Fear and Toading in Dylath-Leen

Fear and Toading in Dylath-Leen
Date 2085-12-30 GM Sarcarian Location Snohomish and the Metaplane of Man Status Threat Level: High
Factions Involved
ShadowHaven Adalai	Gum Toad Faction
Zan Zan Mara	Gum Toad Leg Head Tentacle Neck
Casualties and losses
	Gum Toad Leg Head Tentacle Neck

Outline

• Zan Zan and Mara meet at Lady J’s shop. After greeting one another they go in and visit the private backroom.
• They drink tea and discuss the investigation. Then Mara divines.
• They see LA, underwater, a familiar looking black ship docking. Meet with munma order people in lavender cloaks. Rubies exchanged and hooded folk are loaded before the ship sails back.
• Dylath-Leen - the ship moves through. Black wood, square jib. Turbined and masked folk. Open air slave market.
• Brief perspective from a nearby building. Bird POV. Familiar glow in the building. Hard to place. Mineral.
• Deep in the astral sea, closing in on a shadowed moon. Stygian figures, swirl about and drain life.
• They decide to go to the metaplanes. Buy shade for ZZ. And return to the backroom. Tygar will guard their bodies.
• They wander out into the city and the woods and find a door and descend to meet two hooded figures.
• Lantern of the toad.
• Door of ivory and of horn and they enter a wooded area in the metaplanes.

Cat city. Hand lettered sign Ulthar.

• ‘Train’ approaches and Mara has a ticket.
• Centipede train with ivory pavilions on the back. Tentacles catch dropped things and return. Luxurious palanquins, carpets, adornments.
• Conductor - frilled shirt, bird mask, cane and tricorn hat.
• Ticket - dreamlands express.
• Mara shares some about Dylath-Leen as she makes two preps.
• A cat makes friends with ZZ.
• Black basalt walls. The pair head toward the docks looking for some information.
• Enter the Drunken Whaler. Stone foundation, wooden walls, skeletons of fantastical sea creatures. Hooded figures, cloaked folk, suspicious stares. Bartender in a sleeved coat, mustache, dark spectacles, balding. *Liquor in bottles of all sorts.
• Pan Glactic Garble blaster. Flaming martini with lemon. Blue and purple flames.
• Hooded figure with chain tattoos covered. Black sword. Looks to maybe be a former slave.
• Adalai - purchase a drink and talk. As they discuss slaving, Adalai rubs at the tattoos a bit. Yamaboshi is from Yin. Yamaboshi - hard features, leathery skin from intense training and sun exposure, wiry but muscled. Scars on hands, no tats, bald, no facial hair, stone grey eyes. Nego - a silver piece and a specific offering to a druid circle. He points out a building with the lantern light coming out.
• They go over and Mara starts by slashing a guy after ZZ tries to be polite. They intimidate goons to run. Then they break down the door and avoid an ambush. Inside they fight a spider legged head and a tentacle neck. It’s perilous for a moment, but they prevail.
• Going up the stairs there is toxin.
• Then they meet the toad. They offer not to kill him and the toad says he needs something in return. ZZ says no price is too high, while Mara compels a freebee.
  • Ship: Raven
  • Captain: Havelock
  • Traded to: Beasts of the Black Moon
  • Gaf - Black moon, Bogeyman.
  • Darksider
• Gum Toad attacks. ZZ and Mara kill him, but not before the toad tries to eat Mara.
• Toads name is found.
• They offer rubies to Adalai, let him keep half, but save half for us.

Rewards

• 8 karma
• 18 CDP
• Initiation ordeal, if desired
• Mara can buy off Driven (following the toad's successful banishment from the Metaplane of Man)

Narrative Consequences

• ZZ crosses the threshold for the first time, initiating into the higher mysteries and discovering a concrete lead on the fate of her missing mentor.
• Mara obtains her hated enemy's True Name, and thus the means to banish them permanently in order to put an end to their machinations.

Game Quotes

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