Heartfelt Colors

an adventure starring Runii , Jade, and Wing.
Tweet: 
If your favorite colors are devilkin, gnome/elf and bird, then you're sure to love this episode! In a splash and a poof Jade, Runii, Wing and Nugget spread joy and color while also reuniting 2 separated hearts. 
Setting: Niqamui during Color Day
Non Player Characters: 
* Berry Pertinax the Ekenblim
* Michael Cornswallow 
* Michael Cornswallow, Jr.
*Sterling Argentine
*Don Ravioli
Plot Summary: 
It's Color Day! During this unique festival, the city and citizens of Niqamui revel in color and fun. Games are played, food and drink are enjoyed, and everyone is covered in paint. This year, the Firebreathing Kittens have helped support and put on the festival, and tonight, Jade, Runii, and Wing and Nugget are out patrolling and enjoying the festivities later in the evening. Four sections of the city have been cordoned off for the festival: Tie Dye Bay, a veritable mixture of color by the sea filled with food and games; Monochromia, a more organised rainbow of singular shades; Pastel Town, home to the gentler shades and gentler games; and La Noir, a veritable greyscale of performances and cafes. 
Jade and Runii meet Wing and Nugget in Pastel Town. At this time of evening, most of the kids have been picked up, but Wing notices one boy standing alone. The boy tells Wing that he's waiting for his dad who has been missing for three days, which concerns the Kittens. After more questioning, the kittens find out some very concerning things. A flying man in a top hat has visited the boy for a number of days and promised that he would see his father again if he put a bag of dust in the paint being used for the festival. Coincidentally, the boy's father is the owner of a local paint factory that was the sole source of paint for the festival, both to paint the town and to throw on festival goers. The man in the top hat was specifically described by the boy as tall, well dressed, rather twitchy, and big eyed. At this point, the Kittens are fairly certain that the boy had been visited by an Ekenblim and that there was not Ekenblim dust all over Niqamui and most, if not all, of its residents. 
With no way to solve the dust problem, the Kittens decide to find the boy's missing father. As they make their way to the paint factory in Monochromia to look for clues, Wing notices posters around town that are not stained by paint or any other kind of liquid. On it is a checklist: drink deeply of life's cup; dance so everyone's watching; help the community and prune wallflowers; and nourish yourself on the bounty this realm has to offer. Through some experimentation, Jade realises that they need to perform each task to magically check the boxes. Wing gains some additional insight by using his hand mirror to magically investigate the poster's history, but the only thing of interest is the voice of a woman saying "That color looks terrible on you, darling." 
When the Kittens arrive at the factory, they attempt to find some clues to the missing father's whereabouts. While going through the overseer's office, Runii finds a letter signed by Michael Cornswallow, the missing man and owner of the factory, saying that this factory is the sole means of producing paint for the festival. Strangely enough, there are no personal effects in the office, indicating that Cornswallow didn't spend a lot of time at the factory, or if he did, that it wasn't what he was truly invested in. Unable to find any other clues, the Kittens decide to go to Cornswallow's home to see if they can uncover more information. 
On their way there, the Kittens decide to check off more boxes on the Color Night poster, first by drinking deeply of Runii's ale, Jade's wine, and Wing's brandy. They next try to bring some people into the party but struggle to do so. While traversing the city, Wing notices a preying mantis person running through the alleys. Wing and Jade approach him in an attempt to bring hm into the party but, after telling him they're Firebreathing Kittens, he begs them to take a package to Sterling Argentine, fellow Kitten Stella Argentine's brother. The insect-like humanoid says that the Safiosi mafia and Don Revioli are after the package and can't have it. Almost on cue, two goons from the Safiosi ambush them and threaten them, hoping to get the package. Wing stuffs it into his Bag Holding, and chaos promptly ensues. 
The package the praying mantis gave to Wing was a Frog of Holding. As soon as it entered Wing's Bag of Holding, a black hole to another plane formed and all of the contents of both vessels of Holding spewed out. Amidst the random "treasures" from Wing's bag, the one thing that Wing doesn't recognise is a colorful egg that he discerns as a dragon egg. Wing keeps the egg safe while Runii encapsulates the praying mantis in a protective sphere, keeping him from being sucked into the portal. The portal's instability causes it to close a few seconds later and the praying mantis man teleports away as fast as he can. The Safiosi goons are paid off to leave the Kittens alone and the Kittens continue trying to find someone to bring into the party. 
After much effort, the last two boxes are checked off in Tie Dye Bay when Runii gorges herself on fair food and Jade cheers up a broken-hearted woman. A map appears on the bac of the poster leading to La Petite Vi in La Noir, but instead of heading there, the Kittens go to Cornswallow's home to look for clues of his whereabouts. Runii finds Cornswallow's journal in a locked study and discovers that the man's true passion was as a painter, which is corroborated by Wing when he finds a portion of the study filled with realistic paintings of naval battles. The last entry in the journal was from three days ago and states that he and his son "can be together there". The group searches the boy's room and sees that he's also a talented artist, at which point they realise he is likely to be kidnapped and taken to the Ekenblim realm where his father is being kept. 
The Kittens rush back to Pastel Town and find the boy still waiting for his father. Runii uses her Wand of Enemy Detection and senses the presence of a hostile creature standing on the rooftops directly behind them. She alerts Jade to the creature and Jade approaches them, challenging them to a duel and preventing them from moving too far away from her. To Jade's surprise, the creature is the Ekenblim named Berry, whom she freed from the Aegis corporation factory (see the episode Pop Fiction for more details). Berry attempts to lure Jade, Wing, and Runii into the Ekenblim realm with promises of beauty and perfection, but the Kittens hold firm and question Berry instead. He proves reticent and the group deduces that while Cornswallow went to the Ekenblim realm willingly, he's not necessarily able to return to Niqamui, even if he wanted to. Jade intimidates Berry and makes a deal with him where he opens a portal to Yosekai, the Ekenblim realm, and allows Runii and Wing to attempt to bring Cornswallow back. 
Runii and Wing appear on a stormy cliff where, in the distance, a man is encased in a cocoon and appears to be painting. Runii peels away a portion of the cocoon and it pops open, spilling the man out onto the ground. He says he isn't done painting and Runii tells him that his son would like to see him again. Cornswallow hesitates but then Wing imitates his son's voice from the portal's entrance asking him to come back. Moved by his son's voice, Cornswallow returns to Niqamui and sees his son. The boy jumps into the air and celebrates before joyously embracing his father.
Memorable Quotes:
"I knew it! I am a good boy!"
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