Session 12

## Session Notes:

### Session 12 - Doubling Down

Maggie, Telmund and Rae head through a small tunnel, approximately 3ft tall. They enter down a long corridor into a large open cavern. Here, they come across an armchair with snoring emanating from it. They see a large camel snoring, with white bandage wraps up the legs and their tongue lolling out. The individual wakes up and introduces themself as Lucy. They’d had their clothes and their axe stolen. Lucy said that he is originally from the Hajead Dunes and is a race called a Kamél, who have an innate nature to travel and like hot environments. Lucy and Maggie really hit it off, and Maggie promises to go and find some trousers for Lucy in the Double Down, who is distraught about being naked. Maggie borrows Melchior’s wolf hide to protect Lucy’s dignity, and we all head through the tunnel into Lucy’s home. He fashions the wolf hide into a pair of trousers to protect his decency, and tells us to steer clear of Beaver Town, and that Badja at Badga’s Hut doesn’t like visitors.

We head down and come to a marketplace of stalls, one of which is covered in glass ornaments in a range of different colours. There is almost sourceless light bouncing off a mosaic of colours all around. The store owner wears a cloak snug to their body that has no arm holes, and a snake's head with glowing eyes. Maggie trades her tambourine for a green glass hand and a purple glass horn. The group splits up and heads to lots of different stalls to barter for items. We headed further into the Double Down and found the carved stone archway leading into Badga’s Den. Inside are picnic benches with some stalls trading nick-nacks in a car boots style area.

Trip heads to a stall run by a half-orc woman with dark green skin who has one tusk that curls up to her nose, and the other is cracked off just above her lip. The woman has multiple paintings at her stall, such as:

A dark blue octopus with a fish grasped in each tentacle

A ‘draw me like one of your french orcs,  Jack’ style portrait

Two gnomes on swings

A landscape of a river of blood with a bridge crossing between two banks

Trip trades her painting of the group sucking off a whale for a glowing shield. Telmund heads over to a stall run by a humanoid with a mole head and finds a painting of the ‘East Face’. Badga recognises the scent of one of the group on Telmund, and asks the group to get him some mouse flesh. Xia will remember this. The scent Badga recognises is of Melchior, and they have a conversation about Red Breast, who smells like dirt, hay and apples. Melchior doesn’t like Badga one bit, but he does give us a lead on Sir Robin. Allegedly, his last known location was in Pruridge at the Mysterium. After this meeting, the group has a conversation with Melchior, who tells us that there are no horses left in Baratuse, as the Vedinium soldiers had taken them all. He also tells us that Sir Robin was his horse. We leave the Double Down and head to Down to continue our travel towards Feathertop, now with an added stop in Pruridge. Maggie gives the pair of trousers we acquired in Double Down to Lucy, and we decide to stay the night in his home.

In the middle of the night, Maggie is disturbed by a group of Kobolds who accost her, first trying to steal her bow, then trying to steal her dress, and then wanting to EAT HER! They then hog-tie Trip and try to make off with her, but Trip wakes us up all screaming. Thus a fight between the Bureau, a group of Kobolds and a scorpion breaks out. Ejholan tries to reason with the scorpion, but unfortunately, the scorpion is having absolutely none of it. Telmund and Xia have an awesome moment of double AoE effects at once and take out half the group of kobolds. During the fight, Ejholan’s eye glows green when he casts a nature based spell which is a little sus, but we move on. The fight finishes as one kobold escapes, despite Xia’s best efforts to hunt him down, and Melchior and Trip hold another, one of the two survivors, down. The group loots the bodies and get a rope trick rope, the essence of rage, a scorpion poison sac and a book called Airships: An Inflatable History. Lucy isn’t anywhere to be seen and Xia is worried that she accidentally murdered her with a fireball, and that’s where we ended the session.

### Point of Inspiration:

At the end of the session, we decided that Xia should get the weekly point of inspiration.