TOOG: Part 2

TOOG: Part 2




The party, such as they are, have yet to decode the scroll they found on the necromancer. Lacking any other leads, they head north, where the Stranger believes there to be a fair.

On their way, they encounter a covered cart on the road. Careful suspicious squinting and creeping reveals that the cart is pulled by a giant lizard, and driven by what appears to be a Kobold with a straw hat and a fake moustache.
He claims to be a Mr Haricot Mungo, of Haricot Mungo's Mystical Emporium and fishing Tackle.

The ladies ask him if he has masks for the rumoured fair, and spend half an hour picking masks while the Kobold enthusiastically assists them and presents random other non-mask objects.
Magic detection reveals that only one mask is magical, and the merchant says that it's prrrrobably cursed (not surprising, given that it's just a creepy oily dark cloth in an unknown shape).

Lhoryn asks Haricot if he's killed any Gnolls. Haricot says no. The next question concerns weapons, and the kobold eagerly provides a selection of objects, most of them even weapons. The creature made of teeth in the goldfish bowl is probably not a weapon.
It's decided that the party does not have the wealth to buy any magical weapons, and they part ways.

The party reach Redstone and wander around what seems like a number of deserted tents and stalls, eventually coming across a short fat drunken man wailing and bemoaning about a loss of fun and spectral curses.
Some moments of bemused questioning later, a woman appears to attend to the drunk and explains.
Apparently the town's founder was interred in a nearby tomb, and had established a tradition of paying him yearly respects. During the great fair, he had gotten wind of all the fun being had and cursed the town to no longer have fun. Apparently most of the town and visitors are busy getting drunk inside. The party is implored to venture to the tomb and fix things.

Franzibald begins to plan how to extort the kobold upon his arrival to the fair, but his plan is quashed.

Lacking any reason not to, the party trudges up to the tomb of Caloric, founder of Redstone.
They see a large stone structure, apparently partly sunk into a swamp.
They also see BULLYWUGS
Battle ensues.