21.11.2015 - Scribe-5 - Betrayal

• We continue planning over breakfast
• Sylword has been quiet for a while, lost in thought
• "I think we need to consider who our allies really are at this point"
• The Lady's influence is huge, and we can't trust her
• The King might be influenced, which means we can't trust him
• The party trusts eachother
• Sylword is slightly suspicious of Queen Clover
• Queen Clover doesn't trust kids by principle, until they've made enough mistakes to not be idiots
• She trusts her crew
• Queen Elenor hasn't been around for a while, so Sylword asks Scribes to Minor Illusion some people to show
• The Actual Emperor
• The Queen uses Minor Illusion to show the last fake Emperor
• Toad (Miner 3)
• Selmyn - Helped them make explosives in the war
• Custodian Auren
• Rust Sunfall - Court wizard and Scribes mentor
• On the Clover's side in the war, a representative of the Wizard's Guild
• She doesn't remember if they approached the Wizard's Guild, or if the Guild approached them
• Sylword knows King Gillian Clover to be freedom-loving person seeking adventures. wanting the best for people without necessarily wanting to protect them
• More guidelines than rules, very against slavery. Especially slavery of magic users
• Ezekiel Blackmountain is the opposite: Stern, old-school, traditional
• A lot of people (both rich and poor) lost everything after the war, since the rules and control disappeared
• Contributing to the large refugee camps outside tidehaven, now larger than the population of the city
• Sylword thinks we should send a letter to the Paths in Hugo-Sha
• To make sure outside influences don't affect things too much while we're gone
• He trusts very few people at the moment
• He wants to enforce who the people of Yin can trust
• Coty and Scribes are concerned
• It might be better to educate them, so that they can make their own choices on stronger foundations
• The Queen encourages Sylword to face the kracken; The best way to deal with a looming danger is to face it head on
• She calls him a coward
• Sylword thinks his kracken is society
• He suddenly discovered that he's part of the Path of Horn
• People are looking to him for solution
• Erin tells him that he can put down the burden if he doesn't want to carry it
• But who will carry it then
• Scribes says that most people are good
• the first person Sylword thinks of when she says that is Gillian Clover
• De Mowbray Sends Scribe-5 a message asking for updates. Scribe-5 tries to reveal as little as possible
• Rust Sunfall has been preoccupied, "the game's afoot"
• Scribe-5 sends a message to Rust Sunfall, but doesn't receive an answer
• She senses through the spell that there's some sort of barrier made of golden purple film containing void
• It seems to be drawing her in, filling her with incredible rage, coming from inside the void
• As she retreats, claws seem to scratch against the film
• Queen Clover tells Erin that they can talk about the prophecy-thingamagig later
• There might be allies in that network
• She hasn't been able to communicate with any of them, but they feel the same thing when the prophecy flows through them
• Yesterday, a bunch of them disappeared
• She feels like the prophecy wants to get out
• The other people in the network could help, or might need help (based on what Erin felt last night)
• Erin has taken off the cursed rings. Void had ~6000 gp on him
• The Child starts drinking Coty's blood
• Gus Barrelmug shows up with his improved shield
• He calls Sylword Sir Fry
• Sylword tells him that he'll take a look at it when we return
• He wants a discussion with Sylword when we return, it's sort of about the shield, but not necessarily
• He seems hesitant to say in front of the party
• He looks nervous, and as if he hasn't slept
• Sylword realizes that he recognizes his accent
• He's probably from Sedina and Kosh (Dwarven kingdom that's in the war against Connla's Well)
• It's very unlike him to be this nervous
• He seems clumsy and absentminded today, trying to calm himself
• Sylword leaves the room with him to see what it's about
• Gus Barrelmug leads him to the forge, seeming calmed by the heat
• He ruined the shield, he didn't work on it like he said
• He was evesdropping on our conversation about trust
• He claims that it's very unlike him
• Sylword casts Detect Magic
• There's a small item hidden under his beard, it has transmutation and illusion magic
• Gus is startled a bit by the magic casting, and pulls out the object
• It is a purple insect with a horn, six legs and little wings
• It flaps it's wings as he takes it out
• He tells Sylword that it can capture messages, and can send it back to its creator
• He was told that it is the existance of rumours in the material plane
• He has been talking to it and sending it off
• When he's outside, it finds him, and he hides it again
• He's told it about:
• The Child
• The Empress
• Auren
• The Emperor
• The location of our base
• That there's something beneath the base
• Our magical defences
• Our staff
• If he didn't do it, they would send him back, or worse
• Gus desperately wants the chance to redeem himself, and for the Allfather to forgive him
• "They" said that it was an act of kindness
• He doesn't know their name, but it was an important, regal person. Someone's right hand man
• He didn't hear from them for a while, but theyu recently came back, and asked him for information again
• He's been tracking Sylword for a while
• He's from Kosh initially, but he deserted from the army and left for Sedina
• He hid in Connla's Well -> That's where he first started to spy on Sylword
• Then he did his own thing for a while, before the bug appeared again, and told him to find Sylword
• Sylword brings him back to the dining room with the others
• Sylword places the bug on the table: "Not another word. We need to know what this is, and who it's connected to"
• There's a very low murmor of voices coming from the bug

Plan

• Figure out who's spying on Sylword (GELF?!?)
• Identify, then disable the bug
• Teleport to the location it's connected to
• Change the Guards and Wards password to block Gus Barrelmug
• If we can't find enough info, we can ask Varun Óttarr
• Teleport to Tidebreaker with Captain Queen Elenor Clover polymorphed
• Meet with Erivale in the Stormlord temple to hear about the current state of the Tidehaven politics, and how her father is doing
• Meet with the king in the Stormlord temple, to feel him out before revealing anything about The Queen

• Copy the elevator design for the hidden Pot room for Veilhearth
• 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