Circus folk: nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
We went to a circus! Okay, so we were investigating something and were poking around a bit, but we also got time to watch a show and even bluffed our way behind the scenes, letting us sniff around inside to see if we could spot anything amiss. It was all jolly good fun.
Well, until we got back to our inn for the evening and found that we were collectively missing a Pearl of Power and two Rings of Protection. I thought circuses had enough rings already! Thieving bastards. The clowns scared the crap out of me as well.