Citadel's Shadow II, Session 82

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 82 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on 29 June 2020 (UTC) (28 June 2020 for some participants).
== Personnel ==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
*Minigallith Atakares: half-elf mage played by Alden Loveshade
=== Prominent Non-Player Characters ===
*Katerina Smartcat: professor at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth
*Rajzhela Carnelian: student at St. Bassard's
*Scorpia Lee: student at St. Bassard's
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
Heris 43 (Reckoning) (continued): Fern the Siegemaster, Minigallith Atakares, Rajzhela Carnelian, and Scorpia Lee had been exploring through a hatchway that went under the girls' bathroom at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth. Rajzhela and Scorpia had gone past a sign that said,  "CAUTION! DO NOT ENTER!" Fern and Miss Mini had taken a step in that direction when the floor had collapsed underneath all four of them.
Fern tried grabbing hold of something, but failed; fortunately, she was able to acrobatically lessen the damage from her fall, but still hurt her left arm. Mini lessened hers through casting Apportation, but hurt her right leg.  Rajz and Scorpia managed to lessen the damage from their falls as well.
After making sure no one was seriously hurt, Mini started slowing floating for help; Fern suggested getting a rope.  Fern also mentioned that it was not supposed to be known that the group was there.
Rajzhela found something she found interesting, and asked, "Anyone here read ancient Vennin? I think?" Fern said, "We could copy over those symbols and later let someone else read them, though."
The group was in a room with shelves. There was a bunch of old pottery, much of it looking like it was shattered before the floor fell on it. There were placards on the wall written in Ancient Vennin, a precursor to the Trynsern language.  Fern suspected they were advertisements for products such as bread and meat.
Fern sniffed the air, and smelled the dank underground, a small whiff of the sewer line, and some sort of animal.  In addition, some shattered pottery under where the floor fell is oozing some nasty tarry substances which Fern suspected was something organic that had been sealed away for hundreds of years.  Fern saw anchovy bones, some intact empty jars,
Scorpia Lee stuck her head into the passage.  She then called out, and struggled.  The group heard an animal that sounded something like, ""Ernk! ernk! ernk!"  Fern and Rajzhela tried to pull her away.  But instead, Scorpia got pulled into the hole, with just her feet sticking out; her screams were muffled.  Scorpia pulled a knife, but couldn't manage to reach through.
Fern and Rajzhela pulled harder; they pulled Scorpia out as far as her neck. There was a furry white muzzle lined with teeth around her head!  Fern tried stabbing the creature with a knife.
Meanwhile, Miss Mini, still floating, was returning with Professor Katerina Smartcat.  She told the professor they had fallen through the floor, and that everyone had some injury that was "not real bad."  The two heard screaming, yelling, and a commotion; the professor "rocketed" forward.
 Arriving, the professor lept through the hole onto Scorpia's back.  Fern stabbed the creature, a giant badger, that held Scorpia, but it didn't seem to react.  Smartcat hit the badger, and told the others to pull Scorpia out.  Mini, who was unaware of the creature, said, "I have a rope we can use to pull her out--I'll be there in a second or two!"
Scorpia went limp.  Fern stabbed the badger in the eye; it shuddered and offered no more resistance--but was still clamped onto Scorpia's head.  Mini arrived and saw the situation.  Fern worked and got Scorpia free.  Scorpia's face and head were a bloody mess.  Fern started first aid and Professor Smartcat cast a healing spell.  Then the professor left to get more help.
Mini told the others she had brought a rope, and asked if the experienced climbers thought it was safe to climb out.  She said she could lift someone up in the air magically, but would have to rest first as she was almost exhausted.  The group eventually got Scorpia out of the hole.  Prof. Smartcat returned with Chaplain Sienna Fance and a couple other people who carried a stretcher.  Mini used magic to float the unconscious Scorpia up to them, and they took her back.  When necessary, another wizard magically moved her up the stairs.
Once Prof. Smartcat, Fern, Rajzhela, and Miss Mini got to the teacher's lounge, the professor bitched at the others about what they had done.  Minigallith said, "But Professor, you told us we could go down the hole. Scorpia and Rajzhela wandered further. When I learned they went past a warning sign, I with Fern went to tell them to come back. Before we could get them the message, the floor collapsed."
The professor acknowledged sharing in the responsibility, but said to Rajzhela, "I had hoped that you would have enough sense that upon seeing a danger sign to figure out what the danger is."  The professsor said the incident was quietly explained as an exercise of the After School Exercise Club, but that, "I'll probably lose a few inches off my tail tomorrow," and "I'll be getting my ass chewed off."  Rajzhela explained to Fern that the descriptions were not to be taken literally.  The professor sent everybody off.
Miss Mini went to the school's observatory.  She heard students Sukieanna Mietora and Coren Tarth from magistics class who were there already.  Coren said, "I heard stories that that archmage, what's her name... Mojy? Moja..."  Suki said, "Mojarósa."  Coren said, "Yeah, her. She had some sort of demon appear while doing a gate."
Suki then said, "I want to learn some body magic, like something to heal my eyes so I don't have to wear glasses anymore."  Coren said, "I think the glasses are cute on you."
Miss Mini backed up, then approached the area noisily.  Suki and Coren left, and Mini observed the stars. (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 20200628)