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Session 1: "Makeover Montage!"

(June 24, 2018) Before Dara and Snadwick are woken up by the commotion in the kitchen (Session 0.1), Gunnhe Ward is awakened by a gentle knock at their door. It is the Bear and Bonnet's kitchen boy, delivering a note from his brother Simon, who is the night guard at the constable's office. The note says Snargle, the leader of the band of kobolds currently locked up in the constable's jail, wishes to speak with her. Ward heads out to the lockup, where Simon is seated on the porch outside, toying with some silver coins. He tells her to go on in, but "no funny business." There are two cells in the lockup. One holds the five kobolds; the other holds a human swashbuckler named Lan, who arrived here after an altercation with his shipmates, who knocked him out, locked him in a shipping crate, and sent him here. He is filthy and bedraggled. He was jailed until the constable (a wood elf named Ollenor) could figure out what to do with him. He shares his cell with a sing...

The story so far: Sessions 0-0.1.

Session 0: "It Goes Boom!" (June 10) A mighty airship leaves the city of Rajgan for a voyage to its longtime rival, the city of Malimpel. The two cities are about to have a peace ceremony after many years of war; many important officials are on this flight. Snadwick the tortle wizard, Dara the eladrin warlock, and Gunnhe the human bard each board the airship separately, for their own reasons. They notice a group of five kobolds eyeing the other passengers suspiciously, as well as a tabaxi in monkish robes standing by herself. About halfway through the flight, while the airship travels over the vast Simrijj Plateau, the three hear a commotion on the cargo deck below. They find uniformed guards, led by the dwarf Captain Kaldek, attempting to subdue and detain the group of kobolds the party noticed earlier. The kobolds insist that the flight is in danger, that they were only in the hold because they saw "the Snake" heading into the hold. They insist "the Snake...