Condemned & Cosmic Heart

## 4/30 (Dragon Tales)

* The dragon group does battle practice with Barbarossa. Levi comes up with various formations and strategies (such as the Nibbler, and the Crescent Moon formations) to utilize when the group is in battle. The focus is supporting the front line and keeping communication with the back line.
* After the practice battle, words gets around the Mufusu Empire and Stryx reaches out and offers them an airship to help with their quest.
* Humble Downpour is still in the hospital. Flumph is with her, psychically monitoring her. She's dead for now.

## 5/8 (City Group)

* The group follows the mysterious humanoid until they're a safe distance from the fighting. The humanoid asks them who they are and why White Widow has it out for them.
	+ Matthias tells him that they stole something from White Widow and also greatly injured Slaviko. The humanoid introduces himself as Lycel. He was a factory worker for most of his life, but a couple years ago White Widow came after the place he was working at and he's been unemployed since. He wants help leaving the Underflow since he has neither the resources nor the knowledge of how to survive in the surface world.
* Blaze suggests that the group try and break into the Admiralty office on their way out of the Underflow and leave a backdoor into their mass communications systems. That way, they have means to warn the civilians next time they want to detonate a bomb.
* Blaze asks how White Widow was able to find them. Lycel explains that White Widow has webs everywhere.
	+ Vig uses his knowledge of parasites to conclude that Shadow might still have bits of White Widow's spider inside of her. Shadow admits to the rest of the group that she had been infected by the White Widow's spider and the lingering effects might still be there, and that they should consider all the information that Shadow knows to be compromised.
	+ Vig suggests that Shadow use poison to kill what remains of the White Widow's spider. Lycel also says that according to legend the poisonous fumes of the Underflow can burn away White Widow's web.
* Lycel leads the group to an abandoned building where everyone can clean up. Shadow is put in time out, while Vig, Matthias, and Lycel go into the building and torture the Vermling that Matthias brought. The Vermling is a low-level grunt, and so doesn't know much. He tells them that White Widow ordered about 30 people into the sewers around the time the city group entered the sewers and assigned to specific locations.
* The city group decides to go find Glint of the Blade and the other 3 Tyger Claws members because they know important information regarding the group's plan. They decide to blindfold Shadow and plug in her ears so that she won't have any information to use against them. Matthias carries her and while also trying to find Glint's trail.
	+ They eventually come upon one of the locations the Vermling mentioned and they find a bunch of dead White Widow goons and two dead Tyger Claw members. Glint and the other Tyger Claw is MIA. They follow a blood trail out of the Waste Zone, into the Material Refinement, to a workshop that's currently abandoned.
* Vig and Lycel creep up to the workshop and see that Glint and the other tabaxi are still alive, but battered and tied to chairs. They are in different rooms and being watched over by 8 guards total. Vig and Lycel launch a surprise attack on the backdoor while Matthias, Blaze, and Shadow will attack the backdoor afterwards.
	+ Lycel and Vig approach the back door. Lycel knocks on the door and immediately kills the guard that answers it. Vig throws a knife at another guard and they begin fighting with the other guards. Vig throws at knife towards Glint of the Blade so that he can cut himself out of the chair.
	+ Matthias, Shadow, and Blaze hear cries from inside, and decide to head in early. Shadow walks up to the front door and knocks before entering, unfortunately alerting the guards on the other side of their entrance. They shoot at Shadow as she enters, but she is able to take some out. Matthias comes in and kills the remaining guard.
* As soon as all the guards are killed, Glint runs over to Vig and asks for poison. Vig gives Glint a poison that's similar to chemotherapy and will make him throw up. Glint takes it and hurls onto the floor. The group can see bits of what looks like an arachnid in his vomit. Vig dashes over to the other Tyger Claw with another poison, but they are dead. Their name was Free Bear and they were executed as soon as the fight started.
	+ Blaze burns Free Bear's body in a little pyre.
* Vig offers the poison to Shadow. She takes it and also vomits onto the floor. She tries to find bits of the spider in her vomit, though she isn't sure if she actually finds any or if it's just a product of her hopeful mind.
* Matthias asks Glint who force fed him the spider. He says it was a Yuan Ti with a large scar across his chest all the way to his back.
	+ After examining the area and the slain enemies, the group finds a common healing potion and some assassin blood's poison.
* Lycel gives Glint and Shadow some vapor poison as well to guarantee that the spider is gone. Glint breathes in the vapors and as he does his skin turns a little translucent. He falls into a fit of coughing before recovering. There's no sign of a spider in Glint.
	+ Lycel is a very sickly looking human with sickly, gray skins with red, bloodshot eyes.
	+ Shadow takes a hit of the vapor poison, and the party sees that her anatomy is kind of fucked (due to her being a changling). Vig is able to deduce that her anatomy probably has nothing to due with White Widow, and he advises her to go see Clover about her "multiple congenital defects." Shadow is downed by her vapor hit. Vig is able to see bits that may be spider bits, but they are immobile.

## 5/10 (Dragon Tales)

* Before leaving for the Heartstone, Dave decides that he wants to find a gift for Hagnor. He goes to a blacksmith and makes a ring for his boyfriend. Neko makes a ring for themself. Levi goes to visit Humble Downpour in the infirmary. Flumph is monitoring her telepathically.
* The group heads out to the Heartstone with Eliot flying the airship, Xa the potioneer, Cofie the bard, Elsia the strange wood-elf child, and Claire the cook.
	+ Xa makes the group a potion of resistance against one type of damage for one hour.
* Once they reach the Heartstone, everyone except for Xa, Claire, and Eliot goes to see it. Before they left, Frimpong warned them not to trust it. Levi learns from his Raiju book that the Raiju believe the Heartstone to be an asteroid. Zhu Li is worried that she won't be able to make it much longer because of what happened to her with the Untethered. Her main motivation is to just make it to the point where they can gather allies and march up to Arasaka's front door.
* As the group approaches the Heartstone, they hear a deep vibration sound. They come across a few Yuan Ti corpses with Yuan Ti arrows in their backs. Levi also notices that there are no animals in this area, not even insects. The only things alive are plants.
	+ They continue and find more Yuan Ti corpses, this time with arrows in their front. It looks like the Yuan Ti were fighting someone and then started running away.
	+ Levi casts Detect Magic. Transmutation magic is everywhere. There's also some light pulsating from a spot in front of them.
* As they continue forward, the Yuan Ti bodies become more and more frequent. Most look like they were killed by swords and arrows though a few look like they might have been killed by a spell. The spell appears to have been evocation magic. They enter a clearing with a glowing purple pit; it appears to be where the meteor landed. There's a lot of dead Yuan Ti around it. Sitting in front of the glowing purple pit is what seems to be a humanoid but made of obsidian.
	+ The group discusses what to do by the treeline. Neko checks the pulse of the nearest Yuan Ti body to make sure that they are actually dead. As he does this, Levi sees the statue get up and check the pulse of the Yuan Ti next to it. When Neko jumps, the creature doesn't copy him, but it does when Neko taps the Yuan Ti body. Neko lifts up the Yuan Ti's arm and waves it. The creature cocks its head and lifts up the Yuan Ti entirely. Neko gently puts down the arm, and the creature throws the Yuan Ti on the ground. It uses an almost supernatural amount of force.
	+ Levi casts Tongues and says hello to the humanoid. He also uses the necklace that Owlbert gave him to persuade the creature that the party comes in peace. The creature turns to them, and the party sees for the first time that the creature's face is a cracked geode. It starts walking towards them until it's 30 feet away from the group. Levi detects a ton of transmutation from the creature.
	+ Neko asks "who are you." It turns towards Neko but doesn't say anything. It raises its hand, which turns into an elvish hand. Levi breathes lightning straight above him. The creature breathes lightning at a spot above Levi's head. Levi says "we mean you know harm, we just want to see what the Heartstone can do." The creature does the lightning breathe again at Levi's feet. Levi doesn't flinch.
	+ Levi takes some steps forward, and the creature steps forward as well. Levi tells the creature to judge their character now and reaches out his hand. The creature starts contorting and turns into Levi's dragon form (except for the head which is still a geode). Elsia turns invisible. The creature turns invisible too. Zhu Li tells Elsia to turn visible again. Elsia reappears behind Zhu Li, and the creature reappears a foot in front of Zhu Li. Zhu Li reaches out with a mage hand. The creature reaches out with a draconic paw, which detaches and floats towards Zhu Li. Zhu Li dissipates the mage hand, and the creature does the same. It now only has one arm, and it stands so that it's mirroring Zhu Li.
	+ Neko reaches out to touch the creature and cast Guidance on it. The creature touches Neko and casts Guidance back. Neko can feel the magic of Sosen no Ein flowing into him.
	+ The group sees the airship lowering on the other side of the clearing to tree level. Neko tries to signal for the airship to stop lowering, but despite their efforts, a rope comes down from the airship.
* The group tells Cofie to go back to the airship, which he tries to do after protesting a bit. He steps towards the airship and tries to play an unassuming tune on his lute to ease the tension. The same tune starts emanating from the creature and it walks alongside him. Neko sees a small figure, probably a Kenku slide down the rope from the airship into the trees. The ship jerkily moves a little higher. Eliot hesitantly approaches the clearing. Seeing Eliot enter the clearing, Zhu Li enters as well. Neko enters as well.
	+ The creature positions itself in front of Neko and Zhu Li and in between. It shrinks from dragon back into the humanoid form.
	+ Levi suggests that they approach the Heartstone and all touch it at once. As he's explaining his logic, the creature walks towards Levi and imitates Levi's gesture. Levi takes out his book and writes "what's your name" and gives the book to the creature. The creature takes the book and flips through it. Levi tries to touch the creature's hand, but it grabs Levi's hand before he can touch and tightly hold it. It continues flipping through the pages.
* Neko wonders if the creature communicates using vibrations, so they cast Thaumatergy to create tremors in the ground. The creature causes much larger tremors back. A tree falls somewhere in the forest. A few of the party members fall to the ground. They point to themself and does one tremor. They point to the creature and does two tremors. The creature mirrors Neko's actions.
* Zhu Li tells Cofie to record the vibrations so that they can try and find a pattern. Cofie nods, and also hands Zhu Li a drum. Verinen gets a triangle. Verinen dings the triangle. The creature lets go of Levi and dings its own triangle that it materializes.
* Levi casts Light. The creature looks at Levi and dings the triangle twice. It points to Neko and shakes the ground again.
	+ Neko takes a trumpet from Cofie and blows into it. The creature replicates the exact sound but 10x the volume. Neko blows into the trumpet again but more softly this time. The creature points at Neko and shakes the ground again, but less this time.
	+ Neko doots the trumpet once more. The creature cocks its head and crushes the trumpet telekinetically. It points at Neko and shakes the ground again. Neko taps what's left of the trumpet. The creature uses telekinesis to lift the brass up into the air, and continues lifting it into the air until the party can't see it anymore. Neko holds on at first but then lets go when he's 10 feet in the air.
* Levi looks at the book that he gave the creature and sees that some of the words are gone.

## 5/14

### Dragon Group

* The creature approaches Neko and Neko sees in the center of its geode is a glowing moon with stars twinkling around it. They recognize their own constellation though it quickly shifts into other constellations. It almost looks like a sky that they haven't seen.
	+ Neko casts Guidance on the creature again. It receives the Guidance, then walks over to Levi and casts Guidance on Levi.
	+ Levi declares that he's going to go touch the Heartstone. He walks around the creature, which has frozen like a statue, and walks towards the clearing center. The creature starts to turn into Levi and takes Levi's place in the ring. As Levi approaches, he feels waves of intense heat emanating from the stone
	+ Fake Levi turns to Neko and declares that he's going to go to the stone, and then starts walking towards it. As it steps away, a copy peels off and there's another Levi standing in the ring.
* Levi nears the stone. It's so bright that it hurts to look at it. He takes some psychic damage. Levi gazes into the stone and sees other worlds, lands that he's never seen. While Levi is staring, the rest of the party sees that Levi's entire head has started glowing purple. The Levi copies are following Levi's footsteps, though when Levi stops they stop; they are all equidistantly spaced behind him. Levi touches the Heartstone, keeping his wish in mind (defending Arcadia against external threats and have that power useful to uniting them all in peace).
	+ The Heartstone is very hot, Levi's entire body is glowing. Everyone sees Levi make contact with the meteor, and then Levi and all his copies disappear.
	+ Zhu Li approaches where Levi was at the Heartstone. She finds Levi's footprints
* Elysia tugs on Verinen's arm to alert them of Levi walking out of the trees that they came from. He walks to where they stopped originally and casts a lightning bolt above everyone's head. Levi says that they need to go to the Heartstone. Neko quizzes Levi on where they met. Levi cocks his head in the same way that the creature did whenever the party tried to talk to them, but he does answer the question correctly.
	+ Levi abruptly changes tune and says that they should leave. Zhu Li shouts that the real Levi is somewhere and the Heartstone is the only way to know where he is. Levi questions what is "real Levi." Zhu Li gestures for everyone to walk over to the Heartstone. Neko asks what the creature did with their friend. The creature just keeps repeating "what is the real Levi?" Zhu Li tells Levi to show them his dragon form. Levi looks at his feet and says "he doesn't need you," and then turns away and starts walking away.
* Everyone approaches the Heartstone. Verinen wraps his whip around Zhu Li or whoever is going in next. Zhu Li grabs Neko's hand. Verinen ties the other side of his whip to the closest tree. Zhu Li turns to the rest of the party and says, "it's just like at the monastery. Leap of faith." She gestures for them to touch the stone at the same time as her.
	+ They all reach out to touch the Heartstone. They expect to make contact with something, but instead it feels like a vaccuum pulling them in. In a nanosecond, Neko is pulled in and ripped from Zhu Li's grip. Zhu Li feels the same thing pulling on her as well, but the whip keeps her on in place. Verinen turns to Zhu Li and asks her if she wants him to untie her from the tree. Zhu Li says yes. The rest of the party goes in together.
* They find themselves floating, with geometric shapes spiraling around them. There's a kind of doorway at the other end. It's very quiet in there. Eventually they float through the doorway and find themselves in a hexagonal room. The walls are barren but seem to be made of some kind of quartz crystal. There's one doorway on one of the walls but no door. There's two indentations in the wall beside it. Levi is there, and Neko and Zhu Li confirm that it's the real Levi.
	+ There are crystals on the floor, including: 1 gold, 1 diamond, 1 quartz, 1 etherium, 1 Clinoclase.
	+ Verinen approaches the door frame. It's made of a dark rock-like material, though a different material from what the creature was made out of originally.
* Neko picks up the diamond and puts it into one of the alcove. The alcove glows with the color of the diamond. Dave tries to break a part of the diamond to put in the other alcove, but the diamond doesn't break. Levi tells everyone to stand by one of the walls to try and do a symmetry frame. For a brief moment, no one is looking at the doorframe, and it disappears and a new door appears on the wall between Zhu Li and Cofie. The door is clouded now. When Verinen pushes against it, it pushes back in a bouncy wall.
	+ Neko puts Etherium in the left alcove, and Clinoclase in the right alcove. The alcoves light up with the respective color but nothing happens. Dave tries putting the diamond and the etherium in the alcoves, but still nothing happens. (In terms of colors, etherium is green/purple, clinoclase is dark blue, quarts looks like the walls, diamond is tinted red)
	+ Dave sits in the alcove, and he can see the other alcove reflected in the alcove that he's sitting in. The colors between the two are clashing. They keep switching out the minerals, but none of the combinations do anything.
	+ Zhu Li casts Minor Illusion on one of the alcoves so that one of the alcoves holds quartz while the other alcove holds the actual quartz. Both alcoves glow white. The clouds in the doorway rise and clear. The party sees through the doorway what appears to be an identical room. Zhu Li throws a coin through the doorway and it clatters onto the floor. The party can also see one of each of the materials on the floor as well.
* Dave takes the etherium and walks into the other room. In the other room, the alcoves can be access from either side, like a portal. Neko goes to replace the illusion quartz with the actual quartz to keep the door open. They then suggest that since the first door disappeared when no one was looking at it, they should all go into the second room and deliberately look away from the door. Everyone does that but nothing happens.
* Neko tries taking the quartz out and then having look away again. This time the door frame moves. They feel an intense heat emanating from this doorway. When they look through, they see what appears to be a room of just fire. They look away again and get an empty door frame. They keep looking away until they get an empty door frame and sand pours out of it. Then they get one that's just a mirror.
	+ Verinen goes up and touches the mirror. He can feel the flesh of his hand when he touches the mirror.
* So far they've seen doorways on 5 of the 6 walls. They keep looking away until they find the 6th one. When the 6th door appears, immediately all the sand in the room is sucked out, along with everyone except for Dave. They are pulled into what seems to be black abyss. Levi uses his reaction to Thunder Step himself and Neko back into the room.
	+ As everyone is floating around in this black abyss, they see what appears to be twinkling stars around them. They are all suffocating, even the ones in the hexagon room because there is no air anywhere.
	+ There is no Arcadian humanoid understanding of space, but the properties of this abyss is similar to space minus the freezing temperatures.
	+ Zhu Li has cast Gaseous Cloud on herself, and due to the lack of air pressure she starts turning into steam. Verinen fires an arrow into the room and pulls himself back in. Levi Lightning Lures Elysia and Eliot back into the room. Neko manages to bring Cofie back into the room by casting Spiritual Weapon. Verinen opens his portable hole and passes it around so that everyone can breathe what little air is inside of it.
* Zhu Li is spread out in space as a gas, and she comes into close contact with the stars. She finds that she can touch them, and they are tiny little worlds. Somehow she's able to force herself back into a physical form. Neko brings Zhu Li back into the room using Spiritual Weapon. Everyone takes damage from suffocation, and Zhu Li takes fire damage from being boiled.
* Everyone looks away again, and the clouded door reappears. All the materials flew out into the abyss, so they don't have the stones anymore, and there is still no air. Dave climbs into the alcove and shouts "Mirror Image." Zhu Li and Verinen create air using Gust, and Zhu Li minor illusions another Dave into the alcove. The second room reappears and air rushes in, allowing everyone to breathe again.
	+ When Cofie regains his voice, he tells them that he found a quill floating in the abyss next to one of the stars. It was actually stuck in one of the stars and Cofie pulled it out. Levi confirms that it is definitely magical.
	+ Zhu Li tells the group about all the different worlds that she saw.
* While they are discussing what to do, they aren't looking at the door, and another door appears in addition to the clouded door. A door appears in the second room too. They get a fire door, and they decide to lock it in place and try to get the vacuum door so that the vacuum door can suck out all the air and put out the fire.
	+ As they are figuring out their next step, the empty doorframe appears, even though the door to the other room remains. They look away and the mirror door appears. When they look away, a door appears in the other room as well.
	+ The fire door appears. Neko proposes that they use the vacuum door to suck out all the fire. The vacuum door appears, and Levi and Elysia go flying out, but are rescued.
* The fire is extinguished, revealing a hallway. The group runs into the hallway of what is basically a space station orbiting the sun (a world of fire). At the end of a hallway is a door that slides open to reveal a crying alien creature. He gestures for you to come over to him. The sun is sending out a lot of solar flares, and it looks like it's about to explode. The group follows the alien to what appears to be escape pods. The alien is looking at a projection of another world, and he's crying. There's a countdown
	+ Levi uses Tongues on the alien. The alien tells them to escape while they can in the escape pods. The countdown ends and the sun explodes, consuming the planet that the alien had been looking at. Everyone escapes in the pods, all in their own individual pods. Levi gives everyone a page of his book before they separate.

### City Group

* The group wakes up Shadow from near death, and she's now aware of White Widow's psychic web, though she has no means to control it.
* The group exits the sewer through the vents and then navigates towards the chemvats. Shadow monitors the psychic web while Matthias attempts to lead them to Vulture's layer. It takes a while but eventually they reach Vulture's vat. Vulture gives them a lift up the vents in exchange for one coin.
	+ On their way to the jungle, Shadow spots Domino, watching them. Shadow doesn't say anything to the group about it. A few minutes later, they hear the sounds of an Arasaka troop transport approaching. Matthias gives up his disguise in order to sling Jafaris over his shoulder and casts Haste on himself, and run towards the jungle. Shadow makes Phoenix climb into her bag of holding and also downs a potion of Haste. Everyone runs towards the jungle on the other side of the field.
		- Blaze runs to the tree in the middle of the field and starts pulling something out of her bag. Vig turns around and helps her with whatever she's doing.
* The Arasaka airship arrives and sprays machine gun fire at Shadow and Matthias. Shadow manages to make it to the jungle. Matthias gets shot and downed, causing Jafaris to be thrown to the ground. The gunners also open fire at Blaze and Glint. Jafaris tries to go to Arasaka for help, assuming that they are there to rescue him, but ends up getting shot. Jafaris then goes and hides behind Matthias's body.
* Blaze shoots a rocket launcher at the Arasaka airship, causing massive damage and hurting the people on board. Shadow, who has come back to help with the fight, has readied a shot.

## 5-23 session

* Lysel jumps out of the tree and attacks the soldiers near him, killing them. Vig kills another soldier with his poisoned knife, and then sprays the Arasaka soldiers with the downed soldier's gun. Shadow runs back over and shoves both Matthias and Jafaris into her bag of holding (she offers a spot for Vig but he refuses), and then runs back into the safety of the jungle. Blaze is downed and Glint drags her into cover and stabilizes her.
* Starfall, Carver and other Tygron fly into the area on the back of a pterodactyl. Icy Knot and Shadow gives Matthias healing potions.
* While looting the soldier that Lysel killed, Lysel finds what looks like a robot bug. He takes it and then dashes towards the jungle.
* One of the pterodactyls parks next to Vig. The Tygron on the pterodactyl takes Phoenix and Vig and takes off towards the ambush camp. Starfall lands at the tree near Blaze and Glint. The soldiers open fire at Starfall, but she blocks them with her adamantium shield. Carver lands near the soldiers and rips them apart. Matthias forces Shadow and Jarfaris at another pterodactyl and runs towards the fighting, stopping at the jungle edge, waiting for Icy Knot.
	+ Lysel is picked up by another Tygron.
* All the airship suddenly turn and fly away. The robotic bug that Lysel picked up has suddenly started blinking, its wings are fluttering alive, and Lysel sees a red light on his chest. Ascendent Justice's special ability is its giant laser, and Lysel only just manages to dodge out of the way of a giant laser. The Tygron piloting the pterodactyl is not so lucky. Lysel starts swinging through the trees and attacking whatever robot bugs that he sees.
* Icy Knot, Matthias, and Lysel are all running away from the laser, which is melting everything in its path. Lysel easily gets ahead while Icy Knot falls behind. Matthias Misty Steps forward to avoid the same fate. At that point, Carver comes back around and scoops Matthias and Lysel up, and the three of them escape.
* At the N'Komo ambush camp, Vig is pissed at Jafaris because he thinks that Jafaris was the one to call Arasaka. He is also sad about the amount of casualties, and tries to square it with the "success" of the operation.
* Shadow is nervous because she's worried that they are the only ones who made it. Starfall arrives with Blaze and Glint, the former of whom is carried off by the latter. Carver finally arrives with Matthias and Lysel. Shadow runs up and demands to know where Icy Knot is. A shell-shocked Matthias breaks the bad news to Shadow. Shadow refuses to accept it, and tries to run towards the battlefield, but Starfall stops her.
	+ Starfall sits down next to Shadow and makes Shadow tell her what happened in the Underflow. Starfall also makes Shadow confirm her suspicion that Blaze was behind the bombing. She scolds Shadow for not reigning in Blaze's worst impulses. The bombing makes the ambush no better than Arasaka.
* After arriving at camp, Matthias looks down and sees that the scar that his mother gave him has been burnt off by the Arasaka laser. Being back in the ambush stirs up memories. He has been re-radicalized after witnessing Ascendant Justice's laser.
* Lysel is intimidated by being around the ambush.

## 5-24 session

* The dragon group sees magic sigils appear on the planet that might protect it from the sun's blast. However, it isn't effective, and is obliterated.
* Verinen is trying to figure out the controls of his pod. He's also sad that even so naturally powerful as the sun can be destroyed. Fire consumes the windows of the pod so he can't see outside, and shortly thereafter the pod makes contact with something. Verinen realizes that he has plunged into what appears to be a vast ocean. Verinen tries to navigate the pod through the water until he encounters a giant alien with a orb for a head. Inside the orb is a city.
	+ The alien asks Verinen what he seeks. Verinen says that he is seeking tribe and purpose, and that he cannot live without purpose.
* Neko in his escape pod feels like he's experiencing the closest to what Star Walking would be like. As he's thinking about Sosen no Ein, the pod breaks apart into pieces, and Neko is left floating with stars all around. Neko hesitantly tries walking on the stars and though he stumbles a few times, he is able to slowly walk along the stars. As he looks down, he sees the Umbral Ancestor, which is Sosen no Ein's constellation. He sees a path from that constellation, which he follows until he encounters the same creature that Verinen did. Neko tells the creature that he wants to unite the elves again.
	+ The alien says that Sosen no Ein sought out Arcadia, amongst the stars, and made it a place for their descendants. If Neko follows this path, they will find a new understanding of the elves that they seek to unite. The alien tells Neko that it believes that Arcadia is doomed because it seeks out places that are on the brink of annihilation, hoping to find one that perseveres.
	+ Neko keeps walking amongst the stars, and realizes that they are descending into the jungle towards a massive air ship. Neko recognizes the figure on the ship as Kagero. The path of the stars doesn't go towards Kagero, but Kagero is looking towards the stars for meaning. Neko realizes that they can shift the stars to alter the message that Kagero is reading. Kagero is muttering an elvish prayer, and they are talking about bringing the elves in the south back to the moon and the stars. Neko uses Thaumatergy to talk to Kagero; Kagero tells them that they are trying to right the ship but they fear that they are too late. Neko urges them to work towards peace and end the unjust war. Kagero says that Yorinobu is nearing godhood and must perish. They are also unsure of how to make peace with the Tyger Claws when they continue to bomb innocents. Neko says what must be done will be done, and tells them that at some point they must journey north and consult with the northern elves. After the conversation ends, Neko follows the path in the stars which lead them right back to the clearing with the Heartstone.
* Zhu Li's pod crashes into a desert planet. She sees animals and vegetation that can't be found at the Sea of Sand, though it looks a lot like it. She walks through the desert with the door of the pod in her hand to defend herself from sand worms. She eventually stumbles upon an oasis with the same alien that Verinen and Neko met. It tells Zhu Li that unlike the other members of the party, Zhu Li's ties to Arcadia are nearly broken and she could just leave forever. it points towards a city of Loxodons. The alien also tells Zhu Li that Arcadia is doomed. Having learned this, Zhu Li refuses to leave her home because home is not a place where you belong, it's a place where you make yourself belong. The alien sighs and creates a portal and says that it will assist Zhu Li in strengthening her form so that she can better fight the upcoming war.
	+ Zhu Li asks the alien why it is doing this. It says that it was built as the last resort of a desperate, doomed world. They found a way to cross space and time. The doomed world froze themselves in the moment before their destruction and sent the alien out into the infinite worlds to find one that makes it out so that it can learn and take it back. It gestures towards the orb that is its head, and says that that is the world
	+ Zhu Li steps through the portal and enters a temple covered in sand. She is greeted by the four-armed entity that had appeared to Zhu Li years ago. She places a glowing hand on Zhu Li's shoulders and says "Welcome to Lazarus, the lost city of eternal life. I am fate." Zhu Li immediately regains her lost memories.

## 6-6 session

* Dave crash lands into a forest, and attempts to find the others by following a random path. He is light due to lesser gravitation pull and short of breath. As he's walking, the plants seem to turn towards him. He also passes by gardening tools and eventually enters exits the forest and walks into a garden. In the field of flowers, he sees a little hut and hears singing coming from it. Dave knocks and then hides amongst the flowers. The door creaks open and a beholder with eleven eyes opens the door. It doesn't see Dave, but it invites him in for tea. Dave comes out of his hiding place and follows the beholder inside.
	+ Dave gives his backstory. The beholder says that he usually lives in the hut alone, but sometimes a lost soul will crash land nearby and wander in. Usually the person is looking for some kind of purpose. Dave decides to name the beholder Todd. Todd identifies that whatever reason Dave went to this hag is related to the reason why he left his boyfriend and why he seeks adventure. Perhaps it's because Dave feels that he is not enough? Dave admits that he feels like no one wants him. Todd tells Dave that he thinks that Dave will do better if he finds purpose in himself instead of trying to find purpose in other people's acceptance of him. Dave should do things for himself first and then worry about how other people see him. Dave resolves to go on an Eat, Gay, Love adventure. With that, a doorway appears and Dave is teleported back to the clearing, though not before Todd gives Dave a bouquet of eye flowers.
* The alien that Verinen is talking to creates a doorway to a world that might be Arcadia's future. Verinen steps through into what appears to be a chunk of rock. There's magma and fractures in the earth, and it seems to be another world that has effectively died. The sight challenges Verinen's belief that nature will always prevail.
	+ The alien explains that it was created by a people who attempted to escape their own world's destruction by freezing time and creating the alien to search the multiverse for a world that manages to survive its end. Verinen expresses that he doesn't think he's strong enough to prevent the destruction of his world. The alien offers to share some of his power with Verinen, and hands him a stone heart. It is a piece of the technology used to build the alien, and it hopes that it will be the start of something that builds Verinen. However, Verinen will need something to activate the device. The alien suggests the eternal flame that burns within Arcadia.
* Levi is hurtling through space in the pod, watching as the sun explodes. Before the party separated, Levi gave some of the pages of the storm dragon book to different members of the party. Through his strong bond to the book, he can feel that some of those pages (Neko, Dave, Verinen) have returned home while the others have not. Eventually, he feels the pod being tugged in a certain direction, and his book flips open. The pages that were erased by the geode start being filled with an unfamiliar language. Levi's pod is pulled into some kind of larger craft. He is brought into a room that's similar in architecture to the hexagon room that the party was in, and there's an obsidian-looking triangle in the center. There's a tree in the room, and Levi touches it. The alien, the same one that Verinen was interacting with, comes out from a portal.
	+ The alien tells Levi that Arcadia is on the brink of annihilation, which the alien knows because the Heartstone craft is drawn to worlds that are about to be destroyed, which it knows through divination.
	+ The alien asks Levi what it can help Levi with that might give Arcadia a higher chance of survival. It offers to teach Levi a bit of its own abilities, essentially turning Levi into a wizard. The alien can also slow the time that passes the time that passes in Arcadia so that Levi can have time to fully master wizardry. However, the downside is that in order to learn wizardry, Levi will have to give up being a dragon. Levi thinks it over for a while, but eventually agrees to become a wizard.
	+ Levi asks the alien for a name. The alien suggests that Levi call it "The Wanderer". Levi nicknames the alien "The".

## 7-23 session

### Dragon Tales

* Zhu Li asks Fate if Arcadia is doomed. Fate says that it's not guaranteed, but it is a possible future. Zhu Li then asks why Fate chose her. Fate responds that it's a matter of probability. There's always a few individuals who have an outsized influence on the course of reality.
* The Wanderer warns Levi that since Arcadia is sealed off from the Void, the only way Levi will be able to return to his world is through tears in reality such as the HeartStone. The Wanderer is giving Levi the opportunity to pop back into Arcadia and tell his friends to keep the HeartStone portal open for him long enough to return. the alien opens a portal and Levi returns to the clearing with the rest of the party.
	+ Everyone talks about their experience in the HeartStone. Elysia says that the alien showed her Thesra. Wan Ti wasn't there and Dr. Perry was watching a construct. Yorinobu and Dr. Perry were arguing and Yorinobu said that they needed to bring the Child of Bombyx Mori to "the bastard in Elderwynn."
	+ Eliot is able to fly.
	+ Levi tells the group that he needs to go train. If he isn't back in 15 min, the group is free to leave. Levi goes through the portal.
* As the party is talking, the sky is getting brighter and brighter. It seems as if a star is falling towards them. The group runs towards the tree line, and just as they reach the tree line, Morgan the Powerful crash lands directly next to the Heartstone. Morgan lifts up the Heartstone meteor and hurls it into the sky and casts it out of this world. She commands the group to emerge from the trees and asks if any of them interacted with it. She says that that artifact comes from beings known as the Forerunners. They are known to doom any world that they come into contact with. They bring with them quantum instability that unravels the reality of any world they touch.
* Behind Morgan, they party can see a distortion where the meteor was, and pack of five Nihilanths emerge from it. Eliot flies up into the airship and points in the direction of the airship. Verinen runs into the forest and up a tree. Two Nihilanths leap onto Morgan while the others run over and slash at Dave. Morgan casts prismatic wall to stop the Nihilanths from advancing.
	+ Morgan casts an 8th level Sunburst. The party can see through the prismatic wall that two more Nihilanths have come through the tear and are trying to attrition break through the wall together, demonstrating a hive-herd mentality. Verinen uses Speak with Plants to create a wall of plants to prevent the Nihilanths from advancing. Zhu Li casts Vitriolic Fear on the Nihilanths.
	+ Neko shoots sacred flame into the air and Eliot flies into the air and waves his wings to signal the airship. Morgan flies to the other side of the wall and drives her Keyblade into the center of the tear in reality, trying to close it as all four Nihilanths encircle her. The Nihilanth attacks Eliot but misses. Neko turns and casts Banishment on the nearest two Nihilanth. One resists, but the other is banished.
	+ More Nihilanths attack the party. Neko casts Shield and the Nihilanth slides off of it, but one bites Verinen though luckily he avoids being infected. Neko later also gets bitten, but he also succeeds in warding off infection. Zhu Li uses her big hand to bring the party onto the air ship. The party also uses Verinen's plant ladder to board.
* Morgan seals the tear with pure blinding light. Everyone in the party manages to get onto the airship and they fly away.

### City Group

* Starfall interrogates Matthias, and Matthias explains what his mission is and why he serves Dol Arrah now. Shadow and Vig both vouch for Matthias. Starfall reluctantly welcomes Matthias into the ambush, but tells him that he still needs to plead his cause to the rest of the ambush. Matthias makes his case with Starfall's support and is accepted. Carver is not present.
* Phoenix decides to stay with the ambush to continue investigating Witherbloom and hopefully work with Clover to recover his memories.
* The ambush holds funeral rites for those who died during the encounter with Arasaka. They denote a jungle tree for each of the fallen. Starfall and anyone who knew the dead gives a eulogy for the fallen and then digs their claws into the tree. Starfall spends the most time talking about Icy Knot because she was the most senior of the fallen and also a surrogate mother for many in the ambush. Shadow also says a few words. Vig gives Free Bear a eulogy.
	+ Starfall follows up the eulogies with a speech informing the ambush about what happened in the Underflow and the bombing. She condemns the bombing, and that Blaze did it without her approval. Thus, Blaze is to be exiled from the ambush. Blaze is furious and goes on a rant about how Starfall is leading the ambush to ruin. Starfall assigns Shadow as the one to escort Blaze out of the ambush.
* Shortly thereafter, Carver and her group return form a mission that they were on. Carver tells Starfall that they are out of time. Kagero is making moves in the city, the Lazerus project is progressing. It is time that the ambush act.
	+ Later that night, Carver finds out about Blaze being kicked out, and Carver duels Starfall for leadership. Carver leaps onto Starfall's back, clawing at her and initially gaining the upper hand. Starfall's shield is a few feet away because Starfall hadn't expected it to escalate so quickly. The shield is next to Shadow, who surreptitiously kicks it over to Starfall. Once Starfall has her shield, she's able to get Carver off of her, and then says that if the attack doesn't succeed or make a meaningful difference in the war, Starfall will step down.
* Matthias is in a tent with Phoenix when the Nothic comes in and asks to speak with him. The Nothic tells Matthias about its backstory with the Child of Bombyx Mori and Arasaka and his time at the Elder Tree. He then says that he was in Pensive Paw's mind when she died, and learned that though she died in the fight against Arasaka, she left behind many magical flowers. One of those flowers is her soul and if planted at the correct place will Reincarnate her. The Nothic tried to tell Clover, but Clover made it clear that if the Nothic tried to tell anyone else, Clover would hurt him.
* Vig goes to Blaze and gives her some tips on how to survive in the jungle. Blaze tells Vig that the Underflow has an Etherium power plant that powers the entire Underflow and the capital. They need to destroy that in their mission to the lab. Vig nods his head and passes her a Molotov cocktail and some traps for small game. Blaze gives him some grenades.
* Shadow marches Blaze into the jungle. Blaze asks Shadow for the box that was given to Shadow that promises power to destroy Red Sun, since she needs anything that can help her survive. Shadow refuses no matter how much Blaze begs. Finally, Blaze attacks Shadow and pulls Shadow's bag off of her and runs away. Shadow shoots at her, but isn't able to down her, and Blaze manages to evade Shadow by hiding. Shadow tries to track Blaze and finds some items that were in her bag that Blaze tossed aside, including the foraging bird and the fire resistance potion.
* A couple days later, Kagero's image appears in the sky. Kagero announces that Tarrin governor Olivia Hawkins has died, having succumbed to Etherium poisoning perpetuated by Scorching Blaze. The cycle of violence cannot go on, and to start the peace process, Kagero offers amnesty to all Tyger Claws so long as they lay down their arms and join a new Tygron state designated by Arasaka with the support of the Kingdom Alliance. After three weeks, anyone who still stands against Arasaka will be met with the strongest force.

## 8-2 session

### Eli

* After returning to Sirex:
	+ Eli went to the hospital to get checked up for her skin condition and her magical resonance. The doctor recommended that she attend a therapy group.
	+ She goes to her apartment and sees that it is rigged with explosives. In her mailbox is a note telling her to meet a mysterious someone somewhere. She goes and meets Barnabus's daughter, Rellia. Rellia is with the Free People's of Rayon, who are considering impersonating the Court of Owls in order to further their cause.
	+ She investigates the abandoned Sigil building and finds a secret mechanism in the serren wood desk. The gears have been jammed but she's able to get it working with elbow grease and some tips learned from Hal. Once activated, the Sigil seal on the reception floor unfolds to reveal a teleportation circle drawn on the ground underneath. It's the same shape as the one she traveled through but where that one was hand drawn on dirt in a cave, this one is carefully carved into the stone -- a circle with a complex latticework inside -- and connected to a control panel that raises out of the floor. Unfortunately, someone has taken a pickaxe or other bludgeoning tool and destroyed a majority of the circle, probably to prevent others from copying the design. However, part of the control panel is still intact. She's able to access the teleportation logs and see that Leanne teleported from here back to Sigil shortly after the trial and hasn't returned since.
	+ She reached out to her police contact to investigate Irving Alderson, and learns that Irving was a drifter. Irving Alderson previously had a documented Sirex visa as an accredited Archivist (roaming documentarians recognized by most nations). His original citizenship is from the Adrekki Dwarven Dominion across the Inner Sea in Valtora. There has been a recent (past few weeks) flag added to his file by Sirex Intelligence labeling him a potential national security threat. Directions are to turn him away from Sirex borders. Your contact also tells you that you've been reported as a missing person by the Sirex state, last seen by the Tarrin-Nymeria border. This report isn't public but was released to local municipalities in Sirex + Tarrin. Leon Wellick doesn't show up.
		- The police contact also tells her that she is considered a missing person, so Eli will have to tell Kursk at some point that she is there.
	+ Finally, Eli contacted Leanne through the radio telling her to meet her at the clocktower so that Eli can give her the gold leaf construct brain.
* Eli walks up the clocktower and sees an upset Leanne pacing around the clocktower. Eli gives her the gold leaf and asks her to analyze it. Leanne looks at it and says that Arasaka didn't make it, it was taken from one of Sigil's constructs. Eli tells Leanne about the Lazerus project and that she thinks that Arasaka wants to use Tolbo to help Saburo achieve immortality.
	+ Leanne tells Eli that Rengad killed himself, the police commissioner associated with the Court of Owls also turned up dead. Damien was killed. All of the disciples that Eli and her party encountered are dead. No one associated with the Court of Owls has stayed alive, at least no more than a couple of weeks. Eli admits that even though Damien is dead, she thinks that he's not gone and may still be driving this. Leanne says that she wants to join Eli's investigation, and she thinks that Ina is their best lead.
* Eli asks Leanne what Sigil wants. Leanne explains how Sigil wants stability, but during her explanation, the transportation circle behind begins to glow. A hooded figure materializes in the center of the circle and throws what looks like an ice knife at Leanne. Leanna pulls out a grenade marble and throws it at the hooded figure. It destroys the teleportation circle and most of the floor. Leanne and the figure are fighting. Eli runs down the tower and goes outside, dodging cones of cold and rays of frost. Once outside, she downs a blackwater potion, but then hears glass breaking and sees a body falling out of the clockertower and slamming onto the pavement. Leanne looks dead or close to dead, and the hooded figure is still up the clockertower readying a spell. Eli decides against going to Leanne and leaps into the river to escape. For some reason, despite her magical resonance, the blackwater potion works.

### Pandora

* Pandora and Azrael are trying to find Eli. Pandora is trying to get resources needed to cast the Scrying spell so that she can find Eli so she is heading to the Sunken Gardens of Thuul, which is a large elvish settlement (Aelis and Liluth's hometown) that's founded on a massive magical subterranean garden that enhances and complements natural elvish magic. Elves go there to replenish their auras. Pandora also talked with spirits in Dyrewood who spoke highly of one particular elf named Ethuil who is more willing to get involved in non-elvish affairs.
* Azrael senses that Morgan is on the move, and that they should start distributing the pendants from the box to distract her.
* Pandora enters the sunken gardens and goes to the bottom of the gardens where Ethuil is. Pandora tells Ethuil that she is trying to reconnect with a friend. Ethuil agrees to help her for free. Pandora casts Scrying, and she tries for hours, but Eli is stil wearing her Amulet against Divination and Pandora isn't able to see anything.
* Pandora asks Ethuil for incense and ivory strips, and casts Legend Lore on Eli. The ivory strip tells a tale of saving the Protectorate, hunting the evil wizard, seeking a child of prophecy, returning to home with a mentor and an elvish friend. Pandora uses her last ivory strip and digs into the word home. The ivory strip says that home for Eli is with Mother in the Shadows.

## 8-6 session

### Dragon Tales

* The group flies back to the Mufusu Empire in order to ask Mufusu some pointed questions. As they enter the docking zone, they see fireworks and illusion magic and hear celebratory magic. A citizen tells them that it's Mufusu week, an annual week-long celebration of Mufusu's founding. Each day celebrates a different culture before finally culminating in Mufusu Day. The day they arrive the empire is celebrating the Outerlands. They ask Adu where Mufusu is, and Adu tells them that he's at the zoo.
	+ They find Mufusu in front of an Outerlands deer, enthusiastically talking about the magical things this deer supposedly can do. Verinen feels bad for the deer and is filled with anti-zoo sentiment.
* Mufusu tries to diffuse the situation by bringing them to the King's Court to talk. Zhu Li tells Mufusu that Morgan the Powerful has launched the Heartstone into the sun. Mufusu summons Adu the Deathmaker and Frimpong the Literate to hear what the party has to say. The group recounts their adventure.
	+ Mufusu admits that he wasn't very honest about his trip to the Heartstone. He and the other members of his crew did go to the Heartstone, but there was a strange creature guarding it, and trying to get to the Heartstone seemed difficult and dangerous. So instead he went to the Collector and begged for help creating a sanctuary for displaced peoples. The Collector gave him a feather from an ancient air dragon god Zephyr that they use to keep the Mufusu empire afloat. However, Mufusu still believes that the Heartstone helped him achieve his goal, just in a very indirect way.
* The party tells Mufusu and Frimpong everything that they experience in the Heartstone, though Verinen doesn't disclose that he has part of the Heartstone on him.
	+ After hearing Neko's story, Frimpong says that Neko's words might have influenced Kagero's announcement, suggesting that the star walking experience really did happen.
	+ Frimpong suggests that in order to get Levi, they will need to find or create a fracture in the seal around Arcadia.
	+ Zhu Li hands Frimpong a sketch of Fate and her symbol. He doesn't recognize it, but promises to research it.
* As they leave the King's Court, they are approached by Stryx, who tells them that if they take too long the followers might lose interest. The party decides to head back to where the Heartstone was because that's their best chance to find Levi. As they are waiting for Eliot to get back from showing off his new flying ability, Flumph comes over and tells them that Humble Downpour is nearing the point of waking up. Also, a dwarf came looking to talk to the group.
	+ The party is introduced to an Adrekki Nobleman named Thalgrum Brumdorc, who is accompanied by an adorable little Tabaxi carrying a massive hammer named Hairball. Thalgrum tells them that he travels the world seeking adventure and asks if they are looking for investors. The party allows them on board.
* Levi returns to the spaceship with The to learn about wizardry. The explains that all magic is manipulation of quantum possibilities - it's forcing the observation of one such quantum possibility and making it real. Levi asks him to demonstrate by casting Reality Break. The refuses to cast it because it's dangerous to interact with the void because they are being hunted by the Fathomless (i.e. a writhing mass of infinite Timeeaters). The also tells Levi that his deceased husband is in the void. That is the annihilation that threatens all world that The is trying to save his world from. Levi cannot go to the void before he is ready because it will lead the Fathomless to them. Time eaters engulf a being and remove its consciousness so it no longer observes any reality and becomes pure quantum possibility, so it basically doesn't exist anymore.

### Franz

* Franz goes to Fort Pail to meet with the Yorinobu airship and to chat with Ercer Baz. Baz is aware that Franz is going to go work for Yorinobu and approves of the idea, and tells Franz to try to extract Dr. Perry. Franz expresses doubt that Dr. Perry wants to be extracted as she has her own motivations for wanting to be on the Spirit of Fire. Baz decides to send the privateer vessel under ex-Comodore Norrington and pay for it to remain off the coast of Nymeria (near the Anvil islands). And if Franz gets Dr. Perry or otherwise has a lead, the vessel will be waiting for him. They designate the Sigil observatory as a backup communication point because it has the latest long range sending stone communication, They also agree on a backup dead drop point.
* Baz informs Franz that he relieved Byrd of his post. Franz asks Baz to send along Norrington's letter to his family. He also says that he thinks that Norrington should remain in his current post, and Baz agrees. (Franz makes this suggestion in case he betrays the privateer.) Baz warns Franz that Yorinobu is becoming increasingly unhinged, and his position within Arasaka is precarious. They have reason to believe that Kagero has been meeting with the board behind Yorinobu's back.

### Eli

* Eli asks Ina if she wants to flee. Ina doesn't want to flee, and suggests that they review all the members of Kursk's administration to see if she can recognize any of them. She has an immediate visceral reaction upon seeing a picture of Ercer Baz and recalls him meeting with Damien and Dr. Perry in the Verstile Vials era.
	+ Ina suggests that they work with the Free Peoples of Rayon and stay hidden while they build a case. If they publish as much as possible as quickly as possible, the Court will find it harder to kill them because it validates Ina and Eli's claim.
* The papers are not reporting what happened at the clocktower. The only mention of it is a minor article in a small paper about how one of the clocktower parts fell off and broke the glass.

## 8-15 session

### Dragon Tales

* The party flies back to where the Heartstone was. Verinen attempts to track down the fake Levi and finds a giant dragon's footprint. Before they follow the footprints, Neko investigates the crevice left by Morgan and sees a cylindrical tunnel going horizontally. It seems that there was a tunnel there and the tunnel broke into the middle of it. Verinen and Neko go down into the crevice to explore. Elysia slides down the rope to join them.
	+ They hear a chattering down the tunnel, and then almost a dog yelp sound before a pair of Kobolds appear. Elysia says that the Kobolds are asking them if they know the other one, the shapeshifter. Elysia asks them what shapeshifter that they're talking about. They start drawing a very bad approximation of a dragon in the dirt. The Kobolds then ask if they're with the monsters. Neko shakes his head, but tells them that they are looking for the shapeshifter. The Kobolds communicate that they're willing to lead them to the shapeshifter if the party gives them money. Verinen and Neko give them a total of 6 gold coins. As the Kobolds are walking away, Neko yells up to the party above that they found a lead and to follow them. Zhu Li, Dave, and Cofie comes down. Eliot stays on the airship.
* The Kobolds lead them through the tunnels. They walk for about 1-2 miles. Eventually both Zhu Li and Verinen both hear a slight rumbling. The Kobolds run to the side of the tunnel and starts digging. They also release the weird skunk creature they have in their cage, which starts burrowing faster than they could. They jump into the hole and gestures for the rest of the party to do the same. They get in just in time for a massive Sarlac to barrel through the tunnel past them. They realize that they are in a Sarlac tunnel.
* The Kobolds keep going, and lead them up some ladders and ropes to the surface. They are now near the river on the jungle side and in front of them is a familiar-looking door-portal-thing. The Kobolds point to it and say that this is where they last saw the shapeshifter. Neko pokes his head through the swamp and sees a familiar-looking swamp. It appears to be a portal into Nymeria.
* The party walks through the portal into a familiar swamp. They realize that they are back in Asili where they met Levi. They walk over to the Hearth and see fake Levi standing over the hearth. His hand is pressed over a painting of Levi's late husband Cinder. Fake Levi says there's another person in the village who has seen the void and all of its horrors. Neko asks fake Levi to transform into a dragon to confirm that it's really Levi. When asked about who fake Levi had been referring to, fake Levi as a dragon points towards the old house and Whisper of the Old House who is hiding in it.
* Meanwhile, Levi is training with the Traveler. At some point, The breaks the news to Levi that the tear that Levi traveled through has been closed. He is stuck outside Arcadia until there's another tear that he can slip through. However, Levi can see into Arcadia through the eyes of fake Levi. Fake Levi travels through the jungle before going through a portal to Asili village. It sleeps in Levi's bed and cooks in his kitchen, and then goes to the harth and looks at a picture of Cinder.

### City Group

* Because Vig and Shadow can't vouch for Lycel as much, Starfall was about to kick him out but they was able to convince the ambush to keep him by spinning a yarn about how he grew up in the Underflow and how he saw it corrupted by Arasaka and White Widow and he wants to be part of the mission. They say they know a lot of secret to travel throughout the Underflow. Specifically, they know of secret access points to the Sarlac chasm. That's a valuable contribution, so Starfall is willing to entertain it with a tight watch on them.
* After Kagero's announcement, Vig notices some members of the ambush considering leaving for the Tygron state. He suggests that Clover share his story about being crippled by Yorinobu as a reminder to ambush members about how evil Arasaka is.
	+ Starfall doesn't believe that Kagero's offer is legitimate. Even if Arasaka does let them create some kind of nation state, they will always be exploited and this is just a more systematic way to do so. Starfall asks Shadow whether she should allow people to leave for the new state (the vulnerable and the injured). Carver is opposed to the idea because all of the members of the ambush know too much about how the ambush operates.
* Matthias also doesn't believe that Arasaka is very serious about creating an independent state, but he also recognizes that it's a little cruel to keep dragging these civilians from place to place. Given that, it may be best to send some of the vulnerable civilians and families to the independent state so that they can have a more permanent home.
* Shadow recommends to Starfall that they allow people to leave to conserve resources.
	+ Jaque and V are on a mission to establish contact with Saltmaw to try and gather the forces to fight Arasaka (on Carver's recommendation). Jaque and V sent a message that they successfully made contact.
* Starfall comes out relatively quickly and announces that anyone who wishes to leave can leave after the ambush attacks the Underflow.
	+ In response, Carver would immediately challenge Starfall again. However, Starfall is prepared this time and repels Carver's attacks. In the moment where Carver is regaining her footing, Starfall gives a speech about how this internal fighting is what's going to make them lose. Carver stands down and says "You're making the wrong decision but you are right about that."
* Matthias asks the Nothic about where Pensive Paw's flower needs to be planted in order to revive her. Nothic says that he has to find the tree that was most closely bonded with her soul and plant it there.

## 9-19 session

* The party decides to spend most of their time planning the attack and shoring up their support, and a little bit of time interrogating Jafaris Reeves and on other personal activities (8-4-2-2)
* Jafaris Reeves tells them that the condemned zone is mostly guarded by Arasaka special ops, who are very loyal to Yorinobu and specialize in melee based fighting with katanas. The area is run by Aegnor, Arasaka's chief scientist and theoretically he should be there. The condemend zone is split into three areas: the offices, the workshop, and the lab, where most of the actual scientific and engineering work is carried out so there are a lot of construct prototypes there. Then there is Aegnor's private quarters. The only official entrance is through the Admiralty HQ and across the chasm, so clearly the Admiralty knows about this and supports this which violates the Underflow law because Arasaka is not supposed to get directly involved. There's not too heavy troop presence and you can assume the base has the means to call for help from Arasaka forces, namely Ascendant Justice which is hovering overhead.
	+ Through interrogation, Lysel is able to get Jafaris to tell them that there's a device in the offices that's capable of sending an above-ground distress call that will summon reinforcements almost immediately. If the party can disable before they manage to send out a distress call, they can buy themselves a lot of time.
		- The Etherium core is near the lab. So if the party makes a lot of noise, the Admiralty staff at the Etherium core will likely be near it. Lysel has a way to get to the chasm via an old abandoned mine.
	+ The party asks Jafaris about the guards, and he tells him that Arasaka is working on developing experimental constructs for military use. These constructs will probably be deployed in an attack. Some of these constructs bear a striking resemblance to Tolbo, and most of them seem to be powered by storm cell technology (tech pioneered by Aegnor). Vig could try and come up with something that temporarily disrupts it using Etherium.
		- Jafaris trusts Shadow enough to beg her to save as many of the students in the lab as possible. Specifically, he asks her to save Cleansing Flood. He was particularly close with her and wanted to make sure she was still okay, which is why he was banned from the lab.
* During his personal time, Vig develops a material that is put on the tips of arrows that disrupts Arasaka constructs.
* So far, the party can either sneak through the Admiralty HQ or go through the abandonned dwarven mine and find some way to cross the chasm to the lab. They want to use pterodactyls to ferry people across.
	+ Sneaky team will go in and disable the transponder before they can get the signal out and also get rid of any alarms.
		- Vig, Shadow, and Lycel are in this group. Vig hopefully will be able to disable the alarms.
	+ Get Info team (i.e. Starfall's group) will fight their way into the lab and then learn and destroy anything related to Project Lazarus.
		- Matthias is in this group.
	+ Destroy team (i.e. Carver's group) will guard the exit ways and kill any guards that attack them or try and escape and alert Arasaka reinforcements. Carver may also at some point get frustrated and burst in guns blazing ready to kill anyone that is left alive and destroy whatever is still intact.
	+ Shadow will give both Carver and Starfarll a sending stone earpiece for communication purposes.
* Shadow suggests that they bring the Nothic and then go into the Admiralty's communication room where the Nothic will telepathically project what happened at the Elder Tree for all of Nymeria to see. This will hopefully be a big PR loss for Arasaka and galvanize people against Arasaka.
	+ Additionally, Admiralty HQ has its own elevator, so it will be a perfect escape route for the entire ambush attack force.
* Matthias, Vig, and Shadow all go to try and convince the Nothic to help them. The Nothic mentally probes both Vig and Shadow, and then asks Matthias if they can talk alone. Matthias follows him to one of the tents. The Nothic is looking at a picture of itself and the pretend psychic it was traveling with longingly.
	+ Nothic tells Matthias that he did not see pure good in Shadow or Vig, and doesn't trust them. Matthias tries to convince him to do the mission anyway because Shadow and Vig are the lesser evil compared to Arasaka. The Nothic is not convinced, but says that if Matthias steals the Pensive Paw flower from Clover and stops Clover from poisoning it, then the Nothic will help them. Matthias tentatively agrees, but warns that he's not the stealthiest. The Nothic suggests that perhaps Shadow can help, if Matthias trusts her so much.
* Matthias goes to Shadow and says that the Nothic will help them in exchange for stealing the magical flower from Clover. Shadow decides to ask Clover about the flower.

## 9-25 session

### City Group

* Shadow goes to Clover and asks about the Pensive Paw flowers under the excuse that she's looking for whatever tool can help them on their mission. Clover rattles off all of the flowers, conveniently leaving out the magical one that the Nothic was referring to. Shadow asks Clover about that flower, and he says that he's working on trying to harness it and imbue the ambush fighters with some of the magic of the Gaiyu.
	+ Shadow passes along the plague blood that Franz gathered. Clover says that the blood will help him better understand the plague and maybe even find a cure. He believes that the plague is necromantic. Shadow asked if he has heard of Witherbloom. Clover says that Witherbloom is a group of necromancers that fled into the jungle to continue their research when the Kingdom Alliance started cracking down on necromancy.
	+ Shadow asks Clover if he's heard of druids being able to revive themselves. Clover says he hasn't heard of such a thing.
* Shadow goes and tells Matthias about her conversation with Clover. Matthias tries to convince Shadow to help him steal the flower from Clover. Shadow is unsure whether she wants to use the flower to try and bring Pensive Paw back or to try and cure and plague.
* Matthias knicks himself on purpose so that he can go get some medical attention and check out Clover's workstation. But because he's trying hard not to be suspicious, he isn't able to see anything of use.
	+ He asks Vig if he's seen the magical flowers. Vig hasn't seen the flowers, but tells Matthias that Clover will probably pass them out before the mission.
* After Matthias leaves the conversation with Vig and is on his own, he feels a tickle in his brain, indicating that the Nothic is trying to communicate with him. Matthias allows the Nothic into his mind, and the Nothic asks why Matthias told him [Clover], and that Clover knows that Nothic told someone and is currently hurting him.
	+ Matthias asks the Elder Tree people if they've seen the Nothic. They said that some Tygron came over and that the Nothic needed to talk to Clover. Matthias goes to Clover's medicinal tent. The large medicinal treatment tent is empty except for a couple of Tyger Claws hanging out there. Matthias demands to know where the Nothic is, intimidating the Tyger Claws. One of them slips behind the curtain to the smaller tent and gets Clover
	+ Clover comes out and Matthias insists on seeing the Nothic and leaving with him. Clover communicates that it would be a very bad idea for Matthias to attack Clover and piss off his hosts. Matthias communicates that he does not care and is willing to risk death/explusion. He is intimidating enough that Clover believes him. Clover and a Tabaxi bring a very ill-looking Nothic from the back tent and shove him towards Matthias. Matthias brings Nothic to a safe place and casts Lay on Hands on the Nothic, bringing him back to full health.
		- Because Matthias tried to help Nothic, the Nothic will go on the mission and do his part even though Matthias didn't steal the flower. The Nothic and his friend will still leave for the new Tygron state, while Matthias will continue to try and take the flower from Clover.
* As Matthias and the Nothic storm out, Vig goes into Clover's tent and asks what happened. Vig asks Clover whether Matthias hurt the Nothic. Clover doesn't really say, but tells Vig to watch out for Matthias, implying that Vig should maybe kill Matthias.
	+ The rumors going around the camp is that Matthias hassled Clover for being a necromancer.
* Shadow goes up to Matthias to ask what happened. Matthias says that Clover found out that the Nothic told people about Pensive Paw's flower and tortured him. Shadow changes her mind about Clover but is still hestitant to help Matthias because stealing the flower could split the ambush. She gives Matthias 1 coin to pass on to the Nothic.
	+ After Shadow and Matthias's conversation ends, Vig enters and asks to see the Nothic. Matthias refuses and says that he doesn't know where the Nothic is. Vig accuses Matthias of hurting the Nothic, which Matthias takes offense at and loudly corrects him. Vig leaves and tells Starfall that they may need to amend their plan because they may not be able to count on the Nothic to carry out their part of the plan.
* Starfall calls in Shadow and tells her that she is very disapointed in her and that she needs to get it together and fix whatever problem is interfering with the plan. Shadow goes to Matthias and asks him to please keep the Nothic safe and stop fracturing the ambush by picking a fight with the person who has a significant amount of sway in the ambush. Shadow promises to look into the flower more after the mission. Matthias agrees to watch over the Nothic until they leave for the mission and then to the Tygron state, and promises to stay away from Clover as long as Clover stays away from them.
	+ Shadow wants a way to confirm that the Nothic is alive. Matthias asks the Nothic to telepathically communicate to Shadow that he is well. Shadow feels a little mental tingle from the Nothic and she lets them in. The Nothic realizes that Shadow didn't mean to tell Clover, then tells her that Clover is a bad, bad man and that they are alive.
* The plan is: There's going to a group that sneaks in and Shadow may go ahead of that group as a shapeshifter posing as an Arasaka scientist in order to infiltrate and gather even more information. Then there's going to be two large groups of soldiers. One of them (Carver's group) will be tasksed with guarding the exits so no one gets out while the other (Starfall) is tasked with breaking the door down and relieving the sneaky group so they can fortify the alarm area. From the alarm area, the party will expand out from there and the people guarding the doors will come in.
	+ The party has gathered a reasonable amount of support for the mission. Matthias trains with Starfall.

### Dragon Tales

* The party goes to talk to Whisper and explains Levi's situation and how he's stuck outside the Arcadian seal. Whisper suggests that since Fake Levi seems to mimic everything it sees, Whisper can conduct a necromancy using Fake Levi to create a tear in the Arcadia seal that Levi can slip through. The party accepts the suggestion and goes to talk to Fake Levi. They convince Fake Levi to work with them by telling them that they are going to save the people of the village and they need its help to do that.
* Whisper says that in order to do the necromancy ritual, they will have to go to the Swamps of Il Zur to a place that used to be used for Untethered rituals. They can leverage some of the Untethered's weakening of the ties of Arcadia. The group will have to defend for less time against the hordes of zombies and skeletons. Zhu Li doesn't like it, but she relucantly agrees to the plan because they don't really have any other choice.
* They go to the old house. There are markings of the Untethered along the walls and there are lots of personal affects lying around. It seems that whatever they were conducting involved leaving behind personal items.
	+ Verinen sets up traps for the zombies that will inevitably show up. He creates a trip wire that causes a bunch of logs and rocks to fall on the enemies below.
	+ Zhu Li forms a bond with Neko so that they can swap or match initiative if need be. She also casts augery to see how well their attempt will go. The answer is good and bad.
	+ Neko casts Divination using ritual casting to ask Sosen no Ein if this is the best way to get Levi back. Sosen no Ein answers in the stars that this will work, but Levi won't be the only one to enter Arcadia.
* The party prepares for an indoor skirmish as well in case something undesirable comes through the tear with Levi by setting the house up to collapse. They discover that the old house is falling apart and has clearly been impacted by the magic conducted here. The house seems to move and pulse as if it has a heartbeat.
	+ Verinen gathers some noxious gas from the swamps and puts it in his portable hole. Neko tries to find some load-bearing beams to target, but realizes that this house should not be standing.
* Dave makes a really scary noise to scare off predators. Verinen pre-emptively casts Spike Growth to the starting area. Coffie is hiding in the house and is prepared to cast out the window. Elysia is in the house keeping an eye for the undesirable thing that might come through with Levi.
* Whisper tells the party that he's ready to cast the ritual. Fake Levi is laid out on the round and there's markings drawn around him in chalk and powder. The group sees rising in the distance from the water various shambling shapes. As they get closer, the party can see that it's an army of zombies and skeletons. A giant ogre zombie also rises from the swamp.

### Levi

* Levi decides to go visit other planes of existance to find a race of people who are more convincing than he is. He visits a world of mind-flayers which can mind control people, and another world of monks that bring peace by emitting pheramones that make the recipient feel good and induce forever orgasms.
* Levi leaves in frustration and goes to ask The if he knows any philosophers who might know how to bring peace. The gives him some suggestions, and Levi travels to different worlds to see how various people and leaders bring change to their worlds. He's listening to another cleric-type leader in the desert when he hears Cinder's voice from an alley. Levi casts detect magic and detects a planar tear in that alley. Cinder is begging for help and it's clear that he's in pain.
	+ Levi calls The. The tells Levi that he can't go through because that's the Void and if he goes there and makes a connection with the Void, the Time Eaters who primarily reside in the Void will find him and follow him there. Someone has opened the portal in an attempt to lure him there. Levi tries to determine who opened the tear and realizes that the magic is both celestial and infernal. Levi studies the tear more and feels nihilism and anguish from the caster with a bit of compassion. The caster is saying to Cinder that they have sent out an invitation to Levi and it's up to Levi to accept, but there's nothing else the caster can do. The and Levi close the tear.
	+ The explains that the Forerunners tried to manipulate the Time Eaters but risked annihilation. The only way they were able to escape the Time Eater was by freezing time.
* Levi wants to find out how to break the Celestial seal around Arcadia. He asks The if there are any gods that would be willing to help him. The suggests that Levi visit the Old World to talk to the small group of Sentinels still there.

## 10-1 session

* Verinen casts Ensnaring Strike and Zhu Li casts Vitriolic Sphere transmuted to lightning and obliterates all of the zombies in the twenty foot sphere. The electricity spreads a little bit and lightly damages the zombies nearby. The zombies approach carrying simple weapons and unleash a volley of arrows at the house, piercing Zhu Li and Dave. Neko casts Aura of Vitality. Dave charges the ogre and starts climbing up him with the intent to behead it.
* Neko sets a bush on fire with Sacred Flame. Verinen gets the zombies to walk over to the traps. Zhu Li creates a giant rock hand that smacks the ogre and restrains it. Zhu Li's wild magic creates an area of fog centered around Zhu Li. Because the ogre is restrained, Dave is able to climb up on the ogre. The horde approaches but the fire that Neko lit pauses them -- some try to climb over and get set ablaze while others try to go around. Some zombies also get caught in Verinen's spikes. Many skeletons and zombies are crushed when they fall into Verinen's traps.
* Zhu Li twists fate so that Neko can go earlier. Neko runs into the middle of the fight and casts Turn Undead on the undead, causing the vast majority of them to burst into flame including the ogre. In the distance, the party (minus Zhu Li) can see pink smoke rising from the swamp. Zhu Li slings a firebolt at the horde. The zombies attack Neko, Zhu Li, and Verinen -- they can't get through Neko's Penumbral Shield but Verinen and Zhu Li take damage.
* Out of the pink smoke in the swamp rises a barrogast, a humongous ogre zombie. There's a foul stench around it and it lumbers towards the house. Dave runs towards the barrogast and the stench poisons him so that he can't regain health and has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. Dave manages to stealthily climb up the barrogast and slices up its head. This has no effect on the barrogast and it continues lumbering forward. Verinen casts Fear, sets off another trap, and then runs away back to the house. At this point, the ritual is causing the house to glow sickly green. It warps and shifts and pieces of wood from it peel off and wrap around Zhu Li, giving her Stone Skin. It turns out that Whisper can now cast magic via the house.
* Neko yells at everyone to get back to the house. Dave attacks the barrogast's arm, and then does not run back to the house. The barrogast Life Drain's Dave and reduces his max health. The barrogast continues on to the house, but Zhu Li manages to stun it with lightning. Verinen crushes a few more with another trap and disables the bridge that the zombies were using to cross. Verinen then creates a flamethrower using his portable hole. Neko sets another barrier on fire with Sacred Flame. Zombies are set aflame but don't take enough damage to stop them from approaching the house. They attack Dave and Verinen. Some enter Verinen's Fear sphere and run away. Others get incinerated by Verinen's flamethrower. Whisper uses the house to ice the zombies.
* The barrogast makes a Life Drain attack, but Neko manages to avoid having his max health from being reduced. Verinen and Neko attack the barrogast and cause it to burst into flames. The zombies try and enter the house, but the house ensnares it. One zombie hits Coffie and downs him.

### Levi

* The recommends that Levi go visit the Old World where a group of Sentinels still reside fighting the evil Dragon goddess Tiamat with elemental dragon allies. Previously, the dragons had enslaved the humanoids, but Tiamat decided one day that she wanted to rule the Old World by herself an declared war on the elementary dragons. The elemental dragons freed their humanoid slaves and allied themselves with the humanoids to fight the metallic dragons.
	+ Levi teleports to Sentinel stronghold shows them Arcadia. The stronghold is in a cave that is made out of an elemental earth dragon. The Sentinels are in awe because these this is what they gave their lives to protect. However, Levi says that Arcadia is in danger due to the Arcadian seal, and that they it is Morgan's fault, a sacriligeous thing to say. Levi explains that while the seal protects Arcadia from Tiamat, the seal is protecting a rotten core within, which is going to eat and destroy Arcadia unless they figure out a way to introduce something better. Levi asks them to come to Arcadia with him to convince the elemental dragons to ally with the humanoids by breaking the seal around Arcadia and convincing Morgan to help them.
* Levi has convinced Dragon's Bane, the leader of the Sentinels, to help him, but to help him Dragon's Bane breaks his oath and becomes an Oath Breaker (because the Sentinel's oath was to dedicate their lives to protecting the seal). In the moment that Dragon's Bane broke his oath, the light of Dol Arrah protecting the stronghold wavers. Part of the earth dragon cracks and multiple metallic dragons appear ridden by drow.
	+ Levi begins to open a planar tear to flee but one of the drow counterspells him and then bestows a curse upon him. Dragon's Bane attacks that drow, giving Levi an opening to portal them out, leaving the rest of the Sentinels to fight to the death.
* Levi is able to see through the Fake Levi's eyes that Whisper has completed the ritual and for the briefest moment a portal through the Void opens. Whisper never told the party that he is actually trying to Resurrect his mother. Whisper has figured out that Fake Levi is an alien that can mirror and inhabit the physicalities of different people, and Whisper is trying to pull her soul into the Fake Levi. Levi remembers that The told Levi never to go into the Void because they are being hunted, but Levi and Dragon's Bane go through anyway.
* The Void is filled with chains and the chains are all gradually pulling every being in Arcadia into the Void. Levi also realizes that someone manipulated the portal so that they arrived slightly at the River Styx. Standing in front of the River Styx is Asmodeus and beside him is Cinder. Cinder looks in really rough shape and his eyesockets are filled with maggots. Maggots are crawling all over the rest of his body. There are chains attached to him, holding him there. Dragon's Bane prepares to smite Asmodeus but Levi says that he and Asmodeus should talk privately.
	+ Asmodeus teleports him and Levi to the Fathomless Lake. They are on a boat. Asmodeus offers Levi the opportunity to bring Cinder back to Arcadia with him because Asmodeus didn't have the opportunity to bring back someone that he cared about. Levi casts Detect Thoughts on Asmodeus, who lets Levi in slightly. Levi can tell that Levi is serious and there is no catch with his offer.
* After giving Levi his offer, Asmodeus teleports them back, except it's just Dragon's Bane, Cinder, and Levi. The portal to Arcadia is open beside them. They can see, being dragged through this portal, is Kite in the Wind, Whisper's mother. Levi realizes that he could bring Cinder back instead.
	+ Levi reunites with his husband. Cinder begs Levi to take him away from this place. While Levi is trying to decide whether to bring Cinder with him, Time Eaters emerge from the Fathomless Lake and begin to approach the portal.
* Levi ultimately decides not to bring anyone back. Dragon's Bane lights his blade and slices off the parts of the house pulling Kite in the Wind.

## 10-2 session

### Kysona

* After leaving the city group, Kysona decides to try and head to the mimic village using the mimic tea. Xalia switches with Geronimo, who is a very good tracker and shepherd. They ride dinosaurs through the jungle while Geronimo regales Kysona with tales about his skills.
* Eli the fey is grumbling because Kysona isn't paying attention to him until one day he snaps and asks when Kysona is going to bring him to Bombyx Mori. Kysona explains that there's nothing more chaotic than taking a windabout way to their destination. Still, he assures Eli that they are going to Bombyx Mori. He makes a convincing argument, but he notices that Eli's appearance has gotten visually darker.
	+ To sate Eli, Kysona plays a prank on Geronimo. While Geronimo is distracted, Kysona casts Major Image onto the dinosaur that they're riding and gives it pink polka dots and makes it smell like cotton candy. Eli is mildly entertained but still ornery.
* They make a pit stop in a small village. The only thing noteworty going on in the town is that they have a school play at the elementary school the next day. Kysona buys some wine and a hat and then rests for the night. The next day, Eli alerts Kysona to the fact that someone is there to see him. He explains that he's been cranky lately partially because he feels something tugging on him.
	+ Kysona goes to the school and sees a figure sitting on a bench behind the school. Kysona takes a seat next to the figure and notices that the figure is female and seems to blur with the shadows of the school house. He also notices that the cloak is very bulky, with most of the bulk concentrated in the stomach. There's one paw visible -- it's a Tabaxi paw and seems to also blend in with the shadows.
* The figure and Kysona converse and Kysona realizes that the figure is Blaze, though he doesn't let on that he recognizes her. Blaze says she isn't necessarily looking for Kysona but rather the fey traveling with Kysona -- Eli. She shows Kysona a device that she's holding and tells him that if she releases the trigger, everyone in the school will die. Kysona mentally sends Arya to go let Geronimo know the situation.
	+ Blaze takes off her hood and reveals herself to Kysona. There's a deep gash across her throat - it's so deep that she should be bleeding profusely, but she's not. She tells him that she's ready to die at any moment and it's liberating. She slit her own throat and let it bleed out onto an Untethered box in the jungle. Blaze tells Kysona that she was calling out for some chaotic power.
* Geronimo gets the message from Arya and is helping to evacuate people from the school. Kysona gives her Eli's amulet, and Eli appears and takes on a darker hue. Kysona casts Misdirect and creates a Silent Image of himself so that the real Kysona can become invisible and stand up. Unfortunately, as he's standing up, he steps on a little twig and it cracks and Blaze gets suspicious.
	+ Kysona asks Blaze to leave the children and parents alone since he already gave her the amulet. Blaze agrees and starts to walk away. Kysona follows her at a safe distance. He sees that she's starting to walk around the school towards the front, and is at risk of seeing Geronimo leading the parents to safety. Kysona asks again what happened to Blaze, and Blaze reiterates her story, then turns into shadows. Kysona tries to Hold Person, but it fails and Blaze disappears.
* Kysona falls to his knees sobbing because he wanted Blaze dead. Geronimo comes to comfort him. Kysona tells him that Blaze is the one responsible for the bomb in the capital city and says that they need to find her and stop her. Geronimo agrees to try and track her down and kill her.

### City Group

* Phoenix tells Vig and Matthias that he found a book by Professor Rickety Log, founder of the College of Whispers. He says that Clover agreed to cast some mild necromancy on the book to see what they can find. Clover did it already and the letters started to shift. Matthias gets mad and walks away.
* Vig gives Lycel some poisons. Then they head off to the ChemVats. They get in by stowing most of the group into a Bag of Holding and have a Hastened Tabaxi run back and forth under the cover of night. Everyone slips into the ventilation system of the ChemVats undetected.
* Lycel's secret passage to the Sarlacc chasm is through some abandonned dwarven mines. These are mines that were used back when the Underflow was first built. It was a wealthy exiled Nymerian family that discovered Etherium under the ground where the Underflow now is and they hired dwarves from across the ocean to come and start mining it and that's how the Underflow came to be. Lycel mentions that there will be a high likelihood of cave slimes and they will need to clear them out while they move ahead.
	+ The party heads through the tunnels two by two led by Lycel. They start seeing green slimes and Lycel knocks them down but then a Roper appears, which Lycel narrowly dodges. It goes down a passage that they aren't heading to, so Starfall blocks off the passage with her shield while the rest of the group continues on.
	+ The group continues to be attacked by miscellaneous creatures and some of them take some acid damage from dripping slimes.
* They enter a big cavern. Vig insists that everyone use their dark vision because he claims that there are creatures sensitive to light there. Lycel doesn't have dark vision and tries to show off by scouting ahead in total darkness. A Cloaker comes out and attacks Lycel. Lycel dodges and grabs its tail, even though he can't see it. Carver and the rest of the group watch on in amusement as Lycel flails in the dark. Finally, Starfall puts an end to their fun by killing the Cloaker and putting a pair of Goggles of Dark Vision on Lycel.
* They finally enter a large mine that is also a dwarven temple. Vig defaces a religious mural.

## 10-11 session

* Starfall asks Shadow if she has heard anything on the psychic web. Shadow scans the psychic web and is able to glean echoes of past messages. She isn't able to get the full message, but she's able to ascertain that it's two messages back and forth. The outgoing message (from near where they are to elsewhere) was one of opportunity and secrecy. The returning message was one of greed and excitement, and a couple words including "teleportation technology" and something along the lines of troops or a gang being ready. She relays this to Starfall, and assumes the worst, that is that they know that the ambush is about to launch an attack.
	+ At the mention of teleportation, Starfall ropes in Vig. Vig says it sounds like White Widow is also trying to hit the Admiralty base, but he's not sure how they got the same info about it. Starfall asks that they keep this information between the three of them for now. While Shadow and company clear out the temple, Starfall will have herself and Slam, Starfall's bodyguard, go around and ask some questions to be sure that no information leaked.
	+ Vig immediately goes and tells Carver. Carver begins her own independent investigation while stewing over the fact that she wasn't told
* Matthias is approached by a Tortle with a large shield and a crystalline staff who introduces himself as Gum, a Sphinx cleric of the Andro Sphynx. He heard how Matthias treated the Nothic and wanted to thank him. Gum also wanted to offer his help because he believes that it's the Andro Sphinx's will to complete the Nothic's part of the mission. As a sign of good faith, he gives Matthias a ring of jumping.
* One of the rangers heals Lycel after he got tossed around by the beast. Starfall orders Shadow, Vig, Matthias, and Lycel to scout ahead of the dwarven temple and clear it of slimes so that the rest of the group can proceed. They bring a bunch of archers and Gum.
* As they go down the tunnel, they see more religious murals. One is a mural of a sphinx meeting a glorified dwarf, perhaps a dwarven god, which is interesting because it's seemingly a Nymerian god meeting a dwarven god. Gum thinks this mural is meant to be symbolic of the alliance between the Adeepo royal family -- the family that first founded the capital and the Underflow -- and the dwarves that they hired to come mine the Etherium.
* Matthias is at the front of the group with his lit up sword. He ends up accidentally stepping on a trap, though at the very last second Shadow sounds a warning. The floor opens to a pit lined with spikes on the bottom. Matthias Misty Steps away just in time thanks to the warning. They see that if someone had fallen in, the pit would have closed with the victim inside. The group jumps over it.
* Shadow opens a door a hallway and some rooms on the other side. They wander down the hallway and see a room with cots, some bags, and old boxes. Vig investigates the bags and finds a lot of tattered books that didn't survive. It seems like this place hasn't been in use for hundreds of years. He does find one book that is a translation from dwarvish to common. There's also a page on the back on dwarvish culture and the pantheon.
	+ Shadow hears some creaking through the walls. She seems water leaking through the wall. There's a septic system that seems to have fallen into disrepair. There's pipes behind the walls that seem liable to burst at any minute. She points it out to everyone.
* There's a door to more cots and another door at the end of the hallway. They approach the rusty door at the end of the hallway and Matthias and Shadow try and force the door open but aren't able to do so. Suddenly, there's squelching from the other room. The pipe in that room bursts, water begins spilling onto the floor, and a gelatinous cube comes out of the septic tank.
* Vig attempts to bring down a beam to crush the gelantinous cube or at least trap it in the room, but he doesn't do much damage. Shadow and Lycel attack it. The cube lurches forward and tries to engulf Lycel but he dodges out of the way. The archers shoot at it, while Matthias hears squelching and a similar burst from behind the door at the end of the hall. Matthias takes some damage from the putrid water pooling at his feet. The other ooze finally bursts through the door at the end of the hallway. Gum attacks the first ooze. Matthias and the archers run into the other room.
* Shadow attacks the first ooze. Vig hits it with a shovel. Shadow and Gum are engulfed in the first cube. Lycel kills the cube and rescues Shadow and Gum, but takes some damage from the septic water. Gum casts Sacred Flame on the second ooze. Archers release a barrage of arrows.
* The group kills the remaining slime. They head through the open door at the end of the hallway and see another hallway leading to a staircase and a valve that would release pressure in the septic system. As they walk by, Matthias notices that the wall is quite weak and through the cracks he can see another cavernous room on the other side. Matthias hacks through the deteriorating wall to reveal a hidden room.

## 10-16 session

### Dragon Group

* Levi comes through the portal and Whisper demands to know where his mother is. Levi is evasive and Whisper casts. Levi has prepared Tasha's Otherworldy Guise with a lower planes effect on the condition a threat emerges. Verinen flamethrowers the zombies next to him, and then tries and bait them towards a flameable wall. Neko gets up after being stabilized and casts Mass Healing Word. Zhu Li casts crackle at the barrogast before running downstairs. The big skeleton attacks Verinen. Dave attempts to attack a skeleton with his rapier and then tries to run away, but the skeleton makes an opportunity attack and downs Dave.
* In the basement, Whisper, with a look of extreme betrayal on his face, casts 4th level Blight on Levi. As Whisper turns to run, Elysia trips him and he falls prone. Verinen yells at Cofie to save Neko and Dave. Cofie doesn't have Healing Word and flies to the roof of the house instead. The big skeleton continues attacking Neko. Zhu Li's giant hand crawls inside the barrogast's neck hole and rips him apart from the inside out. Levi casts Tasha's Otherworldy Guise and he becomes immune to necrotic damage and can fly. Dragon's Bane Banishes Whisper. Finally, La Signora and her drow step out of the open portal. She looks around and says "this is Arcadia" and then orders her drow to kill them all.
* Levi tries to cast Firebolt on La Signora but fails, then tries to smack her with his staff and also fails. Zhu Li's giant hand slams the hand blindly to hit the zombie right in front of him. It smashes through the floor and obliterates the zombie. Zhu Li gives Neko a little bit more life essence through their bond, keeping him alive. Dragon's Bane casts Daylight, which makes the drow have disadvantage. Then he kneels and asks for the light of Dol Arrah back so that he can crush these hellspawn. Verinen flamethrowers the zombies again before jumping through the window of the house to try and save Neko. La Signora tries to cast Dispel Magic on Levi, but Levi counterspells it. One of the Drow casts a smell and creates black tentacles which wrap around Levi and Dragon's Bane. The alien sits up and looks around curiously. Cofie flies through the window and stabilizes Neko.
* Zhu Li uses her Big Hand to push the skeleton out of the window. One of the drow archers casts Darkness to counteract the Daylight. Neko casts Healing Word and ties a rope to a bannister to help him get downstairs. La Signora summons an insect plague. One of the drow summons a shadow demon. Levi flies over to the alien and prepares to cast a Cone of Cold. Dragon's Bane after praying to Dol Arrah is now able to Smite. However, since he's in magical darkness and restrained, he tries to escape and manages to fight his way out of the tentacles.

### City Group

* The group finds a stone tablet in a back room written in Dwarvish. Shadow translates it and discovers that it says: *"To the followers of Abbathar, I propose a plot to leverage our position here to take & hide what isn’t ours. We exaggerate the structural danger of this subterranean region to the stupid Nymerians and form a supervisory organization that needs to authorize any subterranean activity for ‘safety reasons.’ We can name it the Admiralty after me. When they realize the true amount of Etherium here, they’ll have to make us kings. Are we not true followers of Abbathor? This is his will."*
	+ Lycel recognizes the signature to be from Admiral Glafirm, one of the first dwarves to arrive to the Adrekki empire and the founder of the Admiralty.
* Shadow finds another hidden room and sees some open chests with smashed locks. The wall is destroyed and there are some frayed rope that indicates that someone used it to climb up.
* Lycel, Shadow, and Vig explore a hidden tunnel. They crawl down the tunnel until they encounter an ochre slime at which point they hurriedly crawl backwards. They then go up the rope in the hidden room and go up into another hidden room. They find one coin worth of gold in packs and a nice dwarven crossbow. There are some murals of a dwarf with a jeweled dagger in their hand and they are sneaking away with an axe. Matthias and the rest of the scouting party climbs up the stairs to join them.
* Shadow picks the lock of the next door and they enter a meeting room. There are granite statues of dwarven gods except for one statue which is made of gold. Gum is able to identify the gods and notes that the gold statue is of King Midas. Vig cuts off a bit of the Midas statue, but when he touches it, he can feel himself turning to gold. He manages to resist the curse and seals the gold into flasks which he calls Midas Grenades. Shadow smells something awful coming from one of the rooms and opens the door to see some old bathrooms with an ochre slime one one of the toilets. Shadow and Lycel destroy the slime. Vig throws a Midas Grenade at it, and turns it into a cursed gold statue.
* Lycel and Vig work together to open the locked door and they enter a room with old clothes and two chests. Lycel lockpicks one of the chests, and expulses a cloud of poisonous gas. Lycel is wearing a gas mask so he is not affected, but Vig is poisoned. Vig smacks the top of the other chest with his shovel and and it reveals itself to be a mimic by attacking Vig. Shadow kills it. Inside of Lycel's chest is another tablet, another coin worth of gold, and a dwarven short sword. The tablet says *"the rest has been moved to the Abbathor stash."*
	+ Lycel dissects the mimic and finds that it had eaten a great dwarven dagger. Matthias stands right where King Midas was looking up and looks to where King Midas is looking and finds that he's looking slightly off center.
	+ Lycel is excited at the prospect of gold and rushes ahead. Vig explores a storeroom and finds some dwarven bolts and a letter that contains the seal from the Adrekki empire and is probably a letter from the king to the Admiral. They pass by an old septic tank containing a gigantic gelantinous cube, which Shadow and Matthias kill.
* Lycel enters a room with many murals of dwarven gods and the floor in the middle is a golden seal with a jeweled dagger in the center. There's a side room containing the packs of the looters and in the center are three golden kobold statues -- they seem to be kobolds that have succumbed to the curse. Lycel walks to the middle of the room onto the dagger insignia and his foot turns to gold.
	+ Gum identifies the jeweled dagger as the symbol of Abbathor. According to dwarvish lore, after defending the dwarven pantheon from Tiamat, Brightmantle gave his axe to Truesilver to safeguard while he got drunk. Abbathor stole the axe while Truesilver was sleeping and his eyes were covered with a cloth mask.
	+ Shadow notices that the murals appear to be moveable. Lycel finds a nest of spiders and tries to turn them to gold with his foot and nothing happens to the spiders. His foot doesn't seem to carry the curse. Shadow looks in the graves and finds that Admiral's family is buried there and it looks like the area has been picked clean by the kobolds. An ochre slime is very slowly making its way towards them and Shadow kills it.
* Matthias lifts the mural in front of Moradin and sees a carved dragon that immediately spits fire at him. Lycel pries open the mural in front of the praying kobold statue and finds a statue of Truesilver made of granite with gold hands that are held out. Its hands are palm up and in its hand is a gold axe. Lycel uses his chain whip to steal the axe from Truesilver's hands. All of the gold statues in the room come to life and attack him.

## 10-22 session

* One of the sword drow attacks Levi but misses. Another attacks Dragon's Bane and misses. The drow mage dispels Daylight and slips into the magical darkness. Verinen attacks the zombies with his bladed whip and kills one of them. La Signora casts Hold Person on Levi and Dragon's Bane and manages to paralyze Dragon's Bane before stepping back into the darkness. This causes Dragon's Bane to drop concentration on the Banishment spell and Whisper falls out of a pocket dimension in front of Levi. Levi pushes off the wall and jumps over Whisper casts Cone of Cold. La Signora and the alien succeed, and the alien turns into an ice elemental. Dave attacks and kills a zombie, while a shadow demon attacks Levi. One of the drow archers takes a shot at Dragon's Bane and poisons him. Neko casts Aura of Vitality then yells at the rest of the party to head down to the basement. They see a very confused Whisper on the way down.
* Levi flies over to Whisper who appears to be preparing a spell. Whisper asks Levi who the drow are, and Levi responds that they are bad people, Dave clobbers another zombie and then shimmies down the rope to the basement. Neko hears La Signora yell, "get the necromancer, we need him. We're leaving." Neko yells for Whisper to run. One of the drow tries to grapple Whisper but Whisper manages to wriggle free. Neko casts Sacred Flame on the drow. The drow archer shoots Dragon Bane, poisoning him again. Levi casts Raulothim's Psychic Lance on La Signora. Levi tells Whisper to get out of here with him, and Whisper realizes that the drow are more likely to kill him than Levi is. The drow mage summons another shadow demon. Zhu Li uses her Big Hand to grab the big zombie and uses it to smash another zombie into the wall. Verinen whips some more zombies and casts Ensnaring Strike. Whisper tries to run but the alien begins freezing him via its ice elemental form. The zombies attack Verinen while the shadow demons go through Levi, inflicting force damage.
* Zhu Li casts Preotection from Evil and Good on Dave. Dave takes out an instant torch because he doesn't have darkvision and then gets ready to attack any enemy that gets within range of him. The Shadow Demons attack Neko and then fly through him. Levi casts Major Image and evokes the presence of the Raven Queen to try and scare the shadow demons and convince them to turn against the drow that summoned them. The alien casts Cone of Cold, which freezes Neko. Verinen kills more zombies. There is the sound of a teleportation spell activating and La Signora, the drow, and the shadow demons teleport away. Whisper runs away.
* The battle ends and Levi begins trying to dethaw Neko. Dragon's Bane closes the void portal. Levi vatches the party up on everything that happened to him and introduces them to Dragon's Bane. Dragon's Bane tells the party about Dol Arrah lore and the history of the Old World. Dragon's Bane assumes that Levi has an army of Dol Arrah believers to help them with their cause and gets really upset when he learns that they don't.
	+ They investigate the building and find a lantern of revealing, a Dragons Wrath Longsword, and a mind over body Untethered tatoo

## 10-23 session

* After Lycel steals the axe, the golden kobolds become alive and attack them. Two large keg golems appear from behind one of the murals and launches alcohol at them. Lycel swallows a mouthful of alcohol and becomes drunk.
* Everyone in the party attacks the kegs and the golden kobolds. Shadow manages to trick the kobolds into following her by making a disappointed dwarven pose. Shadow also yells at Lycel to put back the axe. He does and the kobolds and the kegs go back to being inanimate objects.
	+ Members of the party take alcohol from the kegs, which have 20 gallons of ale each.
* The party covers the eyes of Berronar Truesilver and takes the axe. The kobolds and kegs remain inanimate while the wall with the old Admiralty sigil makes a grinding sound as it opens and reveals the secret loot. In it, Lycel finds a Belt of Dwarven Hammering, Gauntlets of Ogre Power, and maps of the old Underflow, and a tablet.
	+ The tablet is from the Adrekki dwarven king to Admiral Glafirm. It says: *"A word of warning. A group of magic-less elves are arriving from the North, led by a Saburo Arasaka. They seek treasure buried in Elderwynn and to claim Nymeria for themselves. Don't let them. If Saburo gives you a hard time, imply you know about his heritage. That will shut him up. I expect a Nymerian expansion to Adrekki empire within the decade."*
	+ Shadow notices that the Adrekki king refers to Saburo as he. Elves are they. Could be a mistake or an intentional slight.
* Lycel opens the mural behind Silverbeard and finds two caskets. Carved on the outside in dwarvish is "*the valiant die, the cowards live."* Matthias investigates the caskets and finds two plus one, plus one long swords.
* The party goes upstairs and find a throne speech room. The throne is gold and there's a dwarf made of gold sitting on the throne. Gum identifies the dwarf as Admiral Glafirm. There's also a magic mouth on the wall that's yelling in dwarvish: "we take, we hide, we follow Abathor and retire rich." The last thing they see is an underground canal that appears to be where the kobolds came in. Shadow consults the map and identifies it as a possible escape route.
	+ Through a pair of old doors, they can see the chasm. They found the entrance to the Sarlac chasm.
* The party returns to the Tyger Claws camp rolling the rest of the keg ale. Carver is waiting right oustide and immediately accuses Lycel, Gum, and Matthias of being the White Widow mole. Starfall steps in and says that she consulted with everyone in the ambush and believes that none of them are the mole.
	+ Shadow searches the psychic web and feels a beckoning from a deeper part in the cave. Shadow brings the group over to that part of the cave and finds a weird glowing green spider. The spider begins speaking in Arachnid and Shadow is able to understand it.
* White Widow (through the spider) tells Shadow that she is not their enemy, she just wants to talk. White Widow says that she knows that the ambush is here to invade the Arasaka facility, but luckily for them she wants them to succeed. Shadow asks what White Widow gets out of this, and White Widow says that Yorinobu is easier to work with when he feels threatened.
	+ White Widow asks if Scorching Blaze or Franz is still part of the group. Shadow says no to both. The group asks the spider what the weaknesses of each airship are. White Widow says that she doesn't know that, but she believes that they can find that information in the facility that they are about to invade. Then White Widow asks if they know anything of dragons or dragon activity in the past few weeks. Shadow says yes.
* The group takes a campfire rest and splits the loot. Lycel goes to the medic tent and asks the medic to amputate his golden and replace it with a short sword. Matthias convinces him that now is not a practical time to that since he will probably need to go through PT.
* Gum casts Divination and asks the Andro Sphinx how the invasion is going to go. The god responds that there's a good chance that the operation will be successful in some of its goals, but there is a twist coming.

## 10-30 session

### City Group

* Starfall makes an inspiring speech and gives the stealth group temp hp. Matthias casts Aid on Starfall, Shadow, Lycel, and the Nothic. The ambush starts crossing the chasm, starging with the stealth group. The stealth group takes out a foldable drill and starts drilling to create a small tunnel to the offices. Stealth group is able to cover up the sound using the Ranger's Pass without a Trace and end up in a storage area under the offices of the facility that they were trying to drill into.
* They go down a hallway and see some doors. Shadow presses her ear against two doors and hears muffled voices but it doesn't seem like they are on the other side of the door. She explores the door on the left and finds a tiny closet. The voices seem to be guards of some kind coming from the other side of closet wall. The guards are complaining in elvish about shifted patrol patterns because someone is visiting.
* They open the door on the right and find a moderately dusty storeroom with four guard uniforms inside. One of the guards enter the storeroom and Shadow assassinates him. The stealth group strips the guard and Shadow changes into him and puts on his uniform. Another guard enters the room looking for the previous guard and he also gets assassinated. Shadow, Lycel, and Vig then burst into the room with the guards and assassinate the first guard they see. There's a scuffle, but the stealth group manages to kill all of the guards without alerting anyone to their presence. They find some weaponry and obtain the commander's documentation. They also find a briefing from Falwyn Gilnor, the head of security, saying that Aegnor has ordered increased/adjusted patrols to protect their valuable guest, and there is a description of the changes to the patrol patterns.

### Dragon Tales

* Levi investigates the House and discovers that the rituals conducted in this house have loosened the Arcadia seal a little bit. This combined with the presence of fake Levi is why Whisper was able to open the portal. Normally it would not be possible. Levi also realizes that this House is a source of blight and is poisoning the nearby swamps and creating monstrosities.
	+ Dragon's Bane wants to burn down the Untethered House. Everyone else agrees and gathers wood for a bonfire. Everyone except for Levi and Dragon's Bane hears a psychic scream as the House burns.
* Neko heals the group by casting Aura of Vitality. Levi talks to the fake Levi alien and asks it if it can turn into anything. The alien says no. Levi realizes that the alien's magic reflection capabilities could be used to create a spell holding device. However, to create this Levi would need to take the alien to a powerful mage who could help him make this spell holding device.
	+ Levi asks the alien if it would like to travel with them. The alien declines.
	+ Dragon's Bane says that they need to go kill the drow, go find Morgan, recruit an army of Dol Arrah followers, and save Arcadia.
* The group travels back to the airship via the alien's portal and they take off. Coffie presents his of their adventures that he's been working on so that he can, when they're finished, write a full book on it. It contains notes on allies, enemies, impactful lore, and a quest log. Coffie presents himself as the muse of the party. The Adrekki nobleman and Hairball greet Levi and introduce themselves.
	+ The group decides to go back to the Mufusu kingdom before heading over to the fire dragons.
* Neko studies the stars and sees that way up north in Orskath, the elvin council of elders is conducting a ritual to ask Sosen no Ein a question. They can't tell what the question is, but they see that Sosen no Ein has sent an image of dual mages with swords, one sun one moon. Neko is able to recognize that this is connected to an Elvin prophecy that foretells a Dol Arrah mage fighting alongside a Sosen no Ein mage against the forces of darkness.

## 11-5 session

* Before the party burns down the Untethered house, Levi tries to convince the group to not burn it down because it has a unique property of being a tear in the seal of Arcadia. Levi wants to exploit this property to summon creatures from outside of the seal and bind them to the party's service. Dragon's Bane and the rest of the party immediately shoots down that idea.
* The party returns to the Mufusu empire in time for Mufusu's birthday. When Adu hears that they are going to the Ashlands, he tells them to stop by the World News and Office of Letters to Other People because the Mufusu empire has letters that they have been intending to send to the Ashlands for forever.
* The party decides to stay for one day and end up exploring the different booths at the Mufusu fair. They drink some magical fireshine and Verinen gets the ability to jump much higher than usual, gains 12 temp HP, is able to headbutt things and deal damage, and gets a huge booming voice that terrifies everyone around. Neko becomes talkative, also gains 12 temp HP, and is able to breathe water until his next long rest. Dave's tail grows to the size of himself and becomes extra dexterous; he also gets Fleet Foot and is able to move an extra ten feet.
* Neko heads over to the tent of light hosted by the elves of Sosen no Ein and Dol Arrah. Neko goes to talk to them and brings up the prophecy. They tell Neko to talk to a Mufusian elvin elder at the observatory to discuss the prophecy. The tent is also casting Divination for each guest for whatever question they have. Dave asks how he can make people like him. Dol Arrah reminds Dave that he already has people who love him and to not lose sight of the people who care about him. Dave clarifies that he wants to know how to make Hagnar and his family love him. Dol Arrah says that he must first learn to love himself. Neko asks if the fire dragons will help them. Sosen no Ein's response is simply "Yes."
* Zhu Li, Verinen, Neko, and Dave go to the Golden Showers booth, which is put on by the Loxodons and Adrekki dwarves. There's a pile of gold coins and Neko tries to sneakily pockets some, but his talkativeness gives him away and his hand starts to turn to gold because some of the coins are cursed. The dwarves offer the group the chance to enter the "Golden Shower" and grab as much gold as they can, but to be careful not to grab the cursed gold.
	+ Dave wins and successfully avoids all the cursed gold; his prize is a Covetous Gold Serpant Ring. Neko does poorly and his body except for his head turns to gold and he needs to be restored by a Sphinx cleric.
* Zhu Li sees a Loxodon from another tribe that she knew in the sea of sand.
* The group goes to the strength tent which is run by the orcs and the goliaths. Verinen wins/cheats at a weight lifting competition with Levi's help and wins Gauntlets of Ogre Power.
	+ Levi gets a pastry from a stand and gets roped into a side quest to help the patisserie complete Mufusu's birthday cake.
* The group goes to Bartholomeow's Maze of Mystical Horrors. There are two story exhibit: The Deathless Mother, about the Hag of Bombyx Mori, and the Cliff at the Edge of the World, about Silverhearth. The group chooses to attend the latter.
	+ The group is first given an overview of the history of Silverhearth and a very accurate depiction of the Battle of Silverash. After the bomb goes off, the "ride" starts and the group is dropped into a very convincing rendering of Silverhearth.
	+ They head to the point of detonation and the river flowing through Silverhearth has turned into a river of blood that looks identical to the river that Levi saw in the Void with Asmodeus and his husband Cinder. They see along its shore, illusory images of all the party members. The illusions warns of a storm that is to come, a storm that has been buried in Elderwynn for centuries. They beseech the party to stop the storm and save Arcadia. The tent fills with mist and Levi becomes panicked and dispels the illusion.
	+ As Zhu Li exits Bartholomeow's Maze, she spots Jacque walking through the crowd.