Shenanigans Episode 132

Recap
Day 1 Doreen is playing cards with Borch and Glib Glob and winning.

A halfling named Ham comes into Shenanigans and wants to hire heroes to slay a barbarian vampire. His village is over in the Petalwater River in the Halfling Riverlands.

Doreen accepts the job and travels up to Kurshwikk.

Day 2 They arrive in Kurshwikk. Doreen buys a rowboat.

Day 3 They take a boat to the riverlands and ride the rowboat up the Petalwater River. They pull up on the beach and a giant crab comes out. Doreen tries to communicate with the crab but accidentally insults the giant crab, and battle starts. The crab can't break though Doreen's armor, as Doreen hammers the crab. Doreen lets the crab retreat.

Ham takes Doreen to their village up the river and in the evening they arrive. After some dinner Doreen goes to bed, and tells the others to wake her if anything bad happens.

Nothing happens overnight.

Day 4 Doreen and Ham talk. Ham talks about his girlfriend, Sugar, was the last person killed, and that was a few days ago. When asking around time it seems the attacks happen once every 2 weeks, but sometimes after 6 days. Ham says that Sugar was killed 8 days ago.

Doreen asks about if there is a common location to the attacks or witnesses. Sugar's mother who had been in the next room hadn't heard anything. The previous victim, Turnip, was killed near the river with no one around. Cabbagepatch the victim before that was killed in the 2nd storey of her home. The MO is a limb being ripped off and then drinking the body from the breakage.

Doreen and Ham head over to Cabbagepatch's house to talk with her brother, Chocolate. Chocolate says the the attacker toennails were grarled, and hair on their legs, and wore a loincloth like a barbarian, Chocolate was hiding under a bed so they didn't see the upper half, but saw their waist was 3 feet high, so human height. The attacker spoke in a rough language similar to dwarven, but not the language of magic. As the attacker left, Chocolate heard the sound of bats.

Doreen figures the babarian vampire, if they don't transform into a faster creature, has to have a lair 12 miles away in order to make it to the halfling village and back before nightfall.

Ham leads Doreen to the Mayor of the Village, a Marshmallow. Doreen recommends a voluntary curfew to Mayor Marshmallow in order to protect the population from the vampire, as well as curtains closed on every window at night so they can't be charmed by the vampire to allow them inside.

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Significant NPCs

 * Ham - Halfling whose village is being attacked by a barbarian vampire
 * Cassandra of the Stone Men - Barbarian Vampire. Released during Gnomes, Tomes & Catacombs.

Signifcant Locations

 * Bergshire - Shenanigans