The Devil Made Me Do It

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Double-header! I had absolutely no time to write up the lines of the night last week, so this week it's twice the devilish goodness! Our Heroes (tm) have finally found themselves in Torc, the biggest city in the region, where they discover people eating in overabundance, drinking to excess, consuming with... dare we say it... gluttony! Sadly, we have also spooked our one lead in the city and thus find ourselves completely without a plan... pretty much as always.


[On the way to Torc, Our Heroes pass a tavern.]
Robert the GM: "The sign says, 'The best beer in Tambar.'"
Andrew: (excitedly) "Ooh!"
Robert the GM: "You can't read."
Andrew: (disappointed) "Aw..."

[The threat of the unknown pales in comparison to the joys of the known.]
Gorka'munda: "Ka, we stop for beer!"
Ionos: "But there are devils! They might... do things."

[We arrive in Torc.]
Robert the GM: "The food smells fantastic!"
Adam: "He rolled a dice and said that!"
Eric: "Well, that means we're on the right track."

[Agatha succumbs to the Devil of Gluttony's effects and starts eating pastries.]
Robert the GM: "It's not that they're extraordinarily delicious, but that it's just what you wanted."
Eric: "But yet strangely unsatisfying."

[Gorka'munda, being a 9-foot-tall orog, is not allowed in the city without a special magical collar to prevent him from taking any violent action. The PCs consider how to trick him into wearing it.]
Andrew: "When I figure it out..."
Adam: "...you won't be able to take it off."
Julie: "Or do anything violent."

[Another alternative is to forge a collar that looks the same as the magical one. The only problem is finding a pulsing, glowing gem that would sit in its center.]
Julie: "I'm sure I could find a glowy gem somewhere."
Robert the GM: "If anyone could, you could."

[We've spooked Mordilla, the wizardess who summoned the imp. Sadly, we have no more leads.]
Julie: "Well, we've lost the trail..."
Robert the GM: "But at least you know there is a trail."

[On his way to the mage college, Jace gets into a bit of an argument with a wyrman, a red-skinned, flying creature that delivers messages and speaks almost entirely in profanity.]
Andrew: (to Adam) "Oh, God, you're about to get hit in the head with a rat. A half-chewed, dead rat."

[The wyrman does, indeed, throw the rat at Jace. In turn, Jace casts Power Word Sicken on it.]
Andrew: "Seems like a waste of spellpower."
Adam: "He threw a dead rat at my head -- he deserves it."

[Jace utterly fails to get any information from the wyram.]
Adam: "Let's go to Plan B, then."
Andrew: "What's Plan B?"
Adam: "We don't have one."

[Meanwhile, back at the bar, Agatha is met by an old friend, Gull, who proceeds to start telling morose war stories. Agatha tries to steer the conversation away from topics that might trigger PTSD.]
Gull: "Do you remember the night with the hellhounds?"
Robert the GM: (as Agatha) "Speaking of hellhounds, I got a puppy the other day. It was adorable and not at all on fire."

[Gull has a scarab pin. It is clearly magical and of Lloth. Jace has no idea what it does, but he knows he wants it.]
Jace: "It's obviously cursed. If you give it to me, we can bring it to the Temple of Eliath and have them destroy it."
Robert the GM: "Do you need to roll bluff here?"
Adam: "Yeah, probably."

[Gull is willing to sell the scarab to Jace. Now all that remains is haggling over price.]
Jace: "How much did you buy it for?"
Julie: (as Gull) "A song. Weren't you listening?"
Sabina: "I wish I was a bard!"

[The next morning, Gorka'munda tries to enter the city. Sadly, his tendency to pronounce "Baska" as "Basket" is giving him some trouble.]
Guard: "Who are you with?"
Gorka'munda: "Basket!"
Guard: "...I don't know where you basket is."

[Baska does eventually reach the gate where Gorka'munda is trying to enter.]
Robert the GM: "Nine very confused guards look at you."
Julie: "Ooh, my favorite kind!"

[Jace has failed his will save against the effects of the Devil of Gluttony.]
Andrew: (as Jace) "How could you possibly be angry when you've got bacon?"
Robert the GM: "You're right. He takes a piece of bacon off your plate."
Jace: "...We're not friends anymore."

[How to distract Gorka'munda, part... oh, heck, I lost count.]
Gorka'munda: "Gorka'munda is confused. Is--"
Jace: "Hey, Gorka'munda! Bacon!"
Gorka'munda: "Ooh! Bacon!"

[Baska had visited the mage college the previous day and spoken with one of the conjuration teachers, who apparently was in cahoots with Mordilla. He hasn't been seen all morning.]
Baska: "I need to speak with a conjuration teacher, preferably one who keeps his appointments."

[The messenger who knows where Mordilla's room is refuses to accept company from Jace or Baska. When Jace's highly illegal attempt at magically suggesting the messenger fails, he instead decides to follow invisibly, bumps into someone, and leaves mere seconds before someone casts Invisibility Purge on him.]
Robert the GM: "That's twice in one minute you've nearly been arrested."
Andrew: "I'd like to point out it's not me or the rogue."


And that's it for this time. Join us next week when we find out whether Mordilla has left for good, whether the epic feast will reveal the identity of the third devil, and (most importantly) whether we'll make it that long without getting ourselves all thrown in jail.