a witch in the woods to get a hangover cure for Desmond. The party agree and after breakfast head out into the forest. Melissa brings her animal friends with the party this time.
In the woods the party encounter 10 orcs in hide armor and armed with axes. The Orcs attack the party. Melissa traps 6 of the orcs in her entangle spell. Fabhidez knocks out an Orc with a Shield Punch. Zen knocks out the rest with a . The entangled orcs throw axes at the party. The Wrok kills an Entangled Orc with a dunk of his large rock. Zen calls out for the Orcs to surrender in Orcish, when they refuse he casts Magic Missile at one, killing him. Fabhidez kills a Orc. The last 3 alive & active orcs surrender.
After the entangle wears off all the Orcs retreat except one, Dunken, who challenges The Wrok to a duel. Dunken, unarmed, squares off against The Wrok holding a rock. The Wrok ultimately wins the fight.
The party arrive at a strange hut at the base of a triangle shaped hill beside a pool of water. Inside the white picket fence around the property is a well-tended garden as well as a well. Fabhidez walks up the cobblestone path and knocks on the front door. Beth the witch comes out of her hut naked. The party explain there are here to get Desmond a hangover cure. Beth explains she needs a drop of energy as an ingredient from someone in the party. The Wrok does pushups until he sweats. Beth collects the sweat and head inside her hut to make the potion. The payment for the potion is a kiss from Fabhidez.
The party get back to Bergshire. The water is gone, but the ground is still very muddy. The party make their way to Desmond's house and deliver the hangover cure potion. Desmond takes the potion, throws up, and is fully sober. Desmond heads off to Shenanigans to take over from Borch.
== Experience ==
1031 exp each
== Significant NPCs ==
* Desmond - Co-owner of Shenanigans, Retired Adventurer, Married to Lizzy
* Lizzy - Co-owner of Shenanigans, Retired Adventurer, Married to Desmond
* Brock - Human Male, Lizzy's Old High-school Boyfriend, Business Man, 16 Hotness, 10 Grub
* Borch Thunderbowls - Chef at Shenanigans, Retired Adventurer, Orc Male
* Cogwrench Hammerbench - Gnomish Inventor
* Beth - 97 year old Human Female Witch, Nudest. Lives in the woods south of Bergshire
== Significant Locations ==
*Bergshire - Shenanigans
Category:Shenanigans Episodes