Check In Question: What would your wrestling announcement intro be?
- Miranda: And in this corner, standing at a whopping 5’3”, the teacher of violins, the orch-dork, the dice goblin of strings, the nerd who’s proud of it – MIRANDA!!! Lysithea: Here she comes, 5’8” of pure fury, 6’4” if you count the horns, from the Ocan’queb Volcano, she’s smarter than you and she knows it, the Fireball, the purple-flame genius – LYSITHEA!!!
- Kevin: In this corner, delver of a multitude of dungeons and, like, 400 dragons, give or take, breaker of video games, nerd of nerds, pun-smith supreme, the “engineer” of your destruction, KEVIN THE KEVIN!!! Gobbles: In this corner, weighing in at a domineering 35 pounds, the maximum of the heavy nothingweight division, standing tall at 1,041,400,010.6 nanometers (3’5”), the most notorious paladin/bard/rogue/warlock/sorcerer this side of the Plisphy River, the one, the only, the dangerously cheesy, GOBBLES THE GOBLIN!!!
- Cordelia: Introducing the newly promoted 3rd grader, the pink and purple slayer, the Stratego Master – CORDELIA!!! Surina: Now entering the ring, the thunderous Paladin of Bahamut, the bane of undead everywhere, everyone’s new favorite rockstar – SURINA!!!
- Justice: Now entering the arena, put your hands together for the law of the land, here to tip the scales to victory, judge, jury and executioner – JUSTICE!!! Gurg: You know and love him, your champion of the Mud Dome, here to track his way into your hearts, the flindom fandom, Gurg Brokennose!
- Shannon: Here he comes, Dr. Paine! From parts unknown, Dr. Pain, 7” tall (not really), the mysterious, the psycho! K’un-Lun: In this corner, the actual god among men, actual hero, KUNDUS LUNDUS!
- Liz: Coming into the ring, the Chatty Cathy of Cathy’s chattiness, cat-momma extraordinaire, probably part cat to be honest, lover of food, voice booming loud for no reason – LIZ!!! Octavia: In this corner, exiled from her home, she’s here to shoot her target – OCTAVIA!!!
- Ian: In this corner, weighing a meager 145 pounds, he’s bad at rolling but he’s alright at roleplaying – it’s IAN!!! Professor: And in this corner we have the old, old, incredibly old – PROFESSOR!!!
When we last left our heroes they had just disrupted a ritual that would have summoned a hydra to destroy Ryphyet. With the help of Calus and Ursula, the Knights of the Jaguar, the party was able to defeat the elementals before they could complete the ritual. The Vigilance, the ship the party was investigating, sailed off in cowardice stranding the knights in Ryphyet.
Calus: All of our stuff was on that ship!
The party lets out a collective hum of innocence.
Lysithea: Was it now?
K’un-Lun: All of it?
Octavia: That’s terrible!…
The people of Ryphyet are cheering for the heroes for saving the town as they decide what to do next.
Octavia: I say we peace out of here.
Lysithea: I would LOVE to bathe!
K’un-Lun walks over to the knights.
K’un-Lun: Thank you for helping us and taking so much damage and aggro.
Calus: That is part of our knightley duty.
K’un-Lun: Just like real Sods. These are the Sods that I know. *pats knights on the shoulder*
Calus: Yes, we were born and raised in Barlsod! So we are definitely true Sods.
K’un-Lun: Some things never change.
The party turns arounds and starts making their way towards Rouge Hareng’s ship. They are very eager to get away from the knights, who Professor stole weapons from during his exploits on the Vigilance. They are even more eager to get as far away from Ryphyet as possible.
Calus: Excuse me!
K’un-Lun: Great job again! *keeps walking*
Lysithea: *slowly turns around* Yes? How may I help you?
Calus: We don’t have a way to get back to our home. We need to get there rather quickly. If we paid some fare, would you all take us to Barlsod?
Octavia: Gold?
Lysithea: This is something you would need to take up with the captain of our ship.
Rouge: Did they say gold?
Lysithea: Yes, Rouge.
Rouge: They are welcome! Let’s get out of here!
Lysithea: I would LOVE to!
Octavia: I hear that.
Lysithea: We need to get out of here before the council shows up with that paperwork.
Rouge: By the way, you have four other guests on board right now.
Lysithea: Four? As in addition to the two knights?
Rouge: Yes.
Lysithea: I smell like the sewer, still!
Rouge: So do they!
Lysithea: Oh! *runs to the ship*
Waiting for them on the ship are four Tortles.
Lysithea: Daggertello!
Gobbles: And others!
The Tortles bow to the party.
Daggertello: Greetings.
Lysithea: Hello, again.
Daggertello: So, as you can see, Ryphyet has a problem.
Lysithea: Yes, we noticed. They have a few.
Daggertello: We vow to protect Ryphyet; however, to stop this problem we need to recover the gems.
Lysithea: Yes, we figured that.
Daggertello: High Lord Salazar Breadcrumb’s protection is lacking now over our town.
Lysithea: We noticed.
Daggertello: So, in your travels, if you recover the gems we would appreciate them brought back to us.
Lysithea: Yes, we will do so. We already have some not very reliable eyes and ears looking out for them.
Daggertello: That is good. We bid you farewell.
Lysithea: Seriously, I want to meet your master.
Daggertello: If you would stay in Ryphyet longer we could arrange that.
Gobbles: That’s a deal breaker.
Lysithea: We have to leave…
Daggertello: Then when you come back to return the gems you will. Farewell.
The Tortles jump off the ship into the sea one at a time. The Tortle wearing the orange mask yells, “MINOBUNGA” as he leaps.
K’un-Lun: I don’t know why that just happened.
Lysithea: We have some stories to tell you.
Surina, Gobbles, and Lysithea quickly fill in their teammates about their adventures in the sewers and their encounters along the way. With the knights now on board the party sets sail away from Ryphyet.
Lysithea: We are finally on our ship! I would like to get out of this city, I would like to bathe, and then I would like to sleep!
Octavia: Yes, a full night’s rest would be nice.
As the ship begins to sail away a council member runs up to the ship waving a handful of papers.
Councilman: Wait, wait!
Professor: No!
Councilman: You forgot to sign these!
Lysithea:I’m sorry, I can’t hear you! It was a lovely visit!
K’un-Lun: How nice, he’s bidding us farewell.
Councilman: YOU FORGOT TO SIGN THESE AND PAY YOUR TAXES! *waving papers frantically*
Lysithea: IT’S A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ARTWORK!
Professor: WE DON’T DO AUTOGRAPHS!
Octavia: IT WAS NICE TO MEET YOU, TOO! *turns to party* We can’t ever go back there.
The ship makes it onto open water. Lysithea finally gets to bathe, cleaning all the smell of sewer off of her. Surina and Gobbles do, too. Their travels are completely smooth and uneventful. The Knights of the Jaguar keep to themselves as they travel. The party gets a long, relaxing rest and are able to heal and recover from their previous encounters.
It does not take long to travel from Ryphyet to Barlsod via ship. The knights eventually come out of their seclusion and ask the party if they’ve ever been to Barlsod before.
K’un-Lun: I have! I’ve been everywhere. Except that jungle. Nobody’s been to the jungle. Nobody.
Gobbles: I’m actually in charge of that town.
Calus: No you’re not.
Gobbles: Then no. I must be thinking of a different town.
Surina: I’ve been there.
Calus: Well, for those that haven’t been you should definitely come up on deck as we approach. ‘Tis a glorious sight.
And it is. The entire town is a massive fort made out of white stone, almost rising up from the sea. The docks are outside of the town, but made up of its own seaside fort. Barlsod lays in-between the desert and the grasslands. The sands of the Rooja desert can be seen around the west side of the town, and flowing green grass around the east. There are different sections of the town making up a circle. Each section has different colored banners flying – red, blue, green, orange, purple, and silver. From the massive center fort hangs a giant banner, filled with all the colors and different animal emblems – red jaguars, blue barracudas, green monkeys, orange iguanas, purple parrots, and silver snakes. The town looks incredibly fortified, filled with extravagant armaments. The town looks much larger than what K’un-Lun remembers (history 8).
K’un-Lun: *Shatner speak* This looks… bigger… than what I remember. Woo! That’s big.
Surina remembers the training halls from when she trained in the town to be a knight.
Thanks to Professor’s thievery the party knows that the knights have been tasked with collecting magical artifacts, including the amulets that were given to Josie and the Tabaxi. Lysithea is hoping they do not know that she has one of those amulets. Luckily she knows through her studies that it is widely known that the knights collect mysterious artifacts and that there are stories written about them.
Lysithea: I’ve read that you knights collect magical artifacts. Is this true?
Calus: Yes, that is our duty as knights.
Lysithea: What do you do with these artifacts that you recover?
Calus: We store them. We have a safe place to keep them.
Lysithea: How safe?
Calus points to the giant fortress.
Lysithea: Yes, and then inside how safe are they?
Calus: What do you mean inside?
Lysithea: You have a giant fortress, but you don’t have the artifacts just lying around on a table, do you?
Calus: We have a vault.
Lysithea: That’s what I mean! How safe?
Calus: Extremely safe. Once they go into the vault only the Lord Commander can open the vaults.
At the sound of this Octavia’s ears prick with suspicion, and Lysithea gets an uncomfortable feeling.
Calus: And he can only open the vault if the other commanders of the 7 Knights are present.
Lysithea: Do you do studies on these artifacts?
Calus: No.
Lysithea: What a waste.
Calus: Our duty is to protect them and store them to keep them out of evil hands. As you can clearly see, when artifacts go out into the world evil happens.
Lysithea: Yes it does. But what a waste.
Octavia: *whispering to the party* Do you think it’s wise for only one person to have complete access to all of these artifacts?
Gobbles: Okay, so us plus Draggy makes 7 people. All we have to do is just become these commandos. Then all we need to do is open the vault. How long will that take?
Octavia: Based on our current technology?
Professor: 11 years?
Lysithea: We’re not here to steal these artifacts.
(K’un-Lun Insight 18) K’un-Lun has noticed that the knights have been avoiding him and appear to be suspicious of him.
K’un-Lun: What’s the deal? *sniffs self* I don’t smell like her. *points to Lysithea*
Lysithea: Hey, I bathed!
K’un-Lun: Well, I guess I smell worse now.
Lysithea: I think they may recognize you.
The knights’ recognition of K’un-Lun is apparent. They aren’t gasping in awe that it’s K’un-Lun in the flesh, but they do recognize something about him.
K’un-Lun: I don’t know what to do. I think I did something that I don’t remember what it is.
Or it’s just that he’s an ancient hero come back to life.
The ship begins to pull into the docks. Outside of the fort next to the docks is a huge, wooden building. On the building is the symbol of a drawing compass inside a compass rose, with a spyglass cutting through it. (Intelligence Professor 10, Octavia 18, Professor 10, K’un-Lun 17, Lysithea 11, Surina 4, Gobbles 19) This is the Explorers’ League headquarters. They set out to discover the undiscovered, to map and document places that no one has been to before. They keep the most up to date records of anyone except The Neighborhood Library.
With the ship now docked the Knights of the Jaguar begin to take their leave. As an extra thanks for bringing them home they invite the party into the fort. They also invite the party to come eat with them.
Calus: It is a shame we lost our equipment, but we have what we came for.
Lysithea: Is The Vigilance here?
They look around and see no sign of the ship that fled.
Gobbles: Hey, since you sailed on The Vigilance, is it faster than our ship?
Calus: Oh, The Vigilance is much faster than this ship.
Lysithea: So it’s possible they’ve come and gone already. Or maybe they just didn’t come at all since you were not aboard the ship.
Calus: We will be putting out an order against The Acrael Shipping Company for The Vigilance’s behavior. We understand self preservation; however, they just left us.
These docks are very well run. Even the workers are garbed in knightly attire, all bearing a multi-colored badge.
Lysithea: How does one become a knight?
Calus: First you squire for many years.
Lysithea: How does one even start this process? Do you need to be born here?
Calus: Families ask us to take on their children all the time to become squires. *looks down solemnly* Sometimes orphans are brought to us, too. Orphans of war and battle. And we squire them if they fit our requirements. We do not discriminate, as long as you’re fit to travel and wield a weapon.
Lysithea: Interesting. I didn’t know if this was an exclusive thing.
Gobbles: Gobbles has 2 questions. 1, can I become a squire? And 2, what is your policy on remote working? Like, can I train to be a squire while not being here?
Octavia begins to rub her temple.
Gobbles: Here’s a rope of mending! I’ve found stuff! Can I just go find things and get credit towards this?
Calus: I mean, yes, that is a magical item. You would have to speak to our Lord Commander. To explain, we go out and search and if we find magical items that do not meet our artifact criteria we sell them. This is how we finance, plus all of our treasures.
Lysithea: You must find a lot.
Gobbles: Let’s say we go out and find something actually of note. Would that jumpstart the process of becoming a knight?
Calus: Yes.
Lysithea: If one had an item that they didn’t know if it was magical or not, could research be done here to find out?
Calus: Yes. We have scholars and sages.
Lysithea: Can I meet them?
Professor: Can we just go inside?
Calus: You are invited into our fortress whenever you want to come…
Professor: Oh wait, we don’t have to follow you?
Calus: No.
Professor: Okay. Goodbye.
K’un-Lun: Where are we meeting you for food?
Calus: Go to the inner fortress and they will lead you to our hall. We must now report to our Lord Commander. We will see you later tonight.
As the party was walking and talking with the knights they passed the Explorers’ League building. Curious, they decide to check it out before entering the main fortress. Inside the Explorers’ League is a Gnome sitting behind a desk atop a pile of books. The building is like a museum, filled with items representing all different regions and cultures.
Lysithea: I’ve found my home.
Gnome: Can I help you?
Lysithea: Can I live here? I mean… Hi, could you tell us about your facility?
Gnome: Of course I can! We are the Explorers’ League. We travel around making sure maps are up to date, that nothing changes in our lands. We track disturbances, we do not involve ourselves in politics, but we track political lines. Our goal is to explore the unexplored.
Lysithea: You track disturbances?
Gnome: You know, in case country A fights with country B and takes over the mountain. Or, you know, sometimes a giant dragon wakes up and decides, “I don’t like this forest” and burns it down.
Professor: No dragon would ever do that.
Lysithea: Ah, those kinds of disturbances.
K’un-Lun: What’s the latest gossip?
Gnome: We wouldn’t call it gossip, but the latest thing is our High Explorer, the explorer of explorers is missing.
K’un-Lun: Ahhhh.
Lysithea: Who’s that?
K’un-Lun: It would be me if I was an explorer.
Gnome: That would be Horgus Grayhandle.
Lysithea: Horgus?
Gnome: Our High Explorer has gone missing.
K’un-Lun: Horrible name.
Lysithea: Horrible news.
Professor: Where was they, whoever, seen gone do that?
K’un-Lun: What he said.
Gnome: He traveled to the Jorra’be Jungle.
Professor: No one’s supposed to go in there!
K’un-Lun: Everybody knows that!
Gnome: And that is why he went! He would be the first explorer to track and to document everything in the jungle.
Professor: It’s not possible! It can’t be done.
Gnome: And that is why he is missing.
K’un-Lun: But why would he go there?
Lysithea: *mumbling* Aren’t we going there?
Gnome: Because he’s the High Explorer!
Lysithea: Can you describe this person?
Gnome: You know, Horgus-like.
Gobbles: That’s very helpful to us, those who have not met him.
Professor: Is he a Dwarf?
Gnome: He is a Dwarf.
Professor: I knew it! Dwarfish….Dwarfs…
Gnome: Long, big bushy beard, big head of hair, taller than I am but shorter than you *points to Lysithea*.
Professor: Yes, he sounds like Mr. Perfect. (History 14)
Professor knows the name, and knows that Horgus has been with the Explorers’ League for quite some time. Looking at maps you usually see Horgus’s name inscribed on it. He is an adventurer of adventurers, the explorers of explorers. There are books about him, most of them autobiographical.
Professor: Right. Would we perhaps get a map for the best route traveled from here to the jungle?
Gnome: You want a map?
His eyes light up with glee.
Gnome: Come!
He jumps down from his book chair and runs from the counter.
Gnome: Come come!
He leads the party through the museum. Lysithea is having the best day. (Arcana Professor 12, Lysithea 15, K’un-Lun 16, Surina 10, Octavia 18) There is nothing magical here, to the point of being suspicious. Everything in this museum is natural. (Octavia Nature 24) Octavia notices that there is a section for each region of the continent of Corde. There are no labels, but she is able to identify each section based on the displays. There’s two areas that are scarce of any artifacts – the Jorra’be Jungle and Shumpech Swamp. It makes sense that there’s items missing from the jungle, but it’s odd that there’s nothing from the swamp. Octavia shares her discovery with the party.
Lysithea: Why would things be missing from Shumpech Swamp?
Octavia: Maybe nobody’s been there.
(Perception Gobbles 18) There are places marked where there should have been items, but they are not there anymore.
Gobbles: So I’m thinking the Sod dudes have been taking their items.
Lysithea: Where’s all your swamp stuff? (Persuasion 9)
The Gnome who was very excited, trekking the party to another room stops very slowly.
Gnome: What do you mean? We had some difficulty obtaining items, it’s nothing to worry about.
Lysithea: I was just curious.
Gnome: We have books on it, if you would like.
Lysithea: You have books?!!!
Gnome: Some of our, you know… *pauses* There’s a travelling exhibit going around and it is a Shumpech Swamp exhibit, so we sent our items to the exhibit.
Lysithea: Fascinating…
(Insight K’un-Lun 8, Professor 11, Octavia 11, Gobbles 23, Lysithea 8, Surina 9)
Gobbles: You’re 100% lying.
Gnome: Well, yes I am. Things are being studied by people and they took everything.
Lysithea: That sounds horrible! Who took your things?
Gnome: *clears throat* Let’s look at the maps.
(Perception Gobbles 15, Professor 16, K’un-Lun 12, Octavia 18, Lysithea 16, Surina 8) There are people standing around, some with the badges of the Explorer’s League, others with the multicolored badge of the knights. The Gnome leads the party into a giant room with cubbies and huge ladders. The cubbies encompass the entire room, stretching all the way to the ceiling. Each cubby is filled with wrapped up scrolls. Lysithea reacts the way Belle does when Beast shows her the library. K’un-Lun claps super hard (dexterity 10) and the sound echoes through the room, causing dust to fall and Octavia to shudder. Seated at little tables in the room are children wearing sashes.
Octavia: What’s going on with that over there?
Gobbles: Do they sell cookies?
Gnome: That is our Junior Explorer League.
Octavia: Precious.
Gnome: Kids can come and earn badges.
Octavia: A cult. Okay, okay.
Gnome: Excuse me, I was part of the Junior Explorer League.
Octavia: And you’re still here, so yeah.
Gobbles: Do you have any spells to heal burns?
Professor: I have Ray of Frost prepared.
Gnome: So, maps. You want the fastest route from here to the jungle, right?
Professor: Yes…
Gnome: Well, unfortunately, no one is supposed to go to the jungle.
Professor: Okay then, the mountains before the jungle.
The Gnome grabs a huge leather book and opens it. The book is filled with numbers representing the cubbies. He scans the book then shuts it.
Gnome: Be right back.
He climbs one of the huge ladders almost to the top. He grabs a scroll, pushes the ladder, grabs a scroll, pushes the ladder, and continues to grab scrolls from different cubbies. With an armful of scrolls the Gnome slides down the ladder and rushes back to the party. He sprawls the different maps on the table in front of the party, each with a different route marked.
Gnome: Okay, so there are a few different routes you can take to get to the mountains. Some take the river, some go around the continent, some travel through here. In old times people could travel through the Rooja desert to get there, but since the chasm is now there that is no longer possible. The issue with land lies with having to travel through the Tahnatl Forest, and no one goes there, or travelling into the hills and there are reports of strange things happening in those hills.
With each new route the Gnome places a new map on top of the others, pointing out the potential routes the party could take.
Gnome: So the fastest route should have been by land, but now it’s going up through the river.
Octavia: Oh good, we have a boat.
Gnome: The boat cannot travel up the river though.
K’un-Lun: Aaaargh!
Professor: What?!
Octavia: You don’t know what my boat can do!
Professor: Explain yourself.
Gnome: So as you can see the fastest route is up the river.
Lysithea: What about the safest?
Professor: No, we just want the quickest.
Surina: Safest!
Gnome: Safe..est..? Yes, in the Explorers’ League we do not know the meaning-
Professor: Yes, yes, yes, calm down.
Octavia: You’re a high member of the cult, you’re not going anywhere.
Professor: You’re a desk jockey, sit down.
Gobbles: So is the forest a no-go like the jungle?
Gnome: You can travel through the forest, but there are certain people who don’t like you travelling through the forest. Our great High Explorer wrote one of his travel logs of his journey through the forest. He wrote how he met an attractive maiden from who he had to run for his life from as she sicced these huge beasts on him. He lost most of his food throwing it at the beasts as he ran.
K’un-Lun: So what’s wrong with the river? Why can’t we go up the river?
Octavia: It’s too big.
Gnome: I said your boat, but you can hire river boats, of course.
Octavia: How much?
Gnome: I don’t run the boats.
Octavia: Then what good are you?
Gnome: I showed you the maps.
Lysithea: And they’re very, very pretty maps.
Octavia: Yes, they’re very pretty. I’m sorry.
Professor: Can I have it? The map?
Gnome: Which one?
Professor: All of them. These here.
Gnome: Yes. Ah, do you want to know about our symbols? This one was written by Explorer Grissold Langford. If you want we can go and get his key and talk about all of them. Do you want to?
Gobbles: Yes. Information!
Gobbles realizes that the Gnome is about to spend a long time happily explaining as much as he can. He takes Gobbles to a room filled with markings and books and begins explaining the different cartography symbols and the story behind each one. Gobbles quickly realizes what he’s gotten himself into and the voice of the Gnome gradually turns to white noise.
K’un-Lun, who did not follow Gobbles, starts walking around to see if there is anything about heroes in this museum. Much to his delight he stumbles upon a Hall of Heroes!
K’un-Lun: I have to see if they have everything correct about my legacy. God, do I have family?
He walks through the hall, seeing mostly written works by other people and portraits of different heroes. He does note that there are no weapons or artifacts that would have belonged to the heroes. He eventually comes across a section on himself. He takes one slow step at a time towards the exhibit, an angelic choir playing in his head, the lonely sound of his footsteps echoing in the hall. There’s not as much information for him as the other heroes, since he was lost in time for 1,000 years. K’un-Lun clenches his fist.
K’un-Lun: They had more on Friedrich von Voom, that SOD! I mean…that guy was so heroic..
An elderly voice comes from behind K’un-Lun.
Old Half-Elf: Ah, sonny.
K’un-Lun: I have no father. I mean… hi. Sorry, I’m just really in my feelings.
Old Half-Elf: That is a great K’un-Lun costume you have on. I was a fan of him when I was younger, too.
K’un-Lun: You were? *hopeful eyes*
Old Half-Elf: My brother and I would play K’un-Lun and von Voom all the time.
K’un-Lun: Reeeaaalllly? I mean, yeah, me too. I did that, too.
Old Half-Elf: That is amazing work you did on that costume.
K’un-Lun: It’s pretty accurate, I guess. Are you from the Rooja Desert as well?
Old Half-Elf: No, I was born here in Barlsod.
K’un-Lun: Do people still speak highly of K’un-Lun these days?
Old Half-Elf: He was alive 1,000 years ago. Over, I believe. We have some stories, but all the kids these days talk about their more modern heroes and whatnot. But we still teach a lesson or two on K’un-Lun. You know, he disappeared at a time of great need for everyone.
K’un-Lun: Really…I always thought he died.
Old Half-Elf: Well probably so. When someone disappears it’s usually they’re eaten by a dragon, or swallowed by an ooze and disintegrated.
K’un-Lun: Do you think your Dwarven hero has been eaten by a dragon or anything?
Old Half-Elf: Oh, Horgus? God I hope so. Horgus has been rubbing our noses in his grand adventures. But, no, no. Horgus is lost in that jungle. No explorer has made it out of there and mapped it.
K’un-Lun: What if I told you that K’un-Lun is not dead?
The eldery Half-Elf’s eyes go bright.
Old Half-Elf: Ah, the return of a hero from a thousand years ago? That would be wonderful.
Surina: He actually is K’un-Lun.
Old Half-Elf: Wait, what? Are you?
K’un-Lun has a plank of wood on him for no reason. He throws the plank into the air and one-inch punches it into a million pieces.
K’un-Lun: Do you know anyone else that can do this?
Old Half-Elf: Well, yes.
K’un-Lun freezes in disbelief.
Old Half-Elf: But that is a very authentic costume. *reaches out and touches costume* This robe, these clothes. I could believe it.
K’un-Lun: Well, I hope you do.
Old Half-Elf: But you would have to do something heroic.
K’un-Lun: That’s what I live for.
Old Half-Elf: Excellent. So, I’m going to accompany you now…
K’un-Lun: Woah, woah, wait a minute. Well, I may as well know your name. What is your name, old man?
Old Half-Elf: Schtolteheim Reinbach IV.
K’un-Lun: Schlot it is. I’ll just call you Bach. Well, I guess I have to break the news to the party that I’m bringing you along. Come meet the gang!
Bach: I’ll be waiting on the ship.
K’un-Lun: Oh, did you ride on the ship with us?
Bach: No, but I will be.
K’un-Lun was teary eyed throughout the entire encounter, feeling joy from being recognized for the first time. No one could tell, though, because of his mask.
The adventures of the party in Barlsod will continue in Session 29 Part 2: Barlsod – The Lord Commander