13A:Play/18 “Why prep a session?”

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Starring: 📜Elistheren, 🌲 Qistis, 📚 Annalana, 🐾 Kaelon, Steinar
Guest Starring: Professor Greydove and Selfie Moontingle Arianna (Qistis' parents)
Challenge: Locks and Wards; Animated constructs in the wizard tower (shard monsters, gargoyle's with brooms, knife-throwing hat rat)
Location: Silver Spire Conservatory in Horizon; Professor Greydove's Office; Inigo's home address (Wizard tower
Date Played: 2017 Aug 31

After the Combat with the Plants

📚 Annalana: Selfie sees Qistis after the combat and rushes her for an embrace and asks if everyone is alright. She dotes over Qistis. We tell Selfie about Inigo and she agrees to take us to records.

Steinar: Those plants and that weird shadow elf... It is a new story to me! I haven't heard of any attack or effect like this in all of the chronicles I compose! There is usually some sort of parable I can pull from our encounters, but this is one of the first times I've come up blank.

In my haze, I almost didn't notice Qistis' friend, Selfie, come to great her. I didn't even know she had friends; did you?!? Today is just full of shock and awe!

Silver Spire Records Room

📚 Annalana: Student records let us in, while she excuses herself to Proctor a class. It is obvious that she loves her daughter, however, Qistis seems to be distant.

Everything is well organized and we’re able to find Inigo’s records. Home address here in Horizon, poor grades, and signed off for graduation because of a Chancellor Radiance Glorikrest’s overrule. He was good in one course, getting perfect grades, oratory. Inigo has a large rap sheet for violations. Alumni did track him down and got a small donation but they have a note that the companion gift exploded.

Steinar: Ugh, records. These are the worst types of stories. It's just like sex without the foreplay... or so I'm told. I don't know, these human things are all new to me.

Evidently Inigo was quite the bad studnt. But what's the context!?! Give me motive! Give me characterization! People are so boring at times...

Greydove’s office in Lick Toad Hall

📚 Annalana: Greydove’s office. Qistis threatens the secretary, who resigns on the spot for being threatened so often, handing Qistis her key ring as she leaves. Qistis opens the door when there is no response. The office has a well-organized library and is extraordinarily clean. There is a billiards table, where Greydove is currently playing against himself.

When Qistis touches one of his books, Greydove knocks one of his balls near Qistis, and Annalana catches it. We ask him about Inigo and it is obvious that he doesn’t want to deal with us.

Greydove Leaves

📚 Annalana: When he leaves, Annalana brutally smashes a vase. Steinar notices a sprite under the desk. Elis gets it to come out from under the desk. It wants to clean up the mess.

Annalana tries to grab a book to destroy and is blown back by an electrical discharge. Steinar then tries to pull a book that wants to come off of the shelf and manages to get Greydove’s food journal from when he was a young adult.

Qistis takes us to Greydove’s private bookshelf, where Annalana tries picking the lock only to have her lock picks melt in acid. She decides to forgo stealth and starts smashing the lock, which shocks her with electricity. She keeps at it and we get the bookcase open.

Steinar pulls out Greydove’s journal from when Qistis was born. Qistis immediately dives into the journal and is disappointed by the fact that it is in code. She asks Annalana to decode the book and she agrees.

We leave, quickly, and Steinar realizes that we stole some books and loses his shit.

Visiting the Retainer Lockpick

📚 Annalana: Elis and Steinar visit a lock pick, who turns out was also stiffed by Inigo. The lock on the vault that Elis wants to open was created by Inigo.

Visiting Inigo’s Original Home Address

📚 Annalana: Horizon has floating clouds and buildings that change locations over time. Navigation around horizon is a bit challenging as a result.

As we travel the city we literally run into a group of orcs, who are upset, however, Elis starts to talk to them about religion.

It is a 4 story round tower, with smoke, Moz the Magnificent on the name plate. Annalana pulls the bell rope and hears a voice yell, “Help me!”. The second floor is living quarters. The third floor is study area and a small library.

On the top floor, there is a chaotic mess, where the wizard of the house is hiding from shard creatures from a failed experiment and a gargoyle dual-wielding brooms. Several books fly around the area. We manage to defeat the misfit army.