02.21.2021 - Jail Break (aka Sh*t Hit the Fan)

When we arrived back in Tanin, we could see one of the big wagons was still being fixed, but all the other ones were being filled with ores and nearby there were several wagons covered by cages with people in them. There was a pretty weird looking cat person with a big rose tattoo on his head sitting nearby who seemed to be in charge of the people in cages. He said his name was Mr. Crimshaw, and that these people were slaves who had been sold to the ‘Saurans to pick fruit forever. While Marko and I talked to the cat person Jerome wandered off to talk to the people in cages. The whispers tell me he met a little kid who didn’t know much, but he also met a person named Axel who had a big blue ball of yarn tattooed on his face. Jerome made friends with Axel and they made some plans about how to get the people out. Meanwhile, Marko finds out that we have to go talk to Earl Synclair, a very angry looking ‘Sauran over on the other side of the plaza to find out about who bought the people in cages and when Shadow Mother’s caravan is going to leave to find him. Jerome then rejoined us, so we went to go talk to Mr. Earl. On the way over, Jerome and Marko stopped to talk about how we are going to come back tonight to save the people in the cages and take them to the resistance.

   Klaub had wandered off some time before and the whispers say he found a Peyson from the temple to talk to while they waited to talk to Mr. Earl because he is unhappy the caravaners are taking one of his transports. He then head’s back to Mr. Shooshrav’s to test out some Pey’s Delights.

   We approached Mr. Earl after he finished yelling at the ‘Sauran who was supposed to be fixing the wagon so we could go find Shadow Mother. He seems very confused about who and what we are, so I told him we were with The Temple of Shadow Mother and he tells us all about how we have caused a big mess of the caravan. Mr. Earl told us it would be a few more days until it is time to leave because of the repairs that still need to be done. He then remembers that some of us broke the big wagon and he was very angry, so he stomped off to go yell at more people.

   Together, Marko, Jerome, and I headed back to Rainbow After Rain’s to turn in our last job and get another alcohol. We arrived to find Mr. Drop opening up for the morning and he let us in for some food and alcohol. This time we were the only ones inside so Rainbow came over to ask about how it went, so we told him all about killing the kob-lods and the dragon and how now we were dragonslayers. He took our completed job sheet and gave us a new one. Then he asked if we had a group name we wanted to put down because we had been together for a while so we said “The Min-agerie” (of Dragon Slayers) because that is like what The Shadows called themselves.

   Suddenly, the door behind us opened and a big multicolored cat person in an apron who carried a large rolling pin came in with a guard who pointed at us and said we had come in on the same night before running back out of the building. We turned around to find out who she was there for, but Rainbow and Drop were gone. The cat person started brandishing her rolling pin at us telling us we had put ideas of adventure in her poor Wardo’s head and that was why he had been missing for 3 days after joining Mr. Silver’s Adventuring Guild. After a moment of putting our heads together we decided she must have been talking about our friend Warder. Jerome asked her who she was and why she was looking for Warder. Her chest puffed out when she responded that she was Mama Pouncin’ Poof Pillow and she wanted to find her son so he would come home and tend to his sheep because he was going to be a shepherd.  According to her, it has become our job to find him and in exchange she would not hit us with her rolling pin, so we agreed. However, after she left, Marko pointed out that she was going to enslave him if we brought him back so we would ask him how he felt before bringing him back. Then we finished our lunch and alcohols before going to go find Mr. Silver and Klaub. Jerome and I also set up an agreement with Mr. Peaky, Rainbow’s cook, to watch Plumph until we get back in a week.

   I’m told by the whispers that the Pey’s DelightsKlaub made were a hit with everyone (thinks he could sell them for 5 sp each)  and that he has a new idea to add something called a Peychon Cookie that will have some of Shadow Mother’s sayings inside that the ‘Sauran can take with them when they are finished. He also told Peyson Virith about how we are the reason why the caravan will be delayed a few more days. Klaub had some interesting ideas he wanted to tell Peyson Virith about how maybe Bast and Pey are simply two side of the same coin, so Mr. Virith said he would need to hear more about these two while on the pilgrimage to Peyridisia.

   Before we went looking for Mr. Silver’s, Jerome found a shady person hanging around who took us to a tattoo shop so that Jerome could get a tattoo. After about an hour, Jerome had a super cool tattoo of Shadow Mother and a ball of yarn surrounded by fire. Then it came to be my turn and that needle was actually super scary, so I just got a tattoo of the world if I flew really high. Then we went to the fancy part of Tabaxi Town and super high up there was Silver Streaks Adventurer’s United in shiny lettering and there were two huge cat people in shiny armor guarding the entrance. They tried to stop Jerome and I going in but Marko told them he was very hurt and he needed us to help him go talk to Mr. Silver. Inside, it was very crowded, everyone was wearing something very shiny, and the job board was full of paper. There was a very greasy smelling silver cat person at the door who gave us a copy of the job he had sent some triplets and Warder on near his camp that we stayed at.

   Once we found our way back to Kalub at the arm dealer's place I gave Mr. Shooshrav one of my kob-lod wings and asked if he could make wings like those like he made the arm for Jerome; he could call them Peyrigliders! We couldn't stay for long though because we had to go meet up with Axel and the other people in cages.

   We all made our way to the plaza where we had last seen the wagons with the people and we saw Mr. Crimshaw getting ready to drive off with his people. Jerome immediately disappeared, so I flew a little ways behind the wagon to see if he had gotten in with the people. I watched as the wagon drove into a very muddy field and all the people started moving about. Then there was a plop and I saw Jerome fall out from under the wagon, and Marko threw a stone at the horses which made the driver fall off near Jerome. I swooped down and took control of the horses to try to help the people escape. Marko started shield surfing through the mud to catch up and Jerome was riding on the back helping open the door so that the people could be free. The guards tried to give chase but we were too fast! (The whispers say Kalub bought us some time by “helping” the driver remember how to breathe.) Some of the people jumped out of the wagon to run away, but a little while later when I parked the cart so the very smelly people could wash off everyone came back and we talked about where they wanted to go. These people all wanted to go to the resistance. It took us a few more hours to get everyone to the resistance and talked to Burgle about fixing the cart and how impressed he was that we had actually brought people. (Told him it was not us but “The Rusty Sh\*t Goblins” who freed the people.) In exchange he gave us Jerome’s ring back and helped us paint our wagon blue with “Peyridise or Bust” and our footprints on the back.

   However, we were very tired, so we took a nap in the wagon before going back into town to board our new cart where Marko and Jerome also found a skeevy bar to sleep in while I went back to Mr. Shooshrav’s to sleep with the mud-puppy. (Klaub moved me to a sunny spot instead.) Once we all wake up and meet back at the arms dealer, we talk about how we were going to go find Warder today in the south.