Pinn Drop

Pinn Drop is a level 9 oneshot DMed by Owen that aired live on Twitch on July 16, 2022, the weekend after the finale of Arc 8, and got uploaded on YouTube afterwards. This oneshot follows the assassination of King Lucius Pinn. It functions as a spin-off oneshot to Arc 8, but the party is totally different from the Arc 8 party, and the events are not directly connected. There are minor spoilers for Arc 8 in the oneshot, revealing the identity of Sir Up Ton's patron.

Owen granted everyone a "Whipjack expertise", a free expertise for their character.

## Characters and Players

**DM** (Owen - He/Him)

**Blessie Bones** (She/Her) (played by Gus - He/Him) - an electric blue Tiefling Grave Domain Cleric with snapped off white horns. She is very strong, makes sure none of her friends accidentally pass over to the afterlife, and constantly flirts with Kolanay.

**Zlata Hooch** (She/Her) (played by Bri - She/Her) - an old Gnomish Alchemist Artificer, the founder and heart of the group. She smells like cigarettes and alcohol and has the right drink or elixir for every occasion. Also, she has slept with Lucius Pinn before, and he did not message her again afterwards.

**Kolanay Ladouceur** (He/They) (played by Reed - They/Any) - a Protector Aasimar and Order of the Ghostslayer Bloodhunter with sun kissed skin and a gleaming smile. They believe to be twins with Scruff, even though they know they are not related, because they don't know what the word twins means. He also does little cheers for his friends and is constantly flirting with Blessie especially.

**Scruff** (He/They) (played by Sam - She/They) - a Goblin and level 8 Order of the Lycan Bloodhunter, level 1 Rogue that can turn into a wolf and has a dragon tooth. They think they are twins with Kolanay, because they don't know what the word twins means.

**Damir Mortyss** (He/Him) (played by Haley - She/Any) - a very normal Human Wizard from the School of Necromancy, and childhood friend of the twins protecting them from the truth that they are not, in fact, twins. He is always accompanied by his familiar, a rat named Molar, and carries a lot of books with him. Damir is a little shy in public and has studied at the Arcane Academy.

**Blaise Stoker** (He/Him) (played by Moose - He/Him) - a Human Eldritch Knight Fighter with a flaming Greatsword. He has the Inspiring Leader feat and is always on vacation, wearing a floral shirt and beach shorts over his chain mail.

The group calls themselves the "Slutty Six", and they have been adventuring with each other before, it is even implied that they have tried to assassinate Pinn before. Apart from being an adventuring party, they are also a polycule. The founder of the group is Zlata, who found the "college kids" and made an adventuring group out of them.

## Plot (Full Spoilers)

In preparation for their assassination attempt, the group has talked to a few servants who regularly come to clean the castle, so they know its general function, where they need to go, and its primary threats. Their mission is to infiltrate the castle, and then kill both King Lucius Pinn and his two henchmen, the master of Transmutation, Grevonium Malfeasance, and the master of Alchemy, Emma Potts.

The adventure starts at dusk, with the Slutty Six standing outside the castle walls of the Ember Keep, which are patrolled by five guards. Zlata tinkers around with a wine cork to create a little device, which Blaise throws a bit away from them to distract the guards, supported by Blessie and Kolanay. Then, they scale the wall: Kolanay climbs up, Zlata uses a flight elixir, Blaise uses Misty Step, and the other three race each other climbing up the rope Kolanay let down for them, with Blessie and Scruff winning but Damir exceeding expectations nonetheless. On the other side of the wall, they descend in a similar fashion, and then start investigating the castle grounds.

Kolanay recognises a trap in front of a hedge that is shaped like a dragon: there is a pressure plate before it, and a pipe inside the hedge. As they inform the others about it, Scruff decides to activate the pressure plate, since he is immune to fire damage, but this does alert the five guards and a sixth one to their presence, and they start fighting. Damir kills two of the guards, Blaise one, and Blessie three.

While Blaise cheers them all up and calls on them to bring back the hype to Hyranor, Blessie first checks that there are no more traps nere the main entrance of the castle, and then casts Clairvoyance to see Lucius Pinn and his henchmen in their laboratory below the palace grounds. Then, the group decides to open the door, walk into the castle, and make their way towards the laboratory.

On their way, they meet no other guards, or anyone, for that matter. They do however find a large tapestry of Pinn lying sideways in his full golden plate armour, which he always wears, and decide to cut that tapestry into six capes for them, so that the original picture is visible when they all stand next to each other. Zlata, who implies that she might have slept with Pinn before, takes the part depicting his crotch area and makes a small penis appear there.

They find a massive stone door which they know to lead to the only staircase down into the laboratory, and Damir uses Knock to open the locking mechanism, which is placed on the outside of the door. The stairs are about 180 feet long, and as they are halfway down them, Kolanay and Blessie trigger a pressure plate that closes the stone door behind them, locks it again, and then makes pipes emerge from the walls, from which a faint gas emerges. Quickly, they run down the steps to the stone door at the bottom, and again, Damir disables the lock. As it takes them some time to actually open the heavy door, Kolanay and Damir use Dimension Door to get into the laboratory and out of the poison gas, and there, they are met with Lucius Pinn, Emma, and Grevonium. Finally, Blessie and Scruff get the door to open, and everyone becomes part of the fight.

Kolanay gets the killing blow on Grevonium, Blessie gets to kill Emma. The armour of Lucius Pinn gets so badly damaged that it falls off, it reveals a scrawny individual with purple flesh and ten different stalks with eyes looking around. As he drops below a quarter of his hit points, Pinn sends a different ray towards each of the party members: Scruff succeeds on their Constitution save and takes half damage, Blessie fails her Strength save and is moved away and restrained, Zlata fails her Wisdom save and falls asleep, Blaise fails his Dexterity save, is restrained and feels himself starting to turn to stone, Kolanay fails his Dexterity save and takes some damage, and Damir fails his Dexterity save and takes enough damage to get reduced to zero. Since Damir was hit by the Death Ray, he not only falls unconscious, but actually dies. Blaise gets the killing blow on Pinn with his flaming sword, and as he falls down, three bolts of energy shoot out of him, creating three soul shards: one goes into his sword, one goes into the eye of a beholder that is sitting in a glass container in the laboratory, and one goes into Damir Mortyss.

With the fight over and King Pinn slain, Blessie casts Revivify on Damir, and the party comes together to heal him. Coming back to consciousness, Damir can hear the voice of Pinn in his head saying "You cannot get rid of me now! I'm here with you forever!", but doesn't tell his friends about it. Zlata sprays one of her elixirs like a champagne bottle, celebrating their success, and after Damir convinces them not to eat it, they all carry the eye of the beholder to the Arcane Academy for investigation.

The death of the Tyrant King Lucius Pinn is followed by a period of political turmoil, until Maevir Eirik becomes the new Queen of Hyranor, starting the Age of Eirik.

## Items

* **Eye of a beholder** - a very big eye in a glass container surrounded by a metal frame with encarved runes that keep it from rotting away. It does not seem to be doing anything, but there is beauty inside it. The eye becomes a soul shard as Pinn dies.
* **Flaming Greatsword** - greatsword of Blaise Stoker, which, when engulfed in flames, sheds light and deals fire damage.
* **Sword of Lucius Pinn** - a curved sword that becomes a soul shard as Pinn dies.
* **Teeth of Dahlver-Nar** - both Kolanay and Scruff each have one of them, which they took from their parents and each carry implanted in their mouth. Scruff's tooth is "Incendax's Tooth", nerfed by Owen so that it only deals 18d6 of damage instead of 26d6, Kolanay's is "The Disappearances of Half Hollow". Official item from "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything".

## Trivia

* The name for the oneshot was suggested by a fan on the Patreon Discord, since Haley and Gus had a bit of trouble coming up with something.

## Fan Additions

* Mood board of the Slutty Six by Reed: https://www.pinterest.com/lumcsandnox/the-slutty-six/?invite\_code=73956f707d144bbcb8a5f10da448335a&sender=694469342447821821