Session 1: Welcome to Four Rivers

June 7th, 2013

Orchestrated by Terrence Goatskin, our motley of mismatched Changelings got together to meet for the first time at Hathi's Garden, an Indian restaurant in downtown Providence. Goatskin explained his reasoning—everyone invited had escaped on the same night at the same time through a mirror, and among Changelings there are no coincidences—then left contact info for himself and Bruja Garcia, a Pledge adviser, and took his leave of the group (after ordering food for everyone as a parting gift). Left to their own devices, the group talked, getting to know each other a bit. Chiara and Hypatia in particular seemed to hit it off right from the get-go, bonding over Hypatia's inexperience with Indian food.

Not long into the get-together, a mortal stopped by the table to deliver a folded piece of paper, saying only that “The man in the black hat asked me to give you this.” He then went to the ordering counter, and when Eric approached him to ask about the message, the man had no recollection at all about delivering it, asking Eric to leave him alone. Clearly, magic of some sort was involved. There were no men wearing hats in the restaurant, black or otherwise, either. The message itself was very short, yet very cryptic.

'“Mirrors. 41.84898, -71.37800. 3 am.”'

The group deduced fairly quickly that the numbers were GPS coordinates, and upon finishing their meal headed to a nearby library to avail themselves of the free internet connection to find out where they were being told to go: the southern end of Swan Point Cemetery. With plenty of extra time to kill, the group decided to follow through on Goatskin's suggestion of forming a proper motley—a makeshift Changeling family, of sorts—and called Bruja Garcia to help with creating an appropriate Pledge. She met them at the library and walked them through a basic motley Pledge, free of charge as a favor to neophyte Changelings.

Once done, the group went to the cemetery to scope out the location while it was still well daylight. They tracked down the spot from the coordinates and found a nearby crypt where they could hide just out of sight behind a decorative wall. Then, not wanting to sit around for several hours waiting for the appointed time, each member of the group went their separate ways to make whatever preparations or participate in whatever activities they wished. An hour prior to dusk, they regrouped at the cemetery gates and headed in to wait, managing to elude the security patrol as the hours passed.

Just before 3 am, Simon noticed a shadow against the shadows of the cemetery, rooting in the dirt at the coordinate location. As soon as he moved to intercept it, the shadow disappeared, but they found freshly disturbed earth where it had been. They dug up a lidless box filled with dirt and—as they quickly discovered—clay figurines.

They had little time to examine them, though, before Eric turned at a twig snap and shone light on three intruding figures, two men and a young woman, all of them clearly Changelings. One of the men mentioned dragging the newbie Changelings “kicking and screaming to Market,” and the novice motley decided to take the safest course of action and run. A brief fight ensued as the privateers tried to round up the runaways, even doing a number on Hypatia and Chiara with knife and handgun, before Eric botched a Contract to control light and caused the general area to begin strobing. Only Chiara was hampered by this (Eric had already protected himself from light, Hypatia had given herself echolocation via Contract, and Simon was further away with the box of figurines) but she pulled through and all four scaled the fence at the southern end of the cemetery and ran for cover while the privateers were blinded.

Looking for safety, Eric recalled the location of a Changeling bolt-hole nearby and the group quickly found it, a tenement with the symbol of Hospitality near one window. The proprietor of the safe house put them up for the night, as well as selling them three goblin fruits for healing, and the motley was able to spend a few moments looking at the figurines in brighter conditions before finally turning in, weary and ready for sleep.



NPCs Met
Terrence Goatskin Bruja Garcia Pala

Enemies
"Pretty Boy," "Scissors," and "Knife Girl" - three privateers who attempted to abduct the motley in the cemetery. Currently at large.

Other Stuff
Eric's version

Session 2: Artifacts and Privateers