Shenanigans: Episode 204

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==Recap==
The party are in Shenanigans when they are asked by a group of halflings celebrating a birthday party to collect some presents they left behind at their house at a nearby halfling village of Anemone.
The party are ambushed by goblins on the road between Bergshire and Anemone. The goblins swarm Wyatt trying to overbear the cleric of Malkis as the remainder goblins try to stab Admiral Jai directly. Admiral Jai ends up tearing most of the goblins into pieces, captures 1 goblin alive, and allow 2 goblins to flee. The captured goblin's name is Charlie and is cowered into obeying the party's orders.
The party arrive at the halfling village of Anemone and head over to the house with a large rosemary bush out front as instructed. The front door is unlocked and the party head inside. The party easily find the presents but also a sign pointing out a haunted house is downstairs. Charlie is sent downstairs to investigate by the party, but the staircase turns into a slide and Charlie gets trapped at the bottom. Admiral Jai insists on connecting Charlie before they leave, so the party head downstairs as well.
The basement is a darkroom with magical darkness around it. The party reunite with Charlie. A creepy voice calls out that the party is doomed if they can't find the exit. Then something in the rafters captures Wyatt. Admiral Jai frees Wyatt from the mechanical comptraction. Wyatt blows his horn to annoy the voice into just revealing the answer to the puzzle is a hidden passage behind a painting.
Past the painting is a room with halflings laying in the ground in cages with a red substance around. Wyatt identifies the substance as jam and tells the workers they are doing a good work pretending to be dead on the ground.
The party go into the next room and find it is a dance hall with a twister mat in the middle of it. However at the exit is a real dead body. The party go outside and look for some alive halflings and find a family of halflings in a nearby building are also dead.
The party return to the haunted house and tell the halflings playing dead about the read murders. The halflings accuse the party of being the culprits. Admiral Jai points out that if the halflings want to frame them for a crime they can be easily killed too. Wyatt then stabs the halflings to death. The party then sets the house on fire and head back to Bergshire with the horrified Charlie.
Once back at Shenanigans the party deliver the presents to the birthday party then retire for the night. However, during the night the party are woken up by the halflings to the news of the murders and arson. The party claim innocence and blame the goblins.
The party strongarm Charlie into revealing his family home, so they head into the woods to the goblin lair. Charlie calls out to 4 goblins that he isn't friends with. Admiral Jai kills one and Wyatt the 3 others. The party cut off the right ear of the 4 goblins and head back to Bergshire.
The party show the ears to the halflings who are happy for the vengeance, and pay the money some gold.
==Experience==
475 experience each
Category:Shenanigans Episodes