Shenanigans: Episode 021

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==Recap==
Big Ben's Brothel, the soup kitchen, as opened up across the road from Shenanigans in Bergshire. Desmond is trying to compete with the new soup kitchen with his own soup, but finds his nice spoons have gone missing. Even the 20 spoons that were part of his expensive cutlery set that had been gifted him by the king of Drekis himself (called Fanelia here). Desmond hire the party to investigate where the spoons went.
The good spoons are usually in a locked box, but the lock has been picked. The regular copper spoons are kept in a draw. Delanora finds some large feline footprints in the backyard, as well as the fence into the neighbor's yard is damaged.
Kourie gets the master key to the rooms of Shenanigans so the party can search them. Kourie pays a round for the bar as a distraction. Upstairs they go inside a room with a sleeping person inside. After the person calms down about being woken, he says overnight he heard barking dogs. The party search the other rooms and find no spoons.
Kourie's pet dog, Scrapper, finds a pile of dead mice on the shelf below where the silverware is kept. Desmond explains they are Aristotle the Elven Cat's mice that she was using to teach her cubs to hunt with. The party think the feline footprints in the backyard must be from Aristotle. Kourie asks about getting some milk to give to Aristotle, but Desmond discovers all the milk is missing as well.
The party go to Bessy's farm to get some new milk. Kourie arranges to also get milk delivered to his establishment, The Black Door. The farmer is offered free entry to the Black Door without a cover charge, so comes with the party to check it out. The farmer is disappointed to find The Back Door it is a male strip club. While at The Black Door Delanora wrestles with some of the male dancers. Stanley eats some Swedish meatballs, but they have carrot inside and he is allergic. Stanley flees back to Shenanigans and gets healed up by a cleric of Martha.
The rest of the party get to Shenanigans as Stanley is lectured by a cleric of Martha about the wonders of his god. Desmond says that he hired Cogwrench Hammerbench to replace the lock on the back door of the kitchen, but Desmond wouldn't pay Cogwrench when he raised the price and gave a threat that this wasn't over. Desmond wonders if Cogwrench stole the spoons because he knew Big Ben's Brothel was opening today.
The party leave milk in the backyard to lure in Aristotle and her cubs. After half an hour Aristotle arrives with her cub, who are now quite large. Aristotle reveals that last night the dog from the neighbor's yard was barking at her. Aristotle refuses to reveal more information. Kourie then goes up to a nearby tree can casts to find out what happened last night. The tree reveals a drunk man was kicked out of Shenanigans and rested against it for some time. Borch tells the party he kicked out a mute man called Toibert at closing time last night.
The party then go visit Cogwrench. Cogwrench says that Desmond owns him more money so be made a flamethrower to use on him. Cogwrench took 7 days on a 5-day project. Delanora can't handle the rhyming and leaves the store crying. Cogwrench says hasn't had anything to do with the spoon, even under a command spell. 
The party then arrive at Big Ben's Brothel. It is busy since it is opening day. Delanora & Kourie try the soup and it is delicious. Stanley goes to the Coppersmith to find out if Big Ben got his spoons from them. The coppersmith Ricky confirms he just made a big order of spoons for Big Ben.
The party then go to he Sheriff's Station to question Toibert who is in the drunk tank. Kourie gets Toibert out of the drunk tank. Delanora doesn't understand the concept of someone being mute to shouts all her questions while Stanley is being overly affectionate. Kourie gets Toibert to make a sketch of what he saw last night. He saw a cat leaving with a bag of spoons.
The party go back to Shenanigans to find where Aristotle lives. Lizzy gives the party directions south to the abandoned temple. The party go to the temple and find Aristotle and her cubs. Aristotle revealed that Desmond told Lizzy about selling her cubs. Aristotle took the spoons as a punishment. Kourie negotiates the return of the spoons. They are burred near the abandoned church.
As the party start to dig up the spoons, 2 large boars come out of the woods in their direction. Stanley opens fire with his bow as Delanora and Kourie climbs to safety. The boars get enraged and charge at Stanley, and they kill him. Kourie opens fire at the boars from the wall while Delanora stabs with her spear. A boar charges the wall, knocking it over, but it collapsed on top of it. Now on the ground, Delanora pulls her sword and shield and guards Kourie. Kourie casts darkness on himself, the boars flee.
Delanora and Stanley return to Shenanigans with the spoons. Desmond says he wasn't going to sell Aristotle's cat, he was just saying how much they were worth.
Stanley gets buried at the Bergshire graveyard.
==Experience==
700 exp each
Stanley is slain.
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