Powderful Plots

an adventure starring Runii, Lozo, and Jade. 
Tweet length description: Runii, Lozo, and Jade investigate a powder being smuggled through a warehouse just outside of the town guard's jurisdiction. After surveilling the operation, the kittens uncover and confront an old adversary in disguise. #ttrpg 
Setting: Thermaliye Docks outside of Niqamui 
Non Player Characters: 
* Grigori Vendel 
* Toumas Vendel 
* Cornither Parrogotti
* Greenbeard Mamani 
Plot Summary: 
One fine day in the Firebreathing Kittens hall, a few Kittens including Lozo, Runii, and Jade are lounging around. Nulisag enters and posts a flier for a highly lucrative job, which Runii promptly claims. The flier states that there is suspicious warehouse activity and that willing adventurers should meet Parrogotti at the Junipberry Inn at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Runii requests Lozo and Jade’s help, and after they kill some time, they head to the mysterious appointment. 
The Junipberry Inn is a quaint location with the smell of fresh pastries wafting from its windows. Lozo purchases some paroshkis and the group chats as they wait for the unknown Parrogotti to appear. Almost on cue, a colorful avian humanoid enters the Inn, and Jade recognizes them as an often wanted but never caught criminal. She immediately blends into the environment, sliding into a booth and chatting with a customer. Runii dives for cover and ends up under a bus boy’s cart. Lozo, having nowhere to hide, simply stands and observes the avian individual. After ordering some pastries, the colorful person finds a seat and sets a placard on the table that says, “Looking for kittens”. Runii returns to Lozo and they approach the individual. Lozo strikes up a conversation and learns that this is indeed their contact.
Parrogotti shares that there has been a mysterious powder of unknown origin and properties being smuggled across the continent by Orca Shipping, LLC. The powder’s appearance in a city has been linked with increasing undead occurrences, and while there’s no evidence that the owners of Orca Shipping - a pair known as the Vendel brothers - are knowingly involved, Parrogotti's employer would like to have the shipping company investigated. A new shipment of powder is arriving today at the Thermaliye Docks on the peninsula outside of Niqamui and the Kittensare given a Spell Scroll to message Parrogotti when they have more information.
After receiving this information, Jade, Lozo, and Runii visit Jade’s former partner, Cyrus Miller, at a town’s guard station close to the outskirts of Niqamui so that the group can potentially pose as Niqamui town guards if their presence is questioned at the docks. After some persuasion, Cyrus lends Lozo a hat and Runii a toy town’s guard medallion. When they arrive at the Orca Shipping warehouse, Jade creates an opportunity for Runii’s Arcane Eye to enter the compound, allowing her to scout the warehouse without entering it. After some searching, the Arcane Eye finds an uncharacteristic shipment of canned fish arriving from Mishui, massive construction on a cargo ship that contains secret storage compartments, a large man and a man with green hair arguing, and powder strewn about the decks of the incoming ship from Mishui. 
Before the team can decide what to do, Grigori Vendel exits the warehouse and recognizes Jade, who had previously helped him in a ship race (see the episode Boaty McKittenface). Jade uses some of her town guard skills to pressure Grigori into revealing information about the smuggled powder or if his brother, Toumas, is to be trusted, but Grigori seems genuinely puzzled by what she’s implying. He mentions his misgivings for a man named Nanami (the green haired man Runii saw), the new head of security that Toumas had hired, along with how he and many others in the warehouse have touched and handled the powder. At this, Runii and Lozo bring up the medical hazard and potential risk to Grigori and his employees of handling this unknown powder. Concerned that he may have unknowingly endangered his employees, Grigori brings the Kittens into the warehouse and issues an announcement, urging everyone to remain in the building while a health hazard is investigated.
Through Runii’s Arcane Eye, she sees Nanami panic and move quickly across the warehouse floor. She alerts Jade to his movement and Jade immediately goes after him, with Lozo right behind her. Nanami briefly incapacitates Lozo and moves past Jade and Runii to the warehouse exit, but Lozo is able to trap him with a wall of water, after which Jade and Runii knock Nanami unconscious. Nanami is revealed to be Greenbeard Mamani in disguise, and after the team restrains him, Grigori leads the Kittens and Greenbeard to Toumas’ office.
Grigori confronts Toumas about Greenbeard and the powder smuggling, and after some veiled threats from Jade, Toumas tells the truth. His benefactor, an individual named Thinnel Ka Ganier, instructed him to hire Greenbeard and to send certain crates to Niqamui and other cities. Toumas complied, not believing his actions or the smuggled goods would cause any harm. Jade roughly wakes up Greenbeard multiple times to question him, corroborating Toumas’ story. Jade threatens to bring the power of the law upon Toumas and Greenbeard, but Runii says if they cooperate and give the Kittens what they need, their sentences may be reduced. The Kittens demand a sample of the powder for Runii to study, the immediate destruction of the powder, and a full account of the powder’s distribution within Niqamui and across the continent. Toumas agrees and additionally reveals a secret room in his office containing the remnants of an Ekenblim circle along with goods that the Kittens distribute amongst themselves.
Unbeknownst to the Kittens, Parrogotti informs his employer, Don Ravaloni, of their success. Parrogotti asks if they’re moving too soon, but Don Ravaloni states with some glee that, “It’s time to start this party.”
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