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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aartvb" data-source="post: 9514004" data-attributes="member: 7035557">Session 28 (17-5-2023): Secrets in Flint and the Quest for the Golden SealThe group decides to return to Flint to continue their investigation.500 A.O.V., autumn, day 9Three days later, the group arrives in Flint.  At the RHC, Stover Delft hands Oskár a thesis titled "Methods of Extricating Warriors from a Variety of Tentacled and Tendriled Monsters," written by Colonel Sebastian Harlock. As Oskár studies this document, he learns a new combat technique (Tentacle Technique).  Morthos discreetly receives a note.  After discussing for a while, the group decides to split up. Morthos stays in Flint with Zuna and Trip to continue the investigation, while Galarin and Oskár return to the ziggurat to search for additional clues, such as traces of magic.500 A.O.V., autumn, day 10The Flint group is called to a murder scene at the Silver Swan inn. In a room, they find a dead tiefling lying on the bed. A blood trail leads from his mouth to a desk in the room. Entry options are limited: just one door and two small, closed windows.  The victim is identified as Caius Bergeron, the sponsor of the excavations.  Both the door and windows were locked. No teleportation into the room was possible, as the windows were surrounded by a golden thread.  On the desk lies a map of the continent with two circled locations—the ziggurat and a coastal spot in Ber that had come up before, with exact coordinates.  There are also notes about the Ancients. In the desk drawers are research booklets by Xambria's colleagues (but none by Xambria herself).  A closer inspection of the body reveals that Caius's lower jaw is fully dislocated, but more disturbingly, his brain is missing. There is no other visible damage.  He wears a gold ring engraved with "Old Bergeron Gold."  Zuna is unable to communicate with Caius’s corpse.  After the murder scene, Morthos talks to Trip, from whom he buys a hand grenade.  The Flint group decides to head to the ziggurat as well to join their colleagues in the search.500 A.O.V., autumn, day 12The first ziggurat group (Galarin and Oskár) arrives at the ziggurat.  They create an ingenious device capable of tracking the energies surrounding the ziggurat.  Following the energy trail, they first detect a very strong trace of an entity, along with weaker traces from a small group that has departed. They pursue these traces further.500 A.O.V., autumn, day 13Both groups meet in Agate, where they find a boat with traces of the same energy. Questioning the boat owner, they learn that a group (a tiefling woman, two unarmed individuals, and two armed individuals) rented a boat and carried a large, round package with them.  Oskár develops a theory that this group took the real golden seal, leaving only a fake golden disc behind in the ziggurat.  They rent the boat and follow the trail by water.500 A.O.V., autumn, day 14The group arrives in Bole, where they ask around at the train station. They learn that the group they are following rented a rail car for transporting their package.  The group follows them back to Flint, where the group they are following were also heading. 500 A.O.V., autumn, day 15The group arrives in Flint.  Once again, they question people at the train station and learn the name of the female tiefling: "Finona Duvall". She was clearly the leader of the group.  They also find out that this group had spoken with a tiefling matching the description of Caius Bergeron.  The energy trail dissipates in Flint—there are too many people, and the traces are erased or dispersed.</blockquote>

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