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Sephie has to care for Jack, and preps her medical bag to be well equipped for the battle with the Huntsmen.

April returned with books on Name Magic and Eastern Magic from the Enchanted Attic. She specifically emphasized the importance of Name Magic to her current tasks. She suggested that True Name Magic can be used to summon anyone, especially in naturally fluid places such as the hedge. Nikolai said she should focus on keeping safe, and she excitedly explained she would focus on keeping the motley

April returned with books on Name Magic and Eastern Magic from the Enchanted Attic. She specifically emphasized the importance of Name Magic to her current tasks. She suggested that True Name Magic can be used to summon anyone, especially in naturally fluid places such as the hedge. Nikolai said she should focus on keeping safe, and she excitedly explained she would focus on keeping the motley safe at any cost.

==Session 56==

The motley made a number of preparations on Thursday for the confrontation on Friday.

Chalkos advised them to come to the farm around 6 PM to begin preparing for the preparations.

April recommended burying the hatchet with Chalkos and trying to work something reasonable out and Alana joined in. There was an argument regarding Chalkos' immoral behavior that had counterpoint against the motley's own immoral behavior ("Billy kidnapped his opponent! We tried to buy a corpse!").

5 PM rolled around and the motley drove to Chalkos' compound, where they came upon a hedge of pine trees. They arrive at the compound and are urged into a parking spot. He informed them that they would be covering all the vehicles with camoflage netting.

For the man with the Badge, Alana will let him know to come here. For the Red Eyed Woodsman, he needs to stab himself. They discussed the possiblity of allies, weapons, locations and plans. Ernie infused Sasha.

Holly pointed out crow spies present at the farm. Ernie has scattered improperly timed watches around the premesis as a prophylaxis against the Chronophage. Ernie stabbed himself with a Lethal damage, and Alana blew the whistle.

The Red-Eyed Woodsman, the Man with the Badge and an entorage including vehicles for the both of them (a tractor for the Woodsman and the patrol car for the man with the badge).

Johnny Starlight managed to disable the patrol car (but not before it seriously injured

Alana charges his vehicle. There was a fearsome battle, during which the Man with the Badge was defeated and the Red Eyed Woodsman was badly injured. Chalkos subdued a leechfinger changeling that was assaulting Regina. As the motley fought, a horn was heard blasting in the distance announcing that Prince Kindhearted was on his way.

==Session 57==

Nikolai and the Red Eyed Woodsman exchange blows and nearly bowl Hestia over.

Johnny Starlight the tractor and climbing up it.

Ernie pulls his sister away from the garden and listens to her ramble about Arcadia as she meets Sephie so she can treat Regina's wounds.

Hestia and Alana, together, pin the Red Eyed Woodsman and finally dispatch him, burning him away into a shriveled stump.

Nikolai flashed back to his time with Prince Kindhearted. Nikolai remembered agreeing that anyone with whom he is bound would be a weapon unto him. He and his ten attendant knights find himself

Prince Kindhearted commissioned a riding sword for Nikolai and granted him the bond of the weapon with illegal cold iron, that now includes part of Nikolai.

Alana tries to break the badge (Hardness: 3, Size 2, Durability 5 X)

Starlight disabled the tractor.

Stabalized Regina, who made Ernie very sad.

Prince Kindhearted took Nikolai accross

Ernie managed to destroy the knife.

Roper was sliced by the Knight Invisible, who seems to be stalking the field.

Nikolai remembered the exchange between Kindhearrted and the Lich. He remembers accepting that he was paid what he was owed.

Alana destroyed the badge. The Huntsmen are destroyed.

Ernie told Prince Kindhearted to '''LET IT GO'''... Kindhearted gave him a coin and told him that he would someday make a great faerie.

It's a double edged sword.

Ernie: Become Respected Member of the Freehold

Regina: Tasting from Arcadia One More Time

Alana: Logal Troubles, Become Respected

April: Confront Something that Truly Frightens Her

Nikolai squishes up the coin with a nail

Sephie, Ernie, Regina, Roper

Alana wants to parley with Chalkos and the rest remain.

Nikolai agreed to back Chalkus as Summer Monarch, and Chalkos agreed to pass on the Summer Crown when the time came.

Chalkos returned to the freehold.

In the glove compartment is an ivory domino inlaid with ebony; with a beautiful picture of battle creek; a postcard bound for their home. "Wish you were here."

Regina told Ernie that "I think I need to see dad."

==Session 58==

The motley rallied at their home and got some sleep, suddenly reminded that the World's Largest Breakfast Table was tomorrow and, furthermore that Billy could not possibly be in attendance.

Sephie had a memory dream of killing her fetch.

Nikolai remembered being in the cavalry with Prince Kindehearted.

Alana dreamt of being a wild beast in the jungles of her homeland.

Ernie had a memory dream of Regina's experience and remembered the fairytale ending after her father's abuse and came to an understanding of why his sister wanted what she wanted.

Hestia dreamt a dream of her summer wedding with rows and rows of chairs and every changeling in the Cereal Box in attendance, with the crown surrendered to her willingly by Smith and Chalkos. The Collector offered Hestia the most perfect, beautiful moment, crafted by the Chronophage. Something blue: a blue jay. Something old: a locket containing a picture of her old husband and the blessing to move on.

===Saturday, June 12th===

Alana woke up everyone in the Motley who didn't wake up on their own and Hestia shared her dream with Alana, while Hestia tried to relax.

April suggested they "Weekend at Bernie's this whole thing."

Nikolai suggested that maybe Billy can just "wake up" for this important event. Also that maybe they can just say Billy couldn't make it. Also, Brian Henson "doesn't do that".

Ernie realized that he could fix the mirror and possibly wake him up.

Regina pointed out that she can change her appearance.

"No one better than a nurse to remove an Ivey (IV) from someone!" - Jacob

Ernie convinced Freddie and Aaron to delay their plan.

Sephie used Perfect Mending.

The party goes to Billy's. Freddie and Aaron are there. The party saw through Freddie's disguise almost immediately. He hooked up Alana and Nikolai up with hair of the dog (wine for Nikolai, actual magic for Alana).

Sephie used '''PERFECT MENDING''' to fix his heart.

They convinced Billy to make his offer contingent on denying all other loyalties.

They would have to leave just about now to make it on time.

The motley proceeded to the Breakfast Table, where the changelings of the Freehold has set up their area and are eating a sumptuous breakfast.

Craig Weston, Roper and many others were present. Ernie mingles with the newbies in the Freehold while Sephie checked on Roper. Hestia promoted her restaurant.

Alana spoke with Smith, who became agitated that she hadn't "taken care of" Chalkos. Ultimately, he explained that "safe" places from the Freehold are not "good" places.

Billy gave his speech, wherein he announced not only that the newcomers were now fully fledged members of the Freehold, but also that he would leave the Freehold at the start of Autumn and "sail to distant shores"

==Session 58==

Ernie hobnobs with the people from the flophouses, finds out that Blair is having difficulty finding work because she doesn't have skills or needs .

Hestia works with her Granny's Place people and finds Tasha and Victoria, slipping by The Pumpkin King to talk to her. He eventually stormed off after suggesting accusatively that Hestia would serve mimosas at brunch tomorrow. Eventually, he stormed out, announcing he was going to find his brother.

Chalkos and his men told stories of their exploits, making themselves sound like superheroes to the motley's general heroics. Ernie resolved, after failing to contradict Chalkos' story, to dunk on Chalkos, possibly via a radio play.

Billy announces now that there are a number of goblins and hobgoblins in the Freehold. Janglejaw gives a speech about Strange Days. October 24th and 31st are Strange Days, which will probably go over PHENOMENALLY with the Pumpkin King.

The band has a mortal in it that has some kind of dark magic, but the rest are forgettable.

The Pumpkin King returned with a bottle of pills, which he shook like a rattle at Victoria before Hestia separated from them.

Smith appraoches Alana a second time and expresses his concern once more, suggesting he should "live it up" like Billy.

===Sunday June 13th to Friday the 18th===

Hestia and Ernie are working on the addition to the house (will be completed on Friday).

Ernie also wants to set up an AM radio station and compose a radio play to make the motley look good, for which he wants to recruit April with Nikolai's assistance.

Sephie is going to open urgent care private practice for changelings, but doesn't even know where to begin.

Nikolai has acquired a part time job at the college library, which gained him full faculty access to the library.

Smith calls Nikolai to ask about less than savory methods of winning the duel. They discuss a number of possibilites, including werewolves, magi, vampires and Maag Brunt, as well as picking up powerful drugs.

They had the Pumpkin King and his wife over for brunch and asked him about his plans. He informed Nikolai that Holly would be running things when he is king and that he set Smith up with his brother, Phlox, and that both parties paid him. "My money is on Smith."

===Monday, June 21st===

Smith burnt himself out killing Chalkos, pulling his skull out of his head (after ingesting a murder spirit, 100 mg of methamphetamine, wearing a duster given to him by Phlox).

Text from Kalingrad; dearest grandson; There is a shark circling your island and your island is sinking ... do you wish to come hone for a while?

I need to take care of my friends, but then I will come home for a while.

Radio Free Fae

Cincinnati's The Culture and Lansing's the Thorns

Maven of the Morning Drive and DJ Hamlin

DJ Culture - Maven of the Morning Drive.

Behind the scenes:

* Smith sells his eye to a demon for combat ability.

* Smith deals with Phlox, who sets him up with a werewolf that binds a murder spirit to Smith.

* Smith sells Isaac Oldman to the Collector (playing off her naivete to set her up, saying that he needed her to accompany him on a mission to the hedge seeking rare hedge fruits)

* Smith receives an enhanced bulletproof duster from Phlox, agreeing to help him steal a Hallow from him.

The duel ended with Smith killing Chalkos after belching black tar in his face and eventually ripping his skull and spine out of his face.

==Session 59==

The duel over, the crowd scatters and Chalkos' men bag him and take him out. The gang went to the Hestaurant and ate and drank. Hestia gave out free food to fulfill her Virtue (given her willpower issues), Nikolai was abrasive at the bar and Ernie pretended to be a mildly abused child to recover glamour. Sephie is checking up Jack, who is now ambulatory.

Hestia contacted Granny Lovett and asked her what could be done about their cheating monarch and how she could assume the throne. Granny told her that there were options, most notably that she could do something great for the Freehold in service of summer.

Ernie contacted Chelsea King to offer her voice acting work and a DJ position on his nascent radio station, and she also recommended 'Do, though with the caveat that it was because he had experience. He also contacted Isaac Oldman and left a voicemail.

Sephie spoke with Songbird about love, sex, school and the evil warlock that keeps sending her menacing messages. She was doing well in classes and thinking of changing her major from astrophysics to engineering. She was sincerely uncertain if the warlock could do anything BUT send threatening messages.

They discussed the Dreamer and how to fix the Cereal Box without killing the Dreamer. April pointed out that the current plan is the best way to get a 50/50 vs a 100% failure. They determined that the signatories might not need to be the monarchs, but it would be helpful to have the Paris contract to compare with. He contacted a changeling in Paris named Jean LeBou (a frog-man) who explained to him that he isn't willing to give more info than that monarchs always HAVE been the signatories, not whether they MUST be.

===Tuesday, June 22nd===

Ernie is dolling himself up for the coronation and Regina said she wanted a magical dress. Jack dressed up and did Alana. Nikolai wears his leaf tuxedo. Sephie wears her nicest scrubs. April wears a high neck open back dress in rainbow hue. While they were getting prepared, Alana get a nail cestus.

The Motley makes their way to the noontime coronation of Alexander Smith, who is wearing a hedgespun military uniform with shifting medals that reflect what he's saying. He announces that it is his intention to unify the Freehold. He expresses that he is sick to death of people saying that he is not merely going to unify the Freehold and reforge the cereal box to include the Firekeepers Casino.

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 Sephie has to care for Jack, and preps her medical bag to be well equipped for the battle with the Huntsmen.
-April returned with books on Name Magic and Eastern Magic from the Enchanted Attic. She specifically emphasized the importance of Name Magic to her current tasks. She suggested that True Name Magic can be used to summon anyone, especially in naturally fluid places such as the hedge. Nikolai said she should focus on keeping safe, and she excitedly explained she would focus on keeping the motley
+April returned with books on Name Magic and Eastern Magic from the Enchanted Attic. She specifically emphasized the importance of Name Magic to her current tasks. She suggested that True Name Magic can be used to summon anyone, especially in naturally fluid places such as the hedge. Nikolai said she should focus on keeping safe, and she excitedly explained she would focus on keeping the motley safe at any cost.
+==Session 56==
+The motley made a number of preparations on Thursday for the confrontation on Friday.
+Chalkos advised them to come to the farm around 6 PM to begin preparing for the preparations.
+April recommended burying the hatchet with Chalkos and trying to work something reasonable out and Alana joined in. There was an argument regarding Chalkos' immoral behavior that had counterpoint against the motley's own immoral behavior ("Billy kidnapped his opponent! We tried to buy a corpse!").
+PM rolled around and the motley drove to Chalkos' compound, where they came upon a hedge of pine trees. They arrive at the compound and are urged into a parking spot. He informed them that they would be covering all the vehicles with camoflage netting.
+For the man with the Badge, Alana will let him know to come here. For the Red Eyed Woodsman, he needs to stab himself. They discussed the possiblity of allies, weapons, locations and plans. Ernie infused Sasha.
+Holly pointed out crow spies present at the farm. Ernie has scattered improperly timed watches around the premesis as a prophylaxis against the Chronophage. Ernie stabbed himself with a Lethal damage, and Alana blew the whistle.
+The Red-Eyed Woodsman, the Man with the Badge and an entorage including vehicles for the both of them (a tractor for the Woodsman and the patrol car for the man with the badge).
+Johnny Starlight managed to disable the patrol car (but not before it seriously injured
+Alana charges his vehicle. There was a fearsome battle, during which the Man with the Badge was defeated and the Red Eyed Woodsman was badly injured. Chalkos subdued a leechfinger changeling that was assaulting Regina. As the motley fought, a horn was heard blasting in the distance announcing that Prince Kindhearted was on his way.
+==Session 57==
+Nikolai and the Red Eyed Woodsman exchange blows and nearly bowl Hestia over.
+Johnny Starlight the tractor and climbing up it.
+Ernie pulls his sister away from the garden and listens to her ramble about Arcadia as she meets Sephie so she can treat Regina's wounds.
+Hestia and Alana, together, pin the Red Eyed Woodsman and finally dispatch him, burning him away into a shriveled stump.
+Nikolai flashed back to his time with Prince Kindhearted. Nikolai remembered agreeing that anyone with whom he is bound would be a weapon unto him. He and his ten attendant knights find himself
+Prince Kindhearted commissioned a riding sword for Nikolai and granted him the bond of the weapon with illegal cold iron, that now includes part of Nikolai.
+Alana tries to break the badge (Hardness: 3, Size 2, Durability 5 X)
+Starlight disabled the tractor.
+Stabalized Regina, who made Ernie very sad.
+Prince Kindhearted took Nikolai accross
+Ernie managed to destroy the knife.
+Roper was sliced by the Knight Invisible, who seems to be stalking the field.
+Nikolai remembered the exchange between Kindhearrted and the Lich. He remembers accepting that he was paid what he was owed.
+Alana destroyed the badge. The Huntsmen are destroyed.
+Ernie told Prince Kindhearted to '''LET IT GO'''... Kindhearted gave him a coin and told him that he would someday make a great faerie.
+It's a double edged sword.
+Ernie: Become Respected Member of the Freehold
+Regina: Tasting from Arcadia One More Time
+Alana: Logal Troubles, Become Respected
+April: Confront Something that Truly Frightens Her
+Nikolai squishes up the coin with a nail
+Sephie, Ernie, Regina, Roper
+Alana wants to parley with Chalkos and the rest remain.
+Nikolai agreed to back Chalkus as Summer Monarch, and Chalkos agreed to pass on the Summer Crown when the time came.
+Chalkos returned to the freehold.
+In the glove compartment is an ivory domino inlaid with ebony; with a beautiful picture of battle creek; a postcard bound for their home. "Wish you were here."
+Regina told Ernie that "I think I need to see dad."
+==Session 58==
+The motley rallied at their home and got some sleep, suddenly reminded that the World's Largest Breakfast Table was tomorrow and, furthermore that Billy could not possibly be in attendance.
+Sephie had a memory dream of killing her fetch.
+Nikolai remembered being in the cavalry with Prince Kindehearted.
+Alana dreamt of being a wild beast in the jungles of her homeland.
+Ernie had a memory dream of Regina's experience and remembered the fairytale ending after her father's abuse and came to an understanding of why his sister wanted what she wanted.
+Hestia dreamt a dream of her summer wedding with rows and rows of chairs and every changeling in the Cereal Box in attendance, with the crown surrendered to her willingly by Smith and Chalkos. The Collector offered Hestia the most perfect, beautiful moment, crafted by the Chronophage. Something blue: a blue jay. Something old: a locket containing a picture of her old husband and the blessing to move on.
+===Saturday, June 12th===
+Alana woke up everyone in the Motley who didn't wake up on their own and Hestia shared her dream with Alana, while Hestia tried to relax.
+April suggested they "Weekend at Bernie's this whole thing."
+Nikolai suggested that maybe Billy can just "wake up" for this important event. Also that maybe they can just say Billy couldn't make it. Also, Brian Henson "doesn't do that".
+Ernie realized that he could fix the mirror and possibly wake him up.
+Regina pointed out that she can change her appearance.
+"No one better than a nurse to remove an Ivey (IV) from someone!" - Jacob
+Ernie convinced Freddie and Aaron to delay their plan.
+Sephie used Perfect Mending.
+The party goes to Billy's. Freddie and Aaron are there. The party saw through Freddie's disguise almost immediately. He hooked up Alana and Nikolai up with hair of the dog (wine for Nikolai, actual magic for Alana).
+Sephie used '''PERFECT MENDING''' to fix his heart.
+They convinced Billy to make his offer contingent on denying all other loyalties.
+They would have to leave just about now to make it on time.
+The motley proceeded to the Breakfast Table, where the changelings of the Freehold has set up their area and are eating a sumptuous breakfast.
+Craig Weston, Roper and many others were present. Ernie mingles with the newbies in the Freehold while Sephie checked on Roper. Hestia promoted her restaurant.
+Alana spoke with Smith, who became agitated that she hadn't "taken care of" Chalkos. Ultimately, he explained that "safe" places from the Freehold are not "good" places.
+Billy gave his speech, wherein he announced not only that the newcomers were now fully fledged members of the Freehold, but also that he would leave the Freehold at the start of Autumn and "sail to distant shores"
+==Session 58==
+Ernie hobnobs with the people from the flophouses, finds out that Blair is having difficulty finding work because she doesn't have skills or needs .
+Hestia works with her Granny's Place people and finds Tasha and Victoria, slipping by The Pumpkin King to talk to her. He eventually stormed off after suggesting accusatively that Hestia would serve mimosas at brunch tomorrow. Eventually, he stormed out, announcing he was going to find his brother.
+Chalkos and his men told stories of their exploits, making themselves sound like superheroes to the motley's general heroics. Ernie resolved, after failing to contradict Chalkos' story, to dunk on Chalkos, possibly via a radio play.
+Billy announces now that there are a number of goblins and hobgoblins in the Freehold. Janglejaw gives a speech about Strange Days. October 24th and 31st are Strange Days, which will probably go over PHENOMENALLY with the Pumpkin King.
+The band has a mortal in it that has some kind of dark magic, but the rest are forgettable.
+The Pumpkin King returned with a bottle of pills, which he shook like a rattle at Victoria before Hestia separated from them.
+Smith appraoches Alana a second time and expresses his concern once more, suggesting he should "live it up" like Billy.
+===Sunday June 13th to Friday the 18th===
+Hestia and Ernie are working on the addition to the house (will be completed on Friday).
+Ernie also wants to set up an AM radio station and compose a radio play to make the motley look good, for which he wants to recruit April with Nikolai's assistance.
+Sephie is going to open urgent care private practice for changelings, but doesn't even know where to begin.
+Nikolai has acquired a part time job at the college library, which gained him full faculty access to the library.
+Smith calls Nikolai to ask about less than savory methods of winning the duel. They discuss a number of possibilites, including werewolves, magi, vampires and Maag Brunt, as well as picking up powerful drugs.
+They had the Pumpkin King and his wife over for brunch and asked him about his plans. He informed Nikolai that Holly would be running things when he is king and that he set Smith up with his brother, Phlox, and that both parties paid him. "My money is on Smith."
+===Monday, June 21st===
+Smith burnt himself out killing Chalkos, pulling his skull out of his head (after ingesting a murder spirit, 100 mg of methamphetamine, wearing a duster given to him by Phlox).
+Text from Kalingrad; dearest grandson; There is a shark circling your island and your island is sinking ... do you wish to come hone for a while?
+I need to take care of my friends, but then I will come home for a while.
+Radio Free Fae
+Cincinnati's The Culture and Lansing's the Thorns
+Maven of the Morning Drive and DJ Hamlin
+DJ Culture - Maven of the Morning Drive.
+Behind the scenes:
+* Smith sells his eye to a demon for combat ability.
+* Smith deals with Phlox, who sets him up with a werewolf that binds a murder spirit to Smith.
+* Smith sells Isaac Oldman to the Collector (playing off her naivete to set her up, saying that he needed her to accompany him on a mission to the hedge seeking rare hedge fruits)
+* Smith receives an enhanced bulletproof duster from Phlox, agreeing to help him steal a Hallow from him.
+The duel ended with Smith killing Chalkos after belching black tar in his face and eventually ripping his skull and spine out of his face.
+==Session 59==
+The duel over, the crowd scatters and Chalkos' men bag him and take him out. The gang went to the Hestaurant and ate and drank. Hestia gave out free food to fulfill her Virtue (given her willpower issues), Nikolai was abrasive at the bar and Ernie pretended to be a mildly abused child to recover glamour. Sephie is checking up Jack, who is now ambulatory.
+Hestia contacted Granny Lovett and asked her what could be done about their cheating monarch and how she could assume the throne. Granny told her that there were options, most notably that she could do something great for the Freehold in service of summer.
+Ernie contacted Chelsea King to offer her voice acting work and a DJ position on his nascent radio station, and she also recommended 'Do, though with the caveat that it was because he had experience. He also contacted Isaac Oldman and left a voicemail.
+Sephie spoke with Songbird about love, sex, school and the evil warlock that keeps sending her menacing messages. She was doing well in classes and thinking of changing her major from astrophysics to engineering. She was sincerely uncertain if the warlock could do anything BUT send threatening messages.
+They discussed the Dreamer and how to fix the Cereal Box without killing the Dreamer. April pointed out that the current plan is the best way to get a 50/50 vs a 100% failure. They determined that the signatories might not need to be the monarchs, but it would be helpful to have the Paris contract to compare with. He contacted a changeling in Paris named Jean LeBou (a frog-man) who explained to him that he isn't willing to give more info than that monarchs always HAVE been the signatories, not whether they MUST be.
+===Tuesday, June 22nd===
+Ernie is dolling himself up for the coronation and Regina said she wanted a magical dress. Jack dressed up and did Alana. Nikolai wears his leaf tuxedo. Sephie wears her nicest scrubs. April wears a high neck open back dress in rainbow hue. While they were getting prepared, Alana get a nail cestus.
+The Motley makes their way to the noontime coronation of Alexander Smith, who is wearing a hedgespun military uniform with shifting medals that reflect what he's saying. He announces that it is his intention to unify the Freehold. He expresses that he is sick to death of people saying that he is not merely going to unify the Freehold and reforge the cereal box to include the Firekeepers Casino.