C2 Session 16

General Summary

They all wake up after a good night’s sleep in the platinum church to prepare for the heist
  • Daemon interjects their preparation with his plan to sneak them in to the castle in a cart
  • He shows them a detailed map of the castle, and says he can get them in, but not out
  • Says queen is under 24/7 guard, and work six hour shifts
  • The only entrances by foot are at the bottom floor of the castle, and the third floor is accessible by air if they were to somehow figure out how to fly
  • Guards on every floor
  • The group spends a long while planning, and daemon interrupts to point out a flaw in theri plan, so they spend some more time planning.
  • Daemon says that the queen’s right hand is still in the castle even though the queen has been relocated
  • He says that Reimun was appointed shortly after the queen was
  • There was a large storm approaching Xiria that would surely cause mass destruction
  • Reimun stopped it by himself, and it is rumoured that he turned the water around
  • Henry is aware of spells that can manipulate water, but he knows of nothing possible in the world that could wield such power to manipulate an ocean
  • He knows of only one wizard, one that had power over all the elements, that could do something of such a caliber
  • They finish planning and enter the cart, with Daemon entering the front
  • They travel for fifteen minutes before stopping, where Koin and Xodon hear guards asking Daemon about the contents of the cart
  • Xodon hears one speak in thieves cant to take them to the special room and leave it unlocked
  • They all stay quiet and are carried into the room in their sealed barrels
  • They wait in silence for a minute before the enchantment on the barrels end and they lift themselves out
  • They look around and peek out the door before stealthing through the hallway and towards their destination
  • They reach the entrance of room eight to see two guards playing cards
  • Xodon sneaks past them slickly, and Henry almost gets caught but the other guard distracts him
  • Koin sneaks by as well and they continue on to reach the stairs
  • Xodon opens the door and looks towards the top of it to see a string being pulled
  • A bell begins ringing, and a wooden arm falls in front of the door and stops it from being opened any further
  • Henry uses a minor illusion to tell everyone in the area it was a false alarm
  • Another guard walks up to the other side of the door and begins resetting the trap
  • He tries the door but Xodon is holding it back
  • The guard calls the two in the other room for help opening the door
  • Xodon lets go and the guard opens the door
  • Koin shoots him with a poison dart but he is unphased by it
  • He calls for help and the guards start sprinting towards them
  • Koin runs into the chamber and ignites his sword, slashing and punching one of them and killing him swiftly, then moving to the other guard and slashing him, dealing a lot of damage and punching him right after, also killing him
  • Xodon stands up and slashes at the guard with zandrien’s blade
  • Koin sprints over and attacks him, almost killing him, but he dies from the effects of Xodon’s blade
  • They scramble to hide the body parts before tying them all up in a large blanket
  • They drag it back into room seven and stuff it in a barrel
  • They go back into room nine and see that the door to room ten is trapped, so they disarm it
  • They open it, and see the staircase leading up to the room, and they all stealthily make their way towards room 17
  • They reach the door to find that it is locked
  • As Xodon is picking the lock, they hear a voice behind them
  • Daemon appears and tells them to step aside as he unlocks the door and walks in
  • Inside, they see a highrise classroom, and written on the chalkboard is very old writing, as if the room has not been visited or taken care of in a long time
  • Koin looks at the chalkboard, and sees writing that he can’t understand
  • As Henry walks past, he notices it and spends about ten minutes analyzing it
  • He sees that it is talking about different planes and doorways to these planes, the notes are talking about the weave splitting and creating a natural doorway to another plane
  • If what is written is true, hundreds if not thousands of such doors already exist in the world
  • Henry remembers the magical door that the fairies travelled through in the rivendale tower, and how the door existing was the source of the problem when they arrived
  • Henry jots down some notes, and they exit the room
  • As they exit, Xodon hears footsteps coming from the balcony and alerts the group of their presence
  • Xodon sees a male and female guard walking sneakily towards the classroom, seemingly trying to sneak away to have some fun
  • They all quickly leave the room and sneak towards room 11
  • As they reach the room, they hear a full patrol of guards approaching
  • They move through the hallway in room 11 and into rooms 12 13 and 14, the dining rooms
  • In one room there are two large portraits, one of queen fariya and one of a black tabaxi with a crown
  • The title says “king oshran, husband of queen Fariya, father to queen Saran
  • Xodon puts his ear to the wall and hears the patrol walking away, and he lets the group know the coast is clear
  • They move back into room 11 and see a cluster of overgrown vines leading up to room 22
  • Koin takes out his grappling hook and begins climbing up to secure it
  • He secures it to a spot to allow Henry and Xodon to climb up
  • They all get to the top of the rope, and are now standing on a thin ledge, but are perfectly safe
  • They hear voices, and every so often another voice pops up, deeper and gutterall, it's a dragonborn, which concerns Henry
  • Henry casts fog cloud, confusing the guards who go on alert immediately
  • Koin sneaks through the smoke and begins walking up the steps to room 26
  • Two of the guards make their way out of the fog and move towards the door
  • Xodon does the same
  • Henry makes his way through the fog and towards room 23, and the guards continue to try and get out of the fog
  • Koin and Xodon whisper to each other, and Xodon goes back to find Henry
  • Henry notices a magical lock on the door, which he easily dispels
  • He opens the door, and as he passes through it, he feels a barrier where everything goes silent for a second, and walks a bit further, and he can hear bubbling of potions and clattering, and he steps into a bedroom
  • There is a chest, a table with many experiments, and a door that leads to a spiral staircase headed downwards
  • Henry takes the notes on the table, then opens the chest and sees piles of gold and silver
  • He notices an unusual lump, and reaches his hand in, feeling leather
  • He takes out a leather tome under magical illusion, and he dispels it to find a spellbook
  • He stuffs it into his bag of holding and continues on and down the steps further into Reimun’s home
  • Koin moves up the stairs and into room 26, spAuding a patrol and dragonborn, to which he releases his dust of sneezing and choking
  • Everyone but the dragonborn is ailed by the effect
  • The dragonborn lets out a breath of fire, singing Koin
  • The fog has faded, and Xodon is faced with his own troop to fight
  • He moves in and attacks this patrol’s dragonborn, hitting and moving to a tabaxi, which he hits as well
  • Henry continues moving down the stairs and begins hearing voices
  • One of a man humming, another of a creature screaming and groaning in pain
  • It was faint at first when he walked in, but it is loud now as if the whole area is soundproofed
  •  Henry keeps walking and can now see into the chamber, and sees a tabaxi in a lab coat
  • One of his eyes is black, and the other has a cut down it and is a frosty blue
  • He has a lot of tools around, many bloodied, and strapped down to a table in a magical circle, is a darkling which he is experimenting on. The circle is the one that darklings used to not explode, and it prevents the darkling from dying due to experiments
  • Henry tries to cast mage armor on himself, but the man reaches his arm back and the spell fizzles
  • He extends his arm out and a symbol appears he doesn’t recognize, and a tremor erupts
  • Henry is pulled towards him and starts to be choked by the man
  • He raises Henry up and the burning blood of the darkling singes his neck
  • He asks why Henry is there, Henry says that the power Reimun has does not belong in Aezraghn
  • The man casts the same spell he just did and throws henry
  • The man threatens henry, and he says that the man should know why he is here
  • The man confirms, and rips out the heart of the darkling, and it revives
  • Henry says he is here for lots of power
  • He says he is in a good mood, so he will let henry leave, or he will kill him
  • Henry weighs his options before deciding it is better to leave
  • He walks out and the environment shifts, and the arcane lock goes back up instantly
  • Henry meets up with the rest of the group as they finish their combat and says that he got lost in the fog
  • They walks towards the queen’s chambers and sneak past the sleeping guards
  • They open the door and a trap goes off, but doesn’t immediately do anything
  • Above the headboard of the queen’s bed are two live tigers chained up
  • Report Date
    04 Aug 2025


    Cover image: by Joe Kitchen (Ai)

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