The Cereal Box:Log/Session 27

Session 27

A recap was had, given that there had been such a gap in gaming.

A few hooks reminded of:

   The box of feels still has two feels that haven't been presented to the ones who are vulnerable to them or understood.
   The restaurant has collapsed and needs to be fixed
   Sephie needs to find and kill her fetch
   Ernie needs to figure out what happened to his sister; and needs to create a beacon to bring her home

Ernie and Nikolai went to visit Jack Strong to look over his files on political day to day of the Freeholds, including minutes from official meetings and records of punishments. They read Lyrissa's file, which had her full true name in it and information regarding her work during the war, which suggested that she was instrumental in ferreting out interlopers from outside the freehold. She was never affected by Bynes' hearthooks.

They found out the hobgoblin Janglejaw was a winter courtier, and that there were three days worth of redacted files on him.

They read the file on Chalkos, which contained margin notes in unfamiliar hand for dealing with Chalkos. His full name Christopher Chalkus, he had severe PTSD after surviving an "unsurvivable" bombing in Iraq. He announced his recovery before the previous Summer Coronation, where he showed up demanding to be Summer King. It was put to a vote and he lost, humiliated, in a landslide. This was especially vexing to Chalkos, who insisted that this was not in any way the correct way to choose the monarch of Summer.

Dahlia Hawthorne's file contained information about her opposition to Matthew Kingman (both political and ideological) and a note that her Keeper was the Sultan of the Dry Springs.

They realized that the files were almost certainly Jack and/or Smith's, but Jack admitted that a lot of the information was just sent to him anonymously and/or was stuff he found out from questionable channels that he just stuck in the files to make them look better.

Alana, April and Sephie went to the Goblin Market seeking seeds and tools for cultivating goblin fruit. They were almost ambushed by the Woodsman, but Alana's warning signal protected them and they escaped without confrontation.

Hestia got a hold of Roper about talking to Wendell. She was able to contact Wendell Baker, and, after a terse and rather unfriendly meeting, he agreed to help with the restaurant and with providing Goblin fruit, but Hestia didn't want access to the orchard.

Nikolai gave up his darkest secret for limited conditional brief access to the files. Upon realizing and understanding what it meant that Nikolai was the Gentry's Gentlman, The Pumpkin King made an agreement with him for a Major Favor in return for "up to half his Kingdom" much to Roper and Holly's extreme dismay. Upon receiving the agreement, he threw up his hands and declared "I WIN!" with a manic laugh of glee.