Episode 2

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## Plot Summary:

The people of Raufel blame Captain Sandglass for not stopping the pirate attack.  He was busy taking care of gang activity in the north of the city.  Leia Tana meets with Sandglass and asks her to explain her actions of being away from her post and hiring a sellsword, Tenoch Coatl.  Leia gets suspended and storms off to meet Tenoch at the Tattered Sail.  Leia hires him to help her continue her investigation.  They go to investigate the robbery at Camden Lark’s house, which is near the pet store of Daemys Raethran.  She joins them.

Camden’s house is dark and there is a smell of burnt porridge.  Tenoch opens the door and they find Camden, who is a mousy child of about seven.  He appears to live alone in a run room cabin in the poor side of town.  He tells them that his granny was beaten to death in the middle of Red Street and her attackers stole her green earrings.  She brought the earrings from the north kingdom.  Camden describes the four attackers: a tall woman (yellow dress), a very large man, a guy with a smooshed face, and a really strong guy with a smile (a leather vest).

The big man was probably Big Tom, who recently arrived back in town.  He used to run with Tenoch, but tried to take him out once.  They check out another inn, the Red Clam Shell.  The inn is in very poor condition but is bustling with clientele.  They eye Leia but then Tenoch asks if anyone has seen Big Tom.  Two burly dudes try to pick a fight, but Tenoch intimidates them into telling them the Big Tom is part of Kord’s gang and has had work recently.  They break into Big Tom’s room and only find an imprint of a hexagon on the dusty desk.  It could be a holy symbol of Sahlen.

They travel to the closest temple of Sahlen.  It is hexagonal with a glass dome.  There are several monks with orange robes.  They speak to the revered who explains that there is nothing missing and they don’t really collect relics or things of value besides books.  Some of the symbols on the wall have been scratched out.  They think the church might have been defaced by the followers of Kloht.  They check out the graffiti on the street and most of it is anti-Sandglass; there is nothing hexagon shaped or a symbol for Kloht.

They go back to looking for Big Tom.  They track him to the jewelry district, “the Gems.”  They hear the sound of cracking glass.  They run to the source and find a poor old half-gnome in his shop.  The shop is being robbed by the same four people, including Big Tom.  Tenoch starts the fight with a javelin toss at Big Tom’s back.  Big Tom knocks out the gnome and turns to face the group.

The smiling man intervenes and starts talking.  He introduces the gang: Lemon Shift. Flat Edward, and Big Tom.  He is Kord Elkas.  They are under contract and end up attacking the party.  Tenoch gores Kord out the back door, but Kord goes invisible and runs away.  Big Tom flees.  Lemon Shift tries to flee but Tenoch grapples her.  Flat Edward gives up.  He pulls out a black piece of metal from his pocket, six-sided.  He looks terrified.  Lemon tells him not to talk.  He tells them that men in black hoods and robes offered them this job to steal green gems.  Kord has them.  The object is a contract, they can’t leave it behind or they die.  The hooded figures came off boats and are now everywhere in the city.

Lemon starts to spill more.  The men promised a large sum of money to steal all the gems.  The coin starts to vibrate and a light starts to consume her skin and in moments she disintegrates, leaving the coin behind.  The coin is similar to the mark of Sahlen.  There is a star in the center, the lines are broken, and instead of stars, there are black circles.  Flat Edward is terrified and asks to be killed.  Amber dispatches him gruesomely.

Walking up behind them is a merman ninja (character drop) who tells them he saw where they went.  His name is Bar Bar Minks.  They hire him to lead them.  He tracks down one of them to a shantytown.  They find Big Tom is a hut getting sewn up.  He didn’t know about the consequences of the contract.  He doesn’t know what the gems are for or where Kord has them.  Tom feels bad about the murder; he wants to help but he can’t.  He tells them to meet them at the Purple Scallion the next night.

In the night there are screams and crashes in the street.  Some of it is rioting against the Whitesails, some is gang crime, some is gang violence.  They all stay the night at the Tattered Sail, including Bar Bar.  The next morning Whitesails are helping clean up the mess, there are many bodies.  Some of them were attacked in the night.  Leia asks a Whitesail about the Black Cloaks, but he does not think they are a threat. They agree the fault lies with Sandglass.

They make their way to Purple Scallion.  Tenoch meets a young minotaur at the bar named Rustflame and buys him a drink.  They chat and Rustflame is very excited to talk to someone.  Big Tom comes in and sits by himself.  Eventually Kord arrives and sits with Big Tom.  Tenoch tells Rustflame to leave and go to the Tattered Sail.  Tenoch sneaks up on them to overhear them.  Kord is telling him the plan: a woman has a carved egg for Tom to steal and bring back to Kord at the Purple Scallion.

Kord leaves and they send Bar Bar to track him.  The group follows Big Tom to a middle class house.  He breaks into the back.  There is a young woman in the home who screams.  They try to explain that they have to take the egg or else Big Tom will die.  Her great-great-grandfather said he found it on the side of a mountain in the Copper Mountains.  She gives them the egg and they say they will try to give it back.

They follow Big Tom back to a boarding house.  They see Bar Bar’s head on the bed.  On the dresser, written in blood, it says “Try Harder.”  Big Tom sets the egg down and does not disintegrate.  He thinks his job is done, but Kord might be in trouble if he doesn’t pick up the egg.  This is his fifteenth job.  Big Tom leaves and the three others wait in the room for Kord.

After two hours, Kord appears in the room.  He was invisible in the room.  He says he wants to be done with the contact and tells them as much as he can.  He sat down with the Black Cloaks, but never saw their faces.  They communicated telepathically.  They wanted him to gather all the green gems.  Once he gathers all the green gems, his contract will be complete.  There are only a few left.  If the group helps him finish the job, he will help them figure out the situation.  The monks are not keen on the gems, but want them collected.  Kord does not know what they want them for.  There are three gems left.  They agree, and Kord leaves with the egg.

In the middle of the night people break into the Whitesail headquarters and murders Sandglass.  The remaining Whitesails find Leia in the night and salute her as their new leader.  Tenoch returns Bar Bar’s body to the sea.

## Fun Moments:

Amber threatens to punch Danny because she hates his Broham impressions.

Amber promises not to be a murder-hobo and then plays jump-rope with a man's intestines.

ManlyMutt drops Jar Jar Binks to which Danny replies "I'm going to alter the fuck out of that. There are no gungans in my world and there's not going to be any gungans in my world. [. . .] It's going to be a merman with a fucking speech impediment..."

Danny's Jar Jar has a deep voice that destroys Amber when he and Art talk like Jar Jar.