Monday
After waking, Lilith and Rar get a pedicure, in preparation for their Ball Monday night. Lilith feels that the prices are suspiciously low, likely due to her fathers standing.
Murbrek and Shnarkle end up making their way towards where Shnarkle was discovered after he was beat up. Upon looking for any sort of clues, Shnarkle finds a deep red rock, which he promptly names Joe. Murbrek recognizes this as a sign of organized crime in Peppercorn City, but being from the other side of the continent, knows very little about any details.
They make their way over to a nearby tavern named the Drunk Skunk, to find out more. There are about five people including the barkeep, and Shnarkle tries talking to the barkeep. He starts telling a story about Shnarkle starting to antagonizing several guests, including members of the Red Rock Gang. The barkeep tells Shnarkle that the Gang meets at the ruby fountain quite often
The Ruby Fountain is about 20ft in diameter, with a square courtyard with several park benches. There are other buildings facing inwards, with most around 2 stories. Shnarkle does notice a older gentleman entering into his home, who seems to be relatively religious. He waits for a bit, and tries to pose as a pilgrim, looking for free lodging. He lets us in, and lets us rest for a few hours. Upon talking to him, we discover that he follows the Goddess of agriculture, known as Chantaya. He tells us about the Red Rock Gang describing them as a group who is a greedy crime organization who have a lot of power in the city.
Note
Lilith and Rar’s scenes are based during that evening, several hours after each of Murbrek and Shnarkle’s pov
Rar and Lilith were announced back at the ball, as they entered into the building. They make their way down the stairs, finding themselves to be slightly late, but not to late, as the orchestra hasn’t truly started yet. and the dancing hasn’t yet started. Rar starts to walk away from Lilith, but nearly as soon as he steps away, he is caught in conversation about his background with two locals. He talks about growing up in a place called Khazum in a desert, pretending that he was a high leader in his area. Moving on, he pickpockets one of the ladies of the court. Meanwhile, Lilith tries to find Lord Stone. Upon picking a group to talk to, the main speaker being introduced as Lord Smith, asks Lilith about her companion being robbed, which before then, she new nothing about. They then mention that it was so brave of both her companions to be confronting the Red Rock Gang. Changing topics, she finds that Lord Stone was going to be late for attendance. She also finds that her adopted father Leobardus has a home in Khazum, where Rar is from.
Shnarkle and Murbrek are listening into the Red Rock Gang through a crack in the wall of the building. The gang is updating each other on their actions through the city. They eventually started to discuss their interaction with Shnarkle, and it sounds like they are dispersing Shnarkle’s belongings that they had stolen. They end their meeting, and the boss of the gang starts to bring Snarkle’s stuff with him to the west side of the city. We quickly leave and try to follow the leader, to find more information. We follow them for about an hour, making our way through the shopping district, seeing a passing glance of Lilith and Rar(who had not finished shopping at this point). We follow them to an alley, where the group enters into a doorway. After a moment, four of the guards leave. We creep up on top of the roof, and look down on the courtyard to find two guards, with the boss seemingly missing. We gang up and kill off the two guards, then find Shnarkle’s stuff. Then the boss + 4 guards and a baby red dragon run out of one of the surrounding buildings. Murbrek casts fog cloud and both sprint out. Yelling “DRAGON!” The pair manage to escape, and tries to lay low.
Lilith starts to have a conversation with Lady Furn. She asks Lady Furn about Lord Leobardus, and tries to find more information about where he was going. She says that she had heard that he was moving south, but was unsure. Lilith asks about Lord Stone being late as well, a point that Lady Furn seams to be annoyed that Stone was so late.
Lilith was approached by a group talking about her traveling groups. They mention that her friends had started a riot, and had started screaming about a dragon. They believe that Murbrek and Shnarkle had both been seen stealing.
Lilith continued by starting a rumor that Sharkle and Murbrek had set out to remove the city of all crime.
Rar starts to speak with Lady Farmer(Lord Farmer’s Daughter) and her group. He continues speaking with her for about an hour, seem to be very interested in the conversation. They get drinks together, as well as dancing together.