Session 39: Eye for an Eye...Or Not
General Summary
Those of us with magic aren’t stranded long, leaving TT and Inami to saddle up with the newcomers. They have a boat docked nearby and while it may look like a rickety, little thing; it comes with enchantments! They get seated and the boat rises to float above the waves. After a warning from Nyctos for everyone to hang on for dear life, it starts violently shaking the entire way back to our ship. There’s a lot to tackle, so I pay Julius a visit, immediately pissed off by the small bird fluttering around his room. He tells me not to worry about it and ignore it, but eventually, said bird drops back into Noah’s form and is shooed from the room. I’m disgusted. The useless boy wonder can now become a fucking bird.
I gather all I can from Julius on rakshasa and he sends me off with a few books to look over, including a raunchy romance novel. I want to ask so many questions and judge him harshly, but he quickly shuts me up by saying he didn’t realize it was a work of fiction. Sure, buddy. Whatever you gotta tell yourself in order to push that shame deep down. TT decides to interrogate Lonnie, thinking that she has to know something of fiends considering her status as a shapechanger. Lonnie’s a little less than thrilled that TT’s throwing that around and tries to insist that she isn’t a shapeshifter of any kind. She simply knows a lot about transformation magic. She does give TT some information on rakshasa, mostly on how they rank themselves among their own kind.
After, me and TT head off to look over the books I have, only to get interrupted by Nathan’s somber mood. Asking him about it gets us nowhere, but we eventually crack him open like a pistachio. The boy’s going through a rough break-up because he didn’t want to keep his relationship with Stabby a secret anymore. Stabby obviously didn’t like this and instead of having a conversation like an adult, they dumped Nathan and sent him on his way. Perfect opportunity for me to go harass Stabby and see what the fuck is really up before Nathan explodes from his anger. TT takes him out shooting and Amelia arrives much too late to steal away with the books I got from Julius, but I make sure to pass along the romance novel, knowing well that it’ll find its way to Owkbanok eventually.
I head to the kitchen with a pair of voodoo dolls to serve as my cover story, asking Stabby if they know how to make them work. While the dolls do have some magic left in them, they’re the least of my concerns and it isn’t long before I’m terrorizing them. By terrorizing, I mean that I’m giving them the opportunity to stop being a goddamn hermit. They take this a sign to drink and with enough booze in them, I finally get some answers. They broke up with Nathan because they were afraid, though they refuse to admit to said fear. Basically, they’ve broken out of jail so many times and have so many bounties that it’s too dangerous to have anyone they care about thrust into the public eye for being with them. As if the rest of this crew isn’t filled with wanted criminals who are publicly hooking up with one another, but alright. It’s not long before we both get tired of the sentimental bullshit and opt to drink the night away, Owkbanok joining us once he finds us holed up in Stabby’s room.
He had something important about a possible rakshasa location, but who cares about that when there’s alcohol? While he blacks out in the kitchen surrounded by an absolute mess of pots, pans, and his own puke; I make the mistake of sleeping with Stabby…only to wake up to the sound of Nathan’s voice outside the door. Luckily, Amelia is there to save the day and turns me into the dirty rat I am at heart. I scurry out of the room, coming back later to hear about the ritual she learned. Apparently Owk’s plan is going right out of the window because Amelia realized she can simply summon a rakshasa whenever she wants to. After spending some time with that raunchy book, she had strange dreams of them and somehow this ties back to her magic. The details don’t matter, so Nathan suggests we do the ritual in the kitchen because he’s still pissed about the break-up.
That’s all fine and dandy, but I don’t relish getting stabbed by the guy I boned the other night, so I try and convince everyone to move the party upstairs. No dice. The minute they all realize Nathan wants to explore his vengeful side, they jump on that shit without a word. I manage to turn things around after a private conversation with our disaster gay. Once upstairs, Amelia slaps that magic circle down, prays to any god willing to listen to this lot of assholes, and a rakshasa is gifted to us in a display of twinkling lights and rainbows. Not very fitting for a fiend, but we’re not going to waste time dwelling on it. Cue ambush scene and us screaming at them to hand over their eyes. It’s a massive failure though because as they call a truce, they pull back the leather flap that was obscuring their face and surprise!
This rakshasa doesn’t have any fucking eyes. The urge to kill them for that alone is high, but we strike a deal with the bastard. If they can take us to a rakshasa who’s confirmed to actually have a set of working eyes, we’ll give them the location to the coven of hags once our deal with them is done. They agree to these terms, so we gather our party (conveniently forgetting about Nyctos and Darcy who were a part of this deal), explain the situation to a very exasperated Julius, and teleport away.
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Report Date
08 Jul 2021
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