Episode 11

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## Plot Summary

Tenoch, Bubo, and Sylence are housed and fed by Meno and the Forgotten while they rest and recover.  Kord is still paralyzed.  Work on the war machines has begun again.  Meno wants the party to take all the forgotten (over 100) with them.  The party is reticent, there would not be an easy way for the prisoners to leave.  If they do get let out, they will have to leave the city of Copperforge.  Meno says he will try to convince the men.

They leave the Dungeon, leaving the door to the Prison level unlocked behind them.  The guards are on high alert since Kord is missing from his cell.  Tenoch fails to convince the guard to let them leave with Kord.  Sylence bluffs his way though, saying that Elb Gabber needs Kord back in his office.  On the Forge level, they see Nitsuj, wandering around, badgering random gnomes about how to get to the library in the Peak.

Tenoch takes them to Klaxxon’s shop to pick up his greataxe.  His axe is ready; the blades can fly out of the handle.  Klaxxon is suspicious of them, but they convince him that Kord is dead.  Bubo wants to get rid of his talking sword, but Nitsuj identifies it as being possessed by a soul from the Dungeon.  They toss the sword into the trash chute.  Klaxxon promises to replace the sword.  The other sword starts talking in a terrible nasally voice (Fran Drescher character drop).  Tenoch borrows a tarp to cover Kord.

They head to the Peak using Sylence’s influence to use a special tube.    Arriving at the temple of Luidwyn to find a healer for Kord, they are greeted by a monk named Lessie Bou.  She agrees to help them but she is unable to restore Kord.  She recommends they visit Elder Cabe Erta, the overseer of Lothlen’s temple and the royal library.  At Lothlen’s temple, Cabe agrees to cast the spell without asking questions.  Tenoch unrolls Kord, breaking one of his fingers in the process.  As Cabe finishes the spell, Kord returns to normal, but is in terrible pain.  Nitsuj makes a plan to meet Cabe in the library later that evening.

Leaving Kord at that temple, the group heads to Elb Gabber’s office.  Bubo breaks the same Quai artifact again.  Sylence gives his report of what happened: they found three assembly lines of weapons and were able to destroy an eighth, but at the cost of over 100 gnome’s lives.  Elb Gabber is upset about the loss of life and the fact the Kord is free.  Tenoch and Sylence lie about Kord being dead.  Tenoch and Nitsuj are shocked in their chairs and Elb Gabber knows they are lying.  He’s especially angry with Sylence.  Gabber says that if he ever sees Kord again, then he’ll be dead and so will Tenoch.  Gabber gives them a gold bar to split and a house in the residential level.  He takes Sylence’s hat as a punishment.

Back on the Central level, they wave down a royal guard.  They request and are granted an audience with the Queen.  They request a reward for rescuing her daughter.  She gives Tenoch her gold clockwork dragon that creates gold coins.  Nitsuj requests access to the restricted section of the library.  Bubo requests a residence next to the Tequila Mockingbird.  The Queen tells Sylence that he could have employment with her if he wanted.  Ora will get special armor with the Queen’s sigil.

They return to the Peak level.  Tenoch meets with Kord and gives him one of the invisibility orbs.  Kord needs his prisoner’s bracer removed and he thinks that Bask can do it.  Tenoch tells him to meet him in Raufel.  They find Bask and send him to help Kord.  Nitsuj goes to the library and meets with Elder Cabe.  He dejectedly leads Nitsuj to the restricted section.  Nitsuj is looking for information necromancy, Kloht, and the Sahlites.  He sees a book with many gears and locks.  Another book is chained and restrained against the wall made of purple leather.  There is also a plain, unmarked book.  A fourth book is in the shape of Copperforge Mountain, with hinges at each level.  It contains the entire history of Copperforge.

Nitsuj looks at the purple leather book, but the leather snaps at him.  It gets flung across the room and open.  Grey smokes billows out, takes a humanoid form, and begins speaking in a language that Nitsuj does not understand.  Nitsuj casts Comprehend Languages and hears the book repeatedly say “It was love, it was love, it was love…”  The smoke chases him up to the regular library where Elder Cabe and the others attack it.  Nitsuj probes its thoughts and knows that it is filled with regret, having learned some truth too late.  Nitsuj calls out that he can help “find her,” which fills the beast with confusion.  The love was not his love, but a love he tried to understand.    Cabe is able to destroy it.

Sylence and Bubo follow Nitsuj back down.  He examines the same purple book.  It is full of swirly ink.  The binding is flesh, but not of a known creature.  There is a presence in the pages.  Nitsuj speaks to the book and the book responds in an ancient text.  He asks it its name.  The runes that appear are related to the underworld.  Nitsuj takes the book and the history of Copperforge as well.

Bubo looks at the small plain book; it has no markings and the pages are all blank.  He writes in it and nothing happens, so he leaves it.  Nitsuj realizes that you need to make a request of the plain book.  After about 30 minutes of guess and check, Nitsuj realizes you need to ask the boom about a topic and it will become a book field with information about that topic.  He takes that one as well.  Tenoch gets super bored.

With business concluded in Copperforge, Tenoch departs back to Raufel to find Kord.   Sylence decides to leave Copperforge and avoid punishment from Gabber.  Bubo and Nitsuj visit the mercenary guild and meet the founder Snips Cutlass.  He hires them to assassinate Governor Urit Syle so things will go back to normal.  They have another job in the Steamfangs, a weaponsmith named Torik.  There is another protection job for a group heading west to the plains, a scouting party to survey a threat.  They take the protection job and are bound to the job via a black coin.  Bubo trades half his 300g reward for a self portrait.  Nitsuj and Bubo stay in Bubo’s residence together while he waits for his sword to be finished.

## Fun Moments

Right as the show begins, Justin shouts "your mother!"

Danny congratulates Cantrip Candles for "selling out."

This is the episode where Art figures out Tenoch is racist against gnomes. "I don't hate them, I just hate the way they make me feel."

When Tenoch leaves the party, Art up and leaves the table.