Yarnspinner's Stories

Collecting all the stories the party have told Yarnspinner. See Someplace Else for context.

## Fablerise Ampitheatre

After listening to several stories from Yarnspinner, and some creative collaborative stories from the animals in the audience, Hartmut is the first of the Ironlot to go up and speak.

He tells the animals about his year as a bear - leaving out any information that would be too upsetting for them. They start quizzing him on whether they could become human. Moss raises her hand to ask how *exactly* was he originally turned into the bear? He's vague - messing around with stuff. The animals ask if they could be turned human for a year, and Hartmut says probably yes?

Morrigan steps up next - she tells the group about Morgana, a fey who ran away from home. She journeys very far away and upside down and eventually comes to the ocean, at Nicodranas. There she seeks work, but has no experience to rely upon. Eventually she sneaks aboard a ship, the Baying Basilisk, as a stowaway. She works quietly, stays out of the way, and sneaks around. Until she finds herself attempting to hide in the captains' quarters, while the captain is bathing behind her. Captain Barclay is one of the most beautiful creatures Morgana has ever seen, and she can immediately see through Morgana's circlet of human protection. They have an immediate connection - and Morrigan stops the story there, promising further chapters to come. One of the animals asks her if the fairy and the captain fucked. Morrigan is coy about it, but the animals decide that yes, they did.

Llunet tells the story of an elvish woman, raised in a dark kingdom, accross a dangerous mountain ridge from a sunlit one. The woman's family were killed by the beasts which roamed the dark kingdom, and she became fixed upon the idea of travelling to the light kingdom. Her journey was perilous, avoiding men and beasts the whole way. The mountain peaks were impossibly tall, and the travel was hard. Over the pinnacle she could see the sunlight though! She made her way down the far side eagerly, but as soon as the sun reached her skin it bubbled and burned. She was not built for such things. Too late to turn back, she soldiered onwards keeping to the shade as much as possible. She tried to rely on the kindness of villagers, but they were immediately wary of her, because she was clearly from the dark kingdom. Chased out of town after town, she eventually hears tell of a city of elves, free from the control of the Sunlit Empire, where she might be safe. Exhausted, she collapses in the snow on the road there. She is discovered by an elvish man. He is immediately taken by her, and brings her to his home and safety. They fell in love - and before long had two children within ten years - Elvish Twins, almost unheard of.

The animals start asking questions - Hartmut seems to think the rarity of elves is to do with how little they bang. No one corrects him though, and the bear cubs he's talking to think that makes sense.

Moss tells the story of leaving her home - she lived with her half-siblings, in a house in a small commune outside the city. Her siblings were often at odds - Willow poised and perfect, Sorrel fun but with a criminal streak. Moss and Sorrel worked the markets together. When Moss met a dashing mercenary there, she decided to give her gifts as a courtship gesture - as gifts are very significant to Moss' people. She gave her an embroidered emerald token first. As their relationship got more serious, and the mercenary was about to leave Bysaes, Moss snuck an expensive bottle of spirits from her market stall for the mercenary. She intended to replace it from the stores under the commune, but was distracted dallying overnight with her tiefling. By the time she returned, the missing bottle had been noted. Her siblings argued about it. Willow blamed Sorrel. Sorrel was furious that Willow would not believe them when they protested their innocence. Sorrel moved out that day, to their half finished home by the edges of the commune. When the greatmother came asking someone to journey out - Moss volunteered. She wanted to prove herself - but she wanted to get away from the quiet, empty home. More than that, she knew if Sorrel went, they might never return. She feels awful about it though - Sorrel would have loved it out here, and might have been better at it. Wes tells the other animals that Moss is usually much more brave and noble than that, she's actually very impressive. Would she make a different choice if she went back? Moss admits that no - she's enjoyed her time away from the sisterhood a great deal. One of the rabbits asked if she and the tiefling fucked, and Moss blushes and refuses to answer.

Komani skillfully recites a poem. It tells the story of a tentmother of the Kithkavaki who fell to addiction - feasting on a plant which addles the mind. She was lax in her care of the children and let great harm come to them, when she should have been watching. Neriah Kinkiller and Bodybroken were both exiled from the Kithkavaki, and no one knows what became of them.

## On the Back of a Flying Spider

In exchange for healing their fey flaws, Llunet and Moss offer stories to Yarnspinner.

Moss asks if she can tell just Yarnspinner, and he says the value of stories is in the sharing. Slightly hesitant, she launches into the story of her mother's mysterious death, in 823.

Llunet tells Yarnspinner the story of fighting first the Scymir Serpent, then the Dragon which rose from the ground, and nearly dying after falling from its' back. Finding herself lost and alone in the woods, hunted by the Gravelway Ghoul. She tells Yarnspinner that she would have died if not for the others reaching her in time.

Komani offers a story in exchange for confirming whether Jacinder and the prisoners from the Marrow Mugger's fort are in this plane somewhere.

She tells Yarnspinner about how she earned the name "Goatchaser" - a slightly underwhelming reward for the serious work of her and her bedmate to recover the lost herd belonging to the Kithkavaki, when they were stolen away. The adventure was difficult and perilous, and it seems like the Horn Lord intentionally picked a name that was unimpressive. Perhaps it was a political choice.