The Delinquents - Session 33

This is the thirty-third session in The Delinquents campaign and the first session in the Déjà Vu storyline of the current arc. Player feedback ranks this session at an 8.00.

## Notable Events

* The party awoke in Harkem Ibn-Abahad's office with no memory of what had just taken place.
* The party learned from Professor Farah that nearly three days had passed since they last remembered.
* Palmer was left badly injured and had to be left in the infirmary after the other party members had been cleared.
* Eren and Lamhach discovered the notes they had left to themselves and agreed to meet with Marcus's uncle, Guybrush Johnson.
* Lamhach revealed her Changeling nature to most of the party.
* The party met with Guybrush, learned he was under house arrest, and told him everything about what had been happening recently.

## Summary

**WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 995:** Awakening in a haze of confusion and mental strain, the party fuzzily glanced around their new environment struggling to make sense of what was going on. As their senses focused, they realized that they were inside of Director Harkem's office in the Department of Arcane Studies, including four people who had not been there moments before: Gorrn, Mace, Agvahl, and Palmer, the last of whom immediately collapsed to the ground upon the party waking up. Even Harkem appeared to be hunched and confused, and Ishim (the first of the group to somewhat come to their senses) immediately questioned his father on what had just happened, while Lamhach picked up Palmer as the rest of the group attended to him, unable to locate any obvious injuries on his body. Ishim and Harkem briefly argued as the old Dragonborn claimed uncertainty of what had happened (much to his son's surprise).

Before the group could continue to argue, they were interrupted by the arrival of Professor Farah, who immediately expressed concern that Harkem had missed nearly *three days* of class (despite the party's lapse in memory only feeling like an instant) before mistakenly coming to the conclusion that, in typical Dragonborn fashion, he had been celebrating the reunion with his son by celebrating with him and his classmates. Harkem, rather than trying to explain the situation, went along with the lie and demanded the party leave his office as he departed to teach his next lecture, but not before Ishim left him with a scathing remark about "walking away from his problems". Everyone was clearly injured and sapped of their strength, so the group went to the infirmary to seek care, trying and failing to explain why they were in their current condition. The nurses attributed their confusion to some magical incident before clearing everyone (save for Palmer, who was still unconscious) from their care. Before they left, Ishim asked the infirmary volunteers if any of them knew Maple and that they should check up on her if they did.

As they left, the group began to discuss what had happened, tying these strange occurrences back to the mysterious Black Opal. After a long discussion about their forgotten memories, unexplainable injuries, general confusion, and theorizing about what *exactly* was happening after consulting notes that Eren and Lamhach had found left to themselves on their persons, Marcus interrupted and told the party that it was best if they met with his uncle, Guybrush, to help them figure out what was going on. He gave them his address, 2016 Sabbath Lane, and told them to come to the house tomorrow where they could explain everything.

Back at the dormitory, Lamhach gave Ishim a hug after expressing her sorrow for whatever had happened with his mom, before showing him that she can change her body into different shapes and sizes. Ishim and Gorrn questioned this new power and what exactly Lamhach was capable of. Lamhach admitted that she has always been able to mimic people’s appearances and voices, and that no one in her family can do the same. She displayed this by shifting herself into Gorrn, much to the discomfort of Mace, who dismissed herself to bed upon watching this, while Ishim stared in awe as he tried to identify what Lamhach was. Eren and the others were mostly supportive of her strange characteristics, and soon they all went to sleep to meet with Guybrush the next day. After the party disperses to their sleeping quarters, Ishim attempted to contact Barilus within Eren's mind, to no avail, while Gutter Snipe created a strange altar to no particular deity in the back room of the dorm using Ishim's magic carpet and several crates.

**THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 995:** In the morning, Eren took his time to summon Barilus' pseudodragon form while Mace suggested, **much** to Lamhach's agreement, that they go and visit Palmer. Unfortunately, the injured man was still asleep when they arrived. Deciding not to wake him, Ishim left an adventuring club hat and Lamhach left the stuffed bird (looking away from him) as acknowledgement that they were there to check up on him up. The group then left for 2016 Sabbath Lane, with Eren joining them after Gorrn refused to come with, deciding to stay inside the dorm and wait instead due to his fear of the oddities of Squidsiddie.

Eventually, the group arrived at a large gated manor marked with Marcus' address. Outside of the house was a gear-carriage marked with "Mumford & Sons: Attorneys at Law". Lamhach began to yell at the house from behind the gate, prompting several stares from nearby pedestrians, while Mace chose the civilized way of activating a nearby rune to alert Marcus of their presence. As they were led inside the house by Marcus, they listened as a finely-dressed and mustached Gnomish man (later introducing himself as Gimbo Mumford) discussed a "trial" with a disheveled and slovenly-looking Guybrush. Upon Mr. Mumford's departure, Guybrush dismissed the party, telling them he was not allowed contact with anyone associated with the University at this time. The party pleaded to Guybrush that they needed his help, coaxing him into hearing them out upon mention of the Black Opal.

> "One of my students is dead?"
>
> Guybrush Johnson, upon learning of the death and disappearance of Cecilia Wormwood.

The party eventually explained everything that had happened with Harkem and their concerns that he may be acting recklessly, the Black Opal, and the death of Cecilia to the former Director. At first, he was reluctant to help, explaining to the party that he was currently under house arrest and legal investigation for what had happened at the Department before. Using a strange new power, however, Snipe was able to show Guybrush a glimpse of forgotten memories, burning 6 words into the old wizard's arm: YOUR STUDENTS ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.

Now convinced, Guybrush explained what had happened the night when they first encountered the Opal in the department, recalling that Gorrn had broken in and disrupted his concentration (to their disbelief) as he attempted to study the artifact. He reviewed the party's mysterious notes and informed them that he had no idea what they were dealing with and that he would need some time to begin his research on what was going on. He successfully identified Lamhach's ring as a Ring of Mind Shielding and asked that, in exchange for his help in solving this mystery, they would assist Marcus in acquiring research materials from the University and to reclaim a tome of his from Harkem. The group agreed and began to hatch a hair-brained scheme to retrieve the tome before Guybrush suggested that they simply *ask* Harkem for the tome first before trying to steal it. They agreed and were promptly bid away from Guybrush's home and told to return to school for the time being.

## See also

* The Delinquents - Session 32
* The Delinquents - Session 34