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Sat 21st Jan 2023 06:19

Janatimo keeps us busy!

by Laraena Silver

We took a bit of time to heal up and then started searching the building for further clues. We found some loot in chests & then in the last room we found the 2nd Iruxi we felt should be here. He attacked and refused to be taken alive when we offered to stop combat & talk. He decided this when he caused his weapon to explode, wounding everyone around him, including himself. Afterward, we found some musical instruments in a locked chest. We felt these probably belonged to the buskers. We took them back to the square and started asking around. Soon enough all the items had been claimed. We then headed back to the Magaambya to rest and recuperate. The following day we took some time to practice our stories in preparation for the performance at the Black-Crowned Cane restaurant. We then met Teacher Janatimo at the restaurant to enjoy the evening! Moselani won the event, telling tales of Elven tribes diverging in the distant past. We spent the rest of the night socializing at the restaurant.
The following morning we were summoned to see Teacher Janatimo once again. He felt he was close to having the information we needed to go after Froglegs, but before then he asked that we try to track down the source of the fires being set on campus. He said that they seemed far too many for them to be accidental now. We were told we could look into 3 areas. The Lecture Hall, Dormitory and the Alchemy Lab. We chose to investigate the Alchemy Lab. While mostly covered in dust, we did find some burns on the walls. Gazzean and Orkbolt were able to tell the burns were alchemical in nature & then hit with magical fire. They were trying to spell something out. Several people were able to see one of the words was "debts". We then headed to the Lecture Hall. We again found burn marks on the walls, amidst layers of dust in this unused building. This time we could make out the word "Pay". Finally, we headed to the Dormitory. Once more, this unused dorm was covered in dust & had scorch marks on the walls. The word here was "Your". We debated a while before finally deciding on going to speak with Haibram, the jetpack inventor, before remembering that Haibram had needed help from Gazzean to create his jet fuel. We then decided to go speak with Shokan at the Powder Pile about who might be buying the ingredients needed for the alchemical gel used in these incidents. He said we should go see "Old Firepot" at his forge outside Nantambu. However, we should be careful as he does not always appreciate visitors.
As we traveled towards his forge, several of us recalled that Firepot uses Minotaurs for staff at the forge. Moselani tried to get information from the 2 Minotaur attendants, with some help from Imryll. However, once she mentioned the Magaambya the conversation quickly went downhill. The Minotaurs became enraged and attacked! We took them to school for their temerity. Moselani felt we should leave, but the rest of us felt the Minotaurs would just run us down and take us out with their charge attacks. After the fight we gathered up to discuss whether we should move forward to find more information or not...