The Door in Reality, Session 4

General Summary

Beginning Stuff

At House Gardenia, Storm's Children demand protection, but offer hope, play and jingle - they are in higher spirits.
Errol Mustang hears that someone from Harbortown is out for his blood. It’s Foster (reason forthcoming).
(devotion partial success, ear to the ground miss)

Matthew Sees The Cut’s Evacuees, Performs Augury

While travelling back from The Skyway to his vault, Matthew Lutey spots a large number of people travelling from The Cut into the north of The Buried City.
Once home, via augury, he sees that Angel's Town is far to the south on a strange rocky column, with a natural rock formation resembling an angel (perhaps) marking the entry. Wolves of the Maelstrom see him in his chamber, attracted by the instability bleed. They take some of his notebooks. He prepares to head south on pilgrimage.
(augury partial success, read someone miss)

Styg and Sequoia Meet

Near Harbortown, Styg and Sequoia meet and talk vaguely about having a job to do at The Cut - Sequoia half-admires Styg’s defence mechanism. Petunia runs off during their conversation, into the treeline.
(read someone miss, read someone partial success, open brain partial success)

Errol and Storm Make Plans

Errol and Storm Gardenia intend to work together to purge The Orchids from everywhere nearby - they’ll go to The Pillars with Visage and try to destroy them at the source. Storm pays some attention to the rift in House Gardenia and learns to watch out for the Gardenia Overseers trying to take over.
(read situation complete success)

Pell Meets Jeanette

Astiniltlish "Pell" Pelligri heads to The Cut to try to set up peace talks with Harbortown. It is poorly defended by aging and infirm fighters. The leader, Jeanette, is there, but she looks awful. She says they have essentially abandoned the settlement - she sent all of the non-combatants away to look for a safer place to settle, along with the best fighters. She is not willing to risk the lives of her people and Harbortown have made it clear that this location can’t be safe with their sabotage and undermining. Those remaining on-site intend to die defending the essentially empty town - they want Harbortown to pay with lives to gain something that is basically now worthless. Jeanette may consider trying to re-establish a relationship with Harbortown under a leadership change, but she is incredibly wary and won’t risk her people.
The evacuees have headed into the north of The Buried City, Pell sees, and he senses that they are being tracked by Wolves of the Maelstrom. He heads off to meet up with them, to help keep them safe.
(read person complete success, open brain complete success)

Reginald Talks to Millions, Recruits Amy

In Harbortown, Reginald Fulton tries to talk his way into some command over scouting, attack or defence in the conflict with The Cut, but Harbortown’s force is very small so they can basically only play defence. Millions says that they’ve recruited Sequoia and Styg to assault The Cut. Reginald heads out, recruiting a mercenary called Amy, to try to get involved with Sequoia and Stig or otherwise gather info on The Cut.

Petunia is Cornered

In the outskirts of The Buried City, Petunia is trapped under a car by a mutated creature. Sequoia and Styg leap to her aid. During the fight with the creature, all three are injured. They all head for The Cut afterwards.
(do battle partial success, help miss)

Reginald, Styg and Sequoia - Dream Team

Sequoia and Styg bump into Reginald en route to The Cut - Reginald offends Styg and Styg threatens him. They talk about the war and technology. Styg wants to know more about the history of technology and power structures. Reginald has some theories on strange events that happened during the war.

Reginald, Sequoia and STYG-0 Talking sketch by Phoebe Herring

(read someone complete success, intimidate someone complete success)

Approaching The Cut

As the group approach, the defenders of The Cut won’t let Reginald close, despite a prior relationship. They fire a warning shot after being threatened. The group find the poor defence and elderly people strange, so they leave to figure out another approach.
(read situation partial success, help full success, threaten complete success)

Matthew Sets Out

Matthew leaves on his pilgrimage to Angel's Town, but is stalked by mutated creatures. He kills three of them, but they wound him and his steed. He tries to find a place nearby that might offer healing.
(buried city miss, do battle miss, open brain complete success)

Matthew Heads to House Gardenia

Matthew arrives at House Gardenia, wounded. Storm's children help him and his steed, while Dog head arrives with treatments. They are patched up.
The group (Errol, Storm and Matthew) discuss heading out to deal with The Orchids, but are interrupted by trouble outside - Peppering has arrived with a small force. She is begrudgingly threatening, and demands to just take Errol with her. She’s not comfortable acting this way and wants no violence. Storm realises the situation, so breaks into a musical number which causes Peppering to fall in love with her.
(read person partial success, artful & gracious partial success)

Notes

Unlucky, Hated Errol

Errol Mustang's ear to the ground move keeps generating bad news and people who want him dead. It's starting to get weird. There's already enough chaos and unresolved conflicts in the game without having to repeatedly add new enemies and come up with justifications.

Related Adventure

Adventure: The Door in Reality

Report Date

19 Jan 2021

Primary Location

The Overgrown Wilds

Secondary Location

The Cut