Shenanigans: Episode 008

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==Recap==
=== VOD Part 1 ===
Episode kicks off with Jill telling another story to the audience in Shenanigans “La Sombra says, hey there barbarian chief! I understand now that initiation involves wrestling a bear and making love to a woman, but when you wrote the instructions yesterday, you could’ve mentioned the dyslexia!”
Friar Morton Bixby then waddles into the bar sporting hair ringlets, in the bar is also the extremely peaceful paladin of fire nations, Ryelline, the nature conservationist Squirrely McSquirrelson, also known as La Sombra sidekick, the Squirrel, Jill the elf man hiding from his evil twin and lastly Joaquin Santamaria, the tall dwarven shield wall. Everyone immediately inspects Morton, the doppelganger incident still fresh in mind, but when he starts dissing Squrrelies grindstone music the paranoia is quickly cast aside.
Elizabeth smelling that the party has nothing in particular in mind for the day immediately shuffles over, then starts an argument when she says men have to be told what to do especially when whaling is mentioned. Turns out Desmond threw out his back last night, fact he is trying his best to hide, otherwise he would’ve done this himself, but she needs them to get a package to Cawksport. Morton gets self conscious about his aging, sagging manboobs. People start getting confused on what they ought and ought not to know and eventually Lizzy tells them the crate needs to get to Cawksport where her friend will take it further to the south seas. Party momentarily considers fighting some plants instead, but they go with the delivery quest.
Ryelline offers to pitch in for a horse since their last one got stolen, but for cost effectiveness they decide to get a donkey instead. Also it is noted that 1 draft horse is worth 8000 ladders. Short while later at Manning's mares Morton gets a couple donkeys, Chet's little sister asks where her big brother is since he hasn't come home in a while, but Morton avoids answering.
They name their new donkeys Dick and Dick Emmet, they also overhear Lizzy ripping Borch a new one cause he criticized the pig she hunted. Jill ends up weaseling a bunch of free pig stew from Borch as an excuse to rate it. Among the party it is decided that the stew is well made after all. Ryelline consorts with Lizzy and turns out she was gonna consider this more of a favor for all the times Ryelline has put a fire out or started one in town, Ryelline protests and says that Desmond already owes them a favor which Lizzy immediately wants to know what for, Morton arrives and tells them of the favor for getting their daughter back into school at which point Lizzy immediately calms down and just offers 30 gold per day aka 90 gold in total. Party stocks up on soap and molotovs then get on their way.
=== VOD Part 2 ===
5 Minutes out of town Ryelline begins contemplating how world doesn't seem to change around them which prompts 4 arrow to come flying at her from nowhere. Only 1 arrow hits her though and in return she chucks a molotov at the 4 hobgoblins squatting in the forest. The fight is intense, but brief and with half of the party having above 20 AC somewhat one-sided. Ryelline captures 1 fleeing hobgoblin with her net while other is murdered by Squirrelies duck. Ryelline worries Morton a little when it looks like she's about to torture the last hobgoblin, but she abstains. Rest of them wake up Joaquin who had been hit by a sleep spell just in time to witness Ryelline burning sleeping hobgoblins alive. Jill snags one of them to interrogate where their lair is while last one manages a shrieking escape. Jill interrogates the last hobgoblin demanding to know where the dogfia is and where they have taken Aristotel, in the end it agrees to take Jill to their lair.
Squirrely follows the retreating hobgoblin into forest, gets ambushed, but quickly slays the hob. As the party discusses what to do with the last hobgoblin the forest goes up in flames. Squirrely being a handy bard of the third level reduces the fires enough for party to get through and then eliminates the forest fire in its totality.
=== VOD part 3 ===
Hobgoblin corpses are looted for some silver, weapons, armor and elven longbows. There's also 3 gnome corpses which the party holds a small ceremony over.
As the ceremony closes 3 brownies walk out out of the forest solemnly holding their feathered caps. Morton greets the uncharacteristically sad looking brownies and they tell him that all of the gnomes are dead. They confirm that the hobgoblins killed a whole gnomish town so Morton holds another ceremony in gnomish which lifts their tiny spirits and one of the brownies summons a pack of 3 corgis while another creates dancing lights. This only lasts a short while because the corgis begin growling at Jill since he was part of a brownie incineration a while ago. Morton ends up making an excuse for Jill and brownies bound off with a colourful trail behind them leading party to the gnome village. Party begins arguing whether to go to the gnome village or not, Ryelline against the idea since she took part of the brownie burning and Jill for it since he wants to investigate the connection to dogfia.
In-between this Morton dishes out some heals and starts arguing with Ryelline over whether the fire she worships are real gods. The argument heats up and Ryelline ends going for a stab at Morton who casts Shillelagh and then runs away. Ryelline goes to throw a net at the cleric, but it is intercepted by Jill while Squirrely starts playing a song that forces Ryelline to ignore Morton. Joaquin finally arrives as well while Ryelline helps Jill out of her net. Squirrely tries to impersonate Morton's voice to apologize, but it doesn't work out.
Awax spooks the donkeys getting the cart to move down the road while Morton chases the brownie road into forest. Jill chases after Morton, but is intercepted by Aristotle who brings him a giant dead rat. Morton then finally gets to the gnome village and its 5 foot tall stone buildings where he hides with the cart entering the glave just moments after. The cleric then tries throwing a rock at Ryelline, but misses as the cart approaches with molotov dispenser ready to throw some firebombs, but before the clash happens a Confuse spell goes off and everyone just bumbles around with Jill, being the spell resistant elf in hiding, leading Morton away into the forest. Then out of the forest comes a dozen strong pack of corgi riding brownies who yell and make faces while circling Ryelline and Joaquin on the cart. Once Ryelline stops being confused she happens upon a hole filled with gnome hands, but ignores it and starts going back to Bergshire.
Somewhere in the forest Jill begins trying to convince Morton not to mention the fact Ryelline worships evil fire spirits to her face, her not murdering them and tanking for the party being in their squads best interests. Morton reluctantly agrees to try and not say anything about Ryellines faith. Jill then goes back to the gnome village and tries to talk Ryelline into not murdering Morton, but she demands that he apologizes before they can make truce. Jill then makes a trump of an argument that Ryelline just few months ago denounced fire spirits and worshiped water spirits so Morton, being in the same spot she used to be, deserves the same chance as she got. Beat by this amazing philosophical gambit, Ryelline agrees not to stab the fat cleric if he doesn't mention her gods again.
Squirrely meanwhile starts filling the gnome hand pit with dirt when another brownie comes out of the woodwork and offers him a large silver coin, at first Squirrely figures its an offering to the dead, but when he drops it into the grave the brownie sighs and offers it back to him. Joaquin finds an empty cracked chest in one the buildings and then explores rest of the village noting that everything made of metal has been looted.
=== VOD Part 4 ===
Jill decides to explore the basements and finds 2 gnomish children, he has Morton then try to talk the gnomes out of their basement and console them when they start crying. Party takes one last look around and then heads to Cawksport trying to think of something hobgoblins might have wanted from the gnomish village other than just basic resources. They find some more elven, human and miscellaneous arrows. The gnomish children later stomp on the captive hobgoblins testicles in revenge.
A day later party arrives in Cawksport, they start wandering around the town for a suitable spot where Desmond might have a meeting with a friend and end up in Jolly Trolley. They note a lot Akuban sailors in the tavern and sand haired dwarves with goggles, which Joaquin notes as being almost mythical nomadic desert dwarves. Jill tries buddying it up with a random Akuban sailor, but gets rebuffed until he gets him two shots of tears of your enemies, he also gets some day laborers and an off-duty towns guard at which point he leads them to side of the tavern where he starts putting up a YMCA show. The show is mostly successful and people are happy! Ryelline then talks to the bartender and learns that package is to be delivering to the large insect Wyona is hanging around near the docks. They also get an envelope in return, it has the seal of Lord Jacob Redwing on it, they know that he's a prominent noble from Redport who is known to be honorable and no-nonsense kind of man.
Party then goes to the docks to find Wyona who's a 7 feet tall thri-kreen mantis with spears and a saddle. Morton deals with the mantis lady who has the crates put into a rowboat while making odd rolling clicky sounds. They then attempt to sell weapons and armor they looted from hobgoblins. After 5 days they manage to sell 1 longbow and then return to Deadend Sausageville East Westerland, get their gold and give the letter to Desmond which then immediately gets thrown out.
==Experience==
*Party gets 500 XP + 10% if prerequisites are met.
*Morton gains 3rd level and rolls 4HP.
==Significant NPCs==
* Chet Manning of the Mannings Mares
* Wyona the thri-kreen
==Significant Locations==
* Bergshire - Shenanigans
* Cawksport
Category:Shenanigans Episodes