Session 46

The party spent some downtime in Wolis before moving on to Oceanside. Kiono deals with Concludion leaving, Lei learns what has happened to Cecily recently, and Plosi and Teer are reconnected with old friends. 
== Summary ==
Lei sought out Izora for a brief conversation. She asked how Izora was fairing after the situation with Micah. Izora explained that she was not doing well, but would survive. She further explained that she and Micah had been friends in college. He had been possessed by a minor fiend which helped him with his magic. Izora banished the fiend, which Micah resented her for. His desire for revenge drove him to the Null Solution. Renn requested information on studying magic, hoping to gain a general understanding of magic beyond her instinctual basis. 
The party gathered to eat breakfast. Kiono, having ritual cast Detect Magic before going down, sensed an evocation spell on Izora. Upon asking about it, Izora explained that she had Contingency cast, and thanked her for the concern. She also found that the hag stone Concludion gave her the night before was magical in nature. 
Teer announced that he was not going through with the procedure with Rigg, feeling uncomfortable about using the chassis of another warforged. The party discussed perhaps reaching out to Siren, hoping to use her repository of memories to repair his own chassis. He further explains that he was intending to use the dreamcatcher to contact Evelynn to that end. He needed to explain to Rigg, and Squire agreed to go with him. 
Lei announced her intent to contact Cecily and Jeffrey; Ephemera volunteered to travel with her on these errands. Concludion told the group that he planned to leave the party, asked to speak to Lei on the roof after breakfast. Conversation continued, and everyone agreed to take the day to accomplish their various tasks. 
Izora produced the book she promised to find for Lei, which Lei promptly stored in her Casting Glove. Kiono questioned Sylmore about the Purifiers at the gate into Wolis. He explained that there had been warning that there might be dangerous people entering the city soon. They had not found anything yet, though their search continued. Lei asked if word of Barovia's appearance on the material plane had reached Wolis and whether the conflict between Oceanside and Auguste had escalated. News of Barovia had not yet reached Wolis, and the situation between the countries had not yet affected the Elbinas region. 
After breakfast, Lei and Ephemera meet Concludion on the roof. She immediately apologized for her behavior toward him during the beginning of their relationship. Confused, he accepted the apology. He expressed his gratitude for making an effort with Kiono. She asked for advice for doing a better job of reaching out to Kiono. They discussed Kiono until a huge gust of wind blew the pair from their rather precarious position on the roof. Concludion managed to catch Lei and made sure both returned to the roof safely. 
Meanwhile, Teer pulled Kiono aside to assure her that the party will miss Concludion and to check on her well-being. He asked if she had any ideas for a token for Concludion to remember the party by. Kiono fumbled for an answer, and Plosi recommended an owl. He went on to request that she contact the sky warforged from Barovia; Kiono said she would, but it would have to wait for her to prepare the spell necessary. She in turn asked Plosi if he had cast the Find Steed scroll. He had not, taking to heart the recommendation to wait for Lei to cast Enhance Ability for him. Kiono then inquired with Izora about places to spend her day with Concludion. Izora recommended a Star Walk themed theme park, offering her pass to make things simpler. 
Lei called the Cardew estate and learned that Cecily had disappeared two weeks prior, though she had left Lei a note. Lei and Ephemera departed for the Cardew estate. Claiming to be Lady Renn in disguise, she was granted access to Cecily's room where the letter was. 
Lei and Ephemera discussed what Lei should do next. She concluded to visit Jeffrey and then seek out a scroll of Sending. Leaving, Lei attempted to check out the crates that had been there previously. While they were being moved onto a wagon, she discovered that they were stamped with the logo of Fourth Act Publishing. Inquiring, she learned they were filled with the copies of Cecily's book and were going to be stored. 
After some indecisiveness, she eventually made her way to the Worthing estate to speak to Jeffrey. Before she knocked on the door, it was opened and she found herself face-to-face with Talthis Vim. He questioned her regarding her relation to the Worthings and the Daltimers. Seeming to believe her, he left. Worried, she knocked and Jeffrey answered the door. Jeffrey explained that Adrienne had been in a meeting with Talthis, the first of its kind to Jeffrey's knowledge. He prepared her some cucumber sandwiches while they continued their conversation. She told him all the things she had been doing, and he told her similar, if less dramatic things in his life. Lei introduced Ephemera to Jeffrey, and after a moment of awkward silence, Ephemera says hello and the two have a brief conversation about making sure Lei remains safe. Adrienne appeared briefly in the doorway, but Jeffrey shooed her away with a look. He recommended that perhaps Lei would be better off not talking with Adrienne and Tovaris just yet. 
Teer and Plosi take the trolley to the Lab. Teer explained that he did not wish to undergo the procedure using the spare parts of other warforged. Rigg approved, but recommended that he still get himself repaired at the earliest convenience. Teer and Plosi helped Rigg put the equipment back in storage. Finding it to be around lunchtime, the pair then traveled to Life is Pain. Upon request, Alan spoke with Xelbari, and the tiefling summoned the pair to his new office. Teer asked how the search for the missing Belxari was going. He offered to use Bunraku's mirror to attempt to gain information to find her, though due to her nature as a god, the Mirror Merchant Siblings were unable to help and the fourth sibling's mirror was missing. 
Acting on a retroactive suggestion from Ephemera, Teer and Plosi search Wolis for a smith who could work with dragon scales to potentially make armor. They find Mr. and Mrs. Smithy and discuss the various possibilities. They agreed on a price and the armor that was to be made and left to wander Wolis. 
Kiono and Concludion go to Walk Land, with a somewhat awkward conversation regarding Everalda working on his house and his potential involvement in the death of her companions. They explored the park for a time, finding a few things somewhat interesting, but ultimately being overwhelmed by everything going on. Ultimately, they leave and continue to wander town until they end up in a park. Kiono spent the day mostly checked out, hoping to keep the day from ending by not interacting. They discuss his leaving and how Kiono cannot go with him, that she is needed by the party. He assigned her homework, that she had to find one thing that she enjoyed while they were apart. 
Lei and Ephemera went shopping for a scroll of Sending and trinkets for Kiono and Concludion. Realizing she had no money on her, she sold Anna's dress. She then purchased two pairs of shiny socks, misunderstanding Concludion's recommendation that Kiono likes shiny things and Kiono's sock stealing noodle incident. Lei purchased the scroll of Sending, cast Enhance Ability on herself, then cast the scroll. 
The party reconvened at the Burnett estate and updated each other on their accomplishments that day. Lei gives Kiono and Concludion the socks she purchased for them, and Teer gives Concludion the wooden owl he carved. Izora shooed everyone out of the room, though she herself stayed. The two hesitated by the door long enough to frustrate Izora. She kissed Concludion while making eye contact with Kiono, then kissed Kiono. Sje asked if that clarified anything, and left. Concludion recovered from the shock quickly and kissed Kiono before departing, his shadow growing long and reaching toward Kiono before he rounded the corner. Confused, she found Izora, who had simply went around a corner, and asked why she had just done that. Izora said the kiss with Concludion was to make her jealous, and the kiss with Kiono was to say goodbye. Still confused, Izora suggested Kiono find her later that night for a more in-depth explanation of the societal norms she was missing out on. 
Meanwhile, Squire and Lei worked together to use the scroll of Find Steed. After a successful summoning Burben back to the material plane, Squire apologized for getting him killed. Burben assured him that he simply went to his home plane and was not actually killed, and that, as a war steed, he was built for dangerous situations. They completed the conversation with a hug. 
Kiono arrived at the end of the casting and retrieved the halberd. Lei and Squire offered to allow Kiono to stay the night with them rather than be alone. Somewhat confused, Kiono acknowledges their offers and left to accomplish a task Ephemera had requested in private to Kiono previously. Ephemera asked for Meyrin, who appeared, albeit quite sleepy and in her pajamas due to the timing of the moon cycle. Ephemera asked Meyrin her motivation for interfering with the Plan as she had. Meyrin explained that losing Time was worse than the fate of the asteroid had in store. She then said that Lysaro had something he wanted to give to Ephemera, summoned him, and returned to bed after giving her a hug. Lysaro arrived and, though she still needed to retrieve the rest of herself from Lysaro and Quraura properly, offered a small portion of Ephemera, granting her memories and a short range of telepathy while in halberd form. She requested that he forgive her for asking him to kill her; he responded by admitting that he had already done that, but had been unable to forgive himself. 
Teer, meanwhile, used the Nightmare Catcher to cast Dream to communicate with Evelynn. He found her in a dream about her younger days, fighting alongside the human man she had married. The two talked for a time, discussing the possibility of accessing the memories in Siren to repair his chassis. An overseer consciousness of sorts controls the memories Siren has access to, and it is limiting her ability to gain that particular information. The ability to perhaps use a dreamscape to bypass the consciousness is proposed. The two spend the rest of the spell hanging out on the dreamscape oceanside. 
== NPCs ==
=== Introduced ===
* Mr. and Mr. Smithy (blacksmiths) 
* Spinner's Stride worker 
=== Returning ===
* Izora Burnett
* Sylmore Burnett
* Azaria Burnett
* Concludion
* Akaros
* Cardew Butler
* Unnamed Fourth Act Publishing worker
* Talthis Vim
* Jeffrey
* Adrienne Worthing
* Receptionist (Lab)
* Rigg
* Alan
* Xelbari
* Burben
* Evelynn
* Meyrin
* Lysaro
=== Mentioned ===
* Micah
* Cecily Cardew
== Items Gained ==
* My First Tome (given to Lei by Izora)
* Letter from Cecily (given to Lei)
* Anna's dress (sold to cosplay store worker)
* Two really shiny pairs of socks (purchased by Lei) 
* Scroll of Sending (purchased and used by Lei) 
* Scroll of Find Steed (used by Squire)
* A small portion of Ephemera
== Trivia ==
* The situation involving Izora kissing Concludion and then Kiono was referred to as "Smooch Roulette," a name which stuck.