Update

Historian: Anna. Date: 05/26/2025

Dalton gives the recap!
Lionnir 25, 777 AR
We begin the morning after talking to Granny Cracklebones, having made camp for the night
Anja trims Maple’s claws, and Maple is not very happy about this
- Astranna has to help restrain her as she fights back, but with her help the claws are clipped, and Maple gets some more catnip as an apology
Turns out Pierro has been keeping his claws trimmed with his sword! Jericho tells him that he’s the best pet out of all the pets, and they talk about how weird Henrietta and Fred are
Alphie tries to give Fred some rations, he says “DREAMS” and ignores the rations
Thad is no longer a medusa! He’s happy to have fur again. We talk to him about going back into town to talk to Fizzle, grab Henrietta, and ask around about the Breeze Stones
Thad plans to go fight the wolf he’s been hunting alone, and he tells us that it's been terrorizing the Tillages, eating livestock and maybe even a person or two. We huddle to discuss and decide to offer our help as well.
First we have to go stock up on supplies in town! Thad tells Anja about a potion shop that may have some ingredients for her to use in her cauldron, as well as some fabric shops in town
Gwyn talks to Newton before we leave camp, asks him about what he asked Granny Cracklebones for
- He wants to keep us safe, so he got a ‘danger sense’ from her. She asks him what she wanted in return, and he says he has to give her “the biggest fish I ever catch”
- Newton says we’re the real catch! He also asks Gwyn if she can teach him how to fight. She says she wants to teach him to defend himself, and offers to make him his own sword someday, to which he asks for a fishing pole sword
- They hug, and promise to have each others backs :D
- As Gwyn begins to teach him how to use a sword, he learns a power! She teaches him the Comeback Kid power
As we head back into Fairfield, we see a general commotion and happiness in the town now that the curse is lifted
- Also we check on Clancy, and he went back home
Astranna goes off to look for Henrietta, and finds more commotion at the place where we last left Henrietta
- She’s sitting on the ground, pecking at the dirt, and tells Astranna that her eggs hatched! She’s a good mom :)
- Also! The Scrimbimbolo is decimated and crucified on a nearby wall. Apparently it tried to take her nest
- Alphie followed Astranna, so they run back to get the rest of us while Astranna picks up Henrietta. Henrietta asks if Astranna is nervous, and when she says that she is, Henrietta says she’ll fix it! Both Alphie and Astranna instantly forget!
Alphie can’t remember why they were sprinting back to the group, so they point out a garment shop to Anja
Astranna comes back with Henrietta and everything is normal and Henrietta is a Good Mom
Jericho looks for Fizzle, and finds him in a metalworking shop. Jericho and Gwyn head over to that shop while the rest of the group goes to the garment shop
- We speak to Fizzle and tell him that Sizzle sent us to come help. He gives us a letter to give to Sizzle, to tell him next time we see him that he owes us one
- Gwyn asks about any scrap metal that Fizzle has, and buys some steel and a chunk of bismuth
- He also shows her the weapons he has in stock, and despite being very poor she buys a new ‘exploding longsword’ (with some of Jericho’s money), and puts 5 gold (all Jericho’s gold) to hold another sword for her until she comes back to buy it
Meanwhile - Astranna, Alphie, and Anja in the garment shop
- Anja starts helping Alphie pick out fabrics for a new outfit
- Anja picks out some gold (1 ½ yards), purple (2 yards), periwinkle (1 yard), and some wool fabric (2 yards), speaks to the rhinoceros woman who runs the shop, and pays 3 gold for the fabric
- Gwyn and Jericho meet up with the group, and Anja scolds Gwyn for not being paranoid enough when buying swords
Everyone heads over to the potion shop Thad spoke about
- Anja talks to the cat man who runs the shop about ingredients to make potions in her cauldron, for healing, restoring stamina, and increasing damage
- He tells Astranna about celestial spiders that weave webs out of starlight, found west of the Ghost Veil, whose webs are a rare ingredient used to strengthen potions effects
- Anja buys starlace web, void ember, and the tears of a widow for 115 gold, and Newton buys some salmon’s brain for a gold piece. Alphie asks about potions that make you warmer when you drink it, they buy 5 ounces of sunfire resin for 125 gold
- Thad buys three level 2 healing potions for 45 gold (which heal 20 stamina), Anja buys two level 1 healing potions for 20 gold (which heal 10 stamina points)
- Anja asks him if he’s heard anything about the Breeze Stones. He tells us they keep the Skybound Lands in the sky, they are the heart of the lands. But they were stolen and scattered, so things are in turmoil. He also heard that the town had paid the fake tattercoat knights that came through earlier 500 gold to defeat the medusa, but they didn’t defeat it. They were wearing tattered coats, one was a taller elephant person, one was shorter with more scales (possibly a crocodile), and there were two more he could not see. Thad didn’t meet the fake tattercoat knights, and we didn't see any statues resembling them
Next stop is to track the wolf! We ask Jericho if he can us augury to track it down, but he says he’d rather we try without it first and he’ll use it if that doesn’t work
We try to ask around if anyone has heard anything about a wolf or about flocks of sheep going missing. Jericho speaks to a group of hunters, they tell him that the wolf was heading west, but also that there have been some crazy clouds out west as well, so it might’ve headed back east towards Thistle. Astranna asks them about the crazy clouds, and we see that over west there’s dark clouds forming in strange shapes, making the world look desaturated in that direction
We agree as a group that we really don’t want to go over there but we probably have to go investigate the weird storm. Astranna gets a really weird feeling looking at the storm, and although we all think it's unsettling none of the rest of us are feeling what she is
We can’t go into the storm but we suspect it might have some connection to Granny Cracklebones. Although returning to her hut probably won’t go well for us!
- Alphie finally tells us about the dagger and how powerful of a weapon it is, how much more powerful it can get, and the influence the dagger started to have on them as a passive effect. This explanation goes on for a while
- Everyone gets pretty angry with Alphie’s decision to give the dagger to her, and not tell any of us about what the dagger does in the first place, but we try to redirect to figuring out what the hell we’re going to do about this now
With a weapon like that, we don’t really know what we can do against her, especially because she knows divination so she will know we’re coming if we try anything. Jericho knows that lead can be used to cloak things from divination. But we’d need something artificed to be able to cloak us if we used lead
And then Gwyn has an update available! This one allows her to work with rare metals, including lead. She knows that she won’t be able to artifice something that would sufficiently cloak us from divination without the update, but is worried about if there is anything being uploaded alongside the updates
We briefly discuss using Jericho’s notebook to get more info on Granny Cracklebones, or the symbol that Gwyn has been seeing with the updates, but Jericho doesn’t trust the notebook anymore
Gwyn tells the party that if anything bad starts to happen with her after she updates, they need to put a stop to it. They assure her that they’ll keep an eye on her, and Astranna promises that they’ll make sure nothing bad happens to her!
Gwyn takes the update, and immediately goes still. When Astranna reaches out to take her hand, the skin falls off. Gwyn looks up as her programming takes over, telling her to capture Alphie. A light chainsaw shoots out of Gwyn’s arm and takes off Thad’s head. Her true form is revealed, and next session she’ll be the boss fight!