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{{Infobox expedition log
| title = Were-gnome, Ann Dreads
| date = 7/12/24
| storyteller = [[User:Unseelie|Unseelie]]
| tier_of_play = Any
| player_characters = [[Aleth]], [[Melfyra]], [[Suttonalia Morroweather|Sutton]], [[Echo]]
| rewards = 250 xp, gold by level
| result = Success
| author = Aleth
| downtime_days = 0
}}
== Log ==

Melfyra, Sutton, EchoStar, and Shadefrost responded to Gnome Ann's request for a demonstration of a game intended to stave off the Bleaching in a community of shapeshifting gnomen. We were asked to create player characters for this game. EchoStar created a mechanical ursine creature, Sutton a Pegasus rider, Melfyra a vampiric heroine, and Shadefrost an inquisitive child.

In the game, the characters were introduced around an ice cream shop. Describing the events within the game: The product, a concoction of blended ice, milk, and suagar, melted instantly when attempts to consume it were made. We investigated, first with the impression was that the frozen water could be at fault, but we discovered other frozen substances would melt when consumed as well. We sought out a vindictive 'ice mage' as a likely suspect, teleporting ourselves to an ice field, where we discovered a castle and behind it, a stricken giant holding a magical ice cream cone that could apparently store magic. The ice cream within also melted.

The mages in the castle, despite their distaste for ice cream, were hospitable, though their butler only permitted Sutton's princess to meet with them. The rest of us snooped around and engaged in various shenanigans, culminating with the investment of the castle by an army of snow constructs and bombardment by many snowballs which though entertaining was largely ineffective. In some way we used the ice cream cone, which had come to be known as the snow general's battle horn, to capture the magic that was causing all ice cream to melt and mostly disarm the magic, leaving only one errant gust travelling around the world inflicting misery on the occasional ice cream enjoyer.

After the game and its imagined adventure's conclusion, the gnomen were not only entertained but a;sp visibly relieved from the effects of the bleaching, and we were invited back to observe their own efforts to engage in similar forms of play, having succeeded in our demonstration.