Episode 4 "Twisted Round and Round"

Session #4: 8/30/2020

4th of Dalian 2350 of the 5th Age

Recap

 * The session began with the party returning to Akhom's room at the Bilge Tavern where they divided out the gear they had retrieved from the watchtower.
 * Now rearmed after many days without money, weaponry, or equipment they set to the tasks at hand. They had been tasked to find where the Cutbeard Boys keep their sharpsugar by Gedan Roughstone, however, they had also been pressed into killing Gedan by the priest of Hermes.
 * They decided that to get Gedan alone, they had to do what he had asked of them. Inquiring about drugs with the innkeep, he told them that to get Sharpsugar, they would have to go meet with his contact in Cutbeard territory. He gave them directions to a shack behind a burned-out blacksmith.
 * Inside the shack, the party found a note that read "Too Hot" implying that there are too many guards in the area after the party's antics at the watchtower.
 * While in the shack, they noticed a heavy smell that they realized was the same incense as was burned in the Temple of Hermes.
 * They went back to the priest because the Temple of Hermes lay in Cutbeard territory to ask if any of his flock might know anything about their stash. The priest, named Vanan, told them that one of his flock was a troubled dwarf named Tredigar who often ran with the Cutbeards. He also explained that the Cutbeards were called so because they were outcasts from dwarvish society who had had their beards cut in disgrace.
 * The party went to investigate Tredigars home near a large asylum. However, Tredigar spotted them. Some fo the party returned to the inn while Quirk and Akhom stayed to stake out Tredigar.
 * After having been spotted again, Akhom decided to interrogate Tredigar and learned that the Priest had been playing them. The Sharpsugar stash was in the basement below the Temple of Hermes.
 * Akhom enchanted Tredigar to kill himself.
 * Quirk and Akhom stripped the shack of what valuables they could find and then returned to the inn to discuss with Roxie and Opal.
 * The party decided to try and contact Gedan, as they had technically learned where the stash was. Quirk sent one of her rats to follow one of the Minder gang members with a message for Gedan, so that they could find where he was hiding.