Episode 2: Fun in the Bleeding Sun

**Fun in the Bleeding Sun** (01x02)- The journey down The One Way Road to make contact with the remnants of the Guild of Heroes begins. It becomes clear, pretty quickly, that something capital B, Bad went down.

## Cast

### Nearlies

Josh | Xenator Brisbane
Kathy | Lavaleen Crest
Andy | Martin Sirque
Amanda | Gwendylyn Cloot
 Robbie | The Speaker
 Aaron |  Production & Sound

### NPCs

APPEARING
 Sarah
 MENTIONED
 Big Rat

## Summary

The group of Nearlies, now complete, travel down the One Way Road. They encounter Knights from Thas Lorem and endure a Sun Shower.

## Synopsis

### Prologue

Years ago the greatest Seer in the Lands of Un, “Goletta the All seeing, all knowing”, had a vision. “The net of stars wears thin”.  She is predicting the 20th midnight and the biting of the sun.  Unfortunately, nobody in Vast City knew who she was or what she was talking about.  An irritated neighbor threw a brick at her to get her to shut up.  She is now known as “Goletta the slow speaking and sometimes vaguely accurate”.

She has another vision about the gathering of the Nearlies with Sarah.   “She will meet four people and one thing”.  “They help to stitch the sun back together, unless they don’t, in which case it will get very dark.”  The Guild Master is there for this prophesy, as he had lost all of his diviners to the Glorious and Goletta will have to do.

### Episode

The group has settled down to a picnic, their first opportunity to rest as a group.  Martin is having trouble eating due to jelly bones and Gwendylyn offers to try to help.  Gwen casts alchemical concoction, and creates green caustic liquid.  Xenator suggests that this is not what she was going for and to save it for an enemy.

Val has a small menagerie gathering around her. The road is traveling through the Lands of Un, far from Forsythia.  Sarah explains why the Nearlies have been recruited.  They are calling the very nearly ending of the world The Near Miss. Sarah has come out of retirement because all the Heroes are gone.  They are trying to rebuild the numbers, and the people off world in the shard realms that survived.  The Glorious have been driven off, by the Triune; the splitting of the world. Although the Glorious aren’t an immediate danger, there is still the need for Heroes for more mundane matters. The apple has anchored the Groups souls to the earth, so should be immune to Glorious powers.  A Nudge ends the picnic and the Nearlies continue along.

There is a series of random road encounters.

To one side of the road the Nearlies encounter the Knights of the Bended Bough from Thas Lorem.  They aren’t familiar with the One Way Road and don’t know what’s going on. They are from a veiled world, and the veils have now fallen, so they are only just learning about the other kingdoms and magics.  The Nearlies can’t help anyway since they can’t get off the One Way Road.

An opaque redness creeps into the sky. Sarah bolts for cover from the Sun Shower;  Xenator is blinded,  Martin fails at turning into an umbrella, Lavaleen stumbles on the road.

Xenator casts Pig’s Wall to shield the group in the shadow, which helps until the sun makes it to high noon.  At noon, Gwen shapes mist into umbrellas to cover the group as they move to the other side of the wall.

### Epilogue

Brigands have killed a group of want to be heroes on the One Way Road.  The First Circle was calling for heroes, and Big Rat has hired Earnest on behalf of an unknown individual to attack traveling want to be heroes.

## Notables

Episode 2

 Objects Acquired
 Spells Used
 Metamorph Attempts

## Quotables

Xen: I wouldn’t drink that.

Gwen: I’ve done a terrible job.

Xen: Well, you’ve done an adequate job of creating a weapon.

Martin: Start the day in a tree, end up becoming a hero, that’s quite the 180

Xen: Walls are the best.

Gwen: Well I don’t know, I would say that magic mist that turns into umbrellas and shields all of us is also pretty cool, but sure, walls are the best.

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