Bloomburrow | Episode 5: Nightfall in Fountainport
Bloomburrow | Episode 5: Nightfall in Fountainport
As heroes, villains, and monsters make for Fountainport, Helga returns to her old master.
Fountainport
The gang makes it to Fountainport, King Glarb's 🐸 city. While they wait to get an audience with him, Helga explains that she was expelled from her apprenticeship under him because of a very embarrassing spellweaving mistake.
It was Glarb
They tell King Glarb about all the stuff. The attacks, the egg, Cruelclaw, etc. Getting suspicious, Helga 🐸 figures him out and yanks off the curtain behind his throne, revealing the egg.
"The Calamity Beast egg?" Helga reeled from shock. "You have it?"
"I should hope so," King Glarb replied. "I paid Cruelclaw extremely well to bring it here."
He plans on hatching and raising his own Calamity Beast in the hopes of defending Valley from the existing ones. He orders the mercenaries to get rid of Helga and company. But Helga is tired of thinking herself a failure.
Chaos
A lot of fighting breaks loose in the throne room. That gets put on hold when the storm dragon from the last episode shows up and attacks Fountainport. With Helga's help, Mabel 🐭 gets high up to attack the dragon when it swoops in.
Coming in with a steel chair!
By god, it's Maha, tackling the dragon from the side and clearing out the storm with a curtain of night! Maha bites off some of the dragon's tail feathers, driving it away. The owl then perches at the edge of the floor, staring at Mabel. She suddenly realizes what Maha is here for and picks up the egg, offering it to the owl. It takes the egg and leaves peacefully.
Aftermath
- King Glarb and Cruelclaw fled, locations unknown. Some of Cruelclaw's lackeys surrendered instead.
- Helga is now officially a hero and decides to stay in Goodhill, the town where Mabel lives. She briefly becomes possessed by a vision:
"The kings in the dark will return. The mage in blue will bring about the end."
- Before Ral 🦦 leaves, Mabel offers him a gift: a muffin and two decorative buttons, for him and his husband.
Unanswered questions
- Where is Jace?
- What's going to happen with Pondside?
- What about that dragon?
- Maha was looking for its egg. Why are the other Calamity Beasts attacking?
"You'll always be welcome here," Mabel told him, stroking the gray, fuzzy leaves. "Perhaps we'll journey together again."
"Stranger things have happened," Ral replied. "Can't say I've loved having a tail, though."
What?
If there's not a DnD adaptation of this setting we riot
Wanderhome and Root: the RPG are existing takes on this style of setting as an RPG. There's a whole world of role-playing games beyond just that one!
I'm aware, but WOTC makes both DnD and MTG, would make sense for them to adapt it
A fairly sudden ending. Feels like there's a lot more story to tell, and it just wasn't in the budget. We're really not going to see fox Jace? Not going to get any character development for Zoraline? Why didn't Glarb have the presence of mind to grab the egg before fleeing, making the party have to track him down? What's the scoop on Gev's tail? And how come there are only 16 unique cards spoiled so far and we still didn't see most of those characters or locations?
@Evu @silverchase I haven't read them yet, but they did announce that Jace wasn't actually going to Bloomburrow, and that art was from a special "imagine if Planeswalker 'x' went to Bloomburrow"series.
Besides, tomorrow is the big announcement stream. I'm sure they'll have more stories and a ton more cards spoiled in the next few weeks
If there's more fiction to come then I retract some of my complaining. I was assuming this was all there would be.
Watsonian: Glarb isn't much of a fighter but he is smart. Once Cruelclaw and the mercenaries were dealt with he knew he'd be at worse odds versus the heroes. As for Zoraline, she just wasn't usually awake with others and so didn't interact with them much (a shame, yes).
Doylian: The set was seen as risky by Hasbro execs, as all this started design years ago so the money was limited and things were told to be kept short in case it didn't go over well.