The party keeps shopping! Wooo wooooo!
Older gentleman with a murky eye selling cloaks, sashes, & scarves. Bright violet satin cloak Looks like a possible healers? With a dna trim.
Other side of the street there’s an old woman who is selling gloves with alloy metal, some have claws, some have needles.
Kenji goes to the old man with the clothing--common to fine attire. There’s a squawking Crow in a cage. His good eye looks Kenji over. A wide barely toothy smile, with some gold fillings.
He tries to put a red scarf around Kenji, and grannie pushes Kenji forward. The old man moves quickly and ties the scarf up on Kenji’s neck. Kenji states he doesn’t like the scarf when asked--and the man pulls out a blue hooded cloak.
Kenji tries the new cloak. Warm but light cloak, it is nice. The cloak is usually 30gp, but for Kenji...a favor...10gp and a favor. Kenji rightly asks what the favor is. Bakery, Gerindale? Corner street closes to the port. He owes him money. He pulls out parchment and a gnarled quill, he writes something up in thieves cant.
Grannie says “Toodles” and appears on the other side of the waterway, not wanting to walk around the 60ft block. She feels a rat run across her shoe. Some passerbys walk past. The party stares in wtf?
Ember remembers she’s done this before.
Beige skinned, old gnomish woman, large magnifying spectacles. Utmost care and love, she cleans multi plated glove they seem to be articulable with 3” long needles.
Grannie says hello. She opens a large wooden box to show off 3 layers of wares. Gloves articulating in metal, chain, leather, fur, so many types, rings, 16 pairs all different. Grannie sees the interest. She’s been in the trade for 75 years. Grannie goes for compliments asking about their purposes. She grabs a black leather hide and steel beams from the knuckles to the wrist, and at the fingertips are displacer beast claws.
She fondles the glove a little. Reapers touch gloves, used in outer realms. Assassins dip them in poisons/concoctions.
The boys and girls come to visit.
Range: 20gp a piece, then the poisons. Grannie asks about fireproof ones.
Grimforge family.
Anika buys the Reaper Touch Gloves 20gp, and Poison
1. Ill and weak
2. Solidify the flesh
3. Freeze the blood
4. Skin Burn and Blister
5. Slow the enemy to a dead stop--feel everything 10gp a bottle. 7gp for us.
6. Brief possession, a charm poison, emotion and action
7. (she is disappointed in this one) sleeping potion potent
8. Insanity-inducing blood and ink, sit it in the sun for 3 days and put it in a dark bottle, Liquid madness. A chemical weapon used in the great war. South eastern tieflings import it, they themselves are grand users of this.
Ember helps Anika afford the poison.
Watery tar looks like it is in the slowing poison bottle. Note: Anika owes Ember 3gp
The gloves fit like a glove, they form to Anika’s hands, the gloves are mostly light but you can definitely tell.
The party has to head up to get gauntlets. Bird brush is the next step.
A creepy old man mans a general store booth. Ember asks for a pet brush, pulls out an ornate floral box, inside are a few finer combs. 5sp. She bargains for 3sp and gets a comb.
Dunal and Kenji across the way, Dunal is looking for magical items that could add to his spell casting abilities. Dunal heads back to Mrs. Polly’s shop again. Polly is lovely as always.
Polly examines Dunal’s holy symbol. She offers him spell scrolls, and calls him a “Sunwalker”, having not realized he was a follower of Lathander. One of the scrolls has a cat eye like symbol made out of two rings. Ava goddess of the hunt. Mrs. Polly was bamboozled on this scroll. She really was bamboozled. Its not a scroll of healing but who knows what it is.
Grannie mentions needing crew and or guards for the ship… suggests Kobolds. Ember says what about Anya and Gress’ crew to help guard when we aren’t there?
Dunal mentions his quest.
The party heads after Kenji...they find Kenji in the bakery eating a muffin and talking shop with the shopkeep.
Bert has been chewing Kenji’s ear off, something is up here...
Ember feels like someone is watching the party, and notices some of Anya’s peeps. One of the merc’s looks and grins at Ember and nods, Ember quirks a brow and sends a kiss. This makes him shocked. Ahahahahahahaha!
Kenji did *something* party heads out and hears a scream “WAIT A MINUTE!” Kenji’s mission went well. Grannie teases Ember. Ember flusters people like crazy, first Anya’s men, now Dunal.
We fetch Kenji’s cloak before we plan to head to the next quest of Dunal. Something light falls upon us. From above-flower petals. People in balconies in residential homes are sprinkling them on people.
Kenji: “Littering”
Dunal and Kenji know a little bit about it, people can spot new faces in residential areas, in the more artistic and higher classes, people toss flower petals upon people, as a sign of welcome of rose and lavender petals.
Kenji gets his cloak and that scarf.
Kenji goes from Medium to Medium-High Sexy, and you can hear Madonna’s vogue. Time to save a church from nerdowells who want their property.
Ryder, “ Unless they have money they can go fuck themselves”
“Burnt Cinamon roll” -Cory
Talk of killing martha ensues all but Ember could lie about Martha’s death...Anika suggest we adopt kids for the ship crew if Ember really wants a kid.
The temple is a more tall temple, that is square shaped. It has a tower towards the farthest back wall. In front of the temple there are terrible damaged statues. There’s a bit of rubble. It’s impossible who this temple represented. Windows are cracked and walking through the church appears to be a few nuns, a few monks, and a couple of children wearing robes.
Vikta slips--a bit when Ember mentions more babies, before asking what is with Anika and her desire to put kids to work and says she knows very well that kids need to know how to work to survive...too well. Anika’s voice but Vikta’s truth. Now Vikta is thinking of adopting kiddos to save them front the same harsh childhood they had.
Older man dressed somewhat nicer than the others, Dunal approaches him. These old brown deep sad eyes. He is afraid of Dunals appearance.
Dunal shows him the ad paper. The church is unfunded, and abandoned by the other churches. This church worships a lesser god known as Enzo messenger of the cosmos. Dunal knows that Enzo is dead, and that is likely what lead to all of this happening. Falcon headed lean, humanoid man, Enzo appeared with wings. He is decidedly dead… And yet he says that we’ll try to figure out how to help them all.
The party would leave if they knew… after all why try to aid a church whose god is dead.
Altar boy says the people came from the market district, they wear all black and dark red scarfs around their noses and mouths. He seems petrified of Dunal’s larger frame.
Ember remembers men like this being mentioned during her time in the circus, rough around the edge people once told to leave they put on display of brash vibrato. Red Brand Ruffians.
The party grins, they like taking care of loud mouth owlbears--or bitches as Ember’s darker side would call them.
Yoszu takes pets back to ship, and the party plans to protect the temple. One of us on each side. Ember hiding in trees.
10 enemies and a pet bear. Dunal suggests an ambush. Parkland area out front of the temple. Clergy will be in a bunker, and a special knock will be used to let them know they can come out.
Curly blonde girl child wants to know if the party would like food. Party long rests and then gets prepped before dawn to take down the ruffians.
The jaunty jeering ruffians. Grunting groaning of a bear as it approaches. They see Dunal once they are in the front lawn. “Alright ye, we’ve given you enough time. Get out of the church or get it, get violent. Come on don’t make me wait.”
Dunal waits as 8 enter the church. 2 half elf, most human, half orc, and one goliath.
Outside is the bear.
“Who are you?” they ask.
Dunal states, “I am Dunal the Weak.” As he casts spiritual weapon in prep. Then he does the signal.
Anika: hits the Goliath in the chest with an Eldrich Blast of fuck off.
Ember: Hits another rando searing his face. Teeth fall out, he’s seared.
Kenji: misses. Next time buddy. We leave off at the top of initiative!!