Session 35
Date: 10 December 2020
Prev: Session 34
Next: Session 36
The next morning… mino stabs his axe into the ground and genuflects and prays: “Morning! Uh, I don’t know, are you supposed to get back to me, am I supposed ot hear back from you? Well if you’re not busy, things are good…” Ro takes up most the bed, but corrin cant’ move because you can’t wake up the cat. Nergil brushes his hair. Quill realizes no one is making breakfast so he goes to leave.
Sophia Naïlo approaches as mino is finishing prayer and quill is opening the door. Mino: “state your name and business”. Mino harasses Sophia until she argues back. She lays out breakfast and explains that she’ll cook, although she’s not thrilled about it. Corrin offers to cook, but Sophia politely declines. She’s being paid more this week. A message from astrid: “sit tight, astrid is coming later, don’t start trouble”
Astrid’s drunk history, maybe a plan
Nergil: where’s the happening places? The shenanigans? “the temple? Parks by the lakefront?” Mino: what about winnehild? N: where’s the fight club? S: only familiar with west side of the city, so not sure if any temple? uhhhh I’ll ask around? Mino: I want magic axe. S: mage’s guild. Mino: we were gonna stop there anyway. Mino wants to make it a homeless shelter: the party would rather have a live-in housekeeper. Raen comes downstairs
N: seen anything demonic? Like a 3 legged dog? S: I’ll keep an eye out? N: go the other way.
2 hours later: astrid arrives (quill is the only grateful one). Astrid helps copy spells and gives
They want to go to the mage’s guild in Yenshir? I’ts 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Nergil: I guess we’re staying for a few days. Quill: we should probably look out for nergil’s siblings. Mino: no, thanks quill, but I want ot know what nergil thinks his siblings are up to. Astrid: what have you gotten up to before? N: we’re not bringing mariliths into town. C: worst case scenario? N: he’s not concerned.
“can we just walk up?” Astrid: probably not, but quill can easily confirm credentials and get everyone in.
“we’re only admitting members or their approved guests. Do you have proof of membership?” quill: prospective memberships? “you’d have to make that appointment.” Yorn Fom (half elf, short white hair, pronounced keloid scar on his forearm from a beast). Mino harasses him about capitalism. Nergil volunteers also. The guards take their names as they introduce themselves to Yorn. Think Princeton: academia academia. He’s head conjuror.
Quill is from fishmouth, studied at the library. Nergil “picked it up from around”, yorn is thrilled that he’s interested in expanding his studies. (think the geology musem.)
Abjuration: globes of invulnerability. Nergil 19 arcana, quill 11 arcana. Nergil remembers the spellf rom astrid’s hagsperience, and quill knows the name of the spell but not much about it. Quill decides to wait it out. Nergil tries to poison spray and thaumaturgy, but eventually ends up waiting out the spell.
Divination: the sensor. Nergil casts detect magic as a ritual. Quill arcanas 20. He knows lots of different effects. Casts see invisibility, sees the arcane eye sensor. Yorn confirms. Nergil finishes the spell. He doesn’t see anything.
Enchantment: quill saves on 11 and is modify memory: yorn fom. Nergil saves on 16 and is compelled to keep moving in random directions. Yorn to quill: “what is my name?: while quill figures it out, the name is suggested by the spellbook, and Yorn is surprised. The spell breaks. Nergil is still running: he uses command to halt.
Illusion: hallucinatory terrain: quill in a small clearning with pond, nergil in a swamp. Quill investigates on a 12, doesn’t find anything out of place. Nergil investigates on 11. Quill looks for the seams on the illusion and checks on 23 and disbelieves it. Nergil arcana 15, tries to pick up a stick to light a fire and isn’t able to, then investigates on 21 to see through the illusion.
Transmutation: a boulder appears in front of them, they must transmute it. Nergil wishes it was a goat, so yorn changes it to a goat. Quill investigates on a 19 to see if there are any cracks in it, and uses mending to repair the crack. Nergil asks the rock back. Nergil hugs the rock and flavors it for an hour like meat.
Necromancy: luminous large mino’s size humanoid figure. “manipulate its lifeforce” chill touch, 24 to hit 9 damage. Quill: shuffles through his spell book, scholar voice: “we don’t have anything like that.” Quill: “manipulating life force is not a study I wish to be involved in. deliberately chosen not to learn anything like that.”
Evocation: a mindless one, use whatever means you want to destroy it. Nergil eblasts: 27 (15dmg) 26 (9dmg) and defeats it. Quill: lightning fireball, 5th level (32)
Conjuration: summon celestial: they both roll arcana but only know the final test is conjuration. Quill banishes it (save on 8). Nergil blights it (saves on 13).
Yorn congratulates them: nergil as apprentice; quill as journeyman. Corrin’s bow, mino’s axe; “can’t be unescorted, but can approach artificers once they’re credentialed, especially not now” end. Replies to corrin and nergil in infernal. Quil wants to ask him about what’s happening and about symol after the paperwork.
