Sophie's Adventures in Unconsciousness
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terryclothTonight was Lazar's Friday Shadake game. I spent most of the game unconscious or otherwise helpless, for one reason or other. But in the end I saved the day, sort of, and (more importantly) no one can prove that I did it, since I wasn't even ON the boat when it exploded.
So, while Sophie ran all over town carrying the dead giant rat and the live caged hawk, pursued by an endless succession of city guards, Tsuru and Kiet decided to track down the pair of sneaks that had attacked them earlier and who they spotted going after another team. Once more, they managed to chase off the miscreants, although not before the other team was knocked unconscious and slightly robbed. They neglected to rob the other team themselves, instead guarding them until they were conscious enough to at least possibly fend for themselves.
Then, because Tsuru had been impaled on a massive katana and was horribly injured, and Kiet was out of healing spells, they headed back to school to make some emergency healing potions.
While they were making the potions, Sophie finally lost the city guards and showed up back at the cafe where the hunt would end. The others were supposed to be waiting for her, but weren't, so she sat in a corner, still draped in the dead giant rat, and waited.
And felt really, really sick. Apparently the rat that had bit her had been diseased, and had passed an evil disease spirit into her body. And, oh yes, it was the rat she STILL had draped over her back. So she rectified that by tossing it in the corner and lying down guarding the corner, but not actually touching it, and by keeping still and resting so as not to make the sickness spirit angry until the game was over and she could go beg her parents for help.
Eventually Tsuru and Kiet came back, bearing healing potions. The potion helped Sophie considerably -- they were quite amazingly good potions -- but didn't actually get rid of the sickness. Tsuru broke into the wine shop across the street to get the last item the party needed, and then it was time to count score.
The evildoers who'd spent the whole time attacking the other teams didn't make the cut. Neither did the group of kids, although Kiet gave Baird (who was in their class at school) one of his extra silver dragon rings so that Baird got in. Sophie was a little annoyed that she wouldn't get to tease Baird for losing, but was too ill to make a scene.
The rest of the groups made it into the Order, with the clear winner being Tsuru, Kiet and Sophie with 92 points (compared to the next highest who had 56). After the losers were ushered out, and the bottles of wine were passed back for celebration, the rules were explained. Don't betray other members to the authorities (you're allowed to kill them yourself, though). Tell your cell leader (in their case, the guy who'd been leading the treasure hunt) before you do anything major. And don't ask anyone else in the Order what they're doing or who they're doing it for.
Kiet had had some nice, normal, alcoholic wine, but was spacing for some reason and didn't remember a thing. Sophie had experimented with Illiski wine, rumored to have hallucinogenic properties, and while she was totally confused and insensible (and occasionally violent) through the whole explanation and most of the party afterwards, she later remembered everything that was said. Tsuru had picked a safe wine to drink, made from dragon's blood, and was not only not drunk but also no longer tired, despite having stayed up all night with the rest of them.
Afterwards it was a day off for everyone, so Sophie crawled back home, redid her fur to look normal (instead of being two feet long and her natural color from the wild spell in the mine), then whined to her mother that she was sick. Her mother reluctantly summoned a doctor, who gave her surprisingly effective drugs to negate the symptoms of the disease, and didn't use even a single leech.
This took all day, however, and meanwhile Tsuru and Kiet were at the cat track, betting on the cat whose fur they'd given the Order to let them fix the race. They won massive quantities of cash on that race.
But the cat races were near the docks, and Tsuru spotted what looked like one of Sophie's brothers being loaded, unconscious, onto one of the Razhian military ships. Shanghaid! He rushed to tell Sophie... well, after the race, of course.
Sophie, of course, HAD to rescue her brother. She ordered Curran (another one of her brothers) to come with her, took some spending money from the family treasury, and ran around to rearm with a new whip and tarot deck, meeting the others at the docks, where they tried to decide on a good strategy for sneaking onto the ship and retreiving Luis.
While failing to come up with a good plan, they were Shanghaid, and loaded onto the ship, except for Kiet who escaped by diving into the water and clinging to the hull of the ship as it sailed out into the open ocean.
They awoke a short while later (having been knocked unconscious by magic) to find themselves tied up in a room without their stuff -- and in Curran's case, without his magitech leg. Sophie knew she could burn the ropes and get loose easily, but she only had one spell left until midnight and didn't want to waste it, since fighting these pirates hadn't worked very well on the docks. And since she didn't want to leave the ship until it was on fire and sinking. At midnight, she'd have all her spells, and be a force to be reckoned with. Or at least have a slim chance of escaping.
Long before midnight, the first mate decided to process his new crew members. Tsuru was brought before him, and saw the pile of the party's equipment (including Curran's leg) sitting on a table waiting to be analyzed. The first mate offered him a choice: Join the crew, go over the side, or go back and be tied up without food for a while to think on it. He chose (c).
Curran was taken next, and quickly agreed to join the crew, explaining about Luis and Sophie. Sophie, accordingly, was NOT given the chance to join the crew, since Manis loyalty would make her brothers always obey her over their commanding officers. If she was to join the navy, it would be on another ship.
So, Sophie and Tsuru were left alone, tied up, for a long time, and Sophie decided to use her last spell to use an hour-long ritual to summon a more enduring Fire Rat, which she'd have burn through their bonds, then run around to find the gunpowder. The only snag in the plan was that she needed to win a contest of wills with the rat to get it obey her commands, and (as usual) she failed miserably.
Still, there was a fire rat, and it seemed quite taken with her, snuggling up against her and nuzzling affectionately. Sophie was (once more) very glad that she was wearing fireproof weaver silk, and that the pirates hadn't decided to strip her of her clothing.
The rat was out of reach of Sophie's bonds, but Tsuru managed to wriggle over and eventually have it burn through his bonds... at about the same time as Kiet, having snuck onto the boat as it got dark and the crew settled down to a less alert routine, and who'd spotted a Shaoli boat approaching in a suspicious manner, decided to make his move and start searching for the others. Also, the same time as a massive explosion rocked the ship, tearing a huge hole in its side.
On deck, the first mate ordered the cannons to open fire, and had the far broadside cannons reloaded with shot to take out the swarming drakivolki that approached the ship. One was headed right for him and the captain, and he took it down with two shots, but not before it critically wounded the captain with guns of its own -- she'd live, but was out of the fight.
The drakivolki were few in number, especially after the cannon fire and the insta-knockout weapons that had been used to capture Tsuru and Curran and Sophie, but they were also very skilled, and once on board and in the midst of combat were holding their own against three times their own number.
Down below, Kiet opened random doors and found many sleeping crew members. He ordered them to wake up and get on deck to fight, then ran off... and with the evident sounds of explosions and fighting, they believed him even not knowing who he was. Luis was among them, although Kiet didn't notice that.
Up top, Sophie darted out the door as soon as Tsuru cut her free, dashing through the melee looking for Luis or Curran, intending to search the ship. People tried to attack her, and mysteriously burst into flames...
...eventually, she found Luis fighting three drakivolki and losing, as he had more enthusiasm than skill. She started pulling pins out of the rigging to throw at the drakivolki and distract them, then ran back out of their reach, when they turned to attack her (and burst into flames). But she misjudged the width of the boat, and went over the side, into the water.
Tsuru was sneakier, and headed stealthily to the first mate's cabin where he retrieved the party's stuff. His money wasn't there, so he went to the other, sealed and locked doorway, which zapped him repeatedly before he managed to cut through the hinges and slide under the door.
There had been more explosions, though, including a series of firecracker like booms as each barrel of gunpowder spontaneously, simultaneously exploded, blowing off the front half of the ship.
Flokin was being a Good Kitty.
The drakivolki ship was close by now, the remainder of its crew (the ones without wings) readying to board. With the drakivolki set on fire, the rest of the crew were easily mopped up, and the survivors from the Razhian vessel fled to the ship that *wasn't* sinking. Kiet and Sophie and Tsuru fled too, althoug Tsuru almost drowned trying to 'take it with him' and Sophie, who'd managed to climb back up onto the ship just in time for it to sink, made Luis help her find Curran first.
The drakivolki ship was a wreck, though, and had no stores or treasure, so they had to go back to Midrein, where they released Kiet and Sophie and Tsuru as being too much trouble. Especially Sophie's cat.
Sophie scolded Luis for leaving without telling his family and making them all worry.
L: "I want to *do* something with my life!"
S: "Why didn't you at least tell us you were running off? I thought you were being kidnapped!"
L: "What do you think Mother would have said if she'd known? She'd never have let me go..."
S: "I don't know, I never pay attention to what mother says."
L: "Of course YOU don't."
S: "Well, see what a mess you made of things? You try to go off on your own, and I have to go out and rescue you from Drakivolki."
Sophie resolved to give Flokin lots of hugs and attention for blowing up the horrible pirate kidnapper ship. And, when she became a pirate herself, to build her ship out of weaver silk resin, or something else fire- and explosion-proof.
last session next week
So, while Sophie ran all over town carrying the dead giant rat and the live caged hawk, pursued by an endless succession of city guards, Tsuru and Kiet decided to track down the pair of sneaks that had attacked them earlier and who they spotted going after another team. Once more, they managed to chase off the miscreants, although not before the other team was knocked unconscious and slightly robbed. They neglected to rob the other team themselves, instead guarding them until they were conscious enough to at least possibly fend for themselves.
Then, because Tsuru had been impaled on a massive katana and was horribly injured, and Kiet was out of healing spells, they headed back to school to make some emergency healing potions.
While they were making the potions, Sophie finally lost the city guards and showed up back at the cafe where the hunt would end. The others were supposed to be waiting for her, but weren't, so she sat in a corner, still draped in the dead giant rat, and waited.
And felt really, really sick. Apparently the rat that had bit her had been diseased, and had passed an evil disease spirit into her body. And, oh yes, it was the rat she STILL had draped over her back. So she rectified that by tossing it in the corner and lying down guarding the corner, but not actually touching it, and by keeping still and resting so as not to make the sickness spirit angry until the game was over and she could go beg her parents for help.
Eventually Tsuru and Kiet came back, bearing healing potions. The potion helped Sophie considerably -- they were quite amazingly good potions -- but didn't actually get rid of the sickness. Tsuru broke into the wine shop across the street to get the last item the party needed, and then it was time to count score.
The evildoers who'd spent the whole time attacking the other teams didn't make the cut. Neither did the group of kids, although Kiet gave Baird (who was in their class at school) one of his extra silver dragon rings so that Baird got in. Sophie was a little annoyed that she wouldn't get to tease Baird for losing, but was too ill to make a scene.
The rest of the groups made it into the Order, with the clear winner being Tsuru, Kiet and Sophie with 92 points (compared to the next highest who had 56). After the losers were ushered out, and the bottles of wine were passed back for celebration, the rules were explained. Don't betray other members to the authorities (you're allowed to kill them yourself, though). Tell your cell leader (in their case, the guy who'd been leading the treasure hunt) before you do anything major. And don't ask anyone else in the Order what they're doing or who they're doing it for.
Kiet had had some nice, normal, alcoholic wine, but was spacing for some reason and didn't remember a thing. Sophie had experimented with Illiski wine, rumored to have hallucinogenic properties, and while she was totally confused and insensible (and occasionally violent) through the whole explanation and most of the party afterwards, she later remembered everything that was said. Tsuru had picked a safe wine to drink, made from dragon's blood, and was not only not drunk but also no longer tired, despite having stayed up all night with the rest of them.
Afterwards it was a day off for everyone, so Sophie crawled back home, redid her fur to look normal (instead of being two feet long and her natural color from the wild spell in the mine), then whined to her mother that she was sick. Her mother reluctantly summoned a doctor, who gave her surprisingly effective drugs to negate the symptoms of the disease, and didn't use even a single leech.
This took all day, however, and meanwhile Tsuru and Kiet were at the cat track, betting on the cat whose fur they'd given the Order to let them fix the race. They won massive quantities of cash on that race.
But the cat races were near the docks, and Tsuru spotted what looked like one of Sophie's brothers being loaded, unconscious, onto one of the Razhian military ships. Shanghaid! He rushed to tell Sophie... well, after the race, of course.
Sophie, of course, HAD to rescue her brother. She ordered Curran (another one of her brothers) to come with her, took some spending money from the family treasury, and ran around to rearm with a new whip and tarot deck, meeting the others at the docks, where they tried to decide on a good strategy for sneaking onto the ship and retreiving Luis.
While failing to come up with a good plan, they were Shanghaid, and loaded onto the ship, except for Kiet who escaped by diving into the water and clinging to the hull of the ship as it sailed out into the open ocean.
They awoke a short while later (having been knocked unconscious by magic) to find themselves tied up in a room without their stuff -- and in Curran's case, without his magitech leg. Sophie knew she could burn the ropes and get loose easily, but she only had one spell left until midnight and didn't want to waste it, since fighting these pirates hadn't worked very well on the docks. And since she didn't want to leave the ship until it was on fire and sinking. At midnight, she'd have all her spells, and be a force to be reckoned with. Or at least have a slim chance of escaping.
Long before midnight, the first mate decided to process his new crew members. Tsuru was brought before him, and saw the pile of the party's equipment (including Curran's leg) sitting on a table waiting to be analyzed. The first mate offered him a choice: Join the crew, go over the side, or go back and be tied up without food for a while to think on it. He chose (c).
Curran was taken next, and quickly agreed to join the crew, explaining about Luis and Sophie. Sophie, accordingly, was NOT given the chance to join the crew, since Manis loyalty would make her brothers always obey her over their commanding officers. If she was to join the navy, it would be on another ship.
So, Sophie and Tsuru were left alone, tied up, for a long time, and Sophie decided to use her last spell to use an hour-long ritual to summon a more enduring Fire Rat, which she'd have burn through their bonds, then run around to find the gunpowder. The only snag in the plan was that she needed to win a contest of wills with the rat to get it obey her commands, and (as usual) she failed miserably.
Still, there was a fire rat, and it seemed quite taken with her, snuggling up against her and nuzzling affectionately. Sophie was (once more) very glad that she was wearing fireproof weaver silk, and that the pirates hadn't decided to strip her of her clothing.
The rat was out of reach of Sophie's bonds, but Tsuru managed to wriggle over and eventually have it burn through his bonds... at about the same time as Kiet, having snuck onto the boat as it got dark and the crew settled down to a less alert routine, and who'd spotted a Shaoli boat approaching in a suspicious manner, decided to make his move and start searching for the others. Also, the same time as a massive explosion rocked the ship, tearing a huge hole in its side.
On deck, the first mate ordered the cannons to open fire, and had the far broadside cannons reloaded with shot to take out the swarming drakivolki that approached the ship. One was headed right for him and the captain, and he took it down with two shots, but not before it critically wounded the captain with guns of its own -- she'd live, but was out of the fight.
The drakivolki were few in number, especially after the cannon fire and the insta-knockout weapons that had been used to capture Tsuru and Curran and Sophie, but they were also very skilled, and once on board and in the midst of combat were holding their own against three times their own number.
Down below, Kiet opened random doors and found many sleeping crew members. He ordered them to wake up and get on deck to fight, then ran off... and with the evident sounds of explosions and fighting, they believed him even not knowing who he was. Luis was among them, although Kiet didn't notice that.
Up top, Sophie darted out the door as soon as Tsuru cut her free, dashing through the melee looking for Luis or Curran, intending to search the ship. People tried to attack her, and mysteriously burst into flames...
...eventually, she found Luis fighting three drakivolki and losing, as he had more enthusiasm than skill. She started pulling pins out of the rigging to throw at the drakivolki and distract them, then ran back out of their reach, when they turned to attack her (and burst into flames). But she misjudged the width of the boat, and went over the side, into the water.
Tsuru was sneakier, and headed stealthily to the first mate's cabin where he retrieved the party's stuff. His money wasn't there, so he went to the other, sealed and locked doorway, which zapped him repeatedly before he managed to cut through the hinges and slide under the door.
There had been more explosions, though, including a series of firecracker like booms as each barrel of gunpowder spontaneously, simultaneously exploded, blowing off the front half of the ship.
Flokin was being a Good Kitty.
The drakivolki ship was close by now, the remainder of its crew (the ones without wings) readying to board. With the drakivolki set on fire, the rest of the crew were easily mopped up, and the survivors from the Razhian vessel fled to the ship that *wasn't* sinking. Kiet and Sophie and Tsuru fled too, althoug Tsuru almost drowned trying to 'take it with him' and Sophie, who'd managed to climb back up onto the ship just in time for it to sink, made Luis help her find Curran first.
The drakivolki ship was a wreck, though, and had no stores or treasure, so they had to go back to Midrein, where they released Kiet and Sophie and Tsuru as being too much trouble. Especially Sophie's cat.
Sophie scolded Luis for leaving without telling his family and making them all worry.
L: "I want to *do* something with my life!"
S: "Why didn't you at least tell us you were running off? I thought you were being kidnapped!"
L: "What do you think Mother would have said if she'd known? She'd never have let me go..."
S: "I don't know, I never pay attention to what mother says."
L: "Of course YOU don't."
S: "Well, see what a mess you made of things? You try to go off on your own, and I have to go out and rescue you from Drakivolki."
Sophie resolved to give Flokin lots of hugs and attention for blowing up the horrible pirate kidnapper ship. And, when she became a pirate herself, to build her ship out of weaver silk resin, or something else fire- and explosion-proof.
last session next week
