Jack and Kifo's Excellent Adventure

*Jack and Kifo's Excellent Adventure* is the title of the seventh episode of the third season of The Numen Swell and the thirty first session of the entire game.

This session was played on January 20th, 2019

## Jack and Kifo's Excellent Adventure

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Juliana Giannasca, Graeme McEneany, Dani Morrison, Kyle Muller

## Synopsis

Kifo is in international water. He is confident he’ll be able to make the trek from Benki to Gali until a blood-curdling roar is heard all around and tentacles begin to rise out of the water. Kifo howls in excitement. Burrows is also on his way to Gali and a scout reports the ghost of Benki has been sighted. He calls a meeting and has them change directions to assault Captain Pomboo. Kifo is doing surprisingly well against this monstrosity. So much that the beast retreats to the depths which INFURIATES Kifo. He is livid that the creature left him. He curses out in the name of Minyororo. The Kygrjoda arrives at Gaoth port and docks. Burrows is beginning to get a bit paranoid of Mikey being in his presence so he decides to go into town alone to deal with Kifo himself knowing Mikey is his friend and could completely ruin his plan. He heads to a tavern and orders some whiskey. Across the bar a young Aquatic elf and a very butch Sahuagin are having a heated argument about their relationship. The Sahuagin spots Burrows and they decide to go confront him. She slaps the drink out of his hand and he asks if they have a problem as six of his men walk up behind them. The Sahuagin laughs and a fight breaks out. Burrows does not participate but he is impressed with the ladies and decides to offer them jobs on his crew. They agree after they hear the payment and introduce themselves as Chiens Cascade and Liza Erd.

Kifo arrives at Gaoth port and doesn’t even acknowledge the Man-O-War docked there and heads into town. He begins screaming at the top of his lungs that he is going to kill everyone because he’s crazy. Burrows and the others hear this and obviously go to investigate. The Ghost recognizes Burrows and in his insanity mistakes Chiens for Sirene and she drops a BOMB by claiming that is her father. They’re not sure if she’s telling the truth or not but she seems genuine. The two pirate lords then have a brief discussion about what they are doing on this Island and both determine they are going on a sort of hunt, though Kifo’s is closer to a genocide. Burrows decides to join Kifo on his quest for the time being and is pretty sure he can use the troubled mind of the Darfellan to help him further his quest. He brings his new lizbians with him to test them further. They head in the direction of Te Rangi and Chiens decides to very poorly play a tune on her fiddle. She swears it sounds better underwater. Burrows takes the trip to ask about how Kifo got marked by Cadenes. Kifo tells him the short story and he then attempts to “transfer” his mark to Burrows. It doesn’t work but he senses that Burrows has been marked in the past and somehow got away from it. He saves that for later. They camp for the night and Chiens is still fiddling away. Burrows gets agitated to the point where he screams at her to stop and notices in the silence that they are not alone. The group is then surrounded and another fight breaks out. Chiens is very weak but she has an ace up her sleeve. She opens the locket around her neck and a Water elemental emerges dubbed “Aquamigo”. It helps but she is still knocked out. The others manage to deal with the attackers swiftly.

Kifo absorbs the souls of the men and enters his mind to interrogate them. They immediately tell him it’s because he announced he was going to kill everyone so they fought back. He is not satisfied with that answer. He returns to consciousness and decides to contact Tecnic. He updates him on his day and Tecnic warns him what Burrows plan is and to kill him. Kifo confronts his new “Genocide buddy” but Burrows silver tongue saves the situation and he convinces the Ghost he is only after the OTHER pirate lords, not him. Kifo decides he wants to move on but he doesn’t want to leave Burrows behind so he sobers the man up with some voodoo and keeps him in a constant state of awareness before they depart the camp, leaving the other two behind and a note giving them the location of the Kygrjoda.

## Cast

### Main

* Benjamin Tecnic
* Kifo Pomboo
* Jack Burrows

### Supporting

* Crufire Fletcher
* Liza Erd
* Chiens Cascade
* Aquamigo

### Guest

* Moja
* Mbili

## Trivia

* Matt Christie, Matt Finger, and Richie Maynard did not appear in this session.
* this is the first time Matt Christie has missed a session in a main campaign.
* Due to a snowstorm on the day of recording, This episode was almost cancelled as three of the players could not attend. However, Dani Morrison and Juliana Giannasca happened to be around and were interested in playing so they were brought in as "Extended Guest" players. They were not required to play beyond this day but were allowed to return if they wanted to. Morrison ended up joining the cast full time in later sessions.
* This is the first episode in the series in which Sonney Griffin-Thorne does not appear in any capacity.
* First appearance of Liza Erd.
* First appearance of Chiens Cascade.
* The title is a reference to the film *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure*.