Nomadic:Sessions:20160312
It is Thursday, June 19, 2008. Around 10am, as Vicente is talking with Father Martin, he notices Valerie leaving the Winnebago and walking off among the trees. A little while later Vicente senses a surge of magic in this low-mana world, from the direction Valerie went.
Valerie is awakened by the sound of footsteps on hardwood. Opening one eye, she finds herself lying on a comfortable bed in a well-furnished bedroom. "Okay, Mr Director, what the hell..." she grumbles, sitting up to find a three-foot-tall creature staring at her. He looks exactly like a Keebler elf. As she stands up, the elf looks disappointed and says, "Oh, you don't like the bed. My name's Tinsley. Do you wish some breakfast? Follow me." Instead, Valerie steps out of the window onto a lush green lawn. Sighing, Tinsley follows her.
Vicente casts Detect Magic and tracks Valerie's footprints to a small clearing; in the midst of the clearing is a ring of mushrooms. He realizes that the fairy ring is the source of magic. Valerie's footsteps lead into the center of the circle, and the grass is bent as if something had lain there.
Ahead of her Valerie sees a well-manicured garden filled with fruit trees, flowering shrubs, tall oaks, and glimpses of exotic animals. Tinsley, who has now been joined by three other elves, asks her, "Could you meet the Lady?" "What lady?" He says importantly, "Lynette, lady-in-waiting for the queen-to-be, Aurora." "I'm already in another picture," grumbles Valerie.
Vicente casts Sense Life and other than himself, he detects no sentient beings. He calls Valerie's name and gets no response. Taking a deep breath, he broad-jumps into the circle. He feels summer winds lift him into the exact center. There's a flash of power, and in the next moment he is standing in the center of a ring of power, eye-to-eye with a powerful-looking unicorn. "Are you my ride?" Vicente asks jauntily. The unicorn stares at him, its nostrils flaring slightly. Vicente then asks, "Are you my guide?" "I am your guide," says a six-foot-tall elf, stepping into view. "Just call me The Hunter."
The Hunter is dressed in traditional hunting bard and bears a longbow. He explains, "I hunt intruders that come through the phase circles." He had just recently transported a 'beautiful lady with elven qualities.'
"Humans have caused some problem for us," he adds, as he and Vicente walk toward the trees. Vicente: "That's like a parent blaming a child." The Hunter: "Absolutely." Vicente confirms that this land is ruled by the Sidhe.
The Hunter: "Talk with the Lady, solve the problem, then you can go home." Vicente: "Did we cause the problem?" The Hunter: "All of the above.... Our realm has been drawn closer to a human reality that we had divorced ourselves from a few hundred years ago."
Valerie sees Vicente and The Hunter and walks up to them, still followed by Tinsley and the other three elves. She thinks they're in the wrong movie and wants to get back to the others, but Vicente says "Let's just see what these people want."