A Perfect Fit

an adventure starring Tangible Dreams, Raincloud Moonglow, and Olive Muhdo.

Description: It starts as a simple package delivery in the Fashion District, but reveals a regicide lost to time. Can FBK's envoys Tangible, Raincloud, and Olive save the day for a community that is all too quick and willing to judge them?

Setting: Niqamui

Characters:

* Tanager Goodfellow
* Enzo Aarestrup
* Basel Ersine and Gheona Ersine
* The fashion police
* The Textilian Church
* Claire Catherine Daines
* BigFork: a goblin who is a Revelian (worshiper of the Reveler) and who uses a big pitchfork as a weapon

Plot Summary:

Nulisag is still recovering from having been held prisoner by a changeling, so Kuri delivers a message from Tanager directly to Tangilble, Raincloud, and Olive, asking them to carry a package to the fashion district. Tangible and Raincloud, both very fashionable, understand that the fashion district is a place where people will literally attack you for wearing the wrong clothes. Fashion police are a real and literal danger there. Olive, however, thinks any clothes that don't have holes in them will do. The three begin to carry the package, which is large enough to hold a robe, to the fashion district, but both Raincloud and Tangible are overcome by the robe's mind control. The robe insults what they're wearing and insists that to be beautiful, they should put it on instead. But it also keeps insulting them, and trying to take possession of their mind and body. This isn't a case of you wearing clothes, but of the clothes wearing you. Tangible uses her magic to break the robe's hold over Raincloud, but then falls victim to it herself. She dashes away down the street and into an alley with the robe and starts to do a quick clothing change. But the robe nearly seizes control of her mind, so in great despair about having to kill a precious magic item, tears streaming down her face, sobbing, she breaks the curse and does a serious, potentially fatal blow to the robe. Raincloud comforts her because she is very upset, and Olive thinks her friends have gone crazy. They go to see Enzo Aarestrup, a tailor they know, but Enzo is out of it and saying things like he's not sure who they are (even though he knows Olive very well and has fitted her for clothes before) and mutters about changelings taking people over. The party, having experience with changeling takeovers because Sitara was killed in a fight with a changeling and Nulisag was held captive and impersonated by one, understands that his muttering is based on a distrust of them. They ask how they can demonstrate who they are. Enzo tells them that their choice in fashion is something that can be imitated but never duplicated, and says their choice of fashion is how he'll know it's them, their true selves. But the Textilian Church has recently been requiring everyone to wear all gray, no color, in their outfits. The Textilian Church has been oppressing people. Enzo mourns that he had to sell the same gray suit to three different customers. They are discussing things when the fashion police, hot on the trails of the garment, the robe, that everyone wants to wear and that wants to be worn, find them. They shoot Raincloud and Olive fights them, and in the combat another group of disco people who are sick of being told their fashion is out of date join the melee. In the confusion, the heroes escape. Transporting the robe is now known to be dangerous. They need a better way to transport it. Olive puts it on. The robe does not succeed in taking over her mind and they have a chat. Olive asks it if the robe would like to do long division for her, since there are two minds up there now maybe only one of them has to do math. It declines. The party plans how to stop the spread of the Textilian church. They decide to show them how fun colors can be, invite everyone they know for a street festival of color, and subsidize colorful paint purchases and piles of colorful dust that people can have snowball fights with on the street, and everyone laughs and dances and parades and haves a good time, even, begrudgingly, members of the Textilian Church.

Memorable Quotes:

"I need to be worn"