Beedle

A city on the northern end of Brinetania. Due to a recent murder attempt by Shipton contractors in Beedle, there is now a Shipton Fee to be paid by any member of Shipton when entering Beedle.

## History

Beedle is home to the prestigious Picklers guild. It is theoretically a democracy, but everyone knows that the former mayor, Theobold Pickler, was in the guild's pocket.

Now that both the Mayor and the head of the Pickler's guild are one and the same (that being the individual known as Šime Aiza) it would seem the Pickler's Guild is no longer even theoretically a democracy, spurring on a potential rebellion from the gherkins.

## Shipton Connection

The shipton representative in Beedle was a mysterious figure. They go by the name "Falcone". He has recently been replaced by one Skylar Genevieve, an old friend of Falcone. She is currently walking a tightrope between trying to get her friend out of prison and managing her new assistant, who is obviously a plant sent there by the new Mayor, Šime Aiza.

## Notable Features

The Pickler's guild - In the center of the city, a large and opulent building is the home of the members of the Pickler's Guild, where they sleep, study, and produce pickles. The Guild follows a tiered system wherein members are referred to by titles such as "Gherkin" or "Cornichons" to denote rank.

The Bane of Beedle - a small brown dragon that has the ability to tunnel through stone effortlessly. Mainly responsible for stealing food and menacing villagers, there have been relatively few attacks on people -- though one notable attack was on the party for their first mission. Now, the Bane of Beedle is no more, as it was killed by Šime Aiza in a feat of magic that also destroyed the rocky coastline and caused damage to the Vinegar Springs. Tragically, it turns out the Bane of Beedle was more innocent than anyone realized, except for one Falcone, who was the only person who attempted to defend it.

The Vinegar Springs -- located somewhere in Brinetania, the vinegar springs is closely guarded as it is the source of the Pickler's Guild's wealth (and by extension, Beedle's). The party recently found out that the springs had been tampered with, but the culprit has not been found out. On top of that, the springs suffered serious damage from the magical device Šime Aiza used to kill the Bane of Beedle, and it's unclear how this will affect the guild or Beedle in the future.

## Missions

* Jo Lemonpeele, Dave T. Barbarian, Margie McAdams, and Brisbane Budthrow gathered on their first mission to deliver copper ingots to "Dave." Most notably they were attacked by the Bane of Beedle, had a brief incident where they nearly forgot to return a borrowed dolly, and Brisbane left a calling card. They arrived on the Boaty McBoatface captined by Rifftan Calypse.

* Bo Smiley, Dave T. Barbarian, Sorine Rhainfelt, Brisbane Budthrow and Plenet Bluegrass were sent to deliver spiced gherkins to the Cornichon of the Pickler's Guild, as they would find out that mission through Brisbane's knack for hot goss that the vinegar springs had been tampered with and the guild was short on pickles. While the delivery was delayed somewhat due to the late hour the party arrived, the party spent most of their time there fulfilling the captain "Dave"'s secondary missions: to locate an unbreakable urn from the backyard of one Cinay Izha and to hide it somewhere it could never be found. They spent some time harassing a few customers in the local komboocha bar, before tracking down Cinay and his home. After hiding the urn in a canyon outside town and destroying the small cave entrance they placed the urn in, Sorine and Brisbane decided to complete the other mission "Dave" had given them -- kill Cinay. They were foiled in their attempt, and banned from Beedle forever. The other party members returned ahead of them to "Dave"'s ship, the 420Blazeit, only to find him dead and most of the magic fading. Shipton had to send new transport to pick them up.
* Margie, Leopold, Lime, and Gasp were hired to deliver pairing knives to one Ambrose Bakalov at the Constant Innpact. Peggy informed the party that due to the murder attempt on one Šime Aiza by two former Shipton contractors, the town fired the Shipton Rep Falcone and she hasn't heard from him in weeks. As she is an old friend of his, she requested they find him and speak to him to make sure he is alright as a secondary mission for 5 gp each. They sailed on the Flagrant Harmonica III with Captain Chazz Armstrong, who earned Lime's ire and built them a dolly. On route to the town, they found the shore torn up and demolished, and the Bane of Beedle dead. Guard Mordred filled them in, saying the new mayor and head of the Pickler's guild killed the dragon with a magical device. The party found the inn in the bad part of town but it was closed. While pondering what to do next, Gasp decided to do some elaborate fraud involving a forged business invoice on a local criminal, who then decided to rob him. Gasp killed him, but the criminal (known as the moniker "Steve") had friends, and those friends killed Gasp. The rest of the party killed the criminals and then desperately sought a way to bring Gasp back to life. They visited the Vinegar Shrine, which led them to the former Mayor's house. They offered to find the former Mayor's missing son in exchange for the services of a life cleric with the butler. They then went to the offices of the new Shipton Rep, who turned out to be the most beautiful person they had encountered so far. Skylar, old friend of Falcone's, let them know that Falcone had been imprisoned for defending the Bane of Beedle from Šime Aiza, and was being held indefinitely as they needed his name to formerly charge him, and no one can pronounce his name. She also let them know that Gasp had missed the 10 minute window for being revived, and the next option would be to pay for a 500 gp diamond plus the services of a Life Cleric, which seemed unlikely. Torn, the group decided they would at least make the delivery of pairing knives. They went back to the inn and made contact with Ambrose, who eventually revealed he was actually a gherkin in the Pickler's Guild named Tiffany who wanted the knives to arm the lower ranks of the guild and start a coup to overthrow Šime Aiza. All members except Lime agreed to help him with the revolt in exchange for help afterwards, and he invites them to the next meeting. On the way out, they encounter Skylar, who reveals that she thinks her assistant is a spy for Šime Aiza and she couldn't speak freely in front of him before. She tells them the reason Falcone defended the Bane was because he knew that the dragon was actually the Mayor's son, who had been cursed to transform into a dragon and presumably had no control over his actions. Šime Aiza used the dragon's death to leverage his new position of power, and the former Mayor has maintained the farce that his son is missing so as to preserve his memory as a child and not a monster. The group goes to the Mayor's house to try to leverage their knowledge of his son's transformation as a means to blackmail him into paying for Gasp to be brought back to life, but are stopped from seeing him by the butler, who is a tool. Margie yells for the former mayor for 15 minutes before the guards turn up telling them to leave. The group does leave, only to encounter "Dave", who is not dead any longer and also about 20 years old, with just one small blurred patch on his forehead, just like Brisbane had. He pumps Margie for information about the other blurred figures they had encountered, and then he asks where Brisbane is, and Margie answers she was killed by spiders in the undercity. "Dave" vanishes just after saying he now had to go kill some spiders. The group return home with Gasp in a pine box. They update Peggy on Falcone, who agrees that they've fulfilled the spirit of the agreement and pays them, and also introduces them to Woe, the twin brother of Gasp, who will now take his place as well as his name, almost as if Gasp had never died at all.