CAMPAIGN: Asporious - Flames and Gears
In a merchant town by the Sapphire Isles walks a woman trading pelts, plants, and dinosaur bones. While visiting she meets an elven man that she finds incredibly beautiful. They “have fun”, and in the end she travels back to the island she comes from -going as a stray passenger on a ship- now with an extra unexpected passenger.
Come nine months and a woman gives birth to a small girl, whom she names Kiki. They grow up together, out in the wild jungles of the isle of Leath, a mother teaching her daughter how to hunt, gather and survive. The daughter learns that she has to remain unseen to the local wildlife, if she does not want to risk her life. If that fails, she has to be able to defend herself. If that too fails, she has to know how to pacify these animals, by whatever means necessary. So she was taught how to excel in all these aspects.
Even so, Kiki found a special kind of joy in cooking, teaching her patience and innovation, through spices and slow simmering meat. She found joy in a lot of small things. The less aggressive wildlife interested her, and she did her best in befriending it. Travelers and merchants would sail by the island, getting valuable resources along their journey. Kiki traded these resources for books and lessons, learning to read and write simple sentences, thanks to passing visitors.
As time passed and as she aged, Kiki’s vision grew worse, a genetic problem that sprung to life only in her. Her other senses, and her connection to the jungle grew stronger in its stead. Details in the distance blurred, but small sounds like the crack of a branch being stepped on, became clearer. Having managed to befriend a small group of five velociraptors at this point, she had guides to help her where her own vision failed. If an opponent was tough, she had fighters who attacked with her. If she ever felt alone, she had pets to comfort her. Kiki thanked her own interest in nature for these gifts. Her life was simple and her life was good, and that was all it had to be. Kiki had little desire to change how her life was.
Kiki’s mother died when Kiki was twenty-five. Her mother’s final wish was to visit the Sapphire Isles one last time. Kiki bore her body -feeling so much heavier than it should be- out to the stone furnace outside their hut, their home. As her mothers remains burnt to ashes, Kiki thought of one way to bring her mother to those isles once more. Packing her mother’s ashes in a small leather pouch, Kiki had one goal in mind now. Leave her peaceful life behind, bring her mother to her final resting place -the Sapphire Isles- and maybe along the way figure out who her father was or even still is.
Sailing from the island, her home and the life she had built over two decades, she joins travelers and merchants, hearing stories of ports and towns filled with dozens upon dozens of people. Stories of lives completely different from her own. She learned quickly that visiting the Sapphire Isles was not an easy task, so now she has to figure out exactly how she will accomplish her one goal. For now, after a quite nauseating journey, she’s landed at the port of Mion, where a tussle between a bouncer and a halfling has just broken out.
