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

    Session 134 (October 28, 2021) 4 End Year Kit has had a report from one of her people in Hanal. [Attached.] Her agent had been relatively close to the capital until recently, but was sent back to her lord and lady’s home territory. There is some sort of corruption in the imperial soldiers. A...
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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 47 (October 16, 2022) 8 Kas (cont’d) They dash into the cavern. As they round the corner, they can see the device—it looks kind of like a rack, set to stretch things, but there are gems set in it here and there, but there are some gems glowing sullenly here and there. There is a person...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 133, cont'd] In early evening, a guard approaches Dame Brionna. “There is a visitor at the outer gates asking to speak to the Imperial Council. I think she’s alive… There is a human woman, dressed all in black, with a belt of skulls and a staff of bone with a skull atop it. I think she...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 133 (October 21, 2021) 1 End Year Things are peaceful and straight-forward with the celebrations. There is some minor gift giving, feasting, etc. Kit contacts Lady Breena in Debonai, after she has had a chance to travel into the capital. “Are you alright? What is the situation there?”...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 132, cont'd] Alistair invites the Princess Anastasia to an audience and to bring her bishop. They enter a small meeting room with Alistair and Kit and make appropriate greetings. “Your majesty.” “Your highness… speaking of which, it might at some point make sense for you to properly...
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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 46, cont'd] 1 Kas A few days later, the scouts watching the corridor dart in. “A group of octopus heads approach. With them are small monkey beings with javelins. Oh, and they have a pack of dog-like things that also have octopus heads.” “Oh, those are illithids,” says the dwarf...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 132 (September 30, 2021) 30 Ke-Ras Sir Clarence Strawberry comes to speak with Dame Brionna. “We have reason to believe that the Valley of the Dead has been prepared as a death trap and is succeeding at being a death trap for a large number of refugees. 100,000 were diverted away to the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 131, cont'd] Kit reaches out to her people. They freed the farmers and express surprise that they left them alive. The farmers reported that they were sleeping until the cows got startled, and then found two figures—a human and something he described as one of the Tor folk. (Kit assumes...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 131 (June 9, 2021) Early morning on Ke-Ras 19 Kit is awoken in the wee hours of the morning with an urgent message. [Attached] She nudges Alistair awake and then they walk into the council chamber and send for Dame Brionna. An elven sloop, of darkest crystal, slipped into Canberry...
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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 46 (October 2, 2022) 29 Tar-Vaen In the morning, the yuan-ti load the group onto their submerged barges, and take them to a narrow tunnel near their village—a much smaller tunnel than they have been traveling through before. The yuan-ti, including their shaman, touch the edges of the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Yeah, we know approximately nothing about the fifth. I only learned of the 4th recently, after decades of playing in the world--only the three northern hemisphere continents (Drucien, Zest'qua, and Khamista) are common knowledge. ---- [Session 130, cont'd] They experiment with the sample of...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 130 (May 26, 2021) 15 Ke-ras Dame Brionna contacts the Council and tells us that the Archimagus Adalwardus of Avery has teleported to the City, asking for a private and discrete meeting. Alistair knows that he is a long-time retainer of the royal family of Avery; known for being more...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 129, cont'd] 14 Ke-Ras Dame Constance visits the Council at breakfast. She was speaking with a prince of Hell who said that many arcane and extraplanar forces are gathering for the upcoming rapid succession of two Ruby Greater Festivals of Mists. They are not his ordinary enemies...
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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 45, cont'd] When they make it to the village, of about 150 people, the leader brings Ravokris and Elyn to a very elderly member of the yuan-ti people, with old healed battle injuries, and an elaborate staff with shells and decorations on it. He says, “You return.” to the elves, in...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 129 (May 13, 2021) Some travel calculations: Canberry: 079, 210 Enclaves: 125, 56 154 N-S, 46 E-W--- 4020 miles as the voller flies; human vollers at normal speed go about 250 miles/day (flying over night) = 17 days 8 Ke-Ras They discuss the anticipated arrival of Kit’s family on about...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 128, cont'd] 7 Ke-Ras The Eldar Archmage arrives via voller, and then descends by levitation. They exchange pleasantries. He is Lord Alinar Wranbalar of the House of Telepse olwa (“Silverbranch”). Noting their surprise at his casting levitation magic without any verbal or somatic...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 128 (April 28, 2021) 6 Ke-Ras Alistair passes judgment on the Twilight Elf prisoners. The Twilight Elves are led into an audience chamber and positioned before a table. On the table, their swords lie, without scabbards, tips facing towards them and hilts towards the throne, dead flowers...
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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 45 (Sept. 18, 2022) 28 Tar-Vaen (evening) Noah suggests that Iados could fly over to the other beach and talk to them. Ravokris endorses this idea, and Iados unfurls his wings and begins to fly over. As he flies over, he sees a small group of humanoid snakes or serpents poling a barge...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 127, cont'd] <<Councillors. I know what this thing is, and I fear my companions do not. It is concerning. It is perfectly safe—they killed it, which is to their credit.>> <<If you have information we should know, please come to the Council immediately.>> Grandmaster Farsensor arrives...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 127 (April 14, 2021) 5 Ke-Ras Kit suggests, when told about the upcoming Greater Festivals of Mists, that they do divinations to find out what their enemies are planning. They’re waiting to hear back from the Moriquendarim about Lord Alvinas’s armor. They also discuss the resettling...
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