Session 10

Date range of Session 10.

## 58th of Duoary

The group examined the corpse, with Amanita recalling the technology as alchemy, a form of magic-adjacent technology used by the rodents of the Ironclad Union. The designation of alchemy as not a form of magic allowed it to survive the sanctions imposed on other forms of magic.

Returning to the central rotunda, they noticed the water level had gone down. They decided to head to the right-hand passage, finding themselves in what seemed to be a filtration room – filled with sticks and other kinds of debris. Archion noticed a scabbard lodged in a drain – a sheath that he recognised as the one he had given Mornon as his mentor. Archion was enraged and invigorated, filled with the urge to find Mornon – who he feared was imprisoned in the catacombs. As he reached for the sheath, Amanita interposed herself between the sheath and the dragonborn. She had spotted a thin tripwire attached to the sheath, and, using a spectral *mage hand*, she carefully lifted the tripwire off the sheath and returned the item to Archion. Archion powered ahead, intent on finding Mornon.

## Unedited Minutes

-       The crow uses alchemy

-       Alchemy wasn’t considered magic

-       The crow isn’t just a creature – can’t mimic the non-organic components.

Room 1

-       Water has gone down

Room 7

-       Filtration room

-       Mornon’s scabbard – given to Mornon by Archion

Room 6

-       Floating eye in the middle of room

-       Zahir fails, orb flies away

Room 22

-       Pressure plate triggered, the door falls behind them – locking them in

-       The tiles are not right

-       Strange noise – the sound of gases and liquid forming

-       Three gelatinous cubes appear.

-       Zara’s scythe glows blood red

-       Electra’s spirit guardians is kittens on a catwalk

-       There is a tiefling in one of the oozes

-       Glowing red, cuts the ooze in two

-       The skull: a local by the name of Yorick – they were an urban treasure hunter

-       Yellow, blue, white lever – Zahir sees grime on blue lever. Pulls.

Dead end

-       M for Mornon – Mornon was here.

Dead end 2

-       A pile of books – spoiled/destroyed/absorbed

-       Archion recalls, scholar’s bane – a process that overcomes spellcasters who study esoteric monsters.

o   *Nothics*

The door and the eye

-       Archion recognises the answer to the riddle on the door is the eye

-       Archion sees the purple eye coming, sneaks up (thing sees inside him),

Archion’s history

-       Old friends of Mornon

-       Like family friends

Room 11

-       Pitch blackness

-       The green eye mutters something about polymorph

-       Looks at Zahim, says “2”

-       3 glowing green eyes

-       Archion turns into t rex, Amanita casts earth tremor

-       The final creature grovels, and talks about a “him” seeing everything with his eye

o   Says “another victim”

o   “you know him. You have stared into what was once his face”

o   “he was here. He was here. He walks where we see”?

o   There is a look of, self contempt on its face

-       Would you like to see Mornon again?

o   “you will care”

-       As Archion and beholder fight, darkness in the room flickers – sun filters in from the room above

-       Amanita kills the thing – necrotic damage explodes from it – they hear a strange cackle in the air.

Electra wanders in the other direction – sees eyes hanging

-       Casts guiding bolt – big eye revealed – zombie beholder emerges

The upstairs lab

-       Someone is muttering

-       There is a rattling/buzzing noise

-       There is a waft of magic – there is a silence spell on the room

-       Mornon: “Your time is over old man. You should have stayed retired.”

Tall thin rodent -

-       The eye kills the rodent

Amanita

-       Amanita hit – the corrupted thing is stealing memories from the network.

-       I’ve caught the attention of someone in the sisterhood

The Rat

-       They work under the alliance between Doctor Mia from the Council of Fi and Xyanos thelyre

-       They’ve been trying to find a way to influence the council – trying mimicry, blackmail, didn’t work.

-       They created the oblex (it starts to reform as they speak)

-       They’ve been feeding it food – corpses from below the city.

-       Xyanos wants power.

-       They’ve been selected by Mia, and they’ve seen two people: Xyanos and Mia

-       Xyanos found something new that enabled the experiment to take place – tome probably.

-       They were given a scroll and told to go to the bathroom in the obsidian spire.

An unknown Sister:

-       Large, mushroom cap

-       Large sleeve mycelium dress

-       Thin and tall – probably human or elf

-       Mornon was taken to crookroot mot

-       Amanita knows that they’re not a sporeseer, but they are a sister.

Memory

-       Whatever is watching Amanita is big

Electra

-       Electra finds a courier to send the goo off to

-       Rumpleteezer: *Brother, your time has come. Head home. Something dangerous for Duet. Be careful. Be ready to take over. Dangerous. Give only to Deuteronomy.*

-       *Big things coming. I am eager to oblige.*

Sending to Alexander

-       Are you alright? It seemed like you were injured by an oblex?

o   Response: things are okay here. The house is unwell. An echo of past mistakes comes back to haunt us.

-       Alexander’s putting zahim in zara’s body is similar to what happened to Mornon.

Message from Rum Tum Tugger:

-       Rap things up quickly. We are all going to Greensgood. Looks like war.

-       Against: EVERYONE.