WITCH ASTEROID

 Mythic Bastionland, by the book. In the home-brew Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned. Boo: Roose. Asher: Kirus. Seek the Myths. Honor the Seers. Protect the Realm. Late Winter. FIRST DAY. Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned. Hard, frosted ground. Grass crunching underneath your feet. Trees and flowers frozen still. A heavy mist fills the air, fog clouding your distant vision. Dark shapes through the white, the earth and sky melting into one pale canvas. Knights-Errant; Kirus the Moat Knight , a smelly old man with too much honesty and a beautiful untrained horse; Roose the Tankard Knight , a talkative young fellow on a powerful charger. 3PM. The Company seeks the Myths. Kirus digs a hole into the packed ground and it fills with warm swampy water.  4PM. After traveling on their horses there are dark silhouettes in the fog. Singing, worshipping. Closer, six peasants chant and dance in a circle. They all hold brown bottles of hard liquor. The ground ever-...

 Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke. Justin: Jubilo. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 5, beginning of morning watch.  HEX G. South of the Three Fingers Jubilo stares at the stars. "How can we save the Witch Folk of Cold Cave village ?" he asks the fire.  A scroll, the letter written by Lord Zaq, burnt to ash... A grave marker for Captain Zaq... A flag with the silver eye charred to a crisp... Captain Quill chokes underwater...  Drim sleeps. He dreams of home. His family, Witch Folk, to the north. A memory of meeting an old woman with only one arm. He is later told that was his grandaunt elder.  Brooke catches up to the war galley in the night: Learned lends him wooden stilts to traverse the mud and root. Brooke envisions Lady Ummul Gul. He isn't afraid. He welcomes the reunion. In the morning he plays cards with the soldiers who stayed up to celebrate. Callan fills Brooke in on the goings-on of the group, namely the death of Good Captain...

 Scotty: Drim. Justin: Jubilo. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 4, beginning of morning watch.  HEX J. Soldiers fanning the flames After resting in Finch's barrack room, Jubilo and Brooke are awoken by the thundering blast of powder. Dust shakes loose from the room. They find Captain Zaq has blown a hole in the wall of Once Rie in order to leave the fortress. Soldiers are already patching up the portcullis wall and fashioning a door in the new hole. Captain Zaq has a scroll he helped his father write. The trio descends one of the rope ladders. At the base of the stump the tide has risen. Drim has traveled from Learned's nest upon Jubilo and Callan's handmade raft. Drim was taught how to be “Slippery.” SLIPPERY: When a “Slippery” target is attacked, and the “Slippery” target does not deal damage this turn, all damage dealt to the target is reduced to a d4.   Callan still secures their skiff. Good Captain Fintan shouts at the crew and makes o...

 Calvin: Brooke. Justin: Jubilo. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 3, beginning of afternoon watch.  HEX F. Fortress Portcullis Drim has decided he's going to stay with Learned instead of immediately traveling to Once Rie. First he has something to learn... Half an hour after the Witch Folk hunters travel north Jubilo and Callan arrive at Learned's nest on a shoddily-crafted raft. The two traveled throughout the night, staying away from the thundering scuttling of Granduncle Beg. Jubilo took after Callan and became exceptional at hearing. He also found out Callan is a bigoted Zum loyalist!  Brooke fills Jubilo and Callan in on the plan to overtake the fortress and hold Lord Zaq hostage. Jubilo comes clean that he is not Alaric the Theif and explains his real past as an entertainer. He adds that he's visited the fortress before and knows Lord Zaq: he performed for him many years ago. The team establishes a new plan to enter the fortress under ...