Game log 18 October 2020: Tall tales

Dramatis personae

Felcanis, elf cleric
Angelista, broke undead hunter

Poklov Ohar, dwarf bounty hunter

Quid ocurrit

Felcanis, Horace, and Jiro make it back to town. They meet Angelista, broke undead hunter, camped outside of town; Felcanis agrees to tell her if she finds any work, as Horace and Jiro are going elsewhere.

Felcanis goes to the Scarlet Harlot, and hands over her loot to the owner to pay off her debts. Villûdē, a guide, plays a set there, telling the tale of Žōmágē and Lord Déršos while playing the bongos. Žōmágē was a girl who was wandering with her big brothers after the Undead Plague, and came upon a castle. The hosts set their guests for their vampire master, Lord Déršos, to kill, but Žōmágē thwarts their plans and gets them killed instead. Afterwards, the siblings work for a nearby burgomaster, and Žōmágē's jealous brothers try to get rid of their sister by telling the burgomaster that she can steal Lord Déršos's magic necklace, which she does with sexual wiles. Even more jealous, they tell the burgomaster that she can trap Lord Déršos, which she does with trickery. Nobody knows what happened to Lord Déršos; Villûdē thinks someone staked him.

While listening, Klóppē, the head of the Mīštássun Town Watch, chats with Poklov Ohar, a dwarf bounty hunter on the watch, and tells him about Šanzbašar, offering him a bounty for him. Šanzbašar comes to town with a boar and sells herbal draughts that instead addle the brains of the drinker. This wouldn’t bother the Watch much, but some of the drinkers go missing, and Šanzbašar is also buying weapons. And then Šanzbašar sold tickets to a show with a 12-year-old girl, a narrow bottle, and a big frog.

Damn shame what happened to that frog.

Poklov takes the job, and jumps onto a table to try to get help. After the bar patrons tell him to go since he sucks more than the woman with the bongos, he jumps off, and Felcanis offers to help.

Res aliae

Nullae.