[08e02] A Circus of an Investigation
- Ozborn wakes up; runs into the Grandmaster of Earth in the SPI HQ. The monk tells him that it is a good thing Ozborn woke up, because he and Callisto are needed by their friends now. “I see the tapestry of fate. If you do not join them, you will not be happy with how matters proceed.” Ozborn wakes up Cal, they talk to Mallory, and head out.
- Ozborn snags a pixie after a slam-dunk hop and hands the pixie to Freki.
- We pepper the pixies with persistent petitions.
- Freki freaks and summons his birds. The pixies scatter!
- Vondal wakes up in a trash heap. “Not again!” He is almost eaten by some kind of trash monster (otyugh). A Kenku bird-man (Weezer) stops the trash monster from doing so.
- Also, Vondal is a pony now.
- Ghensh goes to investigate. But then, the golem Squatch says his tummy hurts. Ozborn asks to look at it. The golem is agreeable. The part that hurts is weirdly… squishy. Ozborn and Callie decide to do an “exploratory-investigatory surgery.” Ozborn attempts to bribe the golem with a ball bearing, but the Kenku bird-man runs over and steals it.
- Vondal and the bird-man talk about shinies. He accuses the pixies of stealing his shiny disguise hat.
- Callie cuts open the golem and Bec notices that it has a fresh interior wound. Afterwards, Meroe and Panthea come over angry and Callie uses a heal wounds spell to mend the golem. Meroe is reluctantly thankful.
- The party interviews Panthea and Meroe again in some depth. They suss out that there was a past incident of Zombozo getting “out of control,” which Panthea is … TODO
- [other things that have been forgotten in the mists of time]
- The party presses Meroe increasingly harder. She becomes agitated, and decided to pull the trigger on her trap: a wired underground infrastructure of bombs. The ground from her desk explodes outward and collapses, exposing the underground lair of the landsharks Fair and Foul.