Episode 3: Incidents On and Off a One Way Road

**Incidents On and Off a One Way Road** (1x03)**-** The Nearlies trek along The One Way Road continues to put the “random” in “random encounters”. Around the edge of the idyllic landscapes darkness stirs and bad folk have begun to notice the Heroes absence and the resulting power vacuum.

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**Episode 3: Incidents On and Off a One Way Road**

### Related Content

Sirque's Corner
 Queen's Journal

## Cast

### Nearlies

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

### NPCs

APPEARING
 Sarah
 Markin
 MENTIONED
 Big Rat

## Summary

Introduction of the Nearlies as they are gathered up by Sarah Lynn Applejack, and they make their way down the One Way Road.

## Synopsis

### Prologue

A couple, hoping for a child, made a Wish, for a child.  Making a Wish is dangerous, and never goes to plan.  Luckily, instead of a creature of the underworld granting her Wish, a friendly shooting star does, granting her a son.  The star glow of the boy drew the attention of the Red Riders.  She knew that the bill would come due sooner or later, so she hides her boy, and goes to confront the Red Riders.

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Random Road Encounters continue.  The group encounters some fallen trees, but one of them seemed to have been felled more recently intentionally as a place to ambush people on the road.  The group decides to just rush the would be ambushers, to take them by surprise.  The brigades have tied themselves to the trees so that they don’t touch the Road. Gwen tosses the Green Concoction into the middle of the group, and melee combat commences.

Marken, one of the bandits, has fallen onto the One Way Road and is stuck with the group.  The rest of the bad guys flee.  Marken starts crying because he’s stuck here. The group decides to take him hostage and turn him over to the Guild of Heroes, for the murder of the previous group.  Marken says that they were hired to murder any heroic adventurer types that came along the Road.  The group divvies up the stuff looted from the Marken and the dead bandits left behind, and continue down the road.

The group sees a traveling horde of Red Riders, also known as the Crimson Cavaliers.  Their banners are just red, as if it has just been dipped into blood.  They are terrifying, and massacre whole villages.

### Epilogue

The boy from the star crawls out of the burned rubble of his home, the attackers now gone.  All buildings are destroyed, and all the animals have been killed. The boy sets to rebuilding the farm.  The elder sister of the star plummeted to the ground in the shape of a sword.  The star tells him to take her up so that he can avenge what happened to his family. The boy tosses it aside, as he wouldn’t want to ding up the plow.  This is the earliest account on file of a Nearly coming to be.

## Notables

Episode 3
 Objects Acquired
 Spells Used
 Metamorph Attempts

## Quotables

Amanda “When multiple mansplainers try to explain something to you, it’s a manbush.

Speaker: Do you have a staff or a stick?
 Xen: I’ve got my cloak and my magical fists.
Martin: Abbra and Kadabra

Val: Is [Big Rat] an actual rat, because I do have some pull there.
Marken: You have pull with rats?

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