TG416

Your Turn in the Tree

Episode Number: (TG416)
Original Airdate: 8/2002

As reality twists and turns, the party tries to uncover what's happening. They realize that time travel and alternate realities are involved. Soon, Gryff and Timus are both gone, and Twingate has been destroyed. Salin helps the remains of the party, and sends them back to the ruined keep from the first season, where they run into devils, goblins, and plot.

Plot Points

• In this timeline, Timus and Gryff were killed by the Groth. They were replaced by Morgrym and Byargun.
• In this timeline, Tierney redeemed Salin, Ironpass is controlled by Reltajoon, and Twingate was destroyed for its attempt at rebellion by something called "The Gray Army."
• Druids possess the ability to travel through time, provided one doesn't mind being drenched in sacred sap and "milk of the sparrow."
• There is a devil at Salin's keep, preparing to attack or at trail the original party. There's also a female goblin who can cast Unholy Blight.

Unanswered Questions

• The hell?
• How Farscapian is it to have sap and bird crap be vital plot devices?

Analysis

• The druidic time travel appears to be limited. When the sap (and "milk of the sparrow") dries out, the party starts skipping through time faster. Presumably, they'll come back to the present eventually.
• Changing things back here changes things in the future. This can be bad.

DMP Speaks

Aldamar the acolyte takes advantage of this magical knothole several times over the next few weeks, as do most of the other students. Then one morning, he goes over to use the knothole, and nothing happens. Puzzled and concerned that perhaps he's used up his charges or something, Aldamar runs and tells his teacher of the problem.

The teacher says, "Ah. Must be your turn in the tree, then."

Seemed to fit, given the whole "wriggling through a greased knothole" plot-point, along with the "being crapped on" point, the "accidentally changing the future and screwing yourself" point, and other points that suggest that this adventure is one in which it is, quite frankly, the PCs' turn in the tree.

Wasn't this period supposed to be getting back in touch with the originals?

Yes. Getting the actors back into their roles -- instead of having the actor who plays Timus put on a beard and call himself Mir or something.

But aren't the actors who play Timus and Gryff now stuck playing new characters?

You officially have my permission to whack Geordan with the Call of Cthulhu Core Rulebook the next time he rolls a 1 on the World-Affecting-Roll.

Quotable Notes

Dave: We head back to yadarjin's to return the wand. Byargun says, "hi, dad!"
Party: Gnyaaaaagh.

Salin: I shall call upon the winds and the earth and the leaves and the deer to protect you and prevent the rolling of plot dice while you prepare spells.
Tierney: Yes!
Byargun: Let me use my clicky eraser.

Mike: He IS evil. And I have a pretty good track record against evil.

Mike: Remember the -1, so that's a 32. Did ya still get hit?

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