11/2025

In the Library. Troop of gorillas had been summoned by Abel. One grabs a book and gets very still, like having a vision. Abjuration book is next. Gorilla grabs it. All the apes disappear and Abel takes 32 necrotic damage. That book flashes and another book release a circle of necromantic energy (Circle of Death).  Cindora feel the necrotic circle and takes a wide path around. Sees the sign. See the velvet rope. Hears confused apes and poofing magic. Cindora goes past the rope. Squantch follows. Abel is trying to decide what to do. Abel turns around and goes to leave. They decided to go to the lab to get stuff to help take the books, like tongs.

Lab. DT. Aramil. Rowan. Tana. Gina. Friend.

Rowan gives Friend a health potion. Abel finds tongs and leaves. Squantch stays in the lab.

Abel, Rowan, Cindora go back to Library. Restricted section. Abel points out the different schools of magic of the books. Rowan looks at the abjuration book. Seems to be a custom spell tooled for specific purpose. Glyph of Warding possibly. Can also fire random spell. Tooled to hold continguincy to activate other spells. Advanced; 10th level. Rowan looks at the Conjuration/Divination book. Abel tells Rowan not to touch any of the books. Book looks old, ancient though has weathered time well. Possibly Eons old. Timeless artifact. The inside screams of interplanar travel and secrets. Something integral to the fabric of this world. Rowan hesitates. Abel questions him. Rowan says he's okay. Rowan checks next book. Transmutation/Necromancy book. This book describes the mechanises of this world and how it can be created, destroyed, recreated. Blueprint for the ground your standing on. "The Tome of World Making" Yardantayl, Berryl, Heligan are names on this book. Next book. Evocation/Abjuration. A reference book. Very advanced textbook on spellcraft. In depth on sould manipulation. Efforts to separate body and soul. Ways to harness the soul. Ways to use the sould as fuel for other machinations. Suprised it's not necromantic. Seems to be theroritcal. "On The Soul". Seems to have a spell in it. Enchantment book. Seems to want to be trigged. Long complex set of instructions. Like a genie if you were a lawyer. Complex set of instructions detailing someone to return all the books to the shelves and never return to this place. Illusion book. Projects an image of a scene when touched. Speculative and warning. Have to touch it to gather more information. Put a movie in your brain. Waiting for trigger.

DT identifys the items. Turbo evil sword. Tana goes to talk to Friend. Seems out of it. Delirious. Friends tells Tana it needs to give Gina a message. Tana tells Gina that the plant wants to talk to her. Hello. No. NO. What do you mean? I don't believe you. That doesn't seem right. Long silence. Thank you. Gina turns away and thinks hard about new things.

Library. Abel asks Rowan what he's gathered. Rowan touches the illusion book. He is not himself. He feels a visions, a feeling of an anonymous hand reaches out and grabs a book on the shelf. Could be the Interplanar book. Puts it in a bag. He feels the sensation of something leaving the library. Then feels the world just gone from existence. Nothing. Emptyness. A beautiful elven woman is standing in the void next to a crystal. Confused. Doesn't remember when she made this. Strange. A clockwork golem of large size with single eye in center appears. It says "The Lady Waits". She turns and they both vanish into silence. Now just crystal. It flickers. Light retrusn. Sounds, shapes, return. "Containment Breach Redundancy plan 3127 executed in Etieene's voice." Reality begins to reassert itself layer by layer. This library isn't on the same plane. A demi-plane. A pocket diminsion. A failsafe for anyone who tries to move this book and erase reality. Vision ends. Rowan awakens. "It wasn't funny the first time Heckubus. Stop telling the Vims to throw the book away." Post it type note that pops up on the book. Rowan tosses the book to Abel. Abel wildshapes into a small poisonous snake and drops. Book falls down, pages open. Abel comes out of wild shape. "You need to see what that thing shows you. Your prime directive." (It's literally not.) Cindora just turns around and leaves. Abel and Rowan argue. Rowan tells hima bout the illusion. Abel picks up the book and sees the same thing. The visions shows it's the conjuration/divination book that the hand took. It was Yardantyl, High Mother Tempest. "Well fuck." Another note appears. The joke is getting really old. Abel send the video feed. Berryl sends back "Grab the other ones". aBel says if he doesn't grab the other ones he will have to deal with CANE. He hates CAIN. Construct reformatter. Abel has never been stressed but is really stressed right now. Abel grabs Soul book and puts it in bag of holding.

Drawing room. Aramil goes up to door. Unmarked, no handle, no hinges. DT finds a trap. They flip a table over to shoot from behind it. DT creates a pint of oil in front of the door. DT gives him and Aramil resistance to piercing damage. Aramil shoots the door. Cindora makes it back. she immediately leaves to go to the lab.

Squantch, Gina, Tana, Friend. Cindora shuts the door and points behind her saying they're about to do Alchemist Fire.

DT casts Augury and get Wheel and Whoo. Aramil shoots the door. Small glowing bead on floor. Aramil throws an eraser at the door. Fail. Flys off and falls. Bullet embedded in door. Door is oily. DT runs into the lab.

Cindora notices the fume hood that goes up. Pinprick of light. Cindora climbs up th efume hood. She gets about half way up in a couple of rounds. Much cleaner than should be.

Library. Abel puts the Illusion book in the bag. Abel uses the tongs to grab the Worldbuilding book. Abel takes 28 fire damage and starts burning. Gets really bright. Abel dispel magics himself. He shoves it in the bag. Leaves through the drawing room. Sees the marble on the ground. Rowan leaves as well. The bead is evocation magic. A bomb. Timed and proximity. 6 seconds. They go back into the Library. Rowan Misty Steps into the library.  Abel Misty Steps into the Lab. Delayed Blast Fireball. Abel face plants in the lab. That door swung open. Rowan uses Ray of Frost to put out miscellanous fires.

Cindora peeks out. It's raining. Top of Tower. Cindora pulls herself out. Standing on roof of Tower. Can see the city. Heavily storming. She uses a psionic die to fly down. Someone runs past clearly paniced holding a child and bag over their shoulder. Running towards the docks. General chaos. Seems like a riot. Goes back to the front door. Dashes through to the office.

Hidden door is open. DT walks in. DT is charmed by Charm Monster. Feels a need to prevent anyone from getting into this room. 

Abel will be unconcisous for an hour. Riots outside.

Door to E's personal office inside safe room. Door blasted open, hanging off hinges. Room is cast in shadow by fires. DT attempted to go in room. Under effects of Charm Monster. DT is trying to keep everyone out of the room. Him and Aramil are arguing about going in the room. DT tells him that there are traps and they need to wait and be cautious.

Cindora turns a corner in the hall and sees E's office open and empty. She finds a tough string and ties it off on the desk. Then starts rappeling down. There is no trace of the altercation that occurred. No black smoke or stain on floor from earlier. Pipe is still there. Lands safely. Fog has receeded for now. Looks as empty as when I first came.

E was smoking some of Drigg's spores. Greeba kept some of his spores. Some found there way into Krockhock's stash.

She finds traces of dust and follows them. She thinks hard about finding them and getting the hell out. Makes her way to a featureless door. She uses Mage Hand to try to open the door open. Pushes the door slightly inward. She asks if we can leave. DT and Adeline argue about leaving. Rowan realizes that DT has been charmed by a charm spell. He taps DT hard on the shoulder, doing one point of damage. DT says fine, it's one you and walks away.

Abel wakes up. Adeline tells him that it was a Fireball. Abel's front carapice is fully blackened. "Let's get out of here." And leaves. Cindora goes to get Squantch and goes to leave. Abel goes and gets the Vermonstrom. Rowan tries to ask about it and Abel ignores him. Rowan runs after Abel and tries to convince him to leave it. Abel ties it up and puts it in the restricted section. Rowan grabs Friend to leave with. Aramil waits to go into the room. Starts throwing odd bits of debry into the open room. He hears something like glass shatter. Looks like a personal office. Jar seems to have shattered. He can't quite see. Needs to get closer. Chair with wheels on it. Board of diagrams of some kind of animal. Can see the organs and bones. Another bookshelf with stacks of books. 14 jars, one smashed. He smashes another jar. Hears some kind of gasb and scream. Another jar smashed; hears similar things. Another. He leaves and catches up to the party.

Abel puts down two bear traps. We eventually wind back up at the shute. Seems to be undistrubed. DT was the first to climb out of the shute. We all make it up. Friend gets pulled up. Able sets the 2 bear traps. DT traps the shute with a glyph for fire damage.

Back in the office. Still raining outside. Pipe still on floor and a desk drawer semi-open. Aramil mentions the souls in jars. About 10pm (we went in around 3pm). Less light out. Not as many lights on. Book had info on moving souls between vessels. Necromancy. Souls can be restored in a repository and then transferred into a new body; inert or comatose (inside the mother). Some brawls outside. General anachary. Rowan says that there seems to be something wrong with the city. Some buildings are on fire. Tana notices that Gina looks at the book that Abel was reading (Souls book). Gina recognizes it.  The tower is pretty damn empty. Desks left as if left in middle of tasks. Food uneaten. Drinks spilled. Chairs at strange angles. People just got up and left in the middle of something. Squantch, DT and Cindora are going to the Collesium. Rowan, Tana, Gina and Abel go to the Fist of Benevolence. Adeline and Aramil go to check in with the guards.

Guards go to stop Adeline and Aramil. Adeline asks what's been going on. Guard tells her that there was a message in the sky that read "Etienne been murdered by Laelle." Mass chaos ensued. Guards are unable to get closer than a block. There's a force bubble or a spell triggered on proximity. Commander will want to talk to her. They go into the Barracks. They have been fortified. More like a Keep than Barracks. Andessa, another Captain, is inside the Commander's Office. The group presents the paper from Etienne to verify they are okay. Abel's bag of holding is in the compartment with the angry wasps. Abel is released back to the others.

Goes to back door of Colleseum. They go in. Actors and performers are in there now. Much more hushed and tense due to the chaos. About 30 people here. Tables are overstuffed. Cindora goes to the bar and sits. DT walks around. Squantch goes to his table with the heads of the tropes. Comings and goings to the hallway and Squantch's table. Seems like the whole troupe is trying to get the hell out of town. DT casts Tongues and realises they are also trying to smuggle an object of interest out of town. "Heavy equipment." It's still on the stage. DT asks Squantch to go look at the stage and what's on it. Cindora and DT go to the stage. "Can we find a venue that is willing to host us. She pays well but she is an ass to work with. But she's a bitch!"

Abel walks back in towards the group and says "What's up fuckers". Hiolding his clothes, etc. They go to the commanders office. Adeline tells the commander about what happened at the Tower. We relay information about Laelle and what she did at the Tower and before that. Rowan explains about the proximity of the Tower and while they were in it they were safe but they left the proximity and can now not get in. Andessa mentions that that sounds right. There is about a 10 foot bubble that random spells trigger with the proximity. Abel asks if it's urgent to get back inside the tower. Andessa asks why Laelle is here and why she's upset. ABel says she wants to be in power. Andessa wonders why now. ARamil states that it was the most opportune moment. Andessa argrees that it might have been a good time. Abel asks about Hildegard. Andessa looks at Adeline. Hildegard is a traveling wizard with ethical quandries and flaunting the law. (Misdemeanors). Abel asks Beryl is all the E clones are gone. Beryl asks how Abel knows that. Aledor Libisson. Abel tells the commander that Etienne is in Treehome and wants Alador Libisson in charge. Rowan has a small stone that has conjuration magic that connects to Alador. Rowan send a message to her "I don't know where you are but we need you here and I can bring you here." "Prepare for teleportation." He holds out the stone and activates it. She appears mid air, a little more scuffed, and falls to the floor on her but. (That was a bit sudden but thatnk you for the warning at least) The stone warms up and Rowan feels warmth. He smashes rock on the ground. Abel can't stomp it. Aramil tries to shot the rock and the bullet pings around the room. Her eyes are glossed over. She seems like she is having an info-dump. Abel smacks her on the head and she says not to do that again. Abel leads her tot he bench and has here sit down. (Lot of words. Lots of legal documents.) Abel states that this is the acting mayor, it's just as good as the last one. Rowan tries to identify the stone.

Cindora dn DT go to the stage. Theater troupe stage. Orchestra pit, wings, 2nd level in backing. Come trhough back stage. Two troupe members and two guards from arena security. DT presents the rock (Squantch's that he's been licking. Guard sniffs it hard). DT wipes it on his chest (Flambae ish outfit). They go into the pit. Instruments are down there. Podium, percussion instruments. Old xylophone-like insrument that glints. DT tries to identify it. Spell of Thaumatorgy, illusion for distorting the sound (soundboard), conjuration in there not linked. Technically movable on wheels. Don't think they were talking about this item. Cindora lights a torch. DT nudges an brass instrument case and it's much heavier than it should be. DT starts casting Clarivoyance as a ritual. Everyone clears out. The case slowly rights itself. The xylophone trundles over next to the case.

We decide to take the train to the Kadavan mountains. Train won't go into the mountains. We have to go past where the Giant Ambush was. Our plan is to camp about a mile out from the ambush. About 2.5 hours on the train. Krockhock had cast Legend Lore in the town. He is putting a bunch of ivory sticks with plants and mushrooms to cast. The letters start to change it says, "We have been found. Run.". It wasn't for us, it seems it was for the Demon that was the mayor. Nyx fails a will save (disadvantage on saves til long rest). We see a table rise up with firve chairs sitting around it. The world is just happening around us. People are walking through the table. Only we can see the table and chairs. We sit down and a 6th chair appears. small figure, gold eyes, red and black robes. Heligan. I am a bad guy. I'm a force of nature. That missive (scroll) was written by someone I cared about a long time ago. It was supposed to be sent... it was intercepetted. This was the proof I needed of betrayaland i would like very much to have that because it came from someone I care about... It's a beacon. They chose to write this in a language thtr only a few of us know because its not a nice language to read. That went to the mayor from someone else. Originally I'm suppose to tbe the God of Death. life and death are a part of nature. but what hapens when you decide you want to live forever. He splits and that one keeps talking. Not a simalacrum. This resort was the first attempt at Purgatory. He says he wants to go home. Krockhock asks if that would effect this world. He says, he. The world would cease to exist. Original MOther Nature was a tree (Treehome). Yardantyl had her killed. his dead Beryl is waking up and the plural of Dragons is War of Dragon. We give him the missive. We have one week to decide. He will find us in one week.

This is a pocket diminension. a demiplane. 90 angle to time.

"I found this cave but there is a seal on the door and Vames chasing me. Should I open the door? I need somewhere safe." (Don't open the door). "Stay right there." Brooks cave. He tells him to go to New Seamerve.

Krockhock finds a passable (bigger than a game trail) path into the Kadavan mountains. Smaller than a train car. Single horse width. We follow the sun. Something smaller than a dwarf, wtih four legs has been through here. A small dog runs off into the woods when Krockhock uses bag of tricks to get an ape and Ferris uses a bag of tricks to get a goat. K cats Tongues and says Hey there, wanna talk. Large boulder to left. Goes up the hillside. Evergreen trees blocking light. In shadows you hear a very low growl. something feels cornered and threatened. "Why are you here? Your' not supposed to be here?" "You brought that? Do you know how hard it is to hunt in the sun?" "Wait, the bear is with you?" After Lumbo jumps into Nyx's backpack. This dog has armor. PUlls parchments from a pouch, looks around. "Ok, checks out." K tells him that the Sun is why we are here. Runs fast, hunts deadly, keen eyes. There are those that call me pickles. "I'm going home." LEads us into small valley. boulders and rocks lsowly being carved into staturay. they appear to be dogs. one small little hut. system of caves. like a kennell on a grand scale. and one person sized little house.  a shack. someone is outside tending a garden. Tons of Pook runnin geverywhere. Figure looks up and waves us to them. Looks like a farmer. K feels like his magic is different. Almost liek opposite. Feels darker. Like what always believed was wrong. They are wearing what looks to be heavy fur, even with sun out. Reflective. Like Owlbear pelt. They look blueish. Like Lumbo. Certain angle otherwise blackish brown, purple. Sun makes it vibrant. "The sun lead us here" (Of course she did) "He flicks a wrist and summons a chair." (sits down my name is Kadavan. sit down. i'm sure you have lots of questions).