A Season of Reasons for Aresian Treason

**A Season of Reasons for Aresian Treason** is the third episode of *Failed Save*.

## DM's Recap

Our party itself on the wrong side of Aresian law. Arrested by the mustachioed Virion Verveer for looting and - as the party briefly admitted - murder. Leftenant Lyre escorted the party into a canopy gondola but it was a wee bit too small for Ella, who had to travel by horse. On the gondola, Bora was besieged by a tiny green tree frog who waved her over and hopped into her cloak. After that the party was magically put to sleep for the roughly days-long journey inland.

At the docks, Dasle decided now was a good time to get herself fucking killed and shot a *Fire Bolt* at Virion, who merely admonished her thanks to his well-known mild temperament and passion for crochet. Several new Aresian soldiers met the assembled group at the dock, insisting they were relief forces for the other agents who were stationed nearby, and thus took up posts upon the ship. (They weren't.)

Tied up in the lower deck our party was put to slumber yet again. Just above, Lyre and Virion began to have misgivings that perhaps these were not the tactical criminals they were looking for. Little time was left to ponder it however, as one of the relief soldiers cut their spellcaster Ulai down right in front of Virion and Lyre, who both had to (narrowly in Lyre's case) dodge a killing blow or else be felled.

A fight ensued and Ulai's death awoke our party who made short work of the agents sent below deck by Loša to kill them. They geared back up and were swiftly set free by Lyre who drafted them into the fight upstairs. The tides turned and Loša was heavily wounded, even though the very wounds themselves seemed to begin to heal with a sickly purple goo. Ahe released one final attack before crushing a potion in her hand and vanishing into the wind.

Arriving at port on the center island of Qes Ares, the party was escorted to the capitol. There they found a civilization teeming with culture and life. Delving yet deeper they found their way to the great marketplace at the base of the royal ziggurat belonging to the monarch Ilincos. He met with them in the base of the great structure offering each a corn masa pasty, apparently a delicacy here. He explained he explained that based on Leftenant Lyre's testimony, he did not believe they were in fact the criminals they were looking for and perhaps they had a common enemy.

He let them know that his people had received a missive from someone claiming to be a rebel leader in Čenik calling themselves The Librarian and saying they lived among the blue bloods of the city. If the party would make contact with this aristocratic rebel and offer a region support he'd pay them handsomely for the trouble: 1000 gold each, with 100 up front that Chirp haggled up to 200. The party agreed and a beautiful disguise dress-up scene ensued. They all adopted unique identities and visages to match. With that they set off using a magical travel implement typically designed only for one or two people. They rocketed into the sky - carriage, horse, and all, and crash landed outside of the hamlet of Celissari, where a very helpful Silmer fixed their wheels and set them on their way - but not before she was knighted by Bora. So we'll see if that sticks.

Next up the party squeaked by the Kossirik TSA and made their way to the town to the town of Agija, known for its magic and the first town on the road north to Čenik. Just outside of the city they spotted Ella alone on a horse. Suddenly the tree frog burst from Bora's cloak and transformed into the fully sized Philemon Akkad, who announced "Took you long enough! My skin's delicate mucus layer had nearly dried out."