Cut Your Losses

Cut Your Losses
Date	9/17/25
Storyteller	Sue
Tier	Trainee
Player Characters	Aruwyn, Claire Casca, Mips, Sparrow, Urallo
Rewards	10 gold, Peachwood Talisman x2, Predator Claw x2, Lion Badge x5, Emerald Grasshopper x2, Singing Muse x1, Retrieval Prism x3, Mesmerizing Opal x2, Snapleaf x5, Breath of Freedom x3
Result	Success
Author	Mips
Downtime	10

Associates procure poker chips for the Lucky A Lady Casino.

Log

wheelday. very early.

round table of jobs ask mips go very early. new place in trimarket for mips. strange place smell like stick-smoke. hurts mips snout. too early. mips not happy.

on street, mips find friends! orange flame lady, favorite-color-man, mips remember! from day when mips meet dragon that drinking blood. new friends, cranky mask lady, strange birdman who think they largest dragon.

meet thugs of money-haver-mean-lady. dilly and dally. mips not sure which was which. mips thinks both share same thinker. dilly and dally give asocites big coin bag. many heavy coin! for buying of smaller, cheaper, wooden coin. mips not understand. why strange place smell like stick-smoke not use real coin.

orange flame lady know where shop is: croissants wood and woodwork shop in trimarket. mips seen before. croissant dworf wood maker. use peachwood for coin. peachwood very holy wood! good for furnishturing. helps beat dead-people if made for gun. mips envious. may think make next gun with peachwood. wood maker, no have peachwood now. go to wood store for peachwood for dworf.

friends go west. mips try not go west. people talk funny west of trimarket. went to wood store. store lady says little peachwood now. saving peachwood for largest customer. mips thinks saving for other customer being bad biznes. store lady say tree-cutter gone. mips not happy here. find many people who pass problem to next. friends want only wooden coins.

spend day traveling outside trimarket to tree-cutter home. mips first time outside again! not dangerous with friends. mips not scared. cranky mask lady have speshal moving house. small. mips sit outside when moving. air clean.

wood-cutter man live far outside city. many confusing words here. mips not listen. man say he cannot leave. trapped by magic. mips and favorite-color-man find wood-cutter man axe outside. mips loosen with tools! man need to cut tree for shop lady for dworf for smoke smelling street place.

small flying lady come. very strange. ask to find thingy. mips not understand. why wood-cutter man need? strange mating dances between two. mips leave with friends to find thingy.

favorite-color-man know where thingy is. go into cave. cave strange. smell, taste like stale candy. sticky floor. mips trip once. clothes and snout sticky, mips not like. friends help mips.

mips paw hurting now. write-stick not made for mips claw.

friends find big fuzzy dragon. dragon make roaring speak. favorite-color-man make smaller roaring noise. strange bird sneaky-sneak. thingy behind fuzzy dragon! friends leave with thingy before fuzzy dragon mad. mips almost shoot.

thingy broken. friends not happy. strange bird go back for book. mips not know why. thingy made by Old Lady of making magic soups. mips tell friends. cranky mask lad reading book, strange bird man know who find to fix thingy.

one more day back to city in moving house. go to drink house in trimarket. mips, bird man, color man, color-man friend go into drink house. house full of MEAN ladys. leave for orange lady and mask lady to talk instead.

mips not understand. wait outside. mask lady say: friends find ring now. mips begin frustrated. ring for thingy for wood-cutting man stop staying home for shop lady sell dworf wood for dworf make wooden coin.

at new place in city, friends find house of ring. old man inside. all but mask lady go. old man soon no longer wake up. for ring, old man wants to become bird. or shoot crime-doing. or go mountain.

bird man pretend be crime-doer. orange lady make flaming cut-cut for old man. mips not sure this real. old man cuts bird man. so excited, old man dies. friends no know where ring is. mips not happy.

outside, friends find strange thunder fix-fixer with boy. say bring old-man body for standing. mips hear before. speshal fix-fix.

strange fix-fixer moving house broken. need find shiny stone for fix-fix. mips not happy. friends go to new store. mips remember large, fat store man: doctor diamonds dingys and shiny thingys.

doctor diamonds no talk. sword and shiny stone taken from doctor. mips not happy.

friends go outside of town, find sword and shiny stone stealer. fox-stealer find friends. mips not understand. birdman and fox-stealer fight alone. friends also find old magic soup making lady.

birdman leaking red water FAST. fox-stealer leaves. mips shoot but friends lose fox-stealer. new magic soup making old lady have foggy-day drink-drink. mips have idea: give old-old lady of making magic soups book to new old-lady for drink-drink. mips not foolish. ask for sample. bird man drink sample. birdman think 400 years pass. mips not sure bird man needed drink-drink for thinking this.

mips barter for drink-drink. go back to city, show mask lady drink-drink. tells doctor diamonds potion make strong. mips not sure this ok. doctor diamonds drink potion fast. potion so good, doctor forget breathing. doctor dies.

mips not happy. take shiny thingy. bring back to thunder fix-fixer. moving house make noise and light: old man back! favorite-color man ask so many question, old man decides die again. ring in grave at old man home.

friends find ring. mask-lady take ring, friends find MEAN lady drink house again, mask-lady come back with fix-thingy. friends travel again for day to wood-cutting man home. mips not happy.

strange noise from wood-cutting man home. everyone make angry noise when door open. mips not see: favorite-color man hide mips eyes with hands. mips not understand noises.

wood-cutting man come with friends back to city now. find shop lady of wood store. friends take peachwood back to dworf in trimarket. croissant take two days make wooden coin with peachwood. big coin bag pay for wooden coins. mips think this bad deal.

with wooden coins friends go back smoke-smelling building. only 10 coin for friends. mips not happy. money-having lady not give money.

then big noise. all people say friends work hard. mips agree. croissant-dorf, shop-lady, wood-cutting man and flying lady, fuzzy dragon, MEAN drink-house lady, blue floating old man back again, strange thunder fix-fixer with boy, green floating doctor diamonds, fox-stealer, new-old soup making lady all give present to mips and friends.

mips not sure if quit gun-make working good idea.