Episode 2: Glider? I Hardly Know Her

**Glider? I Hardly Know Her** is the second episode of the first arc of the First Campaign. It introduced two more protagonists, Abolition West and Thames Alloway, and a number of other characters.

## Synopsis

Two years later Tipple, Sabine, and Sagardoa are spending the day doing some renovations on their clubhouse; a former pigeon coop on the roof of Riviera Bosco's house. Thames Alloway is in the market square below performing card tricks while nearby Abolition West, a visitor to the island, notices the work going on above. She scales the side of the Bosco house using the route developed by the kids over the years and joins the group in their work where they are swiftly joined by Thames who used the stairs inside the house to reach the roof instead.

After some time at play the group is interrupted by the arrival of a glider that strafes over the island following aborting its landing due to Abolition's parent's glider being docked in the sole slingdock on the island. Abolition and her family are missionaries of the Metaglean God and are piloting a stolen glider to spread their word, which has attracted the attention of the powers that be in the region. Jumping into action after some visibly hostile maneauvres by the incoming glider the children warn Riviera, who goes to fetch The Colonnel, and then rush to the dock to try and help but are turned away by Diego Ironside who instead sends them to find Heidi St. Octogon who holds the keys to the dock. Here the children split up, with Thames and Sagardoa heading to Heidi's house and Abolition, Tipple, and Sabine make for the Hotel in hopes of intercepting the glider. At this time three mysterious figures jump from the glider as it passes, landing in the market square near the dock.

Heidi is panicing in her house and faints upon the arrival of Thames and Sagardoa who do their best to wake her up. Thames retrieves the keys to the dock from her and leaves Sagardoa looking after her halfway to the dock when she begins to faint again. After making it back to the market Thames catches sight of the three figures and elects to sneak past them using his apple crate, making it to the dock's lock and launching the West's glider off of the island; this catches the attention of everyone involved, including Ampsanctus and Diego who are trying to defend the dock from the interlopers.

On the roof of the hotel Abolition and Sabine have fashioned a net out of the washing lines and the laundry hanging there and attempt to catch hold of the glider as it passes by, using Tipple's rendition of an old anti-imperial song as a distraction. While not entirely successful, the girls tangle the net in the glider's weight system and use the opportunity to climb aboard. Now struggling to remain under the control of the pilot due to the bedding sabotage ther glider speeds out over the far half of the island; a wasteland of ruins off-limits to the island's residents.

## Advancement

Abolition altered her Melee Attack to deal two damage and also altered her Encourage to use her Battle statistic.

Sabine altered her Melee attack to target an enemy's lowest statistic.

Thames altered his Ranged Attack to use his Travel statistic to attack and to target two people.

Tipple altered his Encourage to provide a bonus equal to double his influence statistic.

## Trivia

* Despite it being her first game ever Abolition won the game of five player game of Nimbulist Mass.