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Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8305519" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>Session 12 (October 25, 2020)</p><p>Night of Zar 20</p><p>During the day, Noah tries to identify whether he can find some customers who are nobles, but he doesn’t see it.</p><p></p><p>As the darkness gathers, Noah can hear intermittent distant giggling. As the evening deepens, Noah begins to feel a growing urge for cheese. Iados, who is who he was talking to, sees Noah changing… but it’s not horrible. His ears are getting bigger, and rounder, and his skin is taking on a greyish tint, and he’s wiggling his nose. Noah demands cheese from Iados. (Iados, draws a dagger.) He then slaps Noah, and says “snap out of it.” Noah is demanding cheese above all else. A little sparkly cloud of dust falls on him from the ceiling, and a giant eye winks at Iados.</p><p></p><p>Noah is a bipedal, human-sized mouse at this point.</p><p></p><p>Iados rushes down to the common room, throws some coins on a table and gets a hunk of cheese fresh cut from the wheel behind the counter.</p><p></p><p>Iados sprints in, and throws the cheese at Noah. Noah immediately chows down, and expresses rapture at the experience of eating the cheese.</p><p></p><p>Ravokris hears giggling and a voice saying, “well done.”</p><p></p><p>In the midst of eating the cheese, Noah finishes his transformation and becomes a large mouse, which runs out of the room squeaking as he goes.</p><p></p><p>Iados tells Ravokris and Elyn that Noah has turned into a mouse. Elyn’s response: “Ugh. Not again.”</p><p></p><p>Deep in the inn, they hear a couple of shrieks.</p><p></p><p>Noah races into the kitchen. (Iados is racing after him.) The cook, likely the wife of the innkeep, and a young woman with her shriek as he enters. The inn staff are panicking, while also worrying that people will hear about the mouse.</p><p></p><p>Iados tries to smooth the situation over, explaining what happened and handing some silver to the innkeep to pay for any food that gets eaten.</p><p></p><p>The innkeep ushers Iados and the rest into the kitchen (hoping they can deal with the mouse).</p><p></p><p>There are crumbs all over the place as Noah goes to town on the food. He continues squeaking and munching, and has no thoughts for anything else.</p><p></p><p>Iados smacks him with the flat of his rapier, but Noah ignores both that and the rolling pin blows from the innkeep’s wife.</p><p></p><p>Elyn offers to give him his dictionary back if he comes back to the room. Noah-the-mouse lunges at Metsuki, trying to eat the ferret as well as the other random food.</p><p></p><p>Ravokris just watches with a wry grin on his face.</p><p></p><p>The innkeep slips in and hands Elyn a canister.</p><p></p><p>“What is it?”</p><p></p><p>“The hottest spices I have.”</p><p></p><p>Elyn starts spraying like mad, and Noah tries to squeeze through tiny gaps, eating like mad.</p><p></p><p>The spiced food tastes terrible, so the mouse starts spitting the food out. Noah is exceedingly thirsty, so he looks for water—bursting into a barrel, expecting water, and causing an eruption of flour instead.</p><p></p><p>He bursts into another barrel, but this one has sugar. He just starts chowing down on the sugar.</p><p></p><p>Iados notices scores of normal mice entering the room from every direction, and gather around Noah. He responds by dragging Noah out of the kitchen, and back up to the private room.</p><p></p><p>When the Violet Moon finally sets, Noah is lying in ripped clothes, with extreme vague and incoherent memories of a party, fire, great food, and bizarreness.</p><p></p><p>Nobody tells him what actually happened.</p><p></p><p>(They have all attracted the attention of Whimsey at this point.)</p><p>(Noah is now a weremouse.)</p><p></p><p>Zar 21</p><p>Noah strikes up a conversation with a young man with a military bearing—Henry Overfifer, and asks if he knows anyone of who would know something of heraldry. Henry is little more than a child, but has a strong military bearing nonetheless, and he leads Noah back to his house to introduce him to his mother’s bodyguard, Dame Brenda.</p><p></p><p>As they walk, Noah tells him the story of the strange symbol.</p><p></p><p>“So… you were deprived of your birthright.”</p><p></p><p>“I suppose, and even of knowing what my birthright might be.”</p><p></p><p>“Yes, I can see that. I hope that Dame Brenda can help you.”</p><p></p><p>He leads Noah into a large manor house, in the heart of the city—not the palace, but nearby, and through a series of offices. Henry leads Noah into a small office off the main room.</p><p></p><p>“Dame Brenda Blackash, this young merchant has a question of heraldry for you.”</p><p></p><p>“I don’t expect anyone will attack the Lady Mayor today, so yes lad, how can I help you?”</p><p></p><p>Noah shows the symbol to Dame Brenda, and tells her that he is told that it was of a House of the Green of Hanal.</p><p></p><p>“This is the symbol of one of the Houses of the Flights—one of the houses involved in maintaining or operating the voller fleets.”</p><p></p><p>“Which one, however… that would be harder to figure out. If you were kidnapped from Hanal, that suggests that your family was at one time in high favor of Queen-Empress Thyastis. There are certain Strom names that are mixed blood.”</p><p></p><p>“Strom names?”</p><p></p><p>“Titles are different in Hanal. Covs are the equivalents of dukes or grand dukes. The Vads are equivalent to dukes or strong earls. And Stroms are the equivalent of barons, or perhaps counts. Is this a symbol you have seen, or just one that you remember?”</p><p></p><p>“Mostly one I remember.”</p><p></p><p>“It is likely then, that this symbol means you belonged to one of the houses of the capital of Hanal. And that your family had enemies. You would need to travel to the capital of Hanal to find out for certain.”</p><p></p><p>Noah thanks her and rejoins the rest of the group. He tells them of what he has found, and that Hanal is known as a danger zone.</p><p></p><p>They sell the rest of the cinnamon by the 1st of O-Zar, just after the fall solstice…. And a full Violet Moon.</p><p></p><p>O-Zar 1 evening.</p><p>Noah is baking a (not very good) cinnamon cake, and suddenly starts craving cheese.</p><p></p><p>Elyn says, hey, there’s lots of cheese in your room in the inn. She leads him into the room, and slams the door behind him.</p><p></p><p>There was cheese in the room, which Noah starts eating immediately. Noah starts celebrating-- the party from last night must be resuming! And his speech gradually faded into excited squeaks.</p><p></p><p>They lock the door and wedge it closed. Noah keeps trying to force his way through gaps that are much too small.</p><p></p><p>Noah notices a window and tries to escape through it. Meanwhile, Iados disguises himself as a cheese, and lures Noah as bait. Noah charges after the cheese.</p><p></p><p>Iados runs away, traveling as fast as he can. But Noah starts raging, and starts to gain on Iados. Ravokris chases after Noah. An illusion of a cat covers Ravokris, courtesy of Whimsey. The cat chases the mouse, the mouse chases the cheese, and Whimsey says “You chose them well!”</p><p></p><p>Iados leads Noah out of the city through the gates. The guards at the gate shoot crossbow bolts at Noah, one of which bounces off him but looks like it should have hit. Meanwhile, a veritable horde of mice is now chasing after the cat chasing the mouse chasing the running cheese.</p><p></p><p>By morning, they are miles into farmland, the whole cavalcade still running along, until Noah wakes up as himself, totally exhausted, lying in a cornfield.</p><p></p><p>The mice disperse in all directions.</p><p>[End session 12]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8305519, member: 7030144"] Session 12 (October 25, 2020) Night of Zar 20 During the day, Noah tries to identify whether he can find some customers who are nobles, but he doesn’t see it. As the darkness gathers, Noah can hear intermittent distant giggling. As the evening deepens, Noah begins to feel a growing urge for cheese. Iados, who is who he was talking to, sees Noah changing… but it’s not horrible. His ears are getting bigger, and rounder, and his skin is taking on a greyish tint, and he’s wiggling his nose. Noah demands cheese from Iados. (Iados, draws a dagger.) He then slaps Noah, and says “snap out of it.” Noah is demanding cheese above all else. A little sparkly cloud of dust falls on him from the ceiling, and a giant eye winks at Iados. Noah is a bipedal, human-sized mouse at this point. Iados rushes down to the common room, throws some coins on a table and gets a hunk of cheese fresh cut from the wheel behind the counter. Iados sprints in, and throws the cheese at Noah. Noah immediately chows down, and expresses rapture at the experience of eating the cheese. Ravokris hears giggling and a voice saying, “well done.” In the midst of eating the cheese, Noah finishes his transformation and becomes a large mouse, which runs out of the room squeaking as he goes. Iados tells Ravokris and Elyn that Noah has turned into a mouse. Elyn’s response: “Ugh. Not again.” Deep in the inn, they hear a couple of shrieks. Noah races into the kitchen. (Iados is racing after him.) The cook, likely the wife of the innkeep, and a young woman with her shriek as he enters. The inn staff are panicking, while also worrying that people will hear about the mouse. Iados tries to smooth the situation over, explaining what happened and handing some silver to the innkeep to pay for any food that gets eaten. The innkeep ushers Iados and the rest into the kitchen (hoping they can deal with the mouse). There are crumbs all over the place as Noah goes to town on the food. He continues squeaking and munching, and has no thoughts for anything else. Iados smacks him with the flat of his rapier, but Noah ignores both that and the rolling pin blows from the innkeep’s wife. Elyn offers to give him his dictionary back if he comes back to the room. Noah-the-mouse lunges at Metsuki, trying to eat the ferret as well as the other random food. Ravokris just watches with a wry grin on his face. The innkeep slips in and hands Elyn a canister. “What is it?” “The hottest spices I have.” Elyn starts spraying like mad, and Noah tries to squeeze through tiny gaps, eating like mad. The spiced food tastes terrible, so the mouse starts spitting the food out. Noah is exceedingly thirsty, so he looks for water—bursting into a barrel, expecting water, and causing an eruption of flour instead. He bursts into another barrel, but this one has sugar. He just starts chowing down on the sugar. Iados notices scores of normal mice entering the room from every direction, and gather around Noah. He responds by dragging Noah out of the kitchen, and back up to the private room. When the Violet Moon finally sets, Noah is lying in ripped clothes, with extreme vague and incoherent memories of a party, fire, great food, and bizarreness. Nobody tells him what actually happened. (They have all attracted the attention of Whimsey at this point.) (Noah is now a weremouse.) Zar 21 Noah strikes up a conversation with a young man with a military bearing—Henry Overfifer, and asks if he knows anyone of who would know something of heraldry. Henry is little more than a child, but has a strong military bearing nonetheless, and he leads Noah back to his house to introduce him to his mother’s bodyguard, Dame Brenda. As they walk, Noah tells him the story of the strange symbol. “So… you were deprived of your birthright.” “I suppose, and even of knowing what my birthright might be.” “Yes, I can see that. I hope that Dame Brenda can help you.” He leads Noah into a large manor house, in the heart of the city—not the palace, but nearby, and through a series of offices. Henry leads Noah into a small office off the main room. “Dame Brenda Blackash, this young merchant has a question of heraldry for you.” “I don’t expect anyone will attack the Lady Mayor today, so yes lad, how can I help you?” Noah shows the symbol to Dame Brenda, and tells her that he is told that it was of a House of the Green of Hanal. “This is the symbol of one of the Houses of the Flights—one of the houses involved in maintaining or operating the voller fleets.” “Which one, however… that would be harder to figure out. If you were kidnapped from Hanal, that suggests that your family was at one time in high favor of Queen-Empress Thyastis. There are certain Strom names that are mixed blood.” “Strom names?” “Titles are different in Hanal. Covs are the equivalents of dukes or grand dukes. The Vads are equivalent to dukes or strong earls. And Stroms are the equivalent of barons, or perhaps counts. Is this a symbol you have seen, or just one that you remember?” “Mostly one I remember.” “It is likely then, that this symbol means you belonged to one of the houses of the capital of Hanal. And that your family had enemies. You would need to travel to the capital of Hanal to find out for certain.” Noah thanks her and rejoins the rest of the group. He tells them of what he has found, and that Hanal is known as a danger zone. They sell the rest of the cinnamon by the 1st of O-Zar, just after the fall solstice…. And a full Violet Moon. O-Zar 1 evening. Noah is baking a (not very good) cinnamon cake, and suddenly starts craving cheese. Elyn says, hey, there’s lots of cheese in your room in the inn. She leads him into the room, and slams the door behind him. There was cheese in the room, which Noah starts eating immediately. Noah starts celebrating-- the party from last night must be resuming! And his speech gradually faded into excited squeaks. They lock the door and wedge it closed. Noah keeps trying to force his way through gaps that are much too small. Noah notices a window and tries to escape through it. Meanwhile, Iados disguises himself as a cheese, and lures Noah as bait. Noah charges after the cheese. Iados runs away, traveling as fast as he can. But Noah starts raging, and starts to gain on Iados. Ravokris chases after Noah. An illusion of a cat covers Ravokris, courtesy of Whimsey. The cat chases the mouse, the mouse chases the cheese, and Whimsey says “You chose them well!” Iados leads Noah out of the city through the gates. The guards at the gate shoot crossbow bolts at Noah, one of which bounces off him but looks like it should have hit. Meanwhile, a veritable horde of mice is now chasing after the cat chasing the mouse chasing the running cheese. By morning, they are miles into farmland, the whole cavalcade still running along, until Noah wakes up as himself, totally exhausted, lying in a cornfield. The mice disperse in all directions. [End session 12] [/QUOTE]
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