Chapter 2: Session 3: Love, Lust and Murder Report

General Summary
The adventurers start the session, landing in the middle of The Great Cold in Arondeth. It appears the snow is magical and cannot be melted by the sun. People are frozen in place; animals can no longer move: They take this chance to look around.
 
In the Newspaper Building
UPSTAIRS:
• Emil went to explore upstairs; he found nothing of use. While he was heading back downstairs, a creature tried to grab him. Upon further investigation, the adventurers could not see this creature. It would later kidnap Maia.
• Emil would cast detect magic and allow the group to see white creatures: These creatures seem to be drawn to the detect magic, not the magic channel itself.
• Maia is kidnapped downstairs.
 
 
In the last session we met Lynn. When I open the front door, I see cold and snow and things are very still. The birds look frozen. Percy the pigeon is still with us. He is cold buy okay. Maia sends Bear out. He doesn’t see anything. The people in the shops are frozen in place. Emil checked upstairs she doesn’t see anything but on the way down a creature tries to grab him.
Bear is stuck.
Maia
• Maia is taken by a winged gargoyle who says he is going to take her to the Time Court. Was this the truth? Who knows? A white creature had followed them, which made the gargoyle take Maia to a different point in time.
• Maia lands in a place where the royals are alive and well, and she is told she must kill the baby prince.
• Lynn and Crystal are older, and Lynn does remember Maia.
• Athena would save Maia but tell her she must kill the baby prince to correct her mistakes. Maia will go to kill the baby prince, but Athena will stop her. Athena gives Maia a golden dagger and an envelope.
• Maia is returned to her group.
 
Maia disappears in front of me and I scream. There is a creature approaching that is at least 6’1. Emil casts detect magic and we see them. It knocks. There are four more. This is the reason magic was banned. We hear footsteps upstairs. I sneak a look and there is one that has broken through the wall. It drops to all fours. Thy have one shoulder higher than the other. No face but has a mouth.
The creatures are not following our magical signature, they are going to where they are feeling the magic from.
 
Maia and the Gargoyle: Winged and made of stone. She is standing in time itself. It accused her of messing with time. Her “stunt” changed the course of history. Wants to take her to the Court of Time. It says they ae being followed. It grabs Maia and they jump out of the time tube.
They land in Arondeth but not at the time of the Great Cold. The land and cause a crater. Maia still feels she is being followed. Some how she feels Bear shivering. One of the white creatures from the newspaper office falls out of the time tube. White thing wants to kill her. She asks gargoyle for help and he tell her that he can’t fight Destiny. It leaves her to the creature. (She could see it because she had cast “Detect Magic.” She flies after the gargoyle and he tells her that she can’t outrun Destiny.
 
Back at the newspaper office white creatures are talking with Aiden’s voice. They keep saying ‘Who is it.” Then they mimic me. Emil drops “Detect Magic” and we can’t see the creatures anymore but they are probably still there.
 
Bear is “glitching” outside. It is Little Lilac trying to get him to come back so she is interfering with the spell. Emil casts Detect Magic again and Bear disappears.
 
We leave Maia a note and head to the hospital.
 
Back to Maia:
Gargoyle tells her: You summoned a dog who saved a princess. That princess alerted her sister who alerted her family who alerted the queen. He told her that she had changed Mother Nature’s plan. The gods are talking about her and what she’s done. She changed the course of time and the destiny of over 6 people. To fix this he hands her a dagger and tells her to kill the prince. The two youngest to correct the time space continuum. As he argues that she must kill the “child”, Athena appears. Athena killed the gargoyle. She asks if Maia is going to kill the child. She finally agrees as long as everyone else is saved and she can return to her friends. A
Athena takes her to the castle. In this time period the castle is lively.
Lynn is older. She is wearing a huge lab coat. Crystal is also older (still wearing armor). Crystal recognizes her magic signature and recognizes her.
Athena takes Maia to the child’s crib. This is the kid we found in the secret room. She again tries to reason with Athena. Athena replaces the dagger the gargoyle gave Maia with her own. Finally, Athena let her spare the baby. Athena let her keep the dagger and gave her an envelope to open when the time is right. She then teleported her to the hospital where we are.
 
At the Hospital (4 floors)
 
We arrive at the hospital to find the staff frozen in place. We need to find out about the pregnancy spike and the missing babies. Maternity is on the 3rd floor. Nanny the dragon gets mothers there with a lasso.
On the way to medical records (2nd floor behind room 17) we pass Thomas Langston, a patient on a gurney in the hallway who is having a huge pimple popped. The pimple contains worm eggs that are crunchy. (An Eggle of worms) The nurse doesn’t know what she is seeing. The eggs are hard. The pigeon taps the pimple with his foot. Also see a woman who is motioning to her crotch. The guy next to her is holding a chair – it looks like the woman fell through the chair.
MEDICAL RECORDS:
Neurology Records
• Dr. Kent Robbers was the first doctor to get any cases involving worms. His first patient was Louis St. Clare. First patient reported to have a worm,
• Worms hollow out the whole brain.
• Worms have 6 eyes, a circular mouth, and a bunch of tiny legs (like a millipede and as many legs)
• Patients will experience; mood swings, irritability, slowing losing control of their magic.
• Patients die within 3 days.
St. Clare File
• Louis is the brother of Marie St. Clare. (full siblings) Marie was one of Awol’s mistresses. Marie is dead in our time period. Is it a coincidence that he was the first to get the worms?
• He worked for Windale Associates: A medical firm that made Dopie Opies. Doctors used the medication to treat children who were taken by the Org. Most of these children end up killing themselves if not treated. Dopie Opies prevent psychosonopsis which children who are taken by the Org experience when their collars are removed. Collars are removed when they are rescued or sold. It prevents them from using their magic. There is a buildup. The are not all magical but all have a buildup because they have been experimented on. Buildup of emotion, magic, powers etc.
• He was heavily against royal children being shifted around. He spoke out against this often. Against them re-marrying. He has a whole campaign fo it.
 
 
 
 
OBGYN Records – Morganna rolls a natural 20 for investigation!
 
• Birthrates starting decreasing: 1308 TOS. During this time, the children were stillborn. The mothers usually died, and the fathers became ill.
• Animals could not reproduce either.
• Mothers banded together to stop having children.
• O.S.A.D.S.I.U. : Would step in to take any orphaned children(children left at home while mother gave birth).
• Birthrates increased: 1226 TOS.
• Mothers were having triplets: One child born was rare.
• 9/10 children were male.
• 1232 TOS: This rapid birthrate stopped.
• Animals were affected by all of this.
• Girls born during the boom had golden eyes.
• Most of the children died at 16.
• Cause of death records are missing. Autopsy reports are gone. Marie's file is gone.
 
Birthrates started decreasing in 1038 TOS and didn’t start increasing until 1226 TOS. During that time not even the animals could get pregnant Babies were still born and fathers became ill. The women decided not to get pregnant which led to the decrease in birthrates.
Emil is chilling.
Aiden finds Marie St. Cloud’s file but it is empty.
On to the maternity ward. Floor is mostly empty. Bruce is standing in front of a doctor looking sad. It looks like he lost a child. There is a man whose arms are out and it looks like he is yelling at one of the nurses. At his feet is a backpack and we see school books and comic books. Aiden opens the door. It is his teenage daughter. She looks sick. She has the golden eyes. She will be 16 in 15 minutes. Her name is Kaley Dunmark. The chart says Uncertain magical capabilities.
Athena’s dagger starts to glow and shake. It gets brighter as Maia gets closer. She opens the envelope and it is empty (time not right). Maia walks up to Kaley. Percy tells her to stab her with it and puts his foot on Aiden’s face. Percy is not really a pigeon and keeps yelling to stab her. Percy is a jet-black owl with a red bow tie. Percy has Aiden’s haircut. Maia stabs Kayley and she wakes up and grabs Maia’s arm. Maia was stabbing her with one arm and healing her with the other. Athena’s dagger glows and grumbles like a hungry stomach. The yellow crystal lit up when Maia stabbed her. Kayley is stunned so can’t really answer anyone. She claimed she was not sleeping. She was aware of what was going on in the building which means everyone else in the building is aware of what is going on. She leans over and throws up worms. We know that the dagger purified her because the worms burn and disappear when they hit the ground. We help her up (we try to give her rations but Percy snags them). Maia is able to feed her. She hadn’t eaten for 76 days. She asks for her big and we give it to her. She pulls out a small black journal. Percy is hers! Percy looks at the group and says “Congratulations! You found one! Kayley is one of the 6 missing royals from the rest of the planet.
 
 
Notes
Maia's Dagger
• It was glowing when it got close to Kaley.
• It has 6 Crystals.
• Red=
• Blue=
• Yellow= Kaley
• Purple=
• White=
PERCY
• Percy is actually an all-black owl with Aiden’s haircut and a red bow. He is Kaley's "pet" but will be sticking with Aiden for a long while.
• He told Maia to stab Kaley to feed the dagger: Which wakes Kaley up.
• He says she is one of the missing Royals from around the planet.
The Gargoyle
• Destiny is chasing Maia.
• He wanted to take Maia home early.
Other
• The characters that the players meet as they time travel will remember them.
• Lil Lilac was trying to get Bear to come to her. Why?
• The worms lay eggs.
Character(s) interacted with
• Athena
• Gargoyle
• Kaley
 
 
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