Jag Under the Bridge

*Hired by*: Azurax the Arcane, Cobalt Lord of the Raging Skies

*Mission Request*: Retrieve map of Pinioned Tomb from Navigant Verne

*Rewards/Loot*: (Pending)

*Discovered Places*: City of Mirrors

*Caravan Allies*: Gromlo (antiquarian), Caliban (cook), "Bob" (alarm gnome)

*Monsters Encountered*: N/A

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## Summary

After leaving the caravan in the Cloud Tower, the party and Scipio went through the New Quartz City portal. They landed on a fractured bridge; parts of the bridge seemed to be slowly floating out into the void. Aster found pushing the pieces back toward the main body did not really help the structural integrity. They saw their reflections above and below and began to do many experiments surrounding the weird distortion. Burke through a rock toward lower reflection Arco's head and Arco on the bridge with Burke felt it. Beebo cast levitate and Aster pulled him toward the lower reflection by his harness of many things. Upon reaching the lower reflection Beebo's leash split into two and Aster was attacked by her started reflection self before the reflection self shattered into pieces. Despite flying down, Aster and Beebo were once again on the bridge with their party. And Scipio was scarred for life after watching a being be shattered spontaneously. The party stopped messing with the strange physics of the place after that. Halfway across the bridge, they were ambushed by many swarms of Jags, floating animated crystal shards. Scipio hastily explained seeing Jags was very rare, but the swarms may have been attracted to the party due to the concentration of magic sources as they like to eat magic. Eira learned pretty quickly that the Jags duplicated if hit by magic and they didn't die, unintentionally making the fight much harder. The individual Jags exploded upon death and the larger Jag swarms erupted in an even larger radius when disrupted. Aster used her new constellation sword to switch places with Eira, safely removing Eira from the center of the painful Jag swarm. In the fight the party learned Scipio was a decently trained rogue who could manifest psychic blades. Aster had planned to stay in close to destroy the last swarm after the rest of the party retreated far enough away but Beebo was able to cast banishment on one swarm and snipe the last swarm with eldritch blast, freeing the party from the psychic pain-inducing animated shards. Having rescued Scipio again, Beebo proceeded to give Scipio shit and asked for the "requisite" 2gp fee for his rescue, which Beebo then gave to Aster to reimburse her. Scipio changed his attitude toward the party after that, realizing they really could be trusted. After the fight and more walking, the party finally reached the gate to the City of Mirrors. Aster decided for the first time to stay in her feral form, despite no longer being in battle, to speak to the 20ft-tall 3-headed graphite-skinned gatekeeper. They each announced their Blocs: Aster - Argent, Arco - Argent, Cedric - Argent, Beebo - Shimmerflow, Eira - Shimmerflow, Burke - Prismatine, C2 - ***redacted***, & Aleria - ***redacted***. The gatekeeper used three of his four hands to distribute the appropriate Bloc symbols, thus further convincing Beebo that there *must* be a secret *fourth* Bloc that's extra special.