The Adventures of the Edo Sunset

2024-07-30

• Background on the game this googly doc over here

Background

• Holly and Sunny heading out to Rising Islands
• Attempting to get a picket out to a strange island on the arse end of nowhere, which is only inhabited by hermits and who tells their story
• CREW of the Edo Sunset:
  • Charlie the Captain (Tom)
    • Has a cool dramatic big swishy coat
    • Favourite food: not much of one, mostly just into having a sandwich on hand while on deck and forgets to eat otherwise.
    • Can navigate anything and steer the ship, handy in a fist fight, her goal was to have set foot on every island, then set foot on a land she's never seen before to call home.
  • Samantha (Sammy) the Stoker (Mark)
    • 5' 10" leather apron, big tool belt, cool pirate top to vent heat, has a cool Scottish accent.
    • A cross between Karen Gillian and Melissa McCarthy in overalls
    • Smells strongly of Ceruleum and a little bit of alcohol
    • Favourite food: Fish and chips because its hard to get at sea, only in port, like a treat.
    • Amenable, likable
    • Had a longing to find the perfect drink to try and sooth her sisters soul.
  • Martha the Cook (Ceri)
    • Has a lot of delicious teas
    • Smells of teas, biscuits, food, good solid fare
    • Was an undercover secret service agent trying to keep the Princess from marriage
  • Nishimura the Deck Hand (Tabitha)
    • Dressed in a mix of a few good quality underlayers, tunic etc, with a rough and ready wool coat on the top and a Newsboy cap, has only a small leather satchel of possessions
    • Smells very faintly of nice soap
    • Favourite food sushi.
    • Secretly Princess Inari - the Jade Princess

Establishing Scenes

• On New Aberdeen heading to Patay (?)
  • It's sort of a Scottishy place
  • Has a slight air of expectations
  • Joanna who runs "The Ceruleum Miners Woes" an upcoming inn, the only inn.
• Gently raining
• Us and a large Ceruleum transporter thats offloading.
• The whole crew has a faint blue glow.
• Three weeks from Kyoto
• Martha attempts to give tea to Holly and we think she has an inner skill to talk to some animals (because Sunny talks to her) and they pitch a bit of a story to trade for travel to their destination to search for their missing person, which confuses Charlie a little who'd be out there!
• Holly reveals she's never met her target and thought they were dead.
• Charlie and Martha know that Patay is a former Cerulum mine that was abandoned in strange circumstances and weird conspiracy theories as to why and no ones supposed to be resident there, not banned, just empty and "a bit dangerous"
• Samantha comes up talking about needing a new alternator maybe, says we've got maybe 100 hours of flying, has *a* spare and if we lose too may it'll be bad.
• Plan: Stock the galley to cook, engine to engineer, everyone else to get whatever we can, and don't be careful out there!
  • There's a shindig at the Ceruleum Miners Woes, with specially brewed alcohol and its the talk of the town, we probably brought that in with the mail.
• Stock up:
  • Martha gets some good provisions including meat to hang
  • Nishimuri goes to restock the sky fishing kit, and also a small sewing kit.
  • Charlie is looking for news, but also stories of places no one has been before, starts with fishermen looking to drown their sorrows at the Harbourmasters office, they've retired and trading their stories.
    • Boat hunting the greatest Ceruleum deposit in the north, wanting to make a name in the Cartographers Guild, the crew have rumours that "the Great Cartographer" has been seen, he's voyaged more north than anybody else has done before.
    • Asks about Patay and there's a sharp intake of breath, been a while since people go there, a bit creepy things that go bump in the night, has a spooky blue/green glow a wrong blue! They suggest she steer clear and she gives that impression.
    • He once came through here in a one man air yacht called "The Southwark Belle" decked in Green and Blue.
  • Samantha heading for parts! Mostly getting parts and looking for things that take her fancy to have bits to maybe bodge, the crafter puts their mark on it and says you'll find no finer altermeter outside New Aberdeen good for an inch every mile of height.
  • Holly: Gets beef chowmein and is mostly window shopping, hears some of the rumours about Patay, hears the weather will be wet and surprisingly warm.
  • Sunny manages to act bedraggled and gets a hot beef sandwich which was made extra by accident, she gives a wet doggy kiss in exchange and gets ruffled
• The sun sets and its the boiling dual sunset that is ethereal and a reminder of how weird the place is

The Ceruleum Miners Woes

• Opens its doors, strange music of mixed improvised instruments emerge - Scottish, Irish, Japanese music with themes/philosophy of dancing, drinking, and fucking (themes of no sex, good sex, and bad sex, also the rain, and heart break)
• Sammy, Nishimura, and Martha definitely there early. Sunny has been there since she could get in to beg for scraps.
• Sammy shows up with a bit of cleavage on show, red curls, and looks happy and pretty and orders a drink, she has the vibe of looking for something, she's trying new things. Nishimura is obviously trying to copy Sammy and stuff gets ordered for her (but also she's far more of a lightweight)
• Holly opens her tab by starting on the story of rescuing Bow Bell, but with a theatrical person trying to force others to perform in their stories!
• Captain Charlie makes a showy entrance in the swish coat, chats to many people, wants to be a person of importance rather than a big shot, a lass comes up to try and get the tale of getting the first dance.
• A crafter (Ben) comes in to tell the tale of sad times not being able to grow enough stuff, then asks Nishimura what brings her there and she talks about the danger of the ship, talks up the skill of her crew, and claims she was a newspaper deliverer before reading too many exciting stories and signing aboard with Captain Charlie
  • Ben talks of multi-variant valves from the forges of Sheffeld (definitely how Paul pronounced it) and Samantha complains they may be too flimsy for high pressure, they get talking and then head to the dance floor
  • Nishimura attempts to deal with the overflow of drinks, Martha helps out.
• Sunny sniffs out the Ceruleum miners, begs treats, one lass attempts to dance with her, and she helps out.
• Nishimura works out that who dances with who first, is used to Kyoto hierarchy, here it's more about firsts. Slides up to Holly holding a pint in both hands and attempts to persuade Holly as the exciting outsider this will net her exciting social cache.
  • Judges Holly is a little out of the loop but socially high status, so leads her in the dance (success 3)
• Captain Charlie: chatting with the captain of the Ceruleum transporter, who says its a dry ship, doesn't want a drunk deck hand around 50k tons of explosives. It takes a week to load/unload so gets drunk that time. This is his 50th year.
  • He used to do a stop up at Patay, says its a story how it all closed out, some of which he saw with his own two eyes
  • Charlie says she's headed to Patay so he can invest in a future story and will come back and tell it.
  • Was a tank captain (in charge of a big storage tank on a ship) on the night that Patay was evacuated. A stormy night, lightning, half full and more to get filled. The crew said they saw ghosts, people with 4 arms, thought they could be drunk or having too many weird southern mushrooms, but he saw it stone cold sober.
    • men with pale skin, 4 arms and a spear the length of his arms doubled, tipped with a green glowing something or other.
    • Appeared from the depths of the island where they'd just dug a hole for a Roberts thingy, they found an archway while digging.
    • The miners ran aboard, they split the transport tube and made off.
    • The captain took them to Kyoto where he had to give a lot of statements to an administrator.
    • Heard they asked the great cartographer to go out and investigate and he knows there's a strange greenish glow at night.
• The group parties, people pair off, eventually the starlight begins to fade, the faint glow of one of the suns about to rise. Eventually a banging at the door and a man in an Imperial Cloud Navy uniform comes in shouting "She's gone! They attacked her! Devil's with spears! The survey vessel! She's gone beneath the clouds!" he got off on a life buoy and floated here, implores us to search for survivors.
  • The Captain suggests we can start early
  • Holly collects her stuff, Sammy is tasked with getting Nishi back to the ship.

The Edo Sunset - Rescue Mission!

• Martha at -1 penalty, everyone else at -2 until the tea, then its 0/-1
• Holly is recruited to help make tea while Charlie gets the ship cast off checks.
• Everyone successfully casts off, and the Captain gives a big spin of the wheel to get going
• Charlie shares the gossip, tells people to keep a look out for a one man launch called "The Southwark Belle" and we prepare for doom
  • Reminder: Violence is abhorrent and may bring The Emperors Grace being brought down on people, which has only happened once far off to the Pyramid Island and to a non-Imperial Citizen. Death brings the end of a story
• We sail into the boiling red sunrise, seeing odd floating dots in the distant, perhaps life balloons!
  • First we find is empty, second has a passed out officer, Charlie does some first aid, a non-lethal concussion.
  • Nishimura helps loads him into a cabin, tells Sammy the news, then takes a message up to pass on the message of does she need to take the wheel
• Charlie starts to try and chart the perfect course to rescue as many people as possible - we get three more junior officers who are thirsty, cold, not feeling well but mostly healthy.
  • One of them goes to check on Sarcon and says they're not sure he'll make it through the day.
  • We turn it around to head back to New Aberdeen, there's a stumbling noise and someones comes up, hears the sounds of someone coming up from under the deck, Sunny can smell blood and death (like someone is about to die maybe?), Nishimura is hiding at the back doing embroidery on her coat and looking scared.
  • The captain comes up saying "If I'm going to die I want it to be on the deck, under the envelope of an air ship!" and Sunny goes to lick him, he looks deathly ill still but also more stable.
  • Sammy is under orders to pump the engines, which makes it cooking, a blueish haze in the room, we dump some stuff overboard.
• So! We haul arse! Nishimura gets recruited to hand out tea and sandwiches. Gets some roast beef for the injured captain. Tells Nishi he got hit by creatures, hit on the back of the head.
  • They were passing by Patay when they got attacked, they had a boat of their own, a crude boat of their own, floated wrong, no engine and they rowed with all 4 arms, large fan like oars.
  • Says he knows her from somewhere, they talk of Kyoto and how she used to deliver papers on the docks, he talks of the capital and how he once met the Emperor and danced with his daughter and it was one of the best dances in his time, she tells him to save that story for later but he says its to pay for the care/sandwich but they agree that him getting rescued will pay for treatment and everything.
  • Captain Charlie gets told the news and goes to talk to Captain Sarcon, leaving Nishimura to hold the ship on course which she nervously accepts and also Charlie is nervous about handing over the ship...

2024-08-05

The Edo Sunset hightails it back to New Aberdeen, drops off the crew and the miraculously surviving Captain Sarcon. New Aberdeen is a bit bedraggled by rain, and everyone's a little hung over with a few other Imperial Navy types on the docks having been rescued by us and others from the Kyoto Sunset

So a sensible days sailing, Captain Charlie tries to take a tighter route, Sammy keeps the Engine going, Martha keeps the food going and fishes, Nishimura generally helping out.

We head into the Calidonian Mountainous islands, this brings us higher, so it gets colder, as the suns start to set we can see the Roberts Aetherial Siphon like a giant fishing rod drooping off the edge of the islands, some of them have poor docks. Captain Charlie sends Nishimura to go check on the garou and knocks on Holly's cabin door and there's a lot of noise of things moving (she was sorting the Magpie Swag) then gets taken up to the deck. Sunny has been chilling in the Engine Room under a workbench getting pets from Sammy.

Captain Charlie asks for advice on where would be good to dock and Holly muses about Uncle Styles and how he appreciates aesthetics so looks for somewhere to set in, spots some of the weird green glow that doesn't make sense, it feels almost blasphemous... a rusted Robert's Tube, but no obvious camp sites. There's talk of maybe setting up on the island with the blue-green glow as that's where something will be, a discussion where Captain Charlie assures Holly she'll only put her in the amount of danger she can accept.

So the docks were initially metal, but that's rusted away and dropped off, now its a ramshackle, relatively recent rope and wood jetty.

The Dock's of Patay

Charlie and Martha can see some kind of entrance into the mines up the hill, it looks a little jagged, the area around the mine isn't inviting so camping inside is a plan, its underneath where the green glow is emanating. There's talks of the risks and vague dangers, Holly asks if we're aware of people who live beyond the Empire... we all speculate a little about this, Sammy talks in a bit of an imperialist way, Nishi talks of weird wise people from beyond the Empire, Charlie knows tales of basically earth Mythics, with powerful internal skills who talk of a vast realm where islands sit in lakes of water, where people don't float between places... seems strange, also they have money that makes everything terrible. Charlie broadly tells us about mages from Earth. Sunny snarks at us a bit and Holly refuses to translate.

The ship docks, Sammy is left guarding the ship with a flare gun, everyone else is taking the long route up towards the mine, there's a cold biting wind, and worn and overgrown steps cut into the path. The opening is more like a cave entrance, with mined out pathways to the right and left with wooden doors over them, there's some warm woolen ponchos, some hats, and a few bits of gear (rope and hooks?) for mooring ships. It's too wet and windy to look for footsteps so we kindle some lamps and head in, Charlie leads us East (further away from the centre of the Empire).

The East: The Robert's Reactor (which crystallises the Ceruleum), a large open space, we're on a gantry looking out over the space, a bunch of mining mechanisms, steps down to the floor of the place on the right, a lot of darkness that could hide a number of other entrances. A blue glow in various places where there's still some Ceruleum. Should be a generator for light/heat somewhere.

Sunny takes point with her nose, most scents muted, a few old scents of years old sweaty working people that are sort of so heavily imprinted on the machine and rags they don't go, but all stale.

Charlie looking for verification for the stories of the abandonment of the place, Nishimura knows no people live without stories so looking for cultural artefacts relating to the 4 armed people and their stories. Martha keeps guard.

Nishamura looks - but broadly spends a lot of time finding routine engineering objects that are just weird. The Captain does find evidence that suggests the place was abandoned a while back - but finds the generator and it looks like its been running only a few days ago... she fires it up! Temporarily blinds Holly and Martha. Holly does find an M&S rag nearby that someone's been using, explains that its from Earth and that she's probably looking for an Earth mage, also confirms that she and Sunny are from Earth. Tells us that Styles must be at least close because he was here recently activating the generator.

The West: A well made up bed, a desk strewn with papers and diagrams, a battered kitchen. Holly bee-lines and its Styles writing, its a wooded place called "New Forest" and he's mapping out some streams and rivers with a lot of scrawled notes about camping spots and types of tree.

The 4 Armed People on Their Boat

MEANWHILE: Aboard the Edo Sunset, Sammy is up on deck keeping a look out and also mixing some drinks in the eternal quest to find the best ones. Notices a strange ship coming closer, 2 figures riding a floating piece of wood... a strange boat with no envelope, it should drop through the clouds! Wonders why it doesn't fall for a second then double takes, checks the drink, spots the 4 arms and panics - rings the ships emergency bell...

We hear the bell and start scooping stuff, The Captain heads back with Sunny, Nishimura tries to make a bag from the bed blanket and finds a weird glowing spear, asks Holly to check if its magic and Holly gives her a withering look before loading the spear and the paperwork into her bag and everyone starts running for the boat.

The Captain sees the boat and ... it makes no sense, she prepares to repel invaders and the boat stops and they look angry and gesture with the spears. Sammy holds her stokers shovel, a stare off ensues. Holly can hear them (with spirit speak) asking if we're going to attack them? Holly replies "Are you going to attack us?". They say they want to go home, confirm they're from a different realm, a different place, they found a doorway and know it goes back the way they came. They ask if we're going to bring the stick that shoots blue fireballs. We realise there's been a misunderstanding where they were shot at with Ceruleum longarms, we talk about ways to explore beyond the gateway, and Holly asks if they want people with them, they negotiate coming closer, they use their spear on the cloud below which glows and pushes the ship closer, its floating in the cloud, attached to the underside of the boat. Nishi talks about mothballing the ship briefly, Martha offers cake there's talk of exchanging food. Discussion of lightning and if its magic.

The package of food is some kind of beany/herby/ricey mix, Sunny gets some, reminds her of Caribbean take away, she asks Holly to ask them for the recipe, gets given the recipe including boiling in leaves then baking underground. They enjoy the cake and congratulate Martha.

Gesture and the spear comes up to their hand, we're told its their "tool" that they get coming of age. Tell us they found some food on their first journey but learnt some words recently. Tell us they came to explore, but the door got locked behind them, came to find people to help them open it, but got shot at, think its weird our ships sink without Balloons. Nishi tries to explin and looks to Sammy to explain how the generator gets the lift and the air sac up. Holly explains its "local magic" in their own tongue. They ask why our ship doesn't have lift wood. Nishi asks about the lift wood, asks to hop on, Martha tries to stop her but she manages to get aboard, asks if we help them get home can we get some of the lift-wood, they ask if they can have some Ceruleum in exchange and talks to Sammy of the advantages of making hulls out of it.

Holly talks of other encounters, they say they met Styles who taught them a few words and has been staying with them...

2024-08-12

So the crew of the Edo Sunset and "The People" (the four armed people) are chilling together, sharing food, talking about "The Tool", "Lift Wood", and how they met Harold Styles who has since gone elsewhere.

The Puzzle Door in the Floor

We lock up the boat and everyone heads up towards The Portal to go look at what's there... its up the mountain and deep into the tunnels, we come across a giant metallic door in the floor... Charlie, Sammy, and Nishimura think this is a pre-Empire technology - sort of like finding a Victorian Steam engine, a precursor to our modern technology. There's two parts to it, two doors, the first is a puzzle door and usually were used to hold whatever secrets the Island-Nation had before it became Imperial, they're a bit like a vault. Many stories of people picking the lock over time. We talk about the history a little and what they are. Carved upon this one is "Floating Trees" and "Men With Wolves Heads", we talk of the history of old Egypt and how they had "wolf headed underworld guardians". We debate if this is a clue.

Sunny meanwhile spots some first tongue scratching "from here the route to Gaia is easy, knock twice on the sacred symbols and enter." she draws Holly's attention to it who takes a peer. She asks us to look for holy symbols and we poke around and can't really see anything relevant to the Empire or Holy. The symbols are two wolf headed people and two floating trees, sort of human height. Sunny decides to poke the nose, the most vital part of any wolf. She boops both snoots and there's a clanking rumbling sound and the doors begin to part, there is a swirling energy field underneath and through it you can see the cloud layer below its big enough for the Edo Sunset... Nishi takes a hard look at Sunny instead of the door because she's suspicious of how smart and attentive she is for a dog.

The four armed people are excited and sends their spear-tool floating down and it disappears on contact with the energy field. we talk about how the portal works. The tool reappears with a rope ladder and there's talk about them welcoming us back for food and beer. They go to get their ship through and we talk about if we should get the Edo Sunset through. We agree to try.

Through the Portal to Floating Trees

We pilot the Edo Sunset gently upwards through the portal and as we do there is a lurching, shimmering sensation - physical, audio, sound, even taste. This is normal for the garou but quite intense as if we're travelling a bit further than expected.

The boat floats up from the caldera of a volcano and we can see plants and trees extending as far as the eye can see, and no clouds... Sammy comes up to deck to take a look and we're all gobsmacked (for reference Kyoto is the size of the Isle of Man, this is the biggest land mass we have ever seen). Martha talks about if they have bread, we talk about if there are bakeries, look for clearings and settlements and see nothing but tree canopy. Also there's only one Sun and we wonder if the second is behind cloud or under the island.

We check and find the portal is beneath us in the volcano. Nishimura talks of how we're all ambassadors for the Empire today and Sammy is a little wary of this idea but Nishi tries to reassure her we are continuing the story of the Empire and learning these peoples.

Sunny meanwhile sniffs the wind! Everything smells foresty.

Captain Charlie starts to navigate us to follow the four armed people, and as we go she notices that things in the distance seem to be moving and resolving as if they are coming up over a horizon... coming over the curve. Charlie, Nishi, and Martha all look and Martha goes to make tea. Holly tries to explain the notion that that's the horizon, and there's only one sky. We complain things should fall off if its curved. Talk of Horizons and Nishimura complains that the horizon is where the two skies meet and the suns set together. Martha asks about land sitting in sea and why it doesn't get soggy. There is an extended food metaphor.

Finally we're reaching the edge of land and there is a huge amount of water that's undulating with little white dots on it. Nishi asks whats swirling the water, Charlie says its how clouds work, and there's a discussion about how its a bit like how clouds work (and how custard doesn't work like that). Sammy comes up to see the sea and there's talk of only one sun, how do they celebrate "Askenhiven" and there's talk of that. There's then discussions of what an Empire is and how Nishi pushes for the negotiation and ambassadorial work, Sammy advocates for the Imperial Navy and armies of the Empire.

The Tower and Peril!

The tower is a large construct with a huge spiral staircase on the inside, a number of 4 armed people hanging around and a number of docked lift-wood ships at docking. Charlie brings the ship in to follow them in. Sammy notices the engine is producing grey dust, also she's not really glowing that blue, everything is more a grey dust like the Ceruleum is slowing losing its blue and the engine is sputtering a little, finds the filters are getting blocked up by the sooty crap, she cleans and swaps the filter out and vents the exhaust, gets a blue-grey cloud out the back... calls it up the speaking tube to the Captain who checks and finds it before calling the Earth Girls for advice, Nishi takes a lamp down to the Engine room. Holly clocks this as some kind of diesel or coal particulate. Sunny sniffs it and thinks its definitely diesel or something, wonders if Ceruleum has become something else here. Martha speculates how anyone gets anything done without it.

The captain brings the ship in to dock and one of them shouts "Welcome welcome to our village!" and reveals that they learnt our tongue from Mr. Styles who spent some time teaching them, knows that Holly is a relative. She's invited to meet the chief and have some food. Sammy and Nishi stay to work on the engine, Martha stays with the ship, and everyone else (Charlie, Holly, and Sunny) goes for food taking some cake with them.

They head inside towards a greenish glow, most of the people don't speak their language, Holly picks up its general chatter. They're led towards a large wooden hut. Inside Charlie spots only one guy with two arms, Holly spots Harold Styles looking older but not as old as he should. Sunny smells another garou here, and also half of these people are another form of shape-shifter, not garou but something else and its getting the hackles on her neck up a little... she warns Holly there are other things here and eyes shoot towards her.

Charlie meanwhile can spot Styles, also recognises him from tales of The Great Cartographer, and to his left is some kind of village chief and some elder statesmen types with younger, stronger men towards the door. Also saw that the upper/older half of the table looked towards Sunny when she yipped at Holly.

Styles attempts to calm everyone down, Holly opens with "Hello great Uncle, I have some questions", he asks if she's Holly, and Holly says she was convinced she was dead, and he brings her for a hug and whispers "Ananasi, play it cool." and they make a show of no conflict, all good. Sunny hears the whisper and does her best to hide between people. They have a quiet exchange about getting out of here as quickly as possible and wants to get on a floating islands ship, Holly gets Styles to play up an emergency, they mug up that Martha is having a bad time and Styles is the only one who could help. "The tribe calls, you have been fantastic hosts!" he calls to the Ananasi and there is a happy chittering sound from the walls.

She chats to Charlie about needing to go, she clocks Styles as the Great Cartographer, says that she feels there will be a fight here, says that if Charlie can get them out she'll explain everything. Charlie says that she's staying, tells Holly to get back to the ship and tell Sammy its her ship now and that she's going to stay here because she's on a shore none of her people have ever seen and home is always around the next corner. Charlie hands a necklace and says Sammy's always deserved that ship as she's done more to hold it together more than anyone else.

Meanwhile back on the Edo Sunset: Nishimuri manages to break the cover for the fuel tank and the regulator... this is dangerous but the blue glowing dust has been replaced by grey matter, and some of the blue glow is fading out before her eyes, the Ceruleum is turning inert, there's about enough to get back to Floating Islands if they leave pretty damn soon, also needs to refit the fuel regulator. Nishi attempts to defend herself that the thing was welded on. Sammy explains things and goes to fix the regulator and sends Nishi to check the fuel storage bays (which she successfully does!) and they're all beginning to go inert.

Martha goes to fire the flare gun and Nishi goes to ring the ships bell. Sammy meanwhile gets the regulator fixed and filters the input.

The Garou coming back (Holly, Sunny, Styles) switch up Hispo and make tracks towards the ship. We look over the side of the ship and there are three large wolfy dog forms, one of which looks like a large version of Sunny, the others are more wolfy, Holly has acid bleached fur. Martha gets Nishi behind her and throws the flare gun in surprise. Two large spiders beginning to dash up the stairs behind them, Nishi sees this and reaches out with her Inner Herbcaller skill and grabs the staircase and bends and twists it to grab the two Ananasi and take them out of the fight.

Martha continues to yell at the spiders, one of the other four armed creatures begins to shift into a spider and goes to make a lunge towards Martha, she grabs up a book hook and gives it a smack with her Inner Skill - pushing and stunning it into a tangle of legs and knocks it off deck. Nishi notices Inner Open Palm (exclusive to the Imperial Secret Service) they agree to talk later.

The garou arrive and Holly flips human, explains the Captain has stayed behind and takes the amulet/necklace down to the Engine room leaving Styles and Sunny to mind the ship and do "what was needed", Sunny clarifies with Styles whats going on, and then Styles says hello to Princess Inari (aka Nishimura) and she swears and greets him. Sunny goes to sit on Nishi. Meanwhile: Holly goes to hand over the amulet, the symbolic key to the ship, and says they need to cast off almost immediately. Sammy curses the damn fool idiocy of Captain Charlie and they prepare to leave.

So the crew leaps into action under our new Captain, with Sunny flipping human to help (because she's learnt a little). Sammy goes to steer the ship, orders Nishi down to the engine room, to shovel fuel, then spins the ship around and flies away from the peril of the tower.

The Ending

The ship is piloted back into the Volcano and back into Rising Stones, we lock the door behind us and the story comes to a close with everyone on the other side.