To begin with …
Level up!
Members of the Tarot Gang,
after meeting Rose’s parents
TG had turned Jenny over to the Elonians.
Bill’s to-do list
FPs for all!
Rescue Jenny Tarot from Elonians
Fly east to the Aetheric Substation and meet the Other Ambra
Fly southeast to Harmony. Try to fight the Stone Guardian to obtain Archmagus Seals
Stretch goal: hang out with Saraid’s family
Fly north to the Gallimaufry. Hand in book
Return to Clove’s house
Here We Go!
Elonians heading back to Elonia, the Hundred Counties.
The TBs craft a compass for tracking Jenny. Quick! Consumable! For Free!
Necklace of Jenny’s - consume the Aether / sympathetic magic connection..
Little carved box with a needle.
We have a direction!
Travel check: TBs - 7 on d8
Danger!
Slow down – it’s way too open.
Captain Jax! “Well, if it isn’t Lady Ambrose’ imposter again! You won’t trick me again!”
Winx! Bring the Robot!
Clock for the troops to escape!
Round 1
- Captain Jax - Melee attack on Mizzle.
- Mizzle - heal up by Acorn Pixie
- Winx - helps the robot’s targeting
- Saraid - ice breath on all three … FPs … seems TLD-3 Resists Ice.
- Captain Jax - attacks AP, Saraid, TBs. But Saraid gets resistance to Ice.
- TBs - hit TLD3 and Winx with Fire. TLD3 is vulnerable! Winx resisted it.
- TLD-3 - Tramples Mizzle (most HP).
- Elonians get further away, 3/6.
Round 2
- Captain Jax - sword on TBs. Ouch. And heals.
- Mizzle - heal on M and TBs. Yay!
- Winx - lightning baton at TBs.
- TBs - Shoot fire at TLD3 and Jax. Jax is normal.
- Captain Jax - Guard. Resists all dmg types, all get +2, and block melee on Winx. Also challenges the AP.
- Saraid - Punch punch with Bolt. Critical Fumble, cannot FP reroll (but get an FP). TLD3 gets an opportunity. Affliction/weak on TLD-3.
- TLD-3 - Odd turn, in crisis, Vent Smoke on TBs. Misses.
- Elonians get further away, 4/6
Round 3
- Jax - Guard over, Jax can’t attack AP. Against Saraid. Light, so Resisted.
- TBs - Shoot the robot in the face! It collapses. Winx is distraught about “the prototype”.
- Winx - batons Mizzle, Misses.
- Sarad - Theriomorphosis - Dynamotheria - Might bump, taking the Weak off.
- Jax - Lux! On everyone! Including himself!
- Mizzle - Heal TBs and Saraid. AP does 50 (house rule)
- Elnians are at 5/6.
Round 4
- Jax - on Mizzle. Ouchies! And recovers damage!
- Saraid - Rushes past them toward the Elonians. MIG+DEX. Jax opposes … and almost falls over. Spends a UP to reroll … and also fails. (Worried these guys are being science-reinforced and rebuilding based on the AM’s tech). Reduced by 4.
- Winx - batons Mizzle. Ouch.
- Mizzle - healing from AP!!
- Jax - Guard, covering Winx. TBs are his challenger.
- TBs - Shoot,. changed to Bolt. FP to protect Saraid’s family. But resisted.
- Elonians running.
Round 5
- Jax - attacks the TBs. 29 from Guard. But not challenged. And heals 15.
- Saraid - Knuckles (Earth). Hits his Defense. Vulnerable!
- Winx - at Saraid with Baton.
- TBs - Still Bolt, but … takes down Winx. Jax damns us to hell.
- Jax - Lux! At the TBs! Ouchy ouch ouch ouch.
- Mizzle - Attacks Jax by healing the TBs.
- Elonians running
Round 6
- Jax - attacks Mizzle. Hits with Light damage.
- Mizzle - Study Jax - vuln to Dark and Earth; resists Bolt and Light.
- Jax - Guard. Challenge on TBs. Also fully Resistant.
- Saraid - Breach! to ignore Resistance. And extra damage!
- TBs - Warning Shoit through his hat. Slowed and Shaken.
- Reinforcements to help Jax.
Round 7
- Jax - Hits the TBs. Again. Hard. And heals.
- TBs - Earth. Shoot both. Hit both.
- Elonian Soldier - Grenado! On Mizzle. Misses!
- Saraid - hit Jax … punches with Earth. Puts Jax in Crisis.
- Jax - Spend a UP to Recover from all Statuses and 50 MP.
- Mizzle - Healing TBs
Round 8
- Jax - Kopis on Saraid, resists. And she punches back and hits.
- Mizzle - tosses MP restoration to Saraid.
- Elonian - Grenade at Mizzle. Misses.
- Saraid - Bladestorm. Attacks both. Spend FP. Hit both … Knock Jax way down.
- Jax - Lux!
- TBs - Shoot! Knock him down to 10.
- Elonians advance
(Gosh, it would be great if Mizzle could do something other than Heal)
… Mizzle summons Sir Ortis. Defeats Captain Jax. “No! It can’t be this!”
Crawls to Winx and spends an UP to escape.
Other soldiers start teleporting out.
Left with a handful of soldiers. Who drop Jenny , and try to run for it!
TDL-3 left as raw materials.
Captain Jax’s Mantle. → Saraid.
Pair of Grenado fragments. → fire energy. Rare matl, fire, for explosives or fuel or heating, 100z.
The cloak commonly worn by the field commanders in the Elonian military. Whose maker’s mark does it carry and it is proudly displayed or hidden in a hard to see spot?
Oh, Jenny, You’re So Fine
Jenny - manacled. Snarky and awful.
Sees Saraid. “From an orphanage, right?”
Walk back to town? Or answer questions?
Mizzle briefs her on the squirrelkin. Only 7. Lady Ambra. One on an island. Clones of the original Ambra, companion of the Archmagus.
Letter from Rose. “She got all the breaks.”
Mizzle gives the note.
Rose reads. “Oh, the poor sap. You’re just leading that girl on.”
Mizzle - Power of the Arcana - will force being truthful with each other.
TBs - why are you being so mean?
Saraid - try to get her to open up. INS+WLP. No, Jenny is a Critical Success.
Opportunities: faux pas on Saraid’s part, goaded into saying something self-compromising. “I love my family, but even so I long for knowing my birth family.”
Jenny: What, you expected me to be some sister to you? Cackles. Barking up the wrong tree.
TBs … chiding about family. Gives the bracelet. This is yours. She snatches it back.
We want to help. We’re all far from home.
(Persuasion checks)
And … the tears just come out. Falling over.
“You stupid little rats, you just don’t understand how the world works. Why are you trying to be nice?”
S: Sorry you’ve had that life. Wish you could see the world through my eyes. (Mizzle) Can you show Jenny what life can be like for the squirrelkin?
M: Grandfather Oak domain to … and unmanicle. “We want the world not to be like that. Why don’t we make the world more like we want.”
“It doesn’t work that way.”
“It will. You don’t have to be different from who you are. We accept you are you are. You have a place. Not contingent on being nice and sweet; Jenny deserves a place, too.”
Bawling sobbing.
M picks up Rose’s letter and puts it into Jenny’s hands.
The Letter: [Rose mad at what Jenny did, but there’s a place for her at Dolremy. Even her moms would take her in. Wants to learn more about the world, at the Gallimaufrey, so you can use my room.]
Don’t want to stay here.
Ride back on Prisma? (Prisma thinks of her as Saraid’s family, and is soooooo fluffy.)
Ignore Encumbrance limits for Prisma.
Pick up some Elonian disguise clothing, cloaks, etc.
Back to Dolremy
Get back.
Come in on lake side, avoiding most people’s attention.
And over to Rose’s house.
Jenny is bundled up in cloak.
Watching for anyone watching us.
Kendra and Olivia.
Rush up to her and hug her a whole bunch. Resentment about her running off. “Yes, we very much care that you stole from us, but we very much wanted you to be safe.” “And you’re going to need to apologize to people.”
Saraid wants to hear Jenny’s story. Over tea. And sitting down.
- A settlement that she was adopted into.
- Parents weren’t good parents … or people.
- Distrust or people and “get yours before it gets taken from you”
- Wound up in the wrong crowd. - Her drive to “get hers” ended up leading it.
- Until they turned on her.
- Something about being here last screwed her up. Gang must have thought she was going soft, to betray her.
Rose to Galimaufrey. Kendra and Oliva thinking of doing something new: aetheric baking!
“Might be dangerous for you here … but you could come with us to Delmar…”
Saraid: time to trust.
Mizzle: don’t have to do anything, you can walk away, but Elonians looking for you, choice you can make.
Head in arms.
Mizzle: divination tomorrow.
Going to Rose’s room to sleep.
“Good night, dear.”
Prisma as hangout buddy.
Everyone is ready to sleep.
But tonight … where is the other Ambra?
… distant vision of the island … a small house … vision of another squirrelkin … wistfully gardening …
Next time!
The Mizzle Ritual!
Miz’s Session 35+ agenda:
- Fly east to the Aetheric Substation and meet the Other Ambra
- Fly southeast to Harmony. Try to fight the Stone Guardian to obtain Archmagus Seals
- Stretch goal: hang out with Saraid’s family
- Fly north to the Gallimaufry. Hand in book
- Return to Clove’s house
Lots of XP … 3 UP, plust 4 FP … so 9 XP … to 10! DING!
Capt. Jax is a Normal NPC now.
(Elonian names: Jax and TDL-Winx! Also Jolly-Rodgers!)
[We’re still waiting for the right moment to drag out “We Are Family [I got all my sisters with me]” as the post title]