Session 22

Session took place on the 8th of September 2023.

Notes were taken by Julie

## Recap

All of us get visited by Falcons with cute little hats, carrying small backpacks. Each of them contains a letter from Ricky requesting our help. We all show up and Ricky explains the situation.

Once a year, the ‘wild’ part of the Oblivion that Ricky doesn’t control gather for a whole celebration, requiring Ricky to send an ambassador to plea peace with ‘The nerds.’

Ricky needs our help escorting the ambassador, Felicia Day, to the nerds as her previous group got eaten by ogres. Ricky stresses we need to ‘be in character’. They nerds are living Dungeons and Dragons, so we are going to have to fit in.

We all agree and take on names. Lady Alisabeth, Rhyslander, Bocca the barbarian and Lady Troia. We go and meet with ‘Lady Day. And introduce us and agree to take felicia to the tourney event.

We take her to the tourney grounds, which is in a very impressive fantasy city. Lady Day suggests we take part of the festivities, in which we want to know more. As such, we go to the keep, where it will be explained better.  A couple of street kids try to steal from Donna but get’s caught by Rhys and Alyssa. When we get to the keep we are met with Prince Gyllenhaal. He insists on escorting us, where he explains the principles of the tourney:

Cunning, Culture, Determination, teamwork, and Honor.

We are already a team, so it is fitting that we try out for it already. We all seem eager to try out the tourney.

We are led to the greenhouse/war-room wing of the Keep. Lady Day is about to proceed with the peace talks, but the King interrupts and says not until the tourney is over and a champion has been found! The tourney will take several days (whelp). Bocca loudly declares that she intends to win it and the rest agree.

The prince offers us rooms to stay while there and other things we may need. The first event is a mock battle that we are to take part of. Bocca is to take their focus, Lady Troia to protect Lady day, while Alisabeth and Rhyslander go and take out the enemy spellcasters. Suddenly Polychrome shows up! Julie names her “Lady Glitter” and she gets introduced as the party’s bard.

Then the mock battle goes on and the group does great! We end up winning due to the clever tactics employed and directed by Alisabeth. As a reward we get a five-petal crystal flower.

When using a crystal petal, it grants one extra question in Assess the Situation (Even on a failure)

Following this is the contest of Culture.

Lady Glitter requested a bunch of instruments for her performance, eventually ending up with a lute and a dulcimer. She gave a great performance cheered on by the group. Then it came time for Bocca to sing (Since Vee has been teaching Julie to sing leading up to this) and Bocca gave a great rendition of Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’. Which went straight into the hearts of all the nerds present. As such the group win the Culture contest!

As a reward, the group is given a kick-ass Lute, that grants 1 team when played (can be used once per session).

On the third day, we enter into a riding competition and come -dead last-. We’re all in good spirits about that though. Following this is the feat of strength, where Lady Troia and Bocca enter. Both of them do well, with Lady Troia ending up second place in the contest! Only beaten by Henry Cavill (Or Superman?) dressed as Geralt of Rivia. After those events we get told that, pointwise, we are on par with Prince Gyllenhall’s group, being in the lead.

During the evening of said day, when we are about to go to rest, The Prince shows up to court Lady Day. Some of the group instantly pick up on what’s about to go down, while others are oblivious or in a cock-blocking mood, wanting to protect Lady Day and not trusting the prince.

Eventually, the entire group gets evicted from the room, taking up place just outside so that Rhyslander can hear -everything- that’s going on in their room. You know, just in case. And it is lucky that he did, because not too long after (while Bocca had gone away to get a keg of ale) Rhyslander noticed the sound of a window being opened slowly. The group rushed inside to find that assassins had entered the room!

A valiant fight ensued, where the assassins were left dead all over the place (with Lady Alisabeth pushing one of the crooks out of the window and teleporting after him when he used feather fall). Prince Gyllenhall came to help, dressed only in a blanket and stabbed an assassin Lady Troia had sorta spared. Lady Glitter had an intense moment with one of the assassins, smoldering eyes locked in the heat of battle. At the end she tries to get him to talk, but the assassin would never reveal who sent them and bit down on a cyanide capsule. Don’t think too much about it.

With the fighting over and the cock-blocking complete, we all went to rest after Bocca arrived back only to realize she missed out on all the fun. (Though not before Lady Alisabeth got healed by Lady Day. There was an unwelcome knife her side).

On the last day, some of us entered into the sword dueling event. All except Lady Troia and Lady Day, entered. Lady Glitter and Lady Alisabeth got defeated in the first round, by Prince Gyllenhall and a mysterious masked woman, respectively. Bocca and Rhyslander went on to the second round, only for Bocca to be defeated by the prince, while Rhyslander had a dire match against the mysterious masked woman. But eventually he succeeded and faced off with the prince in the final!

And lo, Rhyslander emerged victorious, proving himself the finest swordsman in all of the Oblivion wildlands. As a reward, our group received three kisses from the Prince (Or Princess, depending on our preferences). Each kiss cured us of a condition, a deal that Bocca, Alisabeth and Glitter all took part of.

Then came the conclusion of the entire tourney and in the end our group had gotten the most points! We WON! As a reward for winning we were granted a WISH! At first the group thought that it might have been a pretend wish, Bocca suggesting that we should wish for peace for all of the kingdom. But when we realized it was something more serious, a proper wish, the pretend kind of faded away, when Donna expressed a burning wish to save her grandmother, Hippolyta from Hera’s curse. Felicia Day had kinda hoped to use the wish to get real magical powers, but ultimately felt that was a little selfish in comparison to saving Donna’s grandmother.

The group agreed to use the wish to undo the curse (If it was at all possible, and if not, then give Felicia Day some sweet magical powers) as peace in the kingdom would come after the diplomatic discussions anyway. The king agreed and peace was brokered between the kingdom of the Wild Oblivion and Ricky. When we returned home, to let Ricky know that he had peace for another year and we got our phones, Donna’s blew up with a million messages. She called her mother and was told that Queen Hippolyta had returned! Turns out that wish was capable of undoing something not even the goddess Hera could do!

What a wild adventure.

## Characters

### PCs

Lady Alysabeth

Bocca the Barbarian

Lady Glitter

Ser Rhyslander

Lady Troia

### NPCs

Jack Black

Jake Gyllenhaal

Felicia Day

Ricky