Alright I'm ready for a Justin saving druid meeting
Hey, Lisa, we gonna go to the druid meeting? No? Fripp and the druids are too busy for something as trivial as saving a guy's life? Wow.
Okay, okay, it sounds like Fripp is getting lost in...timey wimey stuff I guess? I'm not surprised he's not doing well. He was speaking in quite the riddles when I last saw him.
Linda showed up and we talked more about wanting to save Anne but we can't do that without the druids' and Fripp's help, but we may be able to go ahead and save Justin. He may not want to be saved, but Dark Core will very likely kill him now that they've decided he's not useful.
We need Alex, though! We can't just make plans and run off on a mission without our fourth soul rider!
Lisa sent me to go ask around about a ride to the oil rig while we wait for Alex to show up.
Asked this guy who usually gives me a ride, but no dice. There's not nearly enough room for four horses on his little boat.
I went to ask the captain but he's nowhere to be found. I had to ask several identical seamen where he is, but finally one told me he's out sailing.
We don't have time to lose, so I started asking around if anyone else would take us there, but they all said the weather this time of year is too stormy and dangerous for sailing.
This guy said he might if he had one of those giant barges the Dark Core use, but how would he get one of those? It's not like he can just sneak on one lol...unless?
I went back to Linda and Lisa to see if Alex has shown up yet and tell them the bad news that nobody is willing to take us, though I think I have an idea
Alex wasn't there, yet, but they did seem very excited to steal a barge. Linda also said she had a vision that the world would end if I don't take ChanceHunter with me on this mission. Whoa, chill Linda, Chance goes with me on all my missions. No need to be so dramatic.
We decided to split up to look for Alex. There's no way she'd ever forgive us if we stole a barge without her. Linda looked around the observation points, Lisa looked in valedale, and I was sent to Marley's since Alex mentioned going there with her mom.
Yep, found her. She was giving her mom a riding lesson.
I caught her up on everything she missed and she said she's just gonna finish up with her mom and then she'll meet us at the Moorland beach
Welp, Alex isn't here yet. Lisa suggested we do some recon while we wait for her, so I went sneaking around to see how easy it'll be to sneak on board the barge
Yikes that's a lot of guards. This is gonna be much harder than last time.
Oh good Alex finally decided to join us.
We agree there's no way we'll be able to sneak past the guards, there's too many. Linda said she remembers there's a spell that will make you look like somebody else, but she doesn't know how to do it. We'll have to ask Mrs Holdsworth for help
Mrs Holdworth agrees to help, but of course she doesn't have all the ingredients, so we'll have to go fetch them for her. At least there's enough of us I only need to get one ingredient this time. The other soul riders will get the rest.
I was assigned going to the witch's swamp and getting water with the reflection of a will-o-wisp in it. Weird. Linda told me to not look at the wisps themselves, since they'll draw me into the swampy water.
So of course that's the first thing I did. Guess what I'm alive still, and I got the magic wisp water
Potions all done, time to test it out
chug chug chug
we just have to concentrate on who we want to turn in to and boom there we are
Alex accidentally thought of Justin tho lol
The potion works. Mrs Holdworth also gave us some sleeping bombs as a plan B and we were on our way
So the plan is we all turn ourselves into Dark Core goons, Lisa and I will talk to the guard and distract him, while Alex and Linda will sneak on board the barge and act like they belong there. We're to act like we're taking our horses to be turned into dark horses, just like I did to Chance that one time.
um why did i put the bottle halfway in my face when i drank the potion
i guess it works either way
I told the guard I was on special orders to bring these horses to Headquarters and Linda and Alex ran past us as I answered his questions. Unfortunately the guard was just too suspicious and he saw through our disguises.
They all freaked out and put up a barrier and started running at us, but Lisa was quick and she threw some sleep bombs at them
Good thing those work. Love that this guy has his head in the sand lol
More guards were coming and I had to fend them off by throwing more sleep bombs while Alex and Linda struggled with the controls to the barge. Turns out they don't know how to drive a barge
you would think it would be easier because there's four of them :P
throwing potions at the guards was fun tho
eventually they figured out the controls, but we decided there's no way Lisa and I could get on the barge without some guards getting on too, so we told them we'd meet them at Fort Pinta and they left us there on the dock
That's when Lisa and I ran out of sleep bombs. Ruh roh. Time to scatter!
We ran in opposite directions. Good thing we got our horses, there's no way the guards could chase us down.
We met up at the docks at Fort Pinta
Lisa said Linda texted her that they're being chased by another barge and it might be a while before they can shake them off and come get us. Guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow.