JOSÉ RAMÍREZ SLIDE shirt
The PCs are allowed cordially into the club, with a statement that they’re on the VIP list. Nervously, but graciously, they accept the JOSÉ RAMÍREZ SLIDE shirt and walk on in. They get their first round of drinks on the house, and the DJ, Lady Alushinyrra, makes a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT to the club, asking the whole crowd to welcome tonight’s Starfinders to the Neon Queen. Disconcerted by how… friendly… their enemies are being, the party decides to enjoy themselves while poking around for information. Problem! There are agents in the club. I mean, two NPCs who have Agent class levels and can use an equivalent of sneak attack with their electric truncheons. With the crowd to act as cover and a ludicrous amount of noise booming through the club, it’s practically perfect cover to stealthfully remove the PCs. Two of them get sneak-attacked, one of them gets beaten down to around half health — in the middle of the dance floor, no less, which counts as Difficult terrain.
JOSÉ RAMÍREZ SLIDE shirt
Angry at having his time wasted, he throws accusations of JOSÉ RAMÍREZ SLIDE shirt at Flaherty and disbelief at Corwin’s claim that the bag is supernatural. Dundee challenges Corwin to produce a bottle of cherry brandy, vintage 1903. Corwin reaches into the bag to hand Dundee his exact request, and is set free. He continues to distribute gifts until midnight, when the bag is empty. A man named Burt, whose desired pipe and smoking jacket had come from Corwin’s bag, sees Corwin again and points out that Corwin himself has not received a gift. Corwin says that if he had his choice of any gift at all, “I think I’d wish I could do this every year”. Returning to the alley where the gift-laden bag had presented itself, he encounters an elf sitting in a large reindeer-hauled sleigh, waiting for him. Realising that his wish has come true and he is now the real Santa Claus, Corwin sits in the sleigh and sets off with the elf. Emerging from the precinct, Flaherty and Dundee, now slightly tipsy from Corwin’s brandy, look upward upon hearing the tinkle of bells and see Corwin, in Flaherty’s words, “big as life, in a sleigh with reindeer, sittin’ next to an elf”, ascending into the night sky. Dundee invites Flaherty to accompany him home and share some hot coffee, with brandy poured in it, adding, “…and we’ll thank God for miracles, Flaherty…