This session was played on 20/10/2025. Clark, Gaia and Maelle reach a Malian fort where Derek and Mauto can rest, and Gaia attempts to learm dreamwalking, with worrying results.

After the previous session, the entire party rides fast to put some space between themselves and the aberrations. As they do so, Derek loses more and more steam, and when they finally reach one of the forts in the road, it has become slower than the horses.

Also, as they enter the fortification, Mauto falls out of her horse, totally exhausted. Clark attempts to jump and grab her but only manages to faceplant on the ground. Some local medics get Mauto and Schidera to a place where they can be treated, but they have to be reminded that Derek is also sick.

Since Derek does not fit in regular buildings, two medics end trying to treat it on the side entrance of the hospital building. Sadly for everyone involved, these are human doctors, not veterinarians, and the most convincing of them is also the least competent, so Derek ends being injected some stuff that gives it a very bad night.

Preparing for bed, Clark comes to discover that the his last time channeling the cold has made his breasts grow noticeably, which gives him quite the panic attack.

Later during the night, AMANDA contacts Gaia and gives her a task to complete to learn about dreamwalking: fetch an actual item from her next dream. The dream ends being quite depressing, though: she is in the Zwosta hunter guildhouse, resting against Derek, and trying to remember something. As the dream progresses she first can not remember where she saw Amanda for the last time, and then she remembers that Derek is dead, because of the doctor needles.

Gaia wakes up with a scream and runs out to meet Derek, who is having a pretty bad time but tries to comfort the girl. The way it tries to comfort her is by insisting on how little worth it has, and how she should not waste tears on those like it, which only makes Gaia cry harder.

• Clark Dubois
• Gaia Dynko
• Maelle Kurimoto
• Ariyadna
• Amanda
• Derek
• Mauto
• Corporal Schidera
• Victor Vituska
• Riung
• Cavalrymen
• Malian medics
• Rigasian Soldiers

• Gaia: Hey, is Rigas okay?
• Maelle: He should be… you are talking about Schidera, right? Just to clarify.
• Gaia: Yeah?

• Maelle: Why does Clark look like a woman from this angle?
• Gaia: He looks like a woman from every angle.
• Clark: Hey, I can hear you.

• Clark: I once saw a person shaking on the floor because some kind of stroke. A trepanation was surprisingly effective at stopping that; too bad they weren't able to speak afterward.

• So the fucking medic who got a -4 in medicine also got a 4 in negotiation to convince the rest he was right.

• Derek: What… can I do for you, little speaker?
• Gaia: I had a dream you're dead.
• Derek: I… am alive still. I can serve.
• Gaia: You can rest, not serve.
• Derek: They bred us strong. You do not have to worry. I can endure until I can't anymore, and then I will pass on, allowing you to keep living as you should. Do not waste tears on those like me.

• Vituska: Fancy meeting you here, Miss Dynko.

• Dead Soldier: Why did you do this? We wanted to help you.

• Vituska: You people are like cockroaches, aren't you? I understand now why you got so incensed about me putting down that monster. You are like her, only… worse. At least she wanted to be something better. Unlike you.

• Gaia puts a bullet between Vituska's eyes. His head explodes like an overripe melon and quite a sizeable part of it gets ON Clark.
• Also, the shot basically wakes up everyone in the hospital.

• Clark: Red, red, soo much red.
• Maelle: It… it'll be okay, Clark. I promise.

• Riung: Ah, I see.
• And suddenly you are elsewhere, it's a round white room, with an ornate round white window that looks to where you were before. You are sitting on the most comfortable couch you have ever sat on, you are wearing the most cozy blanket you have ever felt, and in front of you there's a plate of something that looks like cookies and glass of something: both look and smell delicious and comforting.
• Riung: Take your time, child, there's no hurry.

• Gaia: I, uh… fucked everything up. We were like, going to Iorena, and it was going good enough. But like the evil Vituska appeared and I shot him because hes evil and now we are in jail and I don't know how long will we stay there. And like, what now? Can we still get to the portal? Without Derek or that anagusi woman? I guess we could just try to keep going in the same direction but that's risky…

• The cookies are the most delicious cookies you have ever tasted. Like, holy shit, that's cookie perfection.

• Congratulations, Maelle, the cookie cured your headache.

A Rose by any other name is still a Rose.

Apparently this being session 13 means that luck was absolutely against the party. For most of the game, they got very bad rolls.

On a related note, the player's reaction to that one medic that rolled natural -4 on medicine and natural 4 in convincing everyone else he was right was heart-wrenching because Derek can't get a break either.