Glory and Gore

The Acquaintances With Weapons must stop the slavers and poachers working for the Merchant Princes.

## Major Plot Points

* Vlad, Stzu San, Peggy, Neuriel, Dani, Sudsy, and Calypso attended a small council meeting to debrief Queen Maxima about their latest mission. The meeting was interrupted by Grab Stab who brought her 250 goblins to town seeking refuge.
* The council and AWW debated about allowing the goblins to stay. Vlad, Wakanga, and Ashaara voted against it. Diana, Roark, Syndra, Stzu San, Peggy, Neuriel, Dani, and Calypso voted in favor. Queen Maxima decided to let the goblins stay, assigning Roark and Ashaara to work together to find them suitable homes and work.
* Syndra shared that her spies discovered an underground slave network. She asked AWW to investigate the buy going down tonight.
* Roark’s scouts have found evidence that poaching is increasing in the jungle. She asked the party to deal with the poachers.
* Diana provided a status update on Slade. She doesn’t anticipate getting any useful information out of him. He only talks about seeing a light and how he’ll soon be free. She’s added guards to the patrol.
* The group decided to go after the slavers first. In the dockyard neighborhood of town, they saw a group of fancy looking people walk into a seemingly abandoned warehouse.
* Sudsy and Stzu San decided to sneak in by using the sewers.
* Calypso, Peggy, and Dani posed as nobles with Neuriel and Vlad as their guards and gained access to the auction.
* Sudsy and Stzu San found a group of three Yuan-Ti malisons guarding a room filled with crates that bore the Bloodmoon sigil. The two battled the guards and Sudsy freed the captive grungs from their crates. The frog folk took the sewers to freedom.
* Around 30 other nobles from town were bidding on slaves. AWW purchased two grungs to free. After a few rounds of bidding, Neuriel tried to sneakily take out a guard by the exit. He was caught, however, and a fight broke out.
* Dani summoned a Wall of Fire, which separated two of the guards from two others and their boss.
* Peggy used and shared her Flying Broom to snipe at the enemies from behind the wall.
* Calypso summoned a Storm Sphere to keep attacking the enemies on the opposite side of the wall.
* Vlad successfully scared off one of the guards.
* Eventually Sudsy and Stzu San made their way upstairs and flanked the remaining enemies.
* AWW left one alive to question. He said the Yuan-Ti helped the Merchant Princes establish a slave network. They target poor humans, Aarakocra, and Grungs. Azaka Stormfang, the Merchant Prince of Beasts, is head of the slave trade.
* The captured enemy soldier said that Azaka Stormfang is based in the abandoned Colosseum in town.
* Vlad used moonbeam to kill the last guard and all 30 nobles buying slaves.
* The group successfully liberated all the captives and collected 20,000 gold.
* AWW visited their home to meet up with Ivy who was busy finding contractors to repair the damages. The party made a deal with Grab Stab that the goblins would fix their home for 8,000 gold. Grab Stab would also be allowed to live in the basement with Ivy, build a coop on the roof, and bring one man home in the morning and night. AWW also promised her human flesh to eat on the DL.
* Dani and Vlad spent the evening at the brothel. Sudsy and Grab Stab hooked up.
* Grab Stab joined the party to go hunt poachers because eating humanoids is illegal in the city limits. She’s also now pregnant with Sudsy’s twins named Grabsy and Stabsy.
* The party found an abandoned poacher’s camp and were confronted by a group of albino dwarves. AWW convinced the dwarves they weren’t the poachers and the dwarves shared helpful info but in exchange for a favor. The dwarves are not allowed to kill any living creature and they asked AWW to talk down a rampaging T-Rex.
* Vlad used his Beast Mask to talk to the T-Rex named She Rex. His boyfriend, Barney, cheated on him with a pterodactyl and he wanted revenge. Vlad said they could help shame Barney if She Rex would end his rampage. The dino agreed.
* At a local dinosaur watering hole, Stzu San shape shifted into a small pterodactyl and used Sudsy’s illusion magic to fake having wings. Stzu San confronted Barney’s pterodactyl lover saying he was Kevin, the son he abandoned. All the other dinosaurs looked at the pterodactyl in disgrace and shunned him, making him fly away.
* Barney, upset that his lover didn’t tell him about having a kid, ran off into the jungle. She Rex ambushed Barney and killed him.
* The party reflected that their plan really just shamed the pterodactyl, not Barney, and led to a T-Rex dying anyway.
* You’re all Level 11 now!