Citadel's Shadow II, Session 81

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 81 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on 21 June 2020 (UTC) (20 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): Fern the Siegemaster was at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth.  Mugsey Dormp was rudely criticizing other students for not lighting a fire in a boiler correctly.  Mugsey did it.
Professor Clarence Smartcat said, "Alright guys, let it burn for a bit. Step back away from it, toward the sides of the room. If it blows up from not holding the pressure, it will hurt if your'e too close!"  Mugsey didn't, saying,"No sir, I'll tend to the coals!"  Things worked well (largely due to Fern's work), and the professor was very pleased.  
Meanwhile, in the magic lab, a miniature didvit table was set up.  Prof. Katerina Smartcat, with assistance from Miss Minigallith Atakares, was using the table to test magic potential.  Tibbernickle, a young gnome, moved the didvit without a problem.  Several other students tried with varying success.
Sukieanna Mietora was called, and was found to be asleep, face down on a table at the back of the class with her eyeglasses sitting on the table.  While  a boy whispered for her to wake up, Mini took the glasses, then woke Suki up.  The girl tried to find her glasses, and Mini gave them to her.  Mini said, "If you keep your glasses on, you might be less likely to fall asleep."
Sukieanna tried moving the didvit ball, concentrating hard and starting to sweat.  It barely wiggled.  Miss Mini encouraged her.  After a student noticed a little smudge left by Mini on Suki's glasses, Suki looked at the smudge and her glasses flew off of her face and across the room.  She said, "Aaah! What happened? I can't see!"  Miss Mini said it was OK, and they would get her glasses for her.
One of the boys in the class gave them to the boy who had whispered for Suki to wake up.  A boy said, "I got them, Suki."  She said, "Ah, thank you, Coren!" and smiled, which drew grins from several students.
Suki didn't know how her glasses moved.  Prof. Katerina Smartcat said, "I think it may have been when she shifted her attention from the didvit ball to the smudge on her glasses. In other words, with the power of her will."  Mini encouraged Suki, and the class continued.
After class was completed and the students were gone, Minigallith said, "I think it went well--except we need to get those students to stop insulting each other so much."  Prof. Katerina Smartcat said, "That would be like trying to herd... er... pigeons."
Prof. Katerina Smartcat said, "Ah, it's Reckoning, isn't it? Today's the day they did maintenance on the girls' bath. Fern was on cleanup duty. Can you make sure she don't forget? That's all I have for today."  Miss Mini went to remind Fern.
Fern didn't remember if she had done the work or not, but remembered she hadn't.  Turgan Tin-Finger asked, "Why do Fern have bath duty?"  Miss Mini said, "That's really not your business, Turgan, although Fern can tell you if she wants to."  Turgan told Mini they got the steam engine going.
Frigid Brigid sold ice cream, which several people bought.
Miss Mini took Fern back to clean the girls' bathroom, and they saw Rajzhela Carnelian and Scorpia Lee who had also been assigned bathroom duty.  Fern said she had duty because she had skipped school to try to rescue a friend in Deltermas.
The group noticed a covered hatchway which Fern though was for plumbing.  Rajzhela said, "Well, to pump water from the boiler house. It has a lock on it right here that you can pop open like so!"  The group looked and saw there was a ladder leading down. There was a magic light wand readily at hand.  The passageways with pipes led off into the distance.  Mini told the girls to keep working, and "I should probably check things to make sure they're OK."
Rajzhela said she and Scorpia had already finished cleaning the bathroom, which Miss Mini verified.  She also said the tunnels led to the other dorms, "but don't tell anyone that."  Fern was curious.  Miss Mini didn't want to be responsible for leading the girls into trouble, and said "Fern, you can look if you get permission from a professor."
Prof. Katerina Smartcat showed up to check on the girls' progress.  When asked about the hatchway, she said, In what world did you think I'd give you permission for that?"  But the group persisted, and the professor relented, perhaps because all the students and staff there were a part of St. Bassard's After-Class Exercise Club.  The professor said she'd be in the office upstairs if anyone needed her, and not to mention exploring the hatchway.
Some of the group knew Trynser City had been around for many hundreds of years, and the city on the surface sat on top of the remains of the older city over the centuries.  Exploring, they found brickwork down there from centuries ago.  It had mostly been bricked off, but were are small little cubby holes here and there.  Rajzhela looked at some of the cubby holes and said, "Aw, they took the blankets out."  When asked about the blankets by Miss Mini, she said, "Uh, yeah. Some of the boys and the girls meet down here for... uh, intimate conversations."  Fern took the description literally.
Rajzhela said, "Pipes lead to the admin building, the classrooms and the workshops."  
Fern asked, "I wonder where's all the machinery you'd need for this."  Rajzhela said, "Back toward the dorms, where the boiler house is."  While Fern and Mini investigated how the pipes connected to the workshop, Rajzh and Scorpia went down a corridor. It looked like there are recently displaced bricks.  There was a sign that Fern believed was recently placed that said,  "CAUTION! DO NOT ENTER!" Rajzh and Scorpy were already well down that corridor.
Miss Mini said, "Wait, that sign is there for a reason! Come back!"  Rajz said they could handle it.  She then pointed out something to Scorpia.  As the two girls weren't responding, Miss Mini and Fern stepped forward....There was a loud creak in the floor! It shattered and dropped everyone into darkness!"  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 20200621)