Dinosaurchid (Adventure)

**Dinosaurchid** is the first mini-adventure in the Disentanglement universe. It is set in Arkhet in the thick jungle of Dinosaurchid.

It is set in the Terran year 1076.

## *The Gang Steals Frog Babies*

The group meets at the mess hall. Two engineers have a conversation over breakfast next to the party, and discuss that the Ephylalia Dinosaurchid Company (EDC) want them to construct a bridge over a rushing river with minimal resources, and some sort of tower over a sinkhole on the other side of the river.

After pesky raptors raided the kitchen, the party slaughtered them (almost losing Paige in the process and banishing Rai to the poison realm) and met Professor Dewey Danforth. Dewey shows them his bungalow, where they encounter Kara, the Nu Mou tender of eggs. Kara is caring for Boofo's frogspawn, and Paige manages to convince her to give her some.

The group sees a crocusaur munching on attractafruits in Dewey's backyard, identifying it is a rare dinosaur with highly valuable saffron stigma growing from its neck flower. After attempting to wrangle it, Princess Kei'Haka interrupts, and takes the party and Dewey to the capital, Saffrona, where they purchase Moogle Pens from the Abacus Master and start stacking dough.

## *Rai Possesses Illegal Substances*

The party arrives at the den of Bufo, the Frog Spirit, and shares that they are in possession of several eggs. Boofo reveals that mysterious Au Ra have been coming out of a cave at night and terrorizing his spawn. Rai dives down into a deep hole and finds a small cave within the cave, and the water continues further.

Rai investigates the cave, and find cave art depicting Au Ra performing a ritual with a frog in a cauldron, in addition to a small vial of Crocusaur Stigmata. Returning to safety, the party proceed and are stumped at the end of the cave by a deep, large hole, and are ambushed by Au Ra night crawlers. Defeating the ambushers, the party regrouped at Saffrona to do business.

The florist reveals that Rai is holding a jar of Crocusaur Stigmata, and that it is highly illegal to harvest.

## *The Gang Becomes Forklift Certified*

Picking up in Saffrona's markets, the party contemplates what to do with the **Crocusaurus Stimagata** and decide to report it and the cave crawlers to Princess Kei'haka. She claims that the cult is ran by her brother, Prince Paka'Amo, and that he has done this before after beginning to associate himself with the **Moogle** and **Nu Mou** groups who practice magic.

Furious, the party decides to confront Prince Paka'Amo, and investigate possible locations for the Prince's Hideout. They discern a possible location: Across the river by the in-progress outpost two engineers were overheard complaining about. Unable to cross the harsh rapids, the party asks Sir Dewey for help.

They are led to the Tar Pits, where Dewey has a fossil dig zone. The Tar Pits are typically frozen over solid, and are kept softer with the help of a talking Rhinocerous Beetle named **Hector**. The party fights **Hector** in a maddened state after overconsuming a madness-inducing nectar from a rare species of hornet. After calming Hector with soothing Eucalyptus Candies, Hector resumes temperature control in the tarpits and the dig can continue.

Deep within the Tar Pits is an unknown fossil, with a protruding bone the size of Cedric's entire body. The adventurers were unable to pull the bone out or determine the size of the whole specimen.

The party searches around, finding a small girl's t-shirt which Rai is wearing as a crop top. They find a note, written in the **goblin** language. Dewey gives context, indicating that his deceased mother participated in a pie contest using Moogleberries, and died of currently unknown causes before a young Dewey was given permission to eat the pie. This experience gave Dewey a passion for preservation.

Paige controls a construction vehicle found at the Tar Pit, and intends to fell a tall tree to use as a bridge to cross the river and confront Paka'Amo.

## *Arc Eats Dirt and Plans to Commit Election Fraud*

The gang tries to cut down a big tree in order to cross the river. After several attempts, they finally connect, and the tree tumbles forming a bridge. Dewey gets hit in the head on account of Rai's negligence. After encountering a pack of plucked crocusaurs, the gang become infuriated and attempt to track down the person responsible. The trail goes cold at the base of Tletepetal, where two sketchy individuals are operating a machine referred to only as a thingamabob. The Egg, an engineer, attempts to discern the function of the enigmatic machine, concluding that it "turns gunk into goop" (sic).

After an exchange with the two mechanics, Paige begins to push random buttons on the Thingamabob, and discovers that it sucks up the ashy dirt beneath and picks out the "goop" and "gunk". After pushing multiple buttons simultaneously, Paige breaks the machine and it begins sweating moisture and smoking. Amidst the chaos, Paige and Arc both decide to eat dirt (seriously). The ash, after being consumes, grants Paige an additional protective layer for her internal organs, and Arc grows a tentacle. They then discover that the ash beneath is very valuable and sold to wealthy buyers for currently uncertain purposes.

Flabbergasted, the two mechanics reveal that they both have done the same, and suffered similar mutations, with the Moogle growing three tentacles out of his ass and the Hume growing a goatee with a mind of its own. Shortly after, Violet "Vi" Victus appears and calls everyone knuckleheads. Violet kicks out the gang under the threat of violence, to which the gang obliges.

The gang returns to town and unsuccessfully attempts to sell dirt. Paige then cooks a curry with the dirt. Arc decides to run for Consul at the onset of the next election. Arc begins planning his campaign — his tactics range from just being mildly annoying all the way to unethical crimes against humanity.

The gang goes "snoozer mode" at the end of the night. Cedric has a dream involving mirrors closing in around him, before punching through and being sucked into being a "guest of honor" at Kefka's Circus shows.

Guillermo appears and introduces himself, giving the first glimpse of the flamingo knot.