I Started a Joke

The Acquaintances With Weapons must survive the Jester's circus.

## Major Plot Points

* Vulveeta, Voloth, Bigsby, Neuriel, Kataro and Calypso had brunch with Rhiannon, Cleo, Horus, and Madame Eva to discuss the Purple Sands new form of government. Cleo decided to step down to seek therapy. The party agreed it’d be a council made up of Horus, Madame Eva, and a representative elected by the people.
* They then decided to head to the Manipular thalmont, which is the breadbasket of Thay. It’s ruled over by a mind flayer lich.
* Along the way, the party stumbled across a town called Azul. Written in blood on the welcome sign was, “The happiest place on Toriel.”
* AWW decided to enter the town and found most of the buildings boarded up and the streets abandoned. Bigsby convinced the owner of a magic shop to open his door. He explained a circus came to town. The clowns attacked, killing several people and abducting even more. The clowns have returned every night and taken villagers into the nearby woods.
* A message written in blood was written on the door of a nearby home. It read, “Gone Fishin’.” The group entered and found three bodies slumped over a water basin. Inside the tub were piranhas that ate the family’s faces off.
* Vulveeta dug them a proper grave. Calypso worried about the piranha’s safety so Neuriel collected them in jars to release them in a nearby body of water.
* The group was ambushed by killer clowns wielding balloon swords filled with poisonous gas. They were able to defeat them but Calypso suffered heavy damage. Neuriel healed the princess.
* Our heroes arrived at the fairgrounds. Bigsby posed as a freak to sneak into Carla’s Collection of Curiosities. He illusioned a third eye, wore Calypso’s tattered dress and Vulveeta’s teeth necklace, and carried a piranha jar. His performance won over Carla. However, she repeatedly whipped her rainbow dragonborn, sword spitter, Yuan-Ti contortionist, and bearded devil lady. Bigsby signaled for the party to sneak attack and they killed Carla, freeing the freaks. Kataro tripped the sword spitter, causing him to be impaled by a sword he spit up on the way down.
* At the booth simply labeled, “BALLS” the party had to knock over four towers of milk bottles by hitting them with balls. The dwarf who manned the booth was lactose intolerant but kept chugging milk anyway. Vulveeta knocked over one tower but not the other three, making the farty dwarf hit her with a glass bottle of milk three times. Voloth successfully knocked the rest down. The dwarf went into his true form, a milk elemental, and congratulated Voloth.
* In the hall of mirrors, the party had to rely on their wisdom to make it through the maze. Failing the first round made their reflection punch them in the face, failing the second revealed their greatest fears (both Voloth and Bigsby’s greatest fear was marrying Vulveeta. Neuriel was afraid of never finding the person responsible for killing his mentor), and the third failure made the mirrors explode around the party member.
* Inside the Flying Acrobats tent, the party had to successfully make it across a trapeze. Under the trapeze was a pit of magical darkness. Neuriel, Voloth, and Bigsby fell into the pit and were slashed by an unseen claw. Kataro and Vulveeta made it across. Calypso decided not to try and to shoot the hidden monster with her ray of frost. Bigsby made the creature afraid of him, driving it out of the pit. The creature was a lesser vampire and attacked Kataro next. Neuriel made it afraid of him with his turn undead and it was defeated soon after that.
* In the Muscle Mayhem tent, the party found three strong women who challenged them to feats of strength. Voloth successfully wielded a large hammer and made the weight hit a large bell. Bigsby mocked the muscle women, making them hit the bell so hard it gave every thunder damage. Bigsby made another quip, which made the women throw hammers at him. Vulveeta held Bigsby in place so he had to suffer the consequences of his actions.
* The penultimate tent was Zoltan’s Mystifying Mysteries. Zoltan turned out to be a lousy fortune teller but he did summon the spirit of Vulveeta’s father. It was revealed he was their tribe’s chief of police and he was proud of “Villie.” Bigsby questioned the legitimacy of Zoltan’s medium abilities but Vulveeta chose to believe.
* All that remains to be investigated is the large purple and green striped tent in the middle of the fairgrounds.