City Dwarves: Episode 02

Logo by Velannal

## Cast

Neal Pass Erickson - Dungeon Master

Anna Prosser - Lazuli Cobblefeet

Geneviève 'livinpink' Forget - Pebble Cobblefeet

Rachel 'Seltzer' Quirico - Bouldara Coubblefeet

## Synopsis

In the morning the sisters find 2 demons outside their store. The demons have a piece of paper with a drawing of the sister. Once seeing the sister the 2 demons attack, but the demons are defeated. The sandals of the demons have a mark from the Guild of The Cobblers. They get some new orders for shoes because of their heroics.

The sisters visit Ramspiral and talk with the bards Royboy and Guy. They convince Guy to buy a pair of expensive shoes. Royboy made a song up about Bouldara.

The sisters visit the Guild of the Cobblers and find out the demon sandals were made by Sister Helen of the Temple of Shoes.

## Recap

### Demon seeking Dwarves

It is the morning after the events of the previous episode. Pebble and Lazuli are talking strategy on how to improve business while Bouldara is hung over.

The talk is interrupted by the appearance of a demon outside in the street. The demon (looks like a a Nalfeshnee but weaker) causes people around it to scatter. Lazuli and Pebble notice the demon doesn't have shoes so is unlikely to be a customer, but Bouldara greets the demon as a possible customer. The demon looks at a piece of paper and back at the sisters, then roars in anger and attacks.

Combat: Party vs 2 Demons
* Round 1: The Demon charges and rams Bouldara. Lazuli casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter at the demon. The spell works and causes the Demonto fall over in laughter. Pebble runs outside to join Bouldara and the demon.
* Round 2: Bouldara takes the piece of paper from the laughing demon. On the paper is a sketch of the 3 dwarf sisters, with Pebble's sketch being much smaller than the others. Another Demon arrives down a side ally as Bouldara restrains the first one under her boot. Lazuli casts a Minor Illusion of herself running away down the street. The 2nd Demon goes to chase the illusion, but Pebble tries to hit them with her Quaterstaff, but misses. The 2nd Demon tries to ram Pebble but misses.
* Round 3: Bouldara a attacks the 2nd Demon and injures them. Bouldara demands to know who sent them, but she gets no answer. Lazuli casts Vicious Mockery on the 2nd demon. Lazuli attacks one of the demons with her staff and it hits this time. The other demon breaks free from Bouldara.
* Round 3: Bouldara hits the 2nd Demon in the face again grapples it back down to the ground. Bouldara casts Vicious Mockery on the Demon that Bouldara is holding. When the Demon is KOed, it vanishes, leaving behind its loincloth. Pebble knocks the other one out, and it also disappears.

*Combat Ends*
With the demons gone, people start coming out of their homes. The sisters find that their hands a gooey from where they hit the demons. Pebble thinks to collect the goo to investigate later.

Lazuli walks with the town-folk and none know what those demons where. Lazuli uses the opportunity to advertise their shoe store, the Cobblefeet Quarry. The owner of the Ramspiral Tavern orders a pair of the "Monster-Kicking Boots". Others come up to order boots as well as Lazuli takes notes.

Bouldara finds the tracks the demons caused. Pebble and Bouldara follow the tracks, leaving Lazuli behind at the store. Down some allyways at the end of the tracks they find 2 pairs of greasy sandals. There is a mark on the sandals that is familiar but neither of the 2 sisters can place where from. They take the sandals.

Lazuli is still talking with other townsfolk, with the bard Royboy trying to come up with a song about the heroics on Peach Street. The other sisters show Lazuli the sandals, and she recognises the mark as from the Guild of The Cobblers. Lazuli and Pebble spin it that the Guild sold shoes do these evil monsters, and that they sent them. The crowd is convinced. A person in the crown says the way the demons disappears shows they were summoned in for this task. The crowd agrees to give the Guild a piece of their mind.

For the rest of the day the sisters make lasts of their new clients.

### Visiting Proton

The next day the sisters visit Proton, the Forest Gnome who lives in the park, and give her information on work that needs to be done. Proton doesn't want to design any shoes, just make them, so Lazuli agrees to get the materials and make designs for her. Bouldara says she will stay up and hang with Proton overnight. This make Proton overjoyed about having a friend. Pebble is disappointed that Proton isn't her friend.

### Talking Bards at the Ramspiral

The sisters then discuss what to do next and decide to head to the Ramspiral Tavern to find out if there is any news. Because of yesterday's heroics, Bouldara is allowed inside the Ramspiral. Pebble covers up when Bouldara tries to call the tavern the Ram's Ass. In the tavern they see the bard, Guy, who is Royboy's Direct Rival. Guy is more of a "sell out" than Royboy, so gets more gigs.

The sisters talk with Guy, who talks about Royboy's new song about Bouldara. The song is very complementary about Bouldara but doesn't mention either of the other sisters. When the topic of Guild and Bethany is brought up, Bouldara begins to cry. Guy is unaware of anything to do with the Guild.

The party talk Guy into ordering a pair of shoes with a gem-bell on them (a topaz in this case). After some haggling they agree to 1900 gold, with a third up front. Guy then needs a referral to their loan shark. He gives the sisters 33 gold 3 silver 3 copper for now. Guy leaves the bar as Royboy comes in.

Royboy gossips about Guy being a sellout. Bouldara gets awkward and starts throwing axes at the axe target. Royboy things to leave, but is asked to perform the song about Bouldara.

After the song Royboy leaves the tavern and runs into Bouldara outside throwing axes. Royboy consoles Bouldara about Bethany, her ex, and makes up a story that she could have been bewitched. Bouldara takes this seriously and goes to her sisters about investigating a witch. Pebble is more interested in investigating who summoned the 2 demons to attack them. Lazuli also wants to look into how to get Topaz.

The next day they look for Topaz and find no one sells them. They decide to go to talk to their loanshark to find out about the Topaz. Lazuli writes a letter for the Loanshark about the deal. That Guy will be getting a loan to pay them for the shoes, but they need to get the Topaz though the loanshark. Pebble looks at the letter and sees it is terrible, so they don't end up seeing it. Instead the sisters will visited the Loan Shark in person.

### Back to the Guild

The sisters go back to the guild with one of the demon sandals. Pebble goes up to the door alone and asks about getting shoe repairs. Rex the doorman says she has to go up the side stairs to the second floor for guild registry to find out about that.

Upstairs is a reception area with a map of the city behind them, showing the location of all members. The receptionist explains to Pebble that no shoe repairs are done here at the guild hall itself, it is just an group to organise the existing cobbler stores together. Pebble shoes the sandal she brought that has the guild logo, the inspects the sandal and finds the maker's mark of which member made that shoe. It is from the Temple of Shoes (Sister Helen's store).

Pebble leaves and heads back to her sisters and reports in what she learned. As they talk in the middle of the street, they are approached by Francesca and Bethany. Francesca excuses herself and heads into the Guild Hall, with Bethany staying outside. Lazuli quizzes Bethany to see if she is actually bewitched, but Bethany says she feels fine. Bethany heard Royboy's song about Bouldara and liked it. Bouldara is very awkward around Bethany, making Bethany uncomfortable. Bouldara apologises for being clingy towards his ex and she will have to take time to get over her. Lazuli says that Bethany caused Bouldara to feel this way for breaking her heart and then going to Francesca. Pebble just says she is happy Bethany liked the song. The sisters then leave.

## Experience

300 exp

Sisters level to level 2.