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Descending Fire

2nd Day of Descending Fire

• The night of the moot had come and the lunars of the West answered the call and gathered on the nameless island that all sane men & women knew to avoid. They arrived one at a time to the isle where two were already waiting next to a bonfire. Most of them came wearing the shapes of the sea and assumed their human feet once they reached land. A few came from the forest and some from the sky. One came by boat with an entourage.

• Introductions were made all around as well as each caste and spirit shape revealed to their peers in turn. Pathfinder was asked to send his demons away so that the eyes of Malfeas would not also be in attendance. He did so without argument. His personal assistant, Turtle, one of his otter beatmen children was allowed to remain. The four lunars newest to their fellows in the West, Obsidian Gaze, Dead Eye, Pathfinder and Cozened Premonition, the youngest of them all, were introduced and questioned as well. There was some controversy over the Lintha motif moonsilver tattoos that Obsidian Gaze had been marked with by Fathom's Pen, who harbored an obvious dislike for the new lunar. And Adamant Depths was not very pleased when his attempts to question Pathfinder of his past were met with a defiant lack of information regarding his time before he arrived in the West.
• After introductions people were left to wander & mingle as they wished and quickly broke into various smaller groups to discuss various matters or to recruit the newcomers to various societies and factions. Capering Sifu spoke with Dead Eye and marveled at the workmanship of his weapons. Cozened Premonition made rounds to each of the group and introduced himself to each of the other newcomer lunars. Red Tusk after hearing Obsidian Gaze claim to have slain a massive wyld mutant of the sea demanded to see it's head that he'd kept as a trophy. He left & returned with the creatures severed head and proceeded to retell the tale of how he had slain it with an impressive enthusiasm that drew others to hear him speak.
• The fire burned lower as the night progressed and the moot had come to an end and the gathered lunars began to vanish into the dark one by one as they had arrived. Adamant Depths stopped the four newcomers and requested that they delay their departure so that he may speak with them of recent troubling matters that they should be aware of.
• The four gathered around him and as he began to speak, his belly suddenly split open as a mass of eels writhed forth from within him.

• Adamant Depths immediate began hurling offensive sorcery spells at the other lunars. He was older, but there were simply more of them and he was quickly dispatched, ending with Obsidian Gaze tearing him in half, though consuming some of the eels in the process. Once dead, the eels inside the dead lunars body melted away & left no trace as had the ones inside Obsidian Gaze's gullet, though he kept inducing vomiting to remove them, but nothing eel-like came out.
• The four of them gazed in general confusion at the corpse wondering what had just happened when Fathom's Pen emerged from the forest and indirectly accused them of murder. Obsidian Gaze stalked off knowing that any plea on his part would fall on deaf ears as the old squid lunar obviously had it out for him. When they explained what had happened, he did not seem to believe them and informed them that they needed to leave his territory immediately.
• The lunars decided to work together to investigate this mystery & clear their names of any slander Fathom's Pen would probably seek to tag them with. They all went and boarded the Sublime Huntsman where they were introduced to the otterpops crew, the old ship's namesake spirit and found Capering Sifu on board talking with the spirit and waiting to speak with them.
• The ship began northward while they met with Capering Sifu below decks to discuss the incident on the island. Sifu had seen the fight from the sky and had though it best to avoid involvement at that time. He had come to the ship to speak with them afterward and found the ship spirit somewhat informative on the matter. The spirit seemed to have some memory of a similar incident when he was awake in the First Age. It was a disease of the essence that they had called the "Writhing". Though his memory was foggy, he seemed to think that his awakening and their return to the West was somehow tied into the disease. Capering Sifu admitted to them that he had witnessed the strange disease personally once recently and that stories of lunars mysteriously going missing, particularly to the west near the edges of the wyld, were becoming more common. They discussed strategy and decided that Capering Sifu would seek an audience with Leviathan's entourage while the other lunars, now an impromptu pack, would investigate to the west.
• After Capering Sifu departed Pathfinder sent Turtle to have the navigator redirect the ship westward and then gave his new lunar companions a quick tour of the ship and then showed them to the Fate Engine room. While discussing and looking over the strange artifact Lavender approached and having heard their previous conversation made the suggestion that perhaps Pathfinder should summon forth a specific breed of demon that could perhaps aid them in their investigation of the Writhing. Pathfinder agreed, thanked her and bid Turtle begin preparations for the summoning the next night.
• As a precautionary measure, Obsidian Gaze agreed to allow Pathfinder to have him watched in case he had become infected by the eels that had entered his body during the fight. Pathfinder commanded his demon blood ape Burgundy to follow & watch the shark lunar.

3rd Day of Descending Fire

• While the newcomers acclimated themselves to the ship, Obsidian Gaze had the pleasure of meeting Otis the Cookie in the kitchen and was given a demonstration of the...infinite egg dispenser...thing. And a tasty dish of seasoned scrambled eggs.
• That night, Pathfinder, attended by Dead Eye in case of trouble, summoned forth the Naneke and bound it successfully to the task of assisting him research the writhing until he released it. He then renamed it Chartreuse.