Trouble in Chains

*Trouble in Chains* is the title of the fourth episode of the fourth season of The Numen Swell and the fortieth session of the entire game.

This session was played on June 2nd, 2019

## Trouble in Chains

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Dani Morrison, Kyle Muller

## Plot

A trip to the afterlife has expected consequences.

## Synopsis

Orville is trying to figure out what to do with the body he found and rushes down the stairs, still drunk. He trips and lands on the ground floor and asks Gregory what happened. Gregory is very cryptic so Orville takes his book and vomits on it. He asks more drunken questions and mentions he knew a Gregory on the Treant. Gregory tells him he’s going to sober the gnome up and a hilarious chase breaks out. Liza awakens in a dark room with Chiens, Tecnic, Thomas, and Grimm. She immediately questions where Dex is. Chiens can’t find an answer and Thomas asks the better question of where they are. Tecnic has a pretty good idea about it. He’s been here before. The Chain Room. Orville eventually loses sight of Gregory. He has no idea how. He assumes magic. He starts cursing at nothing and Father Ted asks him what he’s doing. Orville tells him someone killed Ardyn. The Priest thinks he did it so he speed walks away. Orville chases him but the father gets faster, screaming that “The Gnome is loose, killing everyone” and it sends the town into a panic. A few navel officers attempt to arrest him but he uses his sexual prowess to convince them that the church is behind this murder and they go after Ted. Orville goes to the Classy Lassies to tell Temer that this Gregory character killed her brother. She asks him to draw the man but every time he tries to the picture fades away. She plans to find the man who killed her brother so he tells her he needs a large diamond and she needs to hit him VERY hard. She breaks a bottle on his head but he warns her to wait until they get back to the body. The Cove Crew are walking up to a large door. Tecnic stresses that he will do the talking. They enter to find no one on the throne. This baffles the captain. Liza spots an Aventi sweeping and goes to speak to him. She takes his broom and demands he lead them out of there just as Tecnic snaps out of it and turns to see that the Aventi is his old pal, Bennsyn.

Sonney is deep in his study of the Gnash line. He figures out that Callum had three children, Glynnis, Evangeline, and Tedix who is actually father Ted. The daughters are dead. But he does put together that Evangeline is in fact Mikey’s mother, who had him out of wedlock. The information on the father had been removed but there are some sections of a manuscript he might be able to piece together in the future. He pockets it and the jolly roger of the Spriggan and heads into town to start recruiting for his new crew. It is eerily quiet but he puts together that it’s something to do with Orville so he heads down to the port to continue his task. Orville and Temer arrive at Ardyn’s. The gnome asks her to hit him. She kicks him and the Paladin returns. He figures out what he’s doing and brings Ardyn back to the living. Temer is speechless and the Paladin leaves to figure out what’s going on with what little time he has his wits. He makes it about five feet before face-planting and becoming Orville again. Tecnic asks Bennsyn how he is there and the Aventi explains that when Kifo ceased all the souls in him were released so now he sweeps. They continue to speak as Liza decides to sit on the throne. She is immediately grabbed by chains and sent to the hangmen. Tecnic tells Chiens and Thomas to get her down while he pleads with Bennsyn to help them return. He tells them to ask Sonney but Tecnic assumed he was dead. Once he finds out he is not he tells Bennsyn to show him exactly how Sonney escaped. Meanwhile, The Hybrid is at Toke port recruiting for his new crew. Twenty-Three men are willing to join him for a price. He pays off the three men that have never been on a boat before to leave. He then asks the remaining twenty a series of questions to narrow it down since he doesn’t need that many. It is narrowed down to Eleven men. Two pirates and nine navel defects. He has one more task. He hands out random cards. A Red card is in, the black cards are dismissed. Seven men. Sonney’s crew. Orville heads to the library to figure out the symbols in the book he stole from Gregory.

Thomas and Chiens help Liza down but she slips and falls, being knocked unconscious. Whoops. Sonney and his new crew are in the shipyard. The navel corporal now under Sonney, Brian Bones, convinces a young shipwright to build them a fishing vessel by tomorrow. Sonney pays the man more than triple the amount to make sure it’s done right and they head out to wait. Orville is at the library attempting to get this book translated. It doesn’t work. The language doesn’t exist. He belches and kills four people; he also accidently sets the library on fire so he leaves with the book to find out anything. Sonney witnesses the Library burst into flames and sees Orville heading to Old Man Toke so he follows, curious about the book. Orville sets a trap around Callum, any movement will catapult the man away and kill him. He enters the hut to see if anything matches up. It Doesn’t. He leaves Callum in the trap and heads back into town. Liza wakes up, being carried by Grimm. She asks Chiens what happened and she tells her She and Thomas helped her down. She is furious and attacks Thomas. Chocking him. Tecnic steps up and tackles her off of him, proclaiming he’s done with the Sahuagin and they fight. Tecnic is surprisingly at an advantage so Liza asks for Chiens to help her or to at least Aquamigo but the Elf does nothing. She shows almost no emotion to the fight. Liza loses and blacks-out again. Sonney spots a rucksack falling down the hill to Toke’s hut. He investigates to find it is Old Man Toke, dead. Sonney rushes up to the hut to find out what happens and sees the contraption laid around his chair. He also spots a piece of eight on the ground. He scoops it up and heads back to town to see Orville on a soapbox or… three, announcing to the crowd that the lies about him are just that. He reveals that not only is Ardyn alive but he believes the man responsible for everything happening around town are thanks to one Sonney Griffin-Thorne. At that moment Sonney shoots the gnome and a fight breaks out.

A sort of civil-war amongst the people of Ora Tatou begins. The paladin reawakens and forces Sonney to his knees. Luckily, his new crew cause a smoke screen and get Sonney out of there. He denies them and tells them to “get the gnome” or they won’t be paid. They attempt to oblige but he escapes. Sonney is livid. Orville killed Old Man Toke he needs to answer for it. Edmund, a new member of his crew, informs him that the ship is done so he tells them to go be ready on the boat while he finds the gnome. Liza wakes up once again next to Bennsyn. She once again asks what happened and he tells her they escaped the chain room, without her. She sighs and picks up a broom and starts sweeping. Trapped. Orville begins rigging his hut with explosives. He is officially on the run. As he finishes up, he spots four people washed up on his beach. The Cove Crew. He checks to see if any are conscious then he takes all of their gear and puts it into his hut through the back window. He boards it up and leaves. Sonney arrives at Orville’s island and sees his former crew. He checks the bodies as a crew mate goes up to the hut and opens the door, causing the explosion to go off.

## Cast

### Main

* Benjamin Tecnic
* Sonney Griffin-Thorne
* Liza Erd
* Chiens Cascade
* Orville

### Supporting

* Thomas Dawkins
* Ross Grimm
* Ardyn
* Madame Temer
* Gregory
* Father Ted
* Brian Bones

### Guest

* Old Man Toke
* Edmund
* Brett Scarr

## Trivia

* Richie Maynard did not attend this session.
* Bennsyn returns briefly in this episode despite Matt Finger not returning to reprise the role.