Okay so this is more so I can look back on this later more than anything else.
I went to PAX Unplugged with some friends and played a bunch of Acquisitions Incorporated games. We missed our first session on Friday - Night at the Theater because of some weird line and enforcer stuff but we had 2 more sessions that day anyways. I played Kadruk Stonesetter, the Half-Orc Documancer Barbarian.
First session was Silver Star. The sheriff of Delver’s Run was incompetent but free and AI wanted to move in and get paid for the same job. Cue our party. Me, the dwarf fighter decisionist, and the dwarf cleric obviator. We also ran into these two guys who were great to play with (we offered to play with them in the Epic the next day and we ended up doing so)- a sorcerer, and a kenku wizard. Now, normally kenkus only can mimic, but this kenku had memorized an entire encyclopedia and parroted it back in text-to-speech tone. The kenku’s name was Hawking. (We also had another character that I forgot what he was). We were presented with 3 missions- explore, market, schmooze. We split into teams of two, and the fighter and I went off to do marketing... We ended up coming up with the scheme of me causing problems in the market. then he would come save the day in the name of Acquisitions Incorporated. Neither of us had much Charisma, but as players we had plenty, and the DM was cool with us roleplaying it instead of having to roll, so I underpriced an item and got feisty before my friend came to shoo me off and reassure the merchants (this started a trend of RP). We got leads for jobs from each of the 3 missions, which resulted in offers for getting a cat down from a tree, ridding the bar of rats, and stopping a bank robbery that would happen. Our initial plan was to get the cat to take care of the rats then go thwart the robbery, but as we went for the cat and our dwarf fighter (Godric) climbed the tree, he discovered it had been eaten by a bigger, more murdery cat that was now attacking us. after we hit it a few times and it laid into our dwarf, he faced it and said “here, kitty kitty” and proceeded to crit the cat, killing it in one hit. This phrase then became a beautiful multi-context phrase to mimic for our kenku friend (he also mimicked accents/voices for lines he learned so it was even better). We then went to stop the bank robbery.
We waited until the robbers came up in their carriage, then once they went in we broke the carriage to prevent their escape, and attempted to place them under arrest. They resisted, so we began clobbering them until they were all knocked out. As we were working on the final two, the sheriff ran up, we commended him on his response time but then ripped into him for missing his first shot, which afforded us the ability to finish the last two off before he was able to do anything competent. Afterwards there was a conversation and we managed to get him to say all the necessary words for “I Aubrin Fiorente (his name) stole the gold.”
Smash cut to the sheriff election, we’re presenting our case to the town council and 3 young deep crows come running through the street. We of course say “Excuse us, job to do, enjoy the demo!” and immediately drop 2 crows before they could do anything and the other the following turn. Hawking had been waiting around the corner for the sheriff to come, and he came as the crows did. After failing to put him to sleep, Hawking cast Fog Cloud, then Disguise Self’d himself as the sheriff. They both walked out of the cloud and we then had a riotously hilarious “no I’m the real sheriff” bit. At that point we ran out of time and had to end, but not before the fake sheriff got off the “I Aubrin Fiorente stole the gold.”
