Love Scattered

an adventure starring Ava, Chico, and Reine.
==Setting==
An island off the coast of Niqamui
==Short Episode Description==
Join Ava, Chico, and Reine on a quest to save a princess that turns into struggle against existential forces beyond mortal comprehension. "Love Scattered" is an actual play podcast of Adventure Dice. 
==Non Player Characters==
*Malum the dragon
*Penny the dragon
*Ska D. Derd Ylvaby the lover
*Princess McFluffypants the beloved
*The Duke (Princess's father)
*Captain Cracknuckle
*Fox Meat the coyote
*Ludhor Rugi the cyclops
*Jabroni the Goblin
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==Plot Summary==
The adventure begins with Scaderd, Reine's cousin, stumbling into the FBK Guildhall in their adorably bumbling, clumsy ways. Scaderd reveals that they have gotten in way over their head. They are in love with a princess way above their social ranking, and the only way they can earn her hand in marriage is by rescuing her from an island off the coast of Niqamui, where she has been kidnapped by pirates and is held hostage by a cyclops. Scaderd pleads for Reine's help, as many others are vying to find the princess and either try to get her hand in marriage (inheriting the Duke's money) or hold her for ransom. As Scaderd and the princess truly love each other, it would be the right thing to help. Reine agrees and Chico volunteers to join her. Ava, overhearing the conversation, is interested in joining with a promise of a substantial monetary reward upon the princess' successful rescue. 
The Kittens go to prepare for the adventure. Ava procures a boat and crew through a deal she had made with one of her father's adversaries, letting him go without arresting him in exchange for her borrowing a ship and crew at any time, no questions asked. She renames the boat "S.S. Squandered." As they board the ship, Chico's coyote of the day Fox Meat creates quite a spectacle as he tries to eat Penny, Ava's pseudodragon, who bares her fangs, flares her wings, and threatens to bite him. This arouses rather than scares the coyote, who develops a little crush on the dragon. Fox Meat also decides that Reine and Chico are his parents now. 
The FBK try to pull ahead of the other ships through bribing the crew, bargaining with the harvest goddess, and hampering the other ships. This latest tactic involves aerial attacks by Ava, ninja tricks and pumpkin bombs by Chico, and Reine becoming a roc so she could trick a wild roc into destroying the enemy ships. Although S.S. Squandered and the Firebreathing Kittens arrived after the initial wave of pirate ships, they made up for lost time by flying over their competition - Reine as a roc, Ava on her own multipurpose wings, and Chico riding Malum, Ava's now horse sized stained glass dragon. While in the air, the goblin Jabroni throws Ava a bundle and tells her "nets are coming back." 
The Firebreathing Kittens quickly make it to the cave where the cyclops is holding the princess hostage. Reine gets a terrible sense of danger and foreboding, and the Kittens proceed inside cautiously. They meet the huge brute of a cyclops, who transforms into a direwolf. The princess is in a cage tied to the ceiling of the cave among many lanterns, which reveal themselves to move as part of lair actions. As Scaderd sees their beloved princess, they shock everyone by transforming from a clumsy, loveable, bumbling wreck of a person into a stunning, powerful wolf. Reine also turns into a wolf, and the three fight. Ava and Chico try to help them - Chico with his veggie throwing ninja skills and Ava by throwing the net onto the cyclops. 
However, as she does that, one of the giant lanterns comes crashing down upon her, snaring her in its deadly grasp. Ava screams in terror and anguish in a way her guild mates had never heard from her before. She passes out as she relives one of her worst memories and her wings are burnt and ripped apart, her ability to fly torn from her. In the meantime, Reine and Scaderd fight with the cyclops. Chico moves to free the princess, summoning fellow rabbit ninjas like a master and breaking her out of the cage. 
Malum, determined to rescue his companion Ava from such a plight, grows bigger than he ever has before and fully swallows the lantern Ava is in, trying to melt the bars and release her. He succeeds in this dangerous task, but at his own expense - the heat from the lantern, the metal, and his own glass forge heart overwhelm him and he crashes to the floor with Ava in his gullet, beginning to melt. Ava sees that she will only be trapped inside a melting glass dragon now, so she acts: she lunges forward and grabs Malum's gemstone heart, the essence of his being. He resists with the last bits of life he has remaining, but he shudders and dies. As she grabs onto the heart, she touches one of the world's essential forces - creation. The skin from her hands burns away, leaving them skeletal. Ava sprays her remaining telekinetic feathers and power from within the dragon, sending glass-tipped feathers, molten heat, and shards out in every direction in an explosion, rapidly creating portals to protect her allies. The cyclops and all the other pirates are killed instantly, and the cave erupts outward. 
Chico sees the FBK guildhall in one of the portals and jumps through, passing out as soon as he touches solid ground from the stress of the otherworldly experience he just had, but safe. While all this was happening, Scaderd and the princess were in the center of it, oblivious to everything around them, protected by the strength of their love. They found their way back to the duke, somehow, and were married.
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