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

    None of those sound familiar, so if they are, they're not a big deal. Laen is part of a progression of glasses--I think it goes highglass, vitritur, laen, aeog, in terms of power/effectiveness. They sorta fill the exotic materials for psionics progression that something like steel, mithril...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 100, cont'd] Alistair gives a welcoming speech, highlighting the threats faced by Southern Drucien. Almost as soon as Alistair stops, a Rakshasa lord from the Spice Lands rises. He gives a speech about how Canberry was the only nation that stood to protect the Spice Lands. He suggests...
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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 43 (April 3, 2022) 14 Tar-Vaen Noah gathers the war council to speak with them and with Twig. He raises the fact that the enemy is divided between two factions—the underground one trying to bring through a prince, and the false queen-empress trying to become a god. Noah proposes that...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 100 (April 25, 2019) 25 Ghast The Duke of Brightspan sends an oral message that he is sending a tithe of cattle in addition to the ordinary grain shipment, and that it is substantial—some 10,000 head. He has insufficient herders for them to survive the winter, so the alternative was to...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 99, cont'd] The Archducal Council also examine the vollers that we were given by Hanal. The dreadnought is a snazzy thing, but the others are shoddier—they’ll fly and they’re combat worthy, but they’re dangerous. But that’s also Hanal’s reputation in general; they make up for lower...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 46 (March 26, 2022) 26 Ta-Ghast They activate the teleport device in the tower, and they travel to “The Far Away.” They are standing outside a ruined but not destroyed tower, with sand up to about two feet up its walls. Gray sand blows around, and they hear the distant sound of thunder...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 99 (April 18, 2019) 12 Ghast [roughly a month of game time after the last game, to allow the army to move into position and food to get a little scarce among the Skaven.] The fated day arrives. The army collapses the tunnel easily. They probably don’t even realize that the tunnel...
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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 42, cont'd] 10 Tar-Vaen Noah and Elyn prepare for their spirit quest during the stop. The ordinary spirits—bears, wolves, etc., do not seem to be approaching them. And then a large moss-covered shape rises in front of them. “Greetings, spirit.” “Greetings. One day, you will return to...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 98 cont'd] Dame Brionna got a message more or less from the Skaven in the Southern Kingdoms. [See attached.] They’re using a lot of intermediaries to deny responsibility. They want Canberry to know that Clan Skrutan which is a medium size warlord clan is planning on sending several...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    [Session 45, cont'd] They travel to the strange city. There are metallic rounded towers, a twenty-five foot metal wall with open gates, and a paved road that leads out half a mile and then stops at a dead stop, at the same distance from the city as there is a sudden clean change in vegetation in...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 98 (March 28, 2019) 14 O-Zar Kit presents a grim report. [Attached] They sent three assassins against targets in Hanal; at least two failed. Their spymaster has a diviner, who is his brother. The general of the palace guard was wounded and may die; he was possessed. Another had a body...
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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 42 (March 20, 2022) 1 Tar-Vaen Noah imposes a set of procedures with passcodes and identity markers to prevent infiltration of the army. They also begin a forced march. 3 Tar-Vaen During the day, as they continue a forced march, several wounded people from their pickets and scouts...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 97, cont'd] O-Zar 12 They get a brief report that both of the southern Tors were destroyed; their inhabitants were tortured, so there might be other redcaps. O-Zar 13 The Cathedral for the wedding is overflowing. The Holder of Two from the Mountains of Mages attends, as do many of the...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 97 (February 28, 2019) 9 O-Zar Dame Brionna has a scouting report from military intelligence. [Attached.] They scouted both the Guard Cities and the unsettled areas near Hanal. The Guard Cities are on guard against the City of Life. The Bishop of the Guard Cities has determined that he...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 45 (March 12, 2022) 25 Ta-Ghast The party is still with the centaurs at the Frontier. The centaurs give them some breakfast. Runor speaks to them. “About those vampires.” “Yes. Those vampires. We thought to send a warband to trace them, but we can’t.” “They seem to be growing more...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 96, cont'd] O-Zar 8 A runner contacts Dame Brionna. "The Sixth Daughter wishes that you join her." The runner leads Dame Brionna to a candy shop in the commercial district where the Daughter has a man cowering on the floor at dagger point. “He is a candy seller, but he is not a candy...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    Session 96 (November 20, 2018) 2 O-Zar They get a message from the paramour of General Vondrov. [Attached] He served for three years with the Inquisition, before being discharged back to the local army. They redact the message to anonymize its source, and then pass it on to the Inquisition...
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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 41, cont'd] 27 Vaen Ravokris notices that there is a dimensional weakness ahead of them. They call a stop, and then Noah flings a rock further. A stream of a thick reddish liquid begins pouring out of it. Noah begins to reach out to it, but Sister Agnes stops him in time. He then puts...
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    Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)

    [Session 95, cont'd] They call for the Skaven ambassador, a piebald mage. He discusses his improved grains. They invite the Skaven to the Council of Southern Drucien. Clan Skree promises that they will send a representative. "Clan Pestilence has contact with Mydim Claris. Clan Eshen does not...
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    Aphonion Tales: Ravenskrag and the Shadowline, a preteen D&D game (lightly edited notes, COMPLETED on 1/20/23)

    Session 44 (February 26, 2022) 24 Ta-Ghast (cont’d, after passing through to the Oldway) Merreep says “hello!” to the lizardperson, who replies in some language none of them know. Merreep asks what the direction to the nearest city is, and the lizardperson points up and in a direction. It’s...
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