Shen looks up at the towering form of the Blue Lady. “She didn’t do that last time.”
Rory’s ears droop as he trembles in the shadow of his Oath Mother’s towering form. After a few false starts, he replies. “You can’t do the same thing over and over again.”
Sasha draws her sword. “So much for peaceful negotiations. I need a distraction.”
Shen nods and surveys the ground around him. Eyes intent on a section of ground in front of the Blue Lady, he raises his hands and summons forth a grey and white icy giant. Shen takes a deep breath and blows out a poof of air. The Giant mimics the sorcerer’s movements but instead bellows a jet of freezing ice.
The Blue Lady wipes a vine at the giant and redirects its spray away from her. The Giant shatters into icy pieces. Her mocking grin turns into grimace of pain, as Sasha, wreathed in a scarlet glow, and slices a chunk out of the Blue Lady’s legs. The Blue Lady takes a shaky step and trips on the ice left by the giant.
Unseen you head towards the tree holding Wanahton’s cage, passing Mei Mei as you go. You climb the tree and walk across the branch and drop down onto the top of the cage. With your iron hunting knife, you begin to saw though the vines holding the cage together. Now visible, Wanahton notices you and says, “Give me your knife. I’ll cut my way out. Free the Desert Fox.” You hesitate for a moment and then pass the knife down to Wanahton’s outreached hand.
“You like wind, Son of Our Admiral. “ The Blue Lady sways unsteadily as she drops to all fours. “Let us how you do with the Flood!” A vile deluge of mud, dead leaves, and green water spews out of her mouth. The ground and the trees mutate in the flood’s wake. Sasha places her hand on the soft ground of the Mossy Court. The area around her and Shen solidifies and the island of stability bobs on top of the Blue Lady’s vile flood.
You step outside of fate again and climb down the tree. With a cheer, the mutinous Fair Folk drop down to the ground around you and race past you towards the battle. Rory, mounted on top of Watcher, calls the Fair Folk to him. With Rory leading the charge, the Fair Folk shriek and swinging up the Blue Lady’s vines. Their swords prick her skin though the tree bark and she screams in frustration, grabbing her traitorous subjects and throwing them aside.
As the Resplendent Destiny of the Traveler’s Son, you approach the Desert Fox,. As she struggling against her bonds, you pull out your starmetal bootknife. “If I free you, do you swear only to attack the Blue Lady?”
“Dragonboy?” She stops struggling and stares at you in surprise.
“Do you swear?!” you repeat.
“Yes,” the Lunar breaths. “Quickly! The Flood is almost upon us!”
“No, shit.” As your knife slices though the vines, the Desert Fox glows brighter and brighter with silver anima. Suddenly, you are thrown back against one of the trees lining the court, when a Giant Sloth explodes out of the weakened bonds. You scramble up the tree and draw your sword, expecting an attack.
Instead the Desert Fox dashes towards the oncoming flood and leaps on top of it. She races on top of the Vile Wind, untouched by its mutating effects. Her wounds close with a moonlit glow leaving only silver tattoos behind. With a clawed paw, the Desert Fox knocks the Blue Lady in the face, interrupting the flow of Wyld spew. The Blue Lady snarls at the Lunar and the two begin to battle.
You run long the moss covered tree branches until you are just above the Blue Lady. In your hands, you begin to weave a delicate net of your essence. You drop it upon the Blue Lady and watch as it sears her blue flesh. You retreat before she could figure out that the attack came from you not the Desert Fox.
With the flood dissipating, Sasha and Shen disengage and follows your progress in the trees. “What have you done, Svante?” Sasha yells at you. Shen watching the Lunar and Blue Lady spar, his grey-white anima swirling around him. Wanahton limps over with Mei Mei in his arms. “We need to leave before the Fair Folk decide that we are more interesting opponents. “ Rory and the Fair Folk have also fallen back and were watching the battle eagerly.
“No,” Sasha disagrees. “We can’t have any loose ends.” The Lunar scratches the Blue Lady with her claws and navy blue blood fills the Blue Lady’s wounds.
What do you do?
- You got the children. You found Sasha and Wanahton. Shen is still alive. Time to go back to the ship and get out of here
- No matter the outcome of the fight, an enemy of creation will win. Finish off the winner while they are weaken by battle.
(( I’ll admit to home brewing the Blue Lady’s attack and Desert Fox running on top of it. ))
Hero (Quest) 