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 ======Session 18======
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 ======Plot======
+Immediately after the [[session:17|last session]], Gaia and Maelle come back from the hospital to find Clark hidden inside their room trying to find something to wear that actually fits their now very noticeable breasts.
+The situation devolves in quite adorable shenanigans for a bit, with Clark being denser than lead, and the others trying to convince them to wear the dress they found some sessions ago.
+They are interrupted by [[npc:Mauto]], who tells them they need to leave as soon as possible, because the Rigasian tank riders have learned of her existence and are starting to ask uncomfortable questions. Not having more time to find something else to wear, Clark finds themself wearing the dress.
+They decide on leaving under cover of night so they are not seen by the Rigasians, and in the meanwhile they take a chance to pick the meager possessions of both [[npc:ariyadna|Ariyadnas]].
+[[npc:fulan ibn fulan|Fulan]] and [[npc:Keleya]] come and bid them goodbye, as well as telling them that if when the Rigasia/Kesizma situation stabilizes, both their peoples might find cooperating valuable.
+And so they leave and, now totally healed and not having to allow some measly horses to keep up with it, [[npc:Derek]] runs the whole night like a fast car in a highway, until they reach a small Anagusi settlement housing the portal terminals.
+The party (and Mauto in particular) have a moment of panic when they notice a Rigasian plane flying over the area, which reminds them a lot of when they were bombed at end of the first arc, but the plane ends being just a light spy plane, and Kesizmans bring it down with minimal fuss by warping spacetime just enough that the thing can not stay on the air.
+And with that, they finally enter a portal to Kesizma Proper.
+The cave they barely glimpsed when they met [[npc:Maal]] is gigantic and covered from bottom to top in gently-lit colorful  and round buildings spotted with lots of hanging gardens. Enormously relieved to be back home, Mauto brings them to a gigantic vaguely mushroom-shaped building that seems to work as a reception area for the human traffic of the portals.
+There they meet first the Speaker for Rigasian Issues, an extremely girthy Anagusi man by the name of [[npc:Oleia]] that welcomes them to Kesizma and mentions they have been searching for their party for quite some time now on behalf of their new Valtshoran allies; and then [[npc:Ferret]] himself, who apparently has been in Kesizma getting a replacement arm, since he lost it during the bombing.
+Ferret is delighted to see Gaia again (and vice versa), glad to see Maelle, very confused about the Clark situation, and trying to do his best about the Ariyadna one.
+But then the situation turns sour because Rigasia has managed to worm its way into the Kesizman Ngag and they start things as they often do, by unleashing a powerful explosive through the portals.   The party only knows this because the resulting shockwave shatters every fragile object in the terminal, leaving most people there deaf in the best case.
+Except for everyone who was right next to Ariyadna, who had time to raise some kind of shield to protect them.
+Maelle rushes to the portals to check what happened, alongside Derek, and they learn that the Rigasians have started to portal in tanks and started mowing on the Anagusi war beasts.
+Inside the terminal, Gaia and Clark try to stabilize Mauto, who was already very tired, running on fumes and drugs, and fell down wrong hitting her head. They manage to make the best of what they have, but the woman is still unconscious.
+Gaia notices that Oleio has started pacing around and walking and suddenly notices that he's using the Great Dream to actually talk to other people and coordinate a defense, which she considers quite cool.
+Soon they have to face three ela-GAT that crash into the terminal ready to take the place, but Clark wields the glove again and the fight is on. Two of the tanks are halfway frozen, and Maelle decides to go for broke, jumps on one of them, opens the hatch and dispatches the gunner before the driver panics and starts running through walls to dislodge them.
+Clark finds themself having to run from the other half-frozen tank and manages to avoid its bullets by taking refuge behind a concrete pillar.
+And Gaia tries to make contact with the whatever it is that resides in the tank cores, raising Oleia's attention who is equal parts fascinated and horrified. This does nothing to stop the tank though, so they are about to be shot up.
+And then the tanks dissassemble into their constituent pieces becoming nothing more than a sorted heap of pipes, metal pieces, and screws to the horror of their crew.
+Every single person in the terminal looks agape as three Umichooans in perfectly immaculate white clothes walk through the area, disassembling the tanks, repairing all damage, healing the wounded, and raising the dead without saying a word, and then going outside to do the same to every single participant in the battle.
+And then they stand there in the middle of the chaos and say: "This war is against the Law. It is over now"
+For the post-credits scene, we finally got the party reunited with their loved others in Zwosta, and it was the most heartwarming collection of moments in the entire campaign so far.
 ======Cast======
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   * **Clark**: Can't we have any time to rest?
+  * **Gaia**: Hey, Oioia, what do we do now?
+  * //Ariyadna looks at Gaia and says "O-lei-a" as Oleia raises a finger in a "wait a moment" gesture.//
+  * **Oleia**: We have just discovered that some of the bigger war machines of the Rigasians are not vulnerable to warping; yo you have any idea of why this could be?
+  * **Ferret**: You want to help in the fight against GAT?
+  * **Clark**: I'M SORRY WHAT?
+  * **Maelle**: You wanna be rigasian prisoners or stay away from home for longer? Be my guest! But I'm not letting these people die, and if you wanna help get home to Valtshora I say helping is what //needs// to happen.
+  * **Ferret**: Oh, my fuck. This is like the other Kurimoto all over again
+  * **Maelle**: Oh, Dr. Kurimoto taught me well, Ferret. Understand that.
+  * **Clark** (still half deaf from a huge explosion): WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW?
+  * //Maelle doesn't have gloves on or anything so they're taking a bit of cold damage, but they are riding the fucking tank.//
+  * //Clark runs through the building and jumps behind one of the columns. Bullets hit the ground behind their feet, and the column as the hide behind it.//
+  * //Let me out.//
+  * **Gaia**:  We will try if you help us.
+  * //Let me out.//
+  * **Oleia**: What is that?
+  * //Let me out.//
+  * **Gaia**: It's the tank core.
+  * //Let me out.//
+  * **Oleia**: Is is that making them… what did the Rigasians put there?
+  * //Let me out.//
+  * **Gaia**: Zone bomb material.
+  * **Umichooan**: This war breaks the Law. It is over now.
 ======Trivia======
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 The denseness of Clark's eggshell might be so big that it's affecting the orbits of small planetoids.
+Apparently one of the very few ways in which Ariyadna dares to contradict authority figures is by correcting them when they mispronounce a name, which probably has to do with her getting a rap on the knuckles when she failed to recitate something perfectly.
 The ela-GAT are like nuclear submarines: sinking one might mean that everybody loses.
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 Umichooans are utter assholes, and the party caught on this so fast the storyteller got whipslash.
-On the other hand, Gaia was proposing allying with the Umichooans aganist Rigasia in a poetic parallel of the attempts of Malian slaves trying to join Rigasia against Mali.
+Umichooans look like they escaped from a Wuxia novel, of the kind where everyone has perfect hair all the time.
+On the other hand, Gaia was proposing allying with the Umichooans against Rigasia in a poetic parallel of the attempts of Malian slaves trying to join Rigasia against Mali (also of Iorena taking the slightly less problematic option of joining forces with Kesizma against Rigasia).
+The storyteller had to fight the universe to make this session happen. Ei had to get up to flip back eir main eletrical switch ten times total because power spikes kept happening.