Shenanigans: Episode 033

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==Recap==
===The Odd Cargo===
Shenanigans is frantic and busy today as Hrun and Alejandro Carlo come downstairs for breakfast. There is no special occasion however, just the road to the east has been cleared up. A panicked man, Grits, comes into Shenanigans and tells Hrun and Alejandro that he needs to get to Wikkthronrarenta and they need to leave right now and needs protection. The two accept the job and they leave Shenanigans.
Outside the party get into Grits's wagon and set off east along the road out of Bergshire. Grits's wagon is mostly empty except for a single sealed crate. 
As the party travel, Grits has time to explain what is going on. They are on a mission to save the world. There is an illusion spell being projected somewhere in Bergshire, and he has magical tinted eye-glasses that can see though these illusions.
Half an hour along the road, the wagon is ambushed by 3 humans; 2 archers and a swordsman. The swordsman demands the crate, but after he is denied he orders an attack. Hrun and Alejandro make sure work of the swordsman & one of the archers, but the other archer gets a killing shot on Grits before escaping.
Hrun tries to chase after the archer, but loses him in the forest. The party regroup at the cart. The crate in the cart is filled with 30 more magical tinted eye-glasses. Hrun & Alejandro puts on one of the eye-glasses and they make the world appear black and white, but also reveal the dead swordsman & archer are a humanoids with blue skin, bulging eyes, no lips, and exposed jaw bone. Grits appears to be a normal Human, abet dead. Alejandro searches the two aliens on the ground and finds their clothes were made by the same tailor in Bergshire, Alexandra. Wearing the glasses for any extended period of time gives the wearer a headache.
===Brawl behind Shenanigans===
Alejandro & Hrun turn the cart around and head back towards Bergshire. As they enter down on the cart, the party notice that the blue aliens are all over and intermixed with the normal population. For every 3 normal people, there is 1 alien.
Hrun parks the cart into the stables while Alejandro causes a distraction in the street, some pant-less yoga. Desmond comes out of Shenanigans to admonish Alejandro for being pant-less. Alejandro pulls his pants back up. 
Hrun and Alejandro go into Shenanigans and find none of the blue aliens are inside. Hrun asks Desmond to join them out the back of Shenanigans. Once out the back the party ask Desmond to put on a pair of glasses, but he refuses, and a fist fight breaks out. The pair manage to overpower Desmond and drag him into the stables and show him the dead bodies in the cart. Hrun finally manages to put the glasses on Desmond and he can see that 2 of the dead bodies are actually the blue aliens. Desmond stops struggling and then looks out into the street and sees more of them.
The party gives Desmond 20 of the eye-glasses to give out as needed. The party then leave to go investigate Alexandra the tailor.
===Alexandra the Tailor===
The party go into Alexandra's Shop and put on the sunglasses and see that Alexandra is one of Them. The party demand to know what she is up to, and reveal they can see her real appearance. Alexandra speaks into a lapel pin and reports the party can see the real her. Alejandro goes to tackle Alexandra, but she vanishes into the floor. The party can't find a trap door and the ground is solid lumber and nothing hollow underneath. The party leave the shop and go into an allyway to stake it out.
However, before they get to wait, the party are approached by a member of the underground. He reveals to the party that Baron Axel is one of the blue skinned aliens. The underground member invites the party to attend the Underground meeting tonight at The Back Door, and gives them upgraded eye-glasses that don't cause headaches.
Two town guard, who are secretly the blue skinned, aliens, come up to arrest Hrun for drinking Bergenbier, which is illegal. Hrun reveals he is here to do two things, drink Bergenbier and kick ass, and he is all out of Bergenbier. Alejandro & Hrun fight off the guards and knock them out and hide them in nearby empty water barrels.
===The Resistance Meeting===
Before the meeting tonight, Alejandro & Hrun go to Shenanigans and gather lemon juice & salt to throw on the skinless parts of the faces of the blue-skined aliens. They get the lemon juice & salt by ordering & drinking many margaritas.
In the evening the party head to The Back Door for the meeting. The leader talks to the crowd, announcing that Grits has died, and there could be a mole in the organisation. The man says the source of the illusions is emitted from a sign someplace in town. The leader reminds everyone that the Blue-Skinned aliens have their communicator pins that allow then to escape to their main base, but the resistance haven't worked out how to use them yet.
A pack of two-headed death dogs on fire burst down the stairs into The Back Door and start attacking resistance members. Alejandro knocks out a Death Dog while another death dog bites Hrun, poisoning him. 4 town guards with fire resistant cloaks come down the stairs behind the Death Dogs. Alejandro knocks out the dog that bit Hrun. As an employee of The Back Door, Alejandro knows a secret escape tunnel, so helps Hrun escape. Once in the escape tunnel Alejandro sucks out the poison from Hrun's thigh successfully.
The pair escape out the tunnel and see in the distance the barn above The Back Door is on fire and there are guards outside watching the blaze with Death Dogs on leaches. The party decide to head to Shenanigans to get Desmond's advice how to use the communication pins.
The party discover that Shenanigans is swarming with guards. The party start to walk towards Desmond's house when a guard stops them leaving. The guard hits the badge that Hrun is wearing with his sword with somehow activates it, and Hrun falls down a magical hole that appeared. Alejandro knocks out the guard and also jumps down the hole.
===The Underground Lair===
Alejandro & Hrun appear in an underground lair that is magically lit and made of stone bricks. The party head down the curved corridor until the come to a set of doors guarded by a person wearing a steel breastplate & steel longsword. Hrun distracts the guard, claiming he is here to deliver some silk rope, while Alejandro comes from behind and puts the guard in a sleeper hold and knocks him out. The guard gets stripped naked and tied up, then the party head inside the doors.
The party find themselves at a fancy party. Alejandro puts on his party hat. At the party a person named Jackson introduces himself to the party, saying they must be new. Jackson assumes they are traitors who have decided to work for the Blue-Skinned Aliens, and gives the party a tour of the base. Jackson shows the party the portal the aliens use to arrive in this dimension. Jackson says this is all possible because of the sign in down that says "DESEW" in town that broadcasts an illusion on all of the blue skinned aliens. The party then easily knock out Jackson with a punch.
The party head up a set of stairs which leads to a trap door to the surface at the edge of town. The "DESEW" sign is in sight. There is a patrol of 3 of Them coming towards the trap door. Alejandro goes over to take a cart of manure nearby while Hrun goes to distract the guards. The guards get distracted as the cart is set on fire and driven into the 3 guards and the sign, knocking out 2 of the guards and setting the sign on fire. The party take out the last guard and throw hay on the fire to make it spread.
Eventually the sign burns properly then explodes. Around town are cries of alarm as the illusion is broken. Outside Shenanigans Desmond, Lizzy and Layla are slaying the Aliens non stop.
===Aftermath===
Desmond and family are getting all the credit for defeating the aliens and not the party.
==Experience==
1000 exp each
*Hrun levels to level 3
**Max HP from 21 to 34
== Significant NPCs ==
* Grits - Human Male, has a crate full of magical sunglasses that sees though certain illusions
* Desmond - Human Male, Owner of Shenanigans, Retired high level fighter
* Resistance Leader - Human Male, Holds meetings in The Back Door, thinks the Blue Alien's plans are worse than the actual plans of the aristocracy which are identical. 
* Jackson - Human Male, Former Begger who joined the side of Them, became rich and influential
== Significant Locations ==
*Bergshire - Shenanigans
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