Wild:33 I thought of the Children, they're delicious

Starring: Nathaniel, Bo, Fuelwen, Splat, Brilla
Guest Starring: Leonal, Pinky One-Horn, Killibron
Challenge: Elysian happiness, Brilla's ancestor Amon, Great Fortress Democracy
Location: The Seas
Date Played: 28 Mar 2010

Island Hopping

Leaving Storybook Island

Fuelwen: Bo freed some food from the flesh farm on Storybook Island. These were tortured incompetents, useless for anything but eating. Had I been not recovering from the previous battle (during which I didn't feel quite myself), I might have had more to say on the subject. Really, it was a waste of cargo space, but we had little to fill our hold with anyway. We took them with us.

Offering

Fuelwen: Offering was a vile place, run over with Kobolds. But it was a place we could sell the food into slavery. It was a step up for them, and honestly- I can't imagine that the buyers got a good deal. Still, I think it was better than letting these people run around free. They would have only hurt themselves.

In retrospect, this was the first time I noticed something odd about Brilla. She used fiery breath to kill a few Kobolds as they mounted our ship. I was surprised, but thought it was a proportional response, and simply assumed Brilla was learning new invocations or bindings.

Delebland, Sorceria, Elysium

Fuelwen: We returned back to dwarven controlled waters and found ourselves on Delebland, an island consecrated to Deleb. Another scholarly island, this was a wonderful opportunity to do yet more research. Most interestingly, we discovered that it had a portal that connected to Elysium and its location was known.

Bo, Nathaniel and I decided to travel to Elysium, but Brilla declined. This was the time when I actually asked Brilla if she was feeling herself. She had never eschewed planar travel.

Still, we split the party. I was wary about Elysium- it had a tendency to "trap" people with its lazy lifestyle. Still, the possibility of gathering samples and increasing my knowledge was too much of a temptation. I was more worried for Bo than myself. We explored, encountered one of the realm's guardians. I didn't feel much interest in interacting with the locals, but Bo did. He brought back a guardian set on acting as a guide for us to bring us in line with some code of behavior or something equally ridiculous.

Well, as it turned out, Brilla was possessed by a demon. After she killed a few more crew, caused a mutiny, and essentially destroyed much of the work I had put into building us a reliable crew, we dispatched the demon and the guardian left.

Great Fortress

Fuelwen: Great Fortress and my interests there are in dire straits. The government has taken a paternalist approach to, well, everything. They're micromanaging the Pink Priaprism into oblivion thanks to a new political party: "Think of the Children". Rubbish, rubbish and offal, these toothless failures have turned our haven into a dead end.

One Horn is doing what he can under the circumstances, and I've agreed that he deserves a raise for his trouble. It's becoming a bit of a joke around the party that our bartender is always happy to see me return, as he gets a raise every time.

A Whole New World

Fuelwen: With nothing but headaches in Great Fortress, we set out of Lull on the first leg of a longer journey. I noticed an odd formation in the reef, almost a gateway shape. And some combination of phenomena triggered that natural gateway and sent us into the planes, this time to the Beastlands.

I love it here. This is my Elysium, so much so that I must be wary to not let myself get swallowed up in the hunt. There is so much prey, so delicious and fertile that I could spend all my days beneath the waves, drinking the blood of my victims. Fortunately, with our party, there isn't much room for such distractions. We landed at a gigantic island, a scale like I have never seen, and not five minutes later does some strange fairy elephant come to enlist our aid- some menace is rushing in from the forests, and we must stand or become its prey.

On a related note, I wonder if I may find Sekolah here. I learned that it does visit this plane.

Rewards

• Wiki:
  • Fuelwen: You've been gathering quite the collection of specimens. +2 caster level to spells utilizing material components. You can add a material component to a spell that does not normally need one with a Spellcraft check DC 15 + Spell level. Usable 5 times.