Day 13 — Amuse bouche

PachinkoRyutoOona KatoaPunxsutawney

Chapter summary

The Migrant Fleet arrives with tales of slavery and the crew receives new diplomatic and rescue missions.

Connections

Session notes

Stckhlm malaise is what’s afflicting Tinkerbell. While recovering from the recent events, the isle is abuzz as a thousand sails appear in the horizon. It’s a ragtag of non-seaworthy vessels. The migrant fleet has arrived again, it’s a bunch of Oona’s people who don’t have a home of their own but they wander around the isles. They are usually not welcomed and received very differently by different parts of the population. They come north quite infrequently.

The cannery is a new invention and state of the art technology in this world.

They are coming ashore. Oona is talking to them and encounters many Kaisiri among them. There’s slave trade of natives by the Varangian pirates, they are taking everyone. In the south past the islands there’s a landmass that’s unexplored. The hordes survive in a place where no one else can, they buy all the slaves from the pirates since it’s illegal everywhere else.

Meanwhile, Ryuto goes to contact the dragon embassy to know what’s going on. Ryuto leaves a message with the merchants but doesn’t hear back for 5 days. Ryuto heard from lady Celinia that the dragons are moving to the Elephant Isles.

Pachinko searches for the three kings but first finds a navigator to give them a tattoo. Then finds a next level crew member to give a second tattoo, the second one doesn’t come out so nice.

We’re invited to attend a Soiree in the palace. We’re guests of honor. We’re guests of the king in the palace, he wants more entertaining stories. It’s a big party.

Pachinko gets the finest finish money can buy, Punx also bought the finest clothing. Pachinko gets +1 impress bonus but -1 stealth permanently. Oona is dressed sensibly. Ryuto wears normal clothing. There’s lots of people as well as emissaries from the Flotilla. Ryuto mingles with the dragon merchants. They shame Ryuto for his plain clothing and his crown. Ryuto tries to mingle but fails to impress them.

The king greets us warmly, and introduces us to the Beggar King of the ragged fleet. Someone spent all the money to look very bad in rags and tatters. The beggar king presents himself as a very humble person. The king does not like to drink tea but is happy to drink beer with Punx. He is ready to beg for some company stocks. The beggar king has heard about us adventures in the elephant isles and would like to have us as his escorts for his trip to the elephant isles. The other kings don’t depart from the flotilla, the beggar king is here to beg for the big things. The King has already put us up for a job as escort of the flotilla in some ship of our own making or acquisition.

The Eminence Grease knows about our mission and is ready to provide us with what we need. We’re just a token offering to get the beggar Flotilla to go away. The Grease wants us to take an official passenger, an official delegation to treat with the natives. The king is sending his own cousin, the contessa Palkia. She is older than the king but still not a worldly woman as she has lived a sheltered life.

We’ll be paid 200g for these two missions. He has to get back to his babysitting, making sure that the King is not doing anything rash. Lady Celinia has been trying to get our attention. There’s something disturbing in the way the wind blows.

She compliments our dresses and addresses Punx or Pentatonix. Celinia has presented Pachinko with a sticker that certifies him as a real boy. Giacomo can not attempt to take Pachinko again. Does Lady Selenia know the whereabouts of Giacomo? No, she does not and we’re not able to pinpoint the crimes to him. If we rescue Tinkerbell and Gascon, then they can get their own stickers of personhood.

Selenia wants to know about our trip to the Elephant Isles. Saint Sebastian is a real saint man. Selenia wants us to bring Saint Sebastian along as well.