- Everyone meets up in the Hedge and all agree to travel together to try to get out.
- Three small friendly dogs try to engage you in play, but when one takes damage they all run away.
- You rescue a small fuzzy creature, and in return it tells you how to reach the mortal world: find the golden stars, follow the light, don’t touch the water.
- You all find stars (flowers or crystals) and wind up on a new path, heading toward a bright light
- A nasty plant-creature tries to eat you but you drive it off.
- The path ends at a river, where Girma the giant tortoise carries you across in return for stories.
- Some wolves chase you toward a lighthouse, but a Shadowhound drives them off and you enter a round building, where a woman (Kerri) hurries you out.
- It’s late morning on a hot summer day in Riverton, Ohio.
- A van takes you to a condo where people have set out a buffet lunch for you and are getting three units prepared for you to stay there.
- Granted 2 XP.
- Finish lunch and decide who’s staying where (Tilly and Chris in Unit A on the end, Aeryn and Stigandr in Unit B, Letty and Riley in Unit C).
- Learn Changeling basics from Fitz Burns. Collect $50 and a map of the town each, and one phone for the group.
- Walk into town where you purchase basics at Goodwill and Target.
- Tilly and Stigandr wander south along Water St, seeing some sights and making themselves unpleasant in a nice restaurant. They head back north along Center St, and notice angry people in the 7th St, South St, and Barber St. areas.
- The others visit the beach and several of the small shops along Lake, 2nd, and 3rd streets. They notice people in this region are sadder than expected. In the area of 3rd St and Falcon, though, they notice people are jumpy.
- The two groups reconnect in Memorial Park and compare notes.
- Granted 3 XP.
- Explore more of the town, primarily going down the western/central part, cutting east, then crossing through the woods to return to the condo and prepare for the party.
- At the party meet a whole lot of people, including the monarchs and their honor guard, the recruiters for all four courts, and a few others including someone who can escort you to the Hedge to make hedgespun, a dancer at the White Satin Club who is concerned about random strange problems there, the town spiritualist who invites you to accompany her on some ghost explorations, and a mysterious woman who wants to meet separately with Chris.
- Observe a man who’s drunk and ranting incoherently about “bad stuff happening” and “nobody is listening.”
- Get contact information for the head of the Autumn research facility, the guy who makes IDs, and the one person (besides them) who’s not in a court.
- Granted 2 XP.
- In the night everyone has odd dreams.
- In the morning (Wednesday 9/18/19) you receive copies of the pledges used for Freehold and Court membership.
- You call Kerri to get Bert’s contact information, and learn about his traumatic past.
- You visit the project Nian is working on in Memorial Park: a meditation labyrinth.
- Nian denies knowing anything about emotions in different areas of town. His rigid schedule is due to a pledge he made almost a year ago, but he won’t say with whom.
- You visit Bert, who gives you access to notes on the strange events he thinks are going on in his hollow.
- You learn about the Chinese five-element system and link it to Nian’s labyrinth.
- Granted 2 XP.
- You helped Lara Dement resolve an issue with Adam’s Ghost in a house on High Street.
- Aeryn crashed a party on Candle Circle and made friends with Nicole.
- You tracked some shifts in your emotions as you walked south on East Street.
- Chris met with Gloria, making a pledge and a conversation.
- You met and talked with some other researchers in Autumn.
- Granted 2 XP.
- You investigated the mystery at the White Satin Club.
- You met with Fitz, who mentioned some upcoming deadlines and discussed Chris’s pledge.
- You made a motley pledge.
- You have some appointments coming up:
- Tonight (in a few minutes) with Kendra to go into the Hedge; meet at Eagle Gym
- Tomorrow 9:00 am with Petra in Ashe Scientific, C building, to introduce her to a puzzle
- Tomorrow 3:00 pm with Gerry Monty upstairs in the Eagle Gym to explore the Freehold pledge
- Granted 2 XP.
- Kendra took you into the Hedge, then chased a dog into the underbrush and lost you.
- While in the Hedge you collected materials for hedgespinning
- You also found several items that have glamour in them:
- A small jar of golden honey-like sap from a tree
- Three old metal buttons with eyes on them, identified as tokens
- A knife pulled from a tree trunk above a corpse
- You created your own hollow to hold your Hedge materials, with a door in a parking booth.
- You had another interesting dream.
- Granted 3 XP.
- In the morning (Thursday 9/19/19) you met with Petra to discuss your information and observations.
- Chris met with Gloria and begins learning a contract clause.
- You spent some time crafting hedgespun in your hollow.
- You met with the pledge expert to discuss the Freehold and court pledges.
- Granted 2 XP.
- You all joined the Freehold.
- You talked to the Summer King about your concerns; he will ask Vicky to look into it.
- Petra called and told you of strange things in the Hedge, and she discovered a hollow door in the arbor.
- You went to Nian’s house to talk to him and learned of the Legend of Nian.
- Four of you met with Jeremy Wright to arrange for better-quality IDs.
- The other two of you identified some magic items and crafted some Hedgespun.
- You all moved the hollow door to the water tower.
- You met with Susan White to talk about dreams.
- You collected some pieces of iron from the abandoned machine shop.
- Granted 2 XP.
- You visited the Goblin Market, saw many things, and made some minor purchases.
- Tilly ran into an old “friend” running one of the stalls.
- A stall selling porcelain dolls was troublesome.
- You asked Kurnas, the "answer goblin," three questions.
- You went back to town to gather the things needed to pay Kurnas.
- Granted 2 XP.
- You killed a deer, drained its blood, and took it to the Goblin Market to trade for weapons
- You got answers, some incomplete, from Kurnas the “answer goblin.”
- You explored the rest of the Goblin Market and made a few additional purchases.
- Three of you had interesting dreams, while the other three guarded them.
- In the morning (Friday 9/20/19) you explored the results of attacking a hollow wall from the outside.
- Chris met again with Gloria.
- You asked Kendra how to find the Owlsback Library, and she referred you to Autumn.
- Granted 2 XP
- Visited Ashe Science Park, learned how to reach the Owlsback Library
- Talked to Vicky about her investigation
- Chris met with Gloria
- Traveled through the Hedge, defeating several opponents and making a new friend
- Granted 2 XP
- Continued the trip through the Hedge
- In the morning (Saturday 9/21/19), visited the Owlsback Library and read the Book of Mirrors
- Granted 2 XP
- Fought off a swarm of bugs and made a hollow, and returned
- Talked with Roger McCartney about evidence
- Picked up IDs, did some shooting, and met with the Monarchs to develop a plan
- Went into the Hedge and broke into the hollow
- Granted 3 XP
- Engaged in an epic battle in the hollow against an array of artificial devices, changelings, hedge beasts, and a Gentry
- Succeeded in defeating the opponents, destroying the Gentry, and thwarting Nian’s plan
- At the direction of Matthew Ruby, the Summer King, stabilized two changeling opponents (Nian and a Chinese-appearing stranger)
- Granted 4 XP
- Busted up the token in the hollow and dismantled the hollow
- The Summer King made a pledge with the conspirators (including Nian, after he was revived)
- Everyone got healing, but Nian is psychologically disturbed and the stranger is still unconscious
- In the morning (Sunday 9/22/19) held a Freehold-wide hearing on recent events
- Granted 2 XP
- Hearing concluded, with testimony from Nian and the enemy changeling Huang/Face
- Consequences determined: long-term pledges for the six conspirators, death for Huang
- The rest of Sunday and on Monday morning (9/23/19) did various things (driving lessons, court discussions, token construction, etc.)
- Granted 2 XP
- Did craft work on token, hedgespun
- Took a short bike ride outside of the freehold, with unexpected results
- Attended the transition party and saw a new Autumn King selected
- In the morning (Tuesday 9/24/19) rented a house on the beach for 3 months
- Those who haven’t yet guarded someone’s dreams do so tonight.