All I Want For Niqamuismas Is You

an adventure starring Flex, Errol, and Pearl.

## Setting

* North Pole of Drawes
* Palace of Wardens

## Short Episode Description

Join Errol, Flex, and Pearl as they navigate a deathtrap, a budding romance, and bad holiday music. All I Want For Niqamuismas Is You is an actual play episode of the one page RPG Christmas Capers.

## Non Player Characters

* Poppy Lindun
* Caelemon Dorael
* Amethyst the Broodmother
* Ale Arcana
* Saint Lucia (mentioned)

## Plot Summary

Errol, Pearl, and Flex are up in the North Pole aiding Saint Lucia and Poppy Lindun’s enterprise to bring fresh water to the world of Drawes, whose water sources were slowly becoming undrinkable due to the machinations of the Deep Ooze guild. The North Pole operation used a giant drill to cut ice from the giant glacier that was the North Pole, use an incinerator to melt the ice, and bottle the water into water bottles that could then be dispersed across the world alongside toys and other gifts made at the North Pole toy factory. At the moment, though, there isn’t much for the three Firebreathing Kittens to do. Flex takes a smoke break outside the toy factory while Pearl and Errol goof around in the toy factory lobby. Once Flex enters, the three of them chat and a surprising spark of awkward chemistry lights up between Flex and Pearl.

As they’re chatting, Saint Lucia enters and asks them for a favor. Apparently, the drill has malfunctioned, causing the downstream operations in the incinerator and bottling factory to go haywire. It needs to be fixed so, having nothing better to do, the three head out into the snow and to the incinerator.

Flex takes the lead and uses his arcane machine heart to increase the temperature around him, melting the snow and making a clear path for Pearl and Errol. Pearl especially huddles close to Flex, on account of the cold temperature, and it causes Flex a bit of nervousness. On the walk over, Errol and Flex share their feelings about their mothers. They’re suddenly interrupted by the recorded voice of Caelemon coming from a record player held by an inanimate snowman. Caelemon warns Errol of getting too close to fire, as it seems to be drawn to him, and he suspects it has something to do with the red dragon cult he fought long ago and having part of a red dragon soul. He also tells Flex and Pearl that they’ll find what they’ve always been looking for at the bottom of the drill hole and in a pool that looks like the night sky. Flex immediately thinks of his mother and hopes to get the closure he needs, while Pearl thinks of their lost memories, unsure if she wants them back or not. However, as they approach the incinerator, Flex and Errol tell her that no matter what, they’ll still be her friend, and that comforts her.

Flames leap from windows high on the walls of the incinerator and factory, and the three are unsure where to enter the building. Flex takes the lead and walks right through the front door, cooling his heart to manage the heat from the flames beyond. He’s in an abandoned lobby where he finds an advertisement about an incinerator death gauntlet that looks a lot like the one they’re in. Pearl and Errol join and they piece together that they have to go through the incinerator-turned-death gauntlet to fix the drilling operation and find the pool. They go through a series of dangerous rooms where they use their abilities to make it to different safe rooms, where there was protection from the fire and chaos that had broken out. throughout the gauntlet, Pearl and Flex continue to bond and Errol helps them along, being the straight man of the group.

Eventually, they make it to the drill and are able to fix the entire incinerator and factory by flipping a switch from “Death Gauntlet” to “Incinerator”. They then descended into the drilled space and got to the bottom of the hole, coming upon a pool that looked like the night sky. Pearl approaches and immediately regains her childhood memories. She was a young child when she traveled through a pool much like this one, thinking in her hubris that she was more capable than her siblings and could tackle the challenge of plane jumping. Immediately upon entering the pool, she arrives in an odd, vapor-wave oasis; however, in her panic, she tries to run away and ends up drifting into the Astral Plane. She vaguely relays her memories to Flex and Errol and then encourages Flex to enter the pool.

The three enter together and find themselves in that same vapor-wave oasis from Pearl’s memories; however, knowing more now than she did as a child, she anchors the three of them in this space and they make their way into a central Parthenon. Within it, they find Flex’s mother and the two say their hellos and goodbyes, giving Flex some much needed closure. Flex returns to Pearl, determined to go on a dinner date and sealing the dinner with a kiss, and the three leave the Astral Plane and return home.