Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – The Miller, The Tanner, and The Sailor

Dramatis Personae

Previously . . .

The night passes quietly in Wolftrap, but the townsfolk seem uneasy. The vassals of the Duke have taken up to staying at the still-being-repaired constabulary and in a small tent settlement in a large field inside the town limit.

The Heights Where Stone Meets the Sea

Listens-to-Wind
Just Outside of Wolftrap/Wolftrap
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 12th hour of the Moon
Wolftrap, Western Span

Once the sun rises, Listens has already started towards the cliff’s edge for early morning meditation sitting on a rock while observing the coastline, watching for the water folk. Listening to the spirits, seeing if they have anything to tell him, getting to know the spirits, etc. He gets the distinct feeling that they’re really just watching him. Heading into town, he learns that there’s a older woman there, Jyrki iul Heino who acts as the town’s wise woman and occasional healer. She’s also one of those that was in contact with the duke trying to make sure he sent actual healers after a plague wiped out an entire town about eight months ago.

He goes to visit her, finding her outside her home boiling something in a cauldron with a large barrel of water nearby. They greet each other and Listens asks if there’s anything that she needs to which she heads into her house and returns with a tightly rolled parchment containing a very long list of things she needs and had sent for. The settlers did bring in a good amount of it but some of the rest they’ll need to trade for somewhere else most likely. She thanks him for saying they’ll bring in what they can and also mentions that she had been treating at least four broken legs alone that morning from young men in the town helping the settlers cutting down trees.

Listens asks about medical facilities in the town and when Listens asks if she wants a hospital in the town, she tells him that it’d just be another target for bandits. Listens tells her that they’ll be taking care of the bandits which she doesn’t quite believe, though Listens does note that they do have a pretty large group. He also lists just about everything they’ve done the past two days which include dealing with the miller, and the innkeeper too apparently. He also snaps his fingers and sings to use his magic to help her disinfect the bandages she was boiling, making her slightly alarmed for a moment since it’s the first time she’s seen something like that before. He dries them and tells her that he’ll send the materials along.

Exercise for the Exciseman

Rhum
The Three Arrows Inn
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 1st hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Rhum, meantime, gets woken up Altan, the taxman, who has somehow managed to get out of the cell he was in last night. Altan mentions that drank some tea that was quite delicious, perhaps because it was meant for Rhum. Rhum takes this in stride and says that their first stop will be to the inn, which Altan doesn’t seem to like the idea of though Rhum drags him along anyhow. They sit down at the bar where there’s a few regulars in the front room and they can smell Meiri baking bread in the kitchen. Rhum gets himself a bowl of breakfast and when Meiri comes out, there’s almost a smile on her face before she sees Altan and the frown returns much to Rhum’s amusement. Altan is indignant about being forced to interact with his lesser and Rhum starts to intimidate Altan into acting like a decent person. This comes hard to Altan, especially when he’s made to pay for his breakfast. Meiri tells Altan that she’ll try not to spit in Altan’s food when she brings out their food. Rhum gets a delicious breakfast and freshly baked bread, Altan not so much. Rhum shares some insight with Altan before they head out for their first job. Altan pulls out a map and informs him that their first job will be a farm in the middle of nowhere. Altan gets a bit offended when Rhum takes the map from him and memorizes it before returning it, he then also puts Altan onto his shoulder and head out.

Hunting and Trapping

Trapper
Outside of Wolftrap/The Three Arrows Inn
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 12th hour of the Moon
Wolftrap, Western Span

Trapper has been up since early morning figuring out the lay of the land and setting up traps, which he doesn’t do a great job of in the darkness. He does, however, learn the tracks and trails and those that live outside of town in time for him to head back for breakfast. On the way he spots a rather large bird, larger than him even. It takes some time to get a bead on it and then shoot it down with a single shot. He drags it the short way back to the constabulary and gets to work plucking it when Tesseikai joins him, helping him pluck and butcher it, braiding one of the feathers into her hair as she tells Trapper about having to go to a farm outside of town because a couple of the children there are afflicted with a disease there. Trapper also introduces himself to her finally as she hands him nuts and berries that she collected. Once she leaves, he slits open a single breast of the bird and stuffs it with the nuts and berries and sets it in a Dutch oven on top of the boiler in the basement for later before dragging the rest to the innkeeper.

Meiri, covered in flour from baking bread, is shocked to see the bird and quickly hauls in Trapper before anyone else can see. Apparently it’s a rare and she can introduce him to someone that’ll be interested in it but she wants 20% of what he makes, especially if Trapper can find the nest. Trapper is pretty sure that he’s got a decent idea of where it might be and Meiri says to get the eggs and any feathers in there and whatever treasures are around as well in the nest, once again for the 20% cut of the profit.

Myrk the Lurk!

Listens-to-Ocean
Outside of Wolftrap
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 5th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Listens, heads back to the constabulary and the settler’s camp and speaks with the group, making sure to hand over Jyrki’s list of supplies to the quartermaster to distribute properly. The quartermaster is a rather short, swarthy Mongarim man named Nekune. He tells Listens that he’s pretty sure that some of what they’ve got there is missing some items, and that he’s pretty sure they were mostly luxuries that were pilfered by the airship sailors that dropped them off. Acknowledging that, he heads out to find Raito who went to get some more wood from the forest. Listens asks local spirits for the location of the foresters he’s seeking, and he’s pretty sure he called the spirit, and that the spirit is there, Listens just cannot see the spirit. It takes him some time for the spirit to get the halfing’s attention to the fact that it’s a land crab. He carries the crab with him as it leads the way to the foresters.

They have a discussion that they don’t often see shen around the area, and the food the spirit enjoys. Apparently it enjoys mutton, moreso than seafood at least but it still enjoys it. Listens offers to give it some seafood and some beer. The spirit introduces itself as Myrk the Lurk. He keeps leading Listens as they discuss gossip around the area, such as the fact that humans cut their hair.

They eventually reach the forester where they greet each other. Raito mentions that some kids got hurt that morning, more through accident and minor negligence and ignorance of how to do things. He also mentions that they’ve found quite some dead standing trees. Raito mentions there’s some weirdness with the trees that makes it look like they’ve been struck by lightning but there are no scorch marks. There should be burn marks, but there are none and they’re completely dead through the entire tree, there’s no moisture in it like all the moisture was pulled out at a single time which Listens confirms with his woodsinging. Myrk mentions that he may have seen something like that before and thought that the person who did it was asleep. Myrk says to let him ask around and they’ll meet at the place with mutton and beer, alluding to the Meiri’s inn, before it jumps off of Listens’s shoulder and digs into the ground and disappears. Listens starts heading back towards town.

Grandmother Foond

Rhum
At the Kettunnun Steading
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 7th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Rhum and Altan are at a local farm, not a huge one but still in the middle of the woods in a pretty large break in the woods. It seems to mainly be an orchard with a small vegetable farm for personal use. There’s a short female human they can see from where they are and Rhum asks Altan for who the landowner on record is supposed to be. The woman sees the two coming and drops her farming implement and runs for her house. Rhum sets down Altan and heads straight for the door when the woman comes out with a crossbow. She threatens the taura with it, telling him to back off and even the mention of being part of the Duke’s group doesn’t bring anything as apparently the bandits used that line as well. Altan tells Rhum that they’re supposed to be Jali Kettunnun there, but he’s apparently deceased and this is his wife Delger. She’s not happy to see the taxman as she figures he’s there to squeeze out what the bandits have left. Rhum asks why everything looks run down, she reveals that the workers are gone, her boys have run away and one has joined the bandits, it’s just her left and if Rhum approaches any closer, she’ll shoot him with the crossbow.

Rhum explains they’re there to take in the lay of the land and points out that her farm is decrepit and it’ll go to ruin. The woman replies that she’s not sure she wants to stay alive to see it come back to fruition. Rhum investigates the soil and the woman says that the local spirits are angry and points towards the family shrine that was woodshaped in a nearby foond tree (a type of sweet pear). Rhum approaches it and looks at the shrine to see if it looks disturbed or vandalized but doesn’t see anything other than it being a tree. She tells Rhum that after the war, her husband stayed out under the tree for 27 days and nights, eating only the fruit from the tree and the water from the leaves begging the spirits to bless the land. They told him to build a shrine and altar and to make offerings in exchange for the land to become fruitful. So very fruitful and whatever they planted in the ground grew huge and healthily. The altar had a small kani crystal in there as an heirloom, but a bandit saw it and tore it out along with some of the shrine. Her husband tried to get it back and the bandits brought back his body. Altan was quite excited to hear about the kani crystal with his eyes shining and excited with greed. She turns the crossbow on Altan while Rhum tells him to be silent. He quickly agrees and backs away.

Rhum looks back at the tree and then back at his braids, cutting one of braids off and places it in the shrine while offering it to the spirits and speaking in Tauran, explaining that the woman needs to grow something and it wasn’t her fault the crystal was stolen and that he’ll find the crystal and return it, sealing it with his blood. He feels the tree sucking life and blood from him as the face of an old woman forms on the tree. It notes that Rhum isn’t Jali and isn’t human either, which Rhum acknowledges. It says that it was awakened by his offering. He notes it was the least he could do to ease the suffering of the woman there, which it notes is that suffering is what it tends to do there. It looks between Rhum and the woman and the scent of green trees and tilled soil fills the air and the words “The bargain is sealed” is heard in the air before the figure disappears back into the tree.

Rhum hands the woman some money, telling her that the land is too much for one person alone and to find someone to hire to help her. He explains that he’s there to bring law and order to the land by order of the duke and to not do so would dishonor the duke. She tells him that she’s not going to return the coin later. Rhum acknowledges it and then says it’s Altan’s turn, who immediately asks for the coin for taxes. Rhum once again threatens Altan and says that Altan doesn’t want to piss off the spirits and to defer her taxes for now. Altan directs him to the next farmstead they need to get to.

Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

Unit 7
Far outside of Wolftrap
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 6th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Unit Seven has been scouting out the surrounding area doing a quadrant-based approach for the last ten hours and hasn’t found anything quite yet. While they keeps wandering, they make some maps as they go, getting a decent build-up of maps out to a few miles outside of town, including defensible locations and good locations for traps. They’re currently in front of a rather large waterfall with rather sparkling water that he stops and appreciates the beauty of it. Looking at the top of the waterfall, they sees someone sitting on a large tree branch above them. They haven’t spotted  Seven yet as their back is to them.  Seven walks up the escarpment towards the tree the figure is in, going through a fairly difficult climb that’s rather steep with slick moss covered stones and loose gravel at the sides forcing them to go up the easier looking areas. They still can’t tell the gender, but the figure is in average height and weight with the hair covered in ash. The person is dressed like a bonecarver and Seven is pretty sure that they are.

Seven lets out a hail and gives a smile. They confirm that they are a bonecarver and says they may need their aid. The bonecraver figured they’d need their help soon enough and to help them out of the tree. The bonecarver refuses to say anything about bandits as they’re unsure if they’re going to mean the bandits harm. They discuss  Seven’s condition, namely that they have a soul which isn’t normal for Cogs, fractured though it may be. They aren’t even sure how Seven is still working an d introduce themselves as Shikoba an Koshil.

On The Trail of the Harrier

Trapper
Outside of Wolftrap/The Three Arrows Inn
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 8th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Trapper heads out and manages to locate the nest, high in a tree nearly 50-60 feet tall. About three-quarters of the way up is several overlapping branches that are sturdy enough to make a large nest. He can’t see or smell any of the birds around, so he starts climbing the tree. At the nest, there’s two eggs in it, robin blue with golden sheen about half a foot tall. Off in the distance he can spot an ashagara tree towering above the forest canopy. He walks into the nest, gathering handfuls of feathers and a fairly good sized long knife where the sheathe has rotted away revealing that the knife itself is made of kani crystal, there’s also several other shiny items in the nest that he grabs. He puts the knife away in his personal pouch along with the eggs and the regular items into his backpack before climbing down to see a rather large squirrel about his size, sitting there in robes.

Not wanting to deal with something weird, Trapper heads back the way he came only to hear the squirrel start humming loudly. It’s pretty obvious by now that he’s dealing with spirit or something like it. Asking the squirrel what it wants, it tells him that it wouldn’t go that way. Trying to cut off the mystery and vagueness at the pass, he asks the squirrel why he shouldn’t go that way. Unfortunately, the spirit is as vague and unhelpful as any other spirit, only getting out of the spirit that there’s something hungry that way. The squirrel also asks if Trapper has any food, to which he hands over the peach that Rhum had given him the previous morning. Eating it like a glutton, the squirrel then declares that Trapper is owed a boon, but Trapper can’t think of anything he wants at the moment, so it gets deferred for later and Trapper heads back off.

Back in Black

Unit 7
The Constabulary/Three Arrows Inn
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 8th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Unit Seven has made it back to town with the area’s bonecarver in tow. Seven directly leads Shikoba to the corpse that needs carving in the constabulary. They ask Seven if they can get some tea with some honey and cream if they’ve got it. Unit Seven heads to the inn to get some Mirei who is chatting away with everyone in the inn. Since the bonecarver is a good friend of Mirei’s, she preps everything quickly and puts it onto a small tray and hands it to Seven. Back in the constabulary, Shikoba is sitting on a stool looking at the corpse inside the cage. Seven notes that there’s been some weirdness with the corpse, and Shikoba notes that’s because there’s a spirit in it. That’s why they carve the bones so that other spirits won’t inhabit it. It’s possible that they may even need some protection while doing things, but for now they just want some tea that Seven brought them and to commune with the corpse. They ask where the body was found and Unit Seven was able to inform them that it was found in the basement.

They head down into the basement, the bonecarver letting Seven go first and so Seven can help them into the basement where the Bonecarver gets into Trapper’s lunch before heading into the room the body was in. They get down on their hands and knees and walks through, investigating, running a fingernail through the cracks in the stone noting that someone was there a long time ago, a bonecarver was there. They tell Seven to be very, very quiet and not move.

Shikoba starts singing a low, low sound and then shifts over to a diphonic throat singing. At first it’s like a whisper and then it gets louder and louder and then it stops and there’s a sudden rush of wind like in a horror movie and then mist starts to pour up from the ground before taking shape and glowing a hail impossibly colours of blue and green with a figure that looks very much like the bonecarver, without a head. They’re confused by it for a moment before noting that the bonecarver must have bound the spirit in the spot. They watch the visage of the figure taking a ring off and placing it onto the figure of a skeleton in the basement where it starts to gather desiccated flesh around it leaving just the older corpse-looking being that Trapper had found originally. The bonecarver finds it very interesting and says to find the ring as they go back upstairs.

Shikoba starts to warn  Seven before just telling it to just stand there before they enter the holding cell and starts to talk to the corpse. Even with Seven saying that Listens might be helpful. Shikoba eventually resorts to digging into the chest of the corpse to find the ring but it refuses to budge as they talk about it being impossible to be bound by someone else. They give up for now and sit on the stool, drinking tea and staring at the corpse.

Beer n Mutton

Listens-to-Ocean, Rhum, and Trapper
Three Arrows Inn/The Constabulary
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 10th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Rhum has been going around with Altan, collecting taxes as they go around, managing to get payment in coin. . . and very, very large chickens. Two hens. Atlan considers buying them from the duke and getting Tesseikai to cook them. Rhum says to just make sure they keep a paper trail. Altan tells Rhum he’ll take back some of what he said about him. One of the hens rubs its head again Altan much to his displeasure, though Rhum forces the taxman to pet the chicken. They discuss the worth of the them. They eventually reach town with the chickens flanking Altan. They head to the inn to get food.

Listens is heading back to the inn when Myrk the Lurk tunnels out of the ground. Listens greets the spirit who says that they should feed him. Listens carries the crab towards the inn at the crab’s request. Mirei just stares at them as they walk in. They get a corner table where Listens puts Myrk onto the table who does a dance. Listens eventually gets to order some porkchops for himself and a bowl of mutton and some beer for the crab, who startles her by speaking and asking for a large bowl. While waiting for the food, Listens asks Myrk what it found out. Turns out that “she” woke up and they aren’t able to say her name, but they call her Mama Blood. What Listens is sure of, is that whatever happened with the trees is that it was the result of a spirit ripping all the water from trees. Myrk wasn’t sure why it would have happened there, as Mama Blood wasn’t imprisoned in that area and now it’s quiet. She’s likely to go back to sleep on her own after a few hundred people are killed.

Asking for other news, Myrk is a bit hesitant but when Listens asks if it wants something, it says it wants to share in Listens’s adventures. Myrk may be anchored to the area but they could just switch the tether to Listens, if Listens is ready for that kind of relationship. They discuss things, like swimming and being on land and jumping off things. Listens tells Myrk that they’re there to bring balance to the Great Green and get rid of bad humans and help with the forest.

Trapper is heading back into town with the eggs and kani crystal in his personal pocket. They don’t encounter anything but has the feeling that something is watching him. Something very hungry. It’s a very disconcerting feeling. He can see the town in the distance and the hustle and bustle of people as the sun starts setting. He heads for the backdoor of the inn where it takes some time for Mirei to come to the back door and usher him in. He presents the eggs to Mirei who tells him that she’s already contacted the interested party and they’ll meet up tomorrow and she tells him to put everything in a box in the backroom, which he does including the kani crystal knife. He takes some bread to go with his meal though and promises to join in tomorrow.

Rhum and Altan meet up with Listens and Myrk. Rhum shows the green wound on his hand to Listens, it turns out that Rhum did make a blood oath with a spirit to return the kani crystal the bandits had stolen from the shrine years ago and he’ll keep bleeding until he fulfills his oath. Listens warns him that if he fails to find the kani crystal that the bandits took, then it will keep bleeding. Rhum seems confident that if that happens then he may be able to replace it with something of greater worth, despite that potentially breaking the oath he made. All four head back to the Constabulary. Altan sets the chickens up in one of the holding cells since it’s cold outside and he doesn’t want them to be eaten.

Soup Bones?

Trapper, Unit 7
The Constabulary/Three Arrows Inn
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 11th hour of the Sun
Wolftrap, Western Span

Heading back to the constabulary, Trapper finds Unit Seven and the bonecarver sitting there. The bonecarver questions Trapper a bit about whether or not he was the one that found the body and then comments on the size of Trapper’s hands and asks if he could dig into the corpse because they accidentally lost an earring in the body earlier. Trapper thinks that they’re full of it with how desperately they seem to be wanting him to rummage through the corpse rather than find it themselves and asks to eat dinner first before doing the rummaging. He finds his food somewhat disturbed and asks Seven if someone touched it, revealing that the bonecarver did. Trapper, before digging into the food, asks Seven if it could see if Tesseikai was back, it turns out she isn’t though.

Inside, Shikoba is sitting crosslegged on the stool. Listens asks if they’re there to take care of the dead, where the bonecarver says that’d be likely if the corpse would talk to them. It almost seems like the corpse rolls its eyes at the bonecarver’s attempts to speak and utterly ignores Listen’s attempt to speak.

A Hand of Blue

Listens-to-Ocean
Expedition Campsite
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 3rd hour of the Moon
Wolftrap, Western Span

Raito calls Listens away a bit to speak, informing Listens that he used to be an Imperial Legionary and that while it’s not quite foresight, if something bad is about to go down then his finger literally turns blue. Revealing his hand to Listens, it shows that his entire hand is blue, indicating that it’s going to be very bad. He doesn’t know if it’s the bandits or if it’s something else (like Mama Blood). Listens reveals that whatever killed the trees is looking to kill a bunch of people as well, to which Raito lists off a bunch of things before landing on spirits. Raito asks Listens to bandage his hand for him since it gets tender.

Servant of the Bones

Rhum, Trapper, Unit 7
The Constabulary
Shadowsday, Zhven 18th, 2,981 Fourth Reckoning, 3rd hour of the Moon
Wolftrap, Western Span

Unit Seven pulls Rhum away to ask for some currency to buy something to show appreciation for the bonecarver. It, however, doesn’t know the money values though, and it’s not like Unit Seven has need for money. As they explore the market, Unit Seven notes that Shikoba indicated an appreciation of romantic gestures where Rhum tries to gently lead Unit Seven to an appropriate gift.

Trapper, meanwhile, grabs a set of tweezers and starts digging into the corpse’s chest under the bonecarver’s instruction, pulling out a piece of jewelry that slips from the tweezers that Trapper reaches out to catch. Upon contact with Trapper, a burst of energy pulses outwards knocking things over in the constabulary. Shaking his head, he digs back into the chest and pulls out the bonecarver’s earring and drops the ring onto the chest of the corpse where it sets on a magical fire, burning away the flesh and clothes. Bright purple-ish runes form on the skeleton of the corpse as it stands up and offers the ring to Trapper much to his dislike.

There’s some back and forth between Trapper and the bonecarver. He’s not too thrilled with what’s happening as the bonecarver tells him it’s like he’s been marked by something very interested in Trapper’s future, much like the bonecarver had been, revealing their hand and striking rings, a fiery rune forming on the back of their hand and grabbing Trapper’s hand which also gains the ring as they say the god of death, the servant needs to die to pass on their servitor. Trapper finally, very reluctantly accepts the ring.

Aftermath

Outside, there’s screaming and a bloody figure runs onto the scene. Tesseikai, covered in blood and wounds and missing half an ear. Listens reaches her first and starts treating her while Rhum and Seven sets up guard. She’s mixing up languages, saying that it came in the dark, it was the dark. Rhum strikes his shield three times and starts heading down the game trail that she came from. Myrk, meanwhile, notes that Tesseikai was probably attacked by Mama Blood, that it’s weird that she survived though as Mama Blood rarely misses a meal. Raito has some men following Rhum as he walks down the path making a lot of noise. They don’t see anything down the path as they go there. The trail leads to the farm that the healers had been sent to earlier in the day. Rhum motions for Raito as they back away back towards the constabulary, telling Raito they should set up some defensive perimeter, force whatever did it through clearings. Meanwhile, Listens heals Tesseikai using magic, stabilizing her as things scab over, though she’s still missing half a finger as they go back into the constabulary. Raito gets some of the less fighter-types in caravan two to be housed within walls, including the inn.

Trapper can smell the blood before he sees them enter. He can see them drag in Tesseikai covered in blood with a crab dancing on her. The rest see the animated skeleton standing inside the holding cell. Seven and the others place themselves between Listens and the skeleton asking what’s going on. Trapper notes that it’s an annoyance while the bonecarver explains that the skeleton is a servant of some kind and that Trapper is weird, no one having heard of a Gremian bonecarver before. Rhum and the bonecarver start trading barbs before Rhum asks Listens if he determines what chewed on Tesseikai yet as he stands guard. Rhum also tries to learn Myrk’s name while offending Myrk by asking Listens the crab-spirit’s name. Tesseikai wakes up and starts reaching out for Trapper with a four-fingered hand, the bird feather in her hair coated with blood.

After Action Report (GM)

I started out slow with the overt supernatural stuff for the setting, but Aersalus is a world where spirits abound and can be entreated/bargained with…or made angry. Rory’s character is really perfect for this part of the world because the Great Green (and the Span in general in some ways) has some of the more primeval and ancient beings in the setting. I continue to be surprised by the depth of Rhum the tauron and Curtis’s portrayal of them. The players are all very good and we’re taking our time to enjoy the game and really savor it.

Yes. I have put large chickens into the campaign setting. Wanna fight about it? (No, seriously. Go look up “brahma chicken.”

The interaction between Seven and Shikoba has the chance to bear truly interesting fruit.

I remain amused at Trapper’s reaction to the servant of bones and the player’s reluctance at being maneuvered – though I do they he doth protest to much. I improvised Myrk quite a bit and honestly, he amuses me too. Listens-to-Ocean is an extremely powerful shenin (shaman) and he couldn’t get any of the local spirits to talk with him…except this gossipy little crab who is too big for his own shell. Tesseikai’s injury was probably going to far on the bridge for me right now, but I felt it was needed. There must be stakes for tension and I didn’t fridge her (because honestly, come the hell on. Don’t do that). But she is now a stake and the PCs get to decide what they will wager for her.

I look forward to the next game.

Other Notes

Like the previous session we started later on this session so one of the players (Brice) could be there more, but played nearly 5 hours and into the early morning. We paused about half way in and then got back to it.

Bonus Report from Rory.

Blog post inspired from session.

Soundtrack

“Somebody’s Watching Me” by Janet Devlin

Aersalus B-Team: Season 1, Session 4 – Silence and Shadow