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Wed 10th Apr 2024 11:22

Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph

by Asharene Shadowthorn

It is the morning and we have just rested. We are in the Thieves Guild Franz is missing, and Hazel says she saw him kind of storm off last night after she made the comment about people from his home eating dirt.
 
We discover his hat on the ground in another room, and Drew tells he got really drunk last night and wandered off. We talk about things, and Elias asks Auska why it is that the shards have just now become so relevant and saut. It's been a century and nobody seemed to care about them or know about them.
 
This is when Elias remembers that Titania showed us a vision of light beams over the continents showing where the shards may be able to be located.
 
Ashe had made a sketch of this in her journal.
 
JOe has a skymap that we look at to see if it might be connected to things. Maybe it there was some kind of way to see what the stars looked like in the past (1000 years ago) we might be able to gain some kind of knowledge from the stars of that time.
 
We keep that thought in our backpocket and head to the Squeaky Wheel to try and find Aria. Uptop, there are a bunch of angry people tha thave just lost all of their valuables.
 
We run into a guy named Ander who recognizes us. He helps people with their "problems". He offers to find Franz for us. We tell him where he may be able to find us later. We also learn that people disappear when they are around the Magnuses. Upper class people. We give a couple of gold pieces to him for the trouble.
 
WE get to the Squeaky Wheel. The bartender, Bernard greets us and tells us that Beverly quit (Aria) and left, but she left a note for us if we showed up.
 
Dear Rosy Thorns,
 
I'm at the Shadowthorne Estate with some friends.
 
We get there. and the "old council" are meeting. Ashe kind of confronts them about their lack of leadership and not noticing they've been infiltrated for 10 years. We learn that they want to make the new thieves guild leader a council member , but they don't know who it is.
 
We stop playing the blame game.
 
Elias tells Blackwood in secret that he accidentally because the leader of the thieves guild.
 
Blackwood wants to try and get at Loadagraph. Kill him, and that would defeat their most current powerful weapon. They also want to get help from some magic breakers, which are sunelves up north. They ask if Ashe can help form an agreement, but Ashe is a moon elf and the sun elves and moon elves aren't exactly friendly.
 
Blackwood reveals that Elias is the new leader to the thieves guild and they immediately put him on the council.
 
Bethany says she can open of a moon well portal here to get everyone back to Ithilhithnal. Ashe says she could talk to the leaders of her city and see if they could go to the magic breakers on her behalf.
 
There is also an underground passage to Demerisa Castle from the thieves guild that they have asked Elias to find.
 
If we can find that, we may be able to infiltrate the castle and learn how best to get to Loadagraph.
 
As we discuss plans, we hear a commotion in the other room. It's Franz. Ander has dragged him in. He's white as a ghost and has been drained of blood. He tells us the Magnus's took the book. They tortured it out of him.
 
We decide to try and immediately find the secret entrance to the thieves guild so we can avenge Franz and get the book back.
 
We see Drew at the guild. he tells us about an entrance to the castle vault.
 
Andrew (not Drew) tells us the Magnus's left the city last night. They were teleported out by some mages.
 
this does leave their manor unguarded right now. Drew says he has some contacts on the outside, he'll see if he can find out if the Magnus's had the book or not when they left.
 
We decide to go check out Magnus Manor and see if we can find any clues about things. We have to o through the gentleman's club to get to the manor. This is likely where the Magnus's were getting their victims.
 
We find a book on theories of magic and vellums where the Magnus's copied. , and we figured out that they likely that they removed the shard from the book. So now they likely have the shard AND a powerful book.
 
As we explore, we hear someone upstairs. We detect that it is a tiefling. Elias recognizes it as the tiefling that robbed him in the shadowfell.
We sneak up on him and knock him out. We learn that Loadagraph sent him to check things out, because Passin hasn't been keeping him in the loop. Passin is nuts about Shar and is power hungry and wants to fulfill Shar's master plan. That's what all of this is about.
 
Zozth has someting to do with this plan as well.
 
We learn that Loadagraph and the lackies are here gathering information and knowledge. Maybe Loadagraph is getting stuff from the arcane academy.
We learn that Loadagraph is the only one inside his castle. He has guards on the outside. Everyone else is out looking for Passin.
 
They JUST started their search minutes ago.
 
We learn that Loadagraph was defeated in battle once. He came back with sunlight on his face and was really mad about it. So he hates sunlight, and if it's dark he can't really be seen very well.
 
WE put him to sleep for 24 hours with one of the sleep cookies we have. We tie him up really good and lock him in a closet. We hide a nail under a shoe an leave a clue. To escape your fate you much search your soul. We leave the nail under a shoe wrapped in another riddles that says, what do you call a fish with no eyes.
 
We decide to try and attack Loadagraph while he is alone. We go brief blackwood. Franz is feeling better. He wants to go with us. He is now remembering that he heard the Magnus's gave the shard to Passin, because he was there, but they kept the book.
 
We go fill in Blackwood on what is going on. She amasses a small group of soldiers to accompany us. Auska will help her. They will handle the mages, while we infiltrate the castle. Hazel will go with us.
 
We go to the castle through the secret entrance, we open the door to a dark room. Inside we hear a voice that says "Took you long enough"....and this is where we end.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  1. Session Zero Summer Camp years
  2. Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town
  3. Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"
  4. Session Three: Shadows of Enchantment: Confronting Demons, Trapped in the Fey Wild
  5. Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga
  6. Session Five:
  7. Session Six: Missed this session
  8. Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise
  9. Session Eight: Tuning Fork of Unknown planes
  10. Session Nine: Welcome to the Abyss
  11. Session 10: Escape the Abyss
  12. Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire
  13. Session Twelve: Fake Dwarves and Stolen Treasure
  14. Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad
  15. Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.
  16. Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells
  17. Session 16: Crossover Aftermath. A fight against Demons
  18. Session 17: Bael's Gate- the 15th of Azuthair
  19. SEssion 18: The Big Cheese and the Way of the Cheese
  20. Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.
  21. Session 20: And She was Seven
  22. Session 21: I think we have to kill my Aunt.
  23. Session 22: All roads lead to Eldoria
  24. Session 23: A heist given away, and lots of fire.
  25. Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.
  26. Session 25: So many quests. So little time
  27. Session 26: The Living Flame
  28. Session 27: The Living Flame
  29. Session 28: So many things to do and a new place to live I guess
  30. Session 29: The magic school hidden in the Shadowplane
  31. Session 30: Curse of Slaad
  32. Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious
  33. Session 32: A Harcleve Family Reunion
  34. Session 33: Will the Real Aria Silvermist Please standup
  35. Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
  36. Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph
  37. Session 36: We defeat Loadagraph and have a reunion with Morpheus
  38. Session 37: One Flou Flou over the Dragon's Nest
  39. Session 38: New friends and Floof Hoof reunites with Lukai
  40. Session 39: Murdering Orcs and getting ready for the adventures ahead
  41. Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees
  42. Session 41:
  43. Session 42: Wizards, Lizards and kids in cages! Oh My!
  44. Session 43: Thunderstrike at Crow's Crossing
  45. Session 44: Travel to Pontimunde
  46. Session 45: Adventures in Pontimunde
  47. Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.
  48. Session 47: See Hunter for notes
  49. Session 48: On our way to Lupine
  50. Session 49: Wolves, Owlbears and Rocs OH MY!
  51. Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!
  52. Session 51: Adventures in Anastas Village
  53. Session 52: The Magnuses attack the village because of us
  54. Session 53: An ooze named Denise- Meeting the werewolves
  55. Session 54: In which we perfectly impersonate the Magnuses
  56. Session 55:Motes of Shadow
  57. Session 56: Hydyr kills his brother and we meet Mordenkainen
  58. Session 57: A trip to the hells and seeing our old friend Dermish
  59. Session 58: Randi missed
  60. Session 59: Court Dates and Demon Princes
  61. Session 60: Gold returned, saving the Miners and Elois mom, Arud. .
  62. Session 61: Three Brides, an Elephant and a Death.
  63. Session 62: The Red Party Heist
  64. Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!
  65. Session 64: Off to the Pyramid- Oh hi Ash!
  66. Session 65: Pyramids, Puzzles and snakes
  67. Session 66: An out of this world fight with Neo the Lid.
  68. Session 67: We defeat the Magnuses
  69. Session 68: Saving the werewolves from the mindflayers
  70. Session 69: Just a tiny group in a regular sized world
  71. Session 70: Randi Missed
  72. Session 71:
  73. Session 72: Fighting fucking moon dragons
  74. Session 73: A fight with Zozth
  75. Session 74: Zozth Fight part 2
  76. Session 75: Is that a sex thing?
  77. Session 77: Terry! Noooooooo!
  78. Session 78: Adventures in a new world???
  79. Session 79: There never was a Hilda and a Helga
  80. Session 80: Actually there WAS a Hilda and a Helga
  81. Session 81: Into the Underdark

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