Session 0

Introduction

Life works in a funny way. You're born, you live, you die. Rinse and repeat. A simple formula set without any interruption. Do you believe in fate? The idea that your path is set before you could step foot on it. That the people you befriend, love, and hate are all written for you before you could make that decision? The idea that perhaps, you are simply more numbers into a formula that all ends the same. Only you are able to determine that. To figure out your own method to live and reach your most desired results. Would you do anything it takes?

The world is dark and only gets darker still. One moment, you were all alone, you were sure of it. The next, you were swept away and now in an empty lone plane along with 5 other figures that are hard to make out. Now, the concept of sunlight and warmth is lost to you as you only look up to the only thing that luminates your surroundings; the moon. The everlasting crescent moon peers down on you with its bright yellow eyes, grinning at you. Blinding visions pass by you like a gust of wind: the light of a locomotive whizzing past you, torchlight appearing and being held to the skies, flowers being torn apart and melting at the touch of the flame, and that face again. The wide eyes and wide grin of the moon. You watch as what appears to be its pupils slowly rolls back while it's large mouth slowly opens and unhinges its jaws and you all hear a soft voice. "Hello? Is that you? My saviors?"

Does anyone respond?

You watch as the moon convulses into itself, shrinking and shaking with its light rapidly fading till the form is nothing more than a hunched figure that glows a light yellow-green hue. It slowly stands and your vision is able to clear as it turns to reveal a young woman looking at you with soft yellow eyes. She has short hair made of thick leaves that curl around her face and dark brown horns stick out of her head. Her skin is a green color and her dress is made of similar foliage that makes her hair. She looks at each one of you slowly and gives a smile

"I am sure now, it must be you. Please help me."

(Good time for the party to introduce each other and talk to her and each other)

Who are you? She thinks on this for a moment before shaking her head "I'm afraid you cannot be told that yet. In time you will come to learn my name. When you do, please do not forget. Instead, let yourselves become familiar with each other. Yes? (roll a dice and ask that member to kindly introduce themselves)"

Where are we?/Where am I? She gives you a smile and holds her arms out and looks around "You are no where. You are no one, and I have just barely been able to retrieve you to make you something. Now, you are here. With me for a short time. I'm afraid I'll have to return you soon."

What do you want?/What can we do to help?/How do I return? Her posture eases a little bit and you hear a sadness in her voice "I need your help. I need your saving. You must follow the path and come to me. You are all the only ones I can trust to do this"

Why me? She gives another smile "Because you are all broken as I am. That much, I am aware of. "

If someone says they don't trust her or want to figure out a motive from her, they can roll insight.
Success (18+) You can tell she is telling the truth in that she needs your help and she's not completely foreign to you, but while her expressions are obvious smiles and her voice sounds helpless, her eyes don't match. Her eyes are cold, and you can tell there's one thing she's not telling you
(In response to whatever the party reacts: She sighs deeply, closes her eyes, and drops her shoulders before her hair and dress begin to decay and her skin rapidly rots before you. Her neck snaps quickly to the side and her eyes open once more. Her eyes that were once soft are now piercing and mad as a grin unnaturally stretches across her face "Your intuition is good. Maintain that quality and it will take you far in these dark lands, hehe. Your next test begins." And with two claps of her hands, the room is dark once again. You feel a grip around your body that makes it difficult to breathe, and just when you feel like your grasp on consciousness is being lost, you're freed once more.)
Her voice does not change during any of this

Fail: From what you're able to tell, she's telling the truth in that she needs your help and she's not completely foreign to you.

"I'm sorry, I know that we had just met, but there isn't much time and I understand the bond between us remains thin. Please, allow me to test your strength. These lands are dangerous without the proper skills. Work together, protect each other. In doing so, you can succeed in saving me!" And she claps her hand twice and the scene around you starts to change. The people around you fade away and walls begin to lift around you.

Part Two:

"You won't always be together. You need to survive, and learn to "

I know I want it to end with the party somehow getting handed these tickets to the ghostlight express and they hear the Vagrant's fiddle playing