The Night stone (The late night crew)

Drakilfest

"Just look at all these dwarves." Russ said.
"Yeah. I'm jealous of their beards." Ziegs joked.
"Hey look, there's the inn." Cheyenne pointed out.
They headed into the inn, they couldn't read what the front sign said because it was in Dwarvish.
"Ah, hello travelers." The innkeeper greeted. He was about 5"1 and had a long red beard that went to his stomach.
"We would like rooms." Cry said.
"Of course. For the 6 of you it will be 20 gold per night."
Cheyenne got out her coin purse and handed 20 gold to the innkeeper.
"Are you travelers here for drakilfest tomorrow?"
"Huh?" Snake said.
"What's that?" Asked Jund.
"Well in human tongue they call it Christmas and in elf tongue they call it... Whatever they call it in elf tongue. And don't ask me what Orcs call it." The innkeeper informed.
"It's called Tshirmìs." Jund said.
"I never really cared about elf traditions. Nor humans."
"What do dwarfs do on Christmas?" Cry asked out of curiosity.
"Well we drink our livers out on the night before Drakilfest, which would be tonight and then tomorrow we give presents to our friends and family and have feasts."
"Sounds fun." Russ said.
"I would be down for some mead tonight." Zeigs said.
"Well, we should head over to the tavern right now." Russ proposed.
"Hell yeah!" Cry said.

The tavern was decorated for Drakilfest. There were wreaths placed like humans do, but there were also masks lined up along the walls. They each had different emotions but they appeared to be the same person. Many dwarves were there, they were having a blast while drinking with their friends. Humans were there too, but in a smaller amount.
"6 pints of mead." Ziegs told the bartender.
"Aye, coming right up. That will be 6 gold."
Ziegs payed the dwarf and waited.
The other 5 sat down at an empty table.
"It looks pretty in here." Cheyenne said while admiring the decorations
"Not as pretty as you." Cry flirted.
"You're such a dork." Cheyenne said before she kissed Cry.
"Yeah, but I'm your dork." Cry said as they pulled their faces away from each other.
"I think the scenery is nice as well." Snake said.
"I like the masks." Russ added.
Ziegs then came back with 3 pints of mead and placed them before Cry, Russ and Jund. Then she came back with the last 3 which she placed before Snake, Cheyenne, and herself.
Before they drank Russ put up his pint "let us drink, and hope that one day we will find what we are searching for."
"Hoorah!" Everyone else at the table said before taking a drink.

They then proceeded to drink 1 more, and then 2 more, and 3, than 4. The adventurers were pretty much drunk. They all wandered around the bar and chatted with other people and with themselves.
"Snake." Jund said.
"What?" He replied.
"Look up."
Snake looked up above him to see mistletoe in between the 2 elves.
"Shit." Snake swore.
"Do it fast." Jund said.
"Alright."
Snake quickly smooched Jund on the cheek. It was extremely awkward and they both were red with embarrassment.
"I'm going to wash my face off so your germs don't stick to my face." Jund said.
"You do that."
Snake felt like this wasn't something they would talk about again.

"Hey Russ." Ziegs said.
"Yeah?"
"I bet you can't drink more than I can."
"Is this a bet?" Russ asked.
"You bet it is."
Cry and Cheyenne saw that their friends would be doing a drinking contest.
"I want to be in on this." Cry said.
"Cry, you're probably going to lose your money." Cheyenne warned him.
"No I won't! I bet 2 gold on Russ."
"Fine, I'll bet 2 on Ziegs." Cheyenne said.
"I'll put down 5 gold and you'll put down 5 gold." Ziegs told Russ.
"Deal." He said.
They got 5 drinks from the bartender, and they were free since it was for a contest.

Ziegs went first. Chugging it down in 20 seconds. Then went Russ. Then Ziegs went again, more reluctantly. Then Russ again, but he almost gagged. Ziegs went a 3rd time and barley made it. Russ tried his best on his 3rd, but he couldn't keep it down.
"Looks like I'm 5 gold richer." Ziegs said.
"Fine. Take your damn money." Russ said before hiccuping.

.............

They woke up that morning in their rooms in the inn. None of them even remembered going into the inn.
Ziegs and Russ woke up with bad hangovers from their drinking contest. While everyone else either didn't have problems at all or had minor headaches.
"I don't think I can go exploring today." Ziegs groaned.
"Me either." Russ agreed.
"I guess you two can stay here." Cry said. "It's not like there will be anything bad in the caves."
They were exploring an abandoned mine shaft in town in hopes of finding the Night Stone.
"Well, let's hope we can even get in there." Jund said.