1. Quests

Sailor Swift

Chapter 07b

INTRODUCTION

She has never performed in Delva because it is inland - surrounded by the Great Grass Sea and has no port.

However for the marriage celebration the party are attending (Pathar Jan's young daughter is marrying Drizellda Rain III's younger brother) Pathar Jan has arranged to have her ship The Swift pulled by men tugging huge ropes across the great grass sea - the ship itself mounted on a massive wheeled platform. 

THE ARRIVAL & EXIT OF SWIFT

The whole city rushes to the outskirts of Delva to watch the incredible sight of the ship - The Swift - approaching across the grass.

In a huge, colorful parade it makes its way through the city before reaching the great square where the sailors on board transform the ship into a large stage set.

Sailor Swift comes out down a gangway they have erected and address the crowd telling them to get ready for her performance after the wedding ceremony.

Then suddenly a portal appears, a figure comes out and snatches her running back into the portal - the portal is still there.

Her beloved Sir Travis Kelce appeals to the crowd for brave people to come with him and rescue her.


Explain they get a +1 on their dice roll for every Taylor Swift reference they spot.


THROUGH THE PORTAL

They expect to step through the portal to somewhere else but instead they are in a corridor made of the same light as the portal. Behind and in front the corridor turns so they can't see what is around the corner. 


Whichever way they go they come to a door - weird in the corridor of light because it just looks like an ordinary door, the kind someone might have in their house. The door cannot be opened. On the door hangs a painting:

Painting - when they say the name of the 'Sailor Swift' song Love Story - the door opens


THE BEACH


They go through the door and find themselves standing on a beach - it is the The Feywild - through an insight check they might recognise it from their previous visit, recalling the tricks that had been played on them by the fey Daire

Although its mid afternoon in Delva, here on the beach  it is getting dark, the sun is going down over the sea. There are foot print in the sand that lead up the beach as they follow them it begins to snow.

Sir Travis Kelce tells them that the figure that stole her away was her ex-manager Scooter Braun. He once attempted to magically steal her voice, that plan failed so now he has kidnapped her. 

Play - Snow on the Beach


A HOUSE OF CARDS

Following the footprints up the beach they end at tiny house made of playing cards, the house is about half a meter tall and although the footprints are human size they stop just before the house.

Surrounding the house and leading away from the beach is what looks like endless desert. 

If the party examine the house they find the house has tiny door knockers made of rolled cards and on the door hangs a painting (not made of cards) Painting 2 when they say Picture to Burn they are magically shrunk into the house.

Inside they are in a grand mansion - everything is made of playing cards - they wander through the rooms and look at all the playing card mirrors, chairs, candle sticks etc. In the grand ballroom at one end they see another door with a painting. Standing between the party and the portal is Lana Del Rey.

Sir Travis Kelce recognises her - what are you doing here? He says to her. Travis explains that Lana once sung with Taylor and toured with the ship. She claims that she was kidnapped. She says she hasn't seen Taylor or Scooter. She won't let them go near the door with the painting. A check will reveal one of Swift's earrings on the floor. It is revealed that Del Ray is lying and is working with Scooter who must have taken her through the door in this room. 

She challenges them to a duel and says 'now sparks are going to fly'.


Play now Sparks are Going to Fly.


She casts a 'rainstorm' spell and the house of cards blows apart - the swarm of cards all fly round and hitting the players. All around them now they are in the open air is desert and a black night sky with a flock of vicious cards that attack at random.

She then casts a spell that causes the players to 'drop everything'.


When Lana Del Rey is defeated the cards all fly back into place - recreating the house and the door with Painting 3 - when they say 'You Need to Calm Down' 


The party goes through the door.


MONSTER ON THE HILL

They find themselves at the bottom of a great green hill. 

A 'monster comes over the hill' - Monster on the Hill - holding what looks like its heart in one of its hands.

The heart is beating but has an arrow stuck in it.

Play - Anti-Hero

The monster rips the head off Sir Travis Kelce killing him.

The monster is impossible to defeat by conventional means and doesn't seem to take any damage. 

When they take the arrow out of the heart it carries the creature turns back into Sailor Swift.

She joins the party trying to escape the Feywild.

She has no recollection of anything that happened since she made the announcement on the stage in Delva, she remembers nothing.


OUT OF THE WOODS

At the top of the hill - they can see the woods on the other side and on the other side of that - a door with a painting on a short tower. 

Play Out of the Woods


They enter the dark woods and walk for sometime in the direction that they saw the door lay in from the top of the hill. The trees look like the shapes of distorted bodies. After a while they come across a stone altar on it is a burning blue flame - looks magical coming out of an oil lamp. If they try and remove the lamp they get a shock. 

If they wander off into the woods after a while they always teleported back to the flame and altar - only when they light a torch will the blue magic light reveal what look like two tire tracks or wheel tracks that lead them out of the woods. As they clear the tree line they see the door just a few hundred meters away.


THE SPIDER BOY

However, between them and the door stands Scooter Braun.

Scooter says that he captured Swift with the aid of a Prince of the Fey but that the Fey tricked him and when he brought her here it was the Fey prince that turned Swift into a monster. 

Just behind them the Fey prince and the party's previous tormentor Daire appears. He pretends to be shocked to see the party.

Obviously he has set them up again. 


He then says that he is in a generous mood so he will let either the party or Scooter through the portal. Only one can return to the world. To decide who gets to leave they must fight each other - the winner can use the portal. 

At this point Scooter Braun magically turns into Spider-boy to fight the party.


Play Anti-Hero


When the party defeat Scooter Daire lets them walk up to the door they see Painting 4 when they say Champagne Problems they pass through the portal and return to the wedding in Delva.


RETURN TO DELVA


On returning they are hailed as heroes and Pathar Jan himself thanks them for saving the wedding celebrations from failure.