Eberron:Adventure/2019-08-30

• Barkeep thanks us for clearing out the thugs
  • Thy were threatening him!
  • Mondo has lots of teeth!?
    • NO! Everyone knows Big Mondo
    • THE MURDERER!
      • Yek the Grin
      • Hired Thug!
      • Can’t say why he was hired
    • Knows Yek’s address
      • In Fallen, in Lower Dura
      • Gives it to us
      • Warns us about the area being bad
• Vinster pestidigitates some of the blood covering the bar away
• Robert freaking the fuck out
  • Barman offers him more beer
  • Peacock makes some dove noises to try to calm him down
• We decide the resturant is our best lead, we go there
• Halfling pickpockets Robert Normalman
  • Jon notices & shouts at the halfling, charges
  • She taunts Jon
  • He catches up
  • Rest of the party doesn’t know wtf, follows along confused
• Jon in an alley w/ 6 other people
  • Halfling says they saw our fight. Compliments us!
  • Circle drawn w/ chalk, 2 people in it, fist fighting
  • Beating crap out of each other
  • Other people cheering!
  • Will give Normalman’s stuff back if Jon can beat one person in a fight
  • Party catches up
  • They’re the Kalestaine Klash!
  • Peacock tries to talk to them in Thieves Cant, doesn’t seem to help
    • Sees a goblin w/ no arms
    • Gnome looks frail
  • Peacock points at goblin and squacks
  • Deux evaluates their willpower, thinks gnome is weakest of will
• Deux tries to make friends with Wizdil the gnome
  • “I am a toilet. I see you have to wizz.”
  • Wants money to be pee’d in
  • Does flush-hypnosis ……………..
  • Wizdel is like wtf and walks away
  • IS FOLLOWED.
• Jon asks for our stuff back & says we’re up against a time limit
  • Halfling is like naw
  • But they have games!
  • Liar’s Dice, Arm Wrestling, Two Truths and a Lie
  • Duex is interested.
    • “I have played these games. Men have lost their penises.”
    • “I will swallow your dice.”
    • Flexes on halfling by flushing random piece of trash
• Dwarf gets thrown out of the ring & KO’d
  • Butch was the dorf
• Looks like a fight might break out
  • Vinster is like “ughhh no I’ll play dice”
• Liar’s Dice
  • Iron tankard w/ three dice
  • Shake dice in the cup
  • Turn the cup over, keep it covered
  • Lift cup, see numbers
  • Make a claim about each dice, trying to lie
  • Guess whether lying or not about the die
  • Whoever guesses correctly wins
• Vinster loses, doesn’t give a shit
  • Halfling gives back our stuff though
  • Vinster is like “oh that’s what happened”
  • Robert is shocked by the sudden appearance of his stuff!
• Took an hour
• Find un-named resturant!
  • Advertised as “Food from the Talenta Plains”
  • We roll in and get a table for 6
  • Pretty Nice looking resturant
  • Waitress goes in back…
• Short halfling w/ intimidating presence comes out.
  • “Yous the ones I’ve been hearing about!”
  • Gotta respect the Boromar, they run this district
  • Intimidates Normalman into eating
    • Peacock checks food for poison, tells Normalman it is OK
  • Deux flushes some food
  • Offers to get us out of Sharn before pinning the murders on us
    • Vinster suggests using the dead thugs as scapegoats
    • No, nobody fucks with Boromar.
    • Also does not want the Boromar implicated in killing of the courier
  • Says they hired Yek, didn’t tell him to kill any couriers
    • Confirms Yek’s address
    • Tells us we can go, keep asking questions
      • But watch your back…
• Kavill says wasn’t helpful
  • Did learn the Boromar didn’t hire him to kill the courrier
  • Kavill says could have been lying, shrug
  • We did get Yek’s address confirmed tho
• On the way to Lower Dura, we are stopped by three halflings
  • Stopped in a hostile manner
  • Offers 100g each if we wait one more day before asking further questions
  • “Accidents” will happen if we don’t take the fall
    • Like…Normalman’s house could burn down…in a grease fire from haggis!
  • Vinster says no, Big Mondo can find somebody else to pin his murder on.
  • The thugs leave
• Make it to Fallen in Lower Dura
  • It’s a shithole.
  • Lots of stuff destroyed by a tower collapsing awhile ago
  • We head for the address, v.tiny apartment, 10 square feet
  • Smells of rats & rotten food
  • Dirty rags in the corner, forming a bed
  • Broken dresser
• Jon offers to go inside to search Yek the Grin’s home
  • TRIPS A WIRE.
  • Blade comes swinging at him
  • Struck for 6 points of damage (owwwww), is unaffected by the poison
  • Jon and Deux try to trigger any more traps
    • Jon pokes a rotten floorboard w/ his spear
    • Peacock investigates the room (roll of 2)
  • To Normalman, it looks like the apt was packed up quickly
    • Finds the remains of a lightning rail ticket in the firepit
    • Bound for Wroat
    • Rail leaves from Terminus Station today in three hours
• Kavill says station is 2h away, we could get there
  • Vek’s name is familiar to him, not sure what he would be wanted for though
  • Vinster says we can talk to him, Peacock suggests an ambush
    • Vinster says that is uncouth
  • Kavill wants to take a rest, we tell him to rest at Terminus
• We arrive @ Terminus Terminal 2
  • House Orien symbol in the floor
  • 2 lockers in the north
  • Walls covered in maps showing rail lines
  • Concourse is v.busy, dozen+ travellers hanging around
  • School children waiting around
  • Peacock on boarding platform, workers keeping an eye on things to stop people stealing the luggage
  • Ticket booth
  • Convenience stands w/ small foods, copies of Sharn Inquisitive & Khornberg Chronicles
• Dexus asks a guard where the bathroom is
  • Goes there
  • Jealous of the porclain, breaks stuff
• Vinster asks porter if seen Vek
  • Yes, bought a ticket & went to the bar
  • Finds Peacock & lets him know
• Vinster hears a shattering noise
  • In bathroom
  • Deuxlette is smashing toilets and fixtures
  • Vinster lets Deux know we found Vek, Deux comes with
  • Peacock finds Robert
• We walk into the bar.
  • Bartender, one patron
  • Bestial patron! A shifter.
  • His teeth are all kinds of jacked up.
  • “Watch who you sitting next to”
  • Vinster says he’s sitting next to Vek the Grin
  • Surprised, accuses me of being a Boromar, shows dragonmark
  • “THIS MUST BE A TRICK” & reaches for sword
  • Rest of group piles in, spooks him
  • ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.
  • Robert blasts him in the face with a fireball.
  • Vek the Grin surrenders.
• Vek is kinda racist against halflings.
  • Vinster gets a dry Mar’Tain’i from the bartender.
    • Wealthiest family in sharn are the Tains
    • This drink is named for them
• Protect Vek from the Boromar & he will tell us
  • Told to ROB courrier by the Boromar, not kill him, did that for fun
  • Didn’t read message, left it at dead drop
  • Highest levels of the Boromar clan are in on this
  • Tells us where dead drop was (but message deffo picked up)
• Kavill takes him away.
  • Tells us to stick around to fill out a report
• Imos shows up
  • Is a dick
  • Vinster tells him Vek confessed before Guardsman Kaville
  • “GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.”
  • Rips an insignia w/ a paw off Vek, tosses to Jon
  • Kavill goes w/ them
• “What now?”
  • Should report to House Oriens to fufill our end of the bargain
  • Jon inspects the insignia that Imos gave us
    • Is a magic item!
    • Not sure what it is though
    • Doesn’t think it’s a group insignia or anything, just a cool thing
    • It is a Broach, for clasping a cloak
• Robert goes home
• Everyone else goes to Shala d’Orien @ House Orien Azure Courrier Station
  • 25g a head reward for the info!
• LEVEL UP.