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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 688528" data-attributes="member: 301">Outside, Foleful found Krikara waiting for him.  She held a small gallon barrel, which she had taken from the possessions of Solon the cat-demon.  She explained that she had detected magic in the beer so she had gotten a sample for Foleful to examine.  A few quick object loresight spells, cast safely out of earshot of the bar patrons revealed that the beer had been brewed two weeks before by Pankwig, and that it was contaminated with some form of contagion.  Each member of the party felt a dead weight in the pit of their stomach as they realized that they had drank the contaminated brew.   Kriggle, who was presumably immune immediately cast cure disease on Foleful and Atarax, “May the blessings Kurtlmack be upon you.”  Unfortunately he did not have sufficient magic to heal Thar and Rhuun.  Foleful immediately ran back into the bar.  The bar patrons dived for cover as he yelled, “The beer is contaminated!”Pankwig cursed at Foleful, only becoming angrier when he saw Kriggle, riding Mighty Steed, following close behind Foleful.Atarax quickly positioned himself between Foleful and Bite, the ogre bouncer who appeared prepared to rip the xvart in half, “Now Bite, there’s no need to fight.”   [Game Note: The whole group cheered at this point.  For the last several sessions we’d all been waiting impatiently for Atarax’s spells to work on someone besides another party member.]“Get out,” snarled Pankwig, “My beer is fine.”  “My magical powers tell me different.”As Foleful confronted Pankwig, Krikara attempted to slip behind the bar, only to be stopped by the orcish bouncer Torelk.  Now everyone began talking at once.  Pankwig yelled at Foleful and Kriggle.  Foleful yelled back at Pankwig.  Torelk pushed Krikara along with the point of his sword.  Thar spoke quickly, assuring Kriggle that this was not the time to fight, “These are the friendliest people we’ve met.  They’re not very friendly, but still…”Eventually Pankwig, with Bite's help herded the party out the door, but not before agreeing to allow Thar to come back with Atarax so he could play again.  As the party exited the bar for the second time they realized that Krikara had slipped away in the confusion.  Knowing their resourceful rogue, they withdrew a short distance from the bar and waited.  A short time later the darkcreeper emerged from the bar.  She explained that she had snuck into the room above the bar.  She found several barrels of water and two of beer, all non magical except for a something she had found at the bottom of the second barrel of beer.  She handed Foleful a coin with a foaming mug emblazoned on it.  She had not been able to determine if the beer in the tun which fed the taps downstairs was magical.Foleful was about to cast a spell on the coin when Thar pointed out, “Maybe we shouldn’t identify the stolen property right in front of the place we stole it.”  The party walked through Freetown as Krikara described her exploration of the bar.    Soon they stopped and Foleful cast several object loresight spells.  He learned that the coin had been crafted seventy-four years ago by a drunken orcish wizard named Dypso.  Its only magical ability is to convert water into beer.  After a quick conference, the party decided to put aside their investigation of the contaminated beer for the time being and go to Sanctuary.  Just outside Sanctuary they encountered a patrol, who recognized them as the party who had attacked a Sanctuary patrol a few days before.   However, Atarax quickly smoothed over the problem by placing all blame for the earlier incident on the cat-demons.The patrol accompanied the party to Sanctuary, explaining as they went that everyone who entered the community had to give a sample of their blood.  The blood was then tested by ‘Aunty Em,’ who could tell if the blood was contaminated by the rat disease.  The process took about a week.  Atarax revealed that the party believed they knew the source of the disease, and the patrol agreed to take them to see Zorn.The patrol lead the companions to a large cave where an orcish monk was training twenty-five other humanoids, mostly goblins.  The orc, who was introduced as Zorn refused to talk to the party until they had given blood to be tested.  With some reluctance the party agreed.Zorn was very interested to learn about the contaminated beer.  He took a sample that Krikara offered him and promised to look into it.  When Foleful began challenging Zorn about the laws of Sanctuary he clutched his head, clearly in pain.  Zorn quickly recovered, but he refused to continue the conversation and invited the party to rest while he finished his class.</blockquote>

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