07.11.2021 - Where to Look

Klaub stuck me to a wall to cut me free of the webbing I was stuck in while I watched Marko and Jerome get closer to the chest in the corner. Jerome seemed to think it was the source of the coldness in the room. He said he saw symbols on it that looked like lightning bolts, tornados, and an elephant that was around the keyhole. Once I was cut down, Klaub went over to look at it and he noticed that it was not a normal keyhole because it had spiky things in it. Makro and Jerome tried to shock it open like they did when we fought the kob-lods, but when that didn’t work Jerome looked at it with his new eye glass and he discovered that it was magical. When he heard that, Klaub suggested we try to remember what had happened when the shadows left us under the wagon and if there were any names we could remember. It took a few minutes and a number of tries, but we eventually said the name, Rahjeet, and the chest came alive and the elephant put its trunk into the keyhole.

A minute later, we were in a cloudy room where a blue elephant that was sitting on top of the chest we had just unlocked. They seemed confused to see us and said that they had been looking for us, but that we had been missing. Then the elephant told us we needed to find the Shadow Mother and the other shadows so that they could put their minds back in the right bodies, so the elephant gave us some envelopes to give to them when we found them so that they can remember who they were when we knew them. The elephant also told us where to find everyone except for Shadow Mother who seemed to be missing like we were, but probably because of them being a god now. However, the other shadows were all in Purrgatory with the biggest shadow taking a nap and the horned shadow with the one-armed shadow in the castle. Also, that Marko and Jerome were supposed to exist in this world already, so Marko’s family has been looking for him. Rahjeet told us that something was weird with Marko so Klaub smacked him with a book of Shadow Mother and his hair grew back and he looked more like he did before we met those rat people. We started asking more questions, but the elephant said they were out of time and disappeared back into the smoke and we were back in the room with the dead spiders.

Then we decided it was probably time to go back to the camp and get our reward from Himo and Tracky, but that we would go out the back cave entrance instead of the trap door we went down the first time. To our surprise, Himo was waiting for us just outside the cave. He seemed a little surprised to see us and to hear that we had killed all the baskalisks, but he said that would mean that we were weak and he told his people to “clean us up”. That’s not cool so I started throwing my magical lizards at him and his bad friends. It didn’t take us long to take care of Himo and most of everyone else, but I did have a fireball cast on me by one of his friends and Klaub had to catch me. It is weird though because then there were a whole bunch of strange magical effects like blinding lights and those cool butterflies from the rat warehouse and then I wasn’t there anymore! We went through their pockets and there wasn't much, but when we went back to the camp it was already packed up and ready for us to take back with us. Jerome went and found a wagon where he got the box of magical items from the other night. Klaub started to go through everything and move a bunch of it into a big pile to set on fire. After a few minutes, Jerome wandered off to go find the horses so that we could take the wagons with us. It took all of us working together, but we did eventually get the horses under control so we could go back to Rainbow’s.

Before we continued our way into town, we left our new wagons and horses with our other wagon and we sold two of our horses and one of the new wagons because three were too many. Then Klaub wandered off while the rest of us went looking for someone we thought might be good to send to the resistance with our extra wagon. On the way, we found the non-cat person or ‘Sauran part of town and started asking a shoe making person about what to get for Klaub that he might like as a gift, but when Jerome mentioned the resistance everyone got really scared and started going away from us. That was until we found Mr. Jisz Steelmaul who talked to us about the resistance and he became our chosen person who was gonna take the cart to the resistance for us. We also noticed that he could make some nice leather pants for Marko and Jerome and some nice bracers for me. It was going to take a few days to make those for us but after that he would then go to the resistance for us with some of his friends too. Once that was settled, we headed back towards Rainbow's, only stopping long enough for Jerome to get some thieve’s tools from a shady dude in an alley.

The whispers told me that Klaub had gone to Rainbow’s to tell him about Himo trying to hurt us and how we hadn’t been paid for our services. He also gave Rainbow some ideas about how to theme his rooms around the adventures of his adventurers. Klaub then remembered he had brought Rainbow’s pins and Rainbow loved them so  much he declared Klaub his favorite adventurer.

When we got back to Rainbow’s, we could see there were a few more people than there were the last time we came in before we went to see Rainbow for our payment. He told us all about how he was going to go about theming the rooms. Also, when we asked about where Pin, Stitch, and Sew had gone we found out they had gone out a few days ago on an adventure but that they were supposed to be back any day now. Stank came in briefly and we told Rainbow about how he didn’t actually like going into the sewers and he wanted to go to the forest. He was very impressed by how HeHeHe that was and offered us some Pey’s on the Beach for our evening in. Jerome went and found a new person in the bar who we asked about getting into the castle and under Purrgatory sneakily which just confused the cat person because he said anyone could go under the city whenever they wanted to. With that new information, we decided to go to bed so we could have more adventures in the morning. (Level up to 4!)