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A dwarf walks off an airship. He carries an address in one hand: Thraine Axegrinder.
- Ends up in a strange part of Albia
- Many airships
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Thraine finds himself in a back alley.
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Finds a man naked in a back alley.
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He’s a bit eccentric. He introduces himself as Rusty Ruddleson.
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The ship is a bit odd. Named “S.S”.
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A bulky Orc steps onto the dock. He comes from a tiny dinghy.
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He’s dressed eccentrically.
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He holds directions while bystanders stare at his odd appearance.
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Something about Mother Larvae.
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His name is Dadaka.
- “My skin is green”
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Meets Rusty and Thraine.
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Dadaka and Thraine have a strange conversation.
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A Tabaxi arrives, greeted by Rusty.
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Her name is Meowfi, she is also welcomed onto the airship.
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She spots a little goblin lookin guy.
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She fails to convince the little man to come to her.
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She walks into the airship and sees Thraine and Dadaka sharing snacks.
- “Can I have a bite?”
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Sylas is walking in town, hurried and looking at his letter. He literally bumps into Sylas.
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They catch up a little bit, and talk about joining each other to the airship.
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Along the way they meet Mike Ro Fiber. Mike tries selling them grass but calls it “Supergrass”.
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Sylas convinces Mike to join them to the airship, and he reluctantly agrees with the promise of food.
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They all introduce themselves, and get prepared to take off.
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Lionel convinces Rusty that Mike is wanted by the police, and that they have to get him off the ship before they leave.
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Sylas, Lionel, and Dadaka talk. They learn about Dadaka’s people and that he is weird.
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Sylas and Lionel head to the bottom level. There’s two rooms, one of them with the little goblin, but Lionel doesn’t tell Sylas about him.
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Sylas heads up to talk to Rusty. He mentions a bag marked ‘R’ not to be touched.
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Sylas feels strange. Not exactly sick or hurt, but something is wrong. He heads down to the “bathroom” which is really just a hatch.
- Sylas opens the hatch and sees all the way down. He falls backwards and lies there for a while.
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Lionel and Thraine talk about rooms. Thraine walks into a different room and sees Meowfi with the Goblin man.
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Thraine and Meowfi start to argue when the Goblin runs and grabs a hat. He begins to doze off.
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Dadaka and Mike snack in the kitchen. Dadaka breaks a table for some reason.
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Dadaka tries sleeping in the same room as Lionel but Lionel dissuades him. Dadaka sleeps outside the room on the floor.
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In the bathroom, Sylas feels awful. He knows the feeling exactly. Another wild magic surge. Sylas explodes into color and knocks himself, Dadaka and Lionel unconscious.
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Sylas dreams:
- You drift in a vast, endless darkness. When you glance down, your body is translucent, barely there, yet within you coil countless chains. They twist through your limbs, your chest, your very core, stretching beyond you in every direction. As you follow their paths, you slowly raise your eyes. Looming before you is a figure of shadow, its shape indistinct. Around it, hundreds of pale, featureless masks float, each tethered by writhing black tendrils that spread out like a web across the void. You realize with a jolt that four of your chains extend outward and fasten themselves to four of these masks. Suddenly, light bursts from within you, blinding, radiant, and surges down the chains. One by one, the masks flare, shifting, transforming into faces you know well. First Mewofi. Then Dadaka. Then Lionel. And finally… Thraine.
- The shadowed figure vanishes, leaving only the four faces, suspended in the dark, their chains glowing with the same radiant light.
- In an instant, you snap awake, heart pounding. Yet for a fleeting moment, the glowing chains remain burned into your sight, bright, undeniable, before fading away, turning faint… then translucent… and finally gone, as though they had never existed at all.
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Sylas awakes in the bathroom again, feeling a little better but terrified. He doesn’t know how long he was out. We’ve landed.
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Rusty checks up on Dadaka, who claims he went out and saw blood. Dadaka calms down by watching the forest.
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Sylas and Rusty carry Lionel to his bed. After, Sylas talks about everything with Thraine and Meowfi and meets the goblin.
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Lionel wakes up, ignores everyone, and heads upstairs. Sylas follows. They chat about what happened.
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In the kitchen, Mike is absolutely blazed. He and Rusty ate all the food overnight. They all discuss where to head next.
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Dadaka stops pondering and catches up in the kitchen.
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We talk about the Goblin’s drawings.
- Chains disappear when keys are in our hearts. Smiley face.
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The group ponders where to head next. Some want to go to the World Tree from the drawing, some want to explore the southern continent. Lionel wants to complete the Cinderforge quest up north
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Ultimately, we all decide to check out the southern continent. We prepare to set sail.
