Onadbyr Arson Investigation

Arson Investigation
Date	7/22/23
Storyteller	Indi
Tier	Trainee, Easy
Player Characters	Jemerov, Damian, Siltmean, Aleth, Alan, Explosylva
Rewards	250 exp, 10 gold each, Coldstone
Result	Success
Author	Username

Log

So, we totally had to investigate a fire or something. So we met up with whoever was dishing it out, which I totally forgot their name but it was pretty bland I am sure. They told us there was a bunch of fires and we had to investigate the stadium or something. I wasn't really paying attention at this part. We were assigned a babysitter who was like a mask wearing person with a tail. Don't know, don't care. Anyway we traveled to the stadium and found a way in since it was boarded up but not decaying. Anyway we go down there and eventually find a light coming from a door. There was a little fireguy shooting fireballs at a little shotput. We tried talking to them but it didn't work out and they just left. Eventually something happens and our party splits one group going after the fire guys, me and the rat and that damien guy I guess. The other group went after like a wagon with people who ran when they saw us. It was a whole thing. We chased down the fire guys, there were two, who were in the process of burning a building down with glass. and stuff. Anyway we expertly destroy them without any complications of course. Since we are that cool. The other guys held up a bunch of children trying to sell icecream and stole the stone that was keeping their icecream cold. Honestly I think they're a buncha assholes for that but whatever. After that there were no fires for a week so we solved it. But they started happening again, so I guess they're back. Oh well. Good luck

Addendum by Aleth

The smugglers (a child, a teenager, and an adult) and their contraband (an assortment of berry ice creams) were confiscated by our minder, Satori. We were left with the cold, blue stone. I am assured the ice cream was put to good use. The cold from the stone was drawn from the elemental planes, just as the fire was, and moreover, the fire creatures were hunting for a hot, red stone at the sites where the fires were started. There may yet be a connection.

Onadbyr Arson Investigation Redux
Date	9/7/23
Storyteller	Indi
Tier	Trainee, Easy
Player Characters	Kasumi, Lunaris, Taru, Kagari
Rewards	250 exp, 5 gold each, Hotstone
Result	Success
Author	Kasumi

Second Expedition (Onadbyr Arson Investigation Redux)

Upon receiving news of continued arsons and responding to a request for further investigation into the matter, I, Kasumi, and my colleagues, Lunaris Taru and Kagari, first set to retrieval of the coldstone after reading the above notes about a possible connection. Finding it amongst an abandoned shopping cart, the stone had been used to furnish the home of a nesting creature in the wreckage. Lunaris identified the peculiar creature, adapted to cold environments, as the walking fish known as a "Red Herring." Seeing as it posed little relevance to the investigation, we moved our queries to the Upper Sacks. Our first inclination was to ask locals around the most recent blaze, witnessed by an elderly halfling gentlemen who made residence nearby who pointed the location of the first site. It was here that we found the first obsisdian stone and a pair of small footprints leading away from crime scene; though, they would lead nowhere in particular. Our next point of interest was the Colosseum, where we found a burnt out piece of wood used to bar the location. Resizing the entrance so we could squeeze within, we followed similar ashy footprints through the complex to a spectator box on the third level. Opening the door revealed a room hallowed out by a past blaze, so fragile that even the act of opening the door caused it to collapse into the room underneath. In sorting through the wreckage did our first suspect reveal themselves: a short grey skinned, grey bearded figure of small size. He would wield a wands of his own creation that would play relatively harmless pranks on a target upon spellcast. After cornering and questioning the suspect, it became clear that he was not responsible for the arsons, but he did produce a Greap in exchange for colored chalk. The Greap, a tiny fire sprite, urged us to follow it towards a well despite not sharing a language. At this location, we found a second Greap trapped within bucket floating inside. After reuniting the pair, we allowed them to guide our investigation. They went from locale to locale seeking those obsidian stones without regard for items and locales surrounding them. Knowing from the past investigation that simply defeating the pair would not permanently solve the issue, we aided them in seeking their stones while preventing further fires from breaking out. Upon presenting them the coldstone obtained earlier, they channeled heat into it to change its properties to that of a heatstone. They would lead us to one final destination: a home they had carved out in the cellar of a building just east of the Ashenforge Clan Hall. A whole colony of flame sprites had made home within a bonfire that wanted for fuel inside the building. The pair of Greaps would use the heatstone as some manner of home for what we can assume is their family, performing a ritual to hide them all away within the heated stone. Said stone in safe hands, it is our beliefs that the culprits of these arson has been identified and dealt with, and that no more harm to come to Onadbyr because of this pair of incidental arsonists. - Kasumi