After convincing Paddy Brownbeard to sail the Saucy Lass under the "Burger" banner, our villains decided to take one last trip about town, both to stock up on much needed supplies, dispose of their ill gotten gains, and to find out a little more about the situation at hand before saying their goodbyes.
As Afro, Callahan and Maxi visited the black market, Sir Crayon and Potina went about town, gathering the latest gossip. Whilst at the black market, the ACM crew quickly got wind that Don Cordon trafficked in firearms and powder weapons, and resolved to rob the place blind, whereas Sir Crayon and Potina found out a fair bit about local goings-on, including how the bounty on their heads had been upped to 4,000 gold apiece, that the Mostly Holy Knights had been granted jurisdiction to investigate locally, and that there was a riot where they were headed, in Maiandra.
Meeting up at Boss Cromag's train yard, the party conveyed their intention to depart for Maiandra, which happily coincided with a spot of trouble Boss Cromag's had recently suffered. Apparently, his branch of smugglers in Maiandra, headquartered in the Salty Wench Tavern, had been uncontactable for the past week, since the riot. The party was encouraged to venture forth, and even given sending stones for communication, so they could report back to Boss Cromag once they got a clue about what happened.
The party then separated once again, to make their final preparations. Afro, Callahan and Maxi decided to put their plan to steal Don Cordon's firearms into action, and even roped in Mystery Gourmet to help, whilst Sir Crayon and Potina decided to follow up on another lead, which led them to Warehouse #23.
At Whitefish Bakery, A, C and M decided to send in the Mystery Gourmet as a buyer, whilst they cased out the location. It sounded like a good plan on paper. Except Mystery Gourmet made a social faux pas, which drew the suspicion of the goblin supervisor, and the dwarven bakers to him. As the shutters came down, it soon became apparent that Gourmet was in a rather precarious position, prompting Callahan to spy with his familar, and Afro to make ready an ambush. Maxi too, disguised himself, and quickly thought up a clever distraction.
Pretending to be a customs inspector and his guard, Maxi and Callahan surprised the smugglers by barging in. A quick spell by Callahan knocked out the bulk of the dwarves, while Afro teleported in and followed up with a blast of frost. Reeling in surprise, the goblin stumbled away and pressed a button on a stick, triggering a mechanical trap that caused flour to spill over everyone in the bakery.
Blinded, Maxi blundered out of the bakery, and in time too. While the others attempted to shoot down the goblin despite the cloud of choking flour, they didn't notice, until too late, that the goblin had something lit and burning in her hand. And that thing, as it turned out, was an incendiary grenade.
The bakery rightly exploded.
At this point, it just so happened that Lady Ramen and her contingent of Mostly Holy Knights were in the area, having received a suspicious tip off about suspicious figures. Callahan managed to make a quick getaway, by holding up his pretense as a Garamond soldier, and yelling that Don Cordon was responsible for the mess. He then ran like Typo was after him, while his weasel chased the goblin, keeping tabs on her and tracing her to Breadfish Laundry, a shop owned by elves. He chose not to follow up this lead though, because they had bigger things on their mind.
Maxi, too, held up his disguise, and claimed that he was a passing noble who got singed in the explosion. It was a very successful ruse too, and they bought his story that he was a Maiandran noble completely.
Afro and the Mystery Gourmet weren't quite so lucky though. Having teleported into the alley way nearby, Afro was spotted by the swarming soldiers, and promptly disabled. Mystery Gourmet, too, was arrested after he suffered from Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome, and confessed to being a thief.
Across town, Sir Crayon and Potina raided Warehouse #23, which happened to be lightly guarded because the guard had been turned out in force, and made away with both the stash of gold, and the two barrels of weed.
As those who made their getaway convened on the Saucy Lass, Afro was submitted to much questioning in a jail cell. After incriminating himself further, he was escorted away by a goblin cleric, who just so happened to be Don Cordon himself, in disguise. A geas was placed upon him, and Afro was compelled to lure the other adventurers to their doom before being allowed to escape from custody.
Fortunately, the rest of the group weren't quite as foolish, and being rightly suspicious bastards, welcomed Afro back aboard the Saucy Lass, only to kill him dead for selling them out. XD
And who says these chaps aren't Wicked!?
With Afro dead and pickled, and ready to make a break for it, the group sets sail into the sunset, heading for Maiandra.
What lies in store for them next? Stay tuned to find out!
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Experience, Loot and so Forth:
Everyone gains 1,250 xp for Session 4, and should be Level 6.
Respective loot in whispers.
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