Pawns and Patrons: Episode 11

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==Characters==
Anna: Babs (level 1 Rogue) the Brewer (and drunkard). Level 0s: Scribbles - Female Human Scribe, Hawkeye. Henley - Non Binary Human Chicken butcher, seventh son
Gen: Streje Dude (level 1 Spell Sword) the jester Frog-humanoid. Level 0s: Bescri - Female Human Scribe, Survived a Spider Bite. Ler Jwee - Female Human Jeweller, Survived the plague
Neal: Level 0s: Kate - Female Human Gardener who was raised by Wolves, Dee - Female Human Squire, born on the battlefield.
Rachel: Agnes (level 1 Wizard) is a seller of chests (familiar is Senga, an elderly miniature version of herself). Level 0s: Eevee (renamed Evelyn) - Female Human Noble, raised by Wolves, Fiona - Female Human Forester, survived the plague.
===Significant NPCs===
* Bellon: Male Frog. Spice Merchant. Has a horse named Dartanion.
* Court Wizard Augusta Rubey: Wizard Frog. Party have quest to find them because they disappeared with the Eldritch Scroll of Zocarzan.
==Recap==
===The Meatlocker===
The party find themselves in the meatlocker of Frogomance, having climbed up from the tunnel below. In the room is a deceased human woman with her legs dissolved and wearing a eye-shaped amulet. Ler Jwee and Babs goes for the amulet, but Ler Jwee gets it first. Ler Jwee identifies it as the symbol of the Overlord. On the ground is a blood trail that leads to the body.
===The Laboratory===
Dee opens the door to the next room, finding it is a alchemist laboratory of some kind. On the ground are more bloody trail that starts in the north-west corner of the room, that leads around the tables in the room and to the meat locker. Scribbles looks around to see if there are any acids or other things that could dissolve legs in the laboratory and finds aquaquartis that can dissolve (but isn't a gel), and a vial of quicksilver, and a gold liquid in a potion bottle with a screw cap. Scribbles falls off a stool and drops the gold potion on Agnes right leg. Agnes's leg goes into searing pain, and when Agnes looks down she sees her lower leg has detached and turned to solid gold. Agnes falls over, bleeding out.
Meanwhile Bescri pulls a book off the nearby bookshelf, an out of place children's book, "My Froggy Friday", which triggers a mechanism that swings the bookshelf open to reveal a secret door. On the other side of the secret door is a crocodile. 
===Crocodiles in the Library===
Combat: Party vs Crocodile
* Bescri throws her dart, but it misses the Crocodile. Ler Jwee drags the copse of the human woman to feed to the crocodile, but only manages to get it out of the meatlocker. Streje Dude casts Choking Frog at the doorway where the crocodile is.
* Kate goes though the doorway and pulls the leaver on the other side. The door starts to close. Kate leaps back into the laboratory, with the crocodile missing biting her.
Combat Ends
:Experience: All level 1 characters gain 3 exp.
Kate describes the other room having doors and a staircase. The party decide they need to kill the crocodile. They grab various breakers and ranged weapons to throw at the crocodile when the door opens again. Bescri gathers a vial of dissolving goo from the meat locker.
Combat: Party vs Crocodile (again)
* Dee opens the door and the party hurl their items. Bescri throws their vial of dissolving goo into the crocodile's mouth, doing major damage. Streje Dude hits with his favourite dart.
* Fiona throws 4 random vials at the crocodile and they all miss. The first vial is just water. The second vial is a blue-green potion that causes growth. The third vial is a blood-red liquid that causes a blood like clot on the wall. The fourth vial is a thick black tar that sticks to the wall.
* Henley hits with their handaxe. Scribbles throws 3 random vials. 1st is water. 2nd is blood red. 3rd is quicksilver. The vial of quicksilver hits the crocodile. Babs casts magic missile and hits the crocodile, killing it.
* Another crocodile enters the doorway and attacking and killing Dee. 
* Streje Dude casts sleep on the crocodile, which promptly falls unconscious.
Combat Ends
:Experience: All level 1 characters gain 2 exp.
The party find a longsword and chainmail that once belonged to a knight of the Overlord. Ler Jwee takes the armor, and gives their old padded armor to Henley. Ler Jwee takes the longsword and gives their polearm to Henley.
The party then head into the next room.
===Lecture Hall===
The party enter a room and find it is a lecture hall of some kind, with stone pews and lectern. On the altar is a dead humanoid that has been badly mangled. Investigation shows that it was caused by a crocodile.
===The Rotunda===
Out the other exit to the Chapel is a curved corridor that goes around the edge of a large rotunda. In the centre of the rotunda is some treasure. Kate calls out that it is a trap. Babs casts Detect Magic but the spell fails. Fiona throws a rock at the treasure pile and hears a groaning noise.
The party decide to leave the clear trap alone and explore some of the paths they hadn't looked before.
===The Cells===
The party backtrack to the crocodile room with the sleeping crocodile and check the north door. They find some holding cells. Inside one of the cells is Bellon the Frog Spice Merchant who owned the horse named Dartanion. The party leave Bellon in the cell to save him later.
The other holding cells just have skeletons within.
===2nd Lecture Hall===
The party find a second lecture hall, with the same layout as the previous one, just to the east of the Rotunda this time instead of North.
Babs reads the spell on the chalkboard but it is trapped and she triggers it. Bab's eyes become lizard eyes and her intelligence is temporarily drained. Fiona goes to inspect the chalkboard and also triggers the trap and her eyes also become lizard eyes and their intelligence is temporarily drained.
Streje Dude reads the chalkboard and resists the trap and learns about the spell Monster Summoning.
The party decide to leave the room. Fiona opens the next door to reveal a black slime monster. The intelligence damaged Fiona tries to jump rope with the black slime's pseudopods. The black slime blinds Fiona then kills her. Kate closes the door. Henley is devastated by the death of Fiona.
:Experience: All level 1 characters gain 2 exp.
Agnes who is separated from the party overhears a voice proclaim that this is an unholy place. Another voice explains they just here to find a scroll, then orders others with them to spread out and search. Agnes assumes they are the Overlord's men who the party avoided outside. The voices sound like they are in the Rotunda.
===The Froghemoth===
The party return to the sleeping crocodile room and go to the dark staircase. Before they go down Agnes arrives to tell the party what she heard. The party quickly go down the stairs.
The party arrive back to the underground passages under Frogomance. The way to the cavern is closed by a barred gate. Kate opens the gate and sees a monster with eye stalks, the Froghemoth. Kate walks into the room as the others are shouting at her to shut the door.
Kate realises the others are coming into the room so drops to her knees before the Froghemoth and swears allegiance. The Froghemoth eats Kate.
:Neal runs out of characters, so is given control of Bellon the Spice Merchant
The party retreat upstairs to where Bellon's cell is and bring the Frog noble up to speed. Ler Jwee suggests he use the armor he acquired to give the solders false information that the scroll is in the basement with the Froghemoth. The party agree to the plan.
Ler Jwee seeks out the guards and finds they have just fought with the Black Slime, which slew one of their number. Ler Jwee claims their name is Bescri and to be part of the reinforcements, but the rest of her troop were slain. The Overlord's troops, lead by Sophia, believe the story so follow Ler Jwee as she leads them to the Froghemoth.
Ler Jwee leads the group past the sleeping crocodile, down the dark stairs, to the Froghemoth. Sophia asks Ler Jwee to lead the charge. 
==Deaths==
Deaths this episode:
* Neal: Kate, Dee
* Rachel: Fiona
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