So, after having dealt with the dwarf, they rested, and with a visit at Lavinia's gained a new companion: The french woman Celeste. Ayna didn't understand any of the gibberish she spoke, and had to be convinced that Celeste was in fact not mentally retarded. With that, they left to pursue their next clue, Parrot Island.
Gold was sent scouting, which meant that Malfeitor went to rob a library, and Ayna followed. To gain entrance, Malfeitor got Ayna crying to distract the guards, with the lie of that Santa Claus don't exist. This was followe by two fairly incompetent guards wanting to rescue Ayna from Sunshine, or perhaps Sunshine from Ayna, they weren't quite sure which one was the case.
However, after enough sidetracking, they returned to Parrot Island, and went into the old smuggle island... and were promptly locked in. Ayna was getting excited over this adventure.
After wading through old, still and murky waters, killing Zombie Pirates and encountering two, as Ayna calls them, "Shadies" (A Priest and a Oracle), they found the corpse of Penkus, an affiliate of Vanthus. Onto his dead body he held a note, telling of Vanthus crime, how Vanthus had murdered Penkus. However, that's not what Malfeitor told Ayna. He told Ayna that this was Santa Claus list of good kids, and she was not part of it. Gold tried to convince Ayna that this wasn't the case, but when Celeste backed up Malfeitor, Ayna didn't know whom to believe. Gold almost broke down completely in frustration.
After that, the group ventured outside again through some underwater tunnels. There, they parted with the rather zelous cleric and rather naive Oracle. They went to sleep, only to visit Lavinia the next day. There, once again, Malfeitor tricked Ayna. This time he made her believe that cookies are bad, and since Ayna likes cookies, she's bad too. And that's why she's not on Santa's list. And the only way to repent is to crumble the cookies. Ayna was almost crying in childish grief by the time Gold comforted her. But yet again, Celeste backed up Malfeitors statement. This was turning out to be a rather dysfunctional party.
However, after visiting Lavinia, Gold and Ayna went looking for a new house to live in. However, they were all too expensive, so they went back to their quest, and when Gold left to search for information, she left Ayna in Celeste's care... So Celeste promptly drugged Ayna. That was back in Gold's shed, and Ayna was on speed for a long time. How Celeste managed to not go insane remains a mystery. Malfeitor however was attacked by a hyper Ayna upon entering the shed, and he pushed Ayna away so that she fell upon the floor and hurt herself. And not too long after that, she fell asleep.
When she woke up, she was in a room she'd never seen before. Gold was sleeping beside her, full of gunshot wounds and blood dried in her clothes. Ayna reasoned that Gold probably wants to sleep, and remained quiet until Gold awoke. Apparently, they were in an inn, whose owner Gold was a close friend too. The Oracle was there too. Ayna still didn't like her. She's shady.
As it turns out then, both Gold and the Oracle half-mwangi girl are going to work here for a while. So Ayna sits in a corner and watch half-drunk men harass the newly hired Oracle maid, and not harass Gold (whom had been working here for quite some time before). Then Malfeitor enter. After ordering some alcohol with pig's blood in it, the owner asked Gold to ask Malfeitor to leave. Gold however arranged so that Malfeitor could stay in her room. And, after a while, Gold suddenly ran away from the inn. Ayna reacted quickly, and rode after her on Sunshine. After a while, they encountered Malfeitor, with the rat Gold usually carry around with. Following that, they moved on to their next clue, the preservatorium. Meeting with a man in a store filled with exotic, preserved animals, Malfeitor talked a little bit to him, trying to nestle himself into the network the store owner had. It ended with Malfeitor buying a preserved black wyrmling, going home and placing it there, returning to the shop, and then he killed the owner and nailed him to the wall. Sunshine couldn't help wondering what sent through the minds of the prime material planers. However, the party proceeded through a secret door, and discovered the trap door leading underground into some sort of spanish syndicate. After killing 5 members and burning the preservatorium to the ground, Malfeitor and Gold went to buy a house.
But buying a house isn't too easy, even for a tiefling, so Malfeitor and Sunshine had to chase him down. Then Ayna watched as Malfeitor gently threatened and scared the salesman into giving Malfeitor the deed for 200 gold. Which meant he got it for free. This would have been a good end, if the police hadn't come knocking on their door the next day, taking the Oracle (who has turned into Gold's slave and sleeps in the kitchen), Gold and Ayna (together with Sunshine) to the arrest.
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