Game Session, 4/20/2012
DAY ONE OF AWESOME FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURE
TIME:
I love being on this skyship. I have a
new patron, which means a new friend, and I'm cooking for my best
friends in the world. I hum to myself happily as I cook, listening to
my friends make plans to gather information on the Amberjack and its
murdered navigator. We make plans (I'm sure they're good plans and
will work, but I was only half listening). Then we all prepare for
bed. I grab my teddy bear and doze off...
And am soon startled awake by the ship
teetering and tottering. I run on deck, huffing and puffing (will my
little cute chubbiness ever be in good shape again?!) and a huge,
flaming bird fills my vision. I can feel the heat from the deck of
the ship, although it is 300 feet away. Holy flaming turds of
Hurkallah! It's a phoenix!
Sultrani, in glorious bravery and
humility, bows low and begs favor from the magnificent being. Towards
the end of her small speech, Kain rushes onto the deck, gasping and
saying, “Ok, I'm here! I've got my armor on—HOLY CRAP! IT'S A
PHOENIX!”
I stand on the deck, marveling on how
pretty and overwhelming the creature is, and the being speaks in our
heads in the language of fire—which sounds weird, and we don't
understand it (I mean, who speaks fire?? What is that?)—and so it
switches to Arduinian. He asks our names, gives us his common name
(Octokao), then inquires as to why we're passing through his
airspace. “Four god-touched pass through my space... and I am
curious.” After some small talk while I didn't really listen and
stared instead, Octokao gave us a warning: “Someone has opened up
the veins of the world and is sailing through them, from the chaos
this has caused something new will arise.” Octokao offers to give
one of us the phoenix's spark—a piece of his hardened fire. Are you
kidding me?? That's awesome!
“Oo! Oo! Pick me! I want to! I'll do
it!” I say excitedly, jumping up and down and waving my hand
frantically through the air. The phoenix seems surprised and appears
to nod, then passes through the air what appears to be a raw chunk of
crystal that laces into a necklace around my neck. AWESOME. I bounce
around excitedly, dancing with my new toy. I HAVE MADE A NEW
FRIEND!!! HUZZAH! He's pretty and fiery and huge and all-knowing and
maybe we could play games sometimes.
DAY TWO:
As I cook breakfast and hum to myself,
I hear commotion about some sort of castle in the clouds. Castle of
Him? Hymn? Who's him? I don't know. Back to cooking. I'm sure it's
fine.
Kain comes charging into my kitchen,
yelling, “Harpies! I need something to block my hearing! Quickly!”
I look frantically around the shelves and find some of the wax I use
to top my bottles and vials. We pack it into his ears and he rushes
up onto the deck with me trailing right behind him. Hmmm... nice
view. I'll think more on that later. Why are butts attractive? It's
so weird. Oh, right, harpies! Need to focus! I feel my face blush
furiously. I can't help it—his behind is eye-level! Twink,
FOCUS!
As
my little feet plop onto the deck, it buckles and I feel energy and
cold flash through the air. My jaw drops as I see Sultrani in the
middle of the powerful attack, her eyes full of icy determination as
she stands slowly and proudly on the deck. I hear her murmur to the
air around her, “Let's have some fun,” as Kain leaps to action,
running full pace off to the end of the deck and diving off in full
Kain show-offery. Her little air friend catches him, and Sultrani and
Kain shine in the morning light as it reflects off the clouds and
they appear to run on the sky itself. Tears fill my eyes as I look at
my friends, and I'm so proud I can barely stand it. Those harpies are
going to be sorry! I giggle to myself and plan a victory breakfast.
The stone around my neck starts straining, and I'm zapped to the
present as Sultrani uses a gravity wave to suck the six harpies in
towards her. They make a sickening sound as they all crunch together
into a ball. A harpy ball. I giggle again. Clearly, the phoenix wants
a ringside seat to see how they fight. I hurry to the side of the
ship to give him the view he desires, moving my neck around to try to
get the best perspective. “Aren't they awesome?” I whisper.
Kain
then lunges forward, fist high, and hurtles toward the mass of
harpies. His shouts echo across the sky as his fist lodges there,
dissolving the mass into a shell-shocked flurry of feathers. The
harpies begin to fall and I whoop out loud with my congratulations.
The
four furies that I didn't notice before because I was busy doing
something—probably thinking of cooking—start to fly away in fear.
One of them, however, turns back to hurl a spell at Sultrani. One of
her death breaker runes shatters—yikes, the spell must have been a
doozy—and that fury plummets to its death. I guess Sultrani wants
to make sure it dies, though, because she uses her gravity fist to
plow the unfortunate fury straight down into the ground. Wow,
Sultrani must be mad! Her gravity fist makes a crater in the ground.
Mad Sultrani is scary, I think.
They return to the ship. Sultrani
looks bad. Her eyes have a bunch of burst blood vessels due to the
sound damage. I patch her up and she goes to take a nap. Kain finds a
harpy feather snagged in his armor and decides to hold onto it (dang
it I want one.)
DAY FIVE
As I anxiously peer over the end of
the deck at our destination (we had to fly to Khurhane to get maps or
something, I don't know) I can see that the city is on fire! Oh no! A
member of the Arduinian special forces lands on our deck and draws
his weapons, demanding, “Friend or foe?” I immediately respond,
“I'm always a friend!” and he sheathes his weapons. He tells us
to land, then explains that a religious cult has tried to start an
uprising, and has set fire to the water itself using an unknown
ritual. We land and are told to stay on the ship. I sneak the guards
cookies as we wait, and it's hard not to notice that the other landed
ships have like two guards and we have at least half a dozen.
After a little while, we're able to
move but cannot stay for very long due to martial law being in
effect. It turns out my old friend Ariadne has a dock here, and a
bottle of her famous rum (that I helped her create) is waiting for
me! AHH I'm so excited! I will share my rum with my friends tonight.
We'll have fun!
Sultrani goes with Inereal to meet the
cartographer. As soon as they're gone, Kain and I begin to drink the
rum and I decide to cook something with him. This is such fun! Wow, I
think I'm crunk... uh... drunk. Yep. Yep, I'm definitely drunk. Oo,
that looks good! I'm going to start throwing stuff into the pan.
Wait—I think the phoenix crystal around my neck just sparked into
the food. Innnnteresting. Hehehe this is great. Except that Kain
burned the scrambled eggs he was trying to cook. Now my kitchen
smells like burnt eggs. It was nice of him to clean it up, though.
Even if he did just spit on the pan to clean it. As the dish begins
to take shape, I notice that it looks somewhat like a casserole...
and I have no idea what I put in it or what it does.
And then... guess what??? KAIN AND I
DID IT!!!!!!!!! Well I think we did, anyway. I think that's what “it”
is. I lost my virginity! Oh my goodness! It finally happened! ...But
now what? Do we get married? Should I ask him? I think I should wait
for him to ask me. Oh gosh. Oh golly. I don't know what to do. This
is so wonderful. I'll have to ask Sultrani the procedures. She knows
everything. I can always ask her about what to do!
Sultrani comes back onto the ship, and
we spend the night all together, eating the casserole, drinking, and
looking up at the stars. Her only comment on my less-than-innocent
new self is, “If he had your consent, he lives.” All in all, an
excellent night. I am so happy.
DAY SIX
Kain goes into town to meet someone
who wants to see him for some reason. I am concerned at first, but
Kain says he's only going to talk, so I send him off with some
muffins.
Life is good.
I love it!
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