Episode 2: From the Market to the Monsters

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May 27, 2020

The group started out split up with Muud wandering the docks meeting people, Rhistel in the house waiting for his disguise to come back up, and the rest of the group on their way to the market. They see the regal elf moving down the street in her carriage with a fire genasi, who notices Koko and tells the elf. The elf sends a message to her telepathically... They continue to the market where Koko tries the local delicacy, battered and fried bull testicles, which she loves. She also tries some other fried foods and some bread. Ridgely finds a vendor from which to buy a cutlass, but it was too expensive for him - he haggles, sells his shortsword, and then is offered a deal for a significant discount if he can beat the bearded lady at armwrestling. Koko acts as his champion, but loses and Ridgely ends up spending 7g for the cutlass. They find a monkey whose owner quickly comes by to retrieve him - Ridgely convinces the owner, a circus acrobat, to pay them 1s for helping him find his monkey.

They head back to the house where they meet up with Muud and Rhistel. They chat for a while and have dinner that Luberos makes - rabbit stew. At 5pm, they go to meet Conor who leads them to the house of a recently taken boy. Laura, the mother, tells them the details about Bagley, the boy, who was taking the trash out and never came back. They go to investigate by the dumpster and find a trail of goop that Koko follows to the roofline, and on to another street. Koko sees a man running out of the a dilapidated stone building screaming. The man turns down the same street as the others and Muud recognizes it as Ernie, his hired bum. The man passes out from a bleeding wound on his arm, but they manage to make a tourniquet to stabilize him. Then they run off, with Conor, to follow the trail of blood. During this time, Koko has gone into the stone building, lit a torch, and hears moaning that he follows to find the quickly dying Bo. She jams his robe against his neck to briefly stabilize him, but he does not look good.

Then she is surprise attacked by a choker from above. The others arrive just in time to see this happen. Muud rushes in and one-shots the one attacking Koko. The room goes quiet, but then Luberos sees a choker above, and shouts out. Koko jumps up to it and knocks it to the ground. Two more appear and one attacks Muud. It would have knocked him unconscious with the second blow, but Muud uses hellish rebuke to kill it between its attacks. Then we stop for the evening to resume next week..