Of Mind, Body, and Soul

## Session 6/4

### City Group

* Shadow and Matthias play a card game. Instead of gambling money, the loser has to tell as story.
	+ **Round 1**: Matthias tells Shadow about his time on the front lines of the Orc Protectorate War.
	+ **Round 2**: Shadow recounts how she would gamble at the Elder Tree when she was younger.
	+ **Round 3**: Matthias describes the battle at Silverhearth and how Dol Arrah appeared before him and blessed him with the strength and power to destroy his enemies. After the war, he stayed in the Outerlands to learn more about Dol Arrah.
	+ **Round 4**: Shadow talks about how her family were an isolated group that avoided both Arasaka and the Tyger Claws. One day they went into the village to trade and get supplies and didn't come back. Shadow went looking for them and found the village bombed and burning alive. She hide, and later was found by Icy Knot, who helped her join the N'Komo ambush.
	+ **Summary of the rest of the game**:
		- Matthias talks about how he joined the Knights of the Shining Path and wandered the Outerlands enacting justice. He developed a distaste for the Protectorate and the Church Institution. Eventually, he received a vision from Dol Arrah telling him to find Morgan, which he did. He's in Nymeria now in search of the Orb (which is news to Shadow).
		- Shadow briefly talks about working for the Tyger Claws, and admits that the fight against Arasaka is going poorly for the Tyger Claws. The introduction of Red Sun was very detrimental because she just annihilates any Tyger Claws she comes up against.
* The game ends and Franz and Kysona comes back. Franz was at the bar talking to the bartender and alluding to how he misses the simple life of a badger.
* Anton offers his Admiralty contact to meet with so that the party can figure out why Jafaris Reeves is in the Underflow visiting the condemned zones.
* Slaviko/White Widow replied to the party. The message says: "Scarab bridge tomorrow. 7am" Shadow and Kysona go scout out Scarab bridge in preparation for the meeting tomorrow.
	+ The party decides to have Franz and Matthias meet Slaviko while Kysona is in the scaffolding and Shadow finds some house to hide in.

### Wan-Ti

* Wan-Ti, Nibbler, and Dr. Perry are brought to the Spirit of Fire. Yorinobu welcomes them and introduces to Aegnor, Arasaka's chief scientist who can tend to their wounds should they have any. All three receive medical attention.
* Yorinobu leads Wan-Ti and Nibbler through the airship to a huge banquet hall with a table loaded with exotic delicacies. Yorinobu makes small talk and admits that he upheld the deal to leave the Elder Tree without gunning down the survivors so that Wan-Ti can trust him.
* Yorinobu spouts Arasaka propaganda. He says that before Saburo arrived and created Arasaka, Nymeria was full of fighting. There were constant, massive wars between the kingdoms. The northern countries took advantage of this by exploiting Nymeria for its magic items and natural resources. Arasaka came in and brought law, order, and prosperity.
	+ Wan-Ti admits that she isn't invested in Nymerian politics and only cares about Nibbler's well-being.
	+ Yorinobu says that his goal is to bring peace to Nymeria and a key part of that is finding the Etherium Vault. According to legend, only the Child knows where the Vault is, and if Wan-Ti helps Arasaka find it, Yorinobu promises to let them leave.
* Yorinobu decides to let Wan-Ti have some time to think over the proposal. Before he goes, he gives Wan-Ti a dossier on Jaque and asks Wan-Ti to reconsider the people she has allied herself with.

### Dragon Tales

* The group goes through the newly open door into the monastery and walks up a narrow spiral staircase. At the top is a door which Levi throws open to reveal a hallway that's mostly empty except for a bench. A young Tabaxi woman is sitting on the bench, sobbing. Across from her is a small painting of feathers falling.
	+ The painting moves like an optical illusion. Verinent sees the feathers fall onto the ground, which looks like the Outerlands biome. Dave sees the feathers fall for a bit, and then begin falling upwards.
* The doors at the opposite end of the room are thrown open, revealing Clover but with the use of his legs. Clover calls for Neko to hurry, "we're losing him". Clover indicates for Neko and the rest of the group to suit up.
	+ The next room appears to be a ward, with people walking around in hazmat suits. There are a lot of bodies in cots.
	+ Levi senses a combination of conjuration, divination, and necromancy magic.
	+ The door and the staircase behind them is gone.
* Neko recognizes Professor Jafaris Reeves of the Shuhcola Institute also calling him over to help. Clover says that the boy is flatllining. He zips up the rest of the medical suit and walks in. Neko recognizes the boy as the Tabaxi child with the plague that Neko met on his way to the capital that he was unable to save. He was also unable to convince his parents that it was the plague and that they should say their goodbyes.
	+ The plague symptoms is necrosis of the body
* Levi casts Sacred Flame on Clover. It burns his smock, and knocks him back into the cot behind him, breaking it. Dave sees a half-elf woman roll from the cot whom he recognizes as his mother, Emony.
* Suddenly, an orderly appears behind the ground wheeling another cot asking the group to move out of the way. Verinen sees that the patient is Lesrya. Levi tries to Sacred Flame this orderly and patient too, but Verinen tackles Levi and they both end up on the floor. The orderly takes advantage of the gap and wheels Lesrya into the room.
* A voice in the room whispers: "but what if you could save her", which everyone can hear. Verinen stops wrestling with Levi, and concludes that this has to be a test. Levi asks who is speaking. It answers: "don't you miss it? number 4"
	+ Levi steps into the room and walks towards cot #4. He takes off the blanket to see Cinder lying there. Cinder's hand is holding the hand of the person lying in cot #5. Levi takes off the blanket of cot 5 and sees it's Levi. Both Cinder and the Levi double are breathing but clearly very sick. The chart says "cursed by a mage"

* Clover says Lesrya's condition is worsening. Verinen steps in to take a look and sees that Lesrya looks exactly as how he remembered her, as if she hasn't aged as much as she should. She has been mauled by some sort of beast. Jafaris says that whatever bit her caused a lot of internal bleeding that they're trying to stop. The beast pierced her gallbladder and she's being poisoned by the bile.
	+ Jafaris has Verinen do the surgery. Verinen opens up Lesrya's chest and starts soaking up the bile with rags. He also removed the gallbladder. Verinen manages to improve her condition from critical to serious, bordering on stable.
* Levi uses Channel Divinity and walks through the room, improving everyone's condition by one. Dave runs around reading the names and opening the sheets:
	+ Danasha, Fern, Zou Family, Emeny, Dave, Cinder, Levi, Lesrya, Quiet in the Grass, Verinen, Zhuli, Himiko, Neko, Wan-Ti
	+ Levi goes over to Himiko and sees that she also is suffering from the plague, but her arm and left have already been replaced by robotics.
	+ The untethered were a group of monks who perverted the Symphasian path for their own means. They don't belong to this plane of existence anymore.
* Verinen stabilizes Himiko by removing the bullet (she was shot) and stopping the bleeding. Levi improve's Wan-Ti's condition from critical to serious. Dave goes to his mother (who has been partially crushed) and gives her CPR, which improves her condition. Neko casts Mass Healing Word.

## Session 6/13

### Dragon Tales

* Everyone in the party hears a voice saying "the body is frail and weak compared to the strength of mind and soul". Many of the patients' conditions worsen. The party rushes to try and save them.
	+ The invisible force seems intent on killing the patients. Verinen and Neko decide that's it's best to make sure that the patients' last moments are as comfortable as possible.
* Zhu Li kills the version of herself in the bed. As the Zhu Li in the bed passes, her physical form weakens while her mental capabilities strengthens.
	+ Levi recognizes what is happening and says that this is the work of the Untethered and that everyone should cast whatever Light spells they have. Levi casts Light and brings Zhu Li into the Light, but it doesn't reverse her condition. Everyone in the party casts their respective Light spells.
* The party sees that there's a new door at the opposite end of the room. The door swings open and inside is a large crematorium furnace, but the party closes the door.
* Neko starts systematically casting Light wherever he hears the mysterious voice to try and chase out whoever is causing it. Soon the party joins him. Everyone in the room starts flatlining. Clover and Jafaris are both dead at this point. The room is very bright with light from the moonlight, light from the fire (that Verinen lit), and light from the Light spells.
* Levi explains that the Untethered are a dangerous group of monks that strayed from the Symphasian path and perverted their ideals into a twisted, "ascending from the mortal plane" cult. The party needs to drive them away from this location.
* In her heightened mental state, Zhu Li becomes aware that they are inside the Gaiyu. The party sees Zhu Li straining in deep concentration, and the light grows more intense and everything begins to burn away in blindingly bright light until the party is left standing in a small stone room in the monastery.
	+ There's a dagger lying in the middle of the room with shadowy mist coming off of it. Everyone is just standing there except for Zhu Li who has some visible cuts on her. Everything was just in their heads.
	+ Zhu Li explains that she believes that they were in the Gaiyu, similar to how they shared memories at the Elder Tree. It seems like the Untethered were manipulating the shared Gaiyu space.

### Wan Ti

* Wan-Ti makes sure that Nibbler is as comfy as possible and then looks at Jaque's file. The realization that Jacque was involved in the factory bombing and Shahd's assassination gives her pause. She's trying to marry this information with the person she knew and is trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
	+ She feels conflicted about V.

### City Group

* Franz and Matthias go to Scarab Bridge in their orc disguises. Kysona does street tricks by the bridge where he has line of sight of what's going on. Shadow disguises herself as a maintenance worker and goes into one of the buildings near the bridge. She's not able to find an empty room until just before the meeting starts. Then she switches into orc disguise and sets up a rope in case she needs to leave out the window.
	+ Kysona and Shadow see a part of the bridge that's mostly empty and there's a large, muscular individual who matches the description for Slaviko.
* Franz tells Slaviko that his group is looking for Kono Utamara -- they want to kill Utamara publicly to settle a debt. they are coming to White Widow because they heard that
	+ Franz says that the party is here to ally with White Widow. Slaviko says that stealing from the White Widow operation, breaking into the safe, doesn't seem like the actions of an ally. The cost of doing business has gone up. The party needs to do something to compensate for the losses and show a unified front.
	+ Slaviko asks the party to make sure that organized walkout doesn't happen. Slaviko thinks that they have protection from someone important from the kingdom alliance. White Widow thinks it is one of the Nymerian queens.
* Shadow sees one of the windows open up and the tip of something is pointed out. Shadow picks the lock to the room, trying to distract the tabaxi, and enters the room to see a tabaxi with a bag next to him. He says to Shadow that they don't need maintenance.
* The Lions of the GynoSphinx is the organization organizing the walkout. Slaviko wants the party to make it known that White Widow is busting the union so that it shows that they are allies.
	+ Slaviko tells the party to meet him at a restaurant in the mid-slums by the end of the week, after the walkout doesn't happen.
* The party meets back at Anton's hideout and discusses how they would stop the walkout. they conclude that they don't have enough time to adequately union bust (and also Matthias and Kysona feel morally conflicted about it), and instead Kysona will try to cast Dream on Kono Utamara and contact him that way.

## 6/19

### City Group

* Eli leaves the Underflow and heads up to the Capital to the Sirex embassy. Eli doesn't have her passport, and is sent to a processing room. She's lead to the back of the embassy to talk to Byrd. Byrd tells Eli that she, Ina, and Liluth will be traveling back to Sirex with ambassador Natalie Dunn. Byrd also introduces Eli to Agent Burk, who will be guarding Eli, Liluth, and Ina.
	+ They will be leaving in 2 days. Byrd can set them up in a nearby hotel in the meantime. Eli asks for a copy of papers indicating that she's traveling with the Sirex Ambassador in case she gets separated.
* While at the hotel, Eli gets a note from someone named Irving. He says that he has information about Soleste, and wants to meet with Eli. Eli goes to the room number listed and knocks on the door. Irivng answers the door and is happily surprised to see that Eli actually came. The room behind him is very messy with pictures and papers taped up on the wall. She recognizes a picture of Clover on the wall. She also sees a drawing of the Nymeria Academy of Sciences and other Bardic colleges.
* Irving takes Eli out for coffee. He tells her that Soleste is alive and wanted in the Outerlands for being a devil. She talked to the mayor of Norbury and the mayor housed her. Irving doesn't think that the church knows that the "devil" is Soleste. Irving found this out by going to Norbury.
	+ Irving also questions why a cleric with Revivify was not stationed near Shahd to revive him after Shahd was killed.
	+ Why was there an Etherium bomb in a random warehouse?
	+ Irving has lots of questions, but doesn't seem to know what he is going to do with the answers.
* Irving grew up in Sirex. He's seen the Free People's of Rayon and politicians and terrorists (Damian Roark) try to change things, but nothing ever seems to change. He wants to bring the truth to light and force some accountability and confrontation. He doesn't have a job -- he does odd jobs. He wants to find out what really happened.
	+ He has an investigation going on the college of whispers, but then he will head back to Sirex. Eli gives him her Sirex contact info.

### Wan Ti

* Wan Ti and Nibbler get some much needed rest. They wake up and eat breakfast. Wan Ti explores and finds a map room that seems to have been set up recently. There are lots of maps focused on Nymeria and Southern Aurelia.
	+ Wan Ti also finds a gym and gets a workout in.
	+ Wan Ti finds out that she's in the special guest ward of the air ship. She asks a half elf attendant to fetch Yori Nobu
* Yori Nobu tells Wan Ti about the culture of the Moon Elves, and that a group of elves were abandoned by Sosen no Ein and lost their magic. Saburo and many of these elves left the North and journeyed down to Nymeria to form Arasaka. Saburo emerged from Elderwynn. The rest of the elves came from the North.
	+ Arasaka focused on technology instead and devised means to negate the power of magic. They use Etherium to power their technology. Arasaka wants the Etherium vault because they believe it will allow them to finally properly use magic again. Yori Nobu claims that they want to use magic to bring lasting peace to Nymeria (by getting rid of the Tyger Claws once and for all).
	+ Yori Nobu says that if Wan Ti wants to start working with Nibbler to find the Etherium Vault, Wan Ti can use the map room.

## 7/3

### Eli

* After talking with Irving, Eli goes to see Ina and Liluth. Liluth speed walks out of the room, and Eli and Ina have an incredibly awkward conversation. They pass the next two days playing card games.
	+ Eli snags the guest book to find out Irving's real name. There are two people listed as guests for Irving's room: Irving Alderson and Leon Wellick
* They load up into a transport air ship with the diplomat and her other high profile guests. As they are settling into their bunks, Eli sees a carving in the wood of her bunk. It reads: *"Run little fox. It does not matter. the world is round. And the clock will strike 12."* There is also a carving of the owl.

### City Group

* The group plans the Purr heist while they wait for evening so that Kysona can cast Dream. They agree that one person (Franz) will go in, steal the necklace, and then Kysona will teleport them out. They need to get the heist right the first try, because they likely won't have a second shot
* Before evening, Matthias walks around and talks to some local homeless people. Kysona goes out and does some tricks on the street. As he's performing, he notices that he doesn't have a reflection. Kysona drops his illusion, and sees that the corruption has spread, and that his corrupted arm is the only thing that does appear in the reflection. Shadow takes a nap in a box in the supply closet.
* When evening comes, Kysona sets up his incense sticks and contacts Eli the fae because he figures that Eli would enjoy fucking with other people's dreams. Meanwhile, Shadow goes out to "scout around".
* Shadow goes to a party that Blaze told her to go to. Shadow is disguised as an attractive tabaxi, and so the bouncer gives her a discount on the entry fee. The party is a rager filled with drugs and alcohol.
	+ Shadow eventually finds Blaze coming down the stairs with another tabaxi that it looks like she had been having sex with. Blaze gives the other tabaxi a bag and a flirty kiss. Shadow reveals herself to Blaze, and Blaze insists that Shadow drink some alcohol and do some drugs before they go on their mission. Shadow takes some drug that enhances motor functions for a short while and then slows it down in the hangover. Blaze gives Shadow some exploding bolts and says that she also gave some to the tabaxi she was with (Seven) but his have a little surprise in them.
	+ Blaze leads Shadow to the condemned zone where she set up an Etherium buy with some White Widow people via Seven. Shadow sets up on a rooftop with line of site on the alley. She also notices someone on a nearby roof doing the same thing.
	+ Blaze meets with Seven, a well armed and armored Tabaxi, and four mooks. One of the mooks is holding a bag. Right as the one with the bag approaches, Seven (who is standing near the back) explodes. Right on cue, Shadow kills the other sniper and starts shooting at the White Widow goons. Blaze grabs the Etherium and sets off a smoke bomb. The well-armed tabaxi huffs something and runs towards where Shadow is. They fight briefly, and Shadow is poisoned, before Shadow manages to get away.
* At the same time, Kysona is casting Dream and wanders through the feywilds. Matthias and Franz watch as Kysona's eyes roll into the back of his head and the illusion on his arm fades, revealing the extent of the corruption. The basement also gets much colder. Matthias goes to activate his sunblade, but Franz stops him, so instead Matthias casts Light. Kysona continues to wander the fey world until he reaches Kono, but it feels wrong. It doesn't feel like a dream-like state -- it feels stifled and also as if there's another presence there. Kysona feels like he's likely down and constrained. He tries contacting Kono, but the only word he gets back is "Witherbloom". He also feels a deep yearning from Kono.
	+ In the basement, Matthias and Franz see the corruption spread. Matthias uses Lay on Hands to cast Lesser Restoration on Kysona. It's weird because it feels like there's two souls, and it feels like one of them is consuming the other.
	+ No one knows what "Witherbloom" is
* Kysona casts Dream on Teppei to compare how it feels like contacting another Arasaka elf. Teppei doesn't know anything about Witherbloom. Anton joins them and tells them that they might want to take a look at various maps to find Witherbloom, if it's a place. Shadow has a sense of deja vu, but ultimately doesn't know anything about it.
* Shadow arrives back at the basement drunk, drugged, and poisoned. Matthias casts Lesser Restoration on her. They tell her what they learned using Dream. Shadow tells them that she met up with someone from the Tyger Claws.
* The party agrees not to go forward with the strike-breaking, but now they have to come up with an alternative way to get the information from White Widow. Shadow suggests that Kysona cast Dream on Slaviko. Kysona appears to Slaviko as Kono with horrifying wounds and hisses "*You promised*." Slaviko is unmoved, and simply says that Kono never showed up to the meetup point.

## 7/10

### Wan Ti

* A half elf attendant tells Wan Ti that Yori Nobu has some business to attend to in the capital, and that Wan Ti should go ahead and start working with Nibbler to find the Vault. Wan Ti asks what Yori Nobu is doing in the capital and how long he will be there, but the attendant doesn't answer her questions.
	+ Wan Ti spends the next few days playing with Nibbler, working out, and coming to terms with her missing arm. She also accepts medical attention on her stump. Aegnor suggests that if she is interested, he could potentially replace her missing arm with something mechanical. Wan Ti has concerns about her autonomy.
	+ Some of the medical personnel are concerned about Wan Ti's arm and the necrosis affecting it. It is stable for now.
* Wan Ti tries to get permission to leave her guest wing. Yori Nobu shows up and says that he's been told that Wan Ti and Nibbler haven't been trying to find the vault. He also doesn't trust them enough to let them out of the guest wing, though if they produce results he might let them wander a bit.
	+ Wan Ti goes to the map and asks Nibbler to find good fishing spots. That night, the Spirit of Fire leaves the capital and they travel over Nymeria until they arrive at Elderwynn. Wan Ti sees another enormous Arasaka warship. She copies down the name of the ship.
	+ The night they arrive in Elderwynn, Wan Ti finds that the pain in her arm is much more severe and it's much more difficult to sleep. Nibbler comes over and cuddles with Wan Ti which helps suppress the pain. Wan Ti manages to fall asleep and has a nightmare about the Grin. She wakes up to find a clump of her hair has fallen out.
	+ Wan Ti finally asks for medical help. Instead of Aegnor, Yori Nobu walks in. They say that they will withhold medical attention on Wan Ti's arm until she and Nibbler start making progress on finding the Vault. If Wan Ti's condition were to worsen and she were to die, then they will have to do what he was doing previously to Nibbler.
	+ Wan Ti asks how Yori Nobu is so sure that Nibbler knows where the Vault is. Yori Nobu offers to show Wan Ti the tablet containing the prophecy of the Child.
* Wan Ti recovers for a few days, and then Red Sun appears to take Wan Ti to the tablet.

### Dragon Tales

* The party has just come out of the Gaiyu mental space and they are heading towards the AndroSphinx room of prophecy. Zhu Li feels an Untethered vibe from the main monastery area. They walk towards the prophecy room, and there are a lot of corpses and signs of battle. The actual prophecy room is a mess. There's a corpse near the door, and many of the tablets are smashed.
	+ Only one tablet is still intact, but it's in the hands of the corpse, which has decomposed on top of it. The tablet is titled: "The Rising of the Red Sun". The party discusses whether they should bring this prophecy to the dragons and how they would convince the dragons of Red Sun's abilities if they were to do that.
* Red Sun leads Wan Ti to a lab room that's empty except for a stone tablet in a glass case in the middle of the room. The tablet contains the Child of Bombyx Mori prophecy. Wan Ti is very concerned about the possibility of the reunification of the split sphinxes.
	+ Red Sun leaves with a warning: Yori Nobu is a narcissistic, petulant, spoiled child, but he is predictable. As long as you know his goal, you know what he's going to do.
* While Wan Ti stares at the tablet, he hears the voice of Grandmaster Qutt behind him. She turns around and sees a spectral ghost of Grandmaster Qutt. Grandmaster Qutt asks Wan Ti about Barnabus -- normally Symphasian monks linger after death, but Barnabus is just gone. Wan Ti explains that Barnabus was eaten by the Time Eater.
	+ Wan Ti says that she is lost, and Qutt says that he can help by providing friends. He only asks that Wan Ti not pursue victory, pursue equality. Wan Ti is confused.
* Qutt reminds Wan Ti about Zhu Li's memory that she experienced at the Elder Tree, and asks her to focus on the memory and then touch the tablet. Back at the Lake Sol monastery, Zhu Li feels the implanted memory that Wan Ti is experiencing, and feels Wan Ti's presence behind the memory. Wan Ti establishes a connection and mentally shouts "Wan Ti" at Zhu Li. Qutt tells Wan Ti to tell Zhu Li to think back on her Elder Tree memory. Verinen feels Zhu Li implanting her Elder Tree memory in his head. Verinen starts thinking about his experience at the Elder Tree.
	+ A ghostly spectral version of Qutt and Wan Ti appear in the Lake Sol monastery. Everyone is able to perceive Qutt and Wan Ti.
* Wan Ti shows the party the name of the other giant airship. Neko translates the name as "Ascendant Justice".
* Wan Ti reads out the Child of Bombyx Mori prophecy to the party. Verinen wants to use this information to rally the dragons whereas Wan Ti warns that they can't let the dragons get hold of the Child. Levi reveals that he is a dragon and part of the Raiju enclave. Zhu Li is unhappy to realize that she had been right all along about the Child being important to the dragons.
	+ The party puts it to a vote and decide to continue to try and get the dragons instead of trying to pursue other leads.
* The party reads the Red Sun tablet and the journal entry to Wan Ti. Wan Ti is happy to learn Red Sun's given name.
* Levi asks Qutt about Flumph. Qutt asks the party to convince Flumph to leave the monastery and that they should all meet up with the group of survivors lead by a monk named Wiin.
* Qutt bestows a small bit of Barnabus's soul onto Wan Ti, then disappears forever. Wan Ti feels the essence of Barnabus (warm, grounded, slightly optimistic), gains a level in monk, then passes out.

### City Group

* The city group waits for night to fall to start the Purr heist. Shadow goes to her Tyger Claw contact to make sure that Blaze is alive. Blaze is making a bomb, and says that she has a target in mind and might need Shadow's help. She wants to plant it in the old Etherium mines.
* Kysona and Shadow create physical disguises for the group and they sneak into the abandoned building next to the club. The bouncers notice, but Kysona casts an illusion to make it look like they went up into the building to snort magic drugs.
	+ Shadow gives Franz the gloves of thievery. They climb over to the club and enter the tunnel that Franz created earlier. Unfortunately, they are not the stealthiest.
* They wait in the tunnel for the event to start. People start trickling in, including a group of Tygron. They try removing the wall of debris, but a rock drops down and attracts the attention of an employee. The employee sees through the illusion and Kysona manages to charm him.
	+ Kysona has Arya following the employee. The employee tabaxi sees La Signora arrive in the booth above and goes over to her. Soon after, Slaviko and the tabaxi that fought Shadow during the Etherium (Yulia) buy arrive. Yulia goes to La Signora and starts beating up La Signora.
	+ Slaviko is suspicious of La Signora buying items from Vulture. He warns her that if she sees him again, then they are done with her and they will kill every other dancer here.
	+ Slaviko tells Yulia to put a tail on La Signora to make sure that she doesn't meet with Vulture again. If she does, it will be a good opportunity to take out Vulture.
* La Signora starts her event, and the Queen doesn't arrive until about 15 min into La Signora's performance. She arrives with a friend and some bodyguards.
	+ Slaviko is accusing the group of Tygron of stealing Etherium from him. He holds up a picture of Scorching Blaze.
	+ The party discusses what they will do if Franz can't grab the necklace or if things go tits up. Shadow reveals that she is a changeling and can stay behind and pretend to be the queen if things go south.
* Franz goes onto the catwalk and gets ready to misty step into the queen's booth. Shadow also goes onto the catwalk and preps and exploding arrow that will create a distraction when needed.
	+ Franz teleports into the booth and tries to Misty Step out but the guard Counterspells that. Franz slaps his hands together, casts Thunderclap, and books it to the door. The guard casts Hold Person on Franz. Shadow casts her exploding arrow and Matthias uses Sacred Flame to set fire to some of the wooden supports. The guests are starting to panic and run for the doors.
	+ Kysona casts Scatter and teleports Matthias and Franz and teleports them to the hole. He also teleports the queen to the Tygron booth, the queen's guard into the cage with La Signora, and the queen's friend into the crowd. Finally, Kysona casts Seeming on a bunch of people so they all look like disguised Franz.
* The party begins climbing through the tunnel. At the other end of the tunnel, they see Yulia with a bunch of other guards and thugs.

## 7-17

### Dragon Group

* Group decides to go to Water Dragons with the prophecy because they are the most analytical. They leave the monastery and head towards the caves, but not before convincing Flumph to leave with them.
	+ They make camp and Neko looks into the stars to try and find information about the Arasaka elves in the sky. He sees a story about a rash elf who starwalked before he was ready. He began his starwalk too close to dawn, and ended up trapped between the sky and Arcadia, forever unable to reach Sosen no Ein.
	+ At dawn, Neko looks at the stars again and sees that the stars have formed a golden oroboro in the sky, which is the symbol of Arasaka.
* The party goes down the mountains to the caves around Lake Sol and find the survivors: Wiin, Akira, Swift as the Wind, Agile as a Zephyr, and Elliot. When Red Sun attacked, she offered the monastery a surrender. Wiin left the monastery with Akira, Swift, and Zephyr, and then later rescued Elliot.
	+ Elliot's leg is broken, which is preventing the survivors from venturing out and trying to get back to civilization.
	+ Levi asks Akira how she is, and tells her that her friend Whisper is not doing well. Akira tells Levi that Whisper went to the capital to find the College of Whispers to study necromancy. The college was started by a professor that wanted to use necromancy to cure the plague.
	+ Levi offers to give the survivors a ride back to civilization on Humble Downpour, and they are all horrified and refuse. Regardless, Humble Downpour doesn't respond when Levi tries to call her.

### City Group

* Shadow fires an exploding arrow at Yulia and the other White Widow goons, basically telling Yulia that Shadow is the one who helped steal the Etherium. Matthias and Franz engage in battle while Kysona remains in the tunnel and Charms the enemies. Yulia stabs herself with Etherium to give herself a giant arm and enhance her combat abilities.
* The party manages to kill Yulia, but then a giant spider thrall emerges from her corpse. Franz uses Dimension Door to teleport Matthias to a nearby building. Shadow tries to change her disguise and run downstairs and hide, but the giant spider crashes through the ceiling and exposes Shadow's hiding spot. Shadow jumps out the second story window to escape.
* There is a crowd outside of the abandoned building, and lots of people notice Shadow jumping out the window. One of the queen's guards cast Hold Person on Shadow, but Shadow pretends that she is just a druggie that got caught up in everything. Since Shadow isn't a tabaxi anymore, she probably wasn't in Purr, and the guard seems ready to let her go. Just then, Slaviko appears and takes Shadow into his custody.

## 7-22

### City Group

* Slaviko brings Shadow back into the abandoned building to interrogate her. Slaviko gives Shadow some sundrops to lower her mental defenses. The spider monster comes down and it's revealed that it is a thrall of White Widow. White Widow reads Shadow's mind, and learns that Shadow can change shape at will, and also that the group is planning to meet up at Anton's hideout so she sends some of her goons to Anton's hideout.
* In the meantime, Kysona is hiding in the tunnel when a tabaxi named Xavia shows up. She is a thief who is also there to steal the scarf, and initially tries to charm or cast an illusion on Kysona, but it doesn't work because she is discount Kysona. Finally, she attempts to bargain with Kysona: Shadow is in danger, and Xavia will offer her help in rescuing Shadow in exchange for a share of the reward for stealing the scarf.
	+ Xavia makes her and Kysona invisible and they float down to the floor above where Shadow is.
* Shadow somehow manages to escape her binds and runs towards her bag which still contains some exploding arrows. She blows it up, and manages to avoid getting damage by the explosion. She runs towards the door, but unfortunately is caught by the guard at the door. They tie her up again with some of White Widow's spider web, and force a tiny spider down her throat.
* Just then, Kysona arrives and turns himself into a giant T-rex and starts wrecking havoc on the thrall, the guards, and Slaviko. Kysona almost kills Slaviko, who is saved by White Widow at the last moment, and completely destroys White Widow's thrall. Xavia frees Shadow from the webbing and the two of them run upstairs and enter Xavia's pocket dimension.
	+ Once everyone is gone, Kysona turns back into his human form and goes upstairs to join Xavia and Shadow in the pocket dimension.
* While all this is happening, Franz and Matthias are in the other building looking out the window at the crowd. They spot one of the queen's guards casting Detect Object, and start heading straight towards them. Franz and Matthias try to escape on the scaffolding, and eventually split up. Franz heads towards the elevator exits out of the Underflow to get out of range of Detect Object while Matthias disguises himself as a homeless person and slowly makes his way back to Anton's hideout to meet up with the rest of the party.
	+ Franz turns himself invisible and slips onto one of the elevators with some awful Corporation people.
	+ In disguising himself as a homeless person, Matthias takes off all of his armor and rubs himself and his clothing in filth.
* When Matthias makes it back to Anton's hideout, he realizes that he is the first and only one back. He senses that something is not right, and he and Anton try to leave the hideout via Anton's secret exit. Just then, they hear fighting in the club above, and Yuan Ti (White Widow goons) appear and start fighting Matthias and Anton. While Matthias fights them off and tries to destroy all evidence of what the party had been planning, Anton tries to open the entrance to his secret tunnel.
	+ Anton and Matthias manage to go through the tunnel and get into an alcove. Anton detonates some explosives in the tunnel, crushing the Yuan Ti in the tunnel and making it impossible for the White Widow goons to follow them. However, before he can do this, Matthias is downed by a poison arrow. Luckily, Anton manages to revive him.

## 7-24

### Dragon Group

* The party travels with the survivors after Neko gives in and heals Elliot's broken. They are following the Northwest River towards the Poison Hills. They're hoping to make it to Murkwater, and from there head back to Nymeria. In their downtime, they decide to read Eli's notes so they know what has happened so far.