%% date:: [[2023-06-13]] %% # [[092_20230613 Backstory for Zebras]] ## Session Summary ![[twc-092.png]] *Image by hawkeye280, [Deviantart](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/302188c1-9b8f-420e-ae27-c135f3772fd1/d3d1o8t-7f4dbcbb-48db-4d51-9271-8a7b84827434.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_678,q_75,strp/zebra_oder_pony__by_hawkeye280-d3d1o8t.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwic3ViIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl0sIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiIvZi8zMDIxODhjMS05YjhmLTQyMGUtYWUyNy1jMTM1ZjM3NzJmZDEvZDNkMW84dC03ZjRkYmNiYi00OGRiLTRkNTEtOTI3MS04YTdiODQ4Mjc0MzQuanBnIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTkwMCIsImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9Njc4In1dXX0.YrFkDBfIyuIn7C-UAGjPYZ-Dkfu_VuVQkJAAiORQ65s).* > [!tldr] [[092_20230613 Backstory for Zebras]] > I spoke to the "zebras", Gertrude and Alice, and learned that they were actually ponies that Sendra had dyed every year. Apparently she's not exactly the most trustworthy when it comes to selling wares. Milla got Arcos and her new panther to stop killing each other, and Wally talked to the elf, Leodor Summergale. > > Leodor told us some information about Aygonath that he'd heard from songs. Aygonath is the last golden dragon in Exandria, but he did have dragon eggs that were lost when he fought Desirat. Somehow, Desirat was trapped/banished. Leodor said that two people in Nicodranas might be able to help us: Pearl of the Beach and the reclusive mage Yussa Erenis. > > I sent a Sending to Zeenoth, who did not respond. Milla got a dream from Sehanine about blood spilling out over a moon, and Sehanine told her to destroy Desirat before something called The Crimson Order released her and to remember something called The Soulfire Sacrifice. > > Milla was woken up, and woke everyone else up. We went outside to check a noise that Arcos seemed to have heard, but we could find nothing. The next morning, Brialle told us our horses had been killed. When Wally asked his horse, Matt, Matt showed him that they'd all been killed by a human in black clothing. ^summary %% ## Video  [Video](https://youtu.be/1nTq-vBG2T0) 00:00:00 Recap 00:03:17 Wait - hi, humans 00:08:03 Tiefling obsessed 00:09:15 Let's start without Lulu 00:21:37 Milla keeps her animals from fighting 00:31:13 Talking to the bard 00:36:03 We decided that Arcos blinks to our one-shot 00:36:47 Bloody hell, Leodor Summergale 00:55:15 Murathan has tingly feelings 00:58:11 Two people who can help us, one mad and one reclusive 01:06:20 Sending from Music 01:08:42 Xenia identifies the Bag of Tricks 01:11:25 She's too hot to be evil 01:19:03 Sending to Zeenoth 01:23:18 Getting the cap off Wally 01:28:00 Asking Wally about the Gentleman 01:31:24 When the GM makes a roll... 01:31:53 It goes both ways 01:33:00 Xenia wants to track us 01:35:13 Wally definitely told us about the shrine 01:36:55 Beach shrine with yarn, skanks optional 01:42:22 Does anyone just have a dagger? 01:43:35 Keeping watch 01:46:22 Break 01:46:56 Back, and Milla is dreaming 02:01:09 Milla looks outside 02:13:23 Waking up and asking Dax about her beliefs 02:18:20 Our mounts were murdered 02:24:44 Wally asks Matt what happened %% --- ## Recap ![[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/091_20230530 Butterfly Tongues#^summary]] --- ## Log Dyed black and white! [[Gertrude]] and [[Alice]]. They're dyed once a year by Sendra. Originally from [[Felderwin]]. They say that [[Sendra Bisset|Sendra]] is less discerning with her stablemates, despite how discerning she is with her clothes. Milla gets the Arcos and the panther to at least not kill each other. It's 9pm. The bard is about 95, elven. Jacket with puffy sleeves, striped trousers of a different colour. Twanging away at his lute. Wally asks him what the news is south of here. [[Leodor Summergale]] is his name. There are mercenaries sometimes but if we travel with others, we should be fine. There's not much Crownsguard south. [[The Clovis Concord]] is not happy with Dwendalian presence. Clovis Concord is eight independent city states: [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Port Damali|Port Damali]], [[Port Zoon]], [[Gwardan]], [[Tussoa]], [[Nicodranas]], a few others. They have a trading relationship with the Dwendalian Empire but sometimes it's under tension. Sometimes the war with the Kryn threatens to spill over into the Menagerie Coast. [[Aygonath]] : The songs say there's a single [[Gold dragon]] left in Exandria. There's one song he knows that says it was trapped while fighting [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Desirat|Desirat]]. Desirat stole the remaining eggs. Who knows what happened to them? Aygonath was trapped or banished. Confirms the name of the dragon. Gold dragons were created by [[Bahamut]], with assistance from [[Pelor]] and [[Raei]]. They're heavily devoted to the greater good and seek to right the wrongs. But the dragons started to fade away and die. ^4c09e8 if we wanted to get in contact with [[The Plank King]], we would probably sail out with a ship full of loot and hope we'd be captured by The Revelry and taken to [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Darktow|Darktow]]. There are two people who might be able to give us more lore about dragons. One is mad, and another is a powerful recluse. She's harmless, but there's someone named [[Pearl of the Beach]]. She's the mad one. She babbles of [[The Divine Trials]]. The other, we have no chance of meeting. He's [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Yussa Errenis]] with a tower called [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Tidepeak Tower|Tidepeak]] down at [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/The Open Quay|The Open Quay]]. He owns most of the Quay himself. He is incredibly powerful. He gives us a beer coaster calling card: `Leodor Summergale, bard of all occasions`. #sending from [[Music]]. > The pass has opened up. Full of lava. Thanks to Halkin, we're okay. We must cross over the mountains. ^dd086d Xenia identifies the Bag of Tricks for Milla. #sending to [[Archivist Adon Zeenoth|Zeenoth]] > Where are you? Did you know we'd be ambushed in Zadash? Well, we were. We're still on our way to destroy the thing. ^96365d No response. I asked Wally if he said anything to [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/The Gentleman|The Gentleman]] secretly, to get him to change his mind. Wally said no. He agreed to let me remove the curse. We each give blood in vials and Xenia gives the Bloodwax Candle and the vials to Dax. Long rest! Milla awakes with a beam of moonlight shining on her face. She feels the presence of [[Sehanine]]. There's a strain as the beam is held on her. The moon, [[Catha]], seems to pulse and vibrate like someone's pushing from behind it. Suddenly, blood bursts forth from behind the moon like someone's been stabbed, and there's red across the moon like a blood stain across a silken cloth. She sees in the moon a face of a devil, leering. Sehanine : *Destroy Desirat... before [[The Ninth Revelation|The Crimson Order]] releases her. Remember [[The Soulfire Sacrifice]].* ^67f339 She wakes up in a start. The words of [[Seluthiel]], the serpentine messenger, to *show her markings*, runs through her head. [[Arcos]] shifts in bed and sniffs at the door. Milla tells us everything. Wally remembers several figures in hooded red robes, chanting in a monastery by torchlight. The word *Crimson* triggers this. Milla lights up all her runes. Arcos looks back at her, seemingly dissatisfied. Milla goes outside? There's no one there, but Xenia's pretty sure that there was someone there. There is a set of footprints that aren't ours. Dax says she doesn't want to be brought back?? [[Biralle Evenwind|Brialle]] comes in. She tells us Sunshine was slain. :( As were all our mounts. Something killed them. The horses have had their life force drained out of them. It's like from necrotic damage. Wally resummons Matt, who was also killed. From Matt's memories, Wally sees a human figure dressed in black. Short black hair. It disappears out of his view, and then it touches the different horses. Then everything goes black. The guy is muscular. Cut, trained. [[The Horse Assassin]]