Little Dream I: Encounters and Details from the Circus Rescue

Session six recap: Amanito dumps treasure on the table, asks for help in the First World. Encounter with Circus Joseppi frees Graguegaw, a Unicorn, and Lukkstab the Lion. Date is now Decem 8, year 927 ce.
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START SESSION SEVEN

ONE: THE UNICORN

The Unicorn (named DazeJ) stands in the road, looking now unafraid and noble, gazing directly at the party..
In a majestic Sylan: "Thank you. For me, you earn the title of trialla, or "Heroes." This act does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. There will come a day when the favor will be returned. Until then, you have my gratitude. The gratitude of the Unicorn is a blessing; remember that. Farewell."

Then Daze gallops off into the city, people gasping and parting the way as the fairy beast rushes past.

TWO: THE LION

The lion is hungry, regaining some of its limber power. It looks as though it once had an intelligent look in its eyes, now cowed and beaten down. It is skin and bones, and sad, and somehow very noble in its bearing.
Shipped and traded all the way from Narra, where he lived among the Narran people, and in its pride of Lukkstabba. It wishes to return there, but is weak, and doesn't know the way. For now, it paces with increasing vigor, a fierce light in its eyes, it tosses its mane about and gives a growl and a roar.

THREE: IMPERIAL GUARDS

Joseppi brings three imperial guards to the scene, one on horseback (or to catch up with the heroes wherever they are, but he will bring them soon).
"There they are; it's them, the Odd Party I call them. Look what they've done to my circus train. I demand recompense for the damage!"
Guards are nonchalant, enjoying the power deferential here. They draw this out.
"The Odd Party, I'll say." Guards don't really care, will end up asking the party to pay Joseppi for the loss.
Lukkstab will defend the party.

FOUR: GRAEGAW

Graegaw is on the brink of death. On a tip from a sympathetic dwarf, she came to Jack City to please with Jabba Darsanti, to demand that he give back the Stryx gold and quartz in his hoard.
[Coughing, Retching, Wheezing as She Talks]
"Captured by a clan of orcs and mongrels, to be sold for ransom. But nobody came, nobody got my messages, nobody cared enough, so they sold me to the circus for a cheap price.
"Make no mistake Baerbee, that's not dwarven gold that's being hoarded among the Jack City mafia. It comes straight from the cliffs of Burrant, and it belongs to the Stryx. It comes directly from the strip mines that now defile our homeland in the cliffs.
"I came to this city looking for a criminal and cheap thug named Jabba Darsanti. He and his entourage mocked me and laughed at me. Even in my wisdom, I was humiliated.
"And then, at the worst moment, Jabba's orcish thugs grabbed me and knocked me unconscious. And I woke up in that filthy cage, treated like some rude animal.
"Baerbee, that gold and quartz belong to us. If you should avenge me, and our people, retrieve the gold and minerals from Jabba, and destroy the orcish mongrels that tied me, beat me, and sold me like so much meat, to a terrible fate.
"I am weak, but you and your friends are strong..."
Gaegaw will be tired and need rest. Then she wishes to return to the Burrant and check on "our people."
2.1.1.2... Jack City, Jabba Darsanti, Compound, and Information 2.1.1.1... Jabba's Cantina: Being Captured

FIVE: TARIO TORSUKA

A well-dressed man emerges from a nearby dwelling, with a clean white shirt, kakhi leggings, high leather boots and a feathered hat. His mustache is fashionable, and his cape flows long and sweeps behind him in a brilliant ultramarine.
[His name is Tario Torsuka.]
"I watched you and your friends and the justice you served, and I am impressed. And the way you dealt with the imperials is also admirable. I... have some things I'd like you to take.

"I have no need any more, I am well-connected and well-content. These items are from my earlier days, and no one in my household will ever need to use them.
"Yes, I make a living from rather different acts of heroism...
"Please come in to my home, long enough for me to contribute to your cause. Don't worry, the street cleaners will be by to take care of the mess."
Here is some gold I could spare, some 70 crowns. Here is etc. See # items on Notebook page
"If you ever need a patron, there is much, much more where this comes from. I periodically need things... taken care of... and I believe you would be good for the the work.
"In any case, I will be here, 592 Rua Morrisoni, North Middle Jack district, when you want or need meaningful work."

SIX

All other business aside, the pink mist still rises from a quicksand hole in the liminal garden where Smidj, Liar's Hill, and North Mid-Town come together.
Also to take a break (AT VERSARIO'S?) and look through all the party's loot.
3.1.1 FQ - - Through the Pink Curtain, Into the Mushroom Forest

SESSION SIX RECAP

After a vetting of Verstri's friend, and this friend (Amanito, a mushroom person...) dumping a treasure on the table at the inn, as payment for the saving of the fairie queen.
Going outside then, a witness of a sad circus procression. The party decides to liberate the poor animals, and defeat the magic gnomes who defended the circus.
Unicorn and Lion and Gaegaw the Stryx are freed, the rest send on a headlong run through the town. In the end, a gnome and Joseppi (the circus man) flee as well.