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8/21/21

Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)

by Cali Zendyr

We continue discussing the risks of collecting the shards with Jade. We don’t really come to a conclusion again, but we do head out and get on the leaf boat. We take the river back in the direction of the town that needs fresh water, and when we’ve gone as far as we can in the day, we make camp. It’s muddy everywhere and Jade is miserable. She uses prestidigitation to clean the mud off her shoes. We find an uncovered pavilion with mosaics that Jade is fascinated by, and she detects no magic in the area. Cali detects no undead within a mile, for the first time in awhile. They say it’s safe, and Wulf says that just because there are no undead nearby doesn’t mean it’s safe. Jade says it DOES mean that they’re safe from tentacle monsters though.
 
Wulf: “...I am tired of tentacle monsters.”
 
Jade is an art hoe, and uncovers as much of the mosaics as she can so that she can study them. She finds that they’re very old, but have been repaired somewhat recently, after the city turned to ruins, which is weird. She looks more closely at it for awhile, and Wulf looks around too after they talk about the art. He gets distracted though by a rabbit he discovers, and runs off to chase it. Quell suggests that maybe this used to be a shrine, and that’s why it’s been repaired recently. It seems plausible, but it’s hard to tell why. Eventually, we make camp at the pavilion. We use Cali’s blanket to make a blanket fort roof, mostly crafted by Jade, and Cali starts to clean the floor before Jade uses prestidigitation to clean it instantly. Once we’ve made a cozy camp, Quell and Jade start identifying items. The jug is a decanter of endless water, and the silk is a portable hole. There’s a bag of 360gp, and the boots are boots of the winterlands. Cali spends a bit of time sitting with the barnacle covered bracelet they picked up on the river, and eventually puts it back in their bag. We all decide to head to bed, and we start our watch. On Jade’s watch, she hears the distant and unnatural sound of someone singing over by the ruins. Eventually, it fades.
 
In the morning, Quell goes out to do her morning rituals which are decidedly NOT Mara’s calisthenics, and Cali starts taking their blanket down. Jade cleans it as they do so, with prestidigitation. Wulf goes out to find something for breakfast, ending up with a fat brown bird. Cali casts goodberry and they and Jade both have a berry instead, but Quell splits the bird with Wulf. We head back onto the river after we eat, and eventually, Tasha is ready to talk. She needs to talk to us through still water, so we anchor and put some water in Cali’s goodberry bowl. We talk about the shards, and Egil. There’s a woman called “the orchid woman” who wants the shards. Egil hated her, but she is powerful. Tasha isn’t sure if the notes we’ve been finding from him are talking about her or not, but she says it seems possible. Egil was collecting the shards to hide them again. Tasha also says some skinny boy with snake eyes was looking for us, though he’s been eliminated, and Quell tells her about the woman from the Drian resistance who was looking for us, and the monks we heard were looking for us too.
 
Quell tells Tasha about a lot of the things that we’ve been finding along the way, and brings up Jade’s point about what we’re supposed to do with the shards because it seems like we’re just doing the work for the people who want the shards. Egil didn’t know how to destroy them, and Quell is worried that we won’t be able to figure it out either, and that the orchid woman will come for us. Tasha does not have the answers for us, but she says we should head to Vlotdok and talk to Egil, because he’s the one that heard the stories and might be able to put us on the right track. Quell asks if we’ll need to go to Nag, and she says we shouldn’t go if we don’t have to, but the orchid woman runs Nag and has for at least 50 years. She says she doesn’t mean to talk down on anyone’s hometown, and Quell says that it was kind of dusty.
 
Tasha says we’re going to need to take the sea to get to Vlotdok, and when we tell her we’re on a leaf, she says we’ll need something bigger. She says to find him, once we get there we might find him playing in a tavern somewhere, and if not, we should talk around town saying that we have something valuable to sell to someone who actually knows their stuff. Tasha also tells us about a woman that appeared in her magic mirror last night, eyes red as rust and skin grey, and she told her “they’re moving, keep yourself alive. warn the boy.” She didn’t answer when Tasha asked who she was or who the boy was, but this is the first time anyone has ever spoken to her through the mirror. She also called Tasha by her given name, Tasha Ceyan. She hasn’t gone by that name since childhood.
 
We hang up the water call. Jade changes her mask to give Wulf a look, and we learn that it’s a part of her face that she’s had since birth, and it’s due to a curse but it’s not the curse. We all clearly don’t know much about curses. We talk about the shards more with Jade, and though the three of us seem to come to an understanding, Jade just gets progressively irritated and eventually falls silent. Quell says that if the orchid woman is the reason she had to go away from Nag, she doesn’t want her to have anything. Cali gains perspective upon learning that Quell was forced away from the place she called home, whereas Cali and Wulf both chose to leave.
 
We float quietly for awhile, and eventually stop to make camp. Wulf catches a rabbit, and Jade tells us all that we need to talk. She tells us that she was contracted by the orchid woman to find the people stealing from the caches, aka us getting the shards. We talk about what that means, and she says that the orchid woman threatened someone she cares about. She doesn’t want to be doing this. We decide we need to talk to T'karri somehow, and maybe eventually kill the orchid woman. We will go find Egil first though, that is still our plan.
 
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  1. Session 1: Scaling a Lighthouse
    08/?/19
  2. Session 2: Sleeping in the Lighthouse
    8/14/19
  3. Session 3: Finding Anaka's Apprentice
    8/21/19
  4. Session 4: Anaka and the Town Feast
    9/04/19
  5. Session 5: Fighting a Ghost in a Clearing
    9/18/19
  6. Session 6: Meeting the Revenant
    10/9/19
  7. Session 7: Tasha Bloodsail and Her Magic Mirror
    10/23/19
  8. Session 8: Killing a Gang
    12/04/19
  9. Session 9: Making Things Right
    1/22/2020
  10. Session 10: Getting Sappy on a Ship
    2/12/2020
  11. Session 11: A Raccoon Named Kama
    3/4/2020
  12. Session 12: Killing Lady Loaka
    4/11/2020
  13. Session 13: Lizards in the Desert
    4/29/2020
  14. Session 14: Jade
    5/20/2020
  15. Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well
    6/12/2020
  16. Session 16: Himbo Rights
    7/17/2020
  17. Session 17: Liya Takes Our Blood, and Quell Explores Her Backstory
    8/17/2020
  18. Session 18: Nyala, 5-Star Travel Guide
    8/28/2020
  19. Session 19: Haunted Cairns and Rock Spiders
    9/19/2020
  20. Session 20: Stumbling Into Politics
    10/31/2020
  21. Session 21: Wulf Meets His Pup
    11/21/2020
  22. Session 22: Fighting Zombies in the Woods
    12/05/2020
  23. Session 23: Burying A Suicidal Dead Guy
    12/24/2020
  24. Session 24: Hey, Your Husband's Dead... Here's a Steak!! ...It's Not Your Husband... to be Clear...
    1/02/21
  25. Session 25: Ghostie Tirga da Narei Got That Drip
    1/23/21
  26. Session 26: This LEAF is a BOAT?! (oh and also we're being hunted)
    2/6/21
  27. Session 27: Jade Communes With the Fog
    2/27/21
  28. Session 28: Fighting Oozes In An Abandoned House
    3/20/21
  29. Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse
    4/17/21
  30. Session 30: Jailbreak
    5/01/21
  31. Session 31: Wanted, Inaccurately
    6/05/21
  32. Session 32: Ghosts and Mammoth Meat
    6/19/21
  33. Session 33: Jade Is A Monster Fucker
    7/10/21
  34. Session 34: Do Seagulls Have Fangs?
    8/07/21
  35. Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)
    8/21/21
  36. Session 36: Wulf Dreams of Puppy Piles
    9/11/21
  37. Session 37: Wulf & Jade (separately) Bond With Tulan
    9/25/21
  38. Session 38: The Gang Sees A Psychic
    10/09/21
  39. Session 39: Exploring a Ghost Ship
  40. Session 40: Olav is... Not Dead?
    11/13/2021
  41. Session 41: CALI IS NOT POOR OKAY
    12/11/2021
  42. Session 42: Wise Old Egil
    01/15/2022
  43. Session 43: Christmas Morning, Via Egil
    02/05/2022
  44. Session 45: 44 didn't save
    3/12/22
  45. Session 46: fighting a waiver (that means dragon)
    04/03/22
  46. Session 47: Hole-ception, Donut Hole if you will
    4/30/22
  47. Session 48: Scry City, Bitch
    5/14/22
  48. Session 49:
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  49. Session 50: Sink or Wind
  50. Session 51: Scouting Our Meeting Place
    8/27/2022
  51. Session 52: Battle on the Beach
    10/01/22
  52. Session 53: Wulf Sneaks onto a Ship
    10/15/2022
  53. Session 54: Wulf Is Not Allowed Near Windows
    10/29/2022
  54. Session 55: THERES A TROLL (Beast) IN THE DUNGEON (outer fields)
    11/12/22
  55. Session 56:
    12/10/22
  56. Session 57:
    01/15/2023
  57. Session 58: Quell is Cali's Imaginary Friend
    01/28/2023
  58. Session 59: SECRET TUNNELLLLLL
    02/11/2023
  59. Session 60: I'm gonna dip you in butter
  60. Session 61: We're Looney, We're Tuney
    04/1/23
  61. Session 62: The Mother Herself Said She's Alive!
    4/8/23
  62. Session 63: Wulf DoorDashes Rats
    6/10/23
  63. Session 64: Are We Dead? Are We On A Boat? Will There Be Meat?
    7/1/23
  64. Session 65: Cali wants the Tea
  65. Session 66:

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