Which Way to Witchway

## Premise

With the winter on its way and the with the changing of the seasons, a post has made its way to all the bulletins in Happyesplaces for a job sent out by the Magic Academy, with a simple question with not so simple answers.

## Cast

* Tallestnull (DM)
* Trinity Angle (Talatala)
* Myla (Gardening Clown/Petals)
* Gold-Apple (Plague)
* Rock Candy (Zen)

## Notable NPCs

* Professor Wilfred Scrannery (magical geography professor, quest giver, owl toon)
* Elsie Breeze (university student, visited the Witchway, works at a family cafe, half-toon half-cloud-genasi)
* Straps (university dropout, visited the Witchway, dog toon)
* Rosie (Realkind gnome, helps the group get to Witchway)

## Plot Summary

### Part 1

It's a fall day in Happyesplayes, and flyers have been put up requesting help with a project for Professor Scrannery. The four player characters head to the university after seeing the flyer, and meet Professor Scrannery there. He initially doesn't notice the party enetering until Myla yells for his attention, then does introductions with the party; Trinity is a student at the university, so he recognizes her. The professor then tells them the legend of Witchway, the town next to everywhere, a mysterious town that has been reported all over the world. He then explains that he wants the party to find the Witchway, and hands Trinity a blank map that he says will automatically fill in as they travel to help determine where the Witchway actually is. The Professor initially says he'll pay the party when they return, but Trinity convinces him to give them half up front, and he gives them an advance of 40 gold.

The Professor gives them some contact info for two people in town that claim to have visited the Witchway, Elsie Breeze and Straps. The group heads out, with Myla grabbing Gold-Apple, who wasn't paying attention, which he hates. They all head out to the college quarter of Happeyesplayes, They first go to the Easy Breeze Cafe, where Elsie works with her family, and head inside. They're greeted by a floating cloud person (Elsie's mom), and Gold-Apple orders a fancy drink while Myla messes with the bell over the door. Trinity asks for Elsie, and the cloud woman points them towards the rooftop balcony, where Elsie is working.

Up on the balcony, Trinity spots Elsie, who comes over to talk to her. Trinity says they're here on behalf of Professor Scrannery, and Elsie agrees to tell them what she knows. The group sit down to wait for Elsie to have a free moment, and Gold-Apple gets his fancy drink. Elsie comes over to join them, and tells them about her encounter with Witchway: she fell asleep on the bus and woke up in a small village in the middle of the woods, the bus came back a couple of hours later and took her back to town. The group ask a couple questions, but Elsie says she doesn't remember much more about it, and tells them where Straps hangs out. The group head out and try to find Straps.

The group arrive at the location Elsie mentioned, a basement bar with a stage for live performers. Trinity questions if the others are old enough to be allowed inside, but they head in nonetheless, with Myla hiding behind Trinity. As the group enters, Straps takes the stage and plays some guitar music. Once he's done playing, open mic is announced and Rock Candy takes the stage while Trinity waves Straps over to the rest of the group. Trinity asks Straps about his encounter with Witchway, and he tells his story: he joined a group of partying college students roaming around campus, passed out, and woke up in a strange old town. He walked out of the town and found himself in Villestown, and it took him four months to walk back to Happeyesplayes, and he got expelled for missing class in the meantime.

The group leave the bar and try to figure out how to find Witchway, with Myla volunteering to knock the others out. Trinity says that passing out alone won't get them to Witchway, and the group decides to go get lost the forest instead. Rock Candy runs into a stranger with a huge backpack, and both of them fall over. Trinity helps the stranger up, and the stranger introduces herself as Rosie and says she's backpacking across Einquell. Trinity mentions the group is looking for Witchway; Rosie recognizes it as an urban legend and asks why they're trying to find it, and Trinity explains that the professor asked them to. Rosie claims she doesn't know how to get to Witchway and wishes them luck before heading off to go see a movie.

The group set out into the woods, where Rock finds the paper tree Elsie mentioned arriving at when she came back from Witchway, and they wander around from there. Trinity winds up getting blown away by the wind and lost, leaving her origami crane familiar behind with the group. As Trinity comes back down to the ground, she spots Rosie messing with a circle of rocks, and lands beside her. Rosie is distracted and doesn't initially notice Trinity, until Trinity calls her out for not being at the movies, startling Rosie and making her scream. The circle of rocks starts glowing, and Rosie falls through it, pulling Trinity along with her through the portal. Gold-Apple and Rock Candy hear Rosie's scream, though Gold-Apple doesn't respond to it, and RC drags Myla and Gold-Apple over towards where he heard the sound. On the other side of the portal, Rosie panics about breaking a rule and bringing someone here, and Trinity tries to calm her down.

## Notes

The week before the game, Trinity poked out the eye of one of Professor Scrannery's students with one of her sharp points, but he is expected to make a full recovery

Trinity is 7'10" tall

Professor Scrannery's map comes courtesy of a "very generous benefactor"

Discord had trouble sending messages during Part 1, making DiceParser rolls impossible for a good chunk of the game

Hot drinks cook Myla's insides if she drinks them

Tallest says that Myla hiding behind Trinity in the bar is "a paper-thin disguise"

While trying to avoid being noticed in the bar, Myla winds up with a hipster cigarette extender (sans cigarette)

Myla thinks Rock is cool when he plays music onstage, and Rock admires Myla's electric guitar when she fumbles and pulls it out

When Rosie swears in panic at the end of part 1, Trinity scolds her and says she can't say that on "program television"

## Session Recording

Part 1

Part 2: Faerie Circles and Pathways

Part 3: Small Town Rumors

## Art Gallery

Title card, drawn by TallestGolden-Apple sipping his drink, drawn by GardeningClownMyla watching Goldy sip his drink, drawn by GardeningClown