Tik-tok turned down and towards Pop. In the event that Tik-tok was ever able to show confusion, a slight glimpse of it would have shown on his face. However, as it stood, the same steel-faced look peered at the gnome. "Your inquiry lacks context. Choice is made by anything that can act, in any sense of the word, regardless of reason. I required a charge, I choose to seek it out here. If you are still intent to discuss, please rephrase."

He takes his hand away rapidly and you see that you actually puncture his hand and he looks at it weirdly with his eyes crossed. He shakes it and air starts to come out of the punctures and his hand deflates like a balloon. He then grabs his now deflated thumb, puts his mouth to it blowing air into his hand re-inflating it. "Well what a welcoming guest you are Cheshire. I just wanted to pet pat pit pot you." He looks a bit sad from not being able to pet you, but on a drop of a dime he turns maniacally happy once more and says " Well today is your lucky day! Because today is my unbirthday! and everyone is invited. And you are a special guest!" the song starts to get louder as you hear footseps of about 5 creatures aproaching " a very merry unbirthday to you. To me?..." and the Hatter is clapping his hands and offers "would you like 1 or 2 cubes of sugar? Or would you want to drink drank drunk dronk the Hatter way?" 

Trixie takes detailed notes of your account in a normal sized legal pad which fer her seems almost comically large. She looks up when you say the name Master Oogway and blushes a little. She clears her throat and shakes her head a little as to clear some thought out of her head. She says as you ask about the curse "Hmm well I truly do not know the nature of this curse. All my magic tells me is that it is some sort of time curse. My best guess is that you have a certain amount of time to live, but again thats just little ol me taking a guess" she looks sad, but jumps up and grabs your fur saying " how about we go to the Wild District together and investigate the disappearing of animals and creatures on our way big guy?" she extends her hand as if offering her hand to help you off the floor.

His magic stops working when you speak of your master, making the giant book (again, that is the size of a house) drop to the floor in a loud thud that makes the gorund shake and books to fall off the shelves that are around you. His eyes and pupils wide with shock he says "Wha-what?! You are an apprentice of one of the greatest sorcerers this land has ever seen hoo-hoot?! Sho-show me a spell!" (this will not cost you a spell slot just describe something your character would do to try to impress him, it doesn't even have to be a pre-existing skill so you can use your imagination here).
Roll an arcana or a perfomance check with advantage for me.

You end up seeing a dark allyway that you think would be the right direction. there is a ton of ill smelling trahs and non-sentient rats are scuttling through this place. You hear a his from the end of the alley and you see a person in a black leather hooding standing against a wall with big head phones on that have the Anarchy sign on them. You also see their jacket have the words "Death to the Living" stitched on to them. 

 The bartender takes the tip and thanks you with a nod. And hands you a honestly super cold pilsner this place may not be upscale, but it sure does pride itself in having good cold drinks. You approach the table, Jim smiles and you hear him say "He's here mam". Now you may not know about young Jim, but you know that the way he is sitting and talking is a way that someone does in front of someone they truly respect. The person does not turn to see you approach.
You do see an open seat right next to Jim accross from this person. You take it and you see the second person in the last 2 days that you would never expect to see in your entire life. Your eyes are emediately drawn to her golden pin in the shape of mickeys head. There are three silver stars under the pin. The rankings of the Royal Guard are a well kept secret, but you do know that 3 stars is an extremely high rank, you venture a guess tha this person may well be one of the "Defenders of the Realm" a small Group of high ranking Royal Guardsmen that have proven themselves wothy of the hardest tasks.
You take a seat next to Jim. He cheers you with his ale and says "old man this is Major Tamora Calhoun from the past district. She wanted to make your acquaintance after I told her the story of yesterday".

Larzug looks at you confused at you and says "I do not know of this bird named Anna, but I'm happy to change the channel to whatever you like madam. I'm here to please my patrons." he switches to the channel in an effort to find what you were talking about but has no luck. He says "no luck love. Here." He hands you the remote. Make an investigation check for me to see if you can find this channel that was flickering before."

Pop gives a smile of joy hearing your way of talking "Oh ya know son this old man has his oddities. I just... see a part here in you that blocks you from making your own true decisions. You may think you are making them now but it is all programmed in this little box... it's fascinating I don't think I have ever seen somthin like this before!". He starts to fiddle with it and you hear in your head "Warning Tinkerer Level Not sufficient. Administering protective shock". A zap is audibly heard and Pop is blown back against the wall opposite to where you are.

“Milk for me please. I’ve never liked T. To close to U and not fair there are three of them in there when all the rest only get one turn. Are you expecting guests?” Cheshire looks around the area to see where the foot steps are coming from.

Holy hears the whispered voice of his god providing guidance and solace. He gently places the dead dwarf on the ground and kneels beside him. He takes his blanket out of his backpack and reverently wraps the body. With a grunt, he lifts the body to his shoulder and heads toward the stables operated by the one called Konodor. He plans to deliver the dwarf to his home for burial, and to see if the terrible story he told about the mines is true.

Tik-tok followed the gnome as he rocketed across the room. "A counter-measure. The guild presumably installed that to prevent unauthorized tinkering." Tik-tok remained sitting where he was.

Redek tips his drink to the woman respectfully. 

"Madam."  he says, an accompanying bow of the head goes with the casually uttered phrase.

Were Redek a member of her branch, he might be obliged to stand at attention. 

But he's not. He's not even technically a real town guard. 

Years ago, during a particularly awful siege to the city by some nameless horrors of the enchanted forest, many of the city guard either succumbed to wounds, abandoned post, or resigned in the weeks following.

This was infamously referred to in papers as "The Night of Broken Men."  

The city was left with a vacuum of warriors which it cheaply and quickly filled with mercenaries and security workers.

Redek is one of the few guards who remain from those times.

"As for yesterday, it was definitely the highlight of my week." Redek shoots a cheeky wink at Jim. 

Redek takes a drink from the pint, wiping away the foam from his lips with a small napkin. 

"Now," He starts, "I don't think you called me here to shake my hand. Even around here, time is important to people. What can I do for you?"

Emboldened Zagga says "Of course!" he takes out his magical rod and uses it to lift a couple dozen books form their shelves and twirl them around himself while polymorphing them into doves, he does this for a minute before changing the books back and putting them back in their places.

Arcana check: 12

Luke heads down the alleyway and looks for signs of a dwarven bar. He tries to endure the stench without covering his nose, not wanting to seem rude to the local inhabitants.

He poors your milk from his hat and puts it in front of you, it is a nice cold milk. Hwere he keeps it? Who knows! He looks at you as he poors his tea into his ear and makes a swallowing sound and says " Of course it would not be a merry unbirthday without guests! All 4 of my best friends are coming" as he says that the friends come from around a tree with a cake that is taller than you that has "merry unbyrthdai" written in incin on the side with each letter being in a different layer of cake. Dozens of sparklers are sparkling off the sides of the cake as the friends keep singing the song over and over. Make an arcana check for me.
The friends that you see are 2 egg shape humans, a tiny mouse on top of the cake, and a sentient accordion.

You feel a cover of light around you get warm giving you a sense that you are doing the right thing and that Opindo is smiling upon you for your decision. You get to Konodor he greets you with short temper "Ye what you want traveler?", but softens his inate tension once he sees the symbol of your religion and corrects his statement "how may I be of help representative of the faith. Name is Konodor."

Trixie is almost taken aback from your attitude and gives you a big sweet smile "You are quite alright for a monk Sully" How about I lead the way in the forrest so we can investigate and then you take the lead to go meet Keymaster Oogway. There is also a know-it-all dwarf I want to see and ask some questions to in the Wild District. that guy at his dingy little bar will know something for sure."
You guys leave the empty monastery behind and head to the forrest to investigate. Roll an investigation check and an arcana check this time with advantage for both as Trixie is giving you the help action.

Pop lets out a cough that makes a puff of smoke come out, gets up and says "Wowie! That will wake ya up in the mornin". A green light appears near your temple and you hear in your head "Battery recharged. Current Charge 100%", seeing that Pop and Mom look a bit sad and mom says "before ya go dear are there any parts ya want? We'll give ya a discount" and pop says " Oh for sure we will! See we ain't have a customer here in so long we can barely keep this here store open. It's strange too... this area ain't never was this bad before and recently the crimes went up and people just stopped comin over here. I hope it gets better soon". Roll a History check for me with advantage 

OOC: First of all that backstory is amazing! Great job on that.

She immediately smiles at you and says " I like him." her voice is short and dry and has a slight brittish accent to it. Jim drops his jaw, he is impressed by something. He recomposes himself clearing his throat and says " you are a wise old man, man." Calhoun cuts him of saying "Call him by his name boy!" slamming her fist against the table, the bar goes silent for a second just from the sound of her fist. Jim, who is usually a cool guy that lives dangerously, now is pale and sweating a bit and says "Yes mam! I'm sorry Redek". She sits back relaxing a bit and stares intently at you. Jim resumes "After yesterday, I am ashamed to admit, I did a little digging on you and your story... We want to hear your version of 'The Night of Broken Men.' and why did you not run? More importantly... Major Callhoun wants to know."

You do this amazing feat of magic, granted the doves look more like rats with paper wings. You see he stares at thes "doves" a bit confused but is delighted when you finish the trick because according to him "Hoot the most impressive thing of that magic was that you put the books back in the right place! I will be glad to take you to our resticted section young scholar, but beware it is a place of darkness and mystery and you may find yourself taken by the dark protectors of that place hoot. Even I don't have control over those Things." He wraps around taking you to the restricted section and on the way he asks "what is your story Zagga? Tell me whoot you are... if you dont mind of course. I would be glad to tell you some of my story as well ho-hoot. But it may be boring to someone who was Yen Sid's apprentice."

As you start to go down you see the figure more clearly, but you still can't make out exactly what they look like. You can tell, however, that they have a beak where their mouth should be. As you approach they turn their head to you still in the shadows and take their headphones off, that are still blasting some heavy sounding music. He gets your attention saying "Skraa(imagine a parrot noise)  hey dude. You hear to buy some stuff skraa? I got some good product in." He opens one side of the jacket revealing a bunch of plastic bag containing several different... substances?

At receiving the alert that his charge has completed, Tik-tok will stand. "I will look at your wares, to see what is offered. If the price is agreeable, from then will I decide if I will make a purchase."

History check: 11

"My apologies. Won't happen again. Do you prefer ma'am? Or something else?" Hathi waits for a response while he tries to think of how to answer. He didn't know how much she knew, but in his experience, being direct and honest was always the best route. "Am I to understand that you are familiar with Colonel Hathi? If you are, you must know his character. He is a hard worker, loyal, patriotic, physically strong, completely full of himself, oafish, foolish, controlling, and frankly, not terribly intelligent. It doesn't take the most insightful person to see through his bluster and big stories, but our tribe liked having a leader of some kind and he liked being one, probably thinks he's special. And maybe he is, who knows? At any rate, the Colonel had a very specific idea of who he wanted me to be and left no room for me to choose. I got tired of every choice being criticized and overanalyzed, of being told what to do every moment of every day by someone I wasn't sure had earned the respect and the right to do so. He didn't like it when I started questioning his choices. Things became strained and tense to the point where I either had to challenge him for leadership or leave. Out of respect for my mother, I decided to leave." Hathi's voice had been calm and indifferent while summarizing his relationship with his father, but his tone softens just slightly at the mention of his mother.

Luke, not ready to dismiss the possibility that the person has Pixie Dust, which he must acquire by some means, approaches the beaked stranger. "What may I ask exactly do you have?" He adds "I was actually looking for a bar with a Dwarf who is supposed to have a great deal of information, but if you have something good, maybe we can work out an arrangement."

Amazed at his fortune, Zagga smiled. "I don't really remember much about my early childhood Archimedes, nor do I have many memories of my parents, its all really a blur. My earliest clear memory is of sitting in the middle of a half destroyed building, and Master Yen Sid standing over me, as if he was deciding what to do with me. After staying in his tower for some time he discovered I had the innate ability to use magic, and asked if I wanted to become his apprentice, of course I said yes. He claims to not know about my parents, and doesn't like to talk about the day he found me. One day I would like to know what happened to them, or if i was just abandoned... What about you? Tell me your story please."

Holy nods at the man's polite greeting. "Blessings on you," he says. While Holy is always working to sound kinder and gentler, his rough background as a dwarven miner sometimes comes through, making even these polite words sound a little gruff. He sets his somewhat gruesome burden down before speaking further. 

"Konodor, I have heard you have reliable carts and animals available to rent," he says. "I must return one of my countrymen to his mountain home for burial and am wondering what you might have to offer. I also hear you are a fair and honest man to deal with." He nods down toward the dwarf's body wrapped up in the blanket. 

She giggles at your question and says " I'm sure Barkeep will find a way to help you in. He has information on many things so I'm sure he is smart enough to be able to accept creatures of all kinds... He is actually a devote worshipper of Opindo and the way of the opening door afterall."
You search around the forrest near the monastery with Trixie taking notes of everything she finds... or rather everything she doesn't find. No beehives, no worms, no birds chirping, no nothing. With that investigation check it's not about what you do find, but the lack of things to find that is interesting. You gather from your investigation that anything living (short from the plants and trees) within a 5 mile radius from the monestary is just gone... no traces of footprints, no major migration, just gone. And something is bothering you in the back of your mind... nature is a fluid thing so even if everything was gone, by now animals should have started to return and populate this area, but there is a clear line (about 5 miles from the door of the monestary) that for some reason the animals are not passing through.
With that arcana check doesn't wield much as even with Trixies help you are still not very magically inclined. You do gather that a powerfull spell was cast, by what it seems like a few different points around the area. 

With that high arcana check you sense no ill intent from these people or from the hatter, however there is a spell being cast here. You gather that this song they are singing over and over in unison is something that, through magic, enhances whatever effect this forrest has on people. So if your were not, for some unknown reason yet, immune to the effect it would be hitting you twice as hard. 
He smiles and says "Why yes my furry feline friend frowning falling failing finding! That is why I invited Y-O-U! I have a very merry unbirthday present for you! The form which you seek the form you were formed before the form you are formed into now. I know of a way to bring it back. Would that make your tail wiggle waggle woggle weggle?"

With that history check your processors have a hard time connecting to what little internet there is here, and all that comes from your search is a news article titled "The decline of the Hazard area" which you know is the name of were you are within the Future District.
Their eyes light up as they jump behind the counter using big car suspencion springs that is hidden inside their shoes that make them leap over the counter and they say in unison " Welcome to Mom and Pop's doodads! What would you like?" Pop says " We have all kinds of gears and gizmos. From weapons to useful contraptions we have everythin ya might ever need"

You flip the channels desperately in search of your sister. She appears on the screen. The bar and everything around you seem to go silent as you see your sisters face and hear her voice. You catch the end of her sentence "... I will be waiting for you there. I love you Esla." it looks like she turns off whatever she was using to film this and the screen goes blank with static. 

She finally towards you, this person is a blond woman that has short hair which is shaven on one side. Half of her face has a huge scar that looks like a a burn mark, she is also missing an ear on the same side that is scarred. She grins at you and says " That bafoon has no reason to be a leader and i'm glad you were inteligent enough to at least escape that Junior. Although I would have loved to see a fight between you and your old man... I don't think I have ever seen two elephant people truly go at it..." she loses herself in her imagination for a moment and resusmes " I read your file and your scores kid. I gotta say i like you... and I have under good athority that... the 'incident'..." she uses her fingers to make air quotes to make sure you know what she was talking about "was not your fault love." she lets that sink for a second and resumes " Grab that knoife with your trunk will ya? And tell me.... have you ever thought of applying for the royal guard love?"  

The person steps out of the shadows and you see that is a really tall bird person, he is about 7ft tall and his feathers are all yellow except for a tuft on his head which are badly dyed purple. He says "Skraa I have any ilicit drug you could need skraa. I have speed, sea weed, and pure dust skraa. Oh you looking for a dwarf bartender that has info skraa. I may or may not know who that is skraa. depends on the price."

Archimedes listens to your story carefully as both of you venture further and further into this library, while talking you have a bit of a realization... this travel would be nigh impossible without Archimedes. There are so many twists and turns that anyone, including you would get lost within seconds. There is also a part he takes you through that is literally like a M.C Escher painting where the stairs are upside down and twisting. As You finish your story he ponders for a second and says "Well I hope you do find your story hoot and your parents if the case may be, I will say that unfortunately the world usually isn't that kind. However, ho-hoot one thing is certain. You may not know your parents, but you do know Yen Sid and you do know he cares for you and thats more that what most people are certain of in this world hoot" he flies in front of you and you start to notice the fog from before is getting thicker, you are getting closer, best to keep up with him. He starts telling his story " Well I actually used to be part of an adventuring party..." when all of a sudden a book flies off a shelf hitting Archimedes in the head knocking him out. Another whizzes past your head and you see 2 floating books opening and closing themselves as if they were flapping wings. Roll initiative.

Konodor looks at the body that is on the floor and is saddened by the sign of a dead dwarf, he kneels next to the body and says "May the doors of Opindo be open for you and may you rest in peace" he takes a moment while kneeling to offer a silent prayer to the deceased. He gets off the ground and says " Since you are a person of the faith and you are doing a heroic thing I will lend you one of my carriages and horses for no charge as long as you make promise on Opindo that you will bring it back to me. It may not be the best carriage or the most healthy horse but it will serve your purpose." he brings forth a carriage that has clearly seen better days and a horse that seems he hasn't been eating well to you and hands you the reigns.