The Golden Cay Session 2: Moss Rave

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

## Summary

Delivered by Tactician Kate:

On our last episode™, we had just washed up on the shores of the Golden Cay. Didn’t know where the boat is, didn’t know where the crew is. So, we all sort of get our bearings. Fezos starts trying to rummage and collect his lame instruments for his map making. His poor jacket is trapped under a log and he super can’t get it out, and it sucks. Honeymoon wants to annoy him, so she offers to fix it, and he says “No, fuck off.”

So, we all look around to try to figure out what’s happening, find some footprints on the beach leading inland. Seems like maybe some of the crew got here earlier than we did. We have a little bit of a discussion about where we would like to go next. Our options are getting a perimeter of the whole island or heading straight inland. Once we’re inland, alternatively, either trying to just get to the peaks where we assume the treasure is or trying to follow the footprints.

Eventually we decide as a group that we’re gonna go inland, so we have a skill challenge which we do – we’re so good at skills. We do it so good. Fezos rolled real good. And we’re able to deduce that there are basically three sections – I guess you’d call them biomes – of the island that we could sort of head towards. To the left, there’s a super marshy, wetlandy, rivery place. Straight ahead is just dense jungle. And then to the right is more arid, less tree cover which could be both good and bad. And so we eventually decide to follow the river, which was also the way we saw the tracks.

On the way there, we meet these delightful little not-koroks who understand Abyssal, so two of us are able to talk with them. And we ask “Hey, did you see guys who maybe looked like us? Can you show us where they went?” and so they lead us away from the river, which is good because Honeymoon like, totally saw some big fucking river monster in there. They lead us along and we come to this cool little forest temple where there’s more of the little non-koroks, and they’re all kinda banging on their faces, like drums, cause it’s cute.

And so the door is enchanted, and the door thinks we’re all rude-ass bitches and won’t let us in, until Honeymoon, ever the star of the show, figures out that it wants us to be polite and so she curtsies and offers her hand and it’s like “Thanks” and lets us in.

So we go, and we’re in this whole temple, and there’s a monster with a name that shouldn’t be real, it’s like – glabbagool? It’s stupid and I love it. He’s in there, and we just kind of skirt around. We learn that all the glabbagools in the place are moss junkies, so we file that away for later. But there are some arcane gates around

*Heather*: They also speak Abyssal. Well, understand Abyssal:

*Kate*: Abyssal seems to be the language of the hour. Glad I picked it on a whim when I took the Sage background.

So, we kind of poke our little heads around. Off to one side, there’s a room full of pressure plates with a glabbagool in it. Initially what I was gonna do was Honeymoon turns into a lizard to go scurry across, not trip the pressure plates, go scope it out, and then come back. But the glabbagool thinks “Mm, yummy snack” and starts fucking chasing her. So the rest of the gang has to hurry behind it while it tanks the arrows from the trap walls. It leaves enough glabba-goop behind to leave some plates activated so we have a way to return.

In the room we find some gargoyles that don’t like when we stand in their line of sight, so we kind of snake game our way around. Meanwhile the glabbagool finds a bunch of moss and gets bored of Lizardmoon, so she’s safe for now.

There are some orange arcane gates, and an ettercap is in one of them and treasure’s in another one. So that’s a pretty big fucking dilemma. But the ettercap, its name is Clyde Hemsworth Bartholomew VII, he’s in there and he has a bunch of little baby spiders, and he’s stuck in here for a few days. So we go trace around to get some keys, we run into some… the green monster from Monsters vs. Aliens. We run into several of those. Lautilla has to do some swimming, and it’s almost quite frightening, but she does it. Her snuscles pull her through.

She gets one of the keys. Oh wait no, there’s another key in the first room, we open that door to get into a different room with a different key. We grab that key, and we go back and – painfully for some of us – agree to set the ettercap free instead of just getting the treasure. Because guide now equals more treasure later, maybe, so. We’ll hopefully fucking see.

Then we go to leave and the statue is like “I’ve been watching you. Nice job not being a dick. I’ll let you go.” And so we’re in the process of leaving.

## First appearances

Clyde Hemsworth Bartholomew VII

The Guardian of the Golden Cay