s3e10 - Emmara, do you have anything up your greaves?

Date: 22nd of Zuun 1075 ZC, Evening

  Lassandra and Mama Lyra greets Dream, The Duke, and Terry at the HQ of the Shadowed Hand, aka The Shadowed Sanctuary under The Wounded Rogue. They still have the body of Mizzix (which Dream casted Gentle Repose on).
  Retconning so that Theo left the letter in the HQ before they left.
  The Duke has a very strong glass of whiskey, Dream has a dirty martini, and Terry has a cup of stew.
  Theo, R04M, Zedd, and Essan show up shortly after. Essan runs to Mizzix's body.
  Lassandra leads us out. Dream casts Nondetection on Essan, and Theo casts Pass Without a Trace on the group. We travel as a large group through the under city for a while. We come out into the 3rd Precint where the Selesnya Conclave manage the area. It's nighttime and we're in a relatively unpopulated area. We are able to travel without notice. We pass through a gate and come across a field of 80ft-wide redwood like trees planted in a grid. It's the 3rd precinct's lumber mill. We walk up to a tree that has a doorway carved into it. When you open the door, there's a ladder and a moving platform that can take us up. This tree is a well-guarded secret that few know about. It's a safehouse that Emmara Tandris offered up to Jace.
  There are 8 people already inside, including Emmara and Jace. They're looking over a table as we walk in. Emmara looks stern and serious, and is wearing Thymea's Stride. Jace filled her in. All people present are trusted, given top clearance, and sworn to secrecy. Lassandra will be our chief of staff and will run the facility. Jace is going to Valtara with Niv mizzit to investigate (the last living dragon in Ravnica since over 20k years ago, leader of Izzit guild, discoverer of Mizzium, and the only perune still alive [guild leaders who used the signets to form the pact]).
  There's a team of analysts to do research for us. They have the ability to call other guilds to ask for help. We have wojack soldiers as back up muscle. They're looking for a Boros ally. The Duke suggests Essan's brother. Dream also mentions her brother Flax who is an emissary between the Boros and the Azorius and always pushing for peace and treaties. She feels like he has moved on since "something happened" to their parents, involving them being found guilty. Dream, however, thinks that they were framed and wants to find out the truth. Her parents were caught implanting memories into people to try them for crimes based on those memories. Within the Azorius Guild and the judicial system, they rely on these methods for solving cases and finding out the truth. The crimes they committed were political to manipulate people "for good" using extortion and blackmail to change their behavior.
  Dream recalls that she told her uncle about the signets before we left to Valtara, and he was concerned that she'd be getting involved in treason. It clicks thar her parents were involved in this, and supported the disolution of the guild pact.
  Terry points out that Jace traveling into the pocket dimension may catch the attention of Nicol Bolas who's hunting him, and if that'll give him a way into Ravnica.
  Essan and The Duke run some tests on the greaves and the cloak to see what they can do. The greaves leave a path of plants that heal if you walk through, and high dex and speed.
 

Objectives:

Figuring out how to use the signets (how to activate them to alter the Guild Pact) Find contacts in the Boros Legion Find other allies Research certain people/things (listed below) Make a plan regarding nicol bolas
 

The signets:

1. the staff - simic - we have it
  2. the ring - orzov - armand ecalarte was last known owner
  3. the cloak - azorius - we have it (with jace)
  4. puzzle box - rakdos - last known in Opherus' possession, although possibly with Garrok (who was kicked out of the rakdos and has been seen around the city drunk and with his rakdos goons)
  5. colar - golgari - with the death cult and Merax
  6. chestpiece - gruul - location unknown
  7. crown - boros - with gustavo
  8. guantlet - izzit - we have it
  9. boots - selesnya - we have it (with Emmara)
  10. unknown - dimir - unknown
 

THINGS TO RESEARCH

Gustavo
  The ring's whereabouts after Armand's death?
  Where Armand is buried?
  Where is the puzzle box? Inquire with Opherus and Garrok?
  Who does Garrok owe money to?
  Can Jace attune to more than 3 signets?
  Who has the chestpiece in the Gruul?
  Any whispers about the Dimir signet?
  Symbiosis and fungus - request from Terry (maybe Trostani will look into it)
  Merax - any background, where he came from, where he is now Necromancy in general and how to fight a necromancer
  We test out that Jace can attune to the staff, so he can likely attune to any of the signets. And now he's better prepped for Nicol.
  Trap idea: Give Essan the fake staff with the magical signal of the real one, draw him in, fake her death, and either take the crown from him or follow him. Better sooner than later. Tomorrow night. Terry looks in the Under City for a place with only 1 egress, and enough stone that no one could teleport in.
  Terry crafts some poisons overnight.
  Dream casts divination to ask if we will get the crown with this plan, and she gets a good sense that nothing catastrophic will happen.
  We bury Mizzix in the lumber yard. Theo sets nine stones in an arch in the ground just below the surface, one for each of the guardians, so that we'll always be with him. Essan, Mizzix, Dream, Da'Har, Theo, Sylas, The Duke, Terry, Haku.