• Me
• Arlis
• Mimsy
• Sylk

We were given instructions to head to Mr. Baloo's Menagerie of Boos in Loudwater. I have no idea what to expect but walking into the space it looked like...a carnival? It seemed entirely overwhelming and the number of people around the space was large and much more than I would think. We were hired to be extra enforcement due to the amount of people and I have no idea what to expect.

There was a stand with the most obnoxiously named sweet treat called a "double-deepfried-ooey-gooey-choco-chunk puff pastry with extra powdered sugar" and that sounds like an absolute mess. It's diabetes that you can hold in your hand. Sylk stopped for some as we found Mr. Baloo, whom looked to be descendant of a werebear. He wanted us to act as "secret shoppers" to be involved in the carnvial to keep check on the clientele that take part in the carnival.

Everything seemed incredibly off with this place. The animals in cages were incredibly malnourished and didn't have any sort of enrichment or proper space for them to move around. Arlie seemed particularly inclined to release the animals--which fair. But releasing malnourished animals in a carnival full of commoners and children is not a very good idea.

We continued wandering around and eventually spotted a particularly drunk person being led behind the larger tent and we had Mimsy take a look. He started making noise and apparently the workers purposefully intoxicate people in order to put them in cages. We asked him what they were doing but rather tahn answering us, he used a whistle to what we now know was signal all the other bugbears at the carnival to begin causing havoc.

The bugbears released the malnourished animals and immediately they started attacking people, exactly what I figured would happen. We managed to take them all out, getting our pay from Mr. Baloo's pockets since he...died. But we all lived.

Lions, Tigers, and Bugbears, Oh My!

15-16 Kythorn, 1502 DR

We were tasked with watching over Mr. Baloo's Menagerie of Boos, a carnival of illusions and monsters visiting Loudwater. Mister Pooh Baloo seemed to be a werebear shifer, with curly blond fur, a red coat, and a loud demeanor. Though Baloo's bugbear employees were upstanding employees, his concern lies in having less obvious guards and muscle. We were told to look out for pickpockets, fights, protesters, and the like.

We noticed the lions, tigers, and bears were not well taken care of. The bugbears seemed rather melancholy to be working the job they did. Regardless of our feelings, we had two hours to wander about before the big top performance. Arlis, Mimsy, Salviron, and myself, Sylk, set out to do our jobs, to the sound of fifty gold per person.

While exploring, we overheard the bugbears mocking us in the goblin tongue. We later noticed inebriated people being escorted by the bugbears out back to a cage. Mimsy disguised himself to learn information, and the rest of us intervened. It seemed the bugbears, led by Ezekiel, wanted to cause a revolution. With the sound of a whistle, the starved animals were released, and the bugbears began capturing civilians.

It was a brutal fight. Ten civilians were lost, along with all of the lions, tigers, and bears, and Mister Baloo. Ezekiel was knocked unconscious to be reported for his crimes. We stayed for the guard report and assisted in some clean up before departing.

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Loot

• 266gp, split as 66gp and 5sp four ways
• Ammunition, +1 (Arlis)
• Emerald Pen (Salviron)
• Mechanical Wonder (Sylk)
• Scroll of Speak With Plants (Mimsy)

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The above information is written to the best of my admittedly concussed memory. -Sylkran "Sylk" Teke'zynge

Party: Mimsy, Sal, Sylk, Arlis
Location: Outskirts of Loudwater

We were told to be undercover guards for Baloo's Managerie circus... thing... I was already getting a bad feeling stepping in there. The crew working under Baloo were all bugbears that you could fuckin' tell didn't enjoy workin' there. The lions and tigers and bears were kept in small cages and looked real unhealthy. I wanted to break 'em out but... with so many people around and Loudwater right over the way... Sal was tellin' me it was a bad idea. He was right of course...

We started doing our rounds and found a drunk guy was being carried off somewhere. Mims disguised himself as somethin' else and pretended to be drunk to go investigate. When we heard him start shouting, we ran over to find that some of the bugbears were tryna put him in a cage. One of the bugbears got hostile real quick and blew a whistle. Then it was on sight. While we were fightin' with the ones behind the circus tent, the ones that were hidin' in the front started stuffing people into crates and barrels and released all the animals. It was a tough fight and... a lot of civilians died... We coulda.. I... could have done a lot better if I scouted around more first... or just... stuck with my gut. Just... fuck. I hate the circus.