One Year Later...

an adventure starring Dr. Crud III, Beans, and Tornan
Description: The life of an adventurer is easy. You ride into town, fix a problem, get paid, and leave again. But what happens when you come back a year later and things aren't quite as rosy as you left them? Tornan, Beans, and Dr. Crud III are about to find out...
Year: 49,594. (This adventure follows the adventure Pixie Problem)
Setting: Paraa
Characters: 
* Basel Ersine
* Gheona Ersine
* Xiomara Lidwina
* Hans Fessenden
* Kuri Vandenpeereboom
Plot Summary:
Dr. Crud III and Beans meet up with Tornan for a reunion after having spent a year away from the Firebreathing Kittens guild. Arriving in the spa town of Paraa, they hear some disappointed tourists say while leaving that they thought there would be fairies here, but there aren't. The adventurers go to the spa, where they meet an anxious receptionist, Kuri, and learn that tourism is way down since the fairies left a year ago, to the point that she's worried she might lose her job if the spa has to close. The adventurers meet a failed poet in the local bar, Hans, whose poetry is so bad that Tornan wonders if they're really both speaking elven. Hans drinks to the point of passing out. The bartender, Kuri, asks Tornan and gang to take Hans outside. Hans presumably lives close by. Dragging and carrying Hans to the place he points them to, the heroes arrive at 519 Csupo Lane. Two terrifying xenomorphs open the door. Hans stumbles drunkenly past them. The xenomorphs are confused but polite. Hans passes out on their couch. Asking questions in a foreign language the adventurers don't speak, the xenomorphs tend to Hans and do say his name. Figuring that they know him, our heroes leave Hans in their care. The home seems nice and has art paintings and sketches on the walls. The party visit other places including the church next door, where they meet Xiomara the tourist trap attraction entertainment organizer, who used to grow flowers that attracted the fairies. She asks if the heroes know Tanager, Raincloud, and Mooses, other Firebreathing Kittens who she met a year ago. They also learn that was the same time that the xenomorphs, Basel and Gheona Ersine, moved into that house, which used to belong to Hans' parents before they, wealthy from running the spa, moved to the big city of Jishoap. Our heroes decide to get drunk and show up on the Ersines' doorstep. The Ersines let them spend the night in three guest bedrooms. Unbeknownst to each other, both Tornan and Beans make a copy of (Tornan) and... 'borrow' (Beans) a drawing on the wall showing a zen garden design with fairies floating over it. After a lovely breakfast from the Ersine's, they try to replicate making that rune design on the wall of the church next door. Many tiny three inch tall pink fairies approach, but also many tiny three inch tall gray jyarango, a scaled dragon with scales like frying pans. Not realizing that they aren't dust (despite Beans' insistence, and with some accidental gaslighting on the part of Dr. Crud III and Tornan), Dr. Crud III slaps his hands together on the dust and Tornan shoots two with arrows, starting a bit of a war. The angry dragons buzz and rattle and the party nearly dies, but Beans casts the spell silence and they are immune from sound damage. The party communicates using hand motions in the silence about what they've learned and makes a plan for how they might bring the fairies back to town without also attracting the jyarango. Investigating the spa they realize that the metal rich mineral water is fueling the dragons, while the flowers fuel the fairies, so they convince the people of the town that by the combination of growing flowers and drawing the rune, they can attract fairies selectively over dragons to the Spa of Paraa. 
Memorable Quotes: 
"It's in my ear!" -Beans 
Category:Episodes