Blues Ooze

an adventure starring Pearl, Lothario, and Zak.

## Tweet-Length Episode Description

What oddities appear in the desert? What secrets are gleaned from a mysterious runaway? Pearl, Lothario, and Zak find out during a mission set at the iconic Hangout Music Festival! Blues Ooze is an actual play podcast of the Imperium Magisterium role playing game.

## Non Player Characters

* Noah Godavarthi
* Riley Chayfaad
* Britta Talbot
* Niels Knuth
* Antonio Vespucci
* Benoit Forest
* Alanna Divinyo
* Chico Rendicara
* Harriet Dlamini

## Plot Summary

Once a year, residents from all over Guaso descend upon the Fomui Dunes for the biggest, the baddest and the most deafening music festival in all of the world. Of course we’re talking of none other than the Iconic Hangout Music Festival.

We join returning Adventurers Lothario and Pearl as they blindly wander through the massive desert after misplacing their map, the pair bump into a new face in Zak Blaire and his friend Benoit Forest.

Zak and Benoit are there on a bounty hunting job being issued by the mysterious Noah Godavarthi a member of the notorious guild the Deep Ooze. The pair of strangers offer to Pearl and Lothario if they’d be willing to assist in earning a split of the 10,000 gold reward Noah was offering for this job.

Upon inquiring on the job, Lothario and Pearl learn that they are trying to locate a young koalafolk Riley Chayfaad, who Noah feigns concern and wishes to have them returned to him alive.

Both Lothario and Zak notice that Noah has the Tattoo of the Deep Ooze Guild under his right eye. While this is all going on Benoit who ate some poorly prepared beef jerky excuses himself from the group to attend to the on-setting symptoms of food poisoning he’d afflicted upon himself.

The newly acquainted trio proceeds without him and begins searching for leads on the whereabouts of Riley. While walking towards her tent Lothario and Zak get Pearl caught up to speed who had been out of the loop since her adventures in Daingean.

Once in Riley’s tent they all discovered a hastily vacated tent with according to Zak… “ The rancid” stench of Sour cream and onion chips along with the accompanying wrappers. While searching the tent they also discover an empty saxophone case along with some untitled sheet music. After exhausting the tent for leads the trio decided to finally enter the music festival.

Zak would suggest splitting up and searching for a sneaky way in but is convinced otherwise by his party. Instead, they decide to try and procure some tickets. And from who other than the well-known sly handsome con known only as Chico Rendicara. Who was playing on a guitar outside of the venue whilst selling scalped ticketed at an overly high price.

Lothario, decides to offer Chico a second chance and to move past their former hostilities and agree to begin again on better terms and to aid him on the path to good instead of the path that would lay ahead if Chico didn’t change his ways. He hesitantly agrees and the Party gains entry to the festival.

Upon entering, Lothario and Pearl are taken aback by the atmosphere inside of the concert hall having never been to a musical event in a venue larger than a normal Tavern/pub in Niqamui.

Still in awe, they join Zak in going to the concessions stand in search of the source of the Sour Cream and Onion chips that where found in Riley’s tent. Upon being taken aback the staggering price of the concessions Pearl and Lothario decided against buying anything even after Zak offered to buy for them saying “Wait, five gold is a lot?”

Then as they are walking back a levitating platform raises up with a fan still hanging on. While thinking quickly on their feet, the party use a combination of their skills to save the fan, resulting in no harm being done to the fan. Who was later taken to a hospital by medical staff.

The party then returned to the concessions stand where, Lothario asks the young high school aged girl working the stand if he could get a refill his *Sour Cream and Onion* chips. To which the girl gives him original. And after requesting to speak with their manager Karen, The party learns that the concessions stand isn’t the source of the Sour Cream and onion chips.

After Zak Takes a Potato Chip and eats it, the party decides to head backstage to investigate more into the incident earlier.

Zak is offered a future job working on the systems there but isn’t allowed to snoop further into it, and pouts accordingly. While Lothario and Pearl ask the Dwarf Britta Talbot some questions about Riley. It is also revealed that Antonio Vespucci the famed Spanish Guitarist was preforming a song on the two-headed electric guitar just for this festival only for the guitar to be stolen by Chico before the party met him. He reluctantly agrees to return it under the pretense he’d found it. Zak stares daggers into him from afar and would later give a firm pat on the back. A subtle hint that Zak doesn’t fully trust Chico’s turning to the good side.

After asking Britta about the sheet music they found in Riley’s tent Pearl, Lothario and Zak learn that song was supposed to be next. Pearl and Lothario tell Britta they’re musicians there to preform next and stage a plot to find Riley. Zak stands on the floor off from the stage and watches the crowd in the pit while Lothario and Pearl look from their positions playing the steel drums and singing respectively. Pearl finds Riley and sings out her location to Zak and Lothario who make their way to that location.

While making their way towards Riley’s location former Daingean Sheriff Niels Knuth shoves a bystander off to the side in efforts to reach Riley himself. This causes a fight in the Mosh-pit that the party are caught up in, using a charm Pearl manages to de-escalate the pit and the party makes it out only suffering bruises and some scratches.

After reaching the location where Riley was sighted the party find that see left the area after seeing the commotion in the pit, they decide to check the bathrooms where the boys walk in on a catnip deal between a cat person and a beaver person while Pearl waits outside.

A fight between the two animal persons breaks out and Zak subdues the Cat person with a spinning back heel kick almost killing them with the blow. Pearl administers first aid saving the cat person while Zak stands in shock of what he almost did.

Lothario, tells a person in the bathroom that they can leave the stall, after Zak said to stay in there. Thinking it’s Riley Lothario asks them some questions only to find out they were a hippo-person the whole time.

The gang leave the restrooms and succumb to some narcotics that they were dosed with while in the Mosh-Pit fight. The Boys have negative trips bringing back poor memories while Pearl’s is quite the polar opposite.

They meet up with Alanna Divinyo the potions master from the Atchawalla Swamp. Who gave them water with the properties to dispel the toxins. Alanna would also be revealed as the source of the sour cream and onion chips.

The Gang are too late and Former Sheriff Niels Knuth leaves with Riley and Zak uses a temporal spell to reverse time for Knuth and Riley allowing Zak to draw the giant former sheriff’s attention while the 2 Firebreathing Kittens escort Riley out of the Music Festival after Zak Judo throws the giant after catching a punch from the eight footer.

Riley reveals the Deep Oozes plans to both of the Guild members. Lothario sits there grateful that after his many encounters with members of the Deep Ooze he’s finally managed to save one of the members who chose to leave after learning of their dastardly plans.