Fairy Tales

[thessalian]

Changeling was a hoot. The group consists of:

dodgyhoodoo: Silas Creech, a Sluagh Grump of a hermitous bent who prefers books to people.
neonchameleon: Lesley Smith, a Sidhe Wilder of House Gwydion with bishie good looks and insatiable curiosity.
weaselbitch: Edward (never got a last name), a Eshu Childling who's far too cute to be allowed.

These three had been taken out of their freehold in Doncaster by a troll named Olaf (and Lesley's bodyguard) who, on news from Silas that the nobles of their freehold had been behaving oddly, did some investigation and found that the house was going decidedly Unseelie. There was talk of stockpiling cold iron weapons and at least one instance of an enchanged mortal being brought to one of the recent gatherings, probably against her will. Olaf thought it was his duty to get what freehold denizens he could to safety, and still hasn't given up hope on one or two others (so the way is clear if lokean wants to join in when he's back from Easter break), so he fetched the Childling, the Wilder and the Grump out of Doncaster and took them to London, where he had already set up a life for himself as a nightclub bouncer.

Not much happened, since it was mostly prelude and character gen. They discovered a magely type acting very strangely, apparently having some kind of bent against artistic expression, and Lesley got fed upon by Toreadors. Then they went to the Natural History museum and saw two kids being abducted by members of their old freehold. They apprehended their old comrades on a London-Doncaster train, but not before running into Silas' colleague at the library at which he has found employment, a possible Changeling-in-waiting named Ella. Of course, Silas didn't know this when he fed her a Glamour-riddled Pocky stick to enchant her and "prevent the need for convoluted lying explanations later" so that she could help on the rescue mission. In fact, even afterwards, when Lesley called attention to the possibility, Silas screwed up his Kenning roll entirely and thought she was a letterbox.

Anyway, Lesley made good use of Sovereign and prevented too much counterattack from the Satyr and Eshu who'd taken the kids, Olaf protected Lesley from a flung cold iron switchblade, Edward got the kids away from the other Changelings by explaining that they were like the witch with the gingerbread cottage (provoking many tears from the poor little seven-year-olds) and they got off the train at Stevenage, heading back to London with all due haste. They took the kids home, got Olaf to A&E and then Silas got the bright idea to take Ella to a Camden freehold to completely immerse her in the whole Kithain thing, figuring that was one sure-fire way to get her Changeling side to come out. If she does come over all Changeling, though, there is a problem: her boyfriend, a somewhat unpleasant, potentially violent Bible-bashing fundamentalist Christian of the worst possible kind.

Plus they still have the mage and their former freeholders to deal with.

Typical "run-by-thessalian session, really.

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[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Plus they still have the mage and their former freeholders to deal with.

And the Toreadors - although I don't think they'll object. (Yes, Leslie is slightly crazy, slightly overconfident, and more than slightly ruthless).

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

...And the Toreadors. When and if they sober up.