Byzantios

Byzantios is a city in Araknos known for its farm and trade. The city was plagued by a group called the "Battered Biking Bastards of Byzantios" and by drug problems. Byzantios is considered a vital node of Anipater's supply line for his war effort. 30 years ago the city was a simple farming village, but began to be plagued by the drug trade. Byzantios is considered mainly to be an atheist village. Byzantios has a branch of the Adventurers Society as they had to sell off the land. The branch is currently run by a human named Mack.

## First Moments

The Harpy's Claw was sent to the city by Olympias to get the city under control and give it to her. As payment, she would pledge her loyalty to Reme. The party explored the city and found a "Potions?" shop, which sold "Happy Feel Good Juice." Afterwards, the party visited the Adventurer's Lodge and met Mack. The society did not actually go on many adventures, and was mostly used as a social club, but the Lodge still had adventuring equipment. While walking to the Mayor's house, a man in a field was swarmed by a group of thugs on bikes, who then proceeded to beat up the man. The party ran up to the man and learned that he was Mourice, the mayor of Byzantios. He let them inside his house, and told the party that the thugs were the Battered Biking Bastards of Byzantios, and that the mayor needed to pay them off to prevent them from destroying the city. After *tedious* negotiations, the party struck a deal where they would take care of the bikers in exchange for the city becoming clients of Reme.

## Attacking the Bikers

The Harpy's Claw spent several days in the woods tracking down the bikers. During that time, the party learned that the Ranger Jon is very useful in his preferred terrain. At one point, the party was attacked by a group of bugbears and orcs. Jon wrestled several bugbears into a large pit, while Ventus drank the "Happy Feel Good Juice" in the pit. After drinking the Juice, Ventus climbed out of the hole and tried attacking the bugbears, but Quintus was ordered by the Thunder God to kill him with the spear he received during the funeral of \****somebody***\*. The spear became charged from Ventus' blood, and the party cleared out the rest of the bugbears. They held a funeral for Ventus by petrifying his body using Lucan's Sword of Medusa and lowering him into the hole.

After Jon blows on Ventus' horn thinking it was a deer calling horn, a goblin emerged from the woods. Grobzie agreed to lead the party to the Biker's hideout in exchange for help freeing his captured friends. The party found the hideout and began planning their assault, which started by poisoning the water supply with hornflower. While Jon was out hunting, Quintus revealed to Lucan that he was the one who killed Ventus, and also expressed some doubts about the Thunder God. In exchange, Lucan revealed that he killed Nakasomi, the halfling blacksmith from Olerios. Suddenly, Nakasomi's pistol started glowing and exploded, critically wounding Lucan and alerting the guards. A group of scouts were sent to investigate, but the party learned that the bikers had been weakened from the hornflower. The scouts were dispatched of quickly, but left a man named Apollodorus alive because he wanted to repent and become a follower of Jupiter. He helped the party draw out the leader of the bikers, which Lucan and Quintus fukin deleted from existence. Afterwards, the party found a letter from the Carbonari, an underground mafia, that told the Bikers to "Keep Byzantios busy, we have plans for Araknos"

## Return to the City and Busting Drugs

Apollodorus led the party to a river the Bikers used to quickly get to and from Byzantios, all while begging Quintus to teach them how to be loyal Thunder God worshipers. The party return to the Mayor's house with Apollodorus to tell him that the Bikers have been taken care of, but Jon discovers a man hiding in the bushes outside of the house. The man is captured and brought inside. Jon goes to the Tavern to take a bath while Quintus and Lucan question the man. His name is Luigi, and reveals that he is a member of the Carbonari. Quintus pulls out some high quality wine he got from \****place\**** and makes a trade: the wine for the location of the Carbonari in Byzantios. Luigi agrees and tells them to look at the very end of the docks. Lucan and Quintus grab Jon from the Tavern, then head to the docks. They find a man in a capsized boat selling drugs. Both Jon and Quintus attempt to convince the man to let them inside, but they are turned away. However, Lucan was able to persuade the man to let him inside. He learns that the man's name is Pop, and that he makes ***Cocania?,*** but he has no relation to the Carbonari. He tells Lucan that the harbormaster is letting a shipment in from Sud America tomorrow morning at the docks, and hires him to help move the supplies to his drug lab. Lucan informs the party, and they decide to get Justinian the tavern owner involved, who was throwing a massive party at the time. He agrees to help and even gathers a group of farmers to track down Luigi for lying to them. They track him down, and Luigi confesses that he didn't expect anyone to actually be at the docks. He and his brother Mario were hiring the Bikers to ***"**keep Byzantios busy"**.*** The group ties him up and captures Mario, then throws both of them into the city square to humiliate them.

The next morning, the Harpy's Claw and Justinian's patriots all gathered to attack the shipment. Lucan went ahead to help "move the boxes," and when he was aboard the ship, he set off the signal. The patriots stormed the ship and forced all of the sailors and the harbormaster onto the ground. They sized all of the supplies and threw them overboard. The sailors were part of the Los Zetas cartel from Sud America, and had been selling drugs in Byzantios for several years. While Lucan interrogated the captain, Quintus and the patriots constructed crosses in the center of Byzantios to crucify the sailors and the Mario Brothers. The Bikers helped with the crucifixion to show that they had repented and wanted to make up for their past mistakes. Quintus summoned a thunderstorm that killed everyone on the crosses, and Maurice declared that he was stepping down as mayor and putting Justinian in charge. To finish it off, Lucan quickly ran to the "Potions?" shop and convinced the vendor that he was missing a party in the center of town. The vendor left his shop and joined the party, but realized that the party was celebrating the death of drug dealers. Before he could run, he was also smitten by the storm.