City Dwarves: Episode 07

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==Synopsis==
On a hot summer day Lazuli sets up a cooling system for their shoe shop and then goes to attract customers from the bar next door. The bar has new magically cold beer from a Sorceress. This results in a number of drunken customers coming over to the shoe store.
After selling various shoes and bags to the drunken customers the Sorceress who made the cold beer visits to buy a pair of shoes. The Sorceress tells the story of a time she visited a halfling island and found herbs that would pacify the mind of those who drank it under the control of the caster.
==Recap==
===Levelups===
(Continued from last week)
* Pebble takes "Path of Shadows
* Lazuli takes "College of Eloquence"
* Bouldara takes "Form of the Beast"
===Summer Heat===
The sisters are in their shop in The First City on a hot summers day. Bouldara is fanning the cats, while Pebble is nearby to also get fanned. Lazuli casts to make the sisters clothes chill for 1 hour.
Lazuli gets a pile of stones and chills them, then makes a fan to push the air into the shop that Bouldara operates. The sisters decide this is a good chance to bring in people to the shop to either buy shoes or have lasts made of their feet. 
Lazuli goes into the pub next door to find some customers, but she finds inside a traveling wizard has made all the beers cold. Lazuli convinces a couple (the Visas) to head over to the Shoe Shop. She meets with 3 elven sisters, the Cobalt Triplets, who got shoes from Sister Helen's store, and tells them that since they are the same size they should have gotten a discount since they could share a last.
At the shop the elves play rock-paper-scissors to decide who will sit for the last. The Visa couple buy a clutch (a small purse). Proton gets to work to make some cookies. 
The a large crowd of drunken people from the bar after being convinced by Lazuli. Lazuli meanwhile tries to go down to the basement of the bar to meet with the Sorceress who made the drinks cold. In the basement she sees the Sorceress working over a cauldron. She sees that whatever is in the cauldron isn't pure beer. Lazuli stands and watches the process. When a batch is complete, the contents are put in the beer barrel and carried upstairs.
Lazuli introduces herself to Risen the Sorceress. Risen explains they are doing this job just to make money for their future plans to built a wizard tower up in the mountains to harness electricity. Lazuli suggests Risen buy some nice shoes from her show later.
===Crowded Shop===
When Lazuli returns to the shop she sees that both Pebble and Bouldara are overwhelmed by the crowd of people. Then a shoplifter steals a clutch and tries to escape, but Lazuli trips him. This commotion in the drunken crown causes a small drunken brawl to break out between the customers. Bouldara starts trying to take the beer from the troublemakers but they avoid her. Pebble is in the workshop working on the last for the elven sisters and casts to quiet it all down. However the spell sends the drunken crowd into a panic.
Lazuli gets crushed by the crowd as Bouldara throws rabbit punches at troublemakers. Bouldara sees it isn't working so draws everyone attention with her small hand-fans and directs everyone outside.
With he crowd thinned, the sisters get back to work selling stuff. Lazuli & Pebble sell a customer a custom red bad with a corkscrew on it. There are other custom orders made.
Eventually all the customers leave except the 3 elves whose last is still being worked on. Proton comes out with the cookies. The elves know Proton's mother, Ion, the keeper of the Acorns. The sisters try to convince the inebriated elves that it is a different Proton.
===After-Hours Sorceress===
In the evening after everyone as left and the store is closed there is a knocking on the door. It is Risen the Sorceress, making a custom order for her shoes. Pebble gets to work making a last for the Sorceress, talking about her new spells as she does so. The Sorceress wants small silver faces put onto the side of the shoes, each face however is to be unique and distinct from one-another.
The Sorceress is happy to share more of her cold beer with the three dwarven sisters. Pebble is reluctant to drink anything, but her sisters have some. At the end she puts down a 100 gold deposit on the shoes that will cost 500 gold total. While waiting for her minions to come and deliver the money the Sorceress tells a story.
:The Sorceress was visiting an island to the south, surrounded by mountains (ancient The Talens) where halfling live, where the goddess Aaris resides. Sorceress discovered that there was something pacifying in the nutrients in the ground. The halfings would infuse this into their brews. With magic the Sorceress was able to make these herbs into a stronger stupor, and to connect the spellcaster with the imbiber.
:The Sorceress then travelled to a small island to the north of Arcadia were a titan lives and once there she made "friends" with the Titan.
The money arrives and the Sorceress leaves with her half-orc minions. Lazuli has grown very suspicious of the beer while Pebble is enthralled by the story and happy that she made a friend. 
One of the customers from earlier in the day returns to the shop to put down her down payment on the red wine bag. She tries to pay in silverware. Pebble sees engraved on the silverware is the letters PS. Made by Polk Smithing, a local renowned blacksmith. Bethany's father. Bouldara becomes emotional as Lazuli rejects the silverware payment. The customer says they can come in with coin tomorrow. Bouldara claims the silverware must be stolen and drags the woman back towards Bethany's house.
As they head to Bethany's house, the customer tries to cut a deal with Bouldara. Bouldara ends up letting the thief go, and delivers the stolen goods to Bethany's father.
==Experience==
No experience given this session.
Category:City Dwarves Episodes
Category:City Dwarves