Smugglers of magic 9: A pub's new management

General Summary

session picks up after 20 days of downtime. The party had been put in charge of getting the pub up and running again, there were only a couple things left to do for that. First the party needed to decide on a name. After talking and discussing for a while the party decided on the name the hollow doves
After that the party needed to decide who would actually run this place once it was open. A kid named Mildred comes up and says he should own the inn because it used to be his dads. The party does take pity on the kid because his parents died during the witchhunter attacks. Party doesn't let him own but they let him run the place, though party members will be helping out.
After allowing Mildred to run the place the next order of business is to find some good quality product for the pub, the pub already has access to low quality ale to buy in the city but nothing special or particularly high quality. Mildred takes the party to a farm just outside the city where Mildred's dad used to get ale. There the party talks with somebody who runs the brewery and buys a bunch of barrels of both a herbal ale and a wine that are both produced at the farm.
The party also talk with Lyxsas and Ezaeur, during which the party gets to somewhat know both of those characters a bit. Ezaeur tries to hit on Fièn for a bit to no sucess. During this scene Rhiannon also reveals she is pregnant because of which Lyxsas almost chokes on his drink.
On the next day the tavern opens up and at the start of the evening some locals slowly show up again. The party has fun at the inn for a bit while Mildred runs the place. Later on the evening however, members of The Stolen come into the pub to make trouble. A half-elf woman from the Stolen walks up to Mildred and says he should just own the inn and then get a agreement with the stolen just like his dad had. This very quickly turns into a fight between the party and the stolen. The stolen did however guide all the customers out first.
During the fight most of the thugs don't really pose a threat, the only threat is the half-elf who some party members recognized as Aelfwyn, a infamous member of the stolen. Ealfwyn turns out to have draconic heritage giving her powerfull ice magic as well as draconic features like scales. Though there is some trouble and the pub comes covered in ice crystals the party still manages to win. Ealfwyn just manages to escape becayse of her sprouting draconic wings. Though most of the thugs are dead (some of them even by friendly fire from Ealfwyn) there is 1 thug the party captured alive a gnome thug.
Soon after the fight Orlon comes rushing in angry. He orderes people to get information from the captured thug for the promise of freedom and then once they're done to send the gnome's head to the stolen Orlon also yells as Mildred to clean up the mess of blood and ice in the inn.
session ended there on the 30th in the evening.
After that there are 15 days of downtime during which some more things are done.

Report Date

02 Apr 2023