Session 1

## Summary

### Kazakhan Spire

Destiny's Children waited in a holding room for a couple of hours before being allowed into the area surrounding Kazakhan Spire, and the characters introduce themselves. Mario performed some sort of rain dance, and spoke with some giant cockroaches while Enoch and Damacus headed into the spire. There was a combat with the cockroaches and Destiny's Children - 2, in which the cockroaches ate 200 GP from Mario.

Meanwhile, the other two found some specters eating rotten food in the dining hall of the spire. [DM Post-Session Comments: Damacus and Enoch saw a man with horse blinders on. "Isn't it weird how somebody told them which way he turned at the top of the stairs? I wonder who that was." Andre: "There was just a voice coming out of nowhere, just telling them where to go. Probably the Archmage?"] Maya was able to tell that these specters were not undead, and Izzy punched a ghost. The ghost then chided her. Everyone headed into the headmaster’s office and received a message from Archmage Aaron Nileas: *“A recent earthquake is connected to a calamity in the world that dislodged this spire. The pillars of Espera have been shaken. Seek out the dragons. The year inside the spire is 1201.”* After the group discovered they were each from a different time period, Mario got really mad at Maya wearing a tabard emblazoned with the Crimson Order insignia. Destiny's Children agreed on a map of the area (showing that the geology of the region had not changed dramatically over the course of about 750 years), except for Izzy who did not recognize a town that had grown around the spire.

#### Room of Yambo

Destiny's Children then travel to the Hall of Wonders in the spire, where they entered the Room of Yambo, who is the God of Travel. Inside they found a mirror containing a pocket dimension which housed an arcane map which shows them their current location and destination on a map of the local area. A message then appeared on the door: *“To travel in the master’s footsteps, you must first know the way”*. After Izzy obtained the map by swan diving into the mirror, Destiny's Children fought some sort of arcane golem.

#### Room of Nostradormu

They then entered the Room of Nostradormu, who is the God of Time. Six identical stone pillars were arranged in a line. Enoch discovered that the pillars were magical and contained magic related to the school of transmutation. Twinkletoes realized that the pillars needed to be pressed down simultaneously. Izzy suggested standing in order of time period. After doing so, a “brass and glass” hourglass with white sand appeared, with enough sand to serve as a 10 minute timer. The hourglass was enchanted with powerful divination magic. Twinkletoes flipped over the hourglass, and everyone felt a tugging and had a brief out of body experience, similar to the feeling before a large drop.

#### Headmaster's Office

Destiny's Children then returned to the headmaster’s office, where Izzy found an altar. Mario, very excitedly, placed a wooden goblet on the altar and filled it with water until it overflowed. Mario then stood in front of the altar, expecting gold pieces to flow any moment. He stood there for a long time. Enoch distracted Mario for a moment and threw 40 GP at the goblet. Mario, now vindicated, collected the coins, emptied the goblet, and poured more water. Damacus then told Mario that he would pay for him to stop blocking the altar. Izzy placed the hourglass on the altar, and the stars on the floor began to move. Destiny's Children blacked out.

### Meeting Rue

Destiny's Children awoke, transported several weeks worth of travelling away. They discovered that the year was 1201. Buck and his bandits lied to the party, telling them that Rue’s party had stolen several crates from them and beat them up. Rue’s party was up the road, huddled around a shrine of Yambo, the God of Travel.

Maya tried to intimidate the "bandits", but Rue simply offered her a drink, then threw it in her face when she declined. The party engaged in combat with Rue, two men from Bellingham, and a masked woman with golden hair. Rue easily dealt with the party, nonchalantly disarming and evading all of the party’s attacks. He used two swords, a black hilt with a white blade and a white hilt with a black blade, to disorient his opponents, causing them to run in the opposite direction than they intended to. One of the men from Bellingham was knocked out, and Rue seemed relieved when Izzy told the party not to kill him. Rue beat up Twinkletoes, stunned him, then surrendered while pointing the two swords at him. Rue then sat on Twinkletoes, and Mario sat on the knocked out "bandit", and the two share a drink.

Maya and Damacus confronted Buck’s bandit party, and Damacus gave each bandit 10 GP to turn their life around, as an investment in their goodwill. The party then joined Rue, his party having escaped essentially two different bandit attacks, and decided to camp overnight together. Rue and his man from Bellingham left during the night, with Enoch offering them wares and waving them goodbye during his watch (earning Devon Inspiration).

### Rabbit's Tavern

Destiny's Children arrived at a fork in the road and Rabbit's Tavern, from which Bellingham is a day south and Mariba is two days north. The Kender nicknamed “Rabbit” runs the tavern. Ruckus, a talkative Kender always with a drink in his hand, and Gallean, a High Elf that keeps to himself, were the most notable people in the tavern.

The earthquake occured only a couple of weeks ago. Izzy discovered that the arcane map changes to match the location the map is in, and realized that she was also in possession of the hourglass even though it was left on the altar in the spire. The group then spends three days at Rabbit's Tavern getting to know each other. The party spoke with Gallean, and Mario pointed out the strange language used by the High Elf and the Archmage: “Dragons are ***pillars*** of our world,” and “The ***pillars*** of Espera have been shaken. Seek out the dragons.”

Mario explains (as best he can "Quote Gallean, quote the Archmage, sound of rumbling earth, a roar, sound of a bow releasing an arrow, sound of a bird squawking) that he believed that the earthquake released a predator that kills dragons, and that the death of at least one dragon in the year 1250 is what caused the Aetherlight machines to become unreliable.

### Curiosity Killed the Cat

Twinkletoes flipped the hourglass back over, and the party returns to the spire. Two new doors were labelled in the Hall of Wonders: the Room of Astro-Oh and the Room of Azaloth. The party chose rooms in the dormitory, and they flip the hourglass back over on the altar, returning to Rabbit's Tavern. Days pass outside the spire while only minutes pass within the spire.