The Life and Times of a Dead Man - Episode 4 - The Chase!

Ceseli is choosing not to make any public appearances. Futhermore, she has decided to remain living in this house. She does not wish to make any public appearances. Zita carefully approaches her about upcoming bills and still doesn’t hit on her. Ceseli knows nothing about the house’s finances. While Zita assist with the dishes, Barnsworth indicates that he doesn’t know anything either. Zita asks Audrey Rose if she knows where the noble houses bank; Audrey Rose assumes they have a bank account with House Kundarak. She sends a summons to the local branch of Kundarak requesting a representative to come visit Ceseli to keep it “private”.

Ceseli knows that the group is owed money; she gives Zita a wooden shield with the family crest carved onto it. The shield once belonged to her father (A masterwork densewood buckler worth 330 gold). An argument breaks out between Zita and Sabrina about where to live in the meantime where Sabrina wants to leave and Zita is trying to encourage long-term patronage.

Zita receives a 1000 gold reward from House Phiarlan for saving Vivi Knotts. Cole ir’Chartsheim’s family provides another 1000 gold reward for saving him. Furthermore, House Cannith in conjunction with the manufacturer’s guild. provides 800 gold pieces in credit for Cole’s rescue as well. The City of Sharn gives a 1500 gold reward for capturing the Sharn Slicer. The party members each receive 638 gold. Sabrina is sizing up the fine silver and the quality of the wooden furniture as she is concerned about being paid by the ir'Dromdal estate. She catalogs items in the house that are worth selling.

Shopping occurs.

A few days later - the group is in the rain participating in a funeral procession. The corpse of the Sharn Slicer is going to be paraded through the neighborhood to prove that he’s dead. The group is given a place of honor in the procession. They are standing outside the exit of Lattice Ave. They are thanked and congratulated by numerous strangers. Zita uses the opportunity to network.

Audrey Rose swears she heard the carriage stop, but it hasn’t started up again. She turns and points this out to Zita. The group decides to go investigate and find the carriage is overturned. They discover a group of figures carrying a sack that suspiciously looks like it has the halfling in it. They run off and the party gives chase.

Bosley sprints after the scoundrels. He comes across a road closure and becomes entangled in it. Dol and Sabrina tumble ahead. Hendra flips past the road closure and sprints full speed ahead. Zita trips over Bosley and falls on top of him. Audrey Rose gracefully jumps the hurdle and sprints behind Hendra.

Two of the scoundrels stop to slow the party while the rest continue. One of them pulls out a sword and attacks Audrey Rose; the other threatens Hendra but misses.

Meanwhile, Dol comes across a set of stairs and nimbly makes his way across the outer rail. Sabrina shows up and casts Hideous Laughter on one of the scoundrels while Hendra attacks the other. Tweetie-Bear shows up and slaughters the bad guy. Sabrina and Zita fly down the stairs, leap the balcony, and enter the house.

Hendra runs into the house and trips over her own feet. Audrey Rose follows Hendra and recognizes the family that lives there. She waves hello as she sprints by, closely on the heels of the bad guys. Dol and Tweetie-Bear fly by as well.

Meanwhile, Sabrina continues casting Hideous Laughter. Audrey Rose throws a bomb into the cluster of bad guys. It bounces off of one and splashes damage onto the others. Tweetie-Bear shows up and starts biting the bad guys. Dol attempts to trip the bad guy and instead is hit by a sword.

For some reason Hendra is still yelling at the owners of the house. Zita shows up to the main group and stabs some of the bad guys. Audrey Rose attempts to throw a bomb into the cluster of bad guys but misses them. The bomb bounces and does splash damage to the bad guys and patrol men alike.

Bosley shows up and is stopped by the guards. They demand to know why he is chasing the others. As they argue Sabrina runs past them chasing the body snatchers. Suddenly a vegetable cart stops their progress. Dol and Tweetie-Bear show up at the cabbage cart. Tweetie gets his claw stuck in a head of cabbage, and Dol greases the ground by the cart.

Hendra continues screaming at the family to let her go. The man carrying the halfling drops the sack and pulls out a battle axe. “That’s enough,” he growls. He swings at Zita and cracks his axe into her armor. The other body snatcher attempts to slash her with his sword but also misses. Tweetie-Bear charges into the battle axe guy and bites his head. Sabrina follows up with her sword cane and intense stare and takes out the other guy. Zita stabs him with her dagger, and Audrey Rose lobs a magenta bomb into the face of the bad guy throwing him back. Sabrina starts searching through the bodies of the people at her feet. She pockets the vials, thieves’ tools, and 25 gold in assorted change. She gets a master work great axe, four javelin, a masterwork breast plate, a couple of vials, a bag of change 124 g, and a gold necklace. There is a note with a map on the body for Sawfish Brothers. The Anderhauf brothers own the Sawfish Brothers.

The guard show up. Audrey Rose explains the situation, but when they go to remove the halfling from the bag they find a child size mannequin. (The party now has a child size dummy.) Audrey Rose identifies two vials of acid, and Sabrina recognizes a cure light wound potion, a potion of bull strength, and a potion of cure moderate wounds. (Each gets 24 gold.)

Zita examines the mannequin. Sabrina leads the group to the Sawfish Brothers.

1. Viktor Saint-Demain is a private inquisitive behind the capture of quite a few criminals. 
1. He’s highly regarded by the watch.
2. It is believed that that criminal in question was brought in by the Heroes of the Star.
2. Bosley does not, in fact, have a bone through his nose.