Shenanigans: Episode 038

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==Recap==
===Sunday===
It is a damn and dreary Sunday in Bergshire. The party are inside Shenanigans. Nairb gives Dave Growl some pages from a spellbook of spells he doesn't have. 
A trio of Royal Guards from Wikkthronrarenta then come into Shenanigans. 2 of the Royal Guard escort the 2 bards on the stage outside. The third guard comes over and asks Dave Growl, who is also a Bard, to some outside. Dave is terrified and is dragged out against his will, leaving his lute behind.
Dave ends dragged though the rainstorm and into a royal carriage parked outside Shenanigans. Inside the carriage is a Prince. The Prince is holding a music contest to find the best musician in the last and offer them to help him with his next album. The competition will be held in weeks at Shenanigans.
Dave and the other bards get out of the wagon. The bards go back into Shenanigans while Dave tells the party that he is part of a new contest.
When the party get back inside Shenanigans, Dave finds that the neck of his Lute has been broken in half. Dave immediately realises it was the other bards who did it. The other bards are performing on the stage in Shenanigans and avoid Dave's eye contact. 
Nairb offers to design a specialised lute for Dave. Then a creepy guy at a different table says he knows a guy who can get something for the right price. Meet this man at the Crossroads outside time at Midnight tomorrow night. He refuses to tell the cost, then walks away.
Dave says he'll go with Nairb's design instead. Nairb starts to Engineer up a design. Nairb confronts the bards after their performance outside. The bards deny knowledge that they did it. The Captain asks if Dave wants him to destroy the instruments, but Dave says that is against the code, which the other bards already broke, and wouldn't do the same thing. The bards are allowed to go after Dave is given 10 gold.
That night outside in the rain, Nairb casts hold person on the 2 bards. 
Nairb explains, in a disguised voice, to them that Dave is the only one who is ever nice to him and shows him compassion, and he is too good of a person to get revenge against them, however Nairb isn't like Dave. Nairb then destroys the male bard's violin and threatens to do something to the voice of the female bard who is a vocalist. He tells them to never mess with Dave again and tell no one what happened tonight. Then Nairb leaves the couple face-down in the mud outside their home in the rain. 
===Monday===
News arrives that the 2 bards drowned to death in a puddle while they were held person. Dave is the prime suspect, but he was seen in Shenanigans at the time of the murders, and Dave isn't strong enough to do it, and there were no Giff Footprints so The Captain didn't do it.
Later in the day Nairb goes to Dave with the plans, pretending they were designed by someone named Les Paul. The party go to Cogwrench Hammerbench to have the Guitar crafted. Cogwrench is concerned he won't be able to finish it and will cost 200 gold. Cogwrench Hammerbench gets for 100 gold up front and starts work on it.
In the evening the party go to the crossroads the west of town out of curiosity and not out of any desire to many any deal. At midnight at the crossroads strange thin lings approach the party. A six-foot fall demonic humanoid approaches the party, their cracked skin glowing red, wearing a straw hat with a wide brim. The person identifies them-self as Robert Jones.
Robert Jones offers Dave a magical lute that shoots rainbows. Dave asks for the price and Robert Jones refuses to give a clear answer, but the party infer he is asking for Dave's Soul. When the party reject the offer, Robert Jones sends 5 fire mephit to attack the party.
The party fight off the mephits. Nairb knocks out 2 fire mephits with . Dave blinds 2 others with Glitterdust. The last fire mephit breaths fire on The Captain, causing his Greek Fire to explode, knocking him out. Dave throws the bag of Greek Fire at Robert Johnson, but it has no effect on the Crossroads Demon.
Nairb heals The Captain up. The glitter dust wears off on 2 of the fire mephits, and Dave gets knocked out. Nairb tries to bluff the demons by turning into a red abishai demon, but the fire mephits don't speak common so it doesn't work.
The Captain & Nairb both retreat, with the Captain dragging Dave behind him with the 2 fire mephits chase them with the other 2 waking up from the . The Captain stands his ground since he can't out run them. The Captain kills another fire mephit. The Captain then was knocked out. Nairb flees from a fire mephit flying after him. Nairb then pretends to die to escape the mephit.
Nairb then sneaks back to the crossroads. Johnson and the Mephits are gone. Nairb stabalises The Captain, then sets a camp fire to keep wild animals away.
During the night a pair of black bears come into the camp. Nairb uses Animal Friendship on one bear, but the other bear kills The Captain.
Nairb & Dave survive the night and return to Shenanigans the next day.
== Experience ==
200 exp
== Significant NPCs ==
* The Prince - Apparently a noble form Wikkthronrarenta. A musician holding a music contest.
* Two Bards - Also part of the competition with Dave. Sabotarge Dave's lute then were murdered by Nairb.
* Robert Jones - Crossroads Demon
== Significant Locations ==
*Bergshire - Shenanigans, Cross Roads outside of town
Category:Shenanigans Episodes