Drumkit Research

==Toscin & the Five==
Onwen killed by doppelgangers looking like our party + Vinmira, just before we meet Bez Drock (d94)
(d188) meet another party from Gohde, 2 humans a dwarf and an ariel - news of StarStorm vs StarPort
They turn out to be Nawer, a doppelganger of the Five, and some ecto-stooges. 
We attack when he says "You're not on the list". We kill him, but lose a goblet. We trash his remains
It appears that Nawar was at the controls on StarPort and crashed it into StarStorm (rumours in Cedarin)
The five superior doppelgangers were the servants of Tocsin the Vampire Lord (see vale of vendor factsheet & legend 81)
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2022-03-29_21:00 Vinmira says The 5 were unwilling servants of Toscin – they operate under duress according to strict rules (like Golems/Demons), but will try to twist them if they can. Whatever they are doing, they are not doing it willingly. 
Zoom_2023-06-06 Vinmira is following up the lead of how one of the Five came to impersonate him. The Five are good mimics, but they need time to observe their target properly, and the only time he drank ale was at the Bridge near Braerk. He has discounted Ranlarke, but is following up on the officer who sent him there.
DL notes this sounds like Wynagh: An Ariel of unknown rank, though probably Ranlarke's second in command. He carries an Avatar pendant with a Sun motif - probably a Universal holy symbol. He asks the party what they make of the (ie his) pendant….. pretty much everyone simply sees it as a pendant, although Wun somehow finds it comforting and warm whilst Bazin has a slight discomfort.
"Wynagh is the bes’ person to ask ‘bout preventing a corpse bein’ animated or the like – him being a Priest of Universal.”
==Drumkit==
visit Tarkeep (abandoned), find a tankard (part of the drumkit) & are attacked by lizardmen - see Zoom 2021-11-30 (d166)
The drumkit was all in Vendor apart from 3 elements in Hightower (one from each drum), hence 2+3+4 parts = 3 drums
	the two "goblets" are 2 of the parts
The derelict 'pub' where we found the Drumkit piece is The Troll & The Dwarf and has 'And the Ariel' scrawled on the back.
The runic writing on the pewter tankard says "Find two, Say cheers, Boom Boom :)" (Yes, there really is a runic equivalent of a 'smiley emoji' at the end of it.) The identify spell just indicates an 'incomplete item'.
At the citadel in Thricastle (d167) we find some much better traps, simple tripwire alarms, but much better disguised than the traps in the inn. We also find signs signs of what we assume was Ghassan’s camp, abandoned about 20 minutes before we arrived. In the camp Ghassan has left a pewter tankard, clearly an object of virtue, resting on a stone with a written note (in Dwarvish) which says “You’ll need this at night. Best of luck. Ghassan”. There is a clear area about 10’ radius around the stone with the goblet that has aged far less than elsewhere.
According to the lying Lizardman Fred: The 'drums' are in pieces: 1 in 2 pieces, 1 in 3 pieces and 1 in 4 pieces. [Probably true] The pieces can't be destroyed unless they are put together, due to their special Dwarven runic magic [Possibly true]. The pieces appear as mugs/tankards. [Well, our piece did] They have found several pieces already [Almost definately false][1]
There is a magic mouth in Tarkeep that says '2+3+4 = 3' [2] - which either supports Fred's comments - or Fred was misleading us and this refers to something else entirely. (However, as neither Fred nor any of his fellow Lizardmen could get into Tarkeep, he may not have known about the magic mouth at all.)
According to the Shadow Clan, 3 pieces of the drumkit were taken by the 'flamboyant Dwarf' from Hightower (see below)
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2022-03-29_21:00 V. got his Drumkit cup from the ‘nattily dressed’ dwarf (who V. thinks is just plain gaudy.) When asked about him, V. unhelpfully says "You’ll find out about him soon enough". Hightower goblets: One is in Hightower, one in Northlake, location of the other is secret.
The Goblets are/were aimed at Toscin – not at The 5. They have no effect on ‘normal’ doppelgangers. The burning appears to affect the controlling spell on them, rather than the 5 directly.
Location of the drumkits: there are 3 sets (of 2, of 3 and of 4, making 9 in total). The flamboyant dwarf collected one of each set and said he was going to Hightower with them. Hentron holds on to Sorlor's egg-cup (from the largest set) for now and has no others in the kingdom. The Blue Priest of Garm has one. Solara has one, which will be given to us. Vinmira had one when last we heard of it. We still have a goblet from the Troll & Dwarf in Tarkeep (from set of 2) and one that Ghassan left us in Thricastle (from set of 4). That's 9 accounted for.
Finding the flamboyant dwarf will have to be an objective, and he may have lost some in Sallahan.
==Flamboyant dwarf==
Flamboyant Dwarf - takes Sallahan mission (d99)
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2020-04-22_21:00 There was another bounty being offered – 50gp to go and investigate a house in Sallahan.
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2021-04-29_21:00 Umar visited the Citadel to see what bounties were on offer: The Sallahan bounty had been taken by ‘a single dwarf dressed up to the nines’.
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2021-05-13_21:00 A bounty of 10 gp was being offered for the ‘retrieval of some tools’ from the house on Sallahan – this was a ‘follow on’ from the previous investigation bounty. No mention was made of the well-dressed dwarf.
From Day 103: A visit to the noticeboard reveals that the Sallahan bounty has already been claimed, somehow it is no surprise when enquiries reveal that it was a gaudily dressed dwarf again.
Whenever someone approaches the tower at Tarkeep for the first time, a magic mouth on the tower door says "Welcome to Tarkeep. Suggest you head South". Bazin reckons the magic mouth (and hence its caster) speaks with a Dwarven Hightower accent. 
The 'flamboyant Dwarf' apparently recovered 3 pieces of the Drumkit from Vendor some years ago. 
See Zoom 2021-12-21 : The local legend describes a dwarf, not a hobbit, performed a long ritual to create the drums. Vendor seems to have been abandoned when its mithril vein failed. The (flamboyant) Dwarf from Hightower went straight to Vendor to recover the three fragments, and ignored the other towns. He explained to the Shadow clan scouts, that he was taking them to Hightower to ensure the drums could not be broken. The clan says this happened 60 or 70 years ago. For a clan with strong oral history, it is odd than no one seems to remember exactly. The dwarf claimed to be a worshipper of the Universal. The legend of the drums postdates Soratan’s departure.
The Shadow clan has a tradition that Soratan opened his gate spell just north of Vendor. They settled the Vale later
The crew of the "Fairwinds" at White Beach included Ginver (Male Dwarf): Ships battle mage, jovial and somewhat flamboyant, an inveterate gambler (and extremely good at it)
Was the natty dwarf seen at the siege of Willston (Steve thinks)? I can't find any mention
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2021-08-05_21:00 Caradoc followed a dwarf as part of Thirson's operation, but no description
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2021-09-07_21:00 Later the priest of Perceval tells us the dwarf is a "friend"
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Summary_of_the_week_at_The_Old_Priory "the dwarf" is also a nickname for Beldame
https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2022-03-29_21:00 V. got his Drumkit cup from the ‘nattily dressed’ dwarf (who V. thinks is just plain gaudy.) When asked about him, V. unhelpfully says "You’ll find out about him soon enough".
Zoom 2023-05-23 in White Beach, before we board the Lady Cloud, Umar notices an extremely well-dressed dwarf at the fishing docks.
Zoom_2023-06-06 We also ask Vinmira about the “Flamboyant Dwarf”. V. is not connected with him at all. The FD hangs around WhiteBeach and FarHaven a lot, and is very interested in Salahan: he has been there 3 times - not successfully, but he survived. Almost nothing is known about him, not even his name. The ruler in WhiteBeach or Universal High Priest there might know more about him.
Thought: could Ghassan have been the flamboyant dwarf ? Probably not, he stayed in the Vale of Vendor, not trekking to Salahan.