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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 147, cont'd] As with many days, they have a public court to attend to various official matters. The Minister of the Mind rarely attends except when called to, but he is there this day, and asks for a moment. After the public court, they meet with him in a private audience. "I have more...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 147 (September 15, 2022) 9 O-Tar Kit has a report from the Brain. They report that the Council is right about what the enemy is doing; that the enemy has a three-part attack on the Prime, destabilizing both the Glordiadelian and Paranswarmian powers while also subverting Sytry, planning...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    Session 51 (January 22, 2023) 15 Kas They leave the abbey and head south towards the shoreline, expecting it to take about a day to get there. As they travel, Iados is out ahead of the group scouting. Iados flies back to the group. "There's a large village, which looks like it had over a...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 146, cont'd] Dame Brionna briefs the Council on a new problem. [Attached] A group (a “klave”) of snake-bodied, many armed demons (which Alistair identifies as mariliths) are rampaging through the northlands and targeting the most fervently dedicated to the Light to kill them, along...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 146 (July 27, 2022) 8 O-Tar Kit has a report from one of her people in Ecsilias. [Attached] There are ongoing assassination attempts against what is left of the royal family of Ecsilias. (Kit believes there were some messages that have not arrived. She thinks they need to improve their...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 55 (November 20, 2022) 21 Chund (cont'd) The group leaves the prison cell, traveling south perhaps 40 feet, and then turning west in the hope of then going north again. As hoped, the corridor hooks north almost immediately, and then comes to aan end with a door to the west. It is a...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 145, cont'd] Kit fires up the matrix to speak to the elves of the Crystal Cities, to try to reach the Eldron. The communication matrix is excited to reach out to the elves of the Crystal Cities. Immediately, an image of a beautiful elven woman pounding a glass shard on an anvil...
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    Aphonion Tales: Adventures in the Spice Lands and the War in Hanal, a tween and teen D&D game (edited notes, posts Tuesdays, most recent 3/7/23)

    Session 50 (January 8, 2023) 11 Kas (cont'd) So as they catch their breath, a young, middle aged woman, maybe late thirties or so emerges from the ruins, looks them over, and says, "So, what are you lot? And why do you have that thing with you?" "Given that you just got bombarded, I presume...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 145 (July 6, 2022) 7 O-Tar (cont’d) Dame Agatha approaches Kit. “All contracts come to an end. The end of my mistress’s contract draws near.” “I’m so sorry. What can we do?” “We have arranged for a propitious astrological condition for her passing. She will pass on the night of the...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    [Session 54, cont'd] At the bottom of the stairs, the passage goes south or west, so they head west, hoping it will lead them northward. They soon find a door to the north and can hear murmured conversation behind it. Merreep cannot understand their language. Ulgorio listens at the door, and...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 144, cont'd] Dame Brionna goes next. "I received an unexpected message today about some more visitors." [Attached.] "Who are we getting this time?" "I'm not totally sure. The message is from Captain Maladrus Longhammer of the Expeditionary Force of the Isles, and he says he is...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 54 (November 6, 2022) 21 Chund Runor casts Divination, and asks: "What is the best way to get to stairs down to the matrix room?" The response is, "Where the sun rises lies the stairs of your desire." Runor says, "So... that's the west, right?" The priest of the sun god who thinks...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 144, cont'd] 7 O-Tar The next morning, they all gather, perhaps somewhat later than usual, in the council chambers. They each have missives with them. "Who would like to go first?" asks Alistair. "Mine is probably pretty low priority," replies Dame Brionna. "Oh, I was about to say...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 144 (May 10, 2022) 6 O-Tar (Evening) They prepare to head to the party at the Zorplona-Moriquendarim embassy. Dame Brionna decides to set up in the sewers outside, to cover an escape route if necessary. Alistair and the Empress are both dressed formally, in deliberately somewhat...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 143, cont'd] Alistair meets with Lord Darben, the Kov’s nephew, personally. They know he loves horses, so they meet in the internal palace riding grounds, where he can ride a placid horse and Alistair can walk alongside. As Alistair walks up to him, Lord Darben recognizes him and...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 143 (April 28, 2022) Time passes uneventfully. 6 O-Tar Fairly early in the morning, one of Dame Brionna’s officers intercepts her, gives her a letter [attached], and says, “And what do we do now?” She quickly reads the letter. “Where is the boy now?” “Outside the palace. We didn’t...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 142, cont'd] Alistair points out that, when they were in Lyneham, there was a young man with fertility problems at the same time as the cult of the Ram was becoming active, and that might have led to a bigger problem. Kit reaches out to the owner of the bawdy house in Lyneham (who was...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 142 (April 13, 2022) 31 Tar They address a long delayed letter from Zorplona-Moriquendarim. [Included below--it was long delayed in part because the PCs who sent it are in a much earlier time than this group, separated by about six months of game time.]...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 141, cont'd] "May I ask you a question that is not connected to this, but is connected to Lord Silverleaves's unfortunate injuries? Are there paragon-level Farsensors that might be willing to assist in efforts against the enemy, because we had been planning on asking Lord Silverleaves...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 141, cont'd] They receive an invitation from the ambassador from Zorplona-Moriquendarim to a reception on the 6th of O-Tar for Lady Alinor Quellar. [See attached.] Dame Brionna immediately opines, "I do not believe you should accept this invitation, my lord." Alistair recognizes the...
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