2 February 857
4/10 Session
Camp
We go back to sleep and take turns rotating watch. We wake up in the morning well rested but feeling defeated for getting fucked.
Everquarry
We arrive at the every quarry and the guard doesn’t recognize us but after looking past us he recognizes the donkey and licks his lips. Rothgar Burnswallow approaches with 10 guards and says you were the ones that were here the day of the breakout. Violi genuinely doesn’t know what he is talking about and Rothgar believes this and moves on. They fine out that the oil industry is run by the Royal Crown. Group manager of the operation is (Extremely long dramatic pause) Blazeoli Ignis Ctrl F to search. Otis knows that his island contained a rare material and is able to remember a distant memory being on guard duty and seeing Dulches the leader of Secratis meeting with Blazeoli about handling and storing the material in Secratis while he perfected this material. Violi convinces Rothgar not to kill Abel for treason and to continue the business. Rothgar admits to breeding slave turtles and Violi is cool with it he also admits the deal he is running with Abel is a side deal and could potentially get him killed if the crown guard finds out about it. We catch the guard fucking our donkey again and Violi reports it to Rothgar explaining now the permanent image we have of his business is donkey fucking. Rothgar takes the guard outback and kills him to remove the bad employee. We load up the wagon with “non-descript” barrels filled with oil and we head back to Rethal.
En route to Rethal
We come up on a caravan Otis and Zieg greet them and have lovely polite conversation. They are a free spirited folk that don’t tend to go into cities. (Violi whispers to Mingo “Heh Hippies”). Gemall is one of the community leaders. Larry and Bob are the senior leaders and are the only ones that usually go into the cities and replenish supplies. Bob is a green, tall Genesi and Larry is a short and plump red Genesi that come out. Otis tells them that he is also recently come to experience faith and just went to his first ceremony yesterday at the order of the one. They don’t seem thrilled with The One being his choice of worship. A small orange genesi named Laura and a small green genesi name Junior come out saying they love their community and not to take it away from them. Junior says his dads name is Archibald. 1117 east mark st is their address after Otis asks him. Otis asks if the kids ever wanted to go into the city. They said they’ve never really desired to, jus that they want their god to love everyone very much. Otis convinces them to let him bring them into the city of Rethal
Rethal(10:30pm arrival)
Otis puts the kids on the donkeys as they walk in so they can soak in the city. Otis goes to bring the caravan folk to the Cathedral of Waukeen and splits the party. Barr, Otis and Zieg got together and Violi and Mingo take the delivery toward the observatory. Otis finds a silver coin on the ground to be able to treat the caravan folk to a city meal. Otis offers them a meat and vegetable plate and they ask if they can take the vegetables away appearing visibly disgusted and horrified by it. Otis asks if they don’t like veggies. The kids look terrified at the thought of veggies getting eaten. Otis brings them over to the Cathedral of Waukeen and the caravan expresses interest in converting it to the church of Jesus Christ(It is here that the group puts together that the caravan is actually a dnd portrayal of Veggie Tales…. Tim is less than thrilled, Matt and Ryan struggle to breathe with laughter). Otis says they will not be spreading their worship anywhere near Rethal.
Observatory
Violi and Mingo go to the observatory and knock on the door and Abel answers after a couple attempts of knocking. Able pays them 10 gold for their services. Violi mentions the killing of a guard due to donkey fucking and turns out the donkey fucker was Abel’s son and Abel is heart broken and distraught by finding out the news of his death. Violi tries to console him and he starts rambling about how he doesn’t think he can go on and there a woman on his table and how he may not be able to finish his experiments. Violi doesn’t want to leave him alone and sends Mingo to get Underda to be able to make a meal. Barr, Otis and Zieg arrive at the observatory. Otis tried to console him as well, but the door is left cracked open and a donkey nays outside furthering Abel into his despair. Violi signals to Zieg to shut the door all the way and then he brings Abel over and settles him down on a bench narrowly avoiding a heart attack. Violi goes to an aside and tells Otis and Zieg about the experiments and says to search for info on them while Violi continues to console Abel. Otis and Zieg sneak away and search for information. Zieg opens a door that was just a door. They open the door to the laboratory and they see multiple interplanar paraphernalia and see a woman stretched out on a rack… its Alice. Otis freaks out and caws 3 times and Barr goes running down and Violi continues to attempt to calm Abel, but after rolling a nat 1 he tell Abel the 3 caws is just our signal to come running due to trouble. Abel reveals he is trying to bring her back to life and Violi says well ya keep doing that because that’s our friend. Abel not expecting that response continues to run in place like a Final Fantasy character in an emulator that’s been sped up and ends up having a heart attack. Everyone makes an attempt to stabilize and heroically Barr stabilizes by the narrowest of margins…
Violi brings Abel up to his bed and the rest of the group continues to explore Abel’s lab. They observe about 15 different ways oil being manipulated to try and alter is slightly. There is a note book denoting about 126 failed tests and test 127 is blank. Otis checks out Alice and she is clearly dead with no pulse. Otis picks up a vial of oil and he slips and falls and accidently spills it on her. The droplets of wetness conglomerate toward the chest cavity they reform into a ball of liquid that diffuses into her chest and a glow emanates from in here before it returns to nothing and there is once again silence. Otis gets the idea that the oil is reacting to something in her which appears to be magic. Dead things don’t usually have magic but the oil is reacting to her still which is odd. Violi returns down and starts looking through his notes. He sees that Abel has experimented with non magic items but has been afraid so far of experimenting with magic items thinking it may have made to strong of a concoction. Violi suggest we should probably wait for Abel since we have no idea what we are doing. Otis does a medicine check and recesitates Abel. Zieg shares that Otis spilled oil on her and Abel says that was the first experiment. Abel says she appeared hear suddenly embalmed for what appear 500 years. We share that we saw her a few weeks ago. He says the walls of the mine seem to be aware of our actions. Abel says his first attempt at a magical item would be using troll’s tears and takes a vial out of his cabinet. Violi asks if he would nee the whole vile or if he could have a drop. Abell tells the story of Hercules as an excuse as to why he needs the whole vial. Violi looks in his cabinet to see if there are any other magic items of interest there and he sees a dragon’s horn, phoenix blood, minotaur’s stone and medusa thunder stone, water stone and leaf stone.(Ryan’s a real funny jokester). We attempt to use the trolls tears with the oil and pour it on Alice. It dissipates in her chest and a radiant light comes glowing out of hers eyes as 15 seconds pass she breathes and sucks in the light and jolts up on the table and immediately vomits 3 pounds of sludge. Zieg goes and grabs a blanket. She looks over to us. Violi grabs Abel by the shoulders and shakes him yelling it worked! Abel isn’t sure what he has done(There was a Mewtwo quote here somewhere) and dramatically has an anime pose pointing towards Alice yelling Zone of Truth. And Otis casts Zone of Truth on Alice and she chooses to be truthful and Abel asks like a creep talking to an undead person instead of a normal person are you here for good she nods yes truthfully do you hunger for flesh she nods no truthfully. We catch up with her and she expresses she’s not quite ready to return to duty quite yet, but is willing to help out in other ways. And another person comes in and says wait dad is that you? And its Abel’s long lost son Austin Coochner.
End 4/10 Session
4/17 Session
Observatory
Abel and Austin reunite after Abel thinking he had died in “the war”. We repeatedly ask what war and they ignore us and Abel says it’s time for bed. Austin reveals he is part of a secret task force and that’s all he can say. Mingo bangs on his stomach thinking he might be another spy bird. Mingo says its flesh. Austin asks “as opposed to what?” and Mingo bangs on Otis to reveal he’s a robot. Austin gets seething angry and reveals he was fighting for the crown against the robot birds and the birds are what everything the crown is against. Austin said Dulches is a traitor and he wants to check for a software update in Otis in order to see if he is defect. The group gives some pushback into letting a stranger muck about in Otis, led by Barr, but eventually they give in. Austin opens up Otis and starts digging into an LCD screen and runs a command prompt and runs a config check. He sees that he has not gotten an update in a few years and says he checks out. Something in the other birds programing has made them act in ways against the crown. Barr takes notes on the matter to be able to see how he got that far in Otis’s programming. Barr asks if Austin knows where any of the other bird drones are right now. Austin says he is fully committed to the crown until all the defect birds are eradicated. We try convince him to join the keep and says it’s a no for now. Mingo asks if he’s ever tracked the Princess. He says that’s classified… but no. Austin proved to have horrible operational security throughout this entire interaction as he would reveal highly classified information to complete strangers right after saying he can’t say anything.
Max Guild
The group returns to the max guild and goes to bed.