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Session 109 (April 16, 2020) Chund 29 and 30 pass uneventfully. On the morning of the 31, a polite guard intercepts Dame Brionna at the very beginning of the day. There is a messenger waiting for her, an elf, dressed beautifully, and with a mithril chased scroll. He is a noncom on an elven...

[session 108, cont'd] Kit gets contacted from the Kovanate via the fan: "The Kov of Bormark has sent a full field army, he has committed himself. He went to one of the memorial sites set up by the great lady on the ship, and his eyes have been opened. He has sent a field army to the east, to try...

Session 108 (April 2, 2020) 28 Chund The Council receives a report from the Duke of Mortorose [Attached]. They discuss the large army gathering in Holy Cortose, and the dragons gathering nearby. Kit summons a mage-sage specialist with expertise in dragons. He is, at best, eccentric and...

[Session 107, cont'd] Young Lord Brightspan reports that there are a group of gray skinned elves purchasing property in the mid-city. They are attracting attention. Dame Brionna summons the shadow elves, Lady Filovana, and the drow master crafters. The drow are enthusiastic. Just a bit of the...

Session 107 (March 19, 2020) 23 Chund Lady Aufaulgautharim departed on the following morning. Dame Brionna rushes in in the morning, asking for a private meeting with Alistair and Kit in the inner council chamber. Dame Brionna reports that she had a conversation with the Princess...

[Session 106, cont'd] The Noldar's general talks with Dame Brionna about vollers and strategy. He offers to have some drow craftsmen come to Canberry to make new black boxes. Black boxes should never fail, but Hanalian ones do. Some slaves escaped from the Aufaulgautharim about a millennium...

Session 106 (December 19, 2019) [Around this time, Alistair sent a missive out to all of his imperial vassals. The Council worked on several drafts. I've attached the version sent out to this post.] 22 Chund A particularly baroque Noldar ship—apparently made out of black crystal, likely...

[Session 105, cont'd] Dame Brionna fells another of the lesser ones as well. The remaining small one hisses, “keep her from me,” and touches the door again. The door whithers and collapses from its hinges, falling to the ground. It starts to pass through. The translucent humans split up. Two...

Session 105 (November 26, 2019) Chund 16ish Dame Brionna has received a message [attached] from Humbert, Archbishop of Enclaves, who is well-meaning but very formal. The initial scout report says that they were heading directly east in the main tunnel that travels underneath the ocean to...

[Session 47, cont'd] 2 Chund They head back to Vinehome, without any difficulty. Runor teaches the troops basic drills in the evenings. 6 Chund They arrive at Vinehome and set the volunteers to building the stockade—one tight around the ruined tower facing inwards, and one wide around the tower...

Session 104 (July 16, 2019) 14 Chund Dame Kit begins the next day by saying that she has gotten a letter from one of her agents in Masque and of information about doings in Yar and the Brownlands; there are rumors of a new Shadowland coming. [Attached] There is something coming out that is like...

[Session 103, cont'd--bonus post to make up for the lack of new Spice Lands and the War in Hanal content in the other thread] They can compel the prisoner to answer ten questions. That will drain the psionic battery the gray elf offers us for our use. "Who did the Ram have above you?"...

Session 103 (June 27, 2019) 12 Chund The servitor of the Ram has disappeared untraceably. He has a whole cluster of teen children who appear to have grown up in the area—apparently wild in the forests nearby. They send a team to search his house. A runner returns from them a few hours a later...

Session 47 (April 9, 2022) 1 Chund They report to the Dogaressa’s palace first thing in the morning. They are quickly passed through to the Dogaressa. “We are here to talk about something different from our holdings. We may have found a city inside the Shadow that is not controlled in the...

[Session 102, cont'd] Dame Brionna heads out to sweep that area with one of her squads, along with young Lord Brightspan. The psion says, “I think I sense something…” hesitantly, and at about the same moment, two shafts thud into Lord Brightspan, knocking him from the horse and unconscious. The...

Session 102 (May 30, 2019) 11 Chund Kit summons the village blacksmith to ask him about triangular knives. He is a wizened, middle-aged but hard aged by life man. Kit asks him about the blade. “That’s a killing weapon, you’re talking about. I don’t make that. I haven’t seen a blade like...

[Session 43, cont'd] 28 Tar-Vaen The advance party pulls within one day of the capital, leaving the part of the Near Underdark controlled by the dwarves. They have the scouts—a mix of the rakasta and the dwarven wayfinders—in the lead, fanned out basically at just maintaining visual contact...

[Session 101, cont'd] Kit has a planned visit to Lyneham to attend to her duties as the baroness, so they prepare for the trip. Kit invites the Grandmaster Farsensor (and his special friend), her “personal engineer” (The Princess Anastasia), “Sir Alistair,” Dame Brionna, and Mommy Cupcakes (in...

Session 101 (May 16, 2019) 1 Chund Tap on the door. There’s a messenger here, entirely in shades of red, for His Imperial Majesty. He performs a profoundly complex salutation in the manner of Hanal. “Your Majesty, the Strom that has been left by the Kov of Snatterkaz to watch the island, has...

[Session 46, cont'd] As they head over, Kenji explains, upon questioning, that the city’s population is shrinking generation by generation—they rarely have more than two children, and some people get lost in the sands or killed in the swamp. They are taken to the head of the council. He looks...