Mirtul 9th
Well it is another boring night exchanging stories at the tavern until Billy Barrue walks in and starts a fight with the group using his "assistant" Hank as a distraction. As usual Billy gets away with just a slap on the wrist from Diovanni's father, Ellanzo. Ellanzo is a Paladin who holds the post of Mechant Quarter's General-in-Arms, an elected post that Billy's father Walton Barrue is rumored to be seeking in the next election.
Ellanzo grudgingly acknowledges that the group performed well together and caused no permanent casualties during the fight. He offers them some side work, which they agree is better than doing nothing else on a Friday night.
At Ellanzo's office they hear a noise when they are about to enter, Diovanni sees a quick glimpse of some type of imp which vanishes before he can really get a good look at it. It was trying to pull out certain papers from an old file cabinet.
Ellanzo tells the group an old magical rod was stolen from the Museum of Antiquities earlier in the night. Due to the sensitive nature of the item and how it was stolen, he wants to use the group to get it back outside of official channels. The culprit is one Nipskitch a local cut purse. Approaching Nipskitch's house, they find it is a drug den with several whacked out users in and around the house. They enter stealthily until Leif pushes open the back door which falls to the ground crashing. A mad dash through the house and up the steps! They find Nipskitch who activates the rod disintegrating most of the house and plunging everyone into the sewers!
Nipskitch summons the rod's powers killing most of rats and other creatures but some beetles grow to many times their size and attack the group! After this encounter they hear Nipskitch getting the worse of some combat but it takes them some time to fight through some newly created skeletons lead by their undead Ghoul captain.
At last they corner Nipskitch, and he invokes the rod to create 2 copies of himself! The fight wages on for a few more turns but the group slowly beats back all 3 versions of Nipskitch. In a desperate move he summons to courage for a final blast using the ancient rod. An electrical blue light erupts and consumes Nipskitch and nearly destroys everyone in the sewer.
Our heroes return to the surface a bit more bloody (and smelly). Brother Krux notes the upside of sewer warfare, "If you soil your pants no one can tell". As a reward Ellanzo puts the group on retainer with paid rooms. They also return the item along with 60 ancient silver marks from the Imaskari empire. A bonus was found when Nipskitch duplicated himself, his items and stolen loot also duplicated so the group now has an extra 120 rare coins. The museum curator makes a deal with the group for the extra coins, they can choose some older, lesser powerful items that the museum can afford to give up in exchange for the coins. Everyone is happy and they decide to carry on together for the time being.
EXP Awarded: 1225
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