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<blockquote data-quote="Shieldhaven" data-source="post: 2113797" data-attributes="member: 23427"><p>And once again, we’re off for a journey into gods-know-what. Five days after we got back to Sharn, the Dean called us into his office to send us far, far away. This time it’s Xen’drik. If we are successful, his story will at least confirm its own veracity.</p><p></p><p>We had been in town for less than a day when I got in touch with Manarix to finish the deal. He paid with a note for eight thousand, notarized by Sivis and drawn against Kundarak. He stayed for a few minutes of banter. “When are you giving up this gallivanting?” for example. “Why don’t you join the family business full-time?” To which I can’t say much more than, “Not yet. Someday.” He also gave a slightly-better-than-neutral response to the idea of selling such “recovered” goods again in the future. In theory I’m learning magic that will make my service to House Cannith really worth something. In practice I’m trying to keep my skin intact long enough for it to be cured, rather like a ham, until it is useful to House Cannith. I settled on finishing up my research on Shockwave, figuring that it would be particularly useful while we were in Sharn. Maeve and I wrote our report to the Dean in record time.</p><p></p><p>Then I started spending money at a prodigious rate. I’ve learned to bind magic to weapons and armor, much the same way that ink binds magic to paper. First one of Fel’s swords, then Gerron’s axe. The first tier of enhancement isn’t really impressing anyone, but Xen’drik just might be the kind of place where we really need magic-touched weaponry. I also bought some spell scrolls, Unweaving and Wind Dancing, to scribe into a dragonshard that I bought – not a cheap process, but also not vulnerable to fire or water. Suffice to say, as soon as we got a serious influx of money, we began hemorrhaging it. I’ve been trying to keep track of who owes what to whom, since I’m still holding onto the note and simply drawing money against it as necessary. Maeve gave me a bit of her share so I could get a new wand of arcane bolts from House Cannith.</p><p></p><p>While I was working with the weapons, Maeve was socializing with scholars and lurking in the library. She learned that modern scholarship does not accept the existence of a 14th moon, as our current theories would necessitate. There may or may not be a Draconic Prophecy. Fragments of this thing surface from time to time, and even those scholars who accept its existence do not know what it meant for Siberys, Eberron, and Khyber.</p><p></p><p>I do not know what Gerron and Fel were doing while I was enchanting their gear. I assume it was productive at least in their own views, but I find imbuing magic into metal to be one of the most taxing things I have ever done, and I saw them only to pick up or drop off their weapons. It is, on the other hand, intensely satisfying to think that I might be making something that will last for centuries, maintained by the magic I have woven into it, and something that might be improved as my own powers become more significant.</p><p></p><p>I was halfway through with Gerron’s axe when the Dean called us to his office and told us that he was sending us to Xen’drik in two days’ time. An expedition team of students has gone missing down there, and he wants us to go find them. It seems to me like a rescue team should at least outnumber the original team, but the Dean clearly does not see it that way. On the good side, I will be able to take my horse Tiassa with me on the ship. Dean Harrison gave us names and descriptions of the five research assistants. A native guide named Xilonen will also be meeting us, with a glyphbook. The students were following up research on a giant city in the desert.</p><p></p><p>Some questions that remain:</p><p>Well, we know basically nothing about the students or what kind of trouble they got into. The question still remains, despite all of our asking: “What is the Dean really after?” Is there any way at all for Xen’drik to shed light on the problems that actually seem to matter – the axe and the prophecy? What is going on with the moons?</p><p></p><p>-----------------------</p><p></p><p>No combat this time. The session was all about planning and gathering information. Frustratingly, I know OOC a whole lot about what's going on, because it involves a lot of Eberron history. I still have no idea what the Dean's really after, though.</p><p></p><p>I assume everyone can work out my "code" of spell names. I just felt like giving some of the super-common low-level spells a more poetic name.</p><p></p><p>Shieldhaven</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shieldhaven, post: 2113797, member: 23427"] And once again, we’re off for a journey into gods-know-what. Five days after we got back to Sharn, the Dean called us into his office to send us far, far away. This time it’s Xen’drik. If we are successful, his story will at least confirm its own veracity. We had been in town for less than a day when I got in touch with Manarix to finish the deal. He paid with a note for eight thousand, notarized by Sivis and drawn against Kundarak. He stayed for a few minutes of banter. “When are you giving up this gallivanting?” for example. “Why don’t you join the family business full-time?” To which I can’t say much more than, “Not yet. Someday.” He also gave a slightly-better-than-neutral response to the idea of selling such “recovered” goods again in the future. In theory I’m learning magic that will make my service to House Cannith really worth something. In practice I’m trying to keep my skin intact long enough for it to be cured, rather like a ham, until it is useful to House Cannith. I settled on finishing up my research on Shockwave, figuring that it would be particularly useful while we were in Sharn. Maeve and I wrote our report to the Dean in record time. Then I started spending money at a prodigious rate. I’ve learned to bind magic to weapons and armor, much the same way that ink binds magic to paper. First one of Fel’s swords, then Gerron’s axe. The first tier of enhancement isn’t really impressing anyone, but Xen’drik just might be the kind of place where we really need magic-touched weaponry. I also bought some spell scrolls, Unweaving and Wind Dancing, to scribe into a dragonshard that I bought – not a cheap process, but also not vulnerable to fire or water. Suffice to say, as soon as we got a serious influx of money, we began hemorrhaging it. I’ve been trying to keep track of who owes what to whom, since I’m still holding onto the note and simply drawing money against it as necessary. Maeve gave me a bit of her share so I could get a new wand of arcane bolts from House Cannith. While I was working with the weapons, Maeve was socializing with scholars and lurking in the library. She learned that modern scholarship does not accept the existence of a 14th moon, as our current theories would necessitate. There may or may not be a Draconic Prophecy. Fragments of this thing surface from time to time, and even those scholars who accept its existence do not know what it meant for Siberys, Eberron, and Khyber. I do not know what Gerron and Fel were doing while I was enchanting their gear. I assume it was productive at least in their own views, but I find imbuing magic into metal to be one of the most taxing things I have ever done, and I saw them only to pick up or drop off their weapons. It is, on the other hand, intensely satisfying to think that I might be making something that will last for centuries, maintained by the magic I have woven into it, and something that might be improved as my own powers become more significant. I was halfway through with Gerron’s axe when the Dean called us to his office and told us that he was sending us to Xen’drik in two days’ time. An expedition team of students has gone missing down there, and he wants us to go find them. It seems to me like a rescue team should at least outnumber the original team, but the Dean clearly does not see it that way. On the good side, I will be able to take my horse Tiassa with me on the ship. Dean Harrison gave us names and descriptions of the five research assistants. A native guide named Xilonen will also be meeting us, with a glyphbook. The students were following up research on a giant city in the desert. Some questions that remain: Well, we know basically nothing about the students or what kind of trouble they got into. The question still remains, despite all of our asking: “What is the Dean really after?” Is there any way at all for Xen’drik to shed light on the problems that actually seem to matter – the axe and the prophecy? What is going on with the moons? ----------------------- No combat this time. The session was all about planning and gathering information. Frustratingly, I know OOC a whole lot about what's going on, because it involves a lot of Eberron history. I still have no idea what the Dean's really after, though. I assume everyone can work out my "code" of spell names. I just felt like giving some of the super-common low-level spells a more poetic name. Shieldhaven [/QUOTE]
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