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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1900906" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter 73, “Freeing the Banshees”, February 9th, 1882:The group sits down for breakfast and discusses what to do next.  Hank says he doesn’t wish to go back to that strange place adding, “We Texans aren’t that fond of fairyland.”  Arcade says, “I’m not sure we’re much better off than yesterday, all we did was talk to an old woman who spoke in riddles.”  Sam comments, “You also brought back a young woman,” gesturing to Meagan.  Louie says, “Right, we traded up for a new party member, we just need to get rid of some of the dead weight.”  “Feel free to jump down that well anytime you want,” Arcade says to Louie.Qualtaqa asks Meagan about where she is from.  She asks him his name before answering which he states.  She then comments that his name is difficult to pronounce.  “Just call him Trigger,” Angus states.  In answer to his original question she says “I am from right around here, but it has changed.  There are a lot more buildings now.”  They ask her more questions and determine that she was last here in 1844, shortly after the O’Shea family left.  She recalls only being in ‘Fairyland’ a short while.  They determine from further questioning that she has had druidic training and would most likely have been killed had she stayed in the area.  Angus asks her questions about the potatoes of her time and discovers that the fungus predated the O’Sheas being blamed, which is consistent with the other information that they had obtained.They suggest that Meagan go visit people who she would know from her own time as they may have information.  They follow her to the home of a childhood friend named Gwenyth, who had some druidic training.  The man at the house says the she was killed almost forty years earlier and that a young woman like Meagan could not possibly have known her.   When pressed the man indicates that he is the woman’s son.   They try to convince the man that his mother’s spirit is trapped and that they are seeking to free it.  He is uncooperative until they offer to buy him a drink.  Hanks says, “This is further evidence that every problem in life can be solved by just going to the pub.”After multiple rounds of drinks they find out information from him as to how to access another mystical realm via traveling back down the well to find a place where the answers may lie and to look for a waterfall.  They leave him at the pub and all head off to this magical plateau and then enter a cave in search of this waterfall.   They reach strangely colored stones.  Arcade is allowed to pass through but the others are stopped.  Angus complains, “Great, now we need a new leader.”  “I volunteer,” Hank states.  The others all laugh at that suggestion.  Arcade reaches the other side and is bombarded with questions from some sprite-like creatures.  He identifies himself as being a druid.  They tell him “The druids are gone, why did you return?”  He explains his mission to clear the names of the Banshees due to the potato famine predating he departure of the O’Shea family.   He is told that he needs to make this information known to the public, perhaps by creating a public spectacle.  “That’s something that we’re good at,” he replies.  He is told to gather the remaining druids. Hank manages to get by the barrier.  He moves on, going by the water that is a deep green color. Hanks takes a shot into the water but nothing happens.   He is told by little pixies “Speak with the Fey”.  He eventually catches up to Arcade, who brings him up to speed.  “What do you want to do?” Hank asks.   Arcade replies “Give up.”   Hank asks “What about Morgana?”  Arcade replies, “We’ve only been married for a couple of months.  It’s not like we’re really attached yet.”  Hank says “Well come with me back to Texas then, we have lots of pretty girls there.”  Arcade replies, “But to do that I’d have to actually go to Texas.” Meanwhile, the other have wandered into a different section of the cave filled with grass, trees and other vegetation.  Louie climbs up a tree to look around and deduce another way to get where they want to go.  He leads Angus, Meagan, Sam and Qualtaqa in a direction of a waterfall that he saw.  It takes them a full three hours of hiking to reach that area.As they move on Meagan begins to recognize the surroundings, having been there once before.  They reach a wide and swift river, which she says was only a small stream the last time she was there.  Sam suggest that they swim across.  Another player says, “Why don’t you change into your bathing suit firs.  Of course, in the 1880’s a bathing suit would be made of wool and cover more skin than your regular clothing.”  They decide to follow the river until they reach the waterfall.Louie discovers a path and recognizes Arcade and Hank’s footprints.  They head up by some rocks and continue onward.  The grass and vegetation beneath their feet attempts to grab them but the group pushes on.  They eventually find the waterfall, which Qualtaqa senses to actually be sentient.  Sam says, “We have a problem then.  None of us speak ‘Water’.”  Hank’s bullet then exits the waterfall and strikes Louie in the shoulder for a minor flesh wound. On the other side of the water Hank and Arcade hear sprites giggling.  Hank makes derogatory comments about the little creatures.  Arcade pleads their case and explains what they are seeking to accomplish.  Arcade is commanded to go forth and through another waterfall.  He gets to the other side and is asked “You wish answers?”  He replies, “Yes, that and maybe a towel.”They continue onward.  They find a red-haired naked man encased in a giant crystal.  Arcade approaches it and is about to walk into and through the crystal but Hank is prevented from doing so, the object being solid to him.  Arcade reaches the man inside and converses with him, explaining that he is a druid who is married to an O’Shea.  He gives the man the magical powder to the fix the potatoes.  They are told that they must now make it publicly known that the druids were not responsible and that the descendents of the women killed must be present with this is revealed.Hank and Arcade depart, joining up with the others.   They return to Dublin and locate the Mayor of the town so that he can witness and declare the innocence of the women.  The druids from the hill are led into the city by the banshees.  They remove their hoods, showing them to be the children of the banshee.  Arcade explains what has been found and that the potato fungus has been removed from the land.  The Mayor declares the innocence of those killed and the spirits move on.The group decides to go retrieve Morgana.  They debate taking another ship but then realize that any body of water would work.  They find a lake and take a rowboat out into the center, passing through the vortex into Avalon.  Morgana is returned to them and she does not realize that three days have passed.  They return the boat back to the lake, heading to Dublin and finding new lodgings. The others want to leave but Morgana insists upon spending a few days in Ireland.  Louie just complains about how cold and wet it is.  Hank agrees to stay but clarifies it with the comment “And by that I mean you can spend a few days checking out the country while we spend that time sitting in a pub.”February 10th, 1882:Louie suggests that Arcade take his wife on a side trip to ‘Fairyland’.  Once she hears of the place she wants to go so he reluctantly brings her.  When they reach the man encased in the crystal they enter and converse with him.  It turns out that he is Morgana’s father, a person who she has never actually met before.  They have very little to talk about so the visit is brief, with Arcade being uncomfortable around the unclothed man now that he knows that it is his father-in-law.   The two return to the pub with the others. End of Module</blockquote>

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