Encounter Nature Roll: 11
Game Master: So close. A head peaks out of the jungle as the group, including Leilar and Ariel, make their way along the river. You all hear rustling in the leaves and you look back to see the head of a child peeking out at you. Keep in mind, there has been no other sign of life since you arrived in the Fonlands.
Leilar: Hello. We were just passing through.
GM: What appears to be a child with wings emerges from the jungle. She could be a Mmoatia, but her facial features aren’t as sharp, her ears come to points, and her wings are opaque like the Umbatia, but with less veins and there is no color to the little girl’s wings.
Leilar: Are you lost?
Badú: Do you want to get your friend back to the swamp or do you want to make a new friend?
Ariel: I’m so high that I think I can smell asshole, and it’s coming strong off of Badú.
Badú: What? I’m not trying to be mean, but if something dangerous does come along, we’re going to have a hard time protecting you and the little strange girl. She is not Umbatia.
Strange Girl: I am Aziza. My name is Mey. I smelled the pipe and thought other Azizas might be nearby.
Leilar: Is your family close by. Friends, family, a hive?
Mey: I haven’t found them yet, but I must have someone, right?
Leilar: You’re all alone in the jungle?
Mey: In this part of the jungle. I came here following my nose. All I have of my family is this cloth I wear around my neck, and when I find something that smells similar, I follow it. That’s how I ended up at the Aziza tree, but it disappeared before I could look inside. Why are there no Aziza there?
Mensah: We don’t know, little one. We were curious and explored it, and it brought us back here.
Leilar: We’re not Aziza, we’re not from the Fonlands. We were headed back to our home. Do you need help getting back to yours? Who do you live with?
Mey: I live alone, move through the jungle alone. I hope to find other Azizas someday.
Mensah: Maybe if you come with us to the swamp where we live, we could help you figure out the best places to look for other Aziza.
Badú: Can we really?
Ariel: I know I’m supposed to be high and not very helpful right now, but Badú, shut yo negative ass up and let these two handle this.
Badú: I’m just saying what everyone must be thinking.
Leilar: Mensah has already established that he’s read about the Aziza in the scrolls or whatever. Mey, if you come with us, you can meet Umbatia, Mmoatia, maybe some Yumboes, and you can ask them if they know where to find the Aziza. Mensah and I will do some research too, and we’ll bring you back when we have a better idea, or whenever you’re ready to come back.
Mensah: The swamp is nice, you will like it.
Mey: How do you get there? Is it down the river?
Leilar: There is a portal over the waterfall, watch. Badú, fly Ariel through the portal.
Ariel: This asshole?
Leilar: Just go with him so we can show Mey.
Ariel: Fine.
GM: Badú grabs Ariel’s arm and the two fly over the river and toward the waterfall. As they near it, a portal opens and water spills through. Ariel and Badú swim up, against the current, then the stream of water stops and the portal closes.
Leilar: That did not look fun.
Mensah: When you swim down under the swamp and enter the portal, you just fall over a waterfall in the Fonlands?
Leilar: Apparently. So, Mey, will you come with us?
GM: The little girl smiles and runs to grab Leilar’s hand. The three of them fly through the portal and swim up until they emerge in the Umbatia swamp.
Sene, Lofet, and Umbriel are there with Coffey, Ahdis, Lorv, Tracia and Pultine as they fuss over Ariel. Wielar pulls Leilar out of the swamp and everyone is full of questions for Leilar and Mensah who emerges from the swamp with the pipe of Jeje and Mey, the Aziza girl.
Leilar: What happened with the Melee and the Dance?
Lorv: That’s not important. Who are these Umbatia and what have they done to Ariel? Is that an Aziza?
Leilar: Ariel will be fine…
GM: Leilar tries to explain, but the Supremes all gather around Mey, asking her questions.
Wielar: An Aziza, eh? You all went to the Fonlands instead of watching the Dance?
Leilar: Not on purpose. We smoked that Aziza pipe, Ariel couldn’t really handle it…
Ariel: I can handle it.
Wielar: Seems like you all had a good time. I’d like to hear all about it.
Leilar: Did you make it to the Dance? Who won? Did Mom win?
Wieler: The All Stars won. Maxx the Superguardian won the Dance. Let’s watch the replay while you fill me in on all your new friends, and your mother and her sisters fawn over that Aziza. I’ve never seen one before, I don’t think your mother has either.
GM: Leilar wraps an arm around Ariel’s shoulders and they follow Wielar to sit and spectate replays of the Arbitration of Hysteria.
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