Annie and Charles Day of Fun

Annie and Charles' Day of Fun is a oneshot DMed by Amelia that aired live on Twitch on November 29th, 2021, and got uploaded to YouTube afterwards. It happened as a Thank You for hitting the $4,500 Patreon goal, even though the monthly support sank below that threshold again after hitting it. The oneshot follows the Arc 3 party (minus Bombyx, who organised the event, but plus Charles) on the 24 hours of fun that Annie had to promise to Charles during Arc 3.

## Characters and Players

* **DM** (Amelia - She/They)
* **Charles** (He/Him) (played by Haley - She/Her\*)
* **Annie** (She/Her) (played by Gus - He/Him)
* **Aldrum** (He/Him) (played by Josh - He/Him)
* **Diarmad** (He/Him) (played by Owen - He/Him)
* **Fey Moss** (She/Her) (played by Sedona - She/Her)

\*Haley has since then changed their pronouns to She/Any

## Plot

The oneshot takes place only a few months after the events of Arc 3. Everyone received an invitation from Bombyx to get to her house the following wednesday at 11 future clock, with Annie being mandatory, and anyone else invited, too, but optional.

Reluctantly, and a bit stressed out, even though Fey tried her best to calm her down, Annie appears on time. Jim the fertilizer guy welcomes her, but behaves suspiciously and seems to try to keep something about what Bombyx has planned secret, so Annie casts Detect Thoughts on him, only to find out that Jim is mostly stressed about Bombyx maybe not communicating well enough with her friends, and about them being away. She apologises for probing into his thoughts, and he hands her a contract to sign that explains to her the rules of the event. Only from this contract, Annie learns that Bombyx planned a sort of scavenger hunt. She gets suspicious over the very threatening tone of the contract.

Fey comes a bit later, because she had to buy some outfits for Charles (a suit, a party hat, and a casual T-Shirt), and iced coffee for everyone. Annie has a request to be added to the contract, namely that Charles is not allowed to simply request her to do anything during the 24 hour time period, then she signs. Diarmad and Aldrum, who met on the road, arrive at the farm, too. As they walk there, Diarmad gets granted DM inspiration for praising Bombyx's business and silk working skills.

As everyone is there, Jim tells the group that Bombyx is expecting them in the Feywild, and opens a door to it using a key Bombyx has. On the other side of the door they are greeted by someone who looks like Bombyx, but without the bow or the silk worms. Annie, upset over the fact that the scavenger hunt is supposed to happen in the Feywild, where time can be weird and everything could potentially be dangerous, first refuses to go, but then lets the others convince her. They all enter the Feywild, and Annie summons Charles.

Still suspicious of the mean and threatening tone, Annie tries to find out more about Bombyx's plans, and the possible "punishment" mentioned in the contract should she not comply with the rules, but Bombyx passes the save for Detect Thoughts with Amelia hinting that they had advantage for it, and finally Annie can be convinced to simply follow the path laid out in the Feywild to find everything for the scavenger hunt. Soon, Annie realises that the "friendship and love" mentioned at the bottom of the contract might very well still be a part of the list of things they need to find.

First, they get to the chromatic clover field, where they look for four-leaved clovers, in the hopes that that might grant them wishes, and Diarmad finds some that he gives to all of them. Then, the path leads them to a field of varying plants. There, they find some lilys, and even though Annie is unsure whether just one lily out of many could count as the most beautiful one, they decide to take a petal from one of them. As Fey plucks the petal, the lily screams, though, scaring Fey. Bombyx just continues, and again, the group wonders about them being meaner than usually. Diarmad then points out that maybe, "Bombyx" is the last point on the list of things they have to find. They are not sure about how to proceed with that idea, so they just continue following the plan. Before they go further, Annie and Charles harvest a feywild artichoke, because artichokes have hearts that do not beat.

Next, the path leads them to the humming forest. There, they meet Greg, a raven and friend of Charles, and suddenly realise that "Bombyx" is gone. Annie tries to grab some feathers, specifically plumes, from two birds, and as they fly away she casts Fly on herself to follow them. Diarmad collects a few star-shaped leafs. The whole group, some flying, some walking, gets to a pond that is fed by a river. Aldrum grabs a few tooth-shaped stones from the river mouth, and as they approach the pond, some mermaids come to the surface. One of them gives them the hint that mushrooms have gills, and gifts Annie and Charles a plume each that the swans on the pond lost. Then, she offers Aldrum "three wishes to hold in his hand", in the shape of dandelion seeds and an eyelash, in exchange for Diarmad giving her a bit of alcohol.

Continuing on the path, they get to a cave with mushrooms, from which Annie collects some. Then, they get to a mountain cave, in which Fey finds volcanic glass that she collects for "the fire once burned, no longer within". "Bombyx" appears behind them, and asks whether they have everything, to which they reply that they are still looking for Bombyx. The being that disguised itself as Bombyx smiles, then shapeshifts back into another form, swirls their hand, and the ground in the cave breaks apart into a large cavern, revealing a rougly Bombyx-sized silk chrysalis hanging from seemingly nothing, sixty feet above the ground. Annie casts Fly on Aldrum, and he and Charles fly up to the chrysalis to free the chrysalis from the invisible object it is hanging from and carry it back to the others. There, they free real Bombyx, who seems remarkably calm about the whole situation, and is happy to see their friends, including Not-Bombyx.

Together, they all get back to Bombyx's house, where they hang out, the whole group, Charles, Jim, and Not-Bombyx. Not-Bombyx makes Annie tell them that she found friendship and love, and while Annie does so, she also confesses that she did not have a lot of fun on the scavenger hunt, and might consider retiring from a mentally straining adventuring career to become a professor instead. The group has a hug, and Not-Bombyx sets the contract aflame, since it has been fulfilled, and then leaves.

As they get tired, they all leave the Feywild again, and exactly 24 hours have passed. Bombyx and Jim leave towards Tyle, while the rest of the group stays behind at the cottage to rest.

## Overview over the Scavenger Hunt

* The heart of that which does not beat - Annie finds a feywild artichoke tree and Charles grabs an artichoke from it.
* The gills of that which does not swim - Mushrooms have gills, Annie collects some in the mushroom cave.
* Tooth from the mouth that does not speak - Aldrum collects a few tooth-shaped rocks from the river mouth at the pond.
* The fire once burned, no longer within - Fey collects volcanic glass that Aldrum broke out of the mountain cave for her.
* One single petal from the most beautiful lily - they find a lily named Flower on the field, and Fey plucks a petal from her after asking.
* Two unique stars fallen to the ground - Diarmad collects two star-shaped leafes that have fallen from a tree.
* Three wishes held in hand as gifts - Aldrum got two dandelion seeds and an eyelash that might grant him wishes from a mermaid.
* Four plumes, not smoke, detached and found - Annie gets two feathers from the birds in the humming forest, and the mermaid gives her and Charles one plume each from a swan.
* Friendship and Love - Annie has always had friendship and love in her friends.
* Bombyx - They find Bombyx hidden in a chrysalis in a cave, from which they can free them.

## Trivia

* While Annie is still reading the contract, Jim casually asks Fey about how the royal family is doing, which is a callback to Amelia (both in and out of character) implying that Jim and Princess Sybilla should meet.
* Not-Bombyx does not have a specific set of pronouns, but instead simply always uses your pronouns.
* At the end of the stream, Amelia uses their DM power to establish that not only do wednesdays exist, but the days after them are called "tomorrowday", and there are a lot of very good folk songs about the confusion between "tomorrow" and "tomorrowday".

## Fan Additions

* During the oneshot, Fey was asked to sing a song, and later, Sedona delivers a song about Charles, which she reads out on stream:
```
Charles
Charles is so good, Charles is so great
He only comes around sometimes, because Annie makes him wait
But when he comes around,
Our frowns turn upside down
Charles, you're so great
I hope you had a special day.
```