Session 1

* Played on: 10/1/2023
* People Present: Gabby (@bibo), Addie (@aceartz), Lianna-Priele (@cherrystix), Dani-Nardina/Saeel (@solis\_artsy), Kaie-Doc (@hsrs\_faraday\_triangle), Victoria-Willow (@mhango\_0)

* Start right where part one of Session 0 ends
* Party moves on from the school to investigate the bakery
	+ Garros reminds them to try and be discrete
* Meet Annie, the baker, squarish tabaxi woman
	+ Priele asks about local foods trying to pose as a tourist
	+ Annie says she specializes in sugar sticks (literally wooden stick w/ sugar) and gives her a free sample that is given to Nardina and immediately eaten
* Priele then asks if Annie thinks the circus is worth visiting
	+ She says the children love it
	+ When pressed on missing children she seems hesitant until party mentions the mayor sent them

* Annie gives the names of children who used to visit her shop before they went missing at the circus
	+ Jill Walts and Will Walts, twins

* Ask if the butcher was seen around them before they went missing but she only says "we don't talk about him
	+ Doc tries to press for more info on the butcher, she says "no one really likes butcher Bo" and then says he's never at his house
	+ They can tell she's somewhat guilty about the butcher

* Doc buys a Glowfish shaped pastry (has an odd dew and red filling) that Annie gives them for free
	+ Priele mentions that they're normally a bad omen and Annie says things can have two meanings- "two-sides to a coin"
	+ Doc mutters "almost like a double-sided knife" and almost "resets" with a faraway look before leaving

* Party leaves bakery and in the town center notice people are all moving in groups
	+ Garros suggests they go to the goods store next bc it seems empty
* They go to the goods store, bigger than the bakery, and have manure out next to a barrel of apples
	+ Behind the register is Bobathon Greg, an aged half-gnome with a white afro and beard, picking up some fallen explosives

* Party continues tourist front and ask about the circus
	+ Says he's been often and says "its so dazzling, I can't get the image out of my head"
		- Garros' eyes light up and he smirks

* Bobathon tries to throw an apple and hit it with a knife but misses, says he saw something like that at the circus
	+ Doc picks up apple (rotten) and pockets the knife, Garros Jonalian notices but doesn't say anything
	+ Bobathon Greg mentions there was a stench, similar to a cooked pig

* Starts frowning when party brings up children at the circus & then brings out a therapist couch to start trauma dumping
	+ Seems to hate the mayor
	+ Says he saw some of the kids at the circus and other ppl thought he was behind the kidnappings
		- Accusers were Berthany Waltz and Mr. Buttercup
	+ Says he's good friends with the butcher & has Sunday (currently wednesday) meals with him (at the store)
		- "Homebody, doesn't like the sun, red eyes, wears a lot of black"
	+ Gives Priele a discount since she listened to him

* Meanwhile Doc and Willow look around the store- see some instruments and shields with strange symbols
* After talking w/ Bob , Doc motions for Priele to look at the shields and she recognizes the symbol on one of them
	+ When she touches it she feels like she's connected to it and she feels empowered when holding it
	+ Bob says his friend from an adventuring guild in Solmen got it from a tomb and gave it to him
	+ Priele buys shield

* Party leaves store and head to the market to find Mr. Buttercup
	+ He's shorter than most people in Fiddlefoot, covered in bandages and runs a "cloud candy" (cotton candy)
	+ Doc puts on tourist persona and asks what he's making, he gives the price of 25 gold
	+ He's very proud/ arrogant about his candy
	+ Says he used to make "millions with those kids"

* He starts freaking out when the circus and kids are mentioned but calms down- gives a cloud candy to Doc
	+ Seems sad about the kids but mostly sad about the money he got from them
* Says ppl used to accuse him of the missing children
	+ Gives some more names Tobias Jake, Malcolm Eversett, Sophia Morningbrew, Jill Walts, Will Walts, and Jakq
	+ Seems to hold resentment over Bobathon Greg for "stealing his customers" though he doesn't anymore

* Annie said the butcher spoke w/ 2 kids before they went missing
	+ Used to suspect the circus until they started helping with local investigation efforts
* Mr. Buttercup gets suspicious about all the missing kids questions when party is meant to be tourists
	+ Doc hands candy off to Nardina and leaves
	+ Decides to let the suspicion slide - He asks for the 25 gold for the candy he gave them
	+ Nardina gets up on his cart and hisses at him to intimidate him- he gets scared and just lets them have it

* Party leaves for the postal office
	+ Building is small but bigger than the bakery w/ one employee at the front desk and another in the back
	+ Employee in the front is red teen tiefling w/ name tag reading Derrick

* Priele and Doc look through packages
	+ Priele tries to find addresses for Berthany Waltz and the butcher- only finds one for Berthany Waltz that has her house near the mayors
	+ Doc finds something shiny in a package but when they try to look more they fall and alert Derrick

* Derrick asks what they're doing and Priele lies and says they need to deliver something to the butcher & need his address
	+ Before he gives it to them something breaks in the back and Derrick calls out to see if Barry is okay
	+ Agrees to give butcher address if the party checks on Barry- he draws a map that has the butcher's house next to a circus tent

* In the back, see Barry underneath a shelf of fallen boxes- everyone tries to help
	+ Priele gets a nat 20 and lifts it up by herself

* Barry in awe of her and sees her as his personal superhero/ goddess figure
	+ "By the light of the true mother, have I been blessed"

* Nardina smacks him- throwing him into another wall (and adding to the Nardina Assault List)
	+ When Derrick asks them why they just say "because"- he responds by saying it's anarchist and he approves

* Party leaves back to the square where they hear cheering and some kind of celebration
* End session