Episode 26: 2K

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**November 25, 2020**

The group started in the alley after their fight, and agreed to go with the guards to the station to sort all this out. Upon arrival, they told their side of what happened, strengthened by the fact they had Dienaar Josephine with them. Eventually, the living bounty hunters and Mialee arrived, and were led into a jail cell. Mialee was awake, but hte other two remained unconscious. The group, especially Ridgely, wanted to talk to her, and the guards let them. Ridgely told Mialee about the fact that he had no choice to leave her brother to be captured. That Captain Willaby held a knife to his throat, saying to run or die. Ridgely also indicated they planned to track down the captain to seek vengeance, and Ridgely invited Mialee to come along. The rest of the group was apprehensive about this as they did not believe they could trust Mialee. While they spoke, Luberos and Rhistel noticed the bounty hunter's belongings on a nearby table, and a piece of paper with Rhistel's face on it. Upon closer inspection they found it had all their faces on it - it was a wanted flyer from Kirogate and there was apparently a 2000 gold bounty on each of their heads. Rhistel tried to surreptitiously pocket the flyer, but was noticed by the guard who chastised him, and then noticed that the flyer had their faces on it. This led him to be wary, call for some other guards, and they insisted that the group wait in a guarded room at the station while they worked to clear this up.

They all went to a meeting room of sorts and waited while the guards attempted to contact the Arcanum. Muud, being completely wasted still, managed to make enough of a hubub that he was thrown into the drunk tank. After that, some guards came in and managed to grab, tie up, and gag Muud. They then took him down a back hall and out into a back alley where they threw him into the back of a cart and covered him up. After some time, Mialee called down from the cell block and showed the guards that Muud was no longer in his cell. This led them to start a search, but they were unable to find him. Impatient and wanting to help, Rhistel changed into a snake to perform his own search. He managed to find Muud's smell trail and followed it out to the back alley where it went cold. He then turned into a panther and was able to follow the trail further, hopping along the rooftops. Meanwhile, Muud managed to free himself from the gag, but not the bonds. While Rhistel and Muud were gone, Bookkeeper Volyn arrived to clear things up at the guard station. At her command, they group was released and they went out front to look for Rhistel and Muud. From the rooftops far away, Rhistel could see the cart in which Muud was held. He leaped down as a panther to attack the guards, and as soon as he landed they frightened and ran away leaving Rhistel with the cart and the drunk Muud.

They all met up again, and made their way back to the Arcanum. They slept for the night, Koko Dotharl having a little slumber party with Josephine. In the morning they woke, got their supplies, and made their way to The Flying Boulder. They found her in good shape and quickly readied her for travel. They made their way south to the canal. There they cut across to the Obsidian Waters and made their way north towards Curiapo. On the way, Luberos challenged Koko to a rematch, and soundly beat her again though Koko did get a nice strike in. We ended the session discussing Muud who had been having a recurring dream and noticed a changing feeling in his ball hand. This culminated in a scene with him tapping the ball only to hear a tapping in return. With a sharp tap from whatever inside, the ball cracked and we ended for the week.