Expedition 138: The Revelations of the Overcat

1: And the servants of the Overcat went forth into the Blessed Savannah to evangelize to the Chosen of the East.

2: The Overcat’s Most Favored, Pacifier of the Two-Legs, Drinker of One Thousand Teas, the Greatest of All Catkind, Bast Beauteous Bardfriend, was among them, to survey her servants’ work.

3: Ranag Uln, the Walking Heating Pad, was with the Most Favored, leading her servants.

4: Fi Falcon, Who Scratches Both Ears At Once, and Parsnip, Who Grows Catnip, and Valorie Vayer, Speaker for Bast the Most Favored, were also among them.

5: Bea’savac, the Tolerable Wolf, was also among them.

6. Many other two-legged servants of the Most Favored were also among them, carrying wood and metal to shape into scratching posts and small boxes for the Chosen and into the larger boxes two-legs must craft, as the Overcat taught them, to protect their feeble bodies.

7: The servants struggled mightily in the Dark Wolfwood, for the Underdog had touched the place, and placed struggle and hardship and much evil there.

8: But the servants of the Most Favored knew that their struggles eased the Chosen’s lives.

9: Their wheels and metal failed them, and they persevered.

10: Their way grew thin and narrow, and they persevered.

11: Their leader, Ranag Uln, fell into the mud and was run over by a cart, and they persevered.

12: They knew they pleased the Chosen, and that they had no higher purpose in living, and they persevered.

Chapter 8

1: The servants of the Most Favored entered the Blessed Savannah, and rejoiced. They gave praise to the Overcat for their fortune, and prayed that their work would be accepted.

2: The two-legs began to build their boxes and pacify the land for the Chosen as Bast the Most Favored did her solemn duty to the Overcat, and supervised.

3: The two-legs dug into the earth for water and built tall walls to protect the Chosen’s tribute.

4: They sent forth Ranag to guard their boxes and Bea to guard their wallbuilders and Fi and Parsnip to guard their made-spring, and each were tested.

5: Valorie Vayer left to cross the Blessed Savannah and note all the comings and goings of the creatures there so that the two-legs could move through it meekly, and not interfere in the Chosen’s hunts. She was also tested.

Chapter 9

1: Valorie Vayer walked far and saw all the blessings of animal and field the Overcat had given to their Chosen, and rejoiced.

2: She made knowledge of the animals and fields and commanded the two-legs to Bypass those paths reserved for the Overcat’s Chosen.

3: While she went through the Blessed Savannah, she came upon four of the Presumptious Hunting Two-Legs, the Gith, and their leader, Hammer Swing.

4: The presumptuous hunters were training in the Chosen’s territory.

5: But the Overcat’s blessings were not with them, and Valorie easily saw them, while remaining unseen.

6: Valorie was favored by the Overcat, and by Their Most Favored, and Bast Beauteous Bardfriend listened for her every thought.

7: Valorie asked the Most Favored to send aid to her, beseeching her to send forth Ranag Uln to bring the Gith the metal they had demanded, without which they were weak, and feeble hunters.

8: Valorie knew her place, and promised nothing to the Most Favored, for all of what she could offer, tea and ear scritches, were the Most Favored’s already, by right.

9: But the Most Favored was wise and generous, and so sent forth Ranag Uln.

10: Ranag Uln came to where Valorie was, and gave the Gith three pieces of their metal, and the Gith submitted to the Overcat’s majesty and foreswore the Underdog and all its foul works, and departed.

Chapter 10

1: Parsnip stood guard at the two-leg boxes because Ranag Uln had left to deliver metal to the Gith.

2: Two tall elephants began to trample the boxes, inveighing against them.

3: Parsnip, whom the Overcat had gifted the comprehension of all animals, heard their complaints.

4: The elephants declared that the boxes of the two-legs were false trees and bad, and did not feed the elephants, as trees should.

5: Parsnip wielded great power, and could have slain the elephants for the Overcat.

6: But Parsnip saw in the elephants a glimmer of the Overcat’s wisdom, for trees had been crafted by the Overcat for no purpose beyond serving the creatures that ate of them, just as those creatures had been crafted by the Overcat to serve the Chosen.

7: Parsnip considered, and swore to bring forth many more trees on the Savannah for the elephants, so that they might be sated, and the Chosen might hunt them at their leisure. Parsnip told the elephants only the first part of this.

8: The elephants were loud and brash and demanding, for they were uncultured brutes.

9: But they saw that Parsnip was fair and truthful, and departed.

10: For the Overcat is a merciful God, and formed each creature for its place.

Chapter 11

1: Bea stood guard with the wallbuilders.

2: Three rhinoceri began destroying the wall, inveighing against it.

3: Bea, who the Underdog had gifted the comprehension of all animals, but who had foresworn its service, heard their complaints.

4: The rhinoceri declared that the walls of the two-legs stopped their travels, and this was intolerable.

5: Bea knew of the Overcat’s ways and mercy, and promised to keep the rhinoceros paths intact.

6: But the rhinoceri did not listen, and continued to destroy the walls, arrogant in their strength.

7: So Bea slew them all.

8: For the Overcat crafted all creatures with a place, but all creatures must know the limits of their place and not stop the designs of the Overcat.

9: Bea ate the flesh of the rhinoceri, and divided it among the other two-legs, wasting nothing, as the Overcat commanded.

Chapter 12

1: Fi Falcon stood guard with the water-diggers, alone, for Parsnip had left when Ranag Uln went to Valorie’s aid.

2: Four Axebeak birds began stalking one of the two-legs digging the spring.

3: Fi Falcon, whom the Overcat had gifted the power to set lots of things on fire, surrounded the oblivious two-leg in a wall of flame.

4: Fi Falcon then slew the Axebeaks.

5: The Axebeaks, by hunting a two-leg who was not a bird, showed that they did not understand the Overcat’s design.

6: So Fi Falcon killing the birds was just.

7: Summoning a wall of fire was excessive.

8: But really, who could blame them?

Chapter 13

1: The two-legs labored all day, as the Most Favored relaxed and supervised, as the Overcat intended.

3: The sun set, and the work on the boxes was not finished.

4: The Chosen came, the whole great pride of twelve lions.

5: They defended their territory, and this pleased the Overcat

6: They waited to stalk their prey until they had all advantages, and this pleased the Overcat.

7: They knew all the two-legs had no purpose except to serve them, and this please the Overcat.

8: The Overcat descended, and inhabited Their Most Favored, and spoke to the Chosen.

Chapter 14

1: The Overcat appeared like a great cat born aloft by a hundred wings and a thousand eyes. A choir of celestial music accompanied Them.

2: The Overcat spoke to the Chosen, and told them that the two-legs had been sent to serve them.

3: They spoke of the hunts and service the two-legs would offer. They spared no detail.

4: They spoke, and all of the Chosen heard.

5: But the Chosen did not recognize the Overcat.

6: They had not kept the knowledge of Them preserved.

7: The Chosen denounced the Overcat, saying that They were the god of a foreign pride, and not the highest of all Catkind.

8: The Overcat spoke to them again, for They are a merciful god.

9: But the Chosen continued to profane the truth and refuse the Overcat.

10: And the Overcat saw only claws and teeth would move them, and was stirred to vengeance.

11: The Overcat struck out, and the two-legs struck out with Them.

12: Parsnip conjured forth great thorns to hold back the Chosen.

13: Bea struck through many with her false-claw.

14: Valorie praised the Overcat and heartened the company.

15: Fi Falcon swept across the field, and even the Chosen could not escape their blessed sabre.

16: And Ranag, the leader, pulled out a shotgun, and blew four lions into meaty chunks.

17: The slaughter was great and terrible, and extremely one-sided, for the Overcat was with the two-legs.

18: Only when three of every four of the Chosen lay dead did the Chosen realize their error.

19: They felt fear of the Overcat in their hearts, and knew that they, too, served the Overcat’s purpose, as did all things.

20: And they begged mercy and swore to follow the Overcat’s teachings.

21: And the Overcat accepted their oaths, and showed mercy, and promised their children and their children’s children would inherit all They had promised.

Chapter 15

1: The Overcat left an echo of Themself over their work, so that Catkind would not forget their promises and wrath.

2: The two-legs completed their work, and scavenged the dead, and gave praise to the Overcat.

3: And all heard of what had been done, and knew of the glory of the Overcat.

**Expedition Result:** Success

**Expedition Level:** 9 (Benefits Port Vrall, minimum 2 XP)

**Expedition Loot:** 170gp of skins and meat, 600gp of ivory, a statue of Pelor worth 500gp. The Savannah Bypass is known and the region is pacified.