Of Dice and Men: Episode 08

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== Synopsis ==
In Whalers Bay, the "Various Operations Agency" (VOA) sets off on a mission involving a stolen crown. Nevets, a key member, hires a red-haired smuggler who ultimately deceives them. Tracking her to an apartment, the team discovers her plot to help the crown escape town. They interrogate her associates, uncovering plans to transport the crown to Bergshire. Nevets, Lennie, Daff, and Toki then chase down leads, facing various obstacles, including a cart search gone wrong and a confrontation with a deceptive old man and bugbears. Despite setbacks, they retrieve the crown, apprehend the culprits, and return to Whalers Bay. There, they hand over the crown to the Baroness, are rewarded, and begin studying a mysterious stone portal with the court wizard as an ominous sky event causes widespread despair.
==Recap==
===Saturday, 2nd February, 1512 (continued)===
Whalers Bay. The "Various Operations Agency" (VOA), see the Sea Skipper leave the harbour. Nevets goes into a shady tavern to hire a smuggler. The red-haired lady from earlier comes to the party and says she can get them in a fast boat for 500 copper. Nevets agreed and pays. The woman then ghosts the party.
Nevets trails the red-haired lady's friends to a 4-story appeared building. Nevets goes to collect Lennie. They can't see Toki around, so Nevets assigns Lennie to find Toki.
Nevets goes to investigate the apparent building. It is a slummy apartment building. He eventually near the top of the building he hears 3 female voices. Lennie and Toki arrive.
VoA goes into the room and confront the redhaired woman, Fiona. Her deception was to help the crown escape town. She claims it is on the way to Bergshire to be broken down for parts by a jeweler then sold off.
The party tries interrogating Fiona's friends, Barberra & Joline, to see if what Fiona is saying is true, but they each don't know, they are just Muscle. Lennie knock each of them out.
Nevets goes to the harbormaster to find out where the Sea Skipper went while the others guard the women. The Harbormaster says Bon' Dundisyer, a location beyond Stoneport, Renkore & Bergshire. Nevents rushes back with the new information and stabs Fiona to force the interrogation. Fiona says they had to swap ships to the Sea Skipper at the last minute because of issues with the boat they were going to use, and the Crown is heading to Bergshire, just the long way. Nevets believes the story.
Lennie collects Daff from a tavern as Nevets finds a ship that is leaving this evening for Bon' Dundisyer. VOA pay for passage and set sail that evening. 
===Saturday, 9th February, 1512===
VOA arrives in Bon' Dundisyer. Daff casts detect Lead Box and finds one on an uncovered wagon that is on the road. Lennie searches the cart filled with vaces against the wishes of the owner of the cart. Lennie doesn't find the lead box before 4 guards stop the cart and drag Lennie off the cart and manacle him and drag him to jail, and let the wagon leave town.
Daff and Toki look at a different lead box, but the crown isn't there. Toki then notices Lennie being dragged off, and talks with the guards and gets Lennie released back into her custody.
Nevets goes talk with a smuggler in a local seedy bar but the local contacts weren't told about the crown.
VOA meet back up and head after the vace cart that has left town. The party hires a carriage to leave town, which leaves in the evening.
===Sunday, 10th February, 1512===
The party is on the carriage in the rain where they see a naked old man being carried off by 2 bugbears. Lennie doesn't think it is the man who owns the cart. VOA decides to intercede anyway and attack the bugbears. Lennie kills the bugbear carrying the old man. When the bugbear dies the body disappears with no blood or anything left behind.
The old man stands up and casts burning hands on the party, knocking Nevets out. Toki heals Nevets back up. Nevets knocks out the old man and the other bugbear vanishes. The party searches his bag and finds a tiny portal and some spellbooks.
The party return to their carriage and the drunken Daff heals up the party.
Later in the day, the carriage catches up with the vace cart. The driver, Jacob, is knocked out by Lennie but stabilised by Toki. The man reveals the crown is in a lead box under the cart The party takes the crown and blame Fiona.
The party take their carriage with the naked old man back to Bon' Dundisyer. The old man reveals he is named Poorvan and is just trying to get back to Eridon. The party lets him go o, but Nevets steals the stone portal from him, and openly takes 10 gold from Poorvan's rucksack.
Toki casts detect magic on the portal and it radiates very strong magic.
===Monday, 11th February, 1512===
The party finds a boat leaving in 2 days back for Whalers Bay.
===Wednesday, 13th February, 1512===
The party gets onto the ship.
In the sky, the goddess Matrigal was expected to be in the sky but is missing. People feel despair over the population with the goddess of hope vanishing.
===Wednesday, 20th February, 1512===
The party arrive back in Whalers Bay and go to the Baroness's Keep and hand in the crown and are rewarded 400 gold.
The party goes with the court wizard to study the stone portal. The court wizard casts a detect magic spell and finds some runes have appeared. He says he will have to spend a day casting identify on it. The party agrees.
==Experience==
1125 exp each (6225 exp total each)
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