Season 2 opened on the road back from the Eagle’s Crown Tournament back to Tenth Bridge. Barring a brief detour to examine a magical tree apparently associated with the corpse parts, it proved, as many uneventful journeys do, a chance to speak to each other. Tadgh taught Tibia and Kyroz to whittle. Zelda got to interrogate Meta on his past relationship with the divine, considering her own recent experience. Kyroz invented the song Riptide, and had a very brief career as a pop star. This changed slightly with the discovery of a fan’s breastplate covered in clawmarks and blood, but not enough to end the trip.
Upon their arrival in Tenth Bridge, the party split. Adelaide and Kyroz went with Meta and Vertebra to go debrief the President. Meanwhile, Zelda, Ignatius, Tadgh, and Tibia went to the magic item shop where Zelda had put a scroll of Reduce Elderly Person on hold. To everyone’s surprise, instead of the familiar shopkeeper, the person behind the counter was Lucretia. This reveal was quickly overshadowed by the much larger problem of the Bleached Man walking through the front doors.
It proceed to bring down the full force of Calamity upon the party, who barely escaped with their lives thanks to Adelaide seeing the stormcloud from across the city and sprinting there to help. She shot its hat off, chasing it away, but that wasn’t enough to stop the shop from nearly collapsing on top of the party. In light of this new level of threat, the Black Skeleton decided to take the Bonesnappers back to their headquarters. Along the road to Gravestand the party eavesdroped on Meta and Ignatius talking—apparently, Meta believes Ignatius to have been a serial killer from out in a small town known as a Werewolf. Ignatius professes ignorance, but the thought sticks in everyone’s head.
It’s a thematic one for Gravestand, a small village nestled deep in an eerie, foggy valley. Tadgh got briefly frozen by a spectator who was there to guard the prison beneath the Sematary, but this didn’t stop the Bonesnappers from having a conversation with Skull about where they were to go next. Adelaide briefly peeled off from the party to speak to her mother in prison, who told her the truth of her father from across the seas and the story of the murder that got her locked up. Kyroz saved his father figure from his paralysis problem, and the party plotted to go undercover as drug smugglers across the border with Webshrine.
On their way out of town, Ignatius and Lucretia worked together to distill some concentrated hallucenogenics out of mushrooms, before an uncomfortable conversation chased Ignatius out of the room. When the party awoke in the morning, he had returned but the innkeeper had been brutally killed. Once again, the Bonesnapper reaction was to simply skip town. After another brief shopping interlude at the wildly disappointing Aethylmyr’s Ether, Tibia left to set up an advance party in Webshrine. The Bonesnappers decided to keep driving through the night, only to regret that choice when Lucretia and Ignatius’ watch was interrupted by Ignatius growling and lunging for Lucretia. Who will win that fight? Tune in next session to find out.
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