22/03/2022 - Megatons of Mithril, Dinosaur Distractions and Casino Carousing

## *Megatons of Mithril*

* Leo knocks a statue – it sounds metal, but looks like stone. Metal encased in some crusty deposits?
* Shows Ves – she lets him shake it. Ves uses stone shape to try and remove the crusty stone stuff. Manage to pull it apart, but it breaks. Blagden and Ves manage to catch the pieces. But it reveals a metallic shiny version of the statue underneath.
* Leo recognises the metal as mithril. If it was solid all the way through, would be worth 5000 GP! Even if only plated would be 500 GP. Mithril is v. hard to find these days.
* The casing around the mithril was probably a volcanic cast – the whole room we’re in appears to have been purposefully filled with lava at some point (the host rock around the edge is different).
* With over 100 statues in the room, this find is worth a cool half mil. We agree we should probably get more security down here.
* The dwarf guard who accompanied us, Duna, notices we found Mithril. Ves is concerned.
* Blagden is suspicious of Duna. Scribs is suspicious of Scribbulus. Leo is suspicious of Rocky, who is also suspicious of himself. Ves is suspicious of everyone.
* All the status have the crest of the Mithril dwarf family, all have weapons.
* Statues seem solid.
* We head back up, leaving some guards behind.

## Dinosaur distractions

* We go stealthily back past the death zone where we were attacked previously. We get out of the mine with no issue.
* Ves goes back to the temple to try and get some materials (diamond dust) to do her spell to help Leo. They lend us some dust with the promise that Leo will go back to cure their guy who got attacked, and that we will provide them with 100GP of diamond dust at a later date to replenish their stocks.
* Ves heals Leo, yay.
* Scribs and Blagden go to get more cakes for the goblins. Blagden asks Scrubs for a distraction, not expecting much, but Scribs defies all expectations and turns into a trex! This causes panic, which allows Blagden time to misty step into the shop as the owner shuts the door.
* Blagden persuades / deceives the shop owner to giving him the left-over rock cakes. They also confirm that the cakes are very much not magical – it is just their slogan that says they make you strong.
* Scribs runs away as a dinosaur and friends an alley to change into a spider. Some guards on large lizard things see him go that way and start looking for him.
* We all meet up back at the house.
* We chill for a bit, then head to the casino for a mad night. Blagden goes looking as his alter ego Beatrice.

## *Casino carousing*

* Go in as a group, Beatrice helped by her “grandsons”.
* We all make some money on some low stakes’ games. Blagden (by cheating) and Rocky win big on some other games. Scribs wins big on the roulette and Leo wins a game of perudo.
* We dance for a bit in the jazz room. Rocky and Ves engage some youths in a dance off. They win convincingly because the youths are smashed. They finish with a swan lift.
* We go join the youths after party.
* They take us to the phoenix pub and give us a password to get into the place they’ll be in.
* We have some cocktails – some of which give people some fun abilities, and Ves and Blagden play some arcane pool. Blagden wins but Ves puts up an unexpectedly good fight.