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an adventure starring Gatsby, Cordelia, and Jade. 
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Mothers abound in this episode as Cordelia, Jade, and unapologetic non-mother Gatsby infiltrate Aegis Industries to investigate a mysterious new drink. With lives and dinner reservations on the line, will they find out the truth in time? 
Setting: Niqamui, Aegis Industries
NPCs List: 
* Gregory Magrathy 
* Alice Gompers 
* Bill "Bison" Carraway
* Berry Pertinax
* Bud DeLuxo
* Samantha Dillahunt 
* Blithe Hoard 
* Dieter von Richenbach 
* Zardak Gruber
* Mega "Meg" DeLuxo
Plot Summary: 
Armed with only his wits, a recording device, and a few bad habits, Gatsby is tasked with investigating the Aegis Industries and their new product - a suspiciously delicious soft drink called Soul Fizz. With Jade and Cordelia in tow, Gatsby dons a bad habit to lead the trio into the production facilities of Aegis Industries to find what makes them tick… er… fizz. 
Our three arrive as part of a focus group seeking the opinion and approval of local mothers for the new product.  Aegis is anxious to see the tests go well, as they are in the midst of a merger with Consent Creameries.  However, instead of entering the tasting room straight away, the Kittens first put on some official high-visibility vests, and take a look around the bottling plant. Things seem to be run using a combination of magic and machinery as the bottles of the fizzy drink rattle along the assembly line.  With Jade's assurance that any diseases or poisons that might be present in the drinks could be easily dealt with, Cordelia took a good pull from one of the bottles off the line.  Delicious! Invigorating!  Why is everybody else talking so slowly?! 
Though seemingly not poisonous, something was definitely amiss in the mix.  With a few bottles stashed away for tasting/hostage taking, the three returned to join the focus group tasting.
The taste and effects were unanimously loved, and our group's combined efforts whipped the mothers into a frenzy to mob up and see the production facilities and determine just which berries were being used.
Or was it Barry's?  When one of the focus group mommas used a new-found mage hand spell to reveal the contents of the glass orb hanging above the factory floor, all could see that it was a strange, insect-like humanoid.  The insect person cried out for help, it seemed to be trapped there, as the dust which came off its wings was collected, and some how used in the delicious, refreshing beverages. 
Jade helped organize and secure a human pyramid of maternal determination to free this poor creature, who claimed to have children of his own, as Gatsby sketched, and Cordelia climbed the living structure to free the prisoner.
Security was called.  Order was established.  The party was chastised by the Aegis CEO, Bud DeLuxo for freeing an evil creature, and by extension, potentially dooming this world - as his own had been.  Bud filled the group in on some details - when Jade's actions (From Petrification in Red) freed him from his curse, Bud and his Daughter, Mega, sought not only their revenge, but to prevent these insect-like creatures, or Ekenblim, as he called them, from bringing about a similar fate for this realm.  Apologetic now, the group offered their assistance, and it was decided that if the Firebreathing Kittens members could secure the merger, the score would be called even.
A number of marketing schemes were hatched, and immediately discarded as Gatsby attempted to simply convince the board members that no outbreak had occurred at all, and everything was just fine.  It even mostly worked.  One member got wise to the illusion in the window, but their questions were quickly quelled as mere routine cleaning.
With all in order, the FBK team returned home, counting their coins from the dividends earned from their fractional points on the merger deal.  
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