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#### Episode 1: The Arrest Is History

The adventuring party (Chip the Tiefling rouge, Barney the human cleric, Mathilde the Aarakocra Ghost Monk, and Ellga the Half-Elf Vampire Barbarian) awoke to find themselves battered, bruised, and locked in a holding cell in the Wulfman Officer Four (or WOFs) Station located in Attro City. The party could not recall how they came to be locked in the holding cell or what they did that could warrant being detained. They meet Quill, an inquisitive "abralien" (with physiology similar to a Grell) , and twin gnomes, Jack and Jahartin. Quill asked the party multiple questions and even smelled Chip's sneakers. The party tries talking to the gnomes, but Jahartin rebuffed the party while brandishing a shiv. Noticing that Jack is munching on some plopcorn which he indicated came from a window in the top of the cell, the party tried to climb atop of each other to look out the window. While climbing the wall, several rocks came loose from the wall falling near Jahartin. Enraged, Jahartin demands the party stay away and stop climbing near the wall. Barney noticed that Jack had a tattoo of a map on his chest. Upon questioning, Jack was unaware he had a tattoo or where the map lead. While the party was examining the tattoo, a guard arrived and ordered the party to leave the holding cell.

Two guards, a pale mustached Halfling named Datamax and a red thick-horned Tiefling named Slightly, escorted the party through the jail. Along the way, the party encounters a group of gaurds playing the dice game Zig-Zag-Hag. The guards reveal that they are playing with gold taken from the party. Further down the hall, the party met another abrellian / Grell named Lizzie. Over the course of their brief conversation, Lizzie confided in the party that she robbed a local bank and stashed the stolen goods. To help her remember where the goods were hidden, Lizzie admitted to tattooing a map on a Gnome, presumably Jack. Lizzie tried accusing Ellga of robbing the bank. The party was ushered along to an interrogation room where the party was questioned about their involvement in an unknown crime.

During the course of the interrogation, the guards explains that they are part of the City Officer Force (COF; pronounced "cough"). Crumpling under intense questioning and polite survey questions, Barney was on the verge of admitting to the unknown crime when a series of explosions rocked the WOF station. The door of the interrogation room was blown off its hinges when a mysterious man entered the room. The party sees the other prisoners escaping, including Lizzie who gives a menacing glance at Ellga. A mysterious man enters who escorts the party out of the interrogation room. He directs the party to a locked door . Using a vial of acid, the man melts the handle and lock and the door swings open revealing lockers where the party's confiscated gear was stored. Ellga takes the opportunity to also take the gear of Lizzie. The party ascends a stair case to exit. The door opened to reveal Attro City in the midst of a thunderstorm. As lighting flashes across the sky, the mysterious man introduces himself to the party as The Alchemist.

#### Episode 2: Once Upon a Crime

The story flashed back to the activities of the party 24 hours in the past before the arrest. Chip awoke (naked per his custom) in his home expecting to find his wife, Carol, in bed next to him, but he discovered Carol was missing. Getting out of bed, Chip greeted his pet cockatrice, Skipper. Chip took Skipper from his perch and let him ride around the house on his tiefling horns. Next to his bed, Chip found a gilded envelope sent to his home address in Attroville. As soon as he touched it, fireworks exploded from the letter and the letter very loudly read itself. It was an invitation to the 113th peace parade taking place in Attro City in the Wulfmen borough at the Parliament Civic Center. The parade would feature merchandise, games, and a parade of the monster clan leaders of Grotethe

Chip continued with his morning routine of making breakfast and exercising while keeping an eye out for Carol. Still naked, Chip doing his morning exercise routine around the neighborhood of swing from trees and trying to be as stealthy as possible. Finishing his routine, Chip put his clothes on and headed to Attro City.

Around noon, Chip arrived at the northeastern gates of Attro City. A line to enter the city was forming due to a pair of guards questioning those trying to enter. Chip joined the line and noticed a half-elf named Ellga standing behind him. Chip was questioned by the guards and struck up a conversation with Constable Whyra (a yellowish goblin with aspirations of writing and performing music and with a distracting mole at the end of their nose). Without problem, Chip was permitted entry into the city. Ellga, however, was subjected to more thorough questioning, was searched, had a potion confiscated as contraband (although Ellga was not sure what potion it was that they allegedly found on her), and was required to pay a silver to enter the city. Chip stole the silver piece and the potion taken from Ellga and gave it back to her. Chip recognized that Ellga was holding an invitation to the Peace Parade. Ellga stated that she had come to witness the parade on behalf of her father, Count Von Brath.

Chip and Ellga continued into the city when they arrived at a bustling market. An overwhelming aroma of baked bread filled the air, and the two went inside a bakery called "Le Chatte Gourmand." They went inside and found a number of halfling and dwarves trying to buy baked goods from Mathilde. As they work around their shop, Mathilde remembered they had received a notice directing all markets to close early in order to funnel people towards the Peace Parade. Mathilde tells everyone he needs to close early. Chip is sincerely disappointed, but Ellga feigns disappointment (since being a Vampire, she eats only blood). Because the crowd had dissipated, Mathilde offers Chip and Ellga some of his baked goods and gave Chip a croissant and Ellga a black-ooze bread pudding. Ellga was pressured by Mathilde and Chip into eating some of her bread pudding, who were unaware that she was a vampire and not interested in eating regular food. Mathilde joined Chip and Ellga on their way to the Peace Parade.

As soon as they stepped out of Mathilde's shop, Mathilde trips over an elderly cleric and is knocked to the ground by their walker. Mathilde was helped up by a half-orc that Ellga recognized as being behind her in line to enter the city. The elderly cleric introduced himself as Barney and was keen to join the others on their way to Peace Parade. Ellga shared her bread pudding with Barney. They all continued to make their way to the Peace Parade.

When the party arrived at the Parliament Courtyard, the party was searched by the COFs for weapons. Barney checked his crossbow with the COFs, but Ellga and Chip were able to successfully sneak their weapons past the officers. Mathilde saw a grey suited man and a woman in a tweed coat shaking hands near the stage. The party then encountered numerous vendors in the courtyard selling food and goods for the Peace Parade. After buying a bucket of plopcorn for Barney, Mathilde notices someone nearby dropping pieces of plopcorn down a sewer grate. When he confronted the individual, they stopped and walked away. Mathilde looked down the grate, and while they could hear faint voices, they could not see anything below. The party next encountered a vendor selling t-nics, and Barney bought a "I survived the Peace Parade 1230" t-nic.

Lorenza Wulfman, the brunette woman wearing a tweed coat and trousers, stepped onto the stage to welcome everyone to the 113th Annual Peace Parade and the crowd began chanting "Wulfman." She proceeded to introduce the other Grotethian Clan Leaders: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Blob, Nessie, and the Headless Horseman. The clan leaders and the grey suited man took their seats behind Wulfman while she introduced the entertainment for the event, an abrellian / Beholder mentalist named Zuzu Top.

Zuzu called up Chip and Barney to participate in a magic trick. After performing a number prediction trick, Zuzu called for Ellga and Mathilde to join the others on stage. While performing his second trick, the sound of a smashing glass and wretching drew the attention of the crowd. The Wulfman was gagging under the pale moonlight. The grey suited man called for someone to bring Wulfman some water. Barney and Chip rushed to Wulfman's aid. Barney offered his waterskin, and Wulfman's tweed vested assistant tried giving her some water. She only coughed more as tuffs of fur grew along her body. Her coughing turned to hacking and she soon collasped to the floor writhing in a matted mess of fur. She suddenly stopped moving and became as stiff as a corpse. Hobbling over to her on his cane, the grey suited man tried tending to her but to no avail. Thunder rumbled overhead and drizzle began to fall as someone from the crowd yelled, "they killed her; they killed the Wulfman!" As the crowd started to turn against the party, a mustachioed man in a COF uniform rushed on stage wielding a crossbow revolver. He introduced himself as Chief Inspector Wheezer and placed the party and the grey suited man under arrest.

#### Episode 3: Worst Chase Scenario

The story shifted back to the party as they and The Alchemist make their escape from the WOFs Station. The party fled through an alley when they heard a whisper coming from an ajar sewer cover. The party discovered Quill, who had likewise escaped from jail, hiding in the sewer tunnels below, and they bid the party to hide in the sewers. Barney used thaumaturgy to make the sound like a door slamming shut in the direction opposite of the party to throw off the pursing COFs. Mathilde and Chip jumped into the sewers without incident. Barney tried to jump into the manhole with a flourish, but he failed to the stick the landing and injured himself. Brushing the incident off, Barney quickly used a healing word (which was "Bengay®"; not sponsored) on himself. While waiting for the rest of the party to descend to the sewer, Mathilde used his incorporeal spirit form to look inside a nearby room closed off with a door. Inside the room, Mathilde saw an open room with tiled floor and a dripping, rusty pipe on the far side of the room. The Alchemist found a nearby ladder and he and Ellga used it to lower themselves into the sewer with Ellga closing the manhole cover behind them.

With all of the party in the sewer, Quill asked the party what they were arrested for. Ellga answered that they were arrested for the murder of the Wulfman, but, while she had killed many people in her life, she was not involved with this murder. The Alchemist stated that he believed that the party was not involved in the Wulfman's murder. Ellga asked The Alchemist how he knew the Wulfman, and he said that he had been friend with the Wulfman for many years. He said they met when he was a custodian at Lofton college. The Wulfman helped him get his life back on track and established at the Asylum to provide alchemical care for those seeking refuge. The Alchemist said that they should all work to clear their respective names and recommended they start with questioning Zuzu Top, the Abralien mentalist who was performing on stage at the time of the accident.

Quill offered to assist the party in finding Zuzu in exchange for some gossip. Ellga made up some gossip about conversations she overhead in jail, and Quill told the party they could likely find Zuzu in Area 15, the city district inhabited by Abraliens. Quill warned the party that they would likely have to persuade any Abraliens they meet to help them through gold, gossip, or muscle since the Abraliens don't trust "ordies," referring to the party. Since he was having trouble navigating the sewers, Quill (with Barney's permission) wrapped himself around Barney's head like a "brain hat" as the party traveled to Area 15.

The Alchemist said he was leaving the task of finding Zuzu to the party as he feared for his family's safety and was going to try to contact them. The Alchemist then outlined his plan of reaching out to his contacts with the other clan leaders, gathering supplies, and reconvening with the party. Before the Alchemist left, Ellga shook his hand, purposefully but deftly scratched his hand, and kissed his hand while sucking a little of his blood. Chip produced a bandage and antiseptic wipe from his fannypack, but the bandage did not set well.

Exploring the sewer, the party notices a trail of cheese leading into the door that Mathilde had previously stuck his head in. As soon as Ellga stepped into the room, the dripping pipe on the far side of the room burst open and began spraying high-pressure sewage that pinned Ellga to the wall. Barney wobbled into the room and cast Mend on the pipe to stop it from spraying.

The party discovered an exit out of the room with the sewage pipe and found themselves in a long room with multiple branching paths and a hunk of cheese in the center. Mathilde persuades Barney to get some cheese to which he happily agreed. Ellga used her great axe to cut the cheese in half, and Barney picked up and ate some of the cheese. Mathilde examined a portcullis and heard a scurrying sound. They opened the portcullis and was immediately swarmed by rats. Mathilde, covered in rats, flew back to where the rest of the party was. Mathilde shook off the rats, and the rats immediately swarmed Barney and his cheese. Barney threw the cheese and the rats chased after it. With the rats distracted, the party climbed up a ladder to a tunnel.

Exploring the tunnel, Ellga and Chip went one direction and Barney and Mathilde went the opposite. Ellga and Chip ran into a dead end but found a locked chest. Smashing the chest open, Ellga finds the chest to be full of copper, silver, and gold pieces, a chalice, and a potion of climbing which Chip and Ellga split the coins amongst themselves, Ellga took the chalice, and Chip took the potion. Meanwhile, Mathilde and Barney continued down their path, up some stairs, and came to a long hallway. Mathilde found a door that seemed to lead to the surface, and they left Barney at the exit and left to find Chip and Ellga. Before reuniting with Chip and Ellga, Mathilde explored an area they had noticed but didn't explore earlier.

Mathilde found a precariously constructed bridge made of wooden slats overlooking a deep, dark, moist-looking crevasse. Mathilde spotted half-way down the bridge a gray cat, and they heard it meowing. Mathilde flew over to the cat, and the cat tried to get away, but his paw was stuck in the slats. Mathilde was able to calm the cat allowing them to get closer to the cat. Mathilde gave the cat a piece of muffin, but the cat jumped from his arms and ran across the bridge. Mathilde followed the cat which led him back to the room with the rats. The cat pounced on one of the rats much to the delight of Mathilde. Mathilde noticed the cat had a leather collar around his neck with a tag that read, "I know what I am doing." Failing to coax the cat into his apron pocket, Mathilde perched the cat on their shoulders and walking with a cat on their shoulders continued on their way to reunite with Chip and Ellga.

Reunited, Chip, Ellga, and Mathilde returned to Barney. Discussing what they had found along the way, Ellga and Chip denied finding anything of interest and Mathilde believed them. Examining the pathway out, Barney took the opportunity to mend a rickety door prompting Chip to invite Barney to his home to fix a rickety door he had. Mathilde opened the door and the party prepared to ascended to the surface. Quill reminded the party that the area would be inhabited exclusively by Abraliens who would be suspicious of the party (a group of "Orbies" or "Ordinaries"). Quill detached from Barney's head and floated off. Ellga asked Quill if they could put in a good word for them with the other Abaliens, but Quill responded with a rather unconvincing affirmation.

When the party emerged from the sewers, they found that it was still raining and appeared to be midday. They were outside an entertainment establishment called The Fly in Saucer, and Quill directed the party to start their search for Zuzu there. Inside, the pub was gloomy with candle-lit picnic tables along the wall and a bar with an enormous vat of iridescent blue liquid with chunks floating inside that reached up to the ceiling. Chip ordered some soda pawp (the liquid from the large vat) from the bartender, but the bartender seemed to overcharge the group. Chip offered to pay the bartender his price plus an extra gold piece for information about Zuzu. Upon receiving the gold, the bartender informed the party that they had been summoned upstairs.

The party climbed a set of creaking stairs until the reached the second floor which appears to be a large attic with the same vat of glowing blue liquid coming through the floor. They found a long table surrounded by Abraliens, and Lizzie sat at the head of the table. Lizzie informed the party that they did not appreciate "Ordies" looking for Zuzu and how the Abraliens look out for their own. Lizzie ordered the Abraliens around the table to attack the party.

#### Episode 4: Give It the Old College Spy

The party fought the Abraliens and Lizzie until they were stopped by a voice crying out for them to stop. It was Zuzu Top who had been hiding behind some barrels and crates in the corner of the room. The party informed Zuzu that they wanted to talk to him as part of their investigation of the murder of Lorenza Wulfman in an effort to clear their name. Saying that Abraliens were looked down upon as second-class citizens in Attro City, Zuzu was willing to help in order to clear his name and Abraliens, in general, from any wrong doing. Zuzu said he did not know anything about what happened to her while he was performing (on account of the murder taking place behind him). He also said that he, like many Abraliens, had no ill will towards Lorenza since she went to great lengths to make space for the Abraliens in Attro City and fought for their rights.

Zuzu told the party how a few days prior to the Peace Parade, Lorenza came to Area 15 to talk to Zuzu about performing at the parade after she came across his name. Zuzu said he was hesitant but that Lorenza assured him that she would protect him and his service would be good for the city showing that Abraliens were like everyone else. Zuzu gave the party a brief overview of Abralien history and culture:

In the year 1215 (15 years before the events of the campaign), 15 Abraliens arrived in the city of Grotethe. The Abraliens believed they were sent by their diety, the Great Paw. Their arrival caused a stir between the two religious communities of the city: the Mawmins (who practice Mawminism) and the Pawpist (who practice Pawpatism). Abraliens' memories before coming to Grotethe are hazy, but they believe they were sent there by the Great Paw who was testing the Abraliens to see how many Mawmins they can convert before he one day returns to collect the Abraliens. Most of the inhabitants of Attro City identify as Mawmins with the true zealots living far away.

Ellga asked if Zuzu remembered any specifics about the day Lorenza visited Area 15, and Zuzu recalled that she was accompanied by her assistant, a young man dressed in a tweed vest. Zuzu remembered the assistant tried to talk Lorenza out of hiring an Abralien in performing during the Peace Parade. When Lorenza refused, the assistant slammed his fist on the table and stormed out of the pub.

Zuzu showed the party the table where he met with Lorenza and her assistant. The table bore a clear indentation where the assistant had slammed his first, and Ellga noticed that there was something blue in the indentation. The party also noticed something shiny on the ground next to the table's leg. Checking first the table top, they pry off of the table a small, translucent white gemstone with a pale blue glow about it, which Zuzu identified as a moonstone. Chip examined the moonstone and determined that it likely came from a ring and the stone had two letters engraved in it: LC. Below the table, Mathilde found a gold ring (missing a gemstone) that bore an inscription: "Hamlord." The ring and gemstone fit together perfectly. Thinking for a moment, Mathilde remembered the moonstones were common in the Lofton borough near the college. Zuzu was able to confirm the assistant's name was Hamlord, and he remembered that Hamlord left his jacket. They found the assistant's coat hanging by the door. The jacket was a fine blue chambray fabric with a pin attached to the breast inscribed with LC. The party then made the connection between the initials LC and "Lofton College." Chip searched the coat and discovered in one of the pockets a small brass key with the letter "D" etched into it.