20.09.2025 - Scribe-5 - Commotion and Arson

• Four of the white-hooded people slowly turn to look at Scribes
• There's calming ambiant sound
• The room is set with symbols that have a calming pulse to them. They are of the tree and the moon
• The servant with the food doesn't seem to have noticed Scribes
• They start feeding Pot, who seems very passive and barely reacting
• Scribes casts Sending to Sylword: "I found Pot. They can see me. Behind the teleportation circle room, down into the floor. Might be trouble"
• As she sends it, the violin music gets louder
• She gets a response from Malagnim: "And in perfect harmony, the plot follows the inevitable path. What will you do next?"
• Sylword hears "I found ___ They can see me. ____ Might be trouble", with the gaps filled with violin music
• He responds: "Your messages are being hindred, we can't really comprehend. Trouble? We'll find you!"
• Scribes mostly hears it, but it is being partially corrupted
• Scribes tries to bo back up, but is stopped from going through the roof by some of the runes.
• More of the robed figures look towards her
• Pot's eyes flare with light, and she rises almost hovering in the air
• The servant exclaims in reverence: "It is as foretold! It is happening. I have been blessed"
• Pot says words of power:
• "Follow for spring
  The endless awaits"
• Scribes feels the words vibrate through the ethereal plane
• Scribes Dimension Doors outside the estate, slightly in the ground. She rises to the ground (still in the Ethereal plane)
• Sylword relies the message to the rest of the party telepathically
• Coty suggests turning into a snail and going downstairs, starting a fire, and giving the party an excuse to go down there
• The party manages to talk her into being a fly instead
• She excuses herself to the bathroom, one of the two acolytes shows her the privy
• She locks the, pours some water from her water skin to make noise, and puts it on the seat so it slowly keeps pouring
• Scribes sends Sylword another message: "I'm out. I'm safe. Malagnim is corrupting our messages. I'll stick close to you in the ethereal plane"
• Sylword hears: "i'm safe. ____ stick close to you ___"
• Malagnim says: "You're safe. How disappointing for the drama. The harmony's off. A deft hand is needed. Time to act"
• He answers: "It's a good thing you found something, but it's really hard communicating with nothing coming through. We might need to act."
• Scribes gets most of the message. There's an emphasis on "really hard" and "must act"
• Malagnim answers Sylword: "Good, act. Bring the drama up. We shall do so together"
• Sylword warns the others that Malagnim is here
• Scribes also smells spring, and sees budding flowers and leaves falling before her, and disappearing
• Erin doesn't know who Malagnim is, Sylword warns her that he's really bad news
• Coty flies around the corner, where they weren't allowed to go
• She sees the servant looking for Erin's leaf
• There are fancy double stairs going up, and a single set of stairs going down behind them
• There are white-hooded guards
• She chooses to go up the stairs, letting the party know
• The floor is a mix between hospital activity and religious activity
• There's more acolytes and fewer patients
• She sees some people chanting and meditating, and the whole place seems calming... For now >:)
• She is struggling to find somewhere she won't be seen. She get's distracted by the calm ambiance
• Sylword is talking with the remaining acolyte
• This place has been a hospital for about a year now
• The acolyte joined afterwards, so he has to ask someone else to get more specifics
• All kinds of people come here; longterm ill, mentally ill, all parts of life and class, devout followers
• The Lady is occupied at the moment. She is probably in Tidebreaker
• She attends the religious ceremonies
• Sylword asks for permission to casts a spell to find an object that he lost
• They offer to look for it on his behalf
• He is searching for an intricate carving knife that is elvish in nature
• He casts Locate Creature to find Malagnim (The acolyte thinks he is casting Locate Object)
• He says Malagnim's name and titles in dwarvish to avoid suspicion
• The directional feeling is different than normal, like it is indicated by sound
• The violins sounds in a certain direction below. There's a hitch in the harmony, and Malagnim Sends him a message: "Oh oh, you found me. What will you do? What will you choose? Stopping the message, or saving Pot. The drama!"
• The Locate Creature spell cuts off
• Sylword answers "What's your end goal here Malagnim?"
• Malagnim answers: "The drama of eternity"
• Flowers sprout around him, before disappearing
• Scribes locates the party, and sticks close by in the ethereal plane
• Sylword tells the acolytes that the knife is here
• Sylword asks Erin what she specializes in (Magic)
• She has some offensive and some control magic
• They tell Coty that they have to go down
• Sylword casts Sending to Scribes: "I found politics. We're going down now. Acting right now!"
• She'll answer: "I'll follow your lead. There's lots of guards, be careful"
• Scribes moves down to the empty room behind the teleportation circle room
• She ends Etherealness, and casts Rumour "The Lady has ordered up to evacuate immediately. Everyone out!"
• Coty heads downstairs to start a fire there instead
• She enters a combined guard and prayer room
• The hallway has one large and many small barred doors, and one at the end
• The room at the end has it's door open and is full of activity
• The room with the large door looks like an armory
• There's only one person in there, grabbing a sword and heads out. He closes and locks the door
• Coty starts noisily hacking at the crates with her Hatchet of Multitool, and uses some common clothes from her backpack to make a bonfire
• She hears someone reacting to the sound on the other side of the door
• She turns back into a fly, and someone immediately storms into the room and notices the fire
• They are unsure of whether to follow the Lady's command or stopping the fire
• Sylword convinces the acolyte following them to evacuate people from the hospital, while they do Hero Business
• The acolyte casts Bless on Sylword
• Scribes let the others know where to go
• Coty tells the party that she has started a commotion
• A guard runs up the stairs to tell people to bring water
• Sylword shouts "Fire!!! Get everyone out!!!"
• It gets everyone moving
• The servant rises from the floor, and Scribes Polymorphs her into a rat
• Malagnim Sends her a message: "Now for the dramatic dilemma. Do you stop the message to The Lady or save Pot?"
• Budding flowers appear and wilt, surrounding Scribes with the smell of spring
• Coty investigates the locked rooms. They are prison cells, with some containing prisoners
• She doesn't recognize any of them
• There are four people in four different cells, and two empty cells
• The prisoners are varying ages and species. One of them seems to be a wealthy person, and others are poorer
• One has a rigid and stoic posture. He's a middle-aged male
• Another is wearing full platemail armor
• One of them is praying
• The rest of the party runs down the stairs, and is met by a guard that starts leading them to the fire
• Sylword feels reasonably certain that the guards will be able to douse the fire themselves
• He convinces the guards that the fire must have come from below, and leaves them to handle this one
• He also convinces the people in the room outside the teleportation room to evacuate
• Scribes starts teaching the group the chant to go through the floor
• The rat manages to get out into the basement proper
• The party manages to get into the secret room behind the teleportation room
• Scribes fills them in on what she discovered
• Coty transforms into a fly, and we all recite the prayer to sink into the floor
• Those putting in more willpower or emotion sink faster
• Coty (Uncertainty)
• Erin (Will)
• Sylword tries to channel his connection to the divine (The Lady is being threathened by Malagnim)
• Mother blossom
  The Dawn that Burns
• He realises that if anyone stops chanting, they will be crushed to death
• He uses the connection to tell The Lady "You're in huge danger right now! Malagnim, a dangerous criminal, is after you. Something about a message. I pray you resist his offer"
• The change in the chant makes him free fall the last 15 ft
• A calming wave makes him feel like he was heard, and that he will be protected and guided
• Scribes goes down the slowest, which frustrates her into thinking even more logically about it, which makes her go even slower
• Scribes gets a sending from Malagnim "Good. You made a choice. Choices are the fuel of drama in the endless harmonious. I look forwards to hearing you"
• She barely manages to stay concentrated on the chanting, and responds to him with the chant
• We enter into the small 5x5 meter room
• There are seven white-robed figures
• 6 are looking straight at us with white pupils and no facial expressions
• They are all seated
• Erin: "Hi"
• Coty notices that the ones looking at us aren't reacting aside from looking. They don't feel immediately threathening
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• The last figure is Pot
• Sylword tries to cast Locate Creature
• One of the figures Counterspells (without moving, except for their eyes and their forehead carving lighting up. )
• Erin Counterspells them, and another Counterspells Erin
• One of their eyes goes out as Erin's save is lowered to a fail
• Sylword uses his inspiration to get the same result as before
• He gets counterspelled
• The violins pick up, and it feels like a tuning fork hit the frequency of our bodies perfectly
• Bucket crit fails, and everyone except Coty fails. They drop to the ground convulsing
• Erin uses Favored by the Gods to succeed
• An acolyte tries, but fails to lower the roll
• Malagnim walks through the wall
• He has a hovering violin that is constantly playing, as well as other instruments strapped to him
• Coty casts Silence, but gets Counterspelled. She manages to fight through the spell
• Silence envelops the room

Plan

• Defeat Malagnim (again)
• Save Pot/The Queen
• Find out why the acolytes of The Lady are working with Malagnim
• Talk to the King when he has time for us

• Copy the elevator design for the hidden Pot room for Veilhearth
• Investigate the Glyph of Warding on the teleportation circle in the Rockwater estate
• Has to be investigated from the material plane, but there's lots of guards, and a diviner(?)
• We have to figure out if the sacrifices are permanent, or will go away
• Coty must protect the white dragon egg (it likes cold)
• Get the sibling dwarves home
• Get the two souls back to their bodies
• Coty might want to figure out how to deal with her two pokemon parents
• Sylword can cast Locate Object on the knife that was left on the other side of the Lorladon portal
• Scribes want's to save the last familiar
• We should turn Custodian Auren over to the Path of Hill, claiming that we held him while we investigated his crime of impersonating the Emperor
• Or whatever the party agrees to do

• Learn the new spells: Aquired but unlearned spells