The Cereal Box:Log/Session 28

Session 28

April 20th

The party woke up, as they frequently do. Morning happened. Mary Kingman said that she was trying to figure out where Metthew was, and was confused and frustrated by the fact that he hasn't pulled ANY of his $13,000 from his account (which she confirmed was still accessible). Mary said she was pleased that Kingman may have been Taken. April was aghast and excused herself.

Alana, Hestia and Sephie all went to clean up at the restaurant and got a dumpster.

April, Nikolai and Ernie went to check on the noobs at the changeling ghetto. They grabbed coffee and donuts for the noobs. They met Celia, Trevor and Skin-and-Bones. Apparently 6 new changelings had been put up the ghetto in addition to the ones that they had assisted against the Woodsman. They talked Trevor, a living shadow, into getting an ID as he did not have one. The others seemed confident that they had everything they needed in this respect.

Nikolai noticed for the first time that his horns are wooden and had memories of being in a desert in search of water with a prince. He had realized before this (whilst with the Baba Yaga) that he had newt eyes, and wondered briefly if he was discovering things about himself that he should have known of changing.

Billy invited the motley to a cocktail party. Alana wore a ladyish romper (the most feminine outfit she had worn to date). Ernie wore his best flannel and blue jeans. April wore a red flared party dress. Sephie wore a black over-the-shoulder cocktail dress. Hestia wore a dress with a tank top underneath and a cardigan on top. Nikolai wore his finest hedgespun suit. Before leaving, Sephie tended her Goblin Fruits.

Billy's party was fairly intimate, being just the motley, his girls and Dahlia. He told the motley that to once more feel truly himself, he would need them to scour the old Spring Meeting Ground for a Token mirror that belonged to Ivy Justaivy, his lost former lover who left the Freehold before he became the Spring monarch for the first time at 16 (5 years prior). The meeting ground was a place that Billy didn't feel he could return to, and the place was protected by methods meant to keep Solomon from entering the Meeting Ground after he conquered the Freehold.

April 21th

April was profoundly hungover. The motley agreed to focus on cleaning up the restaurant. Ernie conducted some pretty incredible repairs that fixed essentially anything that could be fixed. It would be one more day before the work is stuff they need professionals for.

April 22nd

The motley completed the work on the restaurant, leaving nothing but work that would require a professional contractor, roofer, electrician, plumber and/or other major professionals. Sephie once again took the time to tend to her small Goblin Fruit garden.

Hestia called Billy about putting the work in, but he admitted he couldn't afford to float the whole amount and cut her a check for two thousand - about a third of what she needed.

Ernie contacted Eric Rowe about getting an ID for Trevor. Trevor was very concerned about not having money or potentially owing money, but Ernie told him to just pay it forward and that he would take care of it. Ernie agreed to work on establishing a branch of an underground cellular network that Rowe was a part of.

Nikolai went into his fetch's dream and had a reminiscence of what he believed might have been his very first time in Arcadia, where he was a soldier working for Good Prince Kindhearted, and whom he helped to rescue The Swan-Cursed Daughter of The Knight Invisible from Koschei, the Deathless. Despite Nikolai firing the shot that saved the maiden, the Prince received the promise of a reward from the knight. Later, Nikolai found a well after traversing into a desert with his charge, the Prince. While the prince was lowered in the well, he threatening to cut the rope and leave him if the Prince did not sign off his Kingdom and Title to him. At that exact moment, a sandstorm kicked up and scoured away Nikolai's vision, but the Prince gave him the writ offering the promise when he rose from the well. Bleary-eyed Nikolai would have gone on, but at this point, the Fetch recognized he was in the dream, and the two locked in combat.