The Importance of Being Honest

Be me, swashbuckler with courtier background

be not me, bard who is basically Asher Roth meets Dennis Reynolds, fighter who's hiding the fact that he's a prince in this area.

participate in pirate raid, acquire loads of gold and rescue a wizard who tells us it's cursed.

we can get rid of the curse by buying things from the undead.

mfw we already spent half of it on a bender in the last town.

return, ask for our money back. Tell them we're going on an epic booze run for them.

successful persuasion, they agree, but keep our boat as collateral

head out with new captain Daniel-San, owner of a sweet boat and an even sweeter rhinestone, pinstripe velour gi.

btw, we're stealing that boat after this is over

find the island of undead and cannibals.

debate the best way to make sure gold makes it to the undead.

bard has brilliant plan to dress up as a zombie merchant, with the rest of us as living thralls. He has the best disguise kit and likes to play dress up.

rolls badly on persuasion to convince swashbuckler this is a good idea. She goes along begrudgingly

get to the dock. There are no zombies here, only ghouls and wights.

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bard attempts to mimic zombies anyway.

things are not going well, so swashbuckler sheds thrall costume and goes off with enough gold to get Iron Maiden drunk.

meanwhile, bard decides to just tell the truth to the harbormaster. He isn't a zombie, but we still have a load of gold to spend

big spender is still a big spender, despite ignorance of undead culture.

get invited to town leader's monthly banquet

cannibal island, so long pig is on the menu.

swashbuckler gets it, fighter gets it, bard gets it but doesn't give a shit.

after dinner, town leader confronts us on why we brought so much gold into town.

sees through all our bullshit.

eventually, tell her the truth. She seems to take it pretty well. Offers "mutually beneficial" scheme where we get to keep all the goods that we bought plus a nice bonus if we manage to kill the vampire outside of town.