The Cereal Box:Log/Session 29

Session 29

Nikolai overcame his fetch in the dream, but left feeling exhausted and not at all rested. The difficulty of sleeping at the same time as his fetch on the other side of the world was also problematic the the process of invading its dreams.

April 23rd

The motley sought out the mirror at the former Spring meeting ground. They entered the hedge by way of an archway at the Leila Arboretum and had to traverse a hedge maze with truly nightmarish hob minotaurs guarding it. The beasts in question were fully twenty feet long, had a bellowing braying moo, mouths that opened like a horror movie alien, centipede like legs and apparent fury at all living creatures. By the motley's estimation, there were at least five of them.

Once they reached the former meeting grounds, they met a group of hobgoblins that wanted to be recognized as a fifth court - the Court of Leap Day (which Nikolai convinced to change to the Court of Strange Days) which would have domain over Leap Day and the days on a 5 row calendar that are split at the end of the month (typically the 24th/30th, 25th/31st in months starting on a Friday or Saturday with the appropriate number of days). Tibble, who had sold them the feels, was a member, as was an intelligent DigEm named Crowak, three trollish things that called themselves The Bruvs, Bettina (a feathered Naga that was hot for Billy and Nikolai), Turin (a bipedal elephant thing) and Mukkayla (an algae monster tat was also hot for Billy).

The motley agreed noncommittally to present the creatures' case to the monarchs, while April stole the mirror that they had come for. Traversing out of the maze was surprisingly easy, and the Motley emerged victorious.

As night fell, the motley was treated to a vignette in which Craig Weston narrated the events leading up to an attack by Mary Kingman who wanted to know where her husband was taken. Weston told her he did not know, but brought her to Smith.