Heart of Tyre: Episode 11

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***Heart of Tyre* Episode 11** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on September 29, 2020, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on October 29, 2020.

## Summary

Summary by av5hadow, copied from Verum Weekly:
Once the party enters the labyrinth, they discuss their next plan of action. Two potential plans. Band or the next floor. Derok wants to go to Band, because he wants to know more about his role as Cardinal. The problem is that they do not know how to use the device without Sam. They decide that before they head to either Band or the second floor, they should head to the library which they haven’t visited yet.

After Derok kicks the door open, they see the library in disarray and with writings etched with ruby dust. The party searches the library. Neve tries to listen to any sounds in the next room, but doesn’t hear anything. Morc finds 69 gold in a couch. Derok discovers a dried-out body of a scholar in white robes underneath a fallen bookcase. In the robes pockets contain data, but they couldn’t find out much from them. There is a connect-the-dots on the parchment, but the party couldn’t solve it.

The party finds a tome on The Sinister Sept, a combat style. They also find a book titled Herbology. They discover that the books in the library are from Azengolt. Neve tells the party about the next room, and Derok kicks the door open. He sees a bright golden light that fills the new room. The source of the light is from an open book in the middle of the room. After testing the safety of light, Neve uses Mage Hand to close the book. The light is snuffed out, and Neve places it on the floor near the party. The book appears to have starlight coming out of its cover, as if it is a representation of the night sky. The book does not have a title

Derok quickly checks the room and doesn’t find anything but an employee log. Ives and Neve goes in. They find a book of runes of sovereignty and protection from the Imperial elven Empire, and the book can be used to translate the writings on the wall. They also find a fancy looking suit. Ives takes a look in the collar and finds out that the outfit is trapped with an explosive gem. Anyone not attuned to the outfit will have their heads popped out via explosion if they wear the outfit. They activate the trap via mage hand. Derok picks up the starlight book. As Neve Mends the outfit, Ives translates the writings which are all protection runes.

FCO leaves the library. The party decides that they should go to the next floor as they do not know how to operate the teleporter or even know if it’s configured to Band. Morc shows Derok how to open the hatch to the second floor while the rest checks up on the herb-processing room on the black goop. The black goop isn’t doing anything. However, the violet herb still blooms in the wreckage. The party goes to the hatch and activates the device. Oddly, a portal opens. Derok enters, and the portal closes behind him. The hatch then opens

Derok finds himself in a patient’s room which he recognizes. The room is in the sick ward. He goes to the bed and sees his sister’s broken body. Derok sees himself as human. He returns from his memory, seeing an old unknown corpse on the bed. Derok notices his heart beat when he realizes that fear and adrenaline courses through him. As he walks backwards to the door, he bumps into FCO. FCO appears to be mourning about the person in the bed. He attempts to reach the body, but a force prevents it from coming close. FCO speaks in druidic, and Derok casts Tongues. “I miss you”. FCO begins to weep, torn between its Depthar and its Sevenic self. After Derok comforts FCO, Derok heads towards the door. A portal appears at the door. Derok enters the portal as FCO says “I want to go home”

Derok returns to the party and they all head down the open hatch. The second floor is an extremely dark and extremely quiet cavern. Arcane lights are immediately snuffed out by shadows. Ives, the only Tops who does not have Darkvision, holds onto Morc’s belt. The party heads out before they run into a dark void. Any tossed objects disappear. Any objects tied to a rope will be untied. When Morc lasso’d into the void, he caught something. The party pulls the rope, but it snaps. The Tops daisy-chains up, and Neve guides them through the darkness, encountering and avoiding more voids. They eventually find a pit made out of flesh. Seren begins to feel weakened due to her infection. As the party figures out what they should do, the shadows feel heavy. Neve and Morc see images of Ives in the shadows. Derok finally opens the starlight book which will shine again. The party sees a lot of images of themselves, looking and smiling at them. The light snuffs out their shadow images and pushes against the darkness.

Testing the light, the party approaches one of the voids. The void gives way, showing buildings. As they approach, the buildings fizzle out. The party then approaches another void, and the same thing happens. The party runs around with the book until they reach an actual real building. Sounds of a weeping girl are heard as they approach. Above the door, they see the symbol of Lorita.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Lord Antonius Volnaris
* Ives
* Neve
* Madd Morc
* Seren

## References

1. ↑ Tweet by @gloriousArcadum. *Heart of Tyre Ep. 11 ft. @msf\_actual @ScottJund @Russ\_Money @NaomiOop @SummersSalt at twitch.tv/arcadum*