The Virric Wedding

## Hook

Kalliste, the daughter of Count Virric, is getting married to Aldren Gloucester, who is set to inherit the Gloucester Dukedom of Aventine. Your party is being hired to be a security detail for Virric Castle to ensure that the wedding goes smoothly. It is imperative that nobody in Gloucester know that your unsuspecting band of travelers is actually security detail for the wedding.

## Events

* The scene opens on the Dungeon Crawlies fighting a group of Kobold in a cave on the way to Virric Castle.
* The party encounters a set of enchanted speaking doors, creating a classic Two-Guards-Two-Doors puzzle. They eventually learn the right door by confusing God for long enough.
* The party stays at Ariel's Tavern, which is packed with travelers participating in the wedding's eve celebrations.
* Ariel tasks the party with fetching more mead from her storehouse.
* Upon arriving at the storehouse, the players encounter a younger elven woman dressed in rags. She introduces herself as Lily, and reluctantly admits that she's been stealing from the storehouse.
* Lily and Dilies converse flirtatiously about a number of topics, most prominently their disdain for Aventine's religious socioeconomic institutions and their opposition to the police force.
* Gimtharn gets drunk.
* After delivering the mead, Lily brings the party to the Starry Lookout on the northern edge of town. She expresses fondness for the party and hums a short song before departing into the night.
* The next day, the party arrives at Virric Castle. They are greeted by other members of security, as well as the groom, Aldren Gloucester, who provide them with the castle ballroom's layout. Aldren also reveals his nationalistic and xenophobic political views, to the disgust of the party.
* The Dungeon Crawlies oversee the arrival of Count Virric and several ballroom dances without incident.
* The bride, Kalliste, appears in the ballroom an hour before the wedding ceremony is due to begin. Dilies and Goon recognize her to be Lily, and communicate this revelation to the rest of the party.
* Lily recognizes Dilies and slips out of the ballroom to the castle balcony. She expresses her discomfort with her arranged marriage, and reveals that she asked the neighboring nation of The Írie to attack the castle and take her in as a political refugee.
* The ball is interrupted by The Írie's arrival, as a massive navy appears to the north coast and several government buildings in the town are attacked.
* The party descends with Lily on ropes down the side of the castle, and make their way to Virric's northern port.
* They meet with Gab, Kristini and Bounty, who had just arrived in Virric ahead of the Írie Navy. The party attempts to board the ship they arrived on with Lily in tow, but they are confronted by a tiefling naval officer who unleashes a T-Rex on the port.
* The party defeats the T-Rex and boards the ship, sailing it towards the Írie blockade. They are met with a boarding crew of several Írie soldiers, who demand to search the crew and the ship.
* Lily sneak attacks several of the soldiers once they move below deck, noting to the party that their uniforms can be used to board the Írie warships without being detected.
* Kristini, feeling threatened by Lily's unprovoked actions, decides to attack her. She is joined by Gab and Gimtharn, while Dilies leaves for the deck of the ship in sorrow.
* Lily succumbs to her wounds. Gimtharn delivers a final blow, curb-stomping her head and crushing her skull.
* The party agrees to follow Lily's plan despite their actions, and don the Írie naval uniforms to board the warship in hopes of escaping the blockade. Due to his unusual appearance, they decide to masquerade Goon as a prisoner they caught on the ship.
* Upon boarding the ship, they encounter Captain Podreg. He instructs them to take the prisoner to the brig.
* Passing through the ship's dining hall on the way to the brig, Dilies stops to have a conversation with a young human boy named Annie. She learns of his deep fondness for Brigadier Uriel, who is commanding the mission at hand. He also reveals in confidence that he enlisted underage.
* In the brig, Goon and Kristini encounter Farkas. Recognizing that Kristini is not actually an Írie soldier, he offers his aid to the party were they to release him.
* Captain Podreg interrogates Goon to little effect while Dilies finishes her conversation with Annie and the rest of the party return to the deck.
* A giant shark begins to attack the ship. Chaos ensues.
* Farkas and Goon break free from the brig. They meet up with Dilies and gather more crossbows and arrows for the fight. The rest of the party engages the shark with Podreg at their side.
* Goon sees an opportunity for heroism and jumps into the giant shark infested waters. He is killed.
* The party subdues the shark at the cost of the ship. As the rest of the fleet begins to retreat, the party gathers on a large scrap of the ship's siding. Podreg begs the party to let him onto the makeshift raft, but he is left to drown.
* After several days of floating north with the current, the party washes ashore on Írie's Repose Island. They are greeted by Sparky, who apologizes for sending them on the mission. He pays for the party's lodging and healing, and they take a moment to mourn Goon's death.