The Spunny
An underground fight pit and venue in Cynders, the disreputable lower district of Godmere. Synth war music. Laser-cut smoke. A sand-floored arena ringed by a roaring crowd. The arena’s only stated rule is no magic — though the rule has been observed more in the breach than the keeping.
Above the pit, the venue extends to balconies, corner booths, and a bar where heroes of the night are bought drink after drink until they cannot stand.
A mural of Talos, god of thunder, is painted on one of the upstairs walls.
Connections
- Meeting place arranged in Letter to Bandits — L and Mad Nash were to meet here on the 12th of Harptos to settle up after the ruby heist
- Connected to the Rubies conspiracy
- Part of the Order of the Old Gods (Cult of Orcus) plot
- The figure in red and the woman in blue (The Dawnbringer) were observed in the crowd in Session 12
Known Events
Session 12 — The Spore Pit
Bronn, Strom, and Barnaby fought three dwarves in the pit while peaking on fey mushrooms. To the three of them, the dwarves appeared as a Myconid Sovereign, an Ankheg, and a Myconid Adult — and the no-magic rule had dissolved with everything else they could see. They won the fight and killed the surviving dwarf Asta despite their surrender.
The promised prize horse was downgraded to a pony as a penalty for Bronn’s magic use. They left their weapons at the door without remembering why.
In the same crowd that night were a figure in red and a woman in blue who spoke the word rubies. The party did not chase them.
Session 13 — Aftermath
Bronn returned to the upstairs of the Spunny after the fight and stood for an hour in front of the mural of Talos, swaying. He then bolted out of the venue, snatched a sack of potatoes from a dock-bound trader, and crashed through a nearby bathhouse — knee-deep through the baths, shoulder twice through an upstairs window — before the trip set him down on the cobbles outside.
Strom became the hero of the night. The crowd carried him on drink. He threw stolen jewels into the crowd, declared his love for a dockworker and gave her his fortune, then collapsed at the bar. He woke later, claimed his pony, and rode out into the night topless with a baguette held aloft like a sword.
Barnaby wandered the balconies, then settled in a corner booth before slipping out alone through Cynders toward the well in front of Eldritch College — to read The Butchered Words of Kyoss in private. The night did not stay private. See The Dawnbringer.
Questions
- Who runs the Spunny? Who set the prize? Who chose the dwarves?
- Why was The Dawnbringer in the crowd?
- Why did the figure in red speak of rubies in earshot of the party?