--- title: "2024-04-09" type: Session created: 2025-12-22 00:36:37 modified: 2026-01-03 16:47:12 --- # 2024-04-09 * Loot [[[[ab2fc406-e471-49c6-8322-6806185fbee5|Cagliastro]]]]’s body and find a potion. * * Go back to [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] and the town hall with [[[[56651911-deae-400b-af57-7089d61332ec|Eleva]]]], it’s dark. Town watch is busy kicking out the blue cloaks & goblins * * Their leadership has collapsed * [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^ff4b51|Town Hall]] is quiet, we’re outside the main doors. [[56651911-deae-400b-af57-7089d61332ec|Eleva]] invites us to go up to see what’s going on in the council chambers * No torches or lanterns are lit, totally sus * Went down to the prison downstairs * Church acolytes, dead, probably killed before the group headed off the cavern * Cells are otherwise empty * Heading upstairs - ornate double doors, one is cracked * Sound of a pen running over a scroll * [[[[c908a529-fcee-4b5a-a7cf-a728679ec259|Malliano]]]] walks in, there’s a figure that appears to be the mayor ([[[[e2c31e5c-deb4-4f1e-9816-e97016bcdd39|Grendel]]]]), writing stuff out with a stack of papers next to him. * [[56651911-deae-400b-af57-7089d61332ec|Eleva]] approaches [[e2c31e5c-deb4-4f1e-9816-e97016bcdd39|Grendel]], its head turns and there’s a blade sticking out the back of his skull; he’s repeating “traitors, traitors all” * Hand is moving, scratching into the desk with the pen as there is no more paper * [[[[c908a529-fcee-4b5a-a7cf-a728679ec259|Malliano]]]] sends [[#[[7dc4c906-1b88-4ff9-92d5-d508417fb09d|ugma]]]] to get the priests from the temple and gets [[[[58e52574-fec3-4002-a94c-4fd53a4ba55c|Belago]]]] who calls upon [[[[b600565f-0387-4584-8a5f-a820d2d57e93|Prios]]]] and sets [[[[e2c31e5c-deb4-4f1e-9816-e97016bcdd39|Grendel]]]] to rest. * [[[[56651911-deae-400b-af57-7089d61332ec|Eleva]]]] looks over the papers which are warrants for arrest for all the prominent people in town - clearly part of a power grab * Given the “[[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^50bfba|Keys to the city]]” * A brooch with the city seal of [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] with an offer of assistance if needed * Also gave us [[[[ab2fc406-e471-49c6-8322-6806185fbee5|Cagliastro]]]]’s house which can be a base of operations in [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] now. * Go to the [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^2308d6|Bell Tower]] * * City watch outside, Blue Company capitulated really quickly * Much cooler inside the tower. Quiet * Heading up, begin to feel…waves of fear…not quite but something terrible has happened or is about to happen and getting stronger as we head up the stairs * See a broken bell with a whole section of it missing, lines where rune-work formed the foundation of incredibly powerful magic, but big chunks are missing, the metal has splintered * Metal has a dark patina on it, does not look like a new thing * Certain that it’s of Symbaric make. Suggests different dialects, [[ed0bcbf6-fbb6-4aac-8a6b-6547e624f255|factions]], timelines, etc. * Able to decipher this much: based on the rune meanings, get the impression that the bell was a sink for dark energy to protect whoever crafted it from the negative effects of dark magic, which is why it could have a protective effect * I take a piece of the bell and take 1 permanent corruption and am feverishly hot until I can reduce my temp corruption * Go to the [[[[a72fe0a5-8e4d-48cb-93b1-787df86b2d03|Ordo Magica]]]] place * * [[Mallliano]] trades alchemist’s fire for info about [[[[13974a7a-8e5b-4e36-83dd-fdf74402cab8|The Ravens]]|The Spine of the World]] * Symbaran term for [[[[13974a7a-8e5b-4e36-83dd-fdf74402cab8|The Ravens]]]] mountains to the east of the forest, specifically the northern part ([[3e83a8d2-ac9a-42ee-8d7a-4b68b68ff4a0|Davokar]] gets much more dangerous up there) * The [[[[a72fe0a5-8e4d-48cb-93b1-787df86b2d03|Ordo Magica]]]] had recently found something up there and had sent a mission to do research * Ask about the potion and learn that the potion seems to be able to change people into the more lizard-like cultists * Gave hints that changeling groups might know more about this * Referred to a researcher in [[Karo’s Fen]] to learn more about tooth * Back at the [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^5168ef|Sun Temple]] * * Baby is giggling happily but there are two desiccated corpses ([[[[58e52574-fec3-4002-a94c-4fd53a4ba55c|Belago]]]] and one of the attendants) * We’re run out of town * We decide to head to [[Karo’s Fen]] to learn more about the tooth, investigate the potion, [[[[e3403b23-7ce9-40e0-8f34-c4cce1a41fd0|Koves]]]]’ baby, and thence to [[[[13974a7a-8e5b-4e36-83dd-fdf74402cab8|The Ravens]]]] to investigate the missing party. * * **We level up to LVL 6**