Jingle Jangle
The key obsessed gatekeeper between worlds, covered in padlocks, insists on only being spoken to in 3rd person.
2026-02-14 23:19
Status: #child
Summary
We have arrived in a new vinegary world, where we immediately get accosted by rabbit bandits, and learn the 3 Rules of Brigandry. We head to Croakington Court, where we meet the murderous Sludge Ribbon, who is planning to kill the king, and end up at a tavern. We find out that Brine is pretty well respected here, but her services might cost eternal happiness or your soul.
Session 30 - 22.6.2025
We are in Sorrowflake - vinegary muck along the coast
- Croakington Court is within Sorrowflake
Brine is in the Grotto of New Beginnings
Ellywick has is unwell and unable to help - Ivy rolls high on insight and realises that she is hungover
We need Brine's permission to get to the new realm.
We head to Brine's Grotto of New Beginnings:
- accidentally kill a crab
- totem poles - sea creature shaped with barnacles (wind chimes on top with sea glass)
- we head into the cave (Grotto of New Beginnings)
- Brine's formal titles: Wetnurse, Crone of the Grotto
- smells of rot and lavender
- Beet casts detect magic (with a nat 1 for sleight of hand - SO unsubtle)
- The most powerful magic is currently controlling the weather
Brine has a Tiki Bar, with drinks:
- Bitter Ex Wife - neatly preserved, scream when drink (Ivy found out by drinking)
- Regrettini - remember a bad kiss
- The Dirty Daughter - your mother will feel this!
- Soul on the Beach - pickled toe, soulful mood (imagination, souls, dog souls)
We all have a drink with her, I think we paid in chores?
- untangled a curse net - truths to reveal
- milk the eels - Fin manages to work it out
Scry Yassandra - she sits in Loomlurch, under dead tree arches, a portrait in needled faults
Ivy - brings Portrait of Yass
Brine - lets Ivy into Yassandra's realm, helps us navigate the Evermaze and banishes Rosemary to the material plane
- she swears not to hurt Rosemary
- if Ivy breaks the pact, she will have to work for her for a long time
[!abstract] Rest Pact with Brine:
We - bring Brine's Pickling Jar back from Yassandra
Brine - lets the rest into Yassandra's realm
We will summon Brine when we have stolen those objects and are ready to enter the Evermaze:
- Salt Circle
- Insult shouted into a clam shell
- Clove of garlic
We head up a new hill that has just appeared, on Brine's instruction. We will meet Jingle Jangle there.
We meet a person on stilts with a mask, who is gathering fruit - purple coconuts
- Ivy gave him fly snacks, he gave 2 bouncy purple coconuts - Person is called Gourd
We find a bakery bundle
- a meat pie, freshly baked
- we take the pie with us
Reach the hill
- talking flowers saying "eat me" here
- Ents here - friendly, hit on Fin
- we head down stairs into the hill
Lady with padlocks turns out to be Jingle Jangle
- has a padlock flail
- floor is covered with keys
- apparently the key to Yassandra's realm has been taken by a troll (Jingle Jangle thinks they have eaten it)
- we search at a goblin camp - Ivy finds a tunic (Windbiter Robes)
- motifs of wind and flying birds
- magical
- pegasus
We fought the troll
- Ivy knocked it out
- we fed it laxatives and it shit the key out
We gave Jingle Jangle the pie that we had mysteriously found earlier, and the key
- Beet explained the deal with Brine
- Jingle Jangle said their deal with Brine had been to remove their fear of being on the wrong side of a locked door - replaced with a desire to collect keys
We gave Jingle Jangle the keys to: - the chastity cage,
- Ivy's key to Tideholm Keep
Jingle Jangle gave us the keys to:
- Little Oak - apparently this is where the Lost Boys are, that Yassandra wants? Knew they were lost in Threadmere
- Loomlurch
Jingle Jangle put the keys in our mouths, and we were transported to Threadmere
- see sign saying Will of the Fey Wild], deliver this rascal alive and unharmed. Reward: Revive Dead
Summary
Travelled to Grotto of New Beginnings to meet Brine for the first time. She was surprisingly friendly, and gave us all drinks from the Tiki bar. We did some chores for Brine and were able to scry Yassandra in Loomlurch. We made a deal with Brine saying we would bring Portrait of Yass and Brine's Pickling Jar to Brine, in exchange for her letting us into Threadmere, and helping us through the Evermaze. To head to Threadmere we met Jingle Jangle, who sent us on a quest to get the key back from a troll who had eaten it - we gave it laxatives and retrieved the key. Jingle Jangle let us through into Threadmere.