Day 20 — This girl is on fire

KahuPachinkoJimminyRyuto

Chapter summary

A burning amnesiac awakens as Kahu while Carolingia prepares to send three Living Saints into the Isles.

Connections

Session notes

We have 10 blunderbusses and 1 arquebus.

Ryuto has 1, Oona has 1, Pachinko has turned 5 blunderbusses into one shoulder mounted gun with zero reload and always wielded.

There’s a person from the isles of Moa Tor, with traditional tribal tattoos, he is passed out on the beach. He looks like a Nuada, pretty severe injuries to his head area. Looks like he’s been hit in the head with blunt force trauma. Scalp split, it’s bruising. He is blistering from the fire that engulfed him before. He has a locket around his neck. Nothing particularly fancy. He is also wet and bald.

The blisters are unhealable as Oona tries to heal him. Only his head was healed.

The man wakes up and is startled and is now backing away but is now talking to us, he seems to be most friendly with Oona, who is of a similar race to him. He is afraid of Ryuto and Pachinko. He hasn’t eaten in a while. He is not sure where he comes from. Pachinko offers him some coconuts. Jimminy also offers coconuts to all the people that came from the water.

Ryuto asks to the people coming out from the water. They are an eclectic bunch of different species and origins. They are all islanders and they seem to be mostly deferring to one older Anuadan. She looks quite foreign to us even though we are also Moa Toa. She is probably 70. She is fine despite the long swim. She thinks everyone from the ship made it. Ryuto asks why did the ship burn? The woman says that they were part of the migrant fleet but were captured by Johan. Most of the able people were sold and now these people were left behind, it was about a week ago that this sale happened. They were sold to the Yuanti. They told they were going to die because no one was going to buy them. Instead the fire stranger, who was adopted with the old woman to the migrant fleet. He is a mystery. But today, an hour ago there was screaming and fire. The sailors were screaming and died in their sleep. He showed up with the keys to the cells. He was glowing the whole time.

The old woman wants to go to civilization. We can take them to Oro’s village. Meanwhile we have to get the corpses taken care of. Pachinko tries to communicate with the mysterious stranger who is entranced by fire and seems like he hears it. The stranger does not connect with Ryuto’s flame. He is the one who got them all out but he doesn’t remember, he looks at his tattooed arms. There’s writing that says “Kahurangi”. It means something precious. All the blistering is gone. Pachinko gives the stranger Jimminy for a bit.

We all go to sleep. I make a gun mounted shoulder. We all get a move on back to the village. The stranger did not sleep very well it seems. We use the elephant to carry the weakest people and we go back to the village. We make it back on the same day. We hear sounds from the forests because scouts were looking for Oro. He goes ahead to explain what happened. When we arrive, Oro is looking dejected and being scolded by the Chieftress. When Kinipella sees us, she glares. We try to say that we were tricked by the boy. Oona explains what happened at the beach.

The chieftess is grateful for our vengeance. The chieftess will speak later with her son about this. The chieftess will take care of housing these people in the village.

We can send some messengers to the migrant fleet if they are still in range, we can contact them. The embassy has been asking for us. Maliko, the new leader of the embassy. He is happy that we’re back, he had no idea where we went. He is having trouble fostering collaboration with the villages. The contessa has been going around and saying things against our interest, she wants the isles to have self determination. Maliko is not entirely sold on his pitch but he believes some of it. He believes his interests are aligned with Moa Toa, but he doubts that even his work will make a difference because the Elephant Isles are screwed in the long run and someone has to exploit them. The 3 villages of bloombark are the owners of the isles. He wants to convince them to expel the dragons and then maybe lease the lands to Carolingia to prevent their wrath. We should talk to Pokia, the contessa. Maliko will offer us 100 for our work, 25g each and 25g for the group pot. We can get this money every 2 weeks.

Ryuto is feeling a vibration in his scales, like a constant buzzing. This changes depending on where he is, like a “hot/cold” radar. He follows us and leaves the village slightly until he is hidden behind some bushes and a celestial Dragon appears. A servant of chamberlain Yeng. Ryuto is thankful for his fireball. They want him to perform a new service to the Celestial Empire, although nothing against his friends. Ryuto’s enchanted scale allows them to contact him.

The celestials know that Moa Toa is trying to extend their influence to the isles so they want to delay that effort. The dragons are threatening to take measures if she is not removed. The chamberlain will not have too much patience. Ryuto runs around with his tea supplies and we flag him down.

We’ve recruited Kahurangi to our party and now he is having some tea with us.

We go find the Contessa who is making some curry in a large communal curry. The Contessa is very happy with the environment, she gets to run around. The Contessa thinks she must stay at the isles and is not allowed to go back. Contessa doesn’t know what she is saying. The Contessa has no clue about politics. She is actively not understanding even though she has the capability. We manage to convince her that she should talk up the Moa Toa regime and their integration with the isles people.

Kahu is housed at the house of Don Gregorio and he feels a kinship with the flames in there. He gets a vision of a great bonfire and people celebrating.

Ryuto goes to Kahu for help to inspect his enchanted scale and explains that it’s magical in nature with a rune of +2 fortitude, it also has a number of backdoors:

Location tracking
Pinging ability
A kill switch

Pachinko manages to transfer the power of the arquebus to the axe, it is now a rune with potency +1 and impactful.

Pachinko does not manage to remove the rune from Ryuto on his first try but nothing is lost.

Captain Jackdog is back, he brings news from Moa Tor. News:

An update from the people that came back, Stoa and her company are still in prison for their betrayal.
Don Gregorio has been burned at the stake.
Carolingia is sending a squad of ships and sending back in an unprecedented events, 3 saints with their reliquaries so they can be resurrected on site.
- Reports something called the De Re Synkretismus

People also want to rescue the other slaves from the Ranti.