Billy Bugg's Warehouse Has Been Robbed...

31st January 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Bosu
* Dacen
* Lessbelle Elmtree
* Skaros
* Fizz

## Mission Notes

Billy Bugg is mad…mad as in very angry. Some well-organised and dastardly thieves have stolen the contents of his warehouse. Not the magic item warehouse, that’s on a pocket plane under the management of Danny the Imp, but the mundane general stores. Loads of buckets and spades, rope, bows, arrows, swords, shields, furniture and fancy cushions. Plus a whole load of toys.

Mr Q, Billy’s agent in Otha’s Rest asks The Guild for help tracking down the miscreants. Five step up to help and visit the now empty warehouse where Billy Bugg stares down a huge hole ripped into the floor of the warehouse. Describing what has gone missing, Billy explains that while his insurers will cover the loss, he can’t be letting this sort of thing undermine his businesses and he wants to know who is responsible.

Investigating the hole, our adventurers identify what seem to be cart tracks vanishing into the dark. Setting out to follow the party fight of some rats, discover that the tunnel was made by ankheg (mostly by getting attacked by the strange giant beetle creatures) and burn some ochre jelly off the floors and walls. Our adventurers arrive at a huge cavern, at least 600ft across, filled with webs. A path through the webs can be seen with evidence of cart tracks and there are also a myriad of other smaller paths through the spidery threads.

Lessbelle bravely advances along the main track and finds herself surrounded by small spider-like humanoids who chitter at her in a language she doesn’t speak. Before any further actions were possible, one of the party attacks the creatures resulting in a near fatal battle with these knife wielding critters and, it is soon revealed, their spider boss. Eventually they force the Spider Boss to flee but it is clear there are several more of the little stabby humanoids and the party hasten through the webs and into what turns out to be the Underdark.

For about a mile they follow the tracks of the carts along high and wide passages before reaching a narrow passage filled with stalactites and stalagmites. Pausing to rest in a wide alcove, our adventurers find themselves in a deeper side space where they meet a winged elf-like creature who asks why they are passing through its master’s realm. In conversation with this creature (which at one point turns into a beautiful human and attempts to seduce party members) our adventurers establish that the heist on Billy Bugg was conducted by the Dark Dwarves under the instructions of something or someone called Roland.

The creature offers, for a price, to show the party a route around the spider cave so they can return safely to the surface. The price, paid by Dacen, is a requirement to undertake an unspecified task for the creature’s master. This commitment is marked by the figure of a black dragon seared into Dacen’s arm.

On returning to the surface with an empty box carrying the Bugg Enterprises brand, they find a grateful Billy who says “we know who is responsible now, we can negotiate and, if that fails, take action”. A grateful Billy gifts each player one uncommon item from Danny the Imp’s magic store.

## Loot

* Standard Level Xp & Gold
* One uncommon item each

## Rumours

* Who is Roland and what are the Dark Dwarves?
* Will Billy Bugg’s negotiations work?