What's Your Color

*What's Your Color* is the title of the ninth episode of the second season of The Numen Swell and the twenty first session of the entire game.

This session was played on August 26th, 2018

## What's your Color

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Matt Finger, Richie Maynard, Kyle Muller

## Plot

Sonney and Mikey try to sell feathers and Kifo leads the party on a treasure hunt.

## Synopsis

Mwana is patrolling the port, seeking any extra hands for the trip. He stumbles upon a tailor and decides to pick up something for his husband. He meets the infamous Charlee Bukett. And that’s when things get real. Sonney and Mikey are in the town square, trying to peddle feathers. Two “friendly” ladies approach and tell them they were expecting a shipment of feathers that hasn’t come in yet and accuse the boys of theft. Sonney’s quick thinking convinces them it is a coincidence and asks to speak with their boss. It is Charlee. It gets tense when the merchant insists Mikey join him at the shop. The man is willing to bargain for three more crates and Sonney agrees, leaving Mikey and going to retrieve the others. Thomas informs him as he returns that Charlee is very dangerous and to NOT give him the feathers. Sonney and Kifo agree to figure this out and take Thomas to the tailor. Sonney rushes over first to protect Mikey but Charlee offers the monkey double the price of the feathers for Mikey to stay with him. Sonney contemplates. Mikey is not happy. Kifo arrives with Thomas and straight up tells him they stole the feathers from him. Charlee in turn tells them Dawkins stole them from him so he’s not going to pay for them. But he’ll accept the boy in their place. Kifo refuses. He offers him another replacement for a price. The man agrees. Kifo leaves Thomas as collateral. Thomas is upset, to say the least. Charlee smiles at them as they leave and enters his back room where he has Mwana chained up.

Mwana is pretty unphased by his situation. He is a thunder orphan after all. Charlee tells the story of his fortune including stealing a majority of it from Fort Gaer before the fire. He gives the darfellan some gold and tells him to be on his way, he’ll get the boy eventually, he just wanted to show them he could take any of them at any point. Mwana runs into the others who have realized he was gone and went back for him. Sahge in anger shoots a rocket into the back room of the shop, where the gold and Charlee allegedly were. They go to retrieve the rest of the money but neither it or the man are there. They ask Thomas, who is still stuck to the ground, who or what Charlee is and where they can find him. He has no idea. Kifo leaves to find the pub and Sonney hands a gun to Mikey to shoot Thomas. Mikey is so nervous he accidently pulls the trigger. Luckily, his aim is atrocious and he misses. The room gets very loud. Kifo gets to the brothel and speaks with the bartender. He finds out Charlee has a connection to Madame Temer and decides to use this time to recruit. He meets a young boy named Baird, The Fashionably Late. It’s…unique. He decides to just keep Thomas and leaves, unsuccessful in his hiring. They all meet back up at the ship. Kifo contacts Tecnic through his piece of Eight and makes a deal with him. They head out towards Etoile.

Kifo contacts Sirene about picking up his men and the Aquatic Elf apologizes for leaving them at Diqiu port. He mentions a man bearing the VII coin said he would handle it and gave them freedom to head home. Kifo is concerned but thanks him and promises to see him soon. When they make it to Etoile, it is very clear that they do not have enough space for all of the darfellan. They take one hundred men and promise to return for the rest after they retrieve a bigger ship. They head out towards Gangkou. Once they arrive, Kifo splits the crowd into five groups. Team Kifo, Team Sonney, Team Mwana, Team Mikey, and Team Sahge. Kifo intends to just enter the mountain and immediately discovers the first trap, Magma. The island is a massive dormant Volcano. They have to work fast and precise. Kifo enters his subconscious to speak with Black Scalp about the remaining traps. He doesn’t help. Again. Mwana and his team are basically is a crawl space. Sonney took the least amount of men and took the largest cave. Full of traps. A lot of disarming. Sahge and about thirty men take a path that leads into an underground pool. They swim. Mikey and his team found the straightest path but also run into a lavafall almost immediately. Kifo and his men have an uphill climb. They begin. He gets to the top and finds the pool of lava with a ship floating in the center.

Team Sahge is swimming through the underwater cavern. He notices his men keep vanishing so he picks up the pace. He reaches a dead end and is forced to go back the way he came. More men vanish and it becomes clear they are not alone down there. A black ink fills the tunnel so sahge slams his god arc in a random, lucky direction. He kills the octopus that has been swiping his men and he departs. Mikey finds the treasure room beyond the lavafall. He’s excited but terrified of having to transport this loot back and forth past the liquid fire. Mwana makes it through his obstacle course and ends up on the opposite end of the pool of his father. He can make out the name of the ship. The “Makaburi”. Sonney ends up seeing light through a hole in the ceiling. Gold is trickling from it and he can hear Mikey above. It’s at that point that Mikey trips a trap that causes all of the treasure to start sinking. Sonney bolts. Mikey bolts. They both escape as the cave-in awakens the mountain. Kifo quickly builds a molten rock raft and rides it, with his team, towards the ship. They get aboard and he immediately attempts to get the men to sail the fire-proof vehicle towards his son. They get close enough for him to thunder leap aboard and the others aren’t so lucky as the volcano pops, sending the ship up and out into the world.

## Cast

### Main

* Benjamin Tecnic
* Sonney Griffin-Thorne
* Kifo Pomboo
* Mikey
* Mwana Pomboo
* Sahge Montgomery

### Supporting

* Ikko "Black Scalp" Wotan
* Sirene
* Thomas Dawkins

### Guest

* Charlee Bukett
* Baird, the Fashionably Late

## Trivia

* This episode marks the reveal of Kifo's ship, the Makaburi.