Self Maid Man

an adventure starring Tanager Goodfellow, Aaron, prince of tritons, and Olive Muhdo. 
Description: Tanager, Aaron, and Olive embark on a treasure hunt with a grand prize of the ultimate treasure: true love. But who deserves that love, and who should have the right to give it? Tune in and see. 
Setting: Niqamui (Firebreathing Kittens guild hall, Purple Boot theater, the library of Niqamui Community College, The Niqamui Museum of Natural History, Fox Face Inn, Pepperton Estate)
Characters: 
*Punnett
*Ari
*Gaveriel Jovar (Gavi)
* Kila: human female
* Dr. Eaton: 4'11" woman, wears a lab coat, bright green hair, bright pink eyes. Works at Niqamui Museum of Natural History. 
* Sir William of Pepperton (The Ancient One (Bob))
*Indimness
* Trix 
* Zona 
* Tyfanni Hopana 
*Richard
*Kuri
Plot Summary: 
Tanager, Aaron, and Olive are in the guild hall when a magical paper appears. "SIr William formally announces the biggest gala of the year. Bring your best and one lucky person is leaving a prince or princess. His son is debuting for a suitable match." Heating the paper reveals a hidden map of Niqamui. There are locations on the map. Fox Face Inn (black). Museum of Natural History (amber). NCC library (green). Purple Boot Theater (peridot). There's also a turquoise dot on the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall they're at. They head to the Purple Boot Theater to investigate. There they meet Punnet, a halfling in charge of safety, and sign themselves up as part of the troupe. However, they're a bit weirded out by Punnet saying that the reason why the Purple Boot is hiring is because all their previous acrobats died from safety related accidents. Tanager in particular gets a bad vibe. Punnet offers for them to perform at a paying gig the Purple Boot has tonight at the Pepperton Estate, and the party says maybe and leaves. They next go to the Fox Face Inn, where there is a networking event and everyone staying at the inn gets one free glass of wine. They network and meet Ari, a very shy woman who works as a maid for the Peppertons and tells them how if they can get two gems, they can teleport in to the party tonight to compete to win the prince's hand. But she also expresses some wistful sighs over the prince, and it's pretty clear to the party that she likes him and wishes she could get the gems. She points out the black opal on the achievement plaque behind the bar to the party. Tanager and Aaron sing to distract the bartender, while Olive pretends to catch a cube of cheese but actually nips the black opal with her teeth off of the plaque. Smiling to her party and flashing her very expensive new fake tooth (the opal wedged between her pointy canines), the party high tails it out of the bar and brings Ari along. Ari gives them more information about the Peppertons; she works as a maid and knows the prince and his adopted father well. Tanager suggests they get the rest of the gems to decrease competition, so they head to the museum. They stop at the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall for a quick costume change for Tanager first. The top shelf liquor is calling to him but, feeling bad about his friends paying for him earlier, he ignores it and reaches for the bottom shelf, less expensive bottle. They go the museum of natural history. Aaron claims that they're students studying amber. Kila directs them to Dr. Eaton, who has a box with amber on her desk. Aaron pretends to jiggle a rock in his hand and, oops, drop the rock into the box of amber, picking out what looks like his rock again but is actually the amber. Ari notes that the painting behind Dr. Eaton is one she packed up for Mr. Pepperton two months ago. Having successfully gotten the stone, they leave Dr. Eaton and the museum and head to the library. A staff librarian is crying about having to do biology homework, but Aaron and Tanager, familiar with sea life and eating plants, respectively, help her identify the ocean plants on her worksheet. Once her homework is complete, she helps them find the book they were looking for. Ari remembers the old, grimy volume because she packed it up two months ago for Mr. Pepperton. The librarian comments that this book has been popular; they aren't the first to have checked it out. It is as Ari goes to open the page to look for the emerald hidden within the tome that Olive puts two and two together. Olive realizes that, like the turquoise that they missed in their own guild hall (it was among the top shelf liquor), they also missed this emerald. Two stones are needed to open the portal; they will have a rival for the prince's affections (who the party is rooting for Ari getting, since she likes him). Olive asks about what all Mr. Pepperton has been doing that makes Ari say he's crazy. He adopts random children, he takes frequent vacations, and he exclusively eats meat. (All things Olive approves of.) Tanager and Aaron ask how long ago the behavioral changes happened. Two months ago? Yes. Aaron suspects that Mr. Pepperton has been replaced by a changeling. Tanager, whose servant Kuri was recently taken by the changeling gang working for The HHO, vows to get Kuri back and track down these changelings. Ari also tells them that weird plants arrived and made Mr. Pepperton burst into scales. She suspects he's a dragon and that his frequent vacations are to visit his hoard. Tanager agrees, contributing the information that dragons can take on human form, unless disrupted by something (such as the plants). Olive points out not everything with scales is a dragon *coughs*. At the appointed time, the gems activate and create a portal. The adventurers and Ari step through to a lawn party. A magical buffet table gives you any food you want. Tanager meets some elves, but they reject him because he is a satyr and they call him hired entertainment. He does notice that they have a ruby and a pyrite; two gems not on their own list, but clearly these are competitors for the prince's hand. The adventurers have a conversation with Ari. She does really love Gabi and he loves her; it's mutual. Olive doesn't trust his loyalty bcause she is a maid and he is a prince, and because he's letting himself get married off. Olive is worried Gabi is abandoning Ari. So the party tests their interaction. Aaron hip checks Ari into Gavi, spilling a drink on him that Aaron then magically lifts off off them and into a sprinkling of beautiful snowflakes that frame her face. But Gavi doesn't recognize her, to Ari's shock. Gavi looks at Ari like he doesn't know her, and she runs away crying. Tanager suspects that he's the changeling. They rush into a side room after Ari. The prince follows. It's not the prince, but Indimness, a drow who Olive has met before and knows is the apprentice to a great wizard. Indimness tells them that they lost the prince, as if this were a terrible thing, but Olive starts to respect the prince because he fled an arranged marriage. Maybe he does have a bit of sense after all. Tanager feels bad for how jaded being dumped has made Olive. They decide that since winning the hand of the prince doesn't matter as much anymore, that Ari might be safer in her normal maid's outfit. They establish a code word: parakeet. So they'll know if anyone gets replaced by a changeling. The Purple Boot theater troop arrives. The adventurers sneak off into the plant room while everyone else at the party is distracted. Aaron speaks to plants and learns that earlier today, someone took one of them. The party takes the rest. Olive in the past ate a curtain (A Pirate's Life), so she asks the buffet table for a curtain and hides the plants that she ties to her backpack. They go back to the main room. Looking closer at the father, Sir Pepperton, they realize that a changeling wouldn't need such heavy makeup, and Tanager questions if maybe he was overly sensitive to suspecting changelings because one took Kuri from him. He wonders that as they fall through the floor and into a dungeon. They pick themselves off the floor and talk. Tanager offers himself up to marry Indimness if they win. There is a left and a right door. They go left and a screen says pick a partner. Aaron partners up with Trix because he's attractive and likes nature, Olive gets stuck with Tyfanni, and Tanager get Zona, a master thief. The heroes explore rooms of puzzles and danger. Tanager is tied to Zona. Olive asks Tyfani for some of her wine. Aaron has a riddle about what is the greatest weapon. Solving the riddle and finding Tanager tied to the master thief, Tanager shoos him out so he can stay tied to him a bit longer. But then Aaron next ventures into a room with the group of elves from before, competitors for the prince's hand. One of the elves is dead. Trix, Zona, and Tyfani disappear. Uh oh. Olive unties Tanager and they find themselves in a room with a button. Press the button for your greatest desire. Tanager is incredibly unwilling to press the button. Olive presses it and a portal to a hot crocodile guy appears. She goes through. Tanager wants to explore the room with seven skeletons. But Aaron wants to push the button for his greatest desire. Aaron pushes the button and gets awesome magical armor. Finally, Tanager pushes the button. The button open up a portal to where Kuri was, and she's reunited with Tanager. He's overjoyed. Having neglected the room with the skeletons they've run out of time and finished the dungeon, failing to win the hand of the prince. They leave, and discover that the prince's hand has already been won. By who? Himself. He found the emerald in the library and the turquoise in the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall, bested the dungeon, and won his own hand. Now he can marry who he chooses, which is Ari. Awww. 
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