A Rude Awakening

"A Rude Awakening" is the 18th session of Season 2.

 

Light housekeeping is done, an (emotionally) intense sparring session is had, and the cats poke at the box.

 

It was played on September 10, 2023.

The date in-game is the 11th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

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Plot

  • We have a day to do stuff before we can rest again
  • Quill and Mist ask Mariana for a book to help investigate + use wakey wakey plant
  • Quill hides in the corner in a cloak to practice jumping/jumpscaring people
  • Quill also wants to learn about the environment 
  • Aella wants to work on getting lightning tendril to do better stuff and honing her skills (sparring)
  • Aster is going to attune to smart crown and identify things(sand and other stuff) and wants to ask the party if they could ask their familiar to scope out what is behind the doorway
    • Unanimous NO but they would still like to meet the frog
  • Dorian is mostly maintaining dancing lights around the area and writing in a little book sketching out ideas for a symphony
  • Daisy Daisy is peering over their shoulder
    • And also cleaning armor
  • Mariana 
    • Wants to gust of wind the sand out of the crab(spring cleaning) Quill would also go up with her
    • Also wants to prestidigitate a needle and fix up the cloak they got
    • More investigation and cross referencing with things
  • Mist will help research things and stare at pictures + come up with stories for them
  • Mariana says she found a book in Novas Arule of Fellen Latoral
  • Mariana is gust of winding the crab
    • Opens up vents and goes in then starts blasting
    • She is able to clean it out but it takes a bit longer than anticipated
    • Cleaning the joints out as well
    • Sealed back up again once she finishes
  • Quill does a first pass of the book looking at pics and reading a little bit about the stuff
    • Flipping through the book looking for things that look like a large purple flower, he does not find a distinctive picture of the flower
    • Mist facepalms (Quill: “I am hurt”)
  • Daisy Daisy is cleaning their armor in the room
    • Regular maintenance and also what should have happened at the start of the adventure
  • Dorian sitting in the corner writing a symphony
    • Quill reads the music completely incorrectly
    • Daisy Daisy hums along correctly
  • Aster pulls out the sample of sand they got from Novas Arule and cast identify on it, and also some local sand
  • Aella is sitting kind of antsy, it's the first day after the party told her to listen for a change
    • She goes up to Daisy Daisy with their armor all disassembled and says they need to fight
    • “Remind where you're from again”- Daisy Daisy “Auvreanddare”-Aella  “Remind me never to go to Auvreanddare”-Daisy Daisy
    • “I'm not going to kill you, just hurt you”-Aella
  • PVP Aella and Dorian
    • “If you simply wanted to beat someone up…” -Dorian, as he offers to spar instead of DD
    • “I have the wisdom to know a bitch when I see one”-Dorian
    • Aella makes a strike with her lighting and makes small grains of glass from the sand on the floor, Dorian casts Mirror Image and those glass specks refract more Dorians
    • Dorian tries to make Aella grovel, spell fails and she is t i c k e d
    • Aella hit a duplicate with lightning whip
    • Sometime during all this Astraea’s identify’s are up. They scribble something in their notes before looking up like “... well alright then” and starts attuning to smart crown
    • Dorian insults Aella some more
    • Aella hits the last duplicate
    • Dorian reaches hp cutoff for sparring and heals with inspiration, Daisy Daisy and Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy grab both of them
    • Daisy Daisy and Dorian proceed to call Aella out on her bs
  • Aella misty steps away from her problems and next to Mist
  • Mist runs to catch up, Mariana also catches up, Mist lets the sisters walk off and Mist sits where she was left watching the sisters walk off
  • Aster finishes attunement
  • Mariana and Aella walk back and Mariana feels like she is pushing against a wind
  • Quill and Mariana are going to explore
  • Aella is going to lay in crab and Mist is staying near her sitting in the hatch of the crab looking at the book Mariana gave her
  • Daisy Daisy is inspecting the stone box, there is definitely a seam in the upper section
    • Daisy Daisy is prying it open, she tries pushing on it, Dorian helps
    • The top barely gives but sticks, they can definitely open it by pushing it
  • People in crab
    • The sound of sand rubbing against it grows and Mist is starting to get sand into stuff so she climbs farther in and closes the hatch
    • Quill and Mariana tap on the crab and all people move back into the room
    • The sand is dripping through a bit more than it was before
  • More people help open box
    • Daisy Daisy, Dorian, Mist, Quill, Glelvrever
    • Everyone pushes their backs into it and the whole lid crashes and shatters to the ground
    • Inside, there are two compartments, at the base is a display of weirdly mundane objects and the upper torso of the display from the lid is an oddly small body for the box, Mist pokes the body, Astraea pulls her hand away
    • Box person’s name is Maeve (Rey's player's new character)
    • Maeve is from Wallingsor
    • There is no writing in the inside of the stuff
    • Maeve grabs her stuff
  • The beast behind the slab is breathing now
  • “Do you usually stab people”-Maeve  “I’m an arrow guy, so no”-Quill
  • Maeve’s stuff doesn’t look like its been placed there for a while
  • While Mariana is tailoring the cloak, she finds a sown in lump in the collar, a set of lockpicks
  • Quill is general investigationing the room and looking to try to see through the hole in the sand
    • He sees the scorch marks and stuff from the fight earlier 
  • The sand is not the source of the weirdness
  • Maeve is trying not to fall asleep for as long as possible, Aella is also awake just doing stuff
  • Watches: 1 Daisy Daisy and Glelvrever, 2 Dorian, Aella , 3 Dorian, Quill, 4 Dorian, Aster, 5 Dorian, 6 Dorian, Mist

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