Exploring Caim, Gift quickly became enamored with the myriad aspects of city life they'd never experienced before, including a chicken cart and a gnome in a top hat giving a performance with clockwork automatons
The gnome, Master Thespian Drimble Quickwhistle, saw the potential in the group to be great stage performers, and asked them to lunch after Gift helped garner interest in the theatre from a wealthy patron.
At lunch, they were introduced to Gorkle, a gully dwarf assisting Drimble, and Drimble promised the group to get their Papers of Populace sorted if they would perform a single show that evening for the wealthy patrons of Caim.
Agreeing, Gorkle and May went to get Gift its papers and establish careers for the entire group in the Travelers of Fortune company
Meanwhile, Eden, Gift, and Zeb made their way to the Dancing Shadows Theatre, where Drimble walked them through a show called "Shores of Cradle Loch," which utilized Zeb's changeling powers to deliver a unique take of a performance.
The rehearsals were interrupted when a goblin named Toadstool show up with a couple cronies and demanded everyone clear out, claiming Drimble was flat broke and the theatre belonged to his boss
The group fought the goblins off but Drimble admitted the patrons for the night's performance were his only hope of retaining ownership of the Dancing Shadows
Lady Rin, the wealthy patron wowed by Gift earlier in the day, witnessed the scrap, and Eden's quick thinking convinced her it was part of the performance
However when Gift didn't bow to her whims, she stormed off
Eden used her connection to an Aarakocran selling Copperswill to bring some audience members to the theatre, but without Lady Rin, there was not enough interest to save the theatre
Giving a performance to be remembered, the group sat with Drimble as he lamented the loss of his theatre, but celebrated the new friends he had made.
Drimble gave the group a name of a contact in the Ionlann who may help them locate the Nefaria criminals they're after.
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