Episode 136

This is Episode 136 of Dice, Camera, Action.

Summary

Episode 136 - You Only Sting Once

The Party

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue

(Nathan) Paultin - Human Bard

(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander

This show is from PAX East 2019. Kate Welch is the DM of this session.

Invitation to a Funeral

It is around mid-day at the Waffle House and the mail has arrived. Strix has a letter. According to it, Rosie Beestinger has died and the funeral is today. It is from Anjolio Beestinger. He asks the group to avenge her death. It lists the prime suspects:

• Ms. Pheasant
• Rear Admiral Ketchup
• Instructor Indigo
• Priestess Prune

Diath goes over the letter, checking for clues. There is a note that says Rosie did not want to be resurrected.

The group heads to the Singing Sword tavern. There are hundreds of mourners, and they all seem to be sincerely saddened. Inside, the group hears a guy named Instructor Indigo bragging that he can out-drink anyone. Paultin sighs. Paultin loses the first round, but wins the second. Indigo promises to share a secret with him once this is done. Paultin wins the third round, and he has gained a new best friend. Indigo points out a secret door in the tavern that leads to Indigo's secret lair.

Indigo says that Rosie booked passage on Rear Admiral Ketchup's vessel the day before she died.

The heroes head to the temple of Selune to talk with Priestess Prune. She has a very similar accent as Evelyn's. She asks the group to pray to Selune, preferably in the nude. Evelyn and Prune debate which deity is more important. They end up having a pray-off. Prune wins the pray-off by a single point. Evelyn loses the second round as well. On the third round, Paultin gives Evelyn bardic inspiration. Anna rolls a natural 20 and gets a total of 31. She follows up by trying to convert Prune and actually rolls another natural 20.

Prune tells Evelyn that Rosie was going to pray to Selune, but she was waylaid before she got to the temple. Rosie wasn't pious, so it's a bit unclear why she was going to the temple.

The heroes leave the temple. A tall woman, Ms. Pheasant, in the crowd of mourners spots Strix and approaches her. Pheasant tells Strix that she is beautiful. Pheasant knows about the swarm of rats and loves her pies. Pheasant wants to have a swarm of rat-off. If Pheasant wins, Strix has to go get a drink with her. Strix becomes 9 rats. Pheasant becomes 10 rats. Strix uses an ability to enhance her results and gain 2 more, winning the first round. Paultin counterspells the other attempts, ensuring that Strix wins.

Pheasant claims that Indigo said that the followers of Selune were werewolves. Pheasant runs a business. She sells spell scrolls. She has a scroll of polymorph for 1,000 gp.

Ms. Pheasant leaves. Diath tries to put all of the stories together. Strix is still dwelling on Ms. Pheasant.

The Night Parade

Sister Narae is not there. She is running through the streets of Waterdeep. It is the middle of the night. Narae runs into a night parade. Some members of the parade are on stilts, others are riding white oxes. There are torch jugglers and scantily-clad people holding leashes attached to camels. Crowds are gathered along the sides of the road. Sister Narae is able to carefully pass through and by. All of Waterdeep's nightlife is here, dressed well and having a fine time. The City Watch is here in force making sure that everything goes smoothly. Sister Narae thinks this is too convenient. Somebody planned this.

Sister Narae spots a float of a dragon that can breathe flame, and a big flumph balloon. She asks someone about the parade, and learns that the parade was unplanned. This is the Sea Maiden's Faire, a sea-faring carniva

End of Session.