Blingdenstone

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Blingdenstone Questing

Temple of Caledar Stonehand

• the partyrew starts to walk away as Oneshoe still lies impaled

  • Jim Jar helps free her but looks weak doing it

• the exhausted partyrew thinks about resting

• Cynlant messages Senny Diggermatach about lodgings within the city

  • the Foaming Mug, a tavern in the south section of residential district
  • the tavern is run by Tappy Foamstrap

• the partyrew do not converse with the guards as they return to the city’s limits

Foaming Mug 🍺

• after asking for directions, the partyrew finds their way to the tavern
• before entering, Bon finds a pile of rubish and makes himself at home

Social Butterfly 🦋

• a few patrons sit at the bar, served by a single deep gnome
• the extremely overenthusiastic bartender squeaks out

Visitors! From the Surface

• Oneshoe immediately begins to match her energy and ramble on about the surface

  • they begin to go back and forth for THREE HOURS

• Cynlant has to pull Ront away from his drink

  • waves of anger and sadness wash over Ront as Cynlant promises to fix him

• Oneshoe spots a man with a sick ass hat

  • the hat is in the shape of an exclamation point, in bright yellow leather and fabric
  • She compliments his hat, which he also does so in turn
  • at first she proposes at hat trade, but upon Yvelia suggestion she attempt to buy it
  • Oneshoe does a little dance and offers 5 gold
  • he accepts, upon which Oneshoe immediately puts it on and hands Jim Jar Droki’s displacer beast hat

• Oneshoe learns of the local rumors in the tavern

  1. A ghost has been troubling the local members, and more ghost have been appearing
  2. A crazy svirfneblin has been roaming around the city as the its being reclaimed
  3. The stoneheart enclave is closing in a solution to ogermachs bane
  4. The rock planes in the west of the city have been infested with earth elementals
  5. Division in city about wererats
  6. Merchant from Gracklstugh mentions influx of surface world coin
  7. Surface caravan met dancing myconid, they myconid said they were on the way to a wedding celebration

• a few members of the partyrew stay behind as everyone else starts tracking down the ghost

  • Bon rustles various scraps to form a nest for his Hook Horror
  • Jim Jar, Glabagool, and Joaquin play poker

Ghost Hunting 👻

• Oneshoe rambles to the partyrew as they walk towards the ghost’s last sighting

• Cynlant carries her like a metal detector

• at some point Cynlant mentions he wants to speak with Yvelia and Ally

  • a dangling Oneshoe asks if she can be involved
  • in a mean girls 💅 way, Ally says its an exclusive club which she’s not in

• the ghost hunting crew find their way to a crumbling residence

• Oneshoe steps up to the door and asks if anyone is there

  • an angry, ghostly, svirfneblin voice yells at Oneshoe to leave
  • they begin to go back and forth, with Oneshoe pleading the ghost rest eternally
  • Cynlant looks over at Yvelia and whispers “this is going to be interesting”
    • she retorts “thats why I came, for a show”
  • the ghost tires of Oneshoe’s babbling and attempts to posses her

Ain’t Scared of No Ghosts

• the ghost fails to posses Oneshoe
• suddenly Droopy feels fear begin to wash over him, but he is able to resist
• Vazouk, the ghost, starts to run away from the ghost hunting party
• the warlock consortium eldritch blasts the ghost
• Oneshoe, in her ever amicable nature, tries to parlay with the ghost
  • she first offers a stone for him to posses (which he can’t)
  • she then offers her mechanical spider for him to posses (which he can’t)
  • the Ghost grows increasingly frustrated and screams out LEAVE MY HOUSE
• combat continues, with Cynlant smiting the ghost
• both Ally and Yvelia eldritch blast in unison
  • Yvelia fully whiffs her blasts
• a Oneshoe, who has given up on the peaceful option, dissonantly whispers into the ghosts mind, about how it will soon be at rest
  • it begins to flee
• seizing the opportunity to attack Cynlant’s glowing blade slices through the ghost, causing its form to dissipate as if an ethereal smoke

Looting

• Oneshoe snoops about the domicile, finding 8 rubies
  • she pockets one for herself and hands the rest over to Yvelia
• the ghost hunting party dissolves, except for Oneshoe, Yvelia, and Ally
  • they make their way to the temple

Ruby in the Rough Temple

• Oneshoe asks the burrow keeper about the presence of illithid colonies
  • a long standing colony far to the east
  • minor colonies throughout the greater reason
• they thank them and make their way back to the tavern

End of the Day

• the partyrew socializes at the tavern
  • Oneshoe is flirting with the bartender
  • Ront is drinking
  • Jim Jar, Glabagool, and Joaquin are playing poker

Warlock Consortium

• Cynlant asks the not twins (Yvelia and Ally) about the nature of their patron Mr. F
• they attempt to be vague, but allude to the fact that he is a fiend heavily interested in gold
• since they don’t want to break their NDA relating to his nature, Yvelia shows him the iconography on the vault
• Cynlant begins to piece things together with his planar knowledge
  • he expresses being confused about not knowing his patron
• Yvelia gestures to the vault and mentions Mr. F is always accepting new warlocks

Fuck Oneshoe I guess

• after their conversation, Cynlant changes his appearance to that of a Goliath
  • he stomps out from a room and punches Oneshoe square in her face
  • she is seriously hurt, coughing up blood
  • in retaliation Oneshoe puts the Goliath shaped Cynlant into a floating bubble
  • he immediately breaks free
  • in the distance the not twins are stare in awe, with Kyem gargling out “he really got her”
• Oneshoe immediately goes back to flirting with the bartender, blood beginning to pool on the bar top

End of Night Shenanigans

• Bon begs out on the street for food
  • passerby’s look confused, seeing his eggs and hearing his copious amounts of coin
• the Boyscouts retire to their chamber
  • Droopy and Cynlant begin to arm wrestle, in an attempt to break Cynlant’s curse
    • it fails
• the not twins walk over to Oneshoe at the bar
  • Yvelia mentions the deck of minor boons and banes before attempting to wingwoman for Oneshoe
  • despite her best efforts, Oneshoe is rejected by Tappy Foamstrap
    • she suggests they talk a different night, when she’s less bloody and bruised

The Hatching 🥚🥚

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• the boyscouts start their morning exercises
• outside of the tavern Bon wakes up to wrestling eggs and a single barrel stalk in his donation mug
• he takes the eggs to a secluded place
  • the poke and start to peak their way through their shells
  • the two hook horrors imprint on Bon, and begin to beg to be fed
• ecstatic, he brings them inside under his cloak
  • as he sees the partyrew he thwips his cloak open, showing his cod piece and two infant hook horrors
  • the tavern patrons look disgusted, then confused, then even more disgusted

It’s gnome town baby

Oneshoe

The Bath

• after their morning exercise the boyscouts enjoy a hot bath
• Bon dips his scraggly body into the bath
  • with some suggesting his children join him
  • a thick green and black cloud sloughs off of them

Blingdenstone Council

• Cynlant gathers the partyrew and leads them to the meeting chamber

• two members of the Stoneheart Enclave are already at the table as they enter

• of the partyrew, Glabagool, Prince Derendil, and Eldeth wait outside

• the various factions of the city begin to arrive

  • the Goldenwhisker clan wererats
  • the miners
  • the gemworkers
  • the druids
  • the Diggermatachs
  • the ghosts (the spirit warden)

Negotiations

• Senny greets all of the council members
• Cynlant and Oneshoe begin to recount the party’s findings
  • Cynlant describes in detail the hundreds of Oozes the party saw
• the wererat leader cuts Cynlant off and starts talking about the pudding king
  • the pudding king was a svirfneblin who felt scorned by the city during its rebuilding
  • the Pudding King is likely serving the demon lord Juiblex, the Faceless One
• the entire room shuffles uncomfortably with the mention of a demon lord
• the wererat leader will help form an alliance against the Oozes, given they receive territory as payment
• the Diggermatachs are cautious, given the past attacks and attempts at peace
  • a back and forth begins to happen between them for almost twenty minutes
• Oneshoe interjects, suggesting that reintegration is the only way forward
  • “Join your efforts against the really big Ooze”
• with a little more deliberation, the council decides to all join forces

Strategizing

• Cynlant suggests the partyrew attacks separately from the main force

• the council decides to have their unified forces attack the main front, and have the strike team move through a cleared section of the tunnel

• before they assault, the partyrew wants to handle the situation at Entemoch’s Boon

  • no svirfneblin, are fully sure of how to handle the intelligent and malevolent cloud that is Ogremachs’ Bane

• the partyrew are also unsure how to send the being to a different plane or dispel it

• the council also begins to think about acquiring Ooze resistant gear for the coalition

  • they debate acquiring goods from Blingdenstone or Neverlight Grove
  • the partyrew mention the current fate of the Neverlight Grove

• the ghost leader hohohohoh’s up and mentions that he will gather the friendly ghosts of the city

• the pudding king was shunned for disturbing habit of studying oozes

  • he would also hoard food but not consume it

Trade Deal

• to handle transporting the goods, Yvelia offers her use of MIDAS (Galdur’s speedy courier)

• the coalition forces need

  • 200 spears
  • 200 cases of bolts
  • 200 war picks
  • 200 shields
  • 200 chain shirts

• it would take 21 MIDAS shipments

• the council is welling to send 15000gp worth of items

  • white shell salt
  • bag of holding containing 105 spell gems

• Cynlant decides to use sending to communicate with a Gracklstugh contact

  • Yvelia convinces him to not mention Blingdenstone’s condition, given the scheming nature of Gracklstugh’s leadership

• the contact Wertz Saltbarron, is open to the deal

  • Cynlant sends more detail about the order
  • he agrees, but with a brokerage fee of 500gp
  • Cynlant should reach out the next morning

The Entemoch Boon situation

• Entemoch’s Boon could empower the city’s elementals
• nobody knows the true location
• a series of waymarkers must be followed to find the true location
  • its 2 days to the first waymarker
• the lead druid offers to bestow the boons upon the party members for their help cleansing the menhir