Loyal to a Fault

*Loyal to a Fault* is the title of the eleventh episode of the first season of The Numen Swell and the eleventh session of the entire game.

This session was played on March 11th, 2018

## Loyal to a Fault

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Richie Maynard, Kyle Muller

## Plot

Kifo prepares for a war with the Royal Navy.

## Synopsis

Sonney is on the dingy with three darfellan guards having recently been exiled. He looks off into the distance and spots a massive militia of navy ships heading towards Or. Kifo is still searching for Mint. It’s not very Successful. Meanwhile Bennsyn and his crew are attempting to save Meshi from a Plesiosaurus. They manage to kill the beast at the cost of losing everyone except Bennsyn, Mikey, and Meshi. Meshi runs deeper into the keep because, he’s insane. The two follow him and find him in the center of a room surrounded by hundreds of poisonous snakes. Meshi convinces the swarm that he is their father so he becomes the snake master.

Sonney charms the men to return him to Or so he can warn Kifo of the impending doom. He sneaks back to the island and heads for his friend. Black Scalp and Kifo have a conversation about Yakazi and how he is not in fact darfellan. They leave it on that and continue the search. Their men round up a large group of suspected darfellan for them to distinguish. Meshi and his army protect his friends as they head back towards the ship. Until the large one, named Mikey 12, attacks Mikey. Bennsyn kills the snake and forces Meshi to set the snakes free. It’s an emotional goodbye. Kifo continues to seek the sergeant. None of the men were him so he now tells the darfellan to look for a human. Sonney finds Kifo and gets him alone. He warns him about the incoming fleet. Kifo believes he should inform Black Scalp which Sonney is against. Kifo promises that no harm will come to the halfy and tells him to stay hidden. He returns to Amenkufa to get his ring and wish the navy away. It does not work so Kurudi lets it be known that someone already used the final wish so he rushes to Black Scalp. Yakazi finds Sonney and offers him a deal and adds insult to injury by letting him know Kifo was going to rat on the Armadillo to save himself.

Mikey awakens after succumbing to the poison from before. He is glad to see the snakes gone but not too pleased Bennsyn left ahead of them. Meshi, being the best friend he is, carries Mikey all the way back to the ship, even though he insists he can walk. He brings him to the barrel and places him in to “heal”. Once he is comfortable enough to move, he goes to find Bennsyn, who has not returned. Loyal becomes acting captain and has his men “remove” Mikey from the ship and destroy the atrocity of a figurehead. Mikey begins to follow the coast back towards Toke. It’s gonna be a journey. Sonney on the other hand does not lose track of Yakazi who unknowingly leads the boy to his hiding spot beneath the Shaman tent. He seeks out Kifo who is mid conversation with Black Scalp about the impending doom. The Pirate lord isn’t thrilled but lets the boy live so they can fight the navy without anymore problems. Sonney tests Kifo with questions about their friendship and is very confused about who is telling him the truth. Kifo heads back to the shaman tent with Sonney and closes Yakazi in the ground with his new earth powers, only Sonney throws a BoT pod in and a lion appears so Yakazi has something to play with. Kurudi is not happy about this but Kifo ignores his pleas to save the human. Mikey finally arrives back to Toke and immediately heads back to the Armadillo to inform Tecnic of the not so loyal betrayal and the missing Bennsyn. Unfading Ben is NOT pleased, to say the least.

Mikey goes to speak with anyone else but everyone ignores him which is just upsetting so he goes to the classy lassies for a job to do and runs into Ardyn. The shipwright gives the boy his jacket and one task, make an identical twin to his new party vessel, “The Dirty Shark”, within the week and he will hire him. Back on Or, The darfellan prep for an attack that does not come in half a day like they were told, but as they do appear and everyone gets ready for the fight, Black Scalp knocks Sonney unconscious and heads towards the fight.

## Cast

### Main

* Benjamin Tecnic
* Bennsyn
* Kifo Pomboo
* Sonney Griffin-Thorne

### Supporting

* Gregory
* Guru Dumu
* Loyal Tragold
* Madame Temer
* Ikko "Black Scalp" Wotan
* Kurudi Amenkufa
* Mikey
* Vic Hawklight
* Meshi
* Quincy Mint/Wafan Yakazi
* Ross Grimm
* Ephukile
* Ardyn

## Trivia

* Matt Finger once again did not attend this session but like before, there was no way to keep Bennsyn out of the narrative so he was temporarily controlled by Jonny Christie during his scenes.