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5/01/21

Session 30: Jailbreak

by Cali Zendyr

We make haste down the hallway, and as soon as Wulf sees someone coming, Quell runs back and casts hold person on the guard. He freezes just before putting the whistle to his mouth, and we all book it.
 
Cali lowers Bao down the trapdoor with a rope, and tells him not to forget to untie the rope from his chest. Immediately after that, they roll a 1 to hop down after him and twist their ankle. They limp a little, embarrassed. Wulf and Quell hop down after them, and Jade goes last so she can mage hand some debris back over the trap door for camoflauge.
 
We bolt down the hallway, and Wulf tries to convince Jade to hold on tight, spidermonkey. ...I mean, to get on his back. She doesn't, but he tries to act chill and offers to carry others too.
 
Nobody seems to be following us.
 
We get to the room with the corpses, and Bao drops to his knees. He can hear the spirits and tells us the names of the bodies in here. Someone speaks through him in Schildling to tell us that they aren't yet ghosts but will be soon. He asks Quell to put them to rest. Not all of them are still around, but there are 4 dwarves and a humanoid that still need to be laid to rest so they don't become ghosts. Wulf goes to help Izel with a sword she found because he understands that better.
 
We talk about the best way to honor the bodies that are here, and Bao tells us we probably have until the next full moon a few weeks away. Jade teaches us what she knows about burial practices, and our best guess for now is to make a shrine for them with the items we have and can find. Bao hums a lullaby while we set it up, called "Counting The Moons." Wulf says he only knows one, Lady Moon. Bao tells him about the meaning behind the song.
 
Wulf offers to sing a song that his pack used to sing when someone died, and Quell decides to go make sure no one is coming or could hear us. We seem to be clear, so she comes back and we finish setting up the shrine.
 
Wulf sings a beautiful howl and Quell says a few words, and Bao is able to think more clearly as we leave. Quell asks him some more questions about the crystal and spirits. Quell pulls out the crystal and Bao flinches.
 
Bao: "I would throw that thing deep down a well if I were you."
Quell: "We intend to."
 
Bao says that the crystal shards were not made, but were a part of a part of something that used to think.
Cali asks him about who took the shard, and he says it was hard to see, but one was a woman with a white mask and black eyes, and the other was a dwarven woman with a stump nose and two scars on her cheek like she'd been scratched by a large cat. Quell asks if they were blue, and Bao says that some of them were, and that they were all very small, maximum of 8.
 
We all make our way out of the house, mostly via rope, and Jade and Bao via dimension door. We talk to Bao and Izel about our plans going forward.
 
Colel outside of Tabajo, "the mad lady with the bees", is a friend of Bao's and will help get us where we need to be as a favor to Bao. Bao teaches Wulf how to catch an antelope.
 
EOS

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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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