Session 29

2026-02-14 23:22

Summary

The party sets up Tideholm Keep and reap its rewards. Ivy and Beet try to sell potions with their new potion making business with limited success. Ellywick meets April who is working on a pyramid scheme with her brother. Meet Lady Kathryn and her wife Velindra, who tell us about a carnival the next day. We attend this, have lots of fun and end up meeting a semi clone of Ellywick who believes she is Ellywick, maybe made by Podric? She is working for Aunty and we get roped into performing a play with her, that transports us all to another world.

Session 29 - 24.5.2025

We had been teleported into a new world that is forever night

vinegary smelling water
swamp
palace/castle off in the distance
Aunty is not here

Viscous lapping material

town in that direction (later find out is Sorrowflake)

"time is a weird soup" - a warning about the Fey Wild world

See a knoll with no trees on

gingerbread man is hanging in the trees nearby
Ivy takes the gingerbread man down - not magical, just a biscuit
probably a warning from Aunty?

We investigate the black water - is vinegar?

We meet 3 bipedal rabbits

they want memories
they try to attack - Ivy knocks 1 unconscious (Croak) + tied up
Ivy grapples 1 as it tries to escape (Squeakthistle) - apparently sells memories to the Croakington Court
- he broke my grapple and escaped

Croak

lives in Sorrowflake
Castle of Heart's Desires
- abandoned after a princess was killed
- Baba Yaga set it on fire
Croakington Court has King: Gollup the 17th
Apparently travel there by closing eyes while travelling down Brigand's Highway
- apparently a lie, they wanted to rob us
Brine lives in the Grotto of New Beginnings, behind the Croakington Court
Croak had been looking for food
Introduced us to the 3 rules of brigandry

3 Rules of Brigandry

If anyone (friend, enemy, stranger) enters home - be gracious
Rules of ownership - must not steal
Reciprocation - must return a gift of equal value (not necessarily straight away)

We introduce ourselves with aliases:
Ellywick - Lady Damascus
Beet - Stacey Fakename
Ivy - Madame Hoard
Fin - Minnie

Ivy gave Croak a health potion - was returned a purple potion containing a memory

Ivy drank it
memory of Croak meeting the party for the first time

We head down Brigand's Highway (through the mangrove)

see giant strawberries - emitting strong smell - fruit flies inside
- Ivy poked the strawberries with a stick, and it started screaming
carry on, see green fog, smells of fried algae and overripe peaches

See frog town on stilts by the sea

made of rotting ship parts
everyone casual + slow
sign: 'Welcome to Ye Old Croakington Court'

Meet Sludge Ribbon, an old lady with knitting needles

aka Gossip Glutton, Mayoral Toad
knows Grandmother Brine - apparently very nice
scars from the old king's death
apparently the King will die tonight - suffocate - she's knitting a suffocating balaclava
if meet Greeble the Wet, say we are friends with Sludge Ribbon
apparently we can't leave the realm without permission from Brine
Ivy gave her a bum salve (?) - she gave me a leather pouch with fly snacks
"Brine's grief feeds the land"
- everyone sleeps with their heads towards the Grotto of New Beginnings, dreams influenced to be better
since the princess died, it became eternal night

Visit a clothing store:

Ellywick gets a beret
Ellywick puts on a blonde wig
Ellywick adopts the persona of a new character: Minstrel Flutenberg
Beet adopts new disguise - Dutchess Patricia Localgirl

We head to the tavern

on walkway is lined with decapitated Bullywug heads - executed Kings
meet a Halfling with a pumpkin head - Chucklehead
- wants to be killed
- body fed to the Kraken
a giant (fake) tadpole skull above the door
stuporous Bullywugs inside

The tavern charges in: dreams, favours or polite kisses

Miss Petalflop runs it - Bullywug matron, in black mourning clothes
Translucent barkeeper
3/4 other patrons

We meet Old Len

blind + strange
hasa thick sludge milkshake

Flypunch - orange tropical juice
Wart Wine - bumpy + lie (costs 1 polite kiss)
Mosquito Mead - Hyperaware of stuff nearby, looks like dark blood
Saltspike Whisky

Fin says Ivy is pregnant and needs Brine's services to help

high prices for Brine's services
souls/eternal happiness
the heads along the path are left there until they decompose

Ellywick enters with a musical flourish

the patrons love it!

Ellywick asks around

the world here began in the vinegar sea
people created songs + memories
Brine fought stuff coming from the sea
a tidal wave that lasted generations - caused by Aunty - defended by Brine
witches send emissaries to communicate between the 3 realms after the princess' death
- maybe giants in the castle?
- huge beast headed into the sky - Old Len says it is called The Jabberwocky
- if it sees your face, it won't stop until it kills you
Old Len found the dragon
it killed a King once
he had to hide

Old Len told us

there is a mountain range called Candlegore Teeth
- is where he lost his eyes to a swordfight with a daffodil with a sword 2 years ago
Minnie 1st Knight of Sod's County

Ivy (sort of accidentally) seduces Miss Petalflop

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.
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