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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7299252" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p>We try to extrapolate Sijhen's escape route and find that it crosses quite nicely with a newly built railway tunnel. So we head there as fast as possible. </p><p></p><p>Inside the tunnel we find two trains and their corresponding drivers who seem pretty stupefied. The trains are ready to go, so we ask Margit to keep an eye on them and KO them once they show signs of being mind controlled or trying to overrun us with their trains. (<span style="color: #008000">Does anyone know Operator Thogar from Blackrock Foundry? He's an Orc boss encounter and you have to dodge trains when you fight him. So we kind of suspected this might be the case here as well...</span>) </p><p></p><p>We sneak ahead and see a pretty twisted looking “Xambria Meredith” who's standing inside a ritual circle surrounded by lanterns. Behind her is the golden seal of Apet. She has the golden star chart in her hands and uses it to summon some kind of portal which forms behind the seal. We agree on a stealth attack, so we leave Margit with the trains and ask her to take out one of the drivers once we attack Sijhen. We tell her that we'll try to shut down the portal, but should things go downhill, it will be up to her to use one of the trains to smash the seal into the portal.</p><p></p><p>Then Carlyle, Flying Spark and Auryn turn invisible and sneak up to the very busy Sijhen who's about to conduct a ritual. Then Mr. Carlyle attacks to draw Sijhen's attention to him. Meanwhile, Auryn rushes into the ritual circle and tries to gain control over the whole thing. While she mentally wrestles with Sijhen, the creature splits into two again as soon as Carlyle shows himself and starts his attack. Fortunately, Flying Spark and Carlyle are able to put Sijhen down this time while Auryn strengthens her mental presence with fey magic. </p><p></p><p>As soon as Sijhen goes down, Auryn gains control over the ritual and starts floating while she's about to contain the strange planar energies. However, Sijhen goes down with a bang, completely obliterating Dr. Meredith's body and leaving behind nothing but the star chart. Carlyle sees what's about to happen and shields Auryn with his own body to catch the explosive burst. He and Flying Spark then make sure to put all the lanterns back to their intended places. Carlyle then uses his time magic to buy Auryn additional time. After a while, she returns to the ground and her eyes cease to glow as the portal shuts down for good. Margit runs up to Mr. Carlyle to heal the wounds he got from the explosion. </p><p></p><p>All of them are completely exhausted when suddenly the spirit of Dr. Meredith appears in front of their eyes. She's afraid to fade into nothingness and begs us to help her. Auryn seems completely helpless and doesn't really know what to do with the spirit which is growing weaker every second, so she asks Mr. Carlyle for guidance as he's the mortal spirit expert of their team. Carlyle seems a bit hesitant, but helps to guide Dr. Meredith into Auryn's body where it can find a temporary home. Dr. Meredith appears in front of Auryn's eyes and thanks them for their help. She hopes to find a method to create a new body though as she knows that it wouldn't be wise to occupy a host like her for too long. </p><p></p><p>( <span style="color: #008000">I guess Tizbiz kind of expected that Carlyle would be the one who'd take Dr. Meredith's spirit. After all, he's the spirit medium of the team and has already successfully guided a lot of spirits. He seemed a bit irritated by the spirit's request though and doesn't really want to have anyone too close to his “inner sphere”. Carlyle refused to be part of the bonding with Nevard as well as he feared some weird backlash due to his immortal spirit and divine spark.</span>)</p><p></p><p>We head back to the RHC, barely able to walk but still happy to call Flint safe and monster-free again. We are pretty surprised to see Viscount Inspector Price-Hill in the entrance room who seems to be utterly disappointed by whatever happened when we were busy searching for Sijhen. When he sees us he puts up a rather relieved expression and congratulates us on our successful mission. He has some serious business to discuss with us though and leads us to Saxby's office. On our way there we come across a very downtrodden Team 1 who are all silent and barely able to look each other in the eye. </p><p></p><p>Delf is already waiting for us in the office and both he and Price-Hill bring us up to date. Once we got out to catch Sijhen, Lady Saxby asked to be released from her cell as she wanted to contact Lord Price-Hill and tell him about the attack. Delft finally realized that this was sounding fishy as hell and insisted that they should rather send some errand boy to get Price-Hill. Saxby then demanded to have Delft locked up as he was clearly still under some mind control and Delft objected heavily. Team 1 had to make a tough decision which ended in ugly infighting, but in the end Delft got the upper hand, insisted that they'll both be locked up and have someone call for Price-Hill. When the boss of the two finally arrived, he found some rather incriminating evidence in Saxby's office as she had stored a lot of expensive archaeological artifacts in her office. Xambria mentally tells Auryn that these were some of the artifacts she originally sent to Bergeron and which he then gave to MacBannin. And it also turned out that the blackcloaks were only able to enter the RHC because Saxby green-lighted some renovation work in the HQ where iron rings were somehow incorporated into the walls. So yep, she basically opened the RHC door for the Blackcloaks. </p><p></p><p>We are horrified by this revelation and have to assume that Saxby – unknowingly or knowingly might have given away details of the MacBannin case to Leone or Bergeron whomever had been her contact within the members of the conspiracy. This is where Xambria asks Auryn to swiftly explain things to the rest of the crew, so she lets her take over. Dr. Meredith says that she's now resting inside Auryn and would like to contribute to their case. She says this “conspiracy” sounds a lot like the Obscurati guys Sijhen was so interested in and that they are shortly called “Obs”. Now the ring code becomes pretty clear to us as it has to be “OB + X”.</p><p></p><p>As disappointed as the Viscount Inspector might be about his “fallen Star Inspector Saxby”, we nonetheless need a functioning hierarchy in the Flint bureau and so he promotes Stover Delft to Chief Inspector. Congratulations!</p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">Phew, catastrophe averted. What a furious finale. Now this time we couldn't take the blame of letting Sijhen escape again on us as the creature was clearly out of our league. The attack on the RHC was both overwhelming and awesome at the same time and we only succeeded so well (as Tizbiz said) because we tried to synergize the team's abilities to their best effects. Unfortunately the blackcloaks disappeared before we could question them, so we still don't know who sent them after Auryn and Carlyle. Money's on Leone though. </span></p><p><span style="color: #008000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008000">Regarding Saxby, we did expect some shady affairs, which is why we alerted Lauryn in the first place, but no outright betrayal. That reveal was a tough one, especially for Auryn who always held her “RHC Matriarch” in high esteem while Carlyle has been more or less Team Delft since the beginning.</span>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7299252, member: 6816692"] We try to extrapolate Sijhen's escape route and find that it crosses quite nicely with a newly built railway tunnel. So we head there as fast as possible. Inside the tunnel we find two trains and their corresponding drivers who seem pretty stupefied. The trains are ready to go, so we ask Margit to keep an eye on them and KO them once they show signs of being mind controlled or trying to overrun us with their trains. ([COLOR="#008000"]Does anyone know Operator Thogar from Blackrock Foundry? He's an Orc boss encounter and you have to dodge trains when you fight him. So we kind of suspected this might be the case here as well...[/COLOR]) We sneak ahead and see a pretty twisted looking “Xambria Meredith” who's standing inside a ritual circle surrounded by lanterns. Behind her is the golden seal of Apet. She has the golden star chart in her hands and uses it to summon some kind of portal which forms behind the seal. We agree on a stealth attack, so we leave Margit with the trains and ask her to take out one of the drivers once we attack Sijhen. We tell her that we'll try to shut down the portal, but should things go downhill, it will be up to her to use one of the trains to smash the seal into the portal. Then Carlyle, Flying Spark and Auryn turn invisible and sneak up to the very busy Sijhen who's about to conduct a ritual. Then Mr. Carlyle attacks to draw Sijhen's attention to him. Meanwhile, Auryn rushes into the ritual circle and tries to gain control over the whole thing. While she mentally wrestles with Sijhen, the creature splits into two again as soon as Carlyle shows himself and starts his attack. Fortunately, Flying Spark and Carlyle are able to put Sijhen down this time while Auryn strengthens her mental presence with fey magic. As soon as Sijhen goes down, Auryn gains control over the ritual and starts floating while she's about to contain the strange planar energies. However, Sijhen goes down with a bang, completely obliterating Dr. Meredith's body and leaving behind nothing but the star chart. Carlyle sees what's about to happen and shields Auryn with his own body to catch the explosive burst. He and Flying Spark then make sure to put all the lanterns back to their intended places. Carlyle then uses his time magic to buy Auryn additional time. After a while, she returns to the ground and her eyes cease to glow as the portal shuts down for good. Margit runs up to Mr. Carlyle to heal the wounds he got from the explosion. All of them are completely exhausted when suddenly the spirit of Dr. Meredith appears in front of their eyes. She's afraid to fade into nothingness and begs us to help her. Auryn seems completely helpless and doesn't really know what to do with the spirit which is growing weaker every second, so she asks Mr. Carlyle for guidance as he's the mortal spirit expert of their team. Carlyle seems a bit hesitant, but helps to guide Dr. Meredith into Auryn's body where it can find a temporary home. Dr. Meredith appears in front of Auryn's eyes and thanks them for their help. She hopes to find a method to create a new body though as she knows that it wouldn't be wise to occupy a host like her for too long. ( [COLOR="#008000"]I guess Tizbiz kind of expected that Carlyle would be the one who'd take Dr. Meredith's spirit. After all, he's the spirit medium of the team and has already successfully guided a lot of spirits. He seemed a bit irritated by the spirit's request though and doesn't really want to have anyone too close to his “inner sphere”. Carlyle refused to be part of the bonding with Nevard as well as he feared some weird backlash due to his immortal spirit and divine spark.[/COLOR]) We head back to the RHC, barely able to walk but still happy to call Flint safe and monster-free again. We are pretty surprised to see Viscount Inspector Price-Hill in the entrance room who seems to be utterly disappointed by whatever happened when we were busy searching for Sijhen. When he sees us he puts up a rather relieved expression and congratulates us on our successful mission. He has some serious business to discuss with us though and leads us to Saxby's office. On our way there we come across a very downtrodden Team 1 who are all silent and barely able to look each other in the eye. Delf is already waiting for us in the office and both he and Price-Hill bring us up to date. Once we got out to catch Sijhen, Lady Saxby asked to be released from her cell as she wanted to contact Lord Price-Hill and tell him about the attack. Delft finally realized that this was sounding fishy as hell and insisted that they should rather send some errand boy to get Price-Hill. Saxby then demanded to have Delft locked up as he was clearly still under some mind control and Delft objected heavily. Team 1 had to make a tough decision which ended in ugly infighting, but in the end Delft got the upper hand, insisted that they'll both be locked up and have someone call for Price-Hill. When the boss of the two finally arrived, he found some rather incriminating evidence in Saxby's office as she had stored a lot of expensive archaeological artifacts in her office. Xambria mentally tells Auryn that these were some of the artifacts she originally sent to Bergeron and which he then gave to MacBannin. And it also turned out that the blackcloaks were only able to enter the RHC because Saxby green-lighted some renovation work in the HQ where iron rings were somehow incorporated into the walls. So yep, she basically opened the RHC door for the Blackcloaks. We are horrified by this revelation and have to assume that Saxby – unknowingly or knowingly might have given away details of the MacBannin case to Leone or Bergeron whomever had been her contact within the members of the conspiracy. This is where Xambria asks Auryn to swiftly explain things to the rest of the crew, so she lets her take over. Dr. Meredith says that she's now resting inside Auryn and would like to contribute to their case. She says this “conspiracy” sounds a lot like the Obscurati guys Sijhen was so interested in and that they are shortly called “Obs”. Now the ring code becomes pretty clear to us as it has to be “OB + X”. As disappointed as the Viscount Inspector might be about his “fallen Star Inspector Saxby”, we nonetheless need a functioning hierarchy in the Flint bureau and so he promotes Stover Delft to Chief Inspector. Congratulations! ([COLOR="#008000"]Phew, catastrophe averted. What a furious finale. Now this time we couldn't take the blame of letting Sijhen escape again on us as the creature was clearly out of our league. The attack on the RHC was both overwhelming and awesome at the same time and we only succeeded so well (as Tizbiz said) because we tried to synergize the team's abilities to their best effects. Unfortunately the blackcloaks disappeared before we could question them, so we still don't know who sent them after Auryn and Carlyle. Money's on Leone though. Regarding Saxby, we did expect some shady affairs, which is why we alerted Lauryn in the first place, but no outright betrayal. That reveal was a tough one, especially for Auryn who always held her “RHC Matriarch” in high esteem while Carlyle has been more or less Team Delft since the beginning.[/COLOR]) [/QUOTE]
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