Lyridnal's Recap

**Session 38 recap notes (By Jonasu)**

**Title: The Pelican’s Last Grin**

Scene: Pelican’s Grin Inn

The Pelican’s Inn grin has its dozen or so rooms booked out and a busy night serving guests. The chef works hard at the back, but the inn keeper, waitress and even the town drunk can see his nerves are shot, feeling on edge that something bad is going to happen tonight.

A bounty hunter insincerely asks for a job and tries to charm his way around the inn while the drunk engages in a card game with a cheat, and she catches the cheat out. The bouncer intervenes in the conflict, sending her trusty badger to straight the conflict out and shaking the cheater down, confiscating obviously stolen items including an old dwarven religious artifact. The waitress suggests putting all of this in the tip jar. Little did everyone know that the waitress was actually wearing an enchanted scarf that hid her age and true complexion, that of the Lady Bellia Sephone. Only the innkeeper knew that this was someone who may be in trouble, hence why she had a job as a waitress to keep her out of harms way.

A town bum nicknamed “Stinky” for his awful smell wandered into the inn with a coin, a not so typical affair. The drunk questions where he got the silver. To hide the payment he received from an anonymous third party, he exclaimed that he pulled it from his ear. The drunk demanded him to do the trick (believing only a wizard could perform such a magical feat), and when he attempted to do so he had silver coins spill from his pouch. At that moment a bolt of lightning struck, “shit, it is a wizard!” she exclaimed in shock and awe.

Stinky and the bounty hunter both spotted an individual fully clothed from head to toe, a pink bandana covering her face. Stinky ran to pull off her bandana, but the bounty hunter tackled him to the floor (fearing that if it was the Lady, other bounty hunters would discover his prey).

In the emerging conflict, the woman is revealed to not be the Lady after an attempted kidnapping by the bounty hunter. The chef and drunk were caught in a net by the bounty hunter but freed by the bouncer’s trusty badger. The bounty hunter then retreated upstairs to look for his target. Meanwhile, two strangers approached the inn. A gnome and a much larger figure. The bouncer politely told them the inn was closed, then sternly told them it was closed, and after that failed she pulled out her throwing axes. When that did not deter them, she threw both at the gnome. The larger figure took one axe to the back to protect the gnome, then grabbed the second axe and threw it back - killing the bouncer.

Seeing this tragedy unfold, the waitress, chef and drunk plan an escape with the woman who they suspect could be the target of these villains. Meanwhile the innkeeper and bounty hunter got into a grappling match, ending with an attempted stabbing by the bounty hunter and ending in him tied up in the innkeeper's apron and thrown off the second floor to the feet of the two intruders. They take no interest in the bounty hunter, and turn their attention to the innkeeper when the bounty hunter exclaims that she is hiding a woman with olive skin.

The gnome is tripped by a rolling pin on the way up the stairs, but the innkeeper is unable to best the larger figure and has her blood drained from the seemingly powerful vampire. The bounty hunter also meets his end when he tries to strangle the gnome but has a flask smashed against his head that melts his flesh and skull.

As this conflict is going on, the others escape with a boat prepared and a large sum of money and jewels on hand to pay for passage.