Editing Trinity:The Toplanders (section)

==Session 05 - Mushroom Samba==
 '''XP:''' 250 (story)

After some discussion, the group decided to head north to the myconid village of Samtri.

When they arrived, they found a small copse of enormous mushrooms, and seemingly no one about. After some investigation, it appeared that there were some larger mushrooms, with door-like structures in them. Miggs went up to one of the doors and knocked loudly, while William yelled loudly.

Their actions were fruitful: a bipedal, humanoid-looking mushroom exited one of the house-like structures, and spoke with them. However, he didn't speak very long, as he continually insisted that it was "sleep time" - the party realized that they had arrived in early afternoon, and that - these being mushroom-people - they were probably nocturnal. They decided to wait until "nightfall," when they hoped to see more of the mushroom folk.

After a few hours, the village of Samtri did indeed awake, and a throng of myconids exited the several mushroom houses and began heading north, to the mountains. Following them, the group found that they were headed to a cave just north of the village; once all the myconids were inside (aside from two guards), a single, larger myconid came out to greet them.

The myconid (whose name they didn't bother to learn) seemed to be the leader of the village. He explained that the world had ended, that the bugs had come and gone, and that the moon had fallen. The party tried to explain that the bugs were back, but he was insistent that they were gone, along with "the faceless ones." The party was intensely curious about these so-called "faceless ones," and the myconid explained that they were to the southwest. They inquired as to what they would find in the myconid village to the west, and the leader explained that Mitrosis was much like Samtri, only bigger.

Their quest for knowledge satisfied, they went into the cave, to find what the myconids were up to, as they could clearly see that they were standing about in a circle. The leader myconid had told them they were forgetting; upon entering, they all became subjected to a massive hallucinogen. The group remained for the duration of the "meditation" (eight hours), after which the myconids returned to their mushroom houses.

The party then discussed what to do; they decided to head southwest, along the treeline of the adu'jan forest, to see if they could find the ruins the myconids mentioned. They walked for a little more than a month, and reached the edge of the continent, without finding anything.

They went east, to the adu'jan city of Sh'cala, seeking out more Simics. They found them, and discussed what they had learned from the myconids. The simics explained that the myconids were simple creatures, and that they would not lie - if they said the cities of the "faceless ones" were to the southwest, then they were, but there were no such places on this continent. The party then decided that they would head southwest off the edge, taking da riggable, to see if there was another continent elsewhere.

[[Image:Trinity_Arcturas_-_New_Continent_-_1.jpg|thumb|325px|right|This is what the party explored for five months.]]
After some tree-hopping, courtesy of the simics, they recovered da riggable, and sailed off the southwestern edge of Tai'lyan.

Going somewhat down, they found another continent, full of sand. They set down, and began to explore; after two days, however, they began suffering from dehydration, and had yet to find water or even something other than sand. It was also unbearably hot, which they found odd, considering none of the higher continents had been so warm. Heading back to the simics, they asked for a source of water that would never run dry. The simics agreed to provide them with such a thing, but in exchange, they wanted the party to seek out the foreigners that sometimes appeared in the desert to the north (which Aes'iel had mentioned before). The party agreed to this favor, and set out.

[[Image:Trinity_Mutalisk2_mirror.jpg|thumb|left|Four of these creatures dive towards ''da riggable.'']]
Returning to the new continent, they proceeded to explore to the east, following the ledge they found after two days' journey; they found that it made a circle, and they found themselves where they had originally landed. They then opted to follow the northernmost edge of the continent west. For three and a half months, the group walked through the desert, returning to Tai'lyan when their food sources ran out. In this time, they found three ruins, none of which were inhabited; all of them exhibited signs of having suffered through a great catastrophe, reminiscent of an earthquake (according to Miggs, on an earthquake-measuring scale of 1 to 10, these cities had suffered through a 13).

They then decided that the circular-shaped "hole" in the continent may have an answer; some of the group believed that the references the myconids made to the moon falling may have happened here. They set out, following the inner edge of the continent, and eventually found the edge - two days' from where the ledge began. They decided to go down as far as they could, and three miles down, they could see water below. After some discussion, they left the mechs behind, and explored two days' worth to the north, seeing nothing but water.

They returned to roughly where the hole in the continent was, and began to ascend. As they did, however, William spotted something flying in the air...

===Loot===
 Decanter of Endless Water [Nature]