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Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8630935" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>Session 111 (May 27, 2020)</p><p></p><p>2 Tar-Chund</p><p>A scroll case is discreetly handed in to Alistair and Kit, with the characteristic burning at the edges that indicates teleportation.</p><p></p><p>It is a message from an Ear within the Enclave of Zorplona-Argoni. [Attached]</p><p></p><p>“Lord Raf” is how they refer to Quinliart Moriquendarim, who killed Alistair’s father and is the renegade in league with the Abomination of Shurr.</p><p></p><p>They believe that three years ago, Quinliart traveled south with one man-o-war and 2 scout vollers, and one of the scout vollers was shot down after gratuitously attacking a legion of Drucien.</p><p></p><p>Princess Curinirim attacked his facility in the mountains, and then he disappeared.</p><p></p><p>Action items from the letter from the Ear:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Suggest that they search for a handler or the equivalent for the greater demon of Arthranax.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Suggest to the Temple of Morgrath that Region 2 of the Aragoni ought not to be dealing with demon cults, especially not demon cults aligned with the Shadowlands.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Continue trying to figure out what happened to Quinliart/Lord Raf. Perhaps offer to pay them for information on Lord Raf, or more for dealing with him.</li> </ol><p>Lord Davion and Dame Brionna begin planning to find the handler. Lord Davion suggests it is likely powerful in magic, but almost surely not psionic. He brings two faerie dragons out of his bag, briefs them, and they become invisible.</p><p></p><p>Lord Davion says that the only beings from their plethora that can attain both intelligent forms and unintelligent forms is a greater seen-unseen. But they were not known to have brought any through from their home plane. That suggests that Arthranax might be creating his own in our plan. Or it could be incapable of emulating a person well, but simply emulating a horse, and then taking on a very simple seeming of a person. In that case, it could be a seen-unseen, or something that had started as a creature such as a seen-unseen and then taken on greater power—“name” status as its used in demonology and so forth. We know that they have not breached the planar barrier sufficiently to bring through a greater seen-unseen—so if there is one here, Arthranax made it here.</p><p></p><p>The gates have been sealed, and large groups are gathering everyone in, in groups. Finally, after some time, at the same time as Aunt Cecilia points and says, “there, right there,” a young dwarf erupts into a different shape, and Lord Davion flies forward. Aunt Cecilia vanishes, and Dame Brionna begins trying to clear people out of harms way.</p><p></p><p>The dwarf great hall suppresses some of the creature’s magic, as the faerie dragons pop in and out of reality and cast spells at it, and Lord Davion battles it with his laen swords.</p><p></p><p>“It achieved a name—surely by killing so many people, it’s hard to understand. But it was not a greater seen-unseen. I also think it was the last of its kind on this world. It cursed me roundly, because it thought that it was the last hope of its master to stop the mining of orichalcum. It could not speak any tongue but its own.”</p><p></p><p>Dame Brionna asks, “how should it be disposed of?”</p><p></p><p>“Orichalcum dust would destroy it, but it would cause an explosion. Or perhaps a wizard could bind it…”</p><p></p><p>Dame Brionna suggests that, since this is a place where orichalcum is mined, that might be easiest, if the area could withstand it. The Dwarf King assures them that it can. So they scrape some orichalcum powder over the pool of goo, which then explodes and is clean.</p><p></p><p>They’re invited to the ceremony to honor the dead dwarves, every 5 years.</p><p></p><p>Dame Brionna sends her teams to search for traps around the orichalcum.</p><p></p><p>They find and dispose of some traps.</p><p></p><p>(They have considerable good will with the dwarves. The dwarves consider them friends.)</p><p></p><p>Kit takes out her fan, and focuses in on when of the six dots that had not appeared before, now with a slight red dot.</p><p></p><p><<Honored Mouth>></p><p></p><p><<Thank you for reporting on that demon. That’s very important. They always have a handler—they’re not intelligent to act on their own. Investigate the staff. Possibilities for handler: the less dangerous possibility is a cultist of Arthranax, they will have a tattoo like this. The other possibility is a seen-unseen. The test is that they do not bleed as a person bleeds. They have ichor.>></p><p></p><p>A picture forms in response of a tall, elegantly garbed Noldar male. He has a ring that looks like the tattoo she showed.</p><p></p><p><<Is that Lord Raf?>></p><p></p><p>The image nods.</p><p></p><p><<So then since he’s not there, he must have an agent. Or perhaps controlled from afar.>></p><p></p><p>The image shakes its head, no others with the tattoo. It indicates the Seneschal did careful far sensing investigation.</p><p></p><p>She also shows images of the casualties they took fighting the greater demon.</p><p></p><p>They suggest that it be burned and salted—they currently have it in a lead casket.</p><p></p><p>She suggests a drow officer, and a priestess of death with some form of undead standing behind and with it. The undead creature starts multiplying with skeletons.</p><p></p><p><<Is this a current situation?>></p><p></p><p>She nods. There’s then a huge floorplan of a palace, with a heroic image of the captain of the guard (her husband) and a handful of people.</p><p></p><p>She shows the map of the whole Enclave. One spot grows, and it’s filled with legions of uruks, and the seneschal shakes his head and purses his lips and explains something.</p><p></p><p>Kit asks for more information about Lord Raf. She projects an image of much time, and then a female Noldar they don’t recognize hands a scroll written on platinum to Lord Raf, and she flips her hands dismissively. Time passes, and they see a chamber, heavily ornamented, and a Twilight Elf sitting at a huge desk with an enormous ledger. The same Noldar enters, argues with the Twilight elf, and then stabs a dagger into the Twilight Elf’s heart. Then loads gems, and coins, and hoard coins into a bag of holding. Then the woman, in the chamber with the body, shakes her head, and then gestures and drow construct a crystal sarcophagus in the chamber, and she casts a binding over the sarcophagus. Then, after much time, another Twilight Elf comes in, and then the woman receives a scroll, gathers a whole group of drow, and departs. Then much time, then the younglings arrive.</p><p></p><p>Kit asks for any information about the children that were kidnapped and enslaved, if there are any records of where they were taken. If any are still alive, she wants to find them and return them to their families.</p><p></p><p>An image of the ledgers appears again.</p><p></p><p><<Any way you could get a copy of those?>></p><p></p><p>A nod, cautiously.</p><p>[cont'd]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8630935, member: 7030144"] Session 111 (May 27, 2020) 2 Tar-Chund A scroll case is discreetly handed in to Alistair and Kit, with the characteristic burning at the edges that indicates teleportation. It is a message from an Ear within the Enclave of Zorplona-Argoni. [Attached] “Lord Raf” is how they refer to Quinliart Moriquendarim, who killed Alistair’s father and is the renegade in league with the Abomination of Shurr. They believe that three years ago, Quinliart traveled south with one man-o-war and 2 scout vollers, and one of the scout vollers was shot down after gratuitously attacking a legion of Drucien. Princess Curinirim attacked his facility in the mountains, and then he disappeared. Action items from the letter from the Ear: [LIST=1] [*]Suggest that they search for a handler or the equivalent for the greater demon of Arthranax. [*]Suggest to the Temple of Morgrath that Region 2 of the Aragoni ought not to be dealing with demon cults, especially not demon cults aligned with the Shadowlands. [*]Continue trying to figure out what happened to Quinliart/Lord Raf. Perhaps offer to pay them for information on Lord Raf, or more for dealing with him. [/LIST] Lord Davion and Dame Brionna begin planning to find the handler. Lord Davion suggests it is likely powerful in magic, but almost surely not psionic. He brings two faerie dragons out of his bag, briefs them, and they become invisible. Lord Davion says that the only beings from their plethora that can attain both intelligent forms and unintelligent forms is a greater seen-unseen. But they were not known to have brought any through from their home plane. That suggests that Arthranax might be creating his own in our plan. Or it could be incapable of emulating a person well, but simply emulating a horse, and then taking on a very simple seeming of a person. In that case, it could be a seen-unseen, or something that had started as a creature such as a seen-unseen and then taken on greater power—“name” status as its used in demonology and so forth. We know that they have not breached the planar barrier sufficiently to bring through a greater seen-unseen—so if there is one here, Arthranax made it here. The gates have been sealed, and large groups are gathering everyone in, in groups. Finally, after some time, at the same time as Aunt Cecilia points and says, “there, right there,” a young dwarf erupts into a different shape, and Lord Davion flies forward. Aunt Cecilia vanishes, and Dame Brionna begins trying to clear people out of harms way. The dwarf great hall suppresses some of the creature’s magic, as the faerie dragons pop in and out of reality and cast spells at it, and Lord Davion battles it with his laen swords. “It achieved a name—surely by killing so many people, it’s hard to understand. But it was not a greater seen-unseen. I also think it was the last of its kind on this world. It cursed me roundly, because it thought that it was the last hope of its master to stop the mining of orichalcum. It could not speak any tongue but its own.” Dame Brionna asks, “how should it be disposed of?” “Orichalcum dust would destroy it, but it would cause an explosion. Or perhaps a wizard could bind it…” Dame Brionna suggests that, since this is a place where orichalcum is mined, that might be easiest, if the area could withstand it. The Dwarf King assures them that it can. So they scrape some orichalcum powder over the pool of goo, which then explodes and is clean. They’re invited to the ceremony to honor the dead dwarves, every 5 years. Dame Brionna sends her teams to search for traps around the orichalcum. They find and dispose of some traps. (They have considerable good will with the dwarves. The dwarves consider them friends.) Kit takes out her fan, and focuses in on when of the six dots that had not appeared before, now with a slight red dot. <<Honored Mouth>> <<Thank you for reporting on that demon. That’s very important. They always have a handler—they’re not intelligent to act on their own. Investigate the staff. Possibilities for handler: the less dangerous possibility is a cultist of Arthranax, they will have a tattoo like this. The other possibility is a seen-unseen. The test is that they do not bleed as a person bleeds. They have ichor.>> A picture forms in response of a tall, elegantly garbed Noldar male. He has a ring that looks like the tattoo she showed. <<Is that Lord Raf?>> The image nods. <<So then since he’s not there, he must have an agent. Or perhaps controlled from afar.>> The image shakes its head, no others with the tattoo. It indicates the Seneschal did careful far sensing investigation. She also shows images of the casualties they took fighting the greater demon. They suggest that it be burned and salted—they currently have it in a lead casket. She suggests a drow officer, and a priestess of death with some form of undead standing behind and with it. The undead creature starts multiplying with skeletons. <<Is this a current situation?>> She nods. There’s then a huge floorplan of a palace, with a heroic image of the captain of the guard (her husband) and a handful of people. She shows the map of the whole Enclave. One spot grows, and it’s filled with legions of uruks, and the seneschal shakes his head and purses his lips and explains something. Kit asks for more information about Lord Raf. She projects an image of much time, and then a female Noldar they don’t recognize hands a scroll written on platinum to Lord Raf, and she flips her hands dismissively. Time passes, and they see a chamber, heavily ornamented, and a Twilight Elf sitting at a huge desk with an enormous ledger. The same Noldar enters, argues with the Twilight elf, and then stabs a dagger into the Twilight Elf’s heart. Then loads gems, and coins, and hoard coins into a bag of holding. Then the woman, in the chamber with the body, shakes her head, and then gestures and drow construct a crystal sarcophagus in the chamber, and she casts a binding over the sarcophagus. Then, after much time, another Twilight Elf comes in, and then the woman receives a scroll, gathers a whole group of drow, and departs. Then much time, then the younglings arrive. Kit asks for any information about the children that were kidnapped and enslaved, if there are any records of where they were taken. If any are still alive, she wants to find them and return them to their families. An image of the ledgers appears again. <<Any way you could get a copy of those?>> A nod, cautiously. [cont'd] [/QUOTE]
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