Finally at the Crucible

Session Summary

Key Lore/Important Info

Loot

Encounters and Interactions

Returning the Weapons

• Alcazari leads us down into the vaults to see Chimamanda
• Alcazari tries to take credit says she hired us to get the weapons
• We hand over the weapons to Chimamanda
• He steps away from a moment and gets some giant black gloves with runes on them
• He’s asking us how much time we spent with the weapons
  • Asking us to see who
    • Thrainli turns in Wave
    • I turn in Black Razor
    • Lorian turns in Whelm
• He offers to provide us some information and items to help on our quest
• Alcazari asks him to sign her release
  • She heads off
  • The release is a form of credit at the Crucible

Catching up with Rajiv

• We start navigating to the area that Manchineel is familiar with
• Lots of people milling around
• We notice a set of figures in converastion
  • One of them is a giant spider
    • Daddy long legs sort of thing
    • Dressed in a very nice waistcoat
  • Manchineel doesn’t recognize them
  • They are talking with another figure
    • Dressed in what looks like a medical coat/wizarding outfit
    • This figure locks in on Thrainli
• Rajiv isn’t in his office
  • We suspect he’s on his way to dinner given the time
  • There are a number
• We don’t end up finding him and so we just roll out to find dinner
• We seek out the food hall for most of the academics
  • Think Harry Potter
  • Floating candles and invisible servants
  • See the spider people, groups of ogres, druid envoys
• We identify Rajiv
  • He’s chatting with someone Manchineel doesn’t recognize
    • A tiefling: Dr. Important
    • Seems to be a cleric
      • Unusual at the Crucible, tend to congregate elsewhere
      • Has a healing image on his chest
      • Male
  • Rajiv
    • looks mid-30s
    • Elvish
• Rajiv greets Manchineel warmly
  • Very friendly with us
  • Asks us how we are and starts introducing himself to the group
  • M tells Rajiv that we need to tell him something in private
• Over dinner we tell our story
  • We recount the tale
  • We try to explain the meeting of the group in terms of time travel
  • Rajiv tells us that Chronomancy is not a thing
  • Rajiv doesn’t know of any ice dragons
    • Says to ask the librarian
      • Lorian asks
    • Rajiv is in psychomancy
      • Says that Manchineel was the result of their research
    • The group starts recounting the female wizard Tiefling
    • Talk to Chimamanda about the Box and how to battle the dragon
    • Rajiv will ask around about the shared psychosis
    • Recommends checking the library
      • Basic texts on dragons
      • Can seek out esoterica for additional information
  • Tells us to check out in the morning
• Thrainli gets into a conversation with Dr. Important about how to improve Fleshy
  • Fleshy goes with Dr. Important for improvements

First Evening

• We make our back to accommodations
• Lorian notices out of the corner of his ear, some footsteps down a far hallway/side hall
• Thrainli and Lorian track a dark figure down into the under are of the Crucible
• We alert Rajiv in his private quarters but upon returning we don’t find anyone
• We then head back to our accommodations and get drinks
  • Cosimo goes to bed
  • Thrainly and M have one drink
  • Merkin plays music at the bar
    • Someone else wanders in with a prominent instrument
    • Jams with Merkin
    • More bards come
    • Merkin has a nice bonding session with the bards
  • Lorian is wondering whether he should have tracked the person in the lab

The Next Morning

• Awaken fully rested
• Plans
  • Visit Rajiv for an update
  • Talk to Chimamanda for updates
  • Visit the library

Update with Rajiv

• Welcomes us to his office and invites us to sit
• Update
  • Shared psychosis not that common
  • Divination
    • Collective divination
    • Has made us an appointment with them
    • Gives us location of the diviners
  • If you need to talk to someone more about time travel not being possible, grad students that know something about chronomancy
    • Gives us an address for the grad students
• Rajiv asks to speak to me privately
  • Chatting with Samson and wondering about a new theory
    • Thinks they can make more useful to magic users
      • Arcane focus
        • Wants to turn me into an arcane focus
          • So magic users can attune to me use me as a tool

The Library

• We walk up and I greet both Baelora Ironscribe and Grukka The Enlightened
• We get an overview of the library
• Cosimo requests information of Grukka about things related to his magic and the old ones and crystals
  • Grukka starts casting spells and comes up with a magic guide for research
  • Info that Cosimo gets
    • Don’t fuck with old ones
    • Nobody knows what the old ones
    • They are more like forces
    • Lots of people are made mad
    • Others get lots of power
• M is going to research combat with Ice Dragons
  • I get a guide to learn about hunting dragons
  • Information that I get
    • Most mindless of the dragons
    • Driven by primal forces
      • Hunger
      • Vengeance
    • Ice Breathe
    • Not typically vulnerable to fire
    • But, immune to cold damage
    • Scary
      • Induce fear
    • The details don’t match up with the Ice Dragon they encountered in the dream
• Lorian is doing research on the Queen’s Rest
  • Learns about the history of Queen’s rest
  • Tomb for an ancient elven queen
  • Curse on the tomb
    • If you disturb, very bad for everyone
  • Evershifting dungeon around the tomb
  • People go into the dungeon for all sorts of reasons
• Thrainli is doing research on undead
  • Learns about how vampires and dhampyrs come about
• Merkin is going to wander the stacks and observe people

Chronomancy Grad Students

• The grad students are in the depths of a basement
• A genasi
  • Bic (name)
  • Half genie
  • Blue skin
• Very excited to pull us in to talk about chronomancy
  • Lots of jargon
  • Giving a historical evidence
  • Person is a historian
    • Doesn’t really do chronomancy magic
      • Just think it exists based on the historian
• Perks up at the mention of the tiefling
  • Mentions Novikov
    • Novikov is away doing research at the revenant
    • Novikov resembles the tiefling from the dream
  • Novikov
    • Was seeking something in esoterica

Collective Divination Group

• Top of a tower
• Think they are big shots
• They are keen to talk to us, but they are trying to convince us that our reported experience can’t be what we actually experienced
• We hand them the fortune we got in Roam
  • Standard set of things
  • 3 x 3
• Thrainli gets an ominous fortune
  • When you get to the bottom she’s not who she says she is
  • Don’t forget to close the door behind you
• One of them knows Finthir Shinebright
  • We recount the tale of Finthir
  • They agree to organize a memorial
• We ask the about the box, but they don’t think it is divination magic
  • They don’t really know what it is

Chimamanda Chat

• Approach the vault, but Chimmandra is not there
  • Series of emergency meeting
  • Left behind some objects for us
  • Note
    • Apologies for not having time to put things together
      • Objects
        • Wand of Magic Detection
          • Lorian
        • Hag Eye
          • Manchineel
        • 2 X Potion of Fire Breathe
          • Merkin
          • Manchineel
        • Wind Fan
          • Lorian
        • Bag of Holding
          • Thrainli
        • Bag of Beans
          • 6 Beans
          • Merkin
  • They also agree to identify anything we leave
    • We leave the half diamond for identification

Back to the Library

• Thrainli notices a person watching them
  • Dragonborn
    • It’s Archon
  • Comes up to talk to Thrainli
    • Wants some samples from Thrainli
      • We agree to go to the lab with Thrainli
  • Merkin propositions Archon and they agree to a rendezvous
• Archon leads us to the lab on the ground floor
  • Ask Thrainli to sit on a table
  • Body parts strewn about
  • People obviously working on Necromancy stuff
  • Some undead stuff around
    • A Zombie
  • Dr. Important comes out and asks if we’re here for fleshy
  • Archon is flustered to have Thrainli in the lab and asking questions and getting equipment ready
    • Also super into the fact that Archon is immortal
  • They take a bunch of samples
  • Fleshy lumbers out
    • Slimmer than before
    • Cleaner joints
    • Now has a suit
    • Now has a moustache
      • No ideas whose moustache
    • Now has a bandolier that can carry potions
  • We are ushered out and Archon sleeps with Merkin
• We continue on to the library
  • Novikov requested a delve and paid for it a single time
    • What got brought back were financial records for a secret society of wizards
      • Deliveries to some unknown location
      • Interesting magical ingredients
      • Records of an amulet that came back from the delve that was associated with this group
        • Novikov kept the amulet

Plans for Next Time

• Organize a Delve
• Work with Rajiv to become an arcane focus
• Get information about the diamond
• Someone goes to Revenant to get information

Location and Travel Details

The Crucible

• Seems like a defensible fortress, but hasn’t been used that way in a long time

• Ages range from children to elder adults

• No real guards

• Extensive and complicated set of buildings

• There are many food halls

• There are accommodation

• Densely magical

• People casting spells

• Lots of wizards and sorcerers walking around practicing their craft

• Some bards, hear some music hear and there

• Diverse in terms of races and types of people

Crucible Library

• Grand doors
• Beautiful
• Stained glass
• arches and buttresses
• This is the gem of the Crucible
  • The place to do arcane research
• Two Large Librarian Desks
  • In calligraphic lettering
    • The Stacks
    • Esoterica

Stacks

• Organized knowledge

Esoterica

• Like a dungeon
• You go in there to find things that are unknown, specific pieces of knowledge
• They arrange delves
• Arranged on a regular schedule
• No guarantee that you’ll survive or find what you need

Divination Tower

• Mirrors