AWR Session 14

-Feywild

-9 columns in a semi circle, 2 tiered fountain, 9 statues facing the center

-Bunnyman Alotay scooches away from Xander, welcomes us, says we need to introduce ourselves to the council or they'll be mad. Ask if we can do this later because Callus is sortof dead

-Xander takes us to tree in northeast, doorway and stairs down to very humble abode. Plops Callus on the couch Weekend at Bernie's style. Harry starts to ask Mei in front of everyone why she doesn't trust Xander. Mei very adamantly says not now.

-Need to give blood to the fountain, not names. Mei grabs a bit of Callus' blood and puts in a vial for the group to introduce him, doesn't go with, says the others are visitors here and need to pay their respects so she'll stay with Callus

-Find out 5 hours is 1 week on the material plane. Callus will be up in 2 Fey days

-Everyone else goes to fountain and uses BunnyBlade to feed the fountain except Lucian who uses his own blade. Tae will remember that.

-Bunnyboi says it's been stricter since people came through and raised a ruckus, murdered a satyr, had their memories wiped as punishment

-Also was a person whose name sounded like foreskin who was kidnapping fae and forcing them to perform in plays

"Paws of Thunder"

"No, Fuckhead."

-Bunny says he is right hand to Victus and the council, sounds more like an intern

-Whisper water. please don't drink it

-Best friends call him Floppy. Lucian calls him food. Oops.

-All head back to the tree where Mei tells everyone the rules.

1. Don't share your name

2. Don't accept gifts

3. Be polite

4. Don't step on the hydrangeas. Or pick anything. Or leave the road. Or go out alone.

-Mei knows of Xenophilis' Overzealous Emporium, Harry, Lucian, and Eclipsa go to see if they can stock up

-Crazy full up shop, carnival music, smoke bomb = pink mohawk gnome appears

-Do not touch the monkey, he throws lightbulbs

-Xander has to leave for business

-Rakesh and Mei chat while they have the place to themselves, Mei tells partial truths, Rakesh says that Xander is the Traveler

-Back at the shop, so many animals, a live-action gopher museum, cages of people, gems

-Lucian starts flipping through cloaks and crazy gnome appears again. Harry wants books. X is willing to part with book information for a favor. Wants Harry to get him something off a tall shelf. Just a box 60ft up what could go wrong

-There's a pulley system to bring things down with a platform. Gnome wants to bang Harry. Harry jumps to platform, misses, feather falls down.

"What a shame, you would have made an excellent offering."

-1000GP for the cloak that lets the wearer fly. Will also take Harry, then Lucian, then Eclipsa. Lucian refuses.

-Apparently they passed the weird test, avoided temptation or trying to take advantage of X's power. Shop is much smaller, neat and clean, cages are gone. Willing to do business more straight-forwardly

-Harry gets Nature for Dummies and two books on the Feywild that are a "gift", pays for them anyway because RULES

-Going for diamonds, he cuts his own weights from one giant diamond in a vault. Harry trades jewelry for the price plus gold in exchange

-Eclipsa shows X her dragon mark, X tells her it looks similar to marks on people in the Order of the Blue Tail, tells her she can get more information from Caprina but won't say more and chases them out of the shop

-Mei knows Caprina is a unicorn, and isn't even sure she's real

-3 figures are in front of the tree when they return, starry cloaks with shifting patterns, hoods, levitating. Ask if we know what Xander is up to. We don't. Say not to trust him or take him at his word, warning us

"Spot has been vacant for not even a century and he's already got his slimy paws on it"

-Names are: Tianna the Blessed, Aurora the Mother, Leviacus the Iron War

-Harry gives his name and title to them when they ask because these are the first people Harry has ever trusted

-Lucian says he's the champion of Shar

-Eclipsa gives a nickname - Elie Traveler, they don't like that

"My bond with my sister gives me all the knowledge" - Aurora, sister is Nadia?

-Granting us sanctuary, know that we are working for a greater good and that we are on an important mission, can't see what our purpose/outcomes will be because they can't penetrate "the veil"

-They can't give us passage

-Bring up Glory back inside Xander's house

"Bellaluna parades around in her corpse"

=Eclipsa upset by red tiefling talk, goes for air, catches Xander coming in taking off a green and gold cloak. Asks about Caprina, Xander says she's past mountains and a selkie pod. Very hedgy about how long it would take to get there. Place is called the moon trough

"The journey is as long as you make it"

-Rakesh asks Xander if he has tools for his quest. Xander says the Iron Council has what he seeks, but doesn't know if they'll part with it. Lucian says it's in Everstone.

-MAP REVEAL

-Xander is shit talking the Council (not the same as the iron council). Council tried to let an avatar out - Orithiyah is a woman who was chosen by O and Xo, and has since been banished to Sheteti Carnes along with the Eldritch Horrors

-Iron council started in Brysteel, staged a coup on Everstone and now are seated there. These are the people who killed Lucian's royal buddies' husbands

-Xander makes like he isn't going to be able to transport them back because he's tired or busy or some shit. Mei asks Harry to bring Eclipsa and go talk the Bunny into letting us use the gate. Bunny has been replaced by axolotl wizard, Cornelius the Great, who is on work exchange from the Infinite Staircase.

-Throws pocket sand at Eclipsa because she wishes she can fly. She flies, he grants wishes. Harry gets an idea

-Harry offers mechabird in exchange for bringing Rumbles back. Cornelius tries his best, poots out a Ghost Rumbles smoke minimental, Harry leaves the bird.

-On the way back, Harry and Eclipsa see Green Cloaked Man Who May or May Not Be Xander\* talking to a scaley, horned, hunched being with multiple tails.

-They are speaking in deepspeech, but Eclipsa can pick up some of the words:

Demon: hot, consequences, be careful, Assad

Xander\*: They'll never know, I'm better than the original, praise be the traveler

Demon: Ensure it

-Beast disappears into green fire, Xander runs off into the woods

-Eclipsa calls a team meeting, Mei stays with Callus but mind links Lucian

-Lucian calls it a devilkin, Mei says she knows more about who/what the Traveler is but she can't say it because they're still guests in Xander's home and she needs to be respectful of his hospitality because RULES

-Lucian sees multiple travelers running through the forest

-Eclipsa and Lucian have a chat

-Long rest, Eclipsa refuses to go inside and can't really sleep because it's perpetually sunny. Callus still has three levels of exhaustion

-Sounds like we're going to talk to a unicorn