Harrow picked a pepper from the pile while watching Osborn's unfortunate rise and fall. With a grin, he pops it into his mouth.

Pepper: 5
Constitution: 14

Harrow's pepper is... hot? But manageable. He eats it. It's pretty spicy, but he can handle it.

"Well!" booms Vi. "Perhaps we have a contender after all!"

Walt is up next!  (One d10 and one CON Save.)

Walt likes hot food, but after seeing Rycroft’s reaction to their pepper, Walt seems a bit worried. 

He closes his eyes, grabs a pepper and devours it. 

D10: 10

Con save: 16

And worried he should be. Walt finds his pepper to be excruciatingly hot. Exceedingly hot. So hot that his eyes water and he gasps for air. So hot that he starts to profusely sweat. Scorching, sizzling, sweltering, scalding, searing, smoking hot. So hot that he feels like he might die. Like Rycroft, for a moment everyone's face transforms into an empty skull. It's intense. Yet somehow he manages to down the pepper. (Disadvantage on the next saving throw he makes during the challenge.)

"A little steamy?" chimes in Vi with a smile. The crowd roars with approval. "Round TWO! Help yourself to your next pepper!"

Harrow, Walt, and Rycroft may pick another pepper and roll again. d10 to pick the pepper, CON save to eat it. (Disadvantage on the latter for Walt and Rycroft but not Harrow.)

Harrow grins to his two companions for a moment before clocking their expressions. "After this, we'll find something to cleanse the palate," he says with a gentler smile. "I imagine some of these are less spicy than the others, so perhaps the next one will be kinder, huh?" After giving Rycroft a sympathetic pat on the back, he grabs another pepper and pops it into his mouth with only a little hesitation.

Pepper: 8
Constitution: 12

This one is bad. Just when Harrow thinks he just might be able to choke it down, another towering wave of heat arrives. 
Harrow: Make a second CON save for this pepper, this one at Disadvantage. (DC 7 to ultimately swallow it.)

Walt and Rycroft may also pick a pepper.

Harrow's brow beads with sweat, and he stares at that glass of milk as he attempts to down the pepper.

Constitution: 9

Harrow chokes it down. Barely. (Disadvantage on your next CON save.)

Round 2, continued:
Walt and Rycroft may pick another pepper and roll again. d10 to pick the pepper, CON save to eat it. (Disadvantage on the latter for both.)

Walt barely held it together there. He flaps opening his robe to no avail. In a last ditch effort to vent the heat, he strips out of his robe and undershirt and sits back down at his spot in his loose fitting skivvies.

”Phew…now that’s better. Couldn’t be much worse than that. I believe that seared off my taste buds!”

Walt scans the peppers and picks what he believes to be a winner and gulps it down.

 D10: 7

Con save with disadvantage: 7

Walt eats the next pepper. It, too, is brutally, roastingly hot. He suffers a white-hot searing sensation as it goes down. What's even worse is the flamethrower-like belch that follows. (If Rycroft didn't already have disadvantage on his next save, he would now!) Walt will have disadvantage on his next save, as well.

Vi claps his hands together with delight. "Manners, now! Is it too spicy? Tell us!"

Rycroft is up next! He may pick another pepper and roll again. d10 to pick the pepper, CON save (with disadvantage) to eat it. 

Rycroft pounds the table as his pepper burns and makes some unrecognizably garbled noises. He shakes his head and grabs as different looking a pepper as possible, pausing a moment before popping it in his mouth.

D10: 4

Con save (disadvantage): 13

Rycroft finds the next pepper not nearly so hot. He polishes it off almost effortlessly. 

"We still have three standing! Keep going, guys! You're doing great!" encourages Vi. "Final round!"

- Round Three –

Everyone may choose your final pepper. d10 to pick the pepper, CON save (Walt and Harrow disadvantage) to eat it. 

"One last...pepper. Down the hatch."

Walt scans the peppers, trying his best to pick something that looks different that what he and Harrow have been selecting throughout the contest. He makes his selection, takes a deep breath and pops it in his mouth.

D10: 3

Con save with disadvantage: 7

Walt eats his final pepper. Still recovering from the last one, he finds his mouth too numb to object. He polishes it off. A winner!

The crowd erupts at Walt's victory.

Harrow and Rycroft may choose their final pepper. d10 to pick the pepper, CON save (Harrow at  disadvantage) to eat it. 

Rycroft, emboldened and fearless but still sweating from the first pepper, goes for his third.

D10: 4

Con save: 13

Walt, erupts into tears of happiness. He's more elated that this ordeal is over, rather than the victory itself, but he's quite happy nonetheless. Despite his aching backside and scorching hot belly, Walt breaks out into a little victory jig. 

As he's dancing he spots Rycroft reaching for the unbearably hot pepper from earlier and he tries to intervene but it's too late.

"Oh NO! Not that one...," Walt exclaims ,"oh my. Oh my oh my. Poor boy."

He watches his poor, brave friend swallow the pepper and the mere sight of it triggers Walt's acid reflux.

Harrow roars with the crowd as Walt finishes his third pepper and does a little jig. He beams at his friends with a red face and a numb smile as he takes his last pepper and, looking into the crowd with theatrical dread, dramatically lowers it into his mouth with one hand before biting down.

Pepper: 3
Constitution: 2

Rycroft bites into his next pepper. It's red hot, white hot, blisteringly hot. It's blazing, broiling, burning, brutally hot. Incandescently hot. Thesaurusly-challenged hot.

And... he can't quite do it. He lunges for the milk in sudden panic.

"Oooooo..." shouts the crowd in highly-entertained horror as Rycroft's top half practically erupts in flames.

"I'm so, so sorry..." begins Vi, trying to suppress a smirk.

Harrow nearly loses it as well. The pepper isn't particularly hot, but his body has had enough. Only his above-average constitution allows him to finally swallow it.

"Another winner!" shouts Vi triumphantly. The crowd roars with wild delight.

(We have two winners - Harrow and Walt. They each now have a Renown score of 2. Everyone else in the party has a score of 1.)

Vi's assistants bring everyone big bowls of creamy yogurt, which definitely helps quench the fires. Vi claps Rycroft on the back and whispers warm words of appreciation for being a good sport. Osborn is nowhere to be seen. 

The room begins to break up. Members of the crowd begin to approach Harrow and Walt to deliver their congratulations as they leave the tent.

Walt notices Kasem wander in and whisper something to his brother Vi, who returns a concerned look. Kasem departs as quickly as he came.

--

Meanwhile, Tuuli continues to listen to a disheveled Kusa continue to rant, her mood rather dark, as she cleans up and tries to reopen her stall for business.

Walt puts back on his robe, checks in on Rycroft making sure he’s fine. He even offers Rycroft some of his yogurt to ease his discomfort.

While mingling with the crowd he spots Kasem and Vi having their conversation off to the side. 

Walt had concerns about Kasem’s intentions all along, especially after he tried to dissuade the group from partaking in games even though his family runs one of the games themselves!

He approaches Vi and does a little digging. 

“Vi! That was a most invigorating game. Thank you and Kasem for putting on such a good show. Where did Kasem run off to? I saw him just now chatting with you. He sure is a slippery fella.”

Insight check on VI’s response: 7

"Oh, Kasem had to get back to the stall. It's best for at least one of us to be there. We had a little fight earlier, and I think this was his way of apologizing - sharing a little gossip. It seems two dozen vanilla buns are missing from Vada’s Otherworldly Goods, and a trail of powdered sugar leads to Tyenmo Noodle Bowl." He shrugs and smiles. He pauses for a moment and sighs. But then he seems willing to open up a little to the winner of his game. "I'm getting married and moving to a distant land where my betrothed lives - way out at the Temple of Ember. Kasem is angry about it. He told me I'm making a mistake by leaving the family business. So we had a little tiff. We're good now I think."

Walt doesn't sense that Vi's trying to mislead him. The vanilla bun story comes across as light gossip; but his upcoming marriage, leaving the business, and the fight with his brother seem like they weigh on his mind.