Session Summary
We trail Karaptus
- As we are returning to accommodations we spot someone following us. Manchineel, Lorian, and Thrainli stealthily follow
- Leads us to an inhabited student area
- They turn around to avoid the student area
- Walking by us we hear them mumble
- They are talking in an olden fashion that doesn’t fit with common ways of talking
- I decide to yell Cassian at Thrainli’s urging
- But, it turns out it was Karaptus
- We decide to go tell Rajiv
- We knock on Rajiv’s door
- He takes us to Chimamanda
- We try to tell him what we saw
- He sends more security to the vaults
- We end up going to talk to the head of the Crucible
- She grills us about Karaptus
- Puts the Crucible on lockdown
- We get sent to see if Cassian is still in the crypt
- She gives us some rocky-talkies to be able to communicate
Visiting the Crypt
- Chimamanda leads us down past the vaults
- It is locked tight
- Someone hands out the rocky-talkies
- We can use the stones to cast sending
- We head off the crypts
- We see some light and hear some grumbling
- Lorian sneaks up and sees Karaptus
- Karaptus is very upset that Cassian is dead
- Wonders what he will do without him
- What’s the point of the undead army and evil without Cassian?
- He starts pushing the crypt of Cassian open and we hear a crash
- He emerges with Cassian’s skull and is grabbing Cassian’s bones and trinkets
- Lorian starts sprinting back and joins us and we start sprinting out
- We sense power growing behind us and there’s crackling green energy
- He yells: “I’ll be back” we hear an implosion
- We run in to Chimamanda
- After awhile, people start coming up from the crypts and we chat with Chimamanda about what happens
- Lorian clues C in to what happened
Lorian to Visit Navakov
- The area with the teleportation circle is in a very fortified area
- Guarded
- Lots of doors that can be blocked
- Very magical teleportation circle, created by powerful magic users over the course of a year
- Lorian arrives in Revenant
- Arrives at the Tyrants tower, center of government
- Gathers some rumors about the city, hears nothing about Novikov
- Proceeds to seek out Novikov
- In a basement office somewhere
- Knocks and the door is opened by a young red dragonborn
- Kathoran lets Lorian investigate Novikov’s desk
- Novikov seems to be seeking out a place to the north
- Hall of the Heralds
- Lorian finds a document
- Returns to the Crucible
Chatting with Researchers about the Gem
- Thrainli and I head back to the vaults to figure out what the gem is
- Chimamanda isn’t there
- Some assistants are very excited to see us to talk to us about the crystal
- The space is full of magic stuff
- The assistants don’t know what the crystal is
- It isn’t a diamond
- It is definitely magical
- It has conjuration magic attached it to it
- But not some kind that they are used to
- Very powerful
- The assistant puts it against the wall and it just sticks to the wall
- They’ve reversed engineered an activation code
- It can stick to some things
- When left there it gathers power as it remains attached
- Activation code is Arunda
Manchineel Experiment
- We head to the research labs run by Samson Rockford
- Post the research on me, Samson’s experiments were more shunned and they located their research area in a more out of the way area
- Rajiv greets us
- Tells us he’s largely set up and ready to go
- The lab is very familiar to me
- Where I lived for part of my time there
- Center of the lab has a large runed circle with pylons with embedded crystals
- Pair of circles in the center
- Samson orders me to come stand next to him
- I immediately do so
- Tells me to grab some shields
- Sends me to the inside and says to go stand in the left circle
- Then he walks around and examines me
- Tells me to enter rage
- Says we are waiting on Archon
- Goal
- Take Manchineel and give some properties of a magic shield
- Enable me to be a channel for magic
- Turn Manchineel into a “Spellguard”
- Hypothesis that my rage might make it possible for me to survive this
- Magic is going to enter me and cause pain and then try to release
- Archon comes in
- Samson begins the experiment
- Orders
- Stay still
- Stay in the circle
- Hold on to the magic
- Don’t die
- Samson and the other researchers begin chanting
- Manchineel can feel power swelling of power
- Arcs of magic start bouncing around, hitting me and the shield
- Asks people to help steady the pylons
- I keep getting hit with magic over and over it starts to cause pain
- After a crescendo, my mind starts to slip
- All of a sudden Karaptus emerges
- I react and step out of the circle
- And I’m immediately hit by a massive arc of power
- But I jump back into the circle
- I keep having delusions and stepping out of the circle
- I start to feel the power pressing in to me
- My skin is cracking and light starts pouring from the cracks
- I taste internal bleeding
- The pylons sink into the floor
- I can feel a connection between the shield
- Samson tells me to settle in and hold my rage
- Don’t get too calm
- Don’t get too angry
- Hold on to the calm and the rage
- All of a sudden I see myself in a boxed in space with runes
- I can go through if I can figure out what the runes mean
- Given the trial, I’m exhausted
- After breaking through the door
- Samson appears before me with a wand crackling with magic
- Feels like a familiar context
- Starts to quiz me on facts and important things that I should know
- What kind of magic is conjuration
- Lorian helps me with the answer
- Then I see Raja
- My nemesis from childhood that made me kill a dog
- She orders me to do things and says she’s in charge
- I feel like I’m 13 again
- The magic dissipates and Raja disappears
- Nikolai appears
- Nikolai is the friend I made after being told to kill him by Raja
- He is collapsed near the side of the circle, seemingly very injured
- I’m able to control my rage with the help from others
- I can start to feel the magic settling in to me
- Magic forms into a figure I don’t recognize, but it tugs at my heart
- An older man in his 70’s steps forward
- Nice outfit
- Motif of leaves
- Deep sadness in his eyes
- Calls my name
- Says Manchineel “don’t go, come back”
- The old man unlocks a set of emotions that I don’t know how to articulate
- The magic starts to settle into my skin
- The shield clatters
- I start to feel magical potential
- Samson comes to examine me
- I feel an empty spot in my chest that is waiting to be filled
- I have the Spell Guard ability
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