Session 07

## Session Notes:

### Session 7 - The Wagon Bandits

We start the session on the streets of Stabloss. We know not to wander off alone in Stabloss because you might get stabbed. Trip wants to doctor her passport to remove her next of kin, and her criminal status. We learn that the map taken from The Uni Stable was created by the ICCD. Trip really hates gnomes, and Telmund takes a peek inside her head. In there, he sees gnomes burning and melting, with shards of a bright red rock exploding into their eyes. We come to a signpost and learn there are two districts that make up Stabloss, the ship and the bottle. As we walk through the streets of the Bottle District, we see detached houses with flowers and vines growing up the sides from them. We head to a tavern called ‘The Tankard’, and have a heated encounter with one of the co-owners. Xia realises she's lost her hand somewhere, so the group heads out splitting into two teams. Team Hand has no luck, and Melchior harasses the local winery for some port. We reconvene back at the tavern, and meet with Shank, who has found someone to cure Windoces of the Korkenian Curse afflicting her. The group stays at a tavern called the Loose Anchor.

The group teleports to Entomery through a teleportation circle aboard The First Creation, a ship owned by a mapmaker named Luke. Once we step through the circle, we find ourselves in a room with cross-hatched window, large cushions, a big chair with a red and gold pattern behind a desk and a number of gold painting frames along the walls. We enter the doors of Destiny, and we meet Luke, a warforged wearing a pristine red coat with a green waist coat, and a coral sash around their waist. Embedded in their chest is a large blue gemstone. Luke scans Windoces, and says the cost of the treatment is 800 platinum. They also have a weird reaction to seeing Melchior's face without the armour. Luke tells us that they have spent the last 1,300 years travelling the world to be able to create their maps, and have probably seen everything in the world at least 4 times. Luke gives us a task, they believe the ICCD (the Inter Continental Cartography Division) are evil, and are subject to human error and partake in games of 'Vodinium Whispers' which make their maps unreliable. They know of an information scroll arriving in Entomery in the saddlebag of a horse from Nuffleton. Our mission is simple: to intercept this scroll on Wavery Hill, and replace it with one full of glaring errors created by Luke, in order to ruin the reputation of the ICCD.

Whilst the mission is simple, our way of doing things is anything but. We head to Wavery Hill and create a plan. At the top of Wavery Hill sits a solitairy chair, with a small plaque that reads 'Take a Seat. Perhaps you will see your destiny.' This is the highest north easternly view point of the whole realm, and it is said that a person with a good eye can see into the next realm over. Melchior, Xia and Coda take a seat, yet none manage to see their destiny. We have an interaction with a strange old gnome named Ouled, who has been coming up here every evening for years, but has still not seen anything, who leaves us with a warning before heading back down the hill. We have a number of encounters, in which Melchior verbally assaults a couple trying to refill their stock of booze, Xia gets shot, both Melchior and Xia get stabbed and FINALLY we manage to pull off the switch.

The group returns to Luke and learns their name is Look (Luke) Out. In their time, they have met four people like Xia and none like Maggie. Xia is given a new last name by Coda, after her appearance changes into her autumnal state, and now uses the last name Everchange. Whilst looking at the map, Telmund can see wavering around a place called Feathertop - the same wavering he saw around Ejholan's eye and Xia's head. He hears 'Here it is.' in his head, but when he questions the voice, he is only met with silence. We continue travel to Frammerly, and see the four states. The Centre State, a pyramid made of thin towers with a maximum height of 800ft, Perule, with a maximum height of 600ft, Binot, with a maximum height of 400ft and Shang, with a maximum height of 200ft. Windoces shows shome papers, and we are led towards a 550ft tall marble building, with the words 'Frammerly Academy of the Exceptionally Arcanically Gifted' engraved upon it.

### Quotes:

“Could we have some light nibbles but make them heavy?” - Telmund

“We have 14 eyes between us… that’s if Melchie has 2 eyes under there.” - Xia

"I can have a convulsive fit!!" - Maggie

“The world of wine is like an analogy of my life. The older it gets, the richer it is.” - Melchior

“I’m relaxed! Fuck, I’m relaxed!” - Trip

“You held up a letter; Leprechaun, Cruel Cult of Dicks." - Melchior

"Am I from the past?!" - Maggie

### Point of Inspiration:

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