Friday and what happened to the London Crew.

Originally shared by Alicia Smith

Friday and what happened to the London Crew.

The Scary Voiced Greek Guy, lost in a maze of hostile traffic, talks to a homeless London inhabitant who promises to take him to someplace he can shelter, an apparently abandoned warehouse. Naturally he attacks TSVGG as soon as he gets him into a dark alley and a fight ensues.

TSVGG wins, but has been wounded in the fraca. Sick due to magical complications, and bleeding, he seeks shelter in a pile of cardboard boxes and passes out. When he wakes up, one of his heads (he is transforming in reaction to...things) is being stroked by an 11? 12? year old girl - Sara, who has run away...from somewhere and doesn't seem to mind that he's a two headed snake tailed monsterdog. Sara has had bad experiences in life and is walking a very shaky line of reality because of it. TSVGG gives her some money he was keeping in one of his mouths and she goes to get them both some food.

While they're eating, there's a scream and, leaving Sara calmly eating (she thinks about 15 people have been killed in this burnt out wasteland, but who knows what really has happened. She may have been dissociating at the time.) and finds two Fish men killing a woman. TSVGG attacks them - too late to do anything for the woman, alas, and isn't doing too well until Sara, having finished the first hot food she's had for a month, comes and stabs one of the Fish men who also dies.

TSVGG finishes off the other Fishman and decides that he wants some Greek food, but Sara insists that he comes with her. Sara is surprised other people can see this dog...but Londoners are notoriously unfazeable and they make it to the kebab shop alright. Sara, unwilling to go in, is surprised when TSVGG goes in and starts talking to the proprietor. Whilst negotiating food and advertising and a place to sleep, TSVGG turns to include Sara, but she is gone, taking his money with her.

The kebab guy leaves TSVGG to mind the shop, it's closing time for him.

Meanwhile, the rest of the crew, sans Sebastian and various apprentices, have arrived at The Isle of Dogs with Jonathon the modern/nonmagical London Architect. He buys them all tickets, pops them on the train and chivvies them to his penthouse apartment in a skyscraper in Canary Wharf.

There he makes them tea / coffee according to their tastes, and learns of The Decayed Elf's uneasiness away from his usual...suppliers. The Chinese Masterchef is introduced to the kitchen, and Jonathon makes everyone some microwave chicken and rice. He might be a rocking architect, but his cooking skills are nothing like TCMC when confronted with an unexpected bunch of people dropping in.

The Indian Fakir strolls up to the glass wall 300 metre high building and enjoys the view. Jonathon's penthouse comprises a very simple open plan skyhouse, with very few walls, and comfortable furnishings. He's an architect and this is a place he's designed for himself to be comfortable in and to have friends and rellies over. The PC's enjoy the thick carpet and the lounges, but the wonder that intrigues them most is the lounge that turns into a bed, even more so than the moving pictures and the skyscrapers! My players are doing wonderfully at the sense of wonder that their characters are experiencing. Jonathon assures them that they are coping far better than he did in his tour of their London.

After instruction in the art of telephoning, the internet and television and waving aside mostly Harry the Fixer's low tech epiphanies about it all, Jonathon takes TDE shopping for clothes and accompanies The Chinese MasterChef for a walk to orient himself. It's amusing that his local pub is still going, largely unchanged!

And there we more or less left things. I have been given additional instructions by the Chinese Masterchef. I also need to get Sebastian's player and the Chinese Masterchef's apprentices' player together somehow because things are going to happen at Harry the Fixer's shop whilst they're away.