This session was played on 04/10/2025. Clark, Gaia and Maelle help defend a Malian Fort against a wave of aberrations, have a number of personal revelations, and meet two Ariyadnas in the same day.

• Clark Dubois
• Gaia Dynko
• Maelle Kurimoto
• Amanda
• Mauto
• Fulan ibn Fulan
• Jaled
• child
• looper
• Malian bowmen
• Malian spearmen

• [Gaia] is trying to talk to Riung by finding the White Tower. Problem is, this is a lot easier said than done. She has dreamed at this point of like a dozen different white towers: a giant white tree, possibly a dream of Minas Tirith, a white tower with a princess trapped on top and more…/
• The weirdest thing she saw, just for a moment, was a gigantic white tower that seemed to reach up to the actual sun. Made of three towers braided into one. It was really, really weird, but also looked hazy and she woke from that dream instantly and tired as if she had run a marathon.

• Clark takes a look at the dress, and was about to put it away but then a little bulb lights up in his head: why not take it? It looks pretty, and possibly valuable, and is pretty cute, yeah better grab it for now…

• Maelle is suddenly jumpscared by a hand placed on their shoulder.
• Maelle: Gah fuck!
• Fulan: Oookay, memo to myself: do not try to make contact without prior warning. But important: did you hear the sound of a portal right now?

• Gaia: Crabs followed us?
• Maelle: Lizards instead.

• Clark and Gaia reach the gate where the bowmen are getting ready and a bit scared of shooting the lizard.
• Gaia decides to take things steady so she gets into position sniper style, using part of the palisade to have a place to hold he rifle and taking her time to shoot.
• Clark goes from running to rising his rifle to his face, shoots, and one of the lizards just dies, and falls behind the cart.
• And a couple seconds after that, the growths on the back of the lizard fucking explode.

• Maelle jumps in and manages to calm one of the horses, but the other will not calm. It's super scared. It's frenzying. It's about to trample Maelle.
• And then there's a high-pitched scream and the horse is floating.
• Maelle: What the fuck?
• As Maelle steps back they see a little kid, her hands pointing at the horse and trembling. She can't be older than eight.
• Maelle: T—thank you kid!
• A huge shadow looms over the little girl and she shrinks on herself. The huge dude with the scimitar hits the kid over the head and whispers-screams something at her, then looks at Maelle, his eyes very angry and distrustful.
• Maelle: Oi!

Rose climbed a small mountain.

Derek managed to sleep through the entire session. The poor wolf needed a lot of rest.

The storyteller was actually worried about the child Ariyadna/Jaled dynamic triggering some of the players, but they didn't have any problems with it. I mean, they *do* have huge problems and are planning to kill Jaled or get him dead, but no one had a panic attack or a PTSD episode.

On the other hand, the storyteller did have a freakout emself because ei kept accidentally misgendering Maelle (the character, not the player) when ei got too deep into narrating.

Have we mentioned that Looper Ariyadna has a very high manipulation skill? after five minutes of conversation the party was ready to fuck up Jaled without even a prompting. She didn't even roll for it.