Players: Ballad (Aspen), Fic (Catkin), Wan (Rory), Devine (Gowyn)
We arrive at capital city Amdulad to big train station, Mia and Luis in tow
Yorandi is also there
Notice a barricade at the exit where you deposit a ticket
Fic and Wan bought real tickets
Devine bought real ticket with fake ID
Ballad stole a real ticket
Rory is sus for no fucking reason because he’s got a -4 charisma, holds up queue but gets through after holding up queue, we get through as a group
“Yorandi is chill like that”- devine
No portal at Amdulad, it’s being built but not finished yet
There is a reason but Catkin is stupid cat so doesn’t know
Gowyn knows- Kalmia was the first place approached to have a portal, thought it was sus so put it in Acacia Town instead of the capital with the royal family in it
Then the portal was really successful and they felt stupid
Devine (not Gowyn) isn’t real
Can get to Acacia by river or by jungle
River is really long but safer, would take 20 days ish
Journey over rainforest by air would take 2 days but riskier, would have to wait for beginning of month for portal to open
IDs checked carefully, papers and documentation needed etc, tricky to get through portal once we’re in Acacia
Gloria at the river, Mateo at the dragon stables
Luis hates Gowyn
Need supplies to go by the river because it’s a long way, need maps to follow different rivers to get there
Rory explains to Catkin and Aspen how we met Yorandi
Luis and Mia leave, placing bets on if we’ll make it to Acacia Town, Mia has bet against us, Catkin overhears this but doesn’t tell the others
Rory lobs a chunk of mud at Mia for betting against us, it hits her square in the head
Mia is pissed, says the goat will die and she’ll be happy about it
Gowyn tries to offload Sheep on Yorandi to keep it safe, Yorandi doesn’t want it
Yorandi offers to take us to meet a friend who knows the city well, might be able to help
View over the city and palace, roll credits
Big bridge, big hand statues hold up bridge
Yorandi leads us through the city, takes us to meet this friend- tall for a humanoid, small for a nymphanoid, in a hooded poncho, has wings and horns, but everyone sees someone a little different
Yorandi warns us not to tell them any of our slightly illegal dealings, fake ticket etc
Taylo, other name something i couldn’t understand??
It’s Eremi, Taylo is Ghost, other name meant Friend of Fox
Catkin knows those names- Fox references someone in the new Indigo government people, symbol on cloak means Indigo
He broke someone out of a high security prison and smuggled them across the country and through the portal, the person was innocent so he got away with it and he has friends in high places
Everyone except Catkin just thinks this guy is just a regular imp, Catkin knows who they are
Gowyn explains we’re going to Acacia Town and it wouldn’t be safe for the goat, asks for his help to keep the goat safe
Suggests selling the goat to a farmer, but it might get…farmed because goats are eaten in Kalmia
Yorandi and Taylo leave, saying we should get supplies from the market
Catkin calls him deer guy- Gowyn shits himself
Catkin takes us to a decently not scammy market
Gowyn is sunburnt
We go to a dice scam artist, Rory tries to outscam the scammer
He fails, loses 3 coins and 10 energy
Gowyn successfully scams a ball cup game scammer for a whole bag of coins with Rory’s money and then the goat
Rory has 10/10 social skills
Gowyn has a map of Far, sells it and necklace
Someone is watching us??
Gowyn is debt free
Aspen notices someone trying to catch 5 puppies with a net, 2 caught 3 on the run
Dogs are usually strays from upper earth, wolves not domesticated here because of animas, so usually non-magical as from upper earth
Catkin runs away from dogs, Rory goes with, they go to buy earrings for catkin
Gowyn and Aspen go to help with the golden retriever puppies, they want to play
Aspen catches a puppy
Taylo was the suspicious guy watching us, he goes over to Aspen holding a now caught puppy
Taylo is a little sus of aspen?? Asking about journey to acacia town
Suggests maybe not giving the dog back to the catcher, maybe to keep it or give to Taylo, dog catchers not always the best
Taylo takes puppy and walks off, puppy seems happy :D
Gowyn trips over a dog and falls into a bin
The dragon flight would cost 20 coins officially, maybe half that with the Mateo or a dodgy discount
Sheep the Goat now hates Gowyn and bites him, also headbutts Rory but he’s resistant to goat damage
Catkin might know where an inn is??
Rory notices something is off, and hears footsteps behind
We meet a potion seller who’s been robbed, trail of ice magic plants/crystals, Rory runs off after it, the others follow
We chase through the alleys and run into Taylo
Taylo ID checks Rory, asks a security question, it’s all legitimate
Taylo ID checks Gowyn, Gowyn’s ID is dodgy so he’s trying to get out of it
Taylo threatens arrest if he doesn’t hand over the ID (deserved)
Gowyn fucking legs it
Taylo finds the sphinx that ran the cup ball game in a heap, potentially Gowyn has been replaced by a shapeshifter??
Taylo finds out Gowyn is Cold/Dark
Taylo chases after Gowyn with Catkin, Rory falls over immediately, Rory and Aspen catches up with Catkin’s trail of ice magic
ROLL INITIATIVE to fight Gowyn?
Historic moment, rory is first in the party for initiative
Taylo fails to hit Gowyn, Gowyn fails to persuade people of his innocence
Catkin tries to freeze people with ice magic, succeeds initially but it’s reabsorbed? Something is going on
Taylo stabs Gowyn
Rory puts Gowyn in air jail, Gowyn screams that he’s innocent, Rory believes him and holds him a little away from Taylo
Catkin is confused
Aspen makes it rain (literally) on herself
Gowyn escapes and legs it again (smacking Rory on the way)
Catkin tries to figure out what’s going on, then asks the goat’s opinion (baa)
Everyone is chasing after Gowyn, he tries to lose us in the crowd
Chase continues, Catkin is a bit lost, casts ice magic but it works this time?
Taylo is going to kill Gowyn, Gowyn runs away again
Catkin still chasing
Taylo crits Gowyn he’s almost dead?
Rory attacks Taylo
‘Gowyn’ shapeshifts again and runs off, Taylo shows us his face and reintroduces himself as Kai, tells us to find Gowyn and that he’ll sort out the shapeshifter
We go to an inn, Kai pays for our stay and comes to talk to us, gives Gowyn a cold magus stone
Kai explains he knew Gowyn’s animal/dark was sus because his name is a Cold element name
We get long rest at inn