AWR Session 26

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-We're waking up in the keep

-Callus checks on his arm wounds, they're all looking decent

-Lucian comes to the house and gambler answers

"You can enter!" "Oh can I?"

-Harry wakes up with his monkey

-Taric is offering Lucian a city

-Rosa cut off the mailman's ear

-We still got mail though, ad for house of wonders, flyer from dimple, invitation to join a League of Adventurers tournament, 3 pillars on the seal, Dupois is the sender, leaves and a crown on top of the pillars

- Lucian is checking out the monkey, his room, his letter

-Rosa is threatening Taric, wanted him to clean but he went invisible

-Pucks go into the war room, Taric downstairs, talking about runes, related to summoning/Vecna, Raido = Matteo, sigils make manifesting quality, more locations, keys, opening, opening divine shield, more locations?

-Runes on Lucian are not the same

-Lucian has book of vile darkness and now we know that

-Rakesh body snatching reveal, master wasn't done with him yet

-Lucian needs to leave

-Callus tells everyone how he knows the runes, maybe more than one book, could be linked to Carceri

-Keep the necklace, important

-Vecna phylactery in the Shadowfell

-Lucian is going to announce Iris/Seena as public enemy

-Taric sees the head and says he wanted to kill Matteo, now is going for Theban. Says they killed his family 100 yrs ago

-Dragon's Backblade, Matteo's sword, from echoes of calamity, makes Taric uncomfortable

-Alenora poofs in

-Taric reveal! He's Matteo's older brother. Wants to ask questions of the head

-Lucian calls Taric a soy boi beta cuck

-Alenora casts speak with dead

-Gambler removes his mask, he looks like a blue/white scaled lizard person with a human face

-Taric: Question 1: Where is Theban. Answer: Not far from us now, probably at the shop

-Taric: Question 2: What are the phases? Answer: I'll keep "mum" on this one. You would never be chosen

-Lucian as Theban: Question 3: Phase site tainted need to know where others are. Answer: You should know there are no more sites. You left the hunt for this?

-Lucian as Theban: Question 4: The hunt can wait, what is going on at phase 2? Answer: Unlike you to waste the finer things, wait until the red moon rises and then the tree shall sprout

-Lucian as Theban: Question 5: Where is Mei-Lin's skin? Answer: Being commissioned into boots

-Alenora talks - every few months, red moon, moons eclipse each other, divine shield on the divine gate is at its weakest

-Mei smash

-Taric tells us his name is Tarkeus

-Mind link to Mei: Alenora wants to kill the high flame, cool

-Lucian/Taric go to the palace for a business meeting.

"Sit. Swill. Speak"

-Can deliver Nontra at a discount, can offer better armor and weapons, 2-3 officers to help with the effort, can either be annexed or stay in commonwealth to spy, as long as he lets Taric do whatever he wants to do, needs to ask his wife

-Taric can't turn into a dragon

-Mei gets Rosa to run a message, Theban is at the Navy Rose hotel for a convention, finds out it is the great game hunt convention.

-Mei accepts position as keeper of whispers, talking about giving everyone else titles. Maybe not Callus though.

-Mei&Callus date night at the Navy rose. Mei dresses up

-Giant medusa statue, all the snakes have green eyes

-Choose to go to dinner, cork saber service, podium gets pushed in and ring master announces the "Twins" but there are a lot more than just two of them, acrobats and dancers all about the place

-Yvonne (waiter) leaves a white rose on our table. There are black roses and red roses on other tables. Swingers club?

-Mei calls in Harry and Lucian, Taric follows invisibly, Lucian shows up as Valie, is a mistake

-Harry and Taric bump into invisible each other

-Mei wants a menu of services, wants to check out the rooms by herself

-But Theban is in the bar, pays M&C's tab, mind link goes out and we all converge on Theban exiting. Taric goes visible. They talk, Mei asks where her skin is but he hasn't been able to make shoes yet

-Theban says Sneasel sold him her skin then poofs, leaves a blue rose behind, everyone in the bar starts waking up, can't remember what they were just doing

-Following day, all meet in a tavern to send Lucian off. Callus gives him a doll, Mei gives him a sending stone. Gets Lucian to officially stamp her will, Taric gives him a letter, Harry gives him a nod and a handshake, I guess

-Back in Lucian's room, there's a bunch of runes under a rug. He transports to Shadowfell and COMMITS HARI KARI

"God this hurts. It all rides on this. It all rides on this"

-LICH

- LIIIIICHHHHHHH