Another Yondering

# Incoming Transmission
# Source Identifier: The ACE Organisation
# Destination Identifier: TE3-Firebrand#Her Glorious Command#Starlight Ebbing#Muse IX#Unquiet Journey#
# Subject: Help Wanted
# Message Begins

Ace’s High seeks to contract skilled and discreet professionals to assist in interviewing ACE Organisation staff being considered for promotion, and to provide necessary support to these staff as they adjust to their new roles.

Interested parties to meet at ACE compound in Luckworth for further briefing.

# Message Ends

• Gunnery Sergeant Desiring Peace - Phil
• Blind Devotion - Alex ET

• Desiring Peace and Blind Devotion show up in Luckworth as instructed, and are briefed that the ACE organisation believes one of their employees has been granted visions that lead them to valuable creatures, and they have narrowed it down to two people in the same town, but are not sure which is the right person. The party are to go to the town, find these people, suss out which is the right one, then help them execute on the visions so the organisation can get these creatures. [OC: This is the result of the Intervention performed by Red Nine during shared:mission:forging_ahead.]
• After dealing with a predictable encounter on the way there, the party arrive at a run-down town on the outskirts of the Ace's World shipheart range to find a large quantity of angry goosehawks mobbing the house at the address they've been given. They dispatch the goosehawks and enter the house to find two young ACE employees, Knave Blue and Fives Fancy, with a young goosehawk they have captured and are discussing what to do with.
• Knave Blue and Fives Fancy both work at the ACE casino in town, and both claim to have had a dream where they saw a baby goosehawk under a tree on the edge of town, so they've captured this baby goosehaw and plan to take it there to see if anything happens. They say they've both been having strange dreams about animals for a couple of months now.
• The party agree to accompany Knave Blue, Fives Fancy and the baby goosehawk to the tree, and defend them from any more angry adult goosehawks that might descend. Which they do. When they reach the tree, however, there is another baby goosehawk already underneath it - but it is spooked by the fighting and the angry squawks of the adult goosehawks, and flies off despite the party's best attempts to catch it. Knave Blue and Fives Fancy are thrown into doubt whether this was actually the baby goosehawk they dreamed of, not the one they'd previously captured (and which is doing its best to baby-attack anyone nearby, derailing most serious conversations).
  • While conversation is ongoing, an old man with two trained Raktors shows up. This is Yondering Mountain, who says that he had a vision of meeting them all under this tree, and believes one of them has been blessed with visions from the 'Yondering Star' which will lead them to find special creatures to look after (and, as somewhat of a side-business, extract The Extract from in order to make money with which to look after the creatures). Yondering Mountain offers to train whoever this is. He cannot, however, comment on which goosehawk is the correct one, and suggests instead following a different vision so he can help the new Yonderer understand their calling when they meet a new creature.
  • Knave Blue mentions another dream, which they were hesitant to follow up on because it was clearly in the Decay. But if the party, who are clearly much better fighters than two casino employees, are happy to come with them and fight any Decay that might occur….? The party agree to do so.
  • Decay occurs. The party and their friends manage to evade a path full of Trackers (despite Yondering Mountain's slow amble), before finding the scene that Knave Blue says (and Fives Fancy hastily echoes) they saw in a vision: A military transport vehicle, apparently abandoned at some point during the war between ACE and HGC, which contains several large Goosehogs that appear to have climbed into it to eat leftover sandwiches. As the party arrive, however, the vehicle dissolves into large and angry Decay, fighting the hogs and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The hogs also fight the Decay and the party somewhat indiscriminately. The party attempt to discriminate at least far enough not to accidentally kill any 'special' goosehogs.
  • With the fighting out of the way, Yondering Mountain attempts to teach both Knave Blue and Fives Fancy how to detect which of the goosehogs is special.

• Bullet points of what characters did in the aftermath of the mission

• Breakdown of consequences for characters - rewards, effects, contacts.
• Also mention any wider consequences for the world

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