Tasgall and Adrian don’t get much useful information from a vineyard full of satyrs, and so they head back into the city. On her way out, Tasgall gets into an argument with Phil Spector because he won’t stop bitching and moaning. Once back at Turnkey’s shop, Anka shows up and tells everyone else of her undersea adventures and an eshu stunt rider that she met. Anka pisses off Turnkey and is banished from the shop. Turnkey continues to work on his submarine and Adrian goes to work. Anka and Tasgall take Nip with them to the circus and get the time for Eshu’s next show… he’s going by the name “The Great Rondollio.” The three girls then go out to Folly Beach to look for Sheeva’s house, with the aid of Nip since she used to live there. Inside the house is a huge vault door that can’t be opened. Tasgall bargains with Phil Spector—he’ll go through the door and look at the contents of the room if Tasgall will lay out on the beach in a swimsuit for three hours and get a tan. Tasgall begrudgingly accepts this, and Phil Spector reports that there are maps, books, photos, and other personal belongings of Sheeva’s in the room. The girls go back to Charleston, where they find a skanky purple swimsuit for Tasgall and enlist the help of Adrian and Turnkey for breaking into the vault room. The girls go play on the beach while Turnkey and Adrian work on the door, but one by one they all drift into the house. The now-opened vault room is slightly plundered by the team—Anka takes some maps and Tasgall thinks about taking some books until the bookshelf glares at her and Phil Spector gives her a lecture about how she was raised better than that. The group then heads for the circus, where they see the show and Anka talks to her eshu friend, who takes his knives back from her. Upon return to the city, there’s a trip to Caer Flowing Water in search of help with the prophecy. A boggan recommends looking in a library, and mentions Lady Tell’s library, and thus begins a search for Lady Tell, who happens to be at an exhibit opening for her art gallery and is not at all happy to see a ragtag group of commoners (though Adrian ended up stuck outside, wearing a leisure suit and giving pedicab rides to old people). She sends them up to talk to Lord Math in the apartment above the gallery. Lord Math gives them access to the Lady’s library and warns them as to when she’ll be back. The group finds nothing helpful and then flees for their lives. They disband for the night, and in the morning reconvene before heading to Caer Flowing Waters in search of information about the drains and tunnels beneath it. A boggan mentions that a group of nockers from Misnomer does the maintenance work, and everyone travels to the Goblin Market in search of said nockers. They do a step better and find a rat pooka, Jim, who is well-acquainted with the tunnels in the Greater Charleston Area and plots out a route on the map of the Unseelie Court that Anka took from Sheeva’s house. After some mouse-catching and crawling and being attacked by eels (and four rousing verses of “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sluagh?”), the group splash-landed in the underside of Caer Flowing Waters in a crystal cave embellished with shiny. There’s a waterfall with a man made of silver fire standing in it, who informs them that this is The Mirror and he is The Friend of the Mirror (and under union restrictions). He talks a bit with the adventurers/prophecy-chasers and gives them a few words of warning about The Mirror before they walk through. Turnkey went in first, followed by Anka, Adrian, Nip, and Tasgall in order. Because the dead have no tears, Tasgall had to relinquish her piece-of-eight necklace that Phil Spector lives in to the Friend of the Mirror for safekeeping.
Player’s Note: the name of this session comes from the fact that for the first half of it, we were all swimming in a pool while we played. Because of this, we’re missing a bunch of really amusing shit from the first two hours or so as far as quotes go. Tasgall got a tan and apparently the first sign of “sun cancer” is nymphomania, because she’s gone into this looking-hot-induced spell of snagging dates. Also, the only way to get anything done is to grab a boggan.
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