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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 20 (January 9, 2021) 23 Zar They set sail on the ship heading north to Easthaven. The ship hugs the coast, following it north. The first day passes peacefully. 24 Zar Another peaceful day of sailing. 25 Zar Another peaceful day of sailing. 26 Zar Yet another peaceful day. 27 Zar At...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 62 (April 10, 2014) Skard 30 Alistair gets a message from the Noldar widow [Attached] To do list: Research Reds of Hanal—delegated to the Ministry of Magic, Foreign Ministry, and household bishop’s staff to prepare a report (marked urgent and highly confidential) Talk to the...
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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 21 (February 28, 2021) 26 Ghast Noah asks Sister Agnes to cast speak with dead on the werebear. “What do you know of the people involved with the Blue Flame?” His eyes spring open and he sits up. “They walk among us. They give us plenty and gifts for our service.” “What is the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 61, cont'd] Kit contacts Snatterkaz. Magdag had been stripped except of its population by its prior lord. I have no idea what he did with the wealth that should have been there. We need food, but we will be blockaded within days. There was no resistance in the navy. Have you got...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 61, cont'd] They recall the redactor so they can find out what happened. The Council then goes to find out about the various successions of Ergmoth, and the Ecumenical representative of Paranswarm comes in, with various elaborately bound scrolls. [Attached] "The Grand Duchess does...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 19 (December 12, 2020) 22 Zar The group travels to the cathedral again to meet with the bishop. They arrive during the rituals in the morning, and they can go to talk to him when the rituals end. “We’ve come to ask you about the vampire head of House Fooblu.” “That was a very...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 61 (March 13, 2014) Skard 29 Kit wakes Alistair in the middle of the night: "We have two urgent messages: first, the Duchess of Ergmoth is dead; second, one of my agents from Hanal reports that there’s been a coup in Hanal, Thyastis and her eldest daughter are dead, as are many of the...
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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 20 (February 14, 2021) 25 Ghast The group plans to cast a speak with dead, and begins planning questions. Sister Agnes casts the spell. Noah begins. “Walter! What is the cult’s relationship to the Bishop of Zendiker?” “The Bishop is old and half blind. We have no relationship 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 60, cont'd] In the morning, we ask Master Farsensor to contact Singing Leaves to find out how Lord Davion is doing. “I have contact with the Master Redactor. Shall I project his image?” The elven redactor gives the Council a report. "It is no question as to whether he will survive. It...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 60, cont'd; again, body horror stuff is behind spoiler tags] Kit calls up Lady Brina in Debonai “Ah! Things seem a bit better. I wouldn’t call them stable yet… Well, there was some bizarrety at Court a few days ago. Various courtiers burst into green flame.” “That’s to be expected,”...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 18 (November 29, 2020) 21 Zar (cont’d) There are two chain ladders leading up, one at the end of the corridor and one in the middle. They climb up a chain ladder to a chamber with several piles of bedding, a pipe in, and some water pot. Under the bedding, there is a yellowing piece of...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 60 (February 27, 2014): Skard 26 We still haven’t heard back from Lord Davion and the Duchess of Ergmoth—who went to Hanal 7 days ago. Page of the door politely comes in in the morning. There’s a very bedraggled guard out here—he can’t speak very well, but he seems to want to come in...
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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 19 (January 31, 2021) 23 Ghast (cont’d): The icon is clearly an icon of a minor saint, and it contains a relic of the saint. Sister Agnes cannot identify which saint. Noah proposes a plan: making himself bait to draw out the cultists, take some prisoners, and then investigate from them...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [And we're back, after a very eventful vacation with limited net.] [Session 59 cont'd] Dame Brionna sends a quick sending briefing the Seachen. Perhaps two minutes later, alarms sound in the palace, and a servant delivers a message to the door guard, to the page, to Dame Brionna. There’s a...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 59 cont'd; body horror stuff in spoiler tags] He was birthed that way. His mother willingly accepted the touch—otherwise, he would have just been a man. The Council plans an interrogation of the prisoner. He is ranting and bragging and answers freely. "Great Lord, Great Queen make...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Great suggestion. I'll edit the previous post to include spoiler tags for that sort of material, as well as doing that for the next post and any more that have similar content. Thanks for the suggestion.
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 17 (November 14, 2020) 20 Zar (evening/night) They’re in the mausoleum of the Doge. Runor searches the body of the Doge’s son carefully for bite marks, and finds a concealed, repeated wound in the calf of the leg, as if he were fed on repeatedly but with the attack concealed. Runor...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Just a note--the next couple posts have some body horror stuff involving impregnation. I've put it behind spoiler tags. Be aware if that's likely to be triggery.] Session 59 (August 13, 2013) Skard 22 The Council gets a preliminary report from the Rakshasa. [Attached] Things seem to be...
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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 18 (Jan. 17, 2021) [I began playing Sister Agnes, a sort of semi-PC, semi-NPC cleric to support the party, in this session] 15 Ghast Noah is from the Stromnate of Arundall, about 8 days journey away. Sister Agnes, a heavily armored nun of the Order of the Weeping Woman, asks if she can...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 58 cont'd] The Council gets a psion, and contact the Noldar Admiral. In the imaging of the psion, a rather willowy Noldar in very ornate garb eating what appears to be a muffin? "That is a warp projector. Even the creatures in the Shadowlands cannot build them. These creatures can. It...
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