Act 1: Let's get out of here

Steve falls in with the others as the party leaves the plaza. "Not very helpful but we did learn one thing. Whatever it is we are doing must be working if we already have the answers."

Steve nods in agreement.

"Can we avoid those guys in the future?" Amber says rhetorically to the others. "Hearing him talk into my head is freaking weird..."

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After a few minutes of walking, the party encounters a group of fairies sitting on a bench. There are only three of them, and they are eating small pieces of chicken that have been deep fried in oil. They haven't noticed the party yet.

To Amber - "Yeah."

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Mihai approaches a Fairy - "Hey."

Steve walks up to the fairies and says, "Hello. Sorry to bother you but are you fairies from the village?"

Konrad waves to them. "Hi there. How's lunch?"

The three fairies look up at the group.

"Oh hey, it's you guys!"

                "Even Konrad the honorary fairy."

        "These nuggets are awesome, wanna try one?"

"Don't tell the others at the village though..."

Steve smiles at being remembered. "Sure, I'd love to. And don't worry, I promise not to tell." He eats one of the proffered nuggets. "Oh it's good. I can see why you bought some."

The fairies smile a lot when they see that Steve likes the nuggets. The one with red hair puts one of the nuggets in Amber's hand.

"Try it!"

"Oh, uh... thanks." The teenager bites into it and her eyes widen. "...That's really good."

"Isn't it?"

One of the other fairies answers Konrad's question.

"Because they're gonna ask us to share, obviously."

Konrad laughs. "That's as good a reason as any. Do you know if Fluffle is there?"

"Oh yeah, he's in the village," one fairy says. "Bubble is trying to start another festival, but he thinks we have enough of those already."

"How about a nuggets festival?"

"That sounds awesome."

"Where do you buy those nuggets?"

Steve lights up at the sound of Bubble starting a festival. "Is the new festival Silly Hat Day?"

Konrad just shakes his head. "With any luck, we have the munition he needs to shoot her down. Thank you, enjoy your lunch."

"Oh, we bought them at that restaurant with a chicken sign in front of it. They have a special for fairies!"

The fairies' wings perk up at Steve's idea.

"Oh, we gotta have one of those!"

"I want to make people wear silly hats too so they can relax."

"Yeah, let's talk to Bubble about it. We'll get the town to do the same."

When Konrad tells them to enjoy their lunch, they nod and all reply at the same time, "Always!"

"If you show me where it is, i'll buy you a couple more packs if you do me a favor. We really need to talk to Fluffle, but can't go to the Village right now."

"Really!?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah, both! I need to see if she's getting my letters."

The fairies fly up in the air with their nuggets in hand.

"Fluffle!"

"Bubble!"

"Nuggets!"

They disappear into the distance.

Amber blinks multiple times and says under her breath, "...Don't they ever get exhausted? By anything?"

"Not really."

"Too much food will put them under for like tens of seconds while they digest the food. Breeze was also pretty tired after a fight on one of our missions."