04/14/2023
Tough As Dirt tasked the Daughters of Eve to look into the disturbance in the divine energies they'd felt, hoping to pin point a location they could pursue
In the meantime, they decided to investigate the barrels of bones at Izzy the Blacksmith's shop Varsmack had found earlier
Arriving at the blacksmith shop, the group poked around and found a hidden door in the floor which housed around a dozen Lizardfolk stashed away beneath the forge
The group soon discovered Izzy had brought the lizardfolk into Cypress through a tunnel she'd dug beneath the wall and had been feeding them monkeys, thus the bones
Tough As Dirt managed to coerce Izzy into divulging her plans: attack a garrison of Tidal Guard to expose the many issues with their armor which, in her opinion, was more ornate and made for aesthetics than actual quality. She seemed to have a history of making armor and felt betrayed by the beautiful armor of the Tidal Guard
The group planned on turning Izzy into the authorities but an escape attempt on her part lead to her unfortunate demise
Gideon and Ricco took care of the lizardfolk beneath the forge by dispatching them all from above
Wanting to see where the tunnel Izzy had dug lead, the group followed it out into the jungle where they met a massive crocodile, who darted into the tunnel and ran into Cypress
Tough As Dirt followed after to find the croc was actually a shapeshifter named Roach, a semi-famous Relic Hunter who wanted to enter the city quietly as he had a lead on a relic in a nearby distillery and didn't want any other hunters catching on
The group committed themselves to helping Roach find the relic while they waited for Dahlia to finish her work in discovering the cause of the divine disturbances.