Shenanigans: Episode 183

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==Recap==
Party are in Shenanigans get job to transport Beer Barrels from Rwalwikk back to Bergshire for Desmond. Desmond warns one of his employees tipped off the local Orcs and they'll be trying to intercept the cart. Pepe von Gefiltefish attempts to get a stake in Shenanigans, but Desmond rebuffs him.
Jill visits the town library to get a book about Orcs. Volk gets some paint to disguise the barrels. Lord Willmore buys a horse named Jenny from Mannings Mares. 
The party gather supplies and head north towards Rwalwikk.
By the end of the day they arrive at the Halfway Home Inn. Inside the inn a group of 8 Orcs are in the common room. The rooms in the Halfway Home are only 2 silver each a night, so Jill pays for several rooms and then tries to change the party 3 silver for their rooms. The owner of Halfway Home isn't impressed and kicks Jill out.
Wizold Mann then decide to try to get the Orcs to pick a fight with the inn owner, but his lie fails and the Orcs target him. Pepe throws a magic missile at the owner. The Orcs attack Pepe, knocking him out. Wizold Mann casts Nahal's Reckless Dweomer that causes all the Orcs in the tavern to vanish temporarily. Volk stabilizes the inn owner, then the whole party retreat from the inn. The party travel though the woods in the dark.
In the dark of night the party encounter 2 human traveler with a donkey. One is a warrior and the other appears to be a civilian. Sayday warns the travelers of the Orcs at the Halfway Home. The party argue about how dangerous the orcs actually were. The travelers say they passed a crucified Gnome on a tree beside the road. After Wizold Mann tells a joke that he has also crucified Gnomes, the travelers hurry away, weirded out by the party.
The party travel for more and at dawn they come across the crucified Gnome. Sayday digs a grave for the Gnome on the side of the road, but Jill insists it is the Gnomish Messiah and will come back to life in 3 days, so Jill leaves the body in a bush instead.
At midday the party arrive in Rwalwikk. They easily collect the barrels for Desmond at the Radco Brewery from Rad himself. The party paint the barrels to disguise them.
The party rest overnight then head out along the road back south. Along the road they return to the bush where the gnome's body was left and find it was dragged off. Jill transforms into La Sombra, and their Elven Cat, Aristotle, returns to them. La Sombra leads the investigation into where the gnome went, along with Volk and Lord Willmore. Pepe, Wizold Mann, and Sayday continue on with out them with the cart. However the cart is ambushed by orcs and the three have to fight them off.
La Sombra, Volk and Lord Willmore follow the tracks and find the Orc Camp where there are 4 orcs playing with the dead gnome like a puppet. La Sombra casts sleep, knocking out 3 of the orcs. The trio then get the last orc to surrender. The Orc says that they weren't the ones to crucified the Gnome. La Sombra allows the awake Orc to flee if he tells of La Sombra's deeds. The unconscious orcs are tied up and interrogated. They also have no knowledge of who crucified the Gnome. Volk think it was a third party, maybe that injured human they had come across.
Back at the cart, the party defeat the Orcs and continue on. The whole party meet up and get back to Bergshire together. They are paid 30 gold each for the delivery.
==Experience==
258 exp each
Category:Shenanigans Episodes