Eberron:Adventure/2019-09-13

Preparing

• Robert Normalman slept inside a pillow fort in the Golden Dragon Inn
• Dale sits and thinks
• Vinster gets dressed
• Peacock is with Remo Leeroy & the bombs
  • On the way to the villa on a wagon !
• Jon arranges for a signal w/ Vinster
  • Vinster will hold up a knife

It’s Party Time

• Peacock & Mr. Leeroy arrive and are directed to the back porch to set up
• Vinster & co roll up to the steward
  • Present invitations
  • Steward doesn’t have our names
  • But thinks the invite is super legit (and they have our names)
  • Lets us through
• Vinster gets some champagne
  • Smoozes w/ Lady Periwinkle Saddifrass
  • Dances w/ her
• Dale talks to a tribal warrior about corn
  • Warrior is here to “perform” for the guests // show of force
• Robert is hiding in the corner
  • Vinster puts some Friends on him
  • DEFINITELY CONSENTUALLY gets him to drink some champagne
  • Robert throws up in a corner after
• Vinster finds a room w/ stained glass windows
  • Stairs to the north & east
  • Musicians playing Traditional Halfling Insturments
  • Guests mostly talking business
  • Dale joins, hears some stuff about soil quality in the north
    • Bankrupting someone to claim land by salting their soil
    • Dale is horrified.
    • Dale has a date rape drug???
      • Not a fan of these people talking about salting farms.
• Vinster & Dale find a roasted meat table
  • Sit next to large halfling stuffing his face
    • Says the ham is the best
  • He grabs a slab of ham for me with his hand and slaps it down in front of me
    • It’s fucking delicious
  • Says his name is Galifar Farfersh
  • Surprised Vinster is at a Ghallanda party
  • Dale sits w/ some seedy character
    • Vegeterian plate on front of them.
    • But no corn.
    • Dale takes offense to their lack of corn consumption.
    • Steward has to intervene cuz they argue about why he isn’t eating corn
    • Dale spills his drink onto the not-eating-corn guy’s shoes
      • Gets up to fight.
      • Vinster convinces the guy to try some corn & he says it’s OK
      • As Dale walks away, the guy throws the corn at him!
      • Dale hexes the motherfucker
      • Guy feels funny & leaves
    • Dale fixes himself a plate of corn (it’s high quality corn)
• Pair of drunks hanging around the dining room
  • Start fighting
  • Vinster interferes
  • Names are Bob & Gerri
  • Someone spilled wine
    • One is upset that he spilled the wine & wasted fine wine
    • Pushes Jerry
    • Vinster gets him another drink to calm him down
      • He throws it at Jerry
      • They start fighting
  • Guard shows up and grabs Bob
  • Vinster asks Bob what he’s doing here
    • Boromar operative
    • Very important
    • Jerry Fofalli
    • Tries to get some info from him
      • “The documents”
      • Friends him, Jerri hugs him
      • Councillor has an important paper that needs to get translated
      • She’s talking to someone from House Sivis about it
      • Got it from Some Guy
        • Vinster asks if it was from Vek the Grin
        • Jerri denies it
• Remo compliments Peacock’s mustache
  • Hears someone selling hardboiled eggs!
  • Stan O’Hardigan Eggs!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Remo suggests Peacock get some eggs
  • Pete O’Boyle selling Hardigan eggs for 1c each
• Vinster hears some grunting
  • Bursts into a bathroom with two halflings fucking by a toilet
  • Bursts out
  • Dale goes in real quick to shill corn
  • They lock the door.
  • Some guest asks Dale what happened
    • Dale says a Boromar has a baby corn penis.
• Spots the outline of a HIDDEN DOOR
  • Says some shit about rare wine & babycorn penis to Dale
  • Guest near the door skitters off for some wine
• Automaton w/ a lever inside, it’s an elevator
  • When we fail to present a Boromar signet, it threatens to sound an alarm
  • Dale blasts it
  • Doesn’t kill it, sounds an alarm
  • Dale casts Pass Without Trace so we can escape
  • Hide in the meat freezer while the guards converge
  • They find nothing.
  • Fresh & great quality meat!
  • Square iron plates engraved w/ glowing blue rune
    • Magical freezer (frostbite runes)
  • Crack open the other door to the kitchen
    • Hear Big Mondo directing the chefs
• Dale goes through people’s coats in the coat closet
  • Mostly marked w/ Boromar heraldry
  • One Cannith, one Sivvis
  • We find a letter in the Sivvis pocket
    • Boromar request for Gandry d’Sivvis to assist in a “matter most delicate”
• Been here ~2h
  • 30m to fireworks “show”
• Dale starts more rumours
  • Cook didn’t wash his hands after using bathroom
  • Guests is distressed by this, leaves party.
• Vinster & Dale sneak up to 2nd floor
  • Voices in the room to the north
  • Sneak around
  • Find a room w/ creepy porcelin dolls.
    • All types
    • What the fuck
    • Cold dead eyes stare eternity into the void
    • One chair in the middle of the room.
    • Many dolls have clothing studden w/ gems and precious metals
    • Dale steals some clothing & smashes dolls
      • One comes to life and screams about THE HUNT ETERNAL
      • Roll for initiative!
      • Dale blasts it
      • Vinster stabs it
      • It’s a tough son of a bitch
      • Doll ends up accidentally impaling itself on its own spear when it falls off the shelf.
      • Vinster takes it
• Dale puts the doll clothes on Unseen Servant
  • Uses it as a distraction
  • GHOSTS!
  • Guard bumps into us, Vinster stabs him to death while he’s shouting about ghosts.
  • Has some keys on his corpse!
• Doesn’t open bedroom
  • Does open a tidy office
  • Ledgers, papers, etc
  • Dale checks for more keys
    • Key Charm (v.fancy key)
  • Villa records mostly, nothing exciting
  • Dale puts down that they need to order 200 bushels of corn & 500 lbs of baby corn
• New key ALSO doens’t open bedroom
• We find a lounge
  • Pipeweed!
  • Vinster opens the windows in this room
    • Can see Peacock setting up fireworks
    • Show begins soon!
  • Vinster signals Jon from the 2nd floor
  • Jon uses the smoker smoke (from smoking meats) as cover to sneak up to the villa
  • Climbs trellis to join us
• Jon, Dale, and Vinster try to come up with a way to get the document
  • Undressed unseen servant & gives it a note for Robert telling him to join us upstairs
  • Robert actually gets the note.
• Dale drops the guard’s corpse in front of Ilyra’s door, knocks and runs off
  • Unseen servant dressed in doll clothes goes into the study as soon as she opens the door
  • She screams, calls guards
• We run the fuck away and hide in a viewing room
  • Curio cabinets, couches, etc
  • Books, carvings, etc
  • Ferility halfling statue !
  • Talenta plains artifacts, all pretty valuable to collectors
    • We grab it
    • Jon grabs some smaller items too (8 figurines)
    • Thinks Other People would be interested in these items & they maaaaaaay attract attention
• Guards talking to Ilyra
  • They remove the body
  • Guard captain talks to her about it
  • They start sweeping the floor
• Guard captain Gerry Splinter bursts in, weapon drawn
  • Vinster calms him down by acting like he belongs here
  • He’s still suspicious, asks everyone else who they are
  • Not deceived by Jon
  • Says we all have to stay put while they search for the murderer
• Leeroy announces the show is about to begin!
  • Sir Peacock is instructed to light the firework
  • Shit. Gets. Real.
  • Dragon firework goes straight towards the villa
  • Big ass dragon lands on the roof, bursts like napalm, showers the roof.
• We smell smoke
  • Also shouts of terror
  • Everyone fleeing
  • Vinster snags a key off her as she flees
• Smoke is building up
  • We stop in the library
  • Another halfling automaton, deactivated
  • Gandry d’Sivis is like “ok hi gotta run since the building is on fire bye”
• We get into the master bedroom w/ the key Vinster lifted
  • Dale spots a button on a dresser
  • Vinster grabs a journal off her desk
  • Pile into the secret elevator
• An outbreak of panic as people flee & guards run around
  • Robert peaks out of his tent and sees everything is on fire.
  • His tent catches fire :-(
• Remo Leeroy flees w/ Peacock, laughing about the whole thing
• In the basement
  • Jon finds a hole full of (literal) shit
  • Crates w/ mundane supplies
    • Jon takes some rope
  • Jon notices a weird segment of the wall
• Locked chests in secret room, Vinster able to open w/ guard’s key ring
  • x4 Small leather armour
  • 1x Studded leather armour
  • Assortment of weapons
• Torture chamber!
  • Rack, crate w/ daggers and surgical tools, ice pick, chair has no bottom w/ bucket next to it
  • Hole in western wall, could squeeze through
  • Safe in the torture chamber too
    • Key charm opens it!
    • One single document inside & silver circlet
    • Stash of cheques, 10x precious stones
    • Vinster grabs doc, shoves the rest of the stuff into Jon’s bag
• Jon, Dale, and Vinster escape the burning villa!
  • Hole led to a gutter
  • Villa is burning to the fucking ground.
  • They head for the tavern that they met Kavill at, hoping the others join
• Peacock is paid 50g by Remo
  • “The Dask will certainly be calling on you again”
  • Morphs back to his normal changeling form and wanders off
• Normalman is watching the villa burn down w/ the rest of the guests
  • Avoids eye contact w/ people, doesn’t want to talk to anyone