Season 3: Session 4: Festival Day Report
General Summary
Date: The Month of Demons 28th, 997 AC. (Sunday)
Having gone out after Righteousness, the party missed the ending of the Earth festival, and most of the Erif festival.
It is currently the last day of the Erif festival and followers are collecting firewood for the ending ceremony bonfire.
The Little Town farmer's market it tomorrow and the town in buzzing. About 37 adventurers are currently in town and many will not go into the mountain range tomorrow.
Cecil is in hiding while the Erif festival is ongoing. He sends out Thia to get him a rice pack.
Grandad has been training his new puppy, Doby. Things have been going a bit slow, she barks and is skittish but has only bit him. Thia pays them a visit and warns Grandad to be careful around Kobble with Doby. She heard that he once hurt his pet.
Before leaving his home for the day, Kobble recieves a burning note. He then goes into town to snoop. He looks around town, sees nothing of interest. Goes to the Erif festival, hears nothing of interest. Goes to the inn, breaks and enters a few times by walking through walls (to the spooking of 2 guests), sees and hears nothing of interest. Finally, he chats with Poppy to see if she's seen a dark blue skinned drow. She hasn't - yet.
After snooping, Kobble meets with Thia to bake bread.
The following day, the Farmer's Market is in full swing. There are 8 booths for the event:
1. Arts and Crafts - oragami and paper painting - most unique design recieved 5 gp. Nicoletta won after creating a multicolored butterfly.
2. Discounted Goods - Lightwriters offering 50% off all goods.
3. Armory - Missy displaying her goods - at full price.
4. Potion Taste Testing - Ellion offers a sparkling golden liquid, or a black liquid. Grandad drinks the golden and gets 10 temporary hit points. Kobble and Thia drink the black liquid and gain a point of inspiration. Cecil, being difficult, wants a third option. Ellion produces a red potion that he drinks. Effect unknown.
5. Food and Drink - free refreshments.
6. Trader's Library - Bring a book, take a book.
7. Raffle Stand - Raffle tickets 1gp a piece to enter to win a Lucky Ring. Each party member bought some - Cecil bought the most, and it worked out. He won the lucky ring.
8. Puzzle Stand - A dark blue drow named Ellisar, offers people the chance to win 1000s of platinum if they are able to get 2 out of 3 puzzles correct.
Each party member goes to do the puzzles, Thia and Cecil together, Kobble alone, and Grandad alone.
Puzzles:
1. 5 cups with different colored liquids: yellow, blue, red, black, and clear. Drink the green liquid. All party members mix the blue and yellow to create green, and drink it. All gain 5 temporary hit points.
2. A riddle! All four (with answers listed all answered correctly.
a. "What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and an open mouth that never eats?" - A RIVER
b. "My life can be measured in hours, I only serve to be devoured. Slim, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?" - A CANDLE
c. "If you drop me, I’m sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I’ll always smile back. What am I?" - A MIRROR
d. "What goes through a door but never goes in or comes out?" - A KEYHOLE
3. A simple box with green and blue four-sided shapes on it. Open the box without touching the blue and green squares. Cecil sees that the shapes are rectangles, and picks up the box to open it. Kobble uses unseen servant to open it for him. And grandad declines doing the 3rd puzzle.
With success from each member, Ellisar offers each of them a paper, telling them to return to the town square for another puzzle on the 6th day in the Month of Intuition. He says the chances to win 1000s in platinum increases by succeeding this next puzzle.
Kobble tries to learn more about Ellisar during the puzzles. He finds out that he comes from Qwiv and he is in Little Town to share his puzzles and give opprotunities to gain coin.
Kobble tries numerous times to look into Ellisar's bag. He gets caught the last time and learns nothing.
Kobble goes off only to be found by Mayor Annie informing him it is time to perform on stage. He had signed up for the 2pm slot a month ago (totally didn't forget either or anything).
With the assistance of Thia, and wild magic, Kobble turns red and a red dragon illusion pops out and flies around the crowd. He performs some smaller magic before quickly running off the stage.
With the festivities over, the party regroups the following day to take on a new quest.
On the way to the town square, Kobble sees Ellisar walking with Annie towards the Abandoned Mansion. He listens in and hears parts of the conversation which lead him to believe that Ellisar will be renting the space for about a week.
The party regroups and decides to do the Kobold Clear Out quest listed by Sir Nightwind.
After speaking with Sir Nightwind, the party heads into the mountain range and goes South towards the caves that Sir Nightwind claims will be used for temproary adventurer housing.
The party is faced with dozens of caves in the side of the mountain. Kobble uses a Draconic cry and hears it echo farther into one of the caves. It is blocked with brush not growing from the ground.
Walking in they are met with torch light and follow the path till there is a hatch. Kobble opens it and hot air bursts out. Going in the party finds a staircase.
Kobble steps on a trap and the staircase falls from under them. Kobble and Thia slide down it, Grandad and Cecil are able to jump up and support themselves.
Grandad starts to scoot his way down the stairs, but Cecil wants to shield surf and knocks Grandad down, who then falls where Kobble and Thia went.
Cecil is able to jump off his shield and reach a platform. With no weight on the stairs, they refold out, blocking the way to where the rest of the party is.
Cecil finds 2 doors, one is quiet, one has a mechanical sound behind it. He knocks on the quiet one and is met with a skeptical kobold. The kobold lets him in to talk and brings him to the town.
The rest of the party crawls through hot metal vents till they meet a chute going straight up and down. Grandad climbs, then Thia levitates pushing him up, and Kobble takes up the rear. They crawl out a hatch and see Cecil coming in from the other was with a kobold.
The party regroups and chat with the kobold Priestess about Sir Nightwind. She lets them know that he wants their god, their dragon, Yongrav. Who was the dragon captured by Erif to ravage the world during the Great Heavely War. He was trapped here for his crimes.
The Priestess has someone throw meat down the chute to prove to them the dragon is real. A roar rings out and fire bursts out of the chute.
Thia negotiates a nonagression pact and the Priestess "signs" it.
The party leaves and returns to Little Town to implicate Sir Nightwind for his crimes.
Thia "befriends" him and Cecil casts zone of truth while Grandad and Kobble bring out Sheriff Marcus to hear the confession. Sir Nightwind goes on about how the kobolds will have to be killed if they won't get out of his way to the dragon.
Sheriff Marcus takes Sir Nightwind away. Thia then ransaks his room, taking his journal, and returning a number of dragon books to Mary Woo.
After the adventure of the day, Thia unwinds by drinking some potions. She is invisible for the next 4 days, and for the next 2 hours believes she is famous and asks anyone "do you know who I am?" if they don't regard her. An invisible, famous Thia is very frustrated at being ignored by everyone.
Kobble also indulges in a potion and cannot see color for the next 14 days.
Cecil goes to the lake and takes out a ring given to him by Righteousness. He throws it into the water and it disappears, then it reappears in his coin purse. Next he drops in the bottle of lavendar perfume that Mayor Willow gave him. This one disppears in the water, and does not reappear. The sacrifice has been accepted by Water.
TO BE CONTINUED...
