The Golden Cay Session 3: Something About Mysteries

Thumbnail featuring C.S. Neptune's art of the Golden Cay jungle

This was the third of four sessions in The Golden Cay.

## Summary

Delivered mostly by Tactician Kate:

Last time, we were cleaning up in the dungeon – the cool little forest dungeon – and we sent Clyde Bartholomew fuckin’ whatever VII out to go check on his little spiderlings to go feed them, cause he was like “Oh they must be so hungry I must go feed them.” So we’re like “Okay.” So we waited for him to come back and he came back.

So he led us out to guide us a little bit, give us some more information. Learned a little more about the Golden Cay – you know, it’s on the Outer Sea, it’s in its own plane, weird magicky shit is happening. There is a brief hunt in which we must secure food for the spiderlings. I guess he must have just gone to check up on them. I was wrong. I lied. I’m sorry.

Joseph “JoCat” Catanello: No, he did try to get food for them. He just failed.

Kate: Oh right. So we engage in a hunt with some kind of, like, boar-like creature. So we did a whole thing where a whole football scheme was happening, where Honeymoon spooked it in one direction with a little *produce flame*. I know Lauttila like, caught it? No?

Heather: Lauttila was [indecipherable], Tibeth got yanked.

Eric: I made a rope dart out of my dagger, made of Clyde’s web, which was… interesting.

Kate: Yes. And so – did Fezos like, punch it or something? Yeah, Fezos punched it really good. So we got it down because teamwork makes the dream work. So we bring it back to Clyde’s hidey-hole – spidey-hole, if you will. All his little spiderlings crawl out, which I’m sure to anyone else would be cute but to me, who’s afraid of spiders, sucked so bad. Lauttila had a nice time with the little spiderlings, with the little bebes, she had a nice fun moment.

I think Clyde might’ve – did he give us any pointers on where to go? I don’t know if he did. But he told us about the Guardian of the Golden Cay, and he told us about the whole tribute thing and how, if you’re evil, it’ll make the island sick, basically. And people go to leave tribute for the island inside the volcano, and that revitalizes it, but then if they take it and don’t leave anything in return then the island gets very angry. And so we’re like “Cool, thanks, we got places to be.”

And so we decide to keep following the river, and eventually who do we come across but Sharn the First Mate and Theodore the tiefling whose hand is a little bunked, but hey, they’re alive! We go, we talk, and they’re like “Have you seen the Captain” and we were like “No, we were kinda hoping you did” so we’re all like “Aw, cowabummer.”

So we all sit down and talk and sort of recoup, kinda trying to decide where we want to go next, where we want to go. Because we need the Captain’s little book to get off the island, and I wanted Honeymoon to klep it in that first session but he took it back so I couldn’t.

The night goes on, and there are some good conversations. Lauttila and Honeymoon talk a little bit. Honeymoon tells her how she’s from a long line of star mappers, but they’ve all died trying to map the Golden Cay. Lauttila and Tibeth have a conversation where we learn that Lauttila is a SNILF. Lautilla fucks severely, and had a husband, she had eggs, but the Yuan-ti Dominion was like “No!” They killed Chase, and Lauttila does not know what became of her eggs. But that was the bomb of the century, so congrats.

I think Fezos – I dunno if this was last session or not – Fezos and Lauttilla had a conversation where Fezos was like “Hey, you seem pretty capable, I might have a job for you.”

Ian: He also did this to Tibeth earlier in the session.

Kate: He did do it to Tibeth, but it went way worse cause she fucking hates him.

And then when everyone else was asleep so so that they couldn’t overhear them being evil, Honeymoon had a conversation with Fezos where they both talked more about a desire for power, and she told him a little more about the whole cosmic star mapping thing, how it’s seeking knowledge but also the power that comes with that understanding of the cosmos. And Fezos was like “Cool, funny, I also want power, y’know, different ways, different reasons. I was writing this contract but I think I might need to amend it. What do you say to being partners?” And Honeymonn was like “Y’know, I think we’re not that different, that sounds pretty poggers. Yes.” And so we shook on it. So we’ll see where that goes.

Then in the night, we’re keeping watch, something’s watching us. Someone’s watching the watch. And then these little guys, these little tater tots with legs, they wander up – they’re friends – these little morsels wander up and we’re like “Mmmmmmm don’t like that.” but they’re not attacking, and we figure out they’re cold. So we scoot over and we let them share the fire. And they don’t attack us, and we all go back to bed.

And we wake up and it’s an earthquake. So it’s good. The island is fucking falling apart, it’s splitting in half, it’s just opening up into a massive abyss. The little not-koroks are falling in one after the other, so we have to decide: do we high-tail it now with the ones that we definitely can save and leave the ones that are falling in, or do we stay and try to save the guys that are in the process of being swallowed up by the abyss.

So we put it to a vote and we fucking tie. Honeymoon and Fezos were like we need to fucking leave, Tibeth was like “No, we’re staying and saving them” and Lauttila was like “I’m not ditching Tibeth!” So we tied. We flipped a coin, and team Tibeth won. So we stay, and we do a little skill challenge to rescue the guys, and miraculously it goes super fucking good. It went so well, we didn't’ lose anyone, no essential NPCs were lost, nothing devastating happened. No TPK. No NPCK, I guess. We are able to rescue a bunch of the little guys. We start running toward the volcano because we’re pretty sure this is happening because fucking Captain Wrackmorne is there doing shit he’s not supposed to be.

Ian: Cause he doesn’t know better.

Heather: Nope, this is what he came to do, and he’s doing it.

Kate: It’ll be different when we do it and know better. Anyway that’s, I think, where we left off.