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Having done the stuff of the previous run, we decide to go to D's performace. It's a success! Yay! Imre brings flowers for D.

D. frolics with the nobles who attended the performance. D. flirts a lot with a duke's son. Lord Kalen Avanir. Eventually he sneaks out the back wishing to avoid his other admirers.

Not satisfied with the depth of her conquest, D. sneaks out and follows him. The head towards the upper class area of the city and head towards a lift coach to get elevated. She runs up the nearby stairs and tries to pick him up again. she follows some more and find her quarry stopping at a little cafe/Inn. They (the duke's son and his assistant) are talking about someone, but D. doesn't really remember the name. Whoever it is, is thinking about heading off to either Selkai or Gryphon college.

He plays with a pendant and suddenly gets scared of the location he's decided to talk, but D. follows further. The pair gets to a villa and go in D. breaks it off.

Haeraan and Kyrik attract some attention at the reception but not enough to really be worth mentioning.

The Bohemian artist crowd go around trying to make contacts.

The thing that the Duke's son had and was described by D. turned out to be the Phoenix Pendant. We fret about who to tell or what to do about all of this.

After an hour of discussion, we tramp off to Randai's villa and ask to see him. An elf answers and tells us that the master is not receiving guests at the moment. We drop Anton's name and hope for the best. We wait in the foyer. Messages go back and forth between us and Randai for a while. We get brushed off, but while leaving, we drop Lord Kalen's name. Now the master will see us.

Randai comes in. We tell him our credentials and he casts some spells to verify these facts. We tell him we were here to keep an eye on the situation. But we uncovered a pendant!

"Oops, You people would recognize the fool thing, wouldn't you." Randai looks displeased. "For now forget all of this happened. I'll talk to Anton and get you troublemakers assigned to a long journey."

He whips out a magic mirror and we are talking to Anton. Anton talks up our immense prowess. Randai is skeptical. But he supposes we might have some vague use, if we are kept out of his hair. As soon as Fraylik resolves somehow, head back to Griffin college.

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The shows of Spectacular, Spectacular is going quite well and all of the shows are sold out, but other things are fairly quiet. The the morning of the sixth day, the whole city is in an uproar as Fraylik approaches. People are fleeing or entering the city. Most of the houses get shuttered up. The city is quite tense.

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Fraylik arrives! We all try to get a glimpse. 20 knights on horses ride up to the walls and make a little wedge behind which is Fraylik. Next to him is a mage carrying a wodden crownsized box. Fraylik speaks. His voice echoes out. "People! I, Fraylik, have come to claim the throne of Rakhan. It is time. I hold the Phoenix crown. I shall be your new ruler." The crowd rumbles. "Rakhan is weak! I, I shall lead it back to glory and strength." The crown is revealed. "I..."

Ou tof nowhere appears a black cloaked figure. Fraylik lifts a blood covered dagger out of Fraylik's back. There are screams. The crown falls! He stabs Fraylik again. Then he raises his hand and it glows. The dark cloaked figure vanishes. Oathar's bird swoops down and grabs the crown. Haeraan tells us where to send it. The bird starts veering towards the groups designated by Haeraan. "It's a miracle!!!" shouts the crowd.

The guards snatch up the crown and run back in.

Our nobles go back to court and hope to see what is done with the crown. The palace doors are closed and barred. Imre and Oathar got to the temple of Eissa. A guard escorts the mother superior or Eissa to the palace. There was an assassination attempt on the Emporer a dark cloaked figure tried to kill him. The Loremaster Thrassic interposed himself to save the Emporer and was greviously wounded. He's in bad shape. Fraylik is dead, dead, dead. He body is chopped a part and left for crows, his head is put on a pike. Thrassic is in a coma having been poisoned by a rare and unusual compound. There is a very rare bush that grows in the far north that might be a remedy. It only blooms for a short time and its flowers could help. it's called Alcorn.

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We spend a few days gathering information on the collapse of Fraylik's forces. Thrassic has stabilized in coma-land, but is not recovering. All assassins escaped. The Emporer will likely don the crown with on the first day of summer. The play Spectacular, spectacular closes due to the new political climate.

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We travel back to Gryphon College. Anton debriefs us. We complain about our treatment at the hands of Randai. Anton thinks we should go up north and obtain some Alcorn. As a cover, he's going to send us up to a little trading town called Kelfor's Landing. Oathar will be in charge of a trading expedition as a cover. The rest of us can be either guards or an adventuring party Oathar's sponsored. There are ruins up there including the old city of Quellbourne, which attracts that sort of thing and is near the Alcorn.

Oathar gets set up with a trading company and a ship for the cover. Woo hoo!