Backup Pan

an adventure starring Reine, Graveyard, and Cheryl. Companion episode: Snackspionage!

## Setting

Banilla Konvention Center in Banilla, Jezek.

## Tweet-Length Episode Description

Reine, Graveyard, and Cheryl are enlisted as counter spies at a food and beverage expo. Using their newfound powers of influencing fate (a la the TTRPG system Foretold), will the party be successful in thwarting corporate espionage?

Companion episode: Snackspionage!

## Non Player Characters

* Felix Padeiro
* Trixie Jo, a.k.a. Tamara Padera
* Humbolt - Model 66784
* Valoom Kimbo
* Dr. Laurel Ravenwood
* Egan H. Diabolo
* Tipsy Kegtinker
* Tapsy Kegtinker

## Plot Summary

Cheryl, Graveyard and Reine lounge in the guild hall when a delivery person brings a package addressed to Krista Evans and Errol Corvidbough.

Cheryl accepts the package which holds a letter about corporate espionage at a food and beverage convention sponsored by Consent Creamery in Banilla. Also in the package was a payment of 15k gold meant as reward to stopping two spies targeting two particular vendors.

Cheryl saw that more as a suggestion than a task and paid another round of beer for the fire breathing kittens currently in the guild hall. Upon hearing the contents of the letter, the three of them decide to head out after all and visit the con.

With the package had also come three potions by Greta which allowed the person drinking them to bend fate. With Graveyard's positive drunken affirmations about Greta, the three of them drink the potions, now being able to change present, future and even past.

Cheryl immediately used her new powers to bend fate and turn herself into a legitimate vendor at the con with her own booth and everything. Having all the information and a vendor pass now, the trio managed to get in faster through the vendor entrance.

Starting in the tasting hall after a chat with the Baissant baker Felix Padeiro they got information about a purple haired Halfling. Graveyard changed fate to secure the group vital information regarding that same Halfling, allegedly Trixie Jo, making her their main target. They soon spotted said Halfling heading into the open kitchen at the back of the tasting hall. With more fate bending and Graveyard's pure aura, they infiltrated the kitchen. After cornering her, the Halfling tried to flee and ended up against Cheryl's frying pan. After a pocket prayer the trio stuffed her in a locker in the employee's only room, started interrogating her and then left her in the locker.

Following a new lead they'd found in the locker room, a cute little Steelborn called Humbolt who was tasked with retrieving specific plans from the lockers. After finding those plans, Humbolt led the trio back to their operator, Valoom Kimbo in the speaker room.

After Reine changed fate to save the badly ongoing presentation of the Kegtinkers and placing the plans for their mobile barista on stage and very hard to steal, Graveyard changed fate to establish a connection with Valoom. So did Cheryl, who lured Valoom into the employees only room with debt repayment. Who greeted him there was however not Cheryl but Graveyard. Knowing Valoom had gotten recruited into well paying shady business, Graveyard convinced the dragon kin that he wanted in on the deal.

Upon asking for who to contact, Graveyard was bound by contract magic to see everything through to the end. It gave him a feeling of knowing of someone.. yet the other person also knew of him. With the information to look for a Halfling dressed like a sweet, Dr. Laurel Ravenwood, Graveyard and Reine made off to the exhibition hall. Cheryl stayed hidden in the locker room with her pan, no pocket prayer and Valoom.

In the exhibition hall, they found the Halfling through a fate caused heart attack. Laurel stole some research and went to the lobby to get medical personnel. Graveyard stabilized the person with the heart attack and Reine unsuccessfully tried to stop Laurel in the lobby.

The one who turned the tables was Cheryl, who changed fate to make Valoom her childhood friend. Giving him the 15k to make him start a new life and dramatically faking his death in front of his co worker in the locker, Valoom told Cheryl about Dr. Laurel's operations in a shop across the convention center.

The trio cornered Ravenwood in the shop, as Reine transformed into a gigantic wolf, making the woman eventually fess up and also give up. Dr. Laurel confessed the name of her employer Egan H. Diabolo to Graveyard and Reine, now also bound by the contract magic.

Reine played Therapy Dog for a while and Graveyard took the Doctor into protective custody. With the last fading ounces of the potion, Graveyard telegraphed a magical message to Egan, who responded in amusement, starting off their intertwined fates sure to become much more interesting in the future...

Companion episode: Snackspionage!