I'll Turn This Ship Around

Expedition

The next few weeks for Myska's Menagerie were marked by travel, training, writing, and reflection. In addition to this downtime, Chupta, Crush, and Fozz have highlights in the entry “Boys are Bac- in Town” while Astrid's downtime earned a revelation in “His Stories”   The boy's flight to Bactran and later back to Dul Kag to retrieve Astrid was filled with a similar set of activities: Chupta mastered the art of flying the airship, Crush wrote out a book of his knowledge of the infernal tongue, and Fozz spent the majority of his time in meditation to the point of training his shadow to be quiet when he needed him to. Fozz's mediations were marked by the shadow throwing ball bearings at him, incessantly ringing a bell, and eventually breaking a lantern and stating a small fire.   Back in Dul Kag, Astrid's time was spent in a myriad of ways. She located a private investigator through the Drowned Miner's Den to look into her father by name. In the mean time, she spent time getting to know the Hollowed Halls. She attempted to find traces of Temperance Shards but instead got nothing. Commander Drakemace's claims checked out that they had been taken long ago. In the process, though, she managed to find Nemil Grimbrew, a tattoo artist that she would later hire to do a flailshard tattoo on her arm enchanted to aid in combat. The other portions of her time were spent aiding in smithies and forges learning of the third dwarven culture of smithing in the process and rounding out her skills in the trade.