Friendship Unbreakable Part 3

## Episode 3 - The FeyWild West

In the estate, Zachariah watches from the window as Seline and Talia drink after visiting the Talia's Village. Once their bottle is empty, Seline retrieves another before Talia helps her to bed. Talia returns to the table and talks to Zachariah while continuing to drink. Talia laments the loss of her pack and and feels she's disappointed them. Zachariah similarly grieves over the loss of his band although he doesn't blame Talia for it, saying it would have happened eventually. Zachariah almost wishes he had kept floating in Villvale. Talia says that Seline and he need to work on their issues instead of avoiding it. She leaves his skull on the kitchen table before attempting to get to bed but succeeding and making it to the floor in her bedroom. The muddled by alcohol, Talia dreams of chasing a little girl through the woods. Talia reaches a moonlit clearing where the little girl is standing next to a giant wolf larger than the direwolves she encountered before. Looking at the wolf and the girl, a single thought enters Talia’s mind. ***Protect what is yours.*** In Seline's similarly muddled dreams is a bouncing yellow light asking, why am I here? What's happening? Why can't I leave? To these questions, Seline responds I don't know. in the morning, Seline and Talia get themselves together to head out. Talia says that she will be okay. Seline is not quite sure she believes that but is not going to push the issue. At the Constable's office, they receive another copy of the dossier on the death of Jareth's parents. After giving it a closer look, they see that no autopsy was done on Jareth's parents only that they were pronounced dead of smoke inhalation at the scene and nothing more. The Constable on duty says that Constables Smoke and Melody handled this case. Constable Smoke has relocated to Duskdown and Constable Melody has retired from the service. Her current whereabouts are unknown. It appears also the branding of the Venassi symbol was added after initial investigation was concluded when it was brought up by a journalist who was also present at the scene. The journalist is listed as Freddy from the Clearwater branch of the Observer. The Observer branch in Clearwater is a small two-story building that's squished in amongst other buildings along the main thoroughfare Clearwater. Inside it smells like newsprint. The space inside is no more than 15 ft wide with newspapers everywhere along with the sound of the press running. Half visible is a counter with a bell on it. After amplifying the sound of the bell with Thaumaturgy, a young halfling comes out of a back room after a crash. They start asking Freddy about the fire but Freddy tries to make a break for it attempting to knock over a stack of newspapers to hinder Seline and Talia’s pursuit. Unfortunately the stack of papers falls on him. Talia collects him and they go to the back room. They quickly explain to Freddy, they're not Venassi. Freddy explains he learned about the group when it was mentioned in a previous Constable report (about the attack at Talia’s Village). When the symbol popped up again in the case for Jareth's parents, Freddy saw that it was conveniently not included in the report and mentioned it to the constables. Shortly thereafter Constable Melody explained with her gun that Freddy was to forget all about it and he hasn't seen her since. The report from 19 years ago was originally filed by Jameson or Blackcreek but the investigation was taken over by Melody. Melody is described as human with dwarven blood, short, red-haired, with a mean face. Freddy recalls her name is Constance Melody. The reporter's name is Frederick Writ. They thank Freddy before returning to the Constable station. Constable Blackcreek is on duty at the desk and did make the report. He explains he included the V in the original report on Talia’s Village. After some digging he tied the V to the group Venassi and also included that in the report. Once he did that, Constable Melody took over this investigation as well. He reiterates he doesn't know former Constable Melody's current whereabouts and that she retired five years ago. As for the symbol showing up in the case for Jareth's parents he thought that was a reporter trying to drum up paper sales and was unaware of the V showing up at Kan Ranch. When Talia identifies herself as a survivor of the village massacre, Blackcreek has her give an official statement for the report. Talia gives her description of the events 19 years ago including the name Jim and his physical description. She also names Constance Melody and gives a description of Leroy Brown as he was then but not his name. Constable Blackcreek expresses his intention to amend the report on the massacre with Talia's statement but is unsure about any further progress with it. Outside the Constable station Lenore returns. Delilah response is in Airpike for a thousand gold pieces in six days, she'll find our adventurers. With that Seline and Talia decide to return the Airpike.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent
* Talia Grey

### NPCs

* Zachariah Heyfield
* Frederick Writ
* Constable Blackcreek

## Trivia

* Dispel (Bonus Round) - her real name is Constance.