Shenanigans: Episode 056

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==Recap==
===The Cat===
A nobleman, Mr Johnson, comes into Shenanigans to hire the party to adopt a cat from him for 25 gold each. Mr Johnson's Daughter loves the cat but Mr Johnson doesn't want it. Zen adopts the cat and Mr Johnson pays each member of the party is paid 25 gold by the nobleman. The nobleman then leaves the kitten with Zen. Zen names the cat Moon.
Zen casts detect magic and finds no magic on the kitten. 
The next morning Zen finds the cat has gone missing. In a few hours later Mr Johnson returns with the cat. Mr Johnson is upset that the cat came back. The party take the cat back. The party take the cat back from Mr Johnson, who then leaves.
During the day the cat keeps trying to leave Shenanigans, but Zen keeps bringing him back easily. Jill goes to the alchemist to get some catnip. Jill then sneakily puts the catnip on all over Zen.
That night Zen stays awake overnight and has a light stone out to watch the cat. The cat creates a mess on Zen's belongings.
The next morning gets a apple crate and lines with with cloth. The cat takes a nap in the box.
The party then visit the Mayor, Colonel Sanders, to ask where Mr Johnson lives. Colonel Sanders in insulted to be asked something so trivial, and leaves to a ribbon cutting.
The party head to the library and look at the property records. The find 2 listings that fit the description. Maximilian then Jill get library cards ordered.
The party check the two properties and easily find Mr Johnson. Mr Johnson asks what the party wants. Maximilian says he wants to make an illusion of Mr Johnson's Daughter to make the cat stop liking her, but he has to meet his daughter first. Mr Johnson is perturbed by Maximilian's request to meet his daughter. 
Zen then turns Maximilian invisible so he can see the daughter. Maximilian sneaks up to a bay window and looks inside and sees the daughter. However a gardener comes by and starts cutting the hedge where Maximilian is standing. The invisible Maximilian scares off the gardener by whispering creepily to him. The gardener runs off and a guard rushes over. Maximilian escapes back to the party.
The party go into a nearby empty field. Maximilian creates an illusion of the daughter. The cat can't smell any scent from the illusion so destroys it.
The party brainstorm ideas what they can do to keep the cat from going back to Mr Johnson. The party decide to accept a different quest and keep the cat with them during the quest.
===The Fake Quest===
Jill goes to a jewelry store to buy a fake magic ring that looks like his Dimension Door Ring for 1 gold with nonsense writing inside it. Jill disguises herself as Princess Leia and goes up to the party and gives them a fake quest to go to the holy cave in Wikk Lamdo with the real Dimension Door ring by the full moon in 4 days. Jill then rushes out. Zen recognizes the ring because he was the one who identified it for Jill.
Jill removes her disguise and returns to the party and swaps the real ring for the fake. The party then leave town on the fake quest.
While on the road to the mountain, the party are ambushed by goblins. Maximilian enlarges The Wrok. Jill casts sleep on some. Zen webs some. The Wrok attacks. Zen gets knocked out. As the party slay the goblins, they are backed up by a buffalo. After the buffalo misses, the remaining Goblins flee. The party fight with the buffalo, and Jill slays it.
The party make camp with the unconscious Zen. Jill tries to coerce the cat to befriend Zen. 
The next day the party continue onward after Zen wakes up. Near sundown the party is ambushed by 8 orcs, including 4 archers. The party murder the orcs except one that Zen takes prisoner. Zen almost attempts to interrogate the orc, but after the Orc insults Zen, Zen just executes the Orc.
The party continue onwards.
===Wikk Lamdo===
The party reach the turnoff the road for Wikk Lamdo. They go along the trail to the cave. Zen has trouble along the trail, but The Wrok and Jill help him. Jill gives an inspiring speech to the cat and Zen as well.
The party make it up the trail to the sacred cave, where in ancient times the first settlers of Drekis took refuge. The party arrive at the cave at sunset. The cave is bared shut and guarded by an elderly man. There is a 1 gold fee to go inside. Jill makes up a story that some teenagers are causing trouble on the Overlook trail, but the guard sees though the story. Zen just pays the 1 gold each for everyone to go inside.
:The cave isn't all that impressive. It's just a big cave that is 40 feet deep with a stream running through it. There are some stalactites and stalagmites with heavy graffiti on them. The place looks like it has been trashed. Thank the gods they put this gate up otherwise these things would probably be gone by now. You notice an area where there is a couple of stalactites have been knocked down and some stalagmites that have been knocked over. There is a little section that has been cordoned off with a small white picket fence with a memorial to a child who died under a stalactites.
Zen delivers the ring into the cave onto the top of the tip of a stalagmite.
The party head down the trail with the old guard and camp at the bottom of the mountain. The next day the party head into Wikkthronrarenta. 
===Wikkthronrarenta===
Zen tries to sell some continual light stones in a general store, but he is only offered 5 copper for them.
Zen then heads to the slave markets to look at slave prices. A trained servant slave who can read & write costs 100 gold. Zen ends up not buying a slave.
The Wrok heads to the armorsmith to get some splintmail for 80 gold (6 AC). Zen buys a 2 guard god for 25 gold each, and names them Moony and Mooze. 
The party then go around the city too look for someplace that will adopt the cat. Zen tries giving the cat to nobles, but that fails. Maximilian tries to give it to a granary but is rejected.
The Wrok gifts the Cat to some street urchins, but afterwards realizes that the kids will just eat the cat. Maximilian tries to the kids to takes the cat back, but only manages to the cat. The kids then attack Maximilian with their knives. Jill casts sleep to knock out all the kids.
Jill finds a new target to give the cat to, a orphan beggar on her own. Maximilian gives the girl a gold coin then offers to give her the cat. Jill steps in and claims to want to take the cat to make a black fur coat. The girl accept the cat in order to save the cat. The orphan girl sees though the act. Maximilian then says he has to keep the cat if she wants to keep the gold coin. The orphan girl then tricks Maximilian into giving her 4 more gold before taking the cat.
The party, with the quest complete, head back to Bergshire.
==Experience==
* 787 exp each
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