13A:Play/17 A Bone-headed Idea
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Starring: 📜Elistheren, 🌲 Qistis, 📚 Annalana, 🐾 Kaelon
Guest Starring: Professor Greydove and Selfie Moontingle Arianna (Qistis' parents)
Challenge: Conversation
Location: Silver Spire Conservatory in Horizon
Date Played: 2017 Aug 09
Back in Horizon
📚 Annalana: When we get back to Horizon, Annalana confirms that her journals are all present and accounted for. We then check the gateway that took us to the Woods and find it to be a simple and empty room.
Elis seeks out a locksmith with Annalana and Qistis in tow. He hires the locksmith to give him more information about the lock so that the combination can be discovered.
Kaelon talks with his skull and then introduces it to Qistis. The skull calls Qistis, “Toots”. The skull is demanding a new body. They tell the skull about Inigo, the brain in the jar. The skull is quite taken with the idea of taking over his body. Qistis gets upset. Kaelon tells her that they are half siblings. She leaves.
Kaelon gets Elis to come next to talk with the skull. It is believed that Inigo is on a mission for the Archmage.
We have a large group “debate” (read: argument) about what to do with the skull. Qistis wisely sides with Annalana, voting to destroy it. The rest of the group want to try and get some use out of the skull.
Searching for Inigo
📚 Annalana: Steinar takes us to the Sapphire Shield, a tavern. Qistis and Annalana share drinks at the bar, separate from everyone else.
It turns out the bartender, a half handed man with no teeth, knows Inigo Sharpe, and Inigo owes him several months worth of money for bar tabs. Inigo was a man who never slept with the same woman twice, was ever changing and fickle.
Inigo attended Silver Spire Conservatory. So did Qistis.
Silver Spire Conservatory
📚 Annalana: Upon entering we are met with a large, fine garden, which is still using Qistis’ rotation pattern. Her mother does potions and botany for the school.
Annalana and Elis go off to find Qistis’ father, Professor Greydove. Qistis and Kaelon stay to tend the garden while Steinar goes to seek out Qistis’ mother.
Qistis’ mother is the Head of Herbal Essence. She is half elf person, long black wavy hair and black eyes, with pale skin. Her name is Selfie Moontingle Arianna.
Proctor of Abjuration, Greydove. His door is locked with magic. Annalana begins to threaten the admin assistant. Before things get violent, Annalana turns away and leaves.
Private talk between Annalana and Qistis
📚 Annalana: Qistis is related to Kaelon, they are have siblings. It wasn’t kaolin, it was the dickhead skull who spilled the beans. The high elf who led us out of the forest told Kaelon this. Qistis thinks that this relates to her righteous father (maybe her mother).
(Can’t write it down): Kaelon got some demon vibes off of the high elf. The man may be her magical patron, a drow, a very powerful one, named Asham Zilb. Qistis studied at the Silver Spire and continually failed at magic. During her thesis she came across something that helped, a power that blessed her to be able to cast magic. Her father ignored her this whole time. This drow is how she could cast magic. Qistis feels like there is something magically about her book, which has a tree that has leaves that keep appearing.
Fight with the plants
📚 Annalana: Kaelon notices that the plants are growing super quickly as they attack! There is a shadowy figure that is vaguely humanoid who is terrifying to behold. This form speaks a language that Elis doesn’t not know (despite his feat).
Annalana engages with the shadowy figure and gets a deadly dose of poison as it heads to Qistis straight away. Qistis recognizes what it is saying as an ancient Elvish, “Traitor. Traitor.” We take out the shadow, which turns to dust, and it leaves behind a necklace. That Qistis picks up.
