So I think I've waited long enough, time to finally rescue Challa's parents! I've been playing RPGs on Roll20 twice a week, our games were combing Robotech with TMNT and Other Strangeness mostly as a means to play Mutant Animals in the Robotech setting but as time goes on and players either drop out or players who still want to play find themselves not coming to sessions because RL keeps getting in the way, I mentioned my wish to play a more straight up TMNT game finally DM took me up on it, still two games a week because not everyone who's interested can come on the same same day, so I'll have to make two different characters for the two different games, but first character I've got is a Mutant Sheep, an American Blackbelly Sheep if the the picture I found for my character avatar is to be believed played Session Zero last week, not sure if 'Cashmere' as I've named my Sheep character will appear in my fanfiction as this campaign still takes place in a relativly distant future it's just not a post apocolyptic future in fact things seem to have gotten slightly better on the enviromental front I said 'So it's like a more enviromentally friendly version of Blade Runner' but anyway playing my Sheep character made me realize I should update a different Sheep's story

After some time on the road the Caravan was finally approaching the place where both of Challa's parents had been sold to, Tishnia's city Tiari, it used to be the capitol of Tishnia before the Twilight Wars.

Chanchalla had prepaed two letters, one to be given to Don and Mikey who would go to where her Mother was being held, and one for Leo and Raph who were going to rescue her Father, while with what she had learned about her Mother recently she felt certain Piang would be capable of defending herself if she wanted to, however since she had learned she had been close with the Taskara even if it seemed she wasn't one herself it would seemed more likely she would be more open to the idea of strange things, and wouldn't need to much convincing to trust the Turtles, her Father was the troublesome question, there was his hatred of Sarpah, but also as a typical Sunborn he had reason to distrust anything that was strange and since almost all Sunborn if they aren't born with magical talent like herself their 'First Victory' the coming of age ritual in which Janah of all Castes earn their Caste Braids is usually their first victory in the Spiral Arena, Sunborn are the Warrior Caste, they all know how to fight even if nobles in postions of authority like House Aryah like her Father usually have Honor Guards to serves as proxies to fight in the Spiral Arena for their Lords and Ladies.

Still Challa hoped that her letter, her postion as her Father's favorite would be enough to convince her Father to trust these strange beings.

"If not..." Challa sighed to Leo "...There's always those pressure points like when we first met."

"What?!" Aneka's ears perked up hearing that

Dressed in their colorful concealing robes two sets of Turtles left for two different Houses.

As they waited Challa decided to show Ari what she had learned was Leo's favorite fruit.

"They're called apples." Challa said holding a big shiny Fuki apple for her giant brother, how you eat them is you eat all around the middle, the core, you don't eat the core because the seeds are poisonous.

Gingerly the Eland Antelope took a bite, his eyes brightened "I've never known a fruit with this unique flavor!' He exclaimed as he took another bite "Or a fruit with this unique crisp texture! If we save the seeds, we could plant them."
"That's the thing..." Challa said bashfully "...I don't think we can grow them on Dardunah, this fruit, is a cold weather fruit, it flouishes in lands where it snows in the winter, here we only get snow on the peaks on mountains."

Ari's ears flicked as he took a moment to realize what that meant

"My!" He exclaimed "This America must be the most extraordinary country if it's a place where it snows in the lowlands!"

Challa blushed, how could she tell him what she had learned about planets while on Earth? Donatello showed her a globe to show her what Earth looked like, and when she told him Dardunah was flat great walls of water around the edges that's why it was seen as insanity to try to cross to see what might be on the other side, Don admitted that there were many dimenstions and it might be possible that her world might be flat but since no one could actually see for themselves, he gently suggested, that it might be possible that Dardunah was a round planet but the part they were one was walled off by the walls of water preventing the Janah from traveling to other parts of the planet, studying the glode and realizing how large the Earth was compared to Dardunah Challa realized Don's thoery was a very real possibility.

Well in a few hours the Turtles arrived with both her Mother Piang and her Father Ayrram they had both come willingly once they were shone the letters and they reconized Challa's sloppy caligraphy. Seems already Ayrram had been realizing his hatred of Sarpah had gotten him in the postion he was in now so he was more willing to take a leap of faith and trust these strange Sarpah, however she could see he was not pleased coming to a Taskara Camp.

Sitting around the campfire Challa sat with her arms folded and a stern look on her face.

"I have traveled to another world..." She said "...Learned much and suffered much, all in the hopes of restoring us to our proper place in society...We're going to have to do unusual things because I've learned it is more than our family honor at stake, the fate of Dardunah itself depends on us!"

The family's eyes widened hearing this.

"You are all going to sit and listen to me as I tell you things...Some of them...Upsetting things...But fortunatly my new friends and the Taskara will help restrain anyone from hurting anyone else."

Oh how the fortunes had been reversed! The youngest child and family embaressment was now in complete control of the entire family!

Challa told them what she had learned from her dreams about her mother not being a mere Trade Case Bathhouse Proprietor like her Father had assumed when he 'fudged' some papers so he could marry her that in fact she had guises in which she was low caste, she had been in fact a traveling burgler who had been initally planning to take as much as she could from Ayyram's house after marrying and leaving however she had not planned on getting pregnant and she was not prepared for Ayrram absolutely showing her with affection and love as he really was so miserable with the two women he had been arranged to marry that Piang pretending to love him had made him happier than he had been in years.

And to everyone's surprise to one they had to restrain the most was Aneka! The Little Roe Deer was most disgusted by what he had learned finally Ayrram asked Piang what was really true.

Piang sighed sorrowfully and admitted it was all true, that she had been planning to steal from him, however she was so touched by his love and her own love for her newborn daughter that she renounced her criminal ways and would try to live as an honorable Sunborn, but deep down she feared that all their misfortunes were Karmic retribution for her previous crimes and her deceiving him.

"I learned why I am the way I am..." Challa said "...I have something the people of America call 'Autism' we haven't discovered it yet but what it is...When I was developing in the womb, these invisable, threds of the mind got tangled up, which is why I think differently from other Janah but I learned something that can be a curse in one way can be a blessing in another way as I can see things other Janah can't and it seems the Janah needed...To break their own rules, for an Outcaste to have a child with a Sunborn to give birth to one who could see clearly what was hidden from other Janah to stop...The Devourer from being summoned..."

At that gasp Challa said "Yes, that is the danger, some insane Sir'Hibas is actually trying to bring the devourer to Dardunah, he seems to have been born with Autism like I have and the result of being shunned all his life for something he can't help has resulted in him turning his heart away from Janah and towards the Devourer..."

Challa stood up "Right now the Taskara and the these Turtles from another world are our best chance of getting to Visedhárah before he can bring the Devourer over!"

With that, the family (Except for Aneka who had to be given the pressure points so was knocked out) decided they would go to bed, and tomorrow they would work together as a family. Ayrram was quiet and said he just wanted to stay up a little longer and think for a while.

The rest of the family bid him good night, and Ayrram sat with his arms wrapped around his knees staring into the campfire and thought, seems like it really was true, the Devah had to...Break their own rules they had set up so long ago when they established the Caste System, they had to admit they were wrong because their Ancient Enemy from before the beginning of time, that Great Mother and Father could only flee from in their firey chariot they could not hope to defeat the Devourer! He remembered as a small child Chanchalla asking if the Devourer would ever see through the disguises Great Mother and Father gave them, seemed now a sign Chanchalla already was beginning to feel her destiny...And after the revelations he had just heard, Ayrram was thinking back and was beginning to realize he was the one who brought this misfortune on his family and it was less Karmic retribution and more he had angered his fellow Nobles so they conspired to get rid of him.

Since he thought he had merely married a Trade Caste woman when he married Piang, he had begun petitioning the Isvar of Nilam a Great Horned Owl Puntama the Sixteenth to make changes in the law to make it easier for Sunborn to elevate lower caste Janah to their level so they could marry, the Owl had smiled and nodded politly but now Ayrram realized that Isvar and all the other Nobles saw him as a dangerous heratic and upstart Not-Even-A-Great-Aryah who must be taught a lesson! So they arranged for his framing and the enslavement of his entire family to make an example to those who dare go against the Caste System even in the slightest!

So Ayrram has eaten his humble pie and so he's not going to be in a postion to complain about strange things