Enigmas at the Ectic Station is the eleventh episode of season 26, Cloudward, Ho!.
Recap[]
Last we left off, our intrepid heroes were aboard the Zephyr over the Swirling Sea in the skies of the lost land of Zood, fighting against the Bank of Fehujar and its Vice President Rolfgar Halvorson. They had come to seize Montgomery LaMontgommery to help them find out the coordinates of Comfrey MacLeod's Ectic Research Station. You are still here in the land of Zood, pursuing your long lost professor. Where could she be? Is she even still alive? The breadcrumbs proceed forward as you now hold the briefcase of this Fehujar pillager with the coordinates in it. However, though battle has ceased, as the bank plummets through the sky, you look up and see one of your balloons patched with a black ichor that has emerged from the gauntlet of one Vanellope Chapman. We come out of combat, the deck covered in blood, the ship having been badly damaged in the fight, to find ourselves once again here in the lands of Zood headed cloudward, ho. Those of you, as battle ceases, look up and see writhing black mass subsiding sort of tentacular movement, suddenly receding until there is a glossy black pitch sealing the slit in the balloon caused by one of the penny-farthing bombers from the House of Fehujar. Van, what's going through your mind?
Synopsis[]
The crew is hot on Comfrey's trail, but their discoveries leave more questions than answers. They make their way to Comfrey’s Ectic Research Station. Here they discover more information about the Temple of Katur and the Queen of Zern. In a letter that Haunch Saxon wrote, they learn more secrets that Professor Comfrey MacLeod had and how much trouble she got herself in. Upon hearing these hard truths, Orethra looks for something more positive and finds an old photo.
They learn about an elder beast with many tenticales. They discover the name through a code of the cloudward ho poem but do not say it. Van doesn't even look at the paper. We learn it is spelled "TAZGW'AGWA". They also find notes about the beacons being lit in the Temple of Katur.
The crew makes their way to the welcoming city of Oda during the sunlion harvest festival. Montgomery quickly picks up the trail of Lord Kensington Cosgrove Mordecestershire and knows that he is somewhere in the city.
Locations[]
- Zood
- Ectic Research Station
- Temple of Katur (mentioned)
- Oda
- Zern (mentioned)
Featured Characters[]
Player Characters[]
- Daisuke Bucklesby
- Vanellope Chapman
- Maxwell Gotch
- Marya Junková
- Montgomery LaMontgommery
- Olethra MacLeod
Recurring[]
Mentioned[]
- Comfrey MacLeod
- Lord Kensington Cosgrove Mordecestershire
- Haunch Saxon
- Sylvio Dufresne
- Onion St. Clay
- Ludmila Ryczanek
- The Queen of Zern