The female halfling knocks back a potion. The male halfling pulls out a scroll and attempts to cast from it, but instead, it blows up in his face. Zita argues, “I don’t understand. What did my brother do to deserve a beating? And why are you taking it out on my friends?” The halflings ignore her and don’t seem to care.
Audrey Rose takes a mutagen and becomes more graceful and air elemental-like. The halfling shoots a crossbow bolt at Hendra who nimbly moves out of the way. Two thugs draw short swords and close in on Hendra while the other two move in on Audrey Rose. The male halfling pulls out another scroll and sends a fan of fire toward Hendra and Zita who dodge out of the way. Zita flanks one of the thugs and double daggers him in his kidneys. Hendra attacks the thug with her longsword. Audrey Rose finishes him off with the splash damage from her bomb.
The halfling tumbles and attacks Hendra who rolls out of the way. Both thugs miss. The halfling pulls out a scroll and sends a magic missile at Audrey Rose. Zita double-daggers the female halfling, and Hendra follows up with a thrust of her sword. She then turns around and stabs the thug behind her, dropping him. Audrey Rose throws a bomb at the spellcasting halfling burning his eyebrows.
The male halfling throws a bottle at Hendra who takes fire damage. Hendra is on fire! Sabrina and the thug exchange blows; Sabrina bests him. Zita tumbles nimbly behind the female halfling and does devastating damage. The halfling is bleeding profusely but is still up. Audrey Rose throws a bomb at the male halfling knocking him out.
The female halfling, Bellis the Brave, drops her short sword and puts her hands up in the air, surrendering. Sabrina has her drop all her items, and Hendra makes her disrobe. Zita demands to know what all this was about. According to the female halfling, Cord showed up a couple of days ago with his friends, beat them up, and stole all her gold. Cord had a dozen small monsters with three arms and two mouths. Cord said he had to find Nori and go back. Bellis tells them that Cord is still at the Little Bowl of Boldrei.
Bellis provides directions to the Little Bowl of Buldrey which is a floating building. The party reached the dock to the building; it was damaged and badly washed out at the end. The building is in a severe state of disrepair. The damage is likely a remnant of the tsunami that hit last year. There is a large piece of plywood on the dock. It’s a sign for the Little Bowl of Buldrey with the same symbol that the halfling wore. Hendra opens the door and a chime loudly rings. The inside of the building is as dilapidated as the outside. The furniture is burnt and in disrepair. Laying on the ground is a teenage boy. Standing next to him is a green, lumpy creature with multiple arms and two mouths. It looks like an icky goblin. Near the boy is a trapdoor. Hendra hears something above her. She looks up and finds a dozen creatures hanging in the rafters. Zita asks to see Cord. The creature near Cord summons our heroes into the room. Sabrina approaches the creature and Cord. She notices something glowing under his shirt.
Sabrina asks about the glow. The creature answers, “The mark of Messerie. Daelkyr.” Sabrina walks past him and slashes open Cord’s shirt. There appears to be a tattoo on him; it takes up most of his shoulder, arm, and a portion of his neck. It glows blue and red. Cord is asking for Nori. He insists that he has to go back to save Nori. Sabrina pretends to be Nori, and Zita acts as though she’s Warem. Sabrina tries to get Cord to House Jarasco. Cord insists that no one can see him because they would want to hurt him. “You know about these things. We had the same history tutor.” The creatures are concerned that Sabrina wants to take Cord. Thr creatures exclaim, “Messerie tells us what Daelkyr wants us to do.” They all start drawing their weapons.
Audrey Rose drinks a Shield potion; Zita gets into a defensive stance, and Hendra draws her longsword and closes in. The creature blocks Hendra’s blow with its shield. The creatures in the rafters pepper our heroes with crossbow bolts, injuring them all. Sabrina casts Tasha’s Hideous Laughter causing one to fall over in bouts of laughter. Audrey Rose throws a bomb into the mix and Zita knicks one on the cheek. Three creatures come charging at Audrey Rose, but their attacks are ineffective against her shield. Two close in on Hendra but are equally ineffective. The two that close in on Sabrina stab her. Sabrina skewers one through the mouth. Cord scurries into the corner. He appears frightened.
Audrey Rose throws a bomb into a cluster of three creatures. Two of them fly back and are destroyed. Zita tumbles behind the remaining one and attempts to strike at it. Hendra slashes at the prone figure laughing on the floor. Sabrina slices across the face of the main creature. It seems pissed.
Cord is in the corner mumbling to himself. Sabrina notices that his tattoo is glowing brighter and starting to pulse.
Audrey Rose continues throwing bombs. Suddenly, the trap door blows up and a ghastly figure emerges; it has multiple goblin faces and tentacles. Two of its giant mouths attempt to bite Hendra, and it attempts to grapple her. Prone Hendra attacks the giggling goblin.
The creatures attempt to attack but are ineffective. One of the creatures attempts to stab Sabrina but appears as though he attacked the big, ghastly creature. Audrey Rose throws a bomb and destroys two more creatures. Zita does a graceful tumble and then drinks a healing potion. Sabrina does her nifty trick again, killing a creature, and then falls unconscious. Hendra stands up and stabs at the air. Creatures ineffectively beat at Zita and Audrey Rose.
Cord looks terrified. His tattoo starts to glow and it pulses brightly forcing the group to make will saves. Audrey Rose begins to play with colors that only she sees glowing in the air. Zita and the creatures continue their fight, while the big creature focuses on Hendra. In a mad craze, Audrey Rose kills the creature fighting her.
Audrey Rose’s mind clears. She finds the big ghastly creature standing in front of her, and so she burns it with a bomb. Hendra’s head clears. She slashes at the creature; it gurgles and growls and falls over to the ground. The mark on Cord looks a lot like a dragon mark.
Sabrina and Hendra search the area. They find a box stashed behind the bar. It contains a very detailed, etched masterwork medium breastplate (350 g). They find a scroll case with a glitter dust scroll. There are assorted bottles of decent wine (26 g), and several bottles of fine olive oil (57g). There is 442 gold worth of gold, silver, etc.
Audrey Rose finds a piece of brown butcher paper in Cord’s pocket. Neatly stamped across the paper are the words Black Sugar. They take Cord to a House Jarrasco clinic. Audrey Rose goes to get Cords parents and returns with them to the clinic. It seems that Cord has developed an aberrant dragon mark. The parents are distraught but relieved that their son is alive.
Sabrina goes to sell things. Then she goes to tell the guard everything that has happened.
1500 xp and 506 gold
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