Sea Scouts and Theatre Bouts

an adventure starring Cade Ghostbane, Boltzmann, and Olive Muhdo. 
Description: Sea Snaps, Dragon Thins, Elven Logs, and Ghost Banes? Olive, Cade, and Boltzmann help some orphans revitalize their cookie-selling enterprise and enjoy an evening at the local haunted theater. 
Setting: Niqamui, Cookie Castle Orphanage, Purple Boot Theater 
Non-Player Characters: 
*Susi
*Ember 
*Oat 
*Punnett
*Somerset 
*Mrs. and Mr. Upperton
*Mrs. Forest 
*Mrs. Cookie
*Monty Lovato
Plot Summary: 
Olive, Cade, and new recruit Boltzmann are considering taking up a job exorcising ghosts at the Purple Boot Theater when they are interrupted by three orphans knocking on the door of the Firebreathing Kittens Guild, asking for help to sell their famous cookies. On the way to Mrs. Upperton, a prejudiced woman who's been preventing the orphans from making sales, it becomes clear that the children are being forced to sell cookies all day instead of going to school, and they decide instead to head to the Cookie Castle Orphanage to confront the headlady. 
Surprisingly, the orphanage, a former cookie factory, is deserted, and the adventurers discover a secret passage to an underground network of caves filled with sea air, where they encounter four cookie-baking sea hags. Olive attempts to engage them in a discussion, but as the hags cackle and tell her that she won't leave alive, Boltzmann brusquely fires a rocket launcher at them from his mechanical torso. A brawl ensues, where the sea hags reveal they possess godly power, dropping Boltzmann instantly through an enchanting whale song, while Cade sneaks up invisibly and takes two out channeling his own eldritch might, and Olive knocks out and stuns the other two. 
When the two living hags come to, shackled, the party interrogates them, but they refuse to tell what their plan was, each giving a completely different version of the events, although they both admit they've been killing the orphans. When Boltzmann reads their thoughts, it incurs visions of a massive, evil whale god. Olive also finds Mrs. Cookie, the former proprietress of the orphanage, who's been left in a fugue state for ten years since the hags took over. When the adventurers tell her to open the vault, it is overflowing with gold from years of cookie sales, and the orphanage can go back to taking care of its children. 
Having dealt with one nefarious plot before lunch, the adventurers decide to take a rest and meet at the theater in the evening. Multiple theater staff and guests, including Punnett, have been disappearing and coming back as ghosts. Even so, the theater is full for tonight's variety show. Cade climbs up into the rafters to get a bird's eye view, Olive takes a nap in the audience, and Boltzmann decides to get on stage, debuting his solo bachata routine. The semi-improvised production goes off without a hitch, until a scream erupts from the audience -- a woman has disappeared, none other than Mrs. Upperton, 
Cade's eldritch sight leads the party to residual teleportation magic where she was last seen, and Boltzmann finds a trap door with a similar aura, which causes his robotic assistant Mr. Langley to vanish into thin air. Olive bravely volunteers to jump through the trap door with a rope and a jetpack strapped to her, but not before giving Boltzmann an engagement ring (actually intended for Richard) that establishes an empathic bond between them. While Cade holds open the trap door, Boltzmann empathically starts feeling a strange mix of arousal and fear, and Olive flies back out of the trap door explaining why: a succubus with a pet displacer beast has been draining people and making them disappear. 
The three descend through the trap door and Olive makes quick work of the Succubus by stunning her, while Boltzmann temporarily polymorphs the Displacer Beast into a kitten. The Succubus explains her name is Monty Lovato, and she's been charming and kidnapping the nastiest people she can find from the theater, because she's got to survive on something. The party is wholeheartedly understanding -- even Boltzmann feels for her due to his amplified empathy -- and they agree to let her go free on two conditions: she will use her powers in legitimate ways, by feeding on the Sea Hags in prison and using her wits and charm to help the Niqamui police with investigations, and she will give Cade her number. After Boltzmann finds Mr. Langley, agrees to adopt the Displacer Beast, and gives Olive the ring back so it might one day find its way to its actual intended, the adventurers head back to the guild, two jobs done well. 
Memorable Quotes:
* Boltzmann: "Olive, they are supernatural creatures made of spite and malice and seafoam!" Olive: "You're a brain in a jar!" Boltzmann: "And I will act thusly!"
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