Session 36 6/11/2023

Megan, Bill, Tasha, Michael

Lucia, Brottar, Elektrah, Arden

The party successfully makes it to Athkatla. They're approached by some guards who answer a few questions for them. Namely, they haven't seen any minotaurs lately, but then it's not their usual migration season. The party walks into the city and see a wall covered in Wanted posters, Missing children posters, and advertisements for the local circus. They secure rooms at the Shepherd's Crook Inn. Lucia and Arden go to the Temple to Ilmater to pay their respects. Arden is directed to the Hall of the Dead for the bigger shrine to Kelemvor. Elektrah hangs around the inn's dining room to gather information about the missing children. Brottar goes to the market district to visit the Dwarven merchants. Althalus disappears off into the city.

There are 7 missing children taken a different times of the day from different parts of the city. All of the children had been to the circus that day. The party decides to go to the circus to see what can be found out. Brottar is in dwarven heaven. There's all kinds of fair food for him to eat. The rest of the party go into the main circus tent to talk to the ring master. There's a small, frazzled gnome in the center of the tent shouting orders to people. He has no time for questions from random strangers who wander into his obviously closed circus. The party agrees to come back after the show.

Brottar is polymorphed into a small child to try to draw the attention of the kidnappers that they suspect are party of the circus. (He spends much of the day polymorphed as a child) They are all given tickets to the show. Brottar's is special because it has a star on it. Two other children nearby have stars, too. They go into the circus tent just before it starts and find their seats. Towards the end of show, small prismatic orbs float over 5 kids' heads. They called to the center of the ring where they take part in a small display of illusion. The show ends and there's clapping all around. The party finds their way back into the office to talk to the ring master. He's tired and obviously unhappy at this disturbance. The party finds out that the trapeze group is fairly new and made of gnomes. He's been there for 10 years and has been doing the illusion show for all 10 years.

The party goes outside and, after eating much more fair food, decide to go to the park as that's a place where children would gather. There's a peddler selling a shiny sling shot (prismatic). It's nearly hypnotic. Brottar approaches and asks about it. He's allowed to play with it. It's got a simple illusion spell that fires small radiant lights. It costs 2 gp. Child-Brottar runs back to "Mommy" (Elektrah) to 'ask for some gold' for the slingshot. The party agrees it would be good to get to the bottom of this and child-Brottar buys the toy. They see the vendor cross something off of a list which the party finds suspicious.

The party manages to find another child who was 'selected' at the end of the show. She has a jump rope made of similar shininess. One of the little boys was shown a necklace and bracelet but his dad wouldn't buy it for him because he was acting up. The children play for a while while Elektrah talks to the girl's mom. They don't know the other children as they're from another neighborhood.

Loot - Shiny sling shot that fires low level radiant bullets. Brottar's newfound love of deep fried foods.

XP - Level up to level 9, gotta start moving things along.

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