No 1 Hobbits Detective Agency: The Great Grain Heist
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Summary
GM Terry
Session: Summer 822
Location Brastor
Level Yes
Party:
Employer:
Vigor, junior member of the No. 1 Hobbits' Detective Agency, looking for promotion
Mission:
Scribe Notes
Session 1
I was looking forward to a return to the Plane of Valmi, where I was on my last adventure but, at the last minute, word was received from House Sulis that they weren't ready yet. So, having nothing to do, I went on an adventure offered by Vigor, representing the Number 1 Hobbit Detective Agency. He told us of a curious case he was investigating, that of grain going missing from a silo. He was hoping that solving this would give him his promotion to full Detective. The curious thing about this heist that it was only one bag a month that was going missing. One bag out of a hundred or so, which to me, was really strange.
The Hobbit Detective Agency had hired Guild members before so they had a fair idea what they were getting (I hope) and we would be paid standard Guild Rates. Presumably there was a salvage bonus in there as well. Unfortunately, with me were only two companions, one being Phos, the orc binder with an accent that reminded me of Pasifika, and the really annoying and bossy dark-skinned elf earth mage, Ashe Willoberry. I suspect there's drow in her lineage. I know I was raised by elves but this one can be extremely insufferable. She 'suggested' I learn basic Healer. It's on the list Ashe.
Vigor told us that we were going to Brastor, specifically the town of Charity. Each grain bag was as big as a human and this had been going on for at least the last four months, at the New Moon. Why the New Moon specifically? Was it lycanthropes? Were-rats? Nah. That's Full Moon. Curiouser and curiouser as someone said when they went down a rabbit hole. Mine was certainly peaked. Anyway Bossy Ashe became the Military Scientist and I became the Scribe.
After doing some research etc, I followed Vigor to a bakery where we got some baked goods. I also got some fruit and ending up demonstrating how I make fruit ices and frozen cream treats. He must have been very interested as, the next morning, when we were set to go, he turned up with a HUGE fruit basket and wanted me to experiment with the contents. This could be interesting. I hadn't worked with grapes before.
Ashe had provided two week long Lessers for us and Vigor was going to provide for Greaters at the other end. So we headed into Seagate and went into a tailor's shop. In its basement was a dwarf with a rune circle. Seats had been placed in the circle and we were told to sit down, be quiet and stay still as the dwarf, Dorian, did his stuff. At the end of that everything went blurry and spinny and we found ourselves really exhausted in a similar room, underneath another tailor's shop. Vigor told us we were now in the town of Brastor and, across the street was a pub, the Ground Dove. So we went there and ordered lunch.
During lunch, Ashe overheard one of the locals talking about a bee sting, so she went to be nosy investigate. While she was doing that Phos switched his empty plate with her half full one. This lunch we called a BLT - Big Lunch Together.
The others wanted an afternoon nap before travelling to Charity but I was contemplating spending the afternoon relaxing under the Brastor bridge and going for a swim in the river, which is a favourite thing for the local children to do, but Bossy Ashe wouldn't let me, instead she ordered me to bed. *sigh* I suppose she was concerned for my safety but ... I'm a grown hobbit, not a child and I can look after myself. But I sulked and pouted acquiesced and ended up having a restful sleep before dinner that night.
