Janxo Fetch

Janxo Fetch is the captain working for Shipton. Her ship is The Southern Wind. She is a normal brown shorthaired dog, save for the fact she can speak. She was gifted this ability while out in a magical storm on Bol, wherein she discovered a temple and drank from the alter. Since then she had the ability to speak, and has taught herself to converse in the time that has passed.

Janxo was actually the client for her first captained mission with the party, and also involved with some mysterious business with Bol and Shipton some years prior. The party was able to find out that she had been hired to captain a boat delivering plans for an astral spell to a wizard named Orzu in Bol, but because she was playing with the sphere the plans were stored in during a storm they were lost. Shipton then blacklisted Bol (or the other way around, not entirely sure on that) which left Shipton rep Pote eager to see things restored between the two entities.

On her first mission with the party, she instructed them to take the cargo (a 1.5' x 3' pillow) to a warehouse in Rearton. The party was ambushed after being knocked out by gas, as Janxo suspected might happen. The party was eventually able to confront her, and she admitted that her nemesis Cleocatra was likely the one to arrange the theft and that Janxo considered it a prank, but also a handy means of finding a "comfy spot" for the pillow. Janxo reasoned this as she and Cleocatra have a history of "pranking" one another, though from an outside perspective Cleocatra's pranks seem to border on malicious.

Janxo expected the party to help her secure the pillow and would not discuss contract negotiations until said pillow was secured. Bo, Dave, and Fallacious all objected to this, as they had already fulfilled one contract yet were denied completing it because of Janxo's unwillingness to sign. At the very least, Janxo could have explained her intentions before sending the party off to be ambushed so they would have a better understanding of what the "client" wanted to do, but even this vented frustration went over Janxo's head. Not wanting to be taken advantage of by an employer would be a universal point of understanding, one would think, except from a dog; even so eventually James followed after Janxo and with some hinted promises from Paws Mckenzie, Janxo's first mate, the rest of the crew were persuaded into joining Janxo on her mission to secure the pillow.

Janxo led them past a mysterious general store that sold fuzzy goods and a napping security guard, then finally to a famous field of soft fluffy wheat, where many scarecrows stood between the party and Cleopatra. Eventually the scarecrows were subdued and the pillow was recovered, and Janxo settled down for a nap. Paws took the party back to the ship where they were allowed a prize to share behind one of four closed doors in a secret hallway. Paws mentioned that in a few days Janxo would be done with her nap and he would sail back after dropping the party off to pick her up.

On their next mission with the party, Janxo apologized for the confusion from the last mission and assured them that this delivery would be much more straightforward, going so far as to promise she wasn't the client this time. However she was unable to help herself from staring mournfully over the side of the ship where her "toy" was lost, indicating that this is enough of a trauma that she simply cant recover from easily.

## Revealed Origins

Most recently, Janxo revealed to the party that she was a banished but rightful heir to the kingdom of Bol along with Cleocatra, who were both the pets of the former rules, Majorie and Garina. The party was able to confirm this later with a citizen of Bol, who revealed that the former king and queen were likely poisoned and their deaths would have ushered in a grab for power by interested governing parties, but because they had left their rulership explicitly to their children, meaning Janxo and Cleocatra (though the citizen seemed not to know that the "family" of the king and queen were in fact pets), the country was run in a trust for both of them until they came of age.

After probably far more questioning than she expected the party to do, she also informed them (albeit vaguely, haltingly, and not in great detail) that the Magistrate (or sometimes just "people") was likely the person who had her banished 15 or so years ago, and that she had been sailing the seas and attempting to improve conditions for Bol as a seafaring dignitary, albeit one without any access to foreign diplomats or any kind of legal recognition. She also revealed that after returning to power she would just turn around do the exact same thing, only with legal recognition, and leave the ruling to some other Magistrate she'd hire.

She also revealed that the mission she bungled by losing the sphere containing an astral spell reset any goodwill she'd earned since being banished. This along with the general lack of change she'd institute over Bol was a point of uncertainty for the party, as the implications and consequences of enacting essentially a coop to restore a former ruler to a kingdom where none of them lived or were very familiar with to a dog with a casual attitude towards ruling anyway was embraced by some (just James) and a source of uncertainty for everyone else.

However due to her hearing about the Magistrate making power moves, Janxo decided the time was right to reclaim her rightful place by hiring the party to "deliver" the royal scepter to Janxo from the inside of the Ruby Palace treasury. Jeff took issue with Janxo's definition of "deliver", and the party was quick to point out that Janxo was basically asking them to heist royal property. Janxo assured them that she had convinced Shipton of her rightful claim to it, and that Shipton would sign off on the mission and protect the party so long as not too many Bol citizens were killed in the process.

When the party showed reluctance to orchestrate the overthrow of the current government of Bol by returning Janxo to power, Janxo assured them that the only thing needed to restore her to her former position would be the return of the scepter to her, as she already was technically part of the ruling family, and she could easily pardon them for anything they needed to do to get the scepter to her. Upon hearing that, the party then made Janxo agree to come with them to Glistening Peaks to take the scepter immediately. Though Janxo had assumed that the party would just be cool with planning a heist to break into the castle and then break out of it again after stealing the scepter, the party pointed out it made way more sense for Janxo to be with them when they took the scepter so there would be no need for any of them to escape. Janxo argued that the party should go alone as they would only be in trouble if they got caught (which is true of literally everyone who breaks the law) and that she couldn't just go into the palace, but finally agreed to join them enter the castle by stealth.

James disguised Janxo as a cat when they arrived in Glistening Peaks, and met with Janxo's man on the inside, Leoda Chow, in the Ugly Duckling Inn. There it was revealed that Janxo's amulet would nullify every trap within the palace treasury, where the scepter was being kept, reinforcing the party's decision to bring Janxo as the simplest means of achieving their goal.

While Leoda kept Janxo occupied, the party split into groups to secure some maps of the sewer and of the palace that would come in handy, and then decided to move the next day, before the ball they'd heard was happening was set to occur. While waiting for the map of the palace to be prepared, Janxo and Rory stepped outside for a game of fetch and were accosted by guards wearing red cloaks, rather than the purple cloaks of the city guard. They acted as if they knew that Janxo was actually not a cat, and attempted to trick Janxo into behaving like a dog while Rory did his best to avert their suspicion. It didn't work, as Janxo's canine deception skills are woefully undeveloped, and with some help from Juice both Rory and Janxo fled the scene.

Rory was unfortunately captured while Janxo managed to outpace the guards, and is separated from the rest of the group somewhere in Glistening Peak.