9/5/2021

START WITH INSP, +d6, +d6
Question: Do you think you're attractive? Uh, chea.
 
Rorin and Druss head out to Holden's workshop outside of the city to find what amounts to an airplane hangar. Inside they see an airship, with inflated air sac, hovering one foot above the ground. They're gonna take it on another test ride, out to River Town. He's putting together a team, including a chemist of some sort. There are a lot of tieflings and halflings around the shop, and one of the only other dragonborns in the city. Holden is known for employing these disenfranchised races. There is also the oldest elf they've ever seen (Emma Thompson for the film adaptation, if she's free), Gayle Wales (they/them, nonbinary). Gayle is the pilot for this trip. Nagisa is a halfling man that comes up next, he's the chemical engineer. Ageless eyes, blond curls, faintly familiar to Druss. They're about 4 days away from the test flight, which is about a two week trip (River Town = Lake Town on the map). They come back into the city and bring the rest of us up to speed.
 
The morning of the test flight, at the estate a chariot pulled by giant sheep pulls up. A dwarven woman gets out wearing the finest armor we've ever seen. This is Ophelia Firebrand, and is someone Rorin knows from the before times. They had an arranged marriage or something. She's from Le'Xxaj, in the Frostfire Mountains. She's staying at Madame Whitcraft's, a wealthy dwarven woman who hasn't left her estate since her late husband's demise.
 
We brought everything to the hangar, mounts included, and load up the ship. The ship has a name, which we are rolling for, SS Garfunkel (Halle). Druss recognizes Nagisa as someone from ~20 years in his past, and Nagisa hasn't aged a day. We go to take off, with heavy winds and cold temperatures (~late October). The ship is steered with movable sails to change how much wind they catch, and a steam-powered rudder. Mittens is not a fan, and the horses are largely whatever about takeoff. We all manage to hold ourselves together with the jarring experience. A slip has made Aurane into a Rigger, which is like rope kink stuff? During the first night, Druss calls out from the watch site that he sees an incoming winged creature. Enter combat against a Roc. We take it down, with Melfina narrowly avoiding going down. We sleep through the rest of the night, and wake after sunrise to find Druss and Mittens sleeping on deck and the crew tiptoeing around them. Eventually Mittens is coaxed back downstairs.
 
For the third day on the ship, we can now see in the distance the Incatori Mountain range. We find ourselves in a favorable wind this day.
 
For the fourth day, we are now perpendicular to the mountains, flying just off the coast north of the continent. Along the journey, I make an enhanced lesser potion of healing (3d4+5), costing 12.5 GP.
 
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