Quick facts
Campaign: The Wonders of Arlia (Campaign 1) · Where: Ostenkask in Beerlia, PoorsTown and Mount Paozo · New member: Terra Misu Umber · Previous: C1 Chapter 02 · Next: C1 Chapter 04
The portal from the Toasty Temple scattered the party across a few days in Ostenkask, Beerlia. Each of them stumbled into trouble alone before they found each other again, then broke a time loop, stole a Star Orb from under a dragon’s nose, and picked up a deserter from the Rose Ribbon Army.
Four arrivals
Juliette came through first and ran into Meo, an associate she had run shady jobs with before. He offered her 3,000 gold to help with a job just off the coast. She took it. The two sailed out to a floating Turtle Island, killed the creatures on it, and stole a vase with a magical seal on it. Back in town Meo paid her 4,000 gold. She stayed the night with him, with no hanky panky, much to Meo’s disappointment. By morning he was feeding her strawberries in the corner of the inn.
Greene came through second, still badly hurt from the Toasty Temple, and was captured almost immediately by a group of men. They carried him to a boat and sailed him into a cave, where he was confronted by a being called Him. Once Greene was knocked out, a yerrk was put into his ear. It controlled his body for the next few days.
Oolong came through third. A mysterious voice in his head called him out into the woods, where he met Max the Andalite. Max told him a plague was silently spreading through the town and asked for his help. He gave Oolong the gift of Seerow’s Kindness.
Elyon came through last. She walked into the inn to find Juliette eating strawberries out of Meo’s hand.
The silent plague
The party regrouped and started working on the mystery. Eventually they discovered that Greene was the one being controlled, and they had to fight him. During the fight the yerrk in Greene’s body killed Rachel, second in command of the Island Watch. Once they finally brought Greene down, they took him to the Island Watch for questioning. The yerrk’s name was Visser 3, and he was trying to overthrow Him. The party forced the yerrk to move out of Greene and into a recently captured “wizard” named Yamcha. They also learned that the Rose Ribbon Army would arrive in a few days.
The party went after Him and found that Max had been taken over as well. In the fight that followed, Greene destroyed Him (Cassie), Oolong rescued Max, and Yamcha, still carrying Visser 3, was knocked off the boat into the water as the cave collapsed.
Tappin’ Day
After resting at the Island Watch, the party headed inland to what they expected to be the ruins of PoorsTown. They passed through an energy field around the town and found themselves stuck in a time loop on Tappin’ Day. Every day at the eclipse, a small child named Goku unknowingly turned into a giant ape and destroyed the town. Miss Perigree had set the loop in place to protect the children.
Elyon was the only one who kept her memories from loop to loop, so she started investigating. The party eventually found a way to stop Goku without any of the children dying, and the loop broke.
Giras’s warehouses
The party followed Goku home to Mount Paozo. Nearly a mile from his house they found warehouses built into the mountain. Goku told them this was where Giras, an adult white dragon, lived. Goku and Greene went to distract Giras while Juliette, Oolong, and Elyon snuck into the warehouses to look for the orb.
Giras was losing patience with the conversation when the search party set off a trap, which tipped him off. He ran back into his cave and used his tunnels to come around to the back of the warehouse. Juliette grabbed the orb as he closed in, and the party ran for it.
Terra Misu joins
Outside, Greene and Goku found themselves surrounded by dwarven soldiers in Rose Ribbon uniforms pushing in from the tree line. This was the Umber Squad, led by Terra Misu Umber. Greene and Terra talked, and by the end Terra had gone AWOL from the army and joined the party. Some of the squad understood and backed her. A few went back to the army.
The party slipped away into the winter woods of Beerlia before Giras could find them.
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