A Token of Luck

Episode 16: A Token of Luck

The party had arrived in Brooktail and learnt from Garnet about a malevolent otherworldly being draining the life force of Everidge. They had left Flightless with his new friend Willow in the care of Miss Reinbach.

Without a clear destination, the party discuss heading to Shelburn but soon receive a mission from the Order of the Arcane Eye via Damien’s sketchbook. The message requests that they go to Talister to investigate thousands of washed up sea creatures (similar to in Mokupuni). Due to the events in South Gresham, they are assigned another order member to work alongside as a precaution.

The party decides to accept the mission and head out of town, hitchhiking a cart ride north to Talister alongside some rowdy dwarves.

Arriving at Talister the party find the towns population on the beach struggling to save the massive quantities of sea life washed ashore. The party witness fish leap out of the water and beach themselves even as the townsfolk try to toss them back. The sea life seems hostile and demented and they try to bite at Blitz when he gets too close.

Spending most of the day unsuccessfully trying to throw fish back into the water, come sundown the party go to a tiki bar called The Taste of Kiana and indulge in Sun-berry smoothies and meet the other Order operative, Estel Yanza, and her badger Dewdrop.

The party and Estel investigate the beach some more and she reveals that she was recently recruited by the Order after her mother’s death. Damien decides to not yet divulge that his ring holds Estel’s mothers spirit. With Luna’s (Malik’s owl) help searching, the party come across an old woman who is comforting a beached and dying dolphin-esque creature.

The old woman, Mirna, speaks of ‘spots of energy’ out at sea that usually dictate the way of things and that something besides these spots of energy has influenced and corrupted the life essence of the sea life.

With Estel, Damien and Cassia debating as to whether the old lady’s words are valuable wisdom or inane rambling, the party return to town to speak to the Baron about what they have learned. Though he thanks them he is unable to provide any aid. He pulls Blomf aside and threateningly tells him to ‘stop interfering with the ooze.’

Back at the Taste of Kiana, the party encounter a young man, Algernon, who witnessed their fight with the fungus zombies in Opaz and has become a bit of a fan of theirs. He gifts the party a dual-faced coin as a token of luck. The party then decide to visit Shelburn and Blitz’s parents as he has not seen them since his ship was attacked by pirates. Estel decides to come along and they leave town in her carriage.