Session 438 - Winter Wonderland Return

Date: 6 January 1626

Zenith Deity: Oberon
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
Moon Face: Clean Face (no effect)

Revealed Backstory:

- Ghost Snels, during the German Peasant Revolt, encouraged his religiously fervent charges to slaughter all captives. They didn't, which is why they lost. Get a reroll against fallout of someone disregarding your advice.

Events:

--- Resolutions

- Our heroes remain where they were at the end of the Christmas Special. In an icy wasteland, Santa's body boiling away into snow at their feet.
- Straight ahead is a winter wonderland, but their attentions are drawn to a swirling vortex of colour labelled Doomed Resolutions.
- They make resolutions and enjoy the results for a bit, but ultimately lose interest.

--- Winter Wonderland

- Memories emerge from Christmas Specials of the past as they enter Winter Wonderland through the blue gate. Didn't we meet James Young here once?

- Nieval heads straight for the ice rink and grows skates from his legs. He does some tricks, and it drops his Intelligence to 3 and boosts his Wisdom to 18! Hidra gives it a go too, but isn't as tricky.

- Next stop is the food court where some of them get mulled wine. Nieval starts floating, Nostradama's stomach grumbles as her torso shrinks, and Ghost Snels shrinks entirely as he turns into a gecko.

--- Gifflewim Un-Reborn

- They meet Gifflewim and discover that he's settled his disagreement with Julgoor by simply eating as many Julgoor shopkeepers as he could find. He's also pretty certain that the Idea of Thorns has won out over the Idea of Wheat in his head. Apparently what remains of Julgoor has now become part of Japhet & Hirsch's body.

- He rejects therapy over any of this, and tells everyone that James Young can be found by the rollercoaster.

--- The Rollercoaster

- They can't find James Young, so they ride the rollercoaster anyway.

- Screaming, they gain strange powers!

-- Snels can teleport himself anywhere in the world... once.

-- Nieval can swap clothing with a person they can see... three times.
-- Sulfur's next kiss will kill the recipient.

-- Hidra has an "uncomfy feeling".

-- Nostradama's clothes decompose into lime green spiders, who weave her new clothes.

- And yet, no James Young.

--- Overpriced Village

- They get food from a slender and somehow still alive Zulu Claus, whose powers are waning.
- Nieval asks for a Terry's Chocolate Orange and gets the original OP version! 16 slices that heal 1d6 per slice!

- Ghost Snels gets jollof rice.

- Sulfur gets gems and trinkets.

- Nostradama gets... 4 rations of normal bread.

- Hidra gets Book 210 - The Light at the End of Days

--- The Orrery Returns!

- The come to a tall but otherwise normal-looking guy called James Young, who stands before a huge and gleaming metal orrery. It spins slowly.

- Hidra plucks Mars from the orrery. Nieval licks it.
- Hidra faces the moon to be always dragon-faced.
- He also spots a dragon-shaped rock and moves it much closer to the Earth. The effects of this new dragon shall be decided elsewhere...

- Thus ends the first session of the year.

Total: 7000 exp

Treasures:

- Terry's Chocolate Orange
- Jollof rice

- Gems and trinkets (300 exp)
- Book #120 - The Light at the End of Days (50 exp)

Total: 350 exp

OOC:

Carter the Remembrancer, Cartographer, Paymaster (300 exp/level)
Zoë the Expedition Leader (100 exp/level)
George the Hypeman (?) (100 exp/level)
Kitty the Vanguard (100 exp/level)
Charles the Chef (100 exp/level)

Exp Totals:

- Kitty / Sulphur, Level 6 Boo-gilist: 54765 (Level up at 72000)

- Zoë / Nostradama, Level 6 Cleric of Nonanism: 46421 (Level up at 72000)

- Carter / Hidra, Level 5 Fighter: 27066 (Level up at 32000)

- Charles / Nieval the Good, Level 5 Specialist: 27008 (Level up at 28000)

- George / Ghost Snels, Level 5 Denialist Cleric: 25766 (Level up at 36000)