Session 34:

**Previously...**

## And Now...

   After a week of travel, the group finally approaches Greyhaven. As they grow nearer, they receive a magical message from Giana to meet at ‘Absolute Alchemy’. However, no sooner have they stepped through the gates but they are approached by a young lad who offers to direct them to an 'underground magic shop'. This turns out to be a ramshackle stall comprised of odd, discarded knick-knacks. Using her magical senses, Goldie notices a few items which just happen to be actrually magical. She buys them - a Rusty Sword, a Set of Dice and a Statue of a Dog - for 80 silver which is a great deal for them, but the owner thinks he’s conned them good.

After this, they seek out a more skilled and helpful guide to take them about who guides them to the Magic Mile - a commercial district specializing in the trade and sale of magical services and goods. When they finally mention 'Absolute Alchemy', however, they are informed that it is in the Scholar's District and isn't, as they'd assumed, an Apothecary, but one of the more eccentric drinking houses in a city which has more than its fair share of eccentric drinking establishments.

Finally reaching Absolute Alchemy, they thank their guide and pay them for their time. The place is a specialised bar with a huge range of quality alcohols and potions. They don’t cater to a lot of clients, but do offer large private ‘conference rooms’. Initially, there is no sign of Giana, so they sit and order some drinks while they wait. They are welcomed and given a menu by the Dwarven barman ‘Red’. Goldie buys the ‘random’ drink (has a random flavour every time), Dandy buys ‘Fish Head’ (which smells exactly like Bloodwurm acid) and a bottle of Kytheros’s Kompas for later. Arik drinks a ‘Geargrinder’ (a beer with cogs that add flavor packs) and Gar drinks ‘3 Skulls’ (a cheap drink only on the menu for orcish ritual purposes).

When Giana arrives, she informs them that she's acquired a large room upstairs and invites them to join her. At this point, Gar drunkenly throws down his sword (Fluffy), declares he’s had enough of her, her prophecy and with prophecies in general and storms out. (see here for Gar’s adventure)

The rest of the party heads upstairs. Their Chamber takes up a whole floor (minus the stairs) and has enough table space for 10+ people to have a private meeting. Some beds are available, but they are pushed off to the side and seem rarely utilized. A dozen or so of the bar's cheaper drinks line shelves, but they are told by the waitress (a half-dwarf lady) that they can order anything else if they like.

Giana introduces them to someone waiting in the room; a young female dwarf from the far north named Solasta McMonadhie, though she goes by 'Solly'. She seems to be following her own prophecy which has, somehow, intersected with ours. Both groups debrief each one another. Giana explains how she was sent to check if the deaf/blind monks were, in fact, a miracle of Kellios and she strongly believes they are one of the 3 signs of Waiqars rise to power. She believes all 3 events have come to pass, including the dragon children rising (the events in Tanglewood forest) and the ‘Shoat killing the boar’ which she believes is the death of Baron Katrin Sephone several weeks ago. Although the Baron’s wife and step-son have been blamed for the murder Gianna believes the prophecy indicates it was the baron's own son, Valcum.

Everyone agrees Valcum needs to be investigated before he is confirmed as Baron in seven weeks' time. Since the church of Kellos won’t make a move against a Baron without proof, Goldie suggests using one of the ‘miracle monks’ which Giana agrees with. They discuss what has happened to the Church of the Silver Crescent, and according to Giana, many of their alters and recruitment temples have been abandoned. Giana also offers to have Chance cared for by the church while they go adventuring.

There was some discussion about getting into Greyhaven University. It was suggested that gifting/loaning the Star of Timmoran would put them on good terms, but since they don’t know who to trust, it's decided that maybe they could approach someone who is a member of both the uni and the Heirs of Timmoran - since that gives Goldie an in.

Suddenly remembering something, Dandy hands over the communication scroll she took from the Silver Crescent to examine. Goldie and Giana determine that it can allow long distance communication to any person, but needs something significant to the target, like blood, hair or a prized possession, and must be cast at a magical node.

After being given some ‘recovery drinks’, the group decides to partake of the Kytheros’s Kompas, since it has hallucinogenic/vision properties (although apparently less so if you have Dwarf blood).

Goldie drinks and has a vision of an older Arik passing a book to a person looking like his offspring. The book gets passed down dozens (maybe a hundred) times until she has a clear look at the person now holding it (a fairly nondescript human), who seems to be standing in a large gateway waiting for something.

Solly thinks she is in the cold snowy north, and intermittently thinks she is seeing/talking to her family.

Dandy thinks her father is interacting and talking to her. They have a conversation (the others present only hear the parts of the conversation coming from Dandy), in which Chance tries to convince her not to come for him. He tells her he’s now been brought into The Mistlands.

### Continued in Session 35...

- 10xp (440)

**[About the City]**

-Districts -Schoolars District. Magic Mile, Town Center, Greyhaven University -others?

-There is a HQ for ‘The Heirs of Timmoran’ in the Magic mile.