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Our heroes found themselves at The Maison Bends, but unfortunately for them sex was not on the itinerary for there had been A MURDER!

### Part One: The Cabal, Uncovered.

Just as Murder-most-foul was discovered in the boudoir of one Dumple thick-thighs, a coitus down the hall was interrupted between Ozzie and Triple D girlfriend Plethora Bang Bang. Hearing a soft murmur from the room next door, Ozzie departed his loves' sweet embrace, leaving behind his long member to investigate- and Lo and behold- Dumpers was discovered! The dapper diapered old coot was Mid-Shubari session, appearing to have been engaged in a days long pleasure binge where every tool, toy, and technique had been employed to occupy Dumper's delights. But Ozzie and his oldest friend were not reunited for long, when the imposing Madam V came rushing in to accuse Dumpers and Ozzie of having something to do with the dastardly death of Dumple- accusing them of being the Mayors *play things*. After Jasper diffused the situation and Ozzie claimed confusion, the party returned to the scene of the crime to have a more civilized conversation.

With the sight of the corpse to aid in her conviction, Madam V set aside her client privacy and revealed that a few weeks prior, the Mayor had thrown a private party in one of her Parlors. The intrepid Madam found no fault in this, but was curious after the party's attendants turned out to be somewhat unusual: The Mayor, The young Reeve-to-be Sir Danton, The blacksmith Crotch, His protege Ozzie, and those scamps the Minks Brothers. Ozzie admitted eventually oh yeah maybe he was there but he doesn't really pay attention to back stories like these. Madam V went on to say that she eaves-dropped on this soiree and learned that each of these men had come together to get drunk and complain in turn of the people in town most in their way of glory. Sir Danton believing that Sir Bartholemew Blackwood was holding him back and refusing to retire. The Minks Brothers despised their mother Hammy for belittling their intelligence and never letting them do crimes their way. And the Mayor, petty thought it might seem, just really hated Dumpers for being such an eyesore on "His" Town. As Sir Danton was led away to indulge in carnal pleasures, The Mayor and the Minks Boys developed a totally straight forward plan which involved using some hired goons that the Minks had access to to spook some teen girls, which would then be used as an excuse to run Dumpers out of town for not showing up to his shift. Then the Minks boys would get "caught" by Sir Danton, who would "flip" them to implicate Hammy as the mastermind, which would result in her arrest. This would then be used to embarrass the current Reeve, who has an agreement with Hammy, and set up the grounds for his retirement with Sir Danton taking over. All in all cleaning up the whole town and leaving this new generation of boyos in charge. The last step was to pay off Madam V to keep Dumpers occupied so he might miss his shift.

While much of this story made sense, much had many holes in it. No part of it had anything to do with a beast or a plague and no part explained why Dumples was dead. After interviewing a few other courtesans it was deduced that Dumples was last seen with one of the Minks boys, who had stopped in for a toss after bringing Dumpers to his private party a few days prior, and that this didn't seem unusual because those Minks boys were known to frequent the bed of the thick thighs thoroughly; obsessed with her even. Allowing for abstract thought, the party deduced that possibly the unknown young man with dark hair who was led by the hand by the woman with the Wyrm tattoo to potentially be maybe a Minks. Jasper found that this timeline was somewhat skewed as well, having heard from Hammy that the boys had set out to hire goons five days ago and were now holed up in a a hideaway awaiting orders. Invigorated with a desire to investigate, the party set out to question those dang minks boys. But not before first convincing Madam V to hold on to dumpers for safe keeping. In return Madam V delivered a potion of Catharsis to our lads, desiring that it be used on the mayor is some public setting, so that he might profusely and ecstatically confess to his crimes, ruining his good standing, and thus releasing Madam V of her Vendetta.

### Part Two: The Confrontation in the Cave

   After hastily agreeing to part ways for a short while, Poopiah went off into town to further investigate the Mayor more while the rest of the gang went the way of the woods to find the minks in hiding. Arriving by Jasper's navigation, the party discovered a cave mouth nestled into a hillside, as well as a camp site destroyed and gruesome. With easy comparisons to the scene of the crime on the first night of illuminus, it was deduced thus that there had been a bloody and beastly battle the night previous. Jasper quickly found within the cave a hasty built barricade made of wagon wheels and stray wood. Calling out innocently to the Minkses, the voice of Shut could be heard across the rubble, warning that a beast was about and they should all flee! After unsuccessfully convincing Shunt that in fact it was *He* who should come out, and aroused by suspicious whispers by parties unseen beyond the barrier, Krove the mighty door smasher punched his way through the walls to grasp the slimy Shunt. A battering of arrows came forth as a battle between Shunt and his hired goblin goons and our crew began. Cleverly, but not till after receiving the brunt of the arrows, Krove uncorked his bottle of magic breath and blew a mighty wind down the cave mouth, making it harder for the hidden bandits' arrows to find their home. As Shunt scurried away, the party pushed forward, swatting off arrows and doing battle with a bug bear. After Krove attempted to intimidate the bandits that the beast was close at hand, it was discovered that these bandits had willingly entered into a beastly brotherhood, seemingly allowing themselves to be bitten and in await of the promise of sunsets kiss of power and Gorey-glory. Shunt, calling out to his brother Rickers, careened off this way and that, allowing the hired hands to help protect him. Leaping into the snipers roost, Krove ignited his body on fire and drove a silvered machete straight through the goblins bodies, cutting them in twain without hesitation. Even as they ran screaming, Krove tore through them without mercy. His body riddled with arrows as Jasper followed patiently behind plucking away a miraculous melody to balm his puncture wounds. In a final desperate attempt to halt this cursed orc, the bandits released a swinging log trap which smashed full force into the butchers body, seemingly putting him down for good. Yet as the dust cleared and the surviving goblins let out a sigh of relief, Killer Krove stood again, possessed with a bloody fury to do some goblin smashing. Meanwhile Richard and Oozie found a very well made door that was locked and they took it apart and found a bathroom behind it but with no one in it! Neat!

### Part Three: A Brotherhood of Beasts

Finding Shunt pathetically attempting to flee atop a stack of boxes through an air hole woefully small compared to his rotund stature, Our heroes heroically bound and tied this Minks, beginning a gentle interrogation by revealing Dumples death. Immediately thrown off by this news, Shunt claimed that that was impossible, as he had in fact been promised that if he went along with Rickers' plan, that he (and his brother) would get to marry Dumple (they would take turns). Hastily the party pried further, knowing full well that the sun was setting and that in a few moments shunt might no longer appear so pathetic. They uncovered that the plan to spook the teens had never occurred, after Rickers never showed up to the rendezvous point- that is- until the night previous, just after the beast had attacked them. Rickers had convinced (or intimidated, it was somewhat unclear) his brother and the rest of the bandits to join him in beginning a beastly brotherhood- where all of their enemies would either join their brood or be torn limb from limb. Failing to answer several important questions like, why? and how? Krove grew impatient and machete stomped that fool dead. After taking a short rest and looting this minks family store house, the gang found some gold and scrolls and potions galore! Hoo haw! They then deduced that Rickers must had escaped the cave through the underground poop river, which Richard and oozie were all too happy to leap into, having recalled with assurance- that indeed- all poop must flow west. Banging their way through the river they emerged in a bog and quickly found Ricker's tracks heading up and over a hill and through the trees and straight towards the town of Horn...