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Arrival

Broken Palace by Jonathan Eng

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During 2014 Jonathan Eng composed the soundtrack for interactive narrative experience The Sailor’s Dream, consisting of a mix of instrumental tracks and a seven-part musical story told in folk song-form.

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Like all who come through summoning circle, your arrival is heralded by a dream. Waking up is a dizzying, disorienting thing... and possibly made worse by the fact that you aren't alone.

Right after you appear, so does someone else. If you're lucky*, they'll simply blink into existence by your side. If you're not, there's a chance they spawned below or above you. That's one way to make a memorable first impression. Best untangle yourselves and get things figured out.

If you're extremely unlucky*, instead of another person being brought through the summoning circle, it's a monster. The creature bobs, laughs maniacally, and immediately begins to spit flames your way.

Some welcome this is. If you aren't the fighting type, hopefully someone nearby is. Eventually, one of the local Town guards will slay the monster before it - and you - cause too much trouble or fire damage.

Town Tricks

After your unexpected introduction to either your fellow offworlder or monster, you'll be given a proper one from Charlie in Town. He sends you on your way shortly after to get settled in properly and deal with then next offworlder that walks in. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a revolving door right now so he doesn't have time for a more in-depth explanation or to answer too many questions.

Nor does he remember to warn you about The Fae.

Although native to Talahee Forest, which is currently off-limits to offworlders, the surge of magic from the summoning circle has piqued their interest. While the faefolk vary wildly in appearance, the ones scouting are pixies.

These tiny tricksters may be too shy to reveal themselves outright... but that won't stop them from playing pranks on all these fun, new victims. Some examples of what can happen are:

At night

Thankfully, these Fae mean you no harm. In fact, if you react with hostility they will give you a wide berth and simply find someone more fun to play with.

Rocky Talky

One of the things that was given to you in your welcome pack from Charlie was a summoning-stone. Although it looks like, well, an ordinary stone- It's actually magic! You can look through it and see someone else's face too if you're both viewing your stones at the same time. It can also record your speech and deliver that to someone else in a snap.

One of the other features is that you can scrawl on it. It will turn your writing into legible text that you can send others to read on their stones. Of course, you need to attune yourself to your stone first. To that end, it prompts a small questionnaire:

Name:
Age:
Race:
Favorite soup? Why?:
Is soup something you eat or drink?

The last couple of questions might seem... strange but, surely, it must have a reason for asking. Once you answer the questions and unlock your device, you might pocket it and forget. Unfortunately, your scrawled answers were sent to the entire summoning-stone network throughout Town. Everyone can see what you put and they might even have some thoughts about it.

Registration Questionnaire

Notes

⁂ Hello and welcome to Children of Bahamut! If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback feel free to comment here!

⁂ For the Arrival prompt, feel free to roll a d20 to see how lucky or unlucky you are.

⁂ The Town Tricks example list for pranks isn't exhaustive. If you have other silly prank ideas in mind, feel free to roll with that and have fun with it! The Fae certainly are.

⁂ There is a correct choice of favorite soup and the moderators will remember your choice/opinions. (We're joking. Mostly.)

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Now that he's gotten his bearings, Gethen's figured out where he should probably be getting himself situated first: chasing things and breaking stuff. Such is the way arriving somewhere new tends to go, after all, and while nobody has specifically set him upon this task, he can't think of a better way to make first impressions with his new peers than this. As Obsidian draws the skull's attention, the Wayfinder closes in from behind with a shout of "Need a hand?"

All he has is one measly dagger, but that doesn't mean he can't deliver on what he's offering. Conjured poison definitely helps, though this would probably go much faster if flaming skulls could bleed.

Curious. If Obsidian didn't know any better -- and sometimes he doesn't, honestly -- he'd almost think this new arrival with him was a hrothgar. Still, either way, he doesn't really question anything in regard to species. Instead, he gives a firm nod of appreciation toward Gethen.

"Certainly not going to turn down the aid," he assures before addressing the Monster of the Day. "Over here! You're paying attention to me."

Launching himself across the field, Obsidian strikes the Flameskull at the front, knocking out a few teeth in the process. In response, the fiend opens its jaws and sprays out a stream of flames at Obsidian; a dark shield forms around him, protecting him for the majority of it and leaving him only slightly singed.

He curls his lip in a wry half-smirk as Obsidian takes the lead and swings around the Flameskull's backside. That initial strike told him plenty about the creature's apparent immunities to...basically everything in Gethen's arsenal, but this observation has allowed him at least to narrow his focus a bit. He drives the blade of his knife into the hinge at the skull's jaw with absolutely no regard for the flames.

With an artful twist he manages to dislocate that side, at least for now. He retreats from close quarters soon after to shout a warning. A little prematurely, maybe, but he's always thought it's better to be prepared.

"Once this thing goes down, it won't stay that way. I hope you're as good at shaking attention as you are at holding it."

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