Session 321

In which our heroes ...

Orhan 3 Day 42 TE 6065

We dispose of Kieronalia.

Orhan 3 Day 45 TE 6065

Water Day!

There's a minor loremaster meeting at Gireg Jan's office. Maxim, Gireg, Anton, Tavar, Andara all show up for a meeting. We are not invited.

After services, Oathar goes to see if his Holy Sea Slug has returned. A little crab shows up. "Hawthorne" is his name. He delivers a message to Oathar. "You asked Neela for pennance. Here I am." He hops into Oathar's pocket and says, off we go. Oathar has two familiars now.

Imre goes to the library. He researches Bad Luck Day. Basically he gets all of the usual admonsihments. Don't start new thing or make decisions on bad luck day.

The loremaster meeting breaks up and they come out. "Maxim Pellax will have nothing to do with him!" The others say they will take care of it. Kyrik has been reassigned to Tevar Dekdarion. We contemplate telling Tevar about Kyrik's meeting several days hence. Tavar will be staying a few extra days to see about additional training.

Oathar sees if Gireg thinks Anton needs a breather. He's heading up to Norek where it is quiet.

Alynna and Tavar discuss the battle against Akalatan. That evening, he summons Kyrik, and says, "Defend yourself!" It starts after dinner. It ends at sunrise.

Orhan 3 Day 46 TE 6065

Hawthorne tells Oathar to go up to Eidolon, head out to the outer wall, and jump! No using landing. Oathar jumps. Most of the way down, Hawthorne says, "It was nice knowing you!" Oathar teleports back up. "You don't want the easy penance eh? Sigh, people these days. OK, we'll do it the hard way." Pinch.

Imre asks Tavar if he can heal Kyrik. Tavar says that's fine.

Tavar spends the afternoon with Alynna at the school.

Haeraan heads to Chelzaria to talk to Luna's father.

The town guard tell Haeraan about the giant spider rumors we've been hearing. Luna's always wanted to play with giant spider silk. Loan travellers tend to disappear.

Again, Tavar reduces Kyrik to a pulp all night until Sunrise.

That night Haeraan asks his father in law to do a special reading for him in the stars. He sees "You are both here and not. I see you on a child's swing, swinging back and forth..." He follows this with, "I see a darkness ahead of you. I see a nameless horor from beyond. I see a child crying, vowing vengeance. I see a flaming black stone."

Then he gets a vision of a small circular room with 13 pedastals, upon each pedastal is a small crystal orb shimmering with a prismatic light. He doesn't know what that means though.

Orhan 3 Day 47 TE 6065

At breakfast, Alynna has her usual chat with Tavar. Except this time, Alynna tells Tavar all about Kyrik's appointment tomorrow. Imre heals Kyrik up again.

Come that evening, we have a nice dinner with Tavar.

Kyrik goes to tell Tavar what's up tomorrow. "You know, I said to Anton. He's not so bad, he just needs a firm hand. What could go wrong." Tavar sits and composes himself to hear Kyrik's tale of woe. He tells the tale of how he ended up in the Jerak Arenreth. "Wait, you went voluntarily...?" That was the wany to find out stuff. "You didn't ask where you were going, or who they were?"

He says that tomorrow evening at Dusk at the docks of Selkai, he has an appointment. If I had to guess, it would probably involve one of more members of the Jerak Arenrath and a "Join us or Die" type scenario.

Tavar takes this all in, "Ohhh... which option do you think you will make?"

"I'm generally pro-life."

"So you plan to agree with them?"

"Or at least infiltrate them."

"I see, been speaking with Elor you have..."

Taking this all in, Tavar decides to take a long walk.

We have a long talk with Kyrik and he heads off to get 1000 gold and sacrifice it to Valris. We stop him to make sure 1000 gold is something he'll feel. Hawthorne recommends a laen lens.

After a bunch of soul searching, Kyrik decides to sacrifice the laen lens. Oathar is impressed. Kyrik puts the laen lens on the altar of Valris and prays. The lens ascends up on a beam of light. Valris's voice says,

"Oh my child. you have strayed into the darkness. Why have you gone so far?"

"Not all knowledge is good; there are some things man was not meant to know."

"Really? This changes everything!"

"Yes. The blind pursuit of knowledge is not enough. Knowledge must be used correctly. You must make a choice with knowledge. To obtain it or not. To use it or not? To diseminate it, or not. There are some knowledges man should not dabble with."

"Is there a book or list of this forbidden knowledge?"

"Know this. You have been given a chance. Choose your decisions well."

His corruption meter ticks back one more.

"Tomorrow I shall watch over you."

"Tomorrow, is there a line I could walk between forbidden knowledge and getting destroyed?"

"Have faith!"

We give praise to Valris.

Back at the villa, there is a figure sitting in the living room. There is a cloaked figure sitting in the living room. It's Andraax. "No need for tea. I suggest that you be prepared to disassociate yourselves from the Loremasters. Just in case things don't go so well tomorrow." "It should be quite obvious if you need to do this. Tavar and I had a talk. He expressed his concerns." "You are however necessary. But Tavar is concerned that one person's necessiy may be another's luxury." "They can not possibly been seen to associate with you publically." "It's a possible scenario, but not necessarily certain."

"For this immdiate situation, the die has already been cast. In the future, I suggest avoiding any invitations or associations."

"I must go."

Luna bops Kyrik on the head with her wand.

Kyrik goes to stand vigil in the library this evening.

Orhan 3 Day 48 TE 6065

Tomorrow.

Oathar goes to talk to Gireg about stuff. Contact procedures.

Kyrik heads off to his meeting.

The rest of us discuss what we actually do if Kyrik goes off the deep end. It's unclear.

Kyrik gets picked up from the docks be a small skiff. No one is on board. A voice whispers to him. "Get on board." The skiff takes him out a ways.

Beneath him is a shadow in the water. Like a submarine. A gaint metal contraption opens a hatch and a Dyar gestures for him to come. It heads down again into the depths.

Kyrik goes to the conference room within. Secret master #3, and a number of other evil dudes, (a linaer, a woman kind of dragonesque, an althan woman, Sulthon N'Shang, male loar) are within. Hovering above the loar's shoulder is Blinky.

N'Shang is impatient to get this underway, as Kyrik's not that impressive. The loar says this one has potential he could be useful. The linaer is bored. The althan wants to get on with it too. The loar says "Do you agree?" Kyrik says, "Yes." "Verywell." He casts a spell on Kyrik. Kyrik has faith. We don't notice anything. The dragonesque woman says "Surface and let him go, it's time to move on."

Kyrik gets back on the skiff, and sails back to Selkai dock. Kyrik starts heading back towards the villa. As he's walking away from the dock, this burst of light happens around him. A ghostly shape flies off into the air and implodes into a dark ball and dissipates. Kyrik detours to the temple first praying instead of heading back.

Kyrik heads back to the villa late that night. We're waiting for him with Detect Everything. Luna bops him on the head and the arms and the legs with her wand. Hawthorne pinches him. Blinky arrives.

"It was surprisingly short." Kyrik doesn't really want to elaborate beyond that. Oathar notices a magical disturbance where Blinky is and assumes it's a loremaster scrypoint. So everyone plays it cool.

Blinky follows Kyrik up to his bedroom.

Orhan 3 Day 49 TE 6065

Imre makes two types of eggs for Kyrik. Sunny side up and over easy.

Kyrik goes to breakfast and asks for the sunny side up eggs. He asks for the sunny side up eggs.

Imre and Oathar head off to talk to Gireg. He says he'll keep an eye on Kyrik. Haeraan goes outside to train. Alynna goes to the temple and meditates. Kryik takes a nap.

After a while, a monk gives Alynna a letter from Dekdarion: "Be very careful. There may come a time when one of you crosses the line. When that happens, we may be forced to do things we would not like to do."

Oathar catches up on the books.

Alynna tries to get Kyrik to walk her through his time with team evil. He doesn't really want to play though, so she doesn't find out what happened.

Finally Haeraan gets Kyrik into the inner sanctum of Rianne, and blinky doesn't follow them in. Kyrik explains the whole story to Haeraan inside the protected room.