He’s trying to hand something to Nim, to Nim’s real hand
Shopkeeper: “Come now, accept this it’s a gift”
Nim: “I’m traumatized from being handed a bug”
Shopkeeper: “It’s not a bug, it’s better I swear”
Nim: “That’s what someone holding a bug would say”
Shopkeeper: “It’s a symbol of your promotion”
He opens his hand to show you a ring, “Go on, put it on, show your loyalty”
The shopkeeper is not wearing a ring, both of his hands are ring-free
Nim:
The ring isn’t enough to show your status, “If you want to question my position here, why don’t you take a look”
He shoves Nim and she is knocked prone
His neck snaps to the side
His face is peeling, his skin is changing color, it’s fading to white, his hair grows longer and his body snaps and contorts, he’s taller now
“Alright then, if you really so desperately want a promotion, then why don’t you fight for it, if you think not wearing a ring is beneath you, then why don’t you take it up with some of your peers, after all I don’t think the boss would be happy, but all of the lackeys in this room report to me, the only ppl in this room will only report to me or Tabitha, so what’ll it be, put on the ring to show your loyalty to the cause”
“Y’know we’ve been keeping an eye on you, the portal in Vasara, you followed me in, we’ve been watching you ever seen, you and that pathetic paladin, that abomination, and the corpse controller, we know all about you, and if Tabitha doesn’t have the gall to kill you, I will revel in doing so myself, so what’ll it be”, he points a dagger at Nim
Shopkeeper: “Why not join us, what have the other gods done for you, but you know”
Nim: “We could just have no gods, that would just be better, 1 is too many”
Shopkeeper: “Don’t you wish you could start over”
Shopkeeper: “We don’t need to bring those gemstone bound elementals together”
Nim stands up, shopkeeper fades into the magical darkness, “put on the ring, I’m watching”
A voice is calling to Bloo, the yogurt genie
Genie: “soooo… where are we Bloo, what have you got us into”
Genie: “i’ll help you out once, and you’ll owe me a favor in the future”
Genie: “promise me that if I help you out rn, perhaps you’ll help me out in my time of need”
Bloo: “No thanks”
Genie: poof
Psychic damage is doubled???
Bloo hexes and dissonant whispers the person holding the bag
His head pops and his body falls to the ground
Someone: “Another offering to our lord, Nyarlathotep may return”
Bloo takes over the body, it’s a gold dwarf
Can understand Dwarvish now
Seliph walks out of the shadow: “Don’t you want to put on the ring? Anyone you’ve ever met could be me”
Seliph: “Don’t you want to give your old friend a bone”
Nim throws a dagger at him, where the dagger pierces his cheek, the skin turns pale deathly white
Seliph: “Don’t do that to your old friend”
He walks back another step, and then he shapeshifts into Tabitha
3 people near Bloo, 2 ppl at the exit
Restaurant
Yul sitting at the table with 2 lobsters
Sarah is still standing in the bathroom door looking at Seliph
Sarah: “Seliph”
Seliph holds up 2 fingers as if to say “wait”
A couple minutes pass and then his eyes start glowing
Seliph: “I can handle myself better than I can handle milk”
Seliph: “everything is okay, shall we go back? I need to pay the tab”
Seliph: “I originally went to the bathroom, and then the god of the sun decides to page me”
Seliph: “He was just communing with me”
Seliph: “Let’s finish lunch”
Seliph and Sarah go back to the table
See Yul with a lobster and a bubble
Seliph: where’s Nim and Bloo
Yul: Nim left, they followed 2 guys with Bloo in a backpack, they kidnapped Bloo
Seliph: “Do u think they’ll be fine, I have a meeting with the mayor, I left right before said meeting to bust you out of the pocket dimension”
Seliph: “Do u think they’ll be fine?”
Sarah: “I think they’ll be fine, I don’t want to be responsible”
Seliph: I have some news
Yul: “You’re pregnant?”
Seliph face palms
Seliph: Ugghh… no. So, I’m allowed to share from my meeting with Clarus, he wants to see us, in particular, you, Sarah, in no more than a week, whatever business we have, we need to make it to Celestial Peak, which is a 3 day trip
Sarah: “So let’s go, so u think everyone is okay with leaving the witch on the loose”
Yul: “We shld go tgt”
Sarah: “They deal with the witch, we deal with what’s actually important”
Sarah: “You have god on your side, no?”
Seliph: “It’s not gonna be a free victory if that’s what you’re insinuating”
Seliph: “Anyways, we still have 3 and a half days in town before we need to leave if we want to make it before the deadline, idk why, considering there isn’t a solstice or equinox soon, but it must be of grave importance”
Seliph pays, Seliph needs to talk to the mayor
Seliph, Sarah, and Yul go to the castle, tall stony building, very very very tall, see the lighthouse
Seliph apologizes to the chief inquisitor, a gold dragonborn, Sarah says some crazy shit
Chief Inquisitor: Draythus Alacard, I’m internally panicking rn, I’m usually better at keeping my calm, but the mayor of the town is dead
Mayor Stonefire
The mayor turned to sand
The chief inquisitor is stressed af, Sarah is not helping the situation
Chief Inquisitor: Have any of you guys seen this women? She’s the lead suspect, it’s a half elf, who’s in rags, it’s Nim
Sarah: I know her, but I don’t think she did it
Sarah: “I like making things worse”
There are eyewitness accounts that this women has been selling rings
Sarah: “Oh that’s not true”
Sarah: “I have better info, I’m responsible for it, you can arrest me and leave her alone”
“If you’re covering for your friend, this is only making her more suspicious”
Sarah: “Can you take me to jail”
Inquisitor casts silence on Sarah
Inquisitor pulls Seliph aside, and asks if Sarah is trustworthy
Sarah middle fingers them
Seliph: “As interesting as her personality is, she’s capable”
Seliph promises the inquisitor that it’s not Nim, saw them struggling against the culprit
Sarah has Hyritian citizenship
Inquisitor: give me 2 reasons I should make you mayor
Inquisitor makes Sarah interim mayor for 2 days and throws her some paperwork
Inquisitor: Notices smth in the city, the rise of cultish behavior around the same time rings and bling decided to open up, Ms. Stonefire had a ring that she wanted to investigate herself
Notices a lot of unusual activity around the lighthouse
We think there have been congregations of cult-like behavior, people have been chanting about fairness and death, and hardships
Sarah thinks they’re evil and annoying and evil and annoying af
Inquisitor: “Alright let’s head to the lighthouse”
On the way, inquisitor asks Sarah about the cult about death
They arrive at the lighthouse
Lighthouse
The lighthouse shouldn’t be locked during normal business hours
Sarah kicks the door down, from the inside you hear, “what’s that? oooh visitors”
Nim: “HE’S A SHAPESHIFTER I DONT WANNA GET MARRIED TODAY SARAH COME KILL HIM”
Inquisitor: “Can anyone see”
There’s a crate in front of the door
The inquisitor shoots a firebolt, the crate collapses
Inquisitor: “Y’all r gonna follow me in right”
Inquisitor: “HELLO, R U GUYS SELLING CANDY?” (that’s his dispel magic incantation)
Inquisitor dispels magic
Nim points at the shapeshifter: “SARAH KILL THAT GUY”
Sarah: OKAY!
Shapeshifter: MY NAME IS SELIPH
Sarah: FUCK OFFFF
Seliph: Can I KILL HIM?
Sarah: NOOO I CALL DIBS
COMBAT
Shapeshifter: runs up to Nim with the dagger, stabs her, then disengages
Bloo: hexes and eldritch blasts
Cultist: runs up to Nim, stabs, Bloo silvery barbs, still hits, gives advantage to Nim
Cultists: eldritch blasts Bloo, 4 times, who almost dies
Yul: guiding bolts the changeling
2 more eldritch blasts go to Nim, who miss both
Nim: stabs the guy (cultist 1) right beside her with her rapier in his neck, he slouches to the ground and dies, Nim moves towards Bloo
Sarah: dashes and runs up to a cultist
Seliph: runs in and runs up to a cultist too
Inquisitor: casts zone of silence on the shapeshifter
Last cultist: misses eldritch blast on inquisitor
Shapeshifter: says stuff and nothing comes out, ends with double middle finger, runs up to Nim, Bloo silvery barbs (turns nat 20 to 18), he stabs twice, both hit, he runs, Nim attack of opportunity, crits
Bloo: magic missile shoots him, hex procs, slays the guy
The other cultists look around, look panicked in horror, pull out a ritualistic dagger and stab themselves in the heart, they were sworn by oath or vow to do something in this event
All the other cultists collapse
Bloo runs up to Nim and hugs her WE SURVIVED!!!
Bloo takes the changeling corpse
While this happens, nim loots the body, gets a rare dagger cold as ice
Cold Embrace
1d4 Piercing + 1d4 Cold
A dagger as cold as ice and sharp as steel. When landing a critical hit with this weapon, the target becomes vulnerable to cold damage for 2 turns. Additionally, you have advantage on targets vulnerable to cold damage.
Finds a Magic Infused Gemstone
A blue gemstone infused with magic. It contains one use of the spell Teleport (7th level)
Crates and locked chest, things can be looted
Locked chest had a bag of holding, 12GP, and a minor potion of health