17/05/2022 - Sneaky Sabotage, Blagden’s Buffoonery, and a Phenomenal fish-Pal Performance

## An attempted sabotage

* We go to the registration area for battle of the bands and register as “Super fish pals”.
* We go through some corridors to room number 2, which is our dressing room. After dumping our stuff, we discuss sneakily sabotaging the other groups. We decide to try and get group number 1 smashed…
* This doesn’t go brilliantly, as Rocky mostly manages to just get the band manager drunk and almost loses his never-ending tankard.
* Back outside, we hear loud drums from the centre of the arena.

## Blagden’s balls-up

* Blagden tries to get into the crowd. Runs into a guard, tells them he’s the manager of the “fish people” and tries to cast suggestion on him, but fails. He misty steps away and turns invisible, but causes quite a commotion.
* Ves comes out to see what is going on. And a guard questions her about “the small goblin”.
* Ves and Scribbulus try to pin the blame on the alcoholics in group 1.
* This doesn’t work, and they threaten the group that they will be responsible for anything Blagden does on account of him being a minor.
* Rocky is furious and messages Blagden… but Blagden ignores him and goes into the crowd, making his way to the opposite side.

## Battle of the bands: round 1

* The first group are fairly meh. And then it is our turn…
* Blagden reveals himself as Beatrice and preps himself for some crowd-hyping.
* The super fish pals first performance goes very well, with fog clouds and other magical and musical shenanigans + some “grandchildren” hype from Blagden/Beatrice.
* The crowd, and the council members in the fancy box, are into it.
* Rocky is pleased with how everything went, so the group plan for the next round whilst the other groups begin performing. Blagden shit talks everyone else’s performances.

## Battle of the bands: round 2

* Everyone votes, and we go through!
* In the interval, Trimaeus finds Blagden and they do some shenanigans with onions.
* We hear that Group 6 are favourites, so Blagden plots how to ruin their performance… whilst they perform, Blagden starts a fist fight with command and onions. This distracts some of the crowd, but they still seem to perform quite well.
* The next group are very accomplished. Their music seems almost magical.
* It’s now our groups turn! Scribbulus starts off with a skywrite, daylight combo. Rocky begins with a repetitive bar to get the crowd involved.
* This builds up, and as the crowd get going Blagden starts waving a fiery torch.
* Rocky transitions into a second song, which culminates with a dragon-themed major-image call-lightening combo.
* Out of the major-image, an image of the red dragon jumps out, as Scribbulus causes a massive gust of wind to blast out. He then bursts into a rendition of “do you hear the people sing”.
* As Rocky finishes, an invisible figure appears and puts a purple and red cloak on Rocky… it is the party ghost!
* Blagden tells everyone that they’ll get free drinks if they vote for the Super Fish Pals.

## Celebration

* The vote happens…. We win!!
* Rocky is overcome with emotion. We get a big trophy and a bag of 500GP.
* Leo casts identify on Rocky’s new cloak. It is called a “dancing cloak” – it dances and allows a once/day cast of enthral and pyrotechnics.
* Ves and Rocky get smashed in celebration. Ves drunk tells Rocky about her girlfriend Julia who is back on Ilbidor.
* Next day some people are quite hungover. Ves finds a scratch on her arm. We all have similar scratches, and the eye on the floor is completed.