Prologue Arc

The **Prologue Arc** is the first story arc of the First Campaign. Set entirely on the island of Pincombe, the arc traces three distinct happenings on the island involving Abolition West, Thames Alloway, Tipple Schmidt, Sabine Bosco, and Sagardoa Wilt during their childhoods.

## Episode 1: A Jar, Not A Door

Tipple, Sabine, and Sagardoa are entertaining themselves as they usually do, stealing penny sweets from the market and playing the trading card game Nimbulist Mass when they hear a commotion coming from Hotel Pistoletto. As the hotel is evacuated the children manage to sneak in through a first floor window, overhearing that an animal has become loose in the hotel.

After a brief exploration of the empty canteen and a near miss run-in with Ampsanctus Mustard who had refused to evacuate; the children found themselves in the apartment of Inasmuch Quarter. Here they uncovered a loose Cloudjelly that Quarter had been studying with the use of an old encyclopaedia. While Sabine tried to catch the jelly for the purpose of consumption Tipple dabbed some of the creature's discarded venom on her tongue and felt briefly unwell. After three failed attempts to capture the jelly Sabine elected to allow the creature to escape into the sky through the apartment's window where it was later seen rejoining a large school of its kind following a colossal jelly into open sky.

## Episode 2: Glider? I Hardly Know Her

Two years later Tipple, Sabine, and Sagardoa are spending the day doing some renovations on their clubhouse; a former pigeon coop on the roof of Riviera Bosco's house. Thames Alloway is in the market square below performing card tricks while nearby Abolition West, a visitor to the island, notices the work going on above. She scales the side of the Bosco house using the route developed by the kids over the years and joins the group in their work where they are swiftly joined by Thames who used the stairs inside the house to reach the roof instead.

After some time at play the group is interrupted by the arrival of a glider that strafes over the island following aborting its landing due to Abolition's parent's glider being docked in the sole slingdock on the island. Abolition and her family are missionaries of the Metaglean God and are piloting a stolen glider to spread their word, which has attracted the attention of the powers that be in the region. Jumping into action after some visibly hostile maneauvres by the incoming glider the children warn Riviera, who goes to fetch The Colonnel, and then rush to the dock to try and help but are turned away by Diego Ironside who instead sends them to find Heidi St. Octogon who holds the keys to the dock. Here the children split up, with Thames and Sagardoa heading to Heidi's house and Abolition, Tipple, and Sabine make for the Hotel in hopes of intercepting the glider. At this time three mysterious figures jump from the glider as it passes, landing in the market square near the dock.

Heidi is panicing in her house and faints upon the arrival of Thames and Sagardoa who do their best to wake her up. Thames retrieves the keys to the dock from her but leaves Sagardoa looking after her halfway to the dock when she begins to faint again. After making it back to the market Thames catches sight of the three figures and elects to sneak past them using his apple crate, making it to the dock's lock and launching the West's glider off of the island; this catches the attention of everyone involved, including Ampsanctus and Diego who are trying to defend the dock from the interlopers.

On the roof of the hotel Abolition and Sabine have fashioned a net out of the washing lines and the laundry hanging there and attempt to catch hold of the glider as it passes by, using Tipple's rendition of an old anti-imperial song as a distraction. While not entirely successful, the girls tangle the net in the glider's weight system and use the opportunity to climb aboard. The glider now struggling to remain under the control of the pilot due to the bedding sabotage speeds out over the far half of the island; a wasteland of ruins off limits to the island's residents.

## Episode 3: Slingdock Saints

Abolition and Sabine do battle against the crew of the glider, defeating them all with little issue. After a brief stint of trying to control the vehicle they crash it in the ruins but both escape with only superficial injuries. While making their way back to the village Sabine noticed a secret route through the forest that skirted the village's gates littered with imperial detritus.

Thames and Tipple join in the confrontation at the slingdock, siding with Ampsanctus Mustard and Diego Ironside against the imperials. In the course of the fight two of the invaders are killed and Gimlet Sparks is left with small but numerous facial scars from Thames' card based attack. Diego captures Sparks and takes him away with the intention of taking the blame for the destruction of the crew to save the village from the wrath of the imperials.