In Cold Blood

The Acquaintances With Weapons are invited to Lord Barkstaffe's annual dinner party.

## Major Plot Points

* Voloth, Neuriel, Vulveeta, Stzu San, and Calypso were invited to attend Lord Barnstable Barkstaffe’s annual dinner party by Barkstaffe’s loyal butler, Wodsworth.
* Per the invitation, the party had to let another person dress them.
	+ Stzu San dressed Vulveeta in Calypso’s favorite turquoise dress with gold ornamentation
	+ Calypso dressed Stzu San in a potato sack that was spray painted gold. Stzu San then shapeshifted into Peggy and spent the entire session as her.
	+ Vulveeta dressed Calypso in her dead mom’s mustard colored dress
	+ Neuriel chose a felt hat and Aladdin inspired clothes for Voloth
	+ Voloth dressed Neuriel in gold and purple silks.
* On their way, they saw Sunny Mac, a traveling salesman who sold the party three eggs that had “legendary creatures” within them for 1,600 gold.
* Near immediately Vulveeta tried to juggle or do some weird hand trick with the eggs. This resulted in the death of the unborn talking chicken, Omlette du Plummage. The black and silver eggs remain undamaged.
* AWW arrived and was seated in a large dining hall with five other party guests.
	+ Amalie Lightfoot, a gnome jungle guide who often accompanies Barkstaffe when he goes trophy hunting
	+ Lady Eleanor Goldwaves, a high elf who went to middle school with Vulveeta. She talked a lot about how the school would do bake sales to support Vulveeta and her family.
	+ Detective Emory Ember, a kobold detective who recently solved the case of the missing child. He put her in a well and remembered where she was. He’s currently investigating the Boston Strangler and Jack, The Ripper.
	+ Lord Caspian Von Gregor, a nobleman who invited himself to the party after hearing about it
	+ Lady Harriet Lockwell, her family owns the largest bank in Port Nyanzaru.
* After a rather tense dinner of monkey brain soup, feasant, and corn on the cob, the party was informed that a storm had flooded the road back into town and that all the dinner guests were stranded for the night.
* Lady Goldwaves decided to call it a night due to her fear of thunderstorms and went straight to bed.
* Vulveeta camped outside Goldwaves door to sing loudly to the silver egg and keep the other high elf awake all night.
* Stzu San stole a vase worth 500 gold from the living room.
* Neuriel joined Amalie and Lady Lockwell in the library. Lockwell told Neuriel all about the banking business.
* Voloth stayed in the dining room to talk to Detective Ember, who loved monkey brain soup.
* Calypso went to her room pissed at Vulveeta for ripping her dress.
* Later that night, the party heard a loud crash and scream from the library. Neuriel and Voloth who were sleeping in there and found Amalie sweeping up a broken vase.
* Lord Barkstaffe rushed in with Wodsworth and was upset his grandmother’s urn was destroyed.
* Amalie said she was looking for a Harry Potter book to read before bed. The party sensed she was lying and Vulveeta found her trying to hide a book under the vase pieces. The book was a code decrypter.
* Amalie admitted she wanted to use the book to see what Lady Lockwell was writing in her journal all night, assuming it was shit about her.
* Neuriel was hungry for more corn on the cob so he went into the kitchen and discovered Lady Lockwell’s body stuffed in the ice box.
* Neuriel and Voloth did a medicine check to discover there was a corn cob shoved into her mouth and several stab wounds in her back. They found her journal on her body.
* The book was filled with notes that talk shit about the other guests.
	+ AWW isn’t that impressive.
	+ Lord Barkstaffe’s taste leaves much to be desired.
	+ Von Gregor is a pompous ass. I regret sleeping with him last summer. I’ll never forgive him for what he did to me.
	+ Amalie belongs outside with the dogs
	+ Goldwaves is some elven hussy
	+ Detective Ember couldn’t find a clue if it were shoved up his own ass
	+ There’s nothing creepier than a man servant like Wodsworth
* The party accused Von Gregor who denied the allegations and fought them when they tried to restrain him. The party knocked him out and hogtied him, leaving him in the kitchen.
* The group went back upstairs after this and tried to find lady Goldwaves who never came downstairs during the commotion. Voloth kicked her bedroom door down and found it empty. Vulveeta was then ambushed by a mimic posing as a rug in Goldwave’s room.
* The party found Lady Goldwaves’s remains in the mimic. Lord Barkstaffe claimed no knowledge of the rug. AWW then investigated Von Gregor’s room where they found a butcher knife that matched Lady Lockwell’s wounds.
* AWW debated about killing everyone and taking the house for themselves. They ultimately decided not to.
* The party then heard a series of thuds from the staircase. Detective Ember was dead at the bottom of the stairs. Neuriel determined his neck was broken. Lord Barkstaffe said the kobold had been drunk all night and clearly fell. He was convinced they already captured the murderer, Von Gregor.
* After getting into a verbal fight with the host and his man servant, Vulveeta stole the Barkstaff AKA the Darkstaff. This prompted Barkstaffe and Wodsworth to teleport to the basement and activate the beasts posing as trophies - a displacer beast, a girallon, and a young green dragon. Vuvleeta killed the young green dragon. Voloth used his magic to briefly resurrect it to kill the girallon. Vulveeta then killed the displacer beast.
* Amalie had a heart attack at the sight of Voloth striking Detective Ember’s corpse with his maul. The group went to free Von Gregor, but someone had slit his throat while he was hogtied.
* In the basement, Barkstaffe explained that 5 years ago he had a group of red wizards over for dinner. They drunkenly summoned a demon they couldn’t control so they locked it away in a magic diamond. The magic trapping the demon requires 10 sacrifices every year. The party denied Barkstaffe’s offer to join him in killing five Port Nyanzaru citizens. They knocked him out.
* The Balor demon named AC Slaughter broke free from the magical diamond he was trapped in. He immediately shoved his sword through Wodsworth.
* Voloth tried hitting the demon with poison damage but it was immune. He then discovered hitting it with melee attacks causes it to unleash flames with every strike. Vulveeta used her Wand of Wonder and randomly summoned a stinking cloud, which only threatened her friends. Calypso used gust to disperse the cloud. Stzu San kept her distance and sniped at the demon from afar. Neuriel nearly killed the Balor after a series of misses. Vulveeta landed the killing blow. However, upon its death, the demon burst into a large flame and knocked out Neuriel and Vulveeta and killed the unconscious Barkstaffe. The rest of the party helped their friends and went to the queen to report what happened.
* Queen Maxima accepted Voloth’s suggestion to turn the Barkstaffe mansion into Voloth’s Home for Children. The two then shared a private tour of the grounds together.