Session 7

Sessions

Session 6

Session 7 – Let’s go to school

* The party wakes up and heads out and travels for 2 more days.
* At the end day two they come to the Happy Elf Tavern just a bit south of the cross roads. There is no one around in sight. Prim, Thiana and Rei go in and meet the innkeeper/barkeeper, Eldrick, who has an in-exhaustible selection of drinks from all over the islands and directs them to the server Helga who has food. A group of fisherman from the Cod Port on Tackron walk in talking about how their boat nearly capsized. The tavern is still there in the morning.
* Prim runs out and there is still no one in view just Tetzo, she goes to Tetzo and tells him what they have observed, Tetzo doesn’t like the sound of that and recommends they get out of there and leave it alone. Prim goes back in and relays this to Thiana and Rei who agree and go to leave, as they are about to leave two ask covered and smoking tieflings walk in saying how they almost fell into a lava flow, Prim asks and is told they come from The Kiln. The party leaves the Inn and moves the wagon away.
* Rei tries pouring some of his blood over the Sigil of Toil it soaks into the runes for a moment and then oozes out in greater amounts.
* The party travels the next day and arrives the next day at Metca Port, they do a bit of shopping (gifts for Mom and Dad), find out no one knows about Happy Elf Inn and head to bed, Thiana sleeps at the bunk house and the rest sleep in the wagon. The next morning Prim and Thiana go for breakfast at the inn, Rei and Tatzo have bonding time over rations in the wagon.
* Tetzo heads to the ferry and sends Rei to retrieve Prim and Thiana. Rei goes the Inn, says “Time to go.” Picks up Prim, desperately grabbing toast, and carries her out under his arm and Thiana follows. The ferry has other passengers and some cargo and it is actually a very nice ride that takes several hours.
* They arrive in Metca Landing and Prim stops at a potions shop and meets a lady whose clothes are covered in burns and ash marks. Prim shows her the box Lecka gave her with the 10 unlabeled potions. The lady has heard of Lecka and comments that everything she makes looks like a healing potion. Prim agrees to leave them with her to be identified.
* The group gets another wagon, because Thiana is delicate, and heads up the cliff to the Collegium. The guards test the party with a crystal with reddish smoke in it. It turns redder when it is in front of Thiana, blue in front of Prim, black for Rei and yellow/gold in front Tetzo. They say you need to be approved before going in.

Session 7 – This can’t have been in the original plans

* The party is ushered into a side court yard where they wait for a short time before an old man who looks like a very stereotypical wizard walks in and repeats the bit with the stone and “scans” the party’s minds. He comments to Rei “That is quite the curse you have.” And introduces himself as the Dean of the Collegium, Professor Rebsley.
* He has never heard of the thief from Demlan the party is referencing. When asked about the teleportation circle he says there are a few around the college but they are all monitored. The only place where there may be an unknown circle is the north tower which is infested with undead. He directs them to the Keeper of the Keys, Professor Dweel.
* Prim asks about the potion store keeper and he says Lady Edna is a lovely and knowledgeable person that they have to constantly ward against harming herself and others.
* To Thiana’s questions about her powers and Prim’s about the letters the party found he directs them to the library.
* Before the party splits up they run into an elderly lady in the hall, her eyes are all white and slightly glowing and is accompanied by an attendant, Prim says hello and introduces herself, the lady says, “Yes, I know.” Tetzo and Thiana pass her and to Rei she says, “That’s quite the curse she has, yours is pretty impressive too.” Rei introduces himself and she says, “Yes, I know.” Rei asks her name and she says, “Professor Raslyn.” Rei asks her if she knows how he can gain control of his curse. She tells him that what he has looks like a curse but if named properly can be mastered.”
* Prim and Thiana enter the library and find the librarian is a giant crane named Professor Crane, when asked about the letters they found she brings Prim a book about the Black Star Thieves Guild active 100-200 years ago in the Demlan/Amadar/Tackron/Paradise Island islands. The guild sought to find the artifacts and extort large sums from the Lord High Despot at the time. He got tired of their antics and ended them, the book notes that he took care of the orphans and widows that resulted.
* In response to Thiana’s inquiry about her powers she gets a book with a detailed fairytale about how the unknown god raised islands from the sea and set her great elemental servants placed a protective shield against the older gods. The way this was done separated the great elementals from their god and cursed them to walk the islands to this day.
* Rei and Tetzo head to the dorms and Rei discusses the Sigil of Toil’s reaction to his blood and what Professor Raslyn said about him and either Thiana or Prim. When Prim and Thiana get back to the dorm Tetzo casts detect curse and notices Thiana has a bit of a black tinge of curse
* The party goes to bed.

Session 7 – This wasn’t that hard!

* In the morning, the party go looking for Professor Dweel, who takes them to North Tower, sets guards and advises he will be locking them in, when/if they want to leave knock 3 times.
* At the bottom of the stairs they break the door open go through a short hall way and enter an antechamber with a bunch of zombies, the group heads in and starts taking down zombies, as they fight more emerge from the darkness. Tetzo casts a very successful turn undead and causes several zombies to trap themselves in a vestibule and a couple more to run away for the majority of the fight. Toward the end with the majority of zombies down. A zombie wizard shows up but the party manages to take him down. Tetzo finds an Amulet of Health.
* When they come out Prim hits the library again and finds out the North Tower was constructed starting 1500 years ago. The basement was build first. Then, after a long hiatus, it was finished. About 500 years ago, a student, Yagred, left before completing his studies, went to Capital City and ingratiated himself to the king.
* The king was concerned about his position and Yafred convinced the king to perform blood rituals that fed the king’s paranoia. He was hunted down and imprisoned in the basement of the North Tower for all time.
* The rest of the party headed to the bath hall which is a Romanesque room dominated by a deep basin fed by an underground stream and enchanted to have it cleaned constantly.

- END SESSION 7 -

Session 8