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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 7974847" data-attributes="member: 83398">4th of Summer: Delft interviewed Valando while Dr. Aubrey "observed" from behind the one-way glass. Unfortunately, the dragonborn resisted both Delft's and Dr. Aubrey's attempts to get information out of him. He claimed to be on his way to a late-night magical reagent market and that he had certain personal enemies in the neighborhood whom he was avoiding by swimming ashore instead of using the roads. The most information we got out of the interview occurred when his lawyer arrived. Quentin Augst has a reputation of representing members of Kell's gang when they run afoul of the law. While we need to release Valando within 24 hours, learning that he's represented by Kell's lawyer is probably enough to know who he works for.Constable Zamfir was given a formal warning on suspicion of disrupting the chain of evidence in regards to the Crissilyiri wand snuggling operation.Constable Joe Actual was given a promotion to Sergeant and put in charge of his squad, which currently consists of himself and Zamfir, with the consultant Dr. Aubrey de Gascoigne available to assist as needed. Delft hopes to have some more manpower available to the squad in the coming days.Constables Joe Actual and Zamfir, along with two junior constables, investigated a report of a missing research team from Pardwright University. They met with young professor of archaeology Dr. Xambria Meredith at the university. She told them of her graduate student Ignatius Vren, who had gone missing while researching an old abandoned Clergy church in the Nettles. The research team was exploring the possibility of stable planar gateways being possible at old holy sites. The constables tracked the team to the church and then to an abandoned street in the Nettles, where Ignatius was leading a cult ritual that seemed to be opening up portals to the Bleak Gate. Ignatius's followers were knee-deep in wells filled with a strange oil-like substance which included bright motes of light that seemed to move of their own accord.Ignatius was grappled and cuffed, but his followers dove head-first into the 2-foot-deep wells. Two of the three seemed to return as creatures made of shadow, while the third seemed to die in the attempt. The senior constables hurried to meet this threat, and Joe Virtual found the university students being held captive. Unfortunately, during this time, Ignatius managed to slip his bonds by using a spell to control Zamfir. Ignatius made a run for it, but was killed by Joe Actual before he could flee the scene.The constables noted after the fact that the two wells were encircled by rusted iron chains with arcane sigils stamped into them. They also recovered a magical tome from Ignatius entitled The Application of Oxidized Ferrous Metals in the Creation of Interplanar Gateways, and the Repercussions Thereof by Friedrich Liutbert.-=-=-=-We once again had short attendance, so I scrambled to make an adventure out of an encounter in the Roll20 Tactical Maps Adventure Atlas, which has 22 WotC maps, each with 4 one-night encounter/adventures.I managed to squeeze in an early meeting with Xambria, a reference to rusted-iron Bleak Gate portals, the ruined church in the Nettles, witchoil, and Kell's attorney from Cauldron Born. So far, we are basically just puttering around Flint waiting for something big to happen (probably Nilasa's death, probably after I've had another opportunity to roleplay her while alive)going over the 5e death rules, I realize I've been doing them quite wrong. Oh well, something to fix for the future!</blockquote>

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