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22nd Resplendent Air
Scarred awakens early and hungover. To make himself feel better he immediately starts drinking again.
Lisda enters the barn and asks the Misfits what their plans are. Unfortunately, Scarred, Savvy and Jade Wisdom are discussing slavery and its relative pros, cons, evils, and benefits. Of course, this means that Savvy gets quite mad. She storms off angrily, shouting for them to never speak to her again! After she has left, Scarred mutters to himself that it must be that time of the month.
Jade Wisdom explains to Lisda about the Guild boat, and their plan to use it to get back to Nexus. She thinks it is a good idea.
Phinnae flies after Savvy and manages to calm her down after a short while. They come back as everyone is ready to leave.
Once more, Phinnae takes to the sky and looks for the Guild boat. She spots it easily as it hasn't moved from the previous day. It is, however, a hive of activity. At about noon she arrives back at the village to inform everyone of this. She also brings back a deer, which Jade Wisdom cooks up for lunch - though with few vegetables or condiments he finds it hard to make it particularly interesting.
After lunch they head out of Riverwood. As they leave, Gare calls out to Lisda that she will always be his Perfect butterfly. (Ooh! Foreshadowing!!!)
Jade Wisdom attempts to reassure the old man that his daughter will be fine. The Jadeborn swears to do his best to ensure no harm comes to her, but the old man is not very reassured by any of this.
While travelling, Phinnae has the idea to become a mouse and hide aboard the boat to keep track of it. Everyone agrees this is a good idea, thus she darts off and as a mouse, sneaks aboard the Guild boat. Once she is aboard, she notices that the boat seems to be ready to launch. She ponders for a few minutes then comes up with a cunning plan to disable the boat. She scampers to the rudder of the boat, becomes a human, and carefully disconnects it, letting it drop into the water. The men are dismayed that their rudder has fallen off mysteriously.
She quickly dons mouse shape again and scampers to more populated areas to eavesdrop. She hears a lot of panic about the rudder and wailing that the Anathema are coming to kill them all!
The rest of the party keeps walking through the snow, trying to keep warm.
On the journey Jade Wisdom and Lisda continue talking. She asks about Mountainfolk and he is only too happy to explain, until she calls him one of the Fair Folk! This upsets him greatly, and he has trouble attempting polite conversation after that.
Then Savvy steps forward to talk to Lisda about the Solar's life so far. After a minute or two of chatting, Lisda explains why Jade Wisdom is a little upset. Unthinkingly Savvy turns to the Jadeborn and also calls him a Fae. This angers him deeply and he stomps over to Scarred and partakes in some shared booze, then a pretty orange berry.
He sends several hours drunk and stoned.
About the time the berry is wearing off the Jadeborn, they all arrive within sight of the boat.
They discuss a simple plan for Scarred to sneak aboard, then the rest will walk to the boat and hopefully scare off the men. If the men put up a fight, then Scarred and Phinnae can surprise assault from unexpected quarters, and if the men launch the boat, then Scarred and Phinnae are aboard to delay the launch. This plan agreed upon, Scarred activates his Easily Overlooked Presence Method and heads towards the water craft. -I'm fairly sure this was Scarred's plan. Go Scarred. Muzz
Jade Wisdom is still very upset over the dire insults. The berry and booze did nothing to alleviate that, alas.
Scarred easily sneaks aboard the boat and begins searching for Phinnae. Amazingly, he does manage to find her despite the mouse form and explains the plan to her.
Savvy, Lisda and Jade Wisdom leave the sailors and slave girls among the trees for safety, and march towards the encampment as intimidatingly as they can manage. When they are close, they demand the men give up the boat to them. Not being completely insane, the men flee. Thinking they aren't fleeing fast enough, Phinnae becomes a Deadly Beastman and takes to the air again. The men flee even faster!
Yay for a boat!
Scarred drops his charm and goes to the main deck to greet the others as Phinnae flies down and lands. She is excited about leaving, but then remembers the rudder. She uncharismatically tries to politely ask Jade Wisdom to repair it.
Fuming inside his expressionless Jade armour, he nods and becomes instantly quite good at Woodcraft, praising the Great Maker as he does so. Despite being drunk and angry, he manages to fix the damahe once the rudder is brought up from the shallows.
While Jade Wisdom sets about fixing the rudder, Scarred finds the Guild boat's supply of tea. Chuckling to himself he surreptitiously dumps it overboard. Savvy notices, however, and asks him what it is. The quick thinking Iron Wolf replies "poisonous herbs", shocked by this, the naive Lunar then helps him dump the tea overboard...
Soon after, they are on their way to Nexus at last.
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