Session 73

After spending two months apart and accomplishing goals of their own, the party receives a distress call which prompts them to resume their adventuring. 
== Summary ==
Having spent the previous two months rather speedily moving from place to place visiting people and accomplishing things, Teer decided to take a break at Kiono's house in Oceanside. While there, Concludion called him on their rockie talkie. He explained that he and Kitano had activated something within Votuum's Spiral, and things were not going well for them. They had ended up trapped in a pit of some sort, and only had about a week of food left. Teer agrees to gather his party and attempt to rescue them. Unfortunately, Concludion does not know the sigil sequence for the spiral, leaving it up to the party to find the Spiral. 
Teer called the Burnett estate, where Ephemera had spent the bulk of her time off working with Aedon. He updated her on what Concludion had said, and they agreed to meet in Wolis after he contacted Kiono. He attempted to do so, using the rockie talkies, but received no answer. He also attempted to use the Scrying Orb, which also did not work. Concerned, he used the Teleportation Compass to teleport to the Burnett estate. There, he encountered Sors sitting on the front step eating out of a tub of ice cream. She and Akaros had arrived earlier in the week. They went inside and met up with Ephemera to discuss finding Kiono. Sors attempted to cast Sending, but received no response. She then cast Sending several times to receive assistance from Vidh Zadh. The lich located her, unconscious somewhere in Oceanside. They requested Izora's assistance, and they teleported to the beach of Oceanside. 
Once there, Teer cast Fly to allow them to search for her from the sky. Teer and Ephemera spotted a large, organized group of people searching through a portion of town, but Sors, using Locate Object, managed to locate Kiono's spellbook inside a nearby house. The approached the house, and an old woman answered the door. She denied them access, as well as having any knowledge of the person they were looking for, claiming that the only other person in the house was her niece. Suspicious but otherwise unable to do anything, the group left their names with her and left for Kiono's house. 
As they left, a group of the people they had spotted earlier approached them. One of them asked if they had seen anyone suspicious out, describing a strange person wearing dark clothing and with a "funny face" as their target. The party denied having seen anyone like that. Sors cast Detect Thoughts on the man, picking up on the fact that they had been searching for several hours to no avail. With nothing else to go on, the left for the house, hoping that whatever was going on, Kiono would be okay. 
The next morning, Kiono awoke in a strange bedroom. She had burn wounds which, while mostly healed, had been bandaged. Her things were in the room, so she gathered them and began to sneak out of the house. The doorway leading to the roof was incredibly loud, so she attempted to sneak out the front door. Along the way, she encountered a note marked with a symbol associated with her. It told her that the party was looking for her, and that there was soup in the icebox. Kiono left her own note, thanking her, and took the soup before finding the party at her house. 
Upon reuniting with the party, she admits that she might have made the people they met upset, but did not explain what it was or even fully admit that it was her. Teer accepted this, and explained the situation involving Concludion. The party began searching for information about Votuum's Spiral. They went to the palatial library in Oceanside to do research. They discovered a journal by the wizard Noog from the time he had been there. He described it as a repository of knowledge, but it was also something of a fly trap for knowledge seekers. The further into the spiraling rooms one went, the more complex and disorienting and downright inhospitable the rooms became, effectively trapping those within so they could not escape. The general location of the Spiral was given as being in the Underdark, but its exact location and presumably the sigil sequence located outside it were removed from the journal. 
The party considered asking Jin-Ri about the spiral, but Kiono decided to ask Vadh Zadh first. The lich suggested they give up the imprisoned men as lost, but gave her the sigil sequence anyway. Their way decided, they took some time to gather supplies before leaving for the Underdark. 
== NPCs ==
=== Introduced ===
* Old Woman
* Thugry
=== Returning ===
* Concludion (Sending Stone)
* Vidh Zadh (Sending)
* Esteban
* Izora Burnett
=== Mentioned ===
* Kitano
* Noog
* Jin-Ri
== Items ==
* Miscellaneous potions