Remain Nameless - Matches' Musings - 20/06/2023

Alright so here’s how it went down. I saw a flyer on the noticeboard at Fort Ettin about something to do with cocktails. I've been living it pretty good in one of their primo suites since my successful ghost-busting job a couple weeks back so I figured: “Hey, I reckon I deserve a nice cocktail.” The ad says to meet in Portal Plaza in Daring Heights, I hadn’t been to the big city yet so I thought yeah that’d be the perfect reason to do some sight seeing. So I get there and I meet up with my boy Yinmaris, a stunning feller, in a fancy cafe, he tells me he’s doing the same job. Right on because he was a smashing distraction against the ghost, always good to have someone as a distraction. He told me a lot had been going on in places like Kundar, sounded real messy, and above my pay grade. After a bit of a catch up our employer arrived, beautiful young woman by the name of Leona Autumn, top shelf mixologist looking to get some new ingredients for a fancy summer menu, and she was keen to get them from the Feywild. She was also joined by these two others, a right proper looking Earth Genasi called Glade and an absolute character of a Kenku going by Sparks-in-Shade. Imagine your middle name being “in”? Anyway I’d not been to the Feywild, I was almost sure it was made up, but she promised to take us and bloody hells it was a scene.

So first thing that happens when we get there, like actually immediately when we arrive we get put in some illusion that seems like we’re falling out of the bloody sky, scared me shitless at first but then we managed to get rid of it. Some little tykes did it which is mental, back in Waterdeep the worst prank a kid would pull was nicking your wallet. Anyway we headed off and the place was just ridiculous, sunflowers as far as the eye could see, absolutely incredible views wherever we went. Then we went over to where all the Summer Solstice celebrations were going on, and honestly those fey folk know how to put on an absolute rager. We met this Satyr named Kruxeral who was running the whole show and was just gorgeous. Leona was dead flustered, bless her cottons. But we did come to do a job, so we headed over to a competition being held by some Queen Titania? Again, didn’t think she was real but there she was. Massive sword. She was holding this competition to win these special bottles of absinthe or something of the like, and the competition was to put on your best presentation for the Queen. So Leona gets to mixing, Sparks and Yin play quite the tune, Glade makes sure Leona looks great, and I didn’t feel like I was gonna get anywhere with a bit of fire. So I just paid a little visit to some rabbit-folk making a stew and made sure their presentation was just a tad overcooked. All this to say, we only went and won it! Absolutely smashed it, piece of piss that contest was.

So after our business was concluded we had time to hit the dancefloor and let loose a little, I hardly remember what went on from that point but I know it was a good time, and I’m sure I’ll be visiting the Fiore Popolare with Yin again soon, and maybe I’ll get to go back to the Feywild some time.

..Whoever said this journaling business would be good for my mental health was spot on because I feel fantastic.