02.20.22 - Teppin's Day Out

After we decided to go to Purrgatory, and the fight from earlier, we thought we should make our cart better. Klaub added a nice perch for me to sit on, and Jerome covered it in leaves to make it more stable. Jerome also added a place for our new frog friend. We added a nice sandbox on the side for Marko and a fun slide to make it easier for everyone to get out when we camp at night. The horses also got some new bones to make them look scary so people won’t know they are just some brown horses. When it was bedtime, Klaub told us the story of the Velociraptor That Cried Brachiosaurus which was about how we are going to die someday. He told us all about the cycle of life and death.

   In the morning we went back down the road, until we found a little ‘Sauran who was running away from some people and a very fancy lizard man who were all trying to eat him! He hopped into our cart to hide with our frog friend. We took care of the people chasing him, but he was very upset when we killed the lizard man because he said that was him. Klaub noticed that there was a really big ‘Sauran coming towards us, so it was time to go. Klaub almost didn’t make it back on the wagon in time, but we managed to escape before the ‘Sauran got to where we were.

On the way back down to Purrgatory, our new ‘Sauran friend told us about how he was Teppin Berlatilit and he had been visiting people in Tanin when he and his family were sent to visit the ‘Saurans. Then he woke up and was in this new body and his other body was chasing him, so he ran out into the woods to find his family. The whispers told me that Teppin was a friend of Shadow Mother’s and they were very important.

As we came down the road, we saw a bunch of cat people and the mean ‘Saurans who were chasing us having an angry looking conversation at The Crossroads. We sent Marco down to find out what was going on, and the whispers told me they were arguing over where the ‘Saurans could go. The ‘Saurans were upset and yelled at the cat people for being slavers, but these cat people claimed they were not like the ones here because they didn’t need slaves. Around them, we could see that something was being built at The Crossroads.

Once Marko came back, we decided we should be farmers to blend in so they won’t stop us on our way through. A cat person with a lot of hair who called himself Summer in the Wheat stopped us to ask what we were doing on the road by ourselves. He did not seem to believe that we were farmers trying to go to Purrgatory. After Marko told him his name, he told us it made sense we would be trying to leave Aaru’gala since the tensions there were rising between the cat people and the ‘Saurans. When he asked us why we were going to Purrgatory, Klaub told him that we were taking Marko to see Princess Basket because “he had a crush on her”. Mr. Summer laughed at that but said we would probably be able to get an audience with her because of Marko. Then, he walked off for a minute to talk to a dark colored cat person he called Shadow of Glass about the safety of the road and came back to tell us we should stop at the old vineyard around nightfall. The wipers told me the vineyard was the nice Sisterhood where Shadow Mother had met the nice water lady back when it was sandy all the time. Mr. Summer said we were welcome to come back through if we were ever to go back to Tanin, and he thanked us for telling him about the weird ‘Saurans we had met when we found Teppin.

We continued on down the road to Purrgatory until it was dark out, and we had gotten to the overgrown area of the Sisterhood. At the gate, there was a little old bird person kinda like me who said his name was Moonshimmer. He said he had been expecting us and immediately offered Klaub a lot of wine, and asked us to help Teppin out of the wagon as he had something to tell the ‘Sauran. Teppin hopped out so the bird person could actually talk to him and out of the shadows came a big ‘Sauran lady with three horns. They ran and tried to embrace each other, but mostly just ran into each other before thanking us and Mr. Moonshimmer for reuniting them but they needed to go find their daughter.

After they wandered off into the woods, we started asking Mr. Moonshimmer about if he knew Rahjeet or if he knew where Shadow Mother was since he had known we were coming. He told us we were closer to Shadow Mother than we knew and that no matter what we had been told we were not family. (He might know some things, but he is wrong, we ARE family. At least that is what the whispers say.) Mr. Moonshimmer says he too has whispers that tell him things, like how we have been here before and how it is not how we last saw it. The sisters are gone and inside there are only memories. When we asked him what kind of memories he could not answer that for us, but warned us we probably should not go in there unless we were ready to see them.

Since the Klaub did not tell us a good bedtime story last night we asked Mr. Moonshimmer if he could. He agreed and told us:

Once upon a time, there was a cat princess, a fine lizard, R2-D2, and a toaster

who were all the best of friends. They went on adventures together and

were a family almost like ours. But, R2-D2 went into a cave where he got some

armor, the princess discovered a lie to save the toaster and the fine lizard

was full of love. Every one of them got a gift from a fox and fell in love with the

egg they found as a group.

They were not a happy ending, but this family can change

it. But, not everyone might have a happy ending.

   After his story of the great Shadows, we all went to bed, where Marko, Jerome, and I talked about how we should go visit the memories in the temple in the morning before we head to Purrgatory.