09/03/2025
The Wild Bunch spent several days camping near the Untroubled Waters with the rest of the Listeners, recuperating and getting to know their companions.
Leena, the assassin they'd encountered in Queen's Meet, arrived, having tracked them down from a note they left her.
She claimed she was now leader of the Blood Thumb, the assassin organization in Queen's Meet, and wanted Nickelgin to come back and join her as head of the operation.
Nickelgin agreed, changing his name to Nickelgin Ginnickel tun Dimerinda to leave his old family name behind him at last.
He and Leena became a couple and left for Queen's Meet.
As the group decided what came next, an automaton named "WIP Name Prototype One" arrived, apparently drawn to the gathering through the sheer force of the accumulated power there
They claimed there were on a research mission, and their creator, a wizard named Izala who was holed up in the Enochian Tower in the Arrowhead Isles, was using WIP's eyes, ears, and sometimes mouth, to experience the world from the comfort of the tower.
The Wild Bunch decided to have WIP come along to experience more of the world, and as they were deciding where that would lead them, Doba, the tortle from Heron's Harbor, showed up with a note for Tricks.
The note ended up being from Trick's wife, Jinn Suntail, who'd left it for him with Doba should Tricks ever return to the Kindred Isle.
The note apologized for leaving him, but also spoke of a door in the Jawhara desert that was the origin of the Voice, and her mission to find it and learn why the Voice existed. She hoped he would join her.
The Wild Bunch decided to head back to Wilder, get the Hareplane, and make their way to Jawhara to find Jinn.