Session 15: Minnie tries stand-up
An ongoing adventure of the Mary Lin D&D Club
Following hints of green through the crowd, the party quickly found themselves at the park on the edge of the school yard where everything started. There, the trail went cold. As they started comparing notes, they realized that the person they thought they were following, Celeste, wasn’t Celeste. And with that realization, from behind a tree too thin for anything bigger than a stick to hide behind, a green-tinted face peeked out to say hello. It was yet another kid, also around their age, but green, and not really familiar. The party started to distract her by talking, and it worked. They talked for a little while before accidentally angering her, and her telling them to go away. They then took offense to this, and tried to come up to her, but she disappeared before the party could get to her.
Frustrated, the party decided to look through some old school yearbooks in the hope of finding out if the girl used to live in the village. With that, they begin to head to Griff, the village historian.
Once they got to Griff’s, he, happy to see the kids again, welcomed them in, and asked how the expedition to find the Kuo-Toa went, and who the new party member was. In response, the party told him about the Kuo-Toa knocking Minnie off their boat, finding Warwick, encountering Lucy the Dragon Turtle, rescuing her sister Esther, the reuniting of the Turtle Sisters and Indigo’s brokering a way they can go home, but still adventure. Griff heard of the return to Warwick’s, his abduction by someone under the sea, the party’s journey to the Momota village, being given SCUMBAs, encountering Kreppelie the Sea Hag, effecting a rescue of Warwick, and returning home with a new friend and a miniaturized dragon turtle shell. Griff was, well, shocked. They then explained that the new member was Avani, the keeper of the original treaty. Griff, being a historian, was fascinated with Avani, and wanted to have the treaty to make a copy of. After a long debate, Avani agreed, but only if she watched him do it.
The party then questioned him on how to find out which people were going to turn into sea hags, to which he responded with, “ Go talk to Leona, one of the teachers, she might have some yearbooks.” So the party went over to Leona’s and questioned her. She was acting very nervous about this whole thing, and once the party got what they needed, they headed back to Griff’s.
In short order, the party found the girl. Abigail, gone missing a few years back, now mysteriously back, and greener than before. Sea Hag in training, they concluded, worried that what had looked to be one Sea Hag and a trainee, Celeste, was instead more. Possibly many more.
The party, not wanting Griff to know what they were planning, went out onto Griff’s doorstep to discuss the best way to kill the mayor. In no time, the party was having a full fledged fight on how to kill the mayor, when Mia suggested they calm down a bit so no one would hear them. They then quieted down a little, and then Minnie suggested they kill Celeste, the mayors daughter, instead. At that point, Celeste walked by. Celeste, preoccupied with birthday planning, took a really long time to notice the party staring at her and whispering. Celeste came over to see what they were talking about. They then had a very awkward conversation with Celeste, which ended in Celest being a little weirded out and walking away. Celeste turned back to walk across on the bridge, when Minnie stepped forward, pointed, tossed some glitter in the air, and giggled. At first softly, Celeste started to giggle. Then her shoulders started bouncing, her giggle turning to a chuckle, and too quickly, convulsive explosive laughter had her rolling on the ground. Unfortunately, the ground was a bridge, the joke was too funny, and she rolled straight off the bridge into the river.
Shocked, Mia ran towards where Celeste fell, changing into fish as she leapt into the water to pull her out. Strangely, despite searching up and down stream, she found nothing. Not a trace of Celeste. But, as she swam, searching, the water felt strange, thick, and with a slight hint of something wrong, something toxic. Returning to the rest of the party at Griff’s, Mia told them about the bad taste in the water and the missing girl. Kreppelie, they assumed. It had to have been the Sea Hag who swept away her protégé. They had to find and stop them both, they decided, before more villagers died, possibly because of the party.
