Plot 2: Magnimar


 * We pass the magic oak tree
 * I see a person, in blue cloak up on the tree
 * Doesn't seem dead, just some guy
 * He's got a small backpack next to him
 * Hood is over his face
 * Black pants and grey boots
 * He is sleeping, snoring
 * Half elf, dark hair with a
 * treeman leaves to the northeast
 * He says magnimar is all locked up? No crime?
 * His name is Liron
 * As we approach magnimar people get weird
 * The guards question us
 * He says the tawny owl is honest, but other inns are bad, they pay ruffians to mug the new travellers
 * The Discrete giant?  Pickpockets and petty thefts, at the docks (a faction)
 * The bounty hunters guild has bounties on members of the guild
 * Grauk asks about jonas, guard does not like it
 * Jonas fixes things by breaking people?
 * He lets us into magnimar
 * We go into the city and see a bunch of carnivals that popped up? Bards? Clowns?
 * We deliver the letter
 * We go to the tawny owl
 * The ladies share room 5
 * The boys in room 9
 * Grauk is gonna work 11-1 at the bar
 * We go to bounty hunters guild
 * We try to disguise ourselves, but only aqua succeeds
 * Are we the sentinels? Firesongs? Windstriders? Oatlocks?
 * Aqua says were the yabba dabba dos
 * We ask about bounties in sandpoint
 * Bounty on brodert? For bigamy (being married twice) ? Alive - 50 gold
 * Lea of the grey fangs!!!
 * Bounty for gnomish bard, yole pukki - 200 gold, alive, petty theft
 * Last seen in the low cleft district
 * Ask around brothels for him
 * Black market in the dockways district - small alley - art store with green door horris half elf - say tanner sent us - hell let us in basement
 * Yabba - aqua, dabba - me, do - asana
 * Alderns house is near alabaster or marble district near the avenue of hours
 * Aqua gets to the art shop and successfully goes to the basement
 * Trolls have natural healing capacity
 * The rest of go look for the townhouse
 * An elderly gnome lady directed me to the town square?
 * Human male leather trader told me down a certain road to the second house on the left
 * On the door of the townhouse is the foxglove symbol
 * We go back to the inn
 * Grauk meets Arr-in a shirtless dwarf
 * We go to the townhouse at 1 am
 * I unlock the door
 * We snoop through the house
 * Find two books “Notes on Charming the Upper Class Madam” & “Shoanti Cultural Customs and Rituals” and take them
 * Jonathan is investigating the 2nd and 3rd floor
 * 2 voices on the 3rd floor (man and woman)
 * Jonathan ties the two door knobs together as the 2 people continue to whisper
 * The man seemed to sound familiar to jonathan
 * Snake said there were weapons in the room
 * Snake says more than one sword, the people were bigger than me
 * FUCKING ALDERN walks out onto the 2nd floor where we are
 * The “aldern” called the woman honey
 * We knock out aldern and a ripple crosses his face
 * Jonathan puts on mask to look like aldern
 * The woman upstairs looks like aisha foxglove
 * Jonathan gets upstairs with aisha disguised as aldern
 * Aisha said men came by and boarded up the house? He owed them money?
 * The man started to melt, cast detect aberration, he is an aberration!
 * Jonathan attacks the woman, who then starts to melt
 * Grauk and i kill the man
 * He melts into a puddle, and i put some of him in a water bottle
 * We look into rooms on the 2nd floor, but nothing is inside them and they are dusty
 * The guards are outside and asana pretends to be aisha with magic
 * They leave the house
 * When ajani closed the windows he saw a person on the rooftops 5-6 houses away
 * He was watching the house, dressed strangely, then ran off
 * We find a lot of documents
 * Missing stuff from rooms?
 * Lions on 3rd floor, one has keyhole in mouth
 * Lion key opens a secret box in the fireplace
 * The box is locked
 * Kevin rips the box open:
 * Small bag of platinum (2000 gold)
 * Papers
 * Ledger that has foxglove estate expenses (repeating expense for aisha’s trip to absalom (another continent) )
 * The times for these trips happen even after she died (last 3 months, about a dozen trip entries)
 * B-7-200 gold pieces every wednesday to the 7 sawmill at midnight (all of her trips have this note)
 * Today is wednesday january 3rd year 4708
 * We found this note:
 * No basement in the house
 * Erasmus went south for a while to an island, then lost the guy
 * The payments stopped once aldern went to sandpoint
 * These payments were paying someone before he came to sandpoint, these payments have nothing to do with aisha's trips
 * Absalom is an incredibly important continent in the ocean
 * Old time, a star crashed into the world, destroying everything and created a new island - absalom
 * Absalom’s reckoning is like BC for us/jesus
 * The country of absalom is the exact place where the star landed
 * In year 1 AR a hero named Aroden raised the star stone and became a god ?
 * Aroden also created absalom, and the new calendar
 * 4606 AR aroden died, so now the world is in turmoil
 * No one knows how he died
 * This era is an era of confusion due to his death
 * Verner works/studies adjacent to the founders museum
 * We go to see verner, to fill him in on what's going on
 * The avenue of hours is very busy
 * Event at serpents run, which is a hippodrome
 * Asana and aqua say we’re being watched?
 * Half elf and human are keeping pace with us a block away
 * 25 words in the messaging potion
 * Ajani blends into 2 cat folk, assassins creed style, waiting to see what happens with the 2 people following us
 * The catfolk try to get ajani to meet their daughter
 * Gnomish man tries to stab russell, but he stops
 * He admits his group is following us
 * He mentions they’re after asana and aqua, they have an opposing thieves guild going on in their turf, so they're going after them
 * Man has a tattoo of a serpent - snake with open mouth
 * talk/pay Sabriya at the dockways
 * He says if the fines aren't paid, someone else will be after us, someone worse
 * He references the gargoyles, he's a silver tongue, he collects debts
 * Were in the museum and get a mental message from russell
 * The other two walk on
 * Verner shows up, and he tells us he stole a book from a fellow student as a gift to us
 * Dr andel guesserson’s office, has a personal notebook of translations of thasselonian!
 * He gives us this book! About 200 words are translated
 * We go to verners office
 * Lich’s are very rare
 * “Souls marked by greed”
 * We’re tellings verner everything about the rituals and the stuff we experienced
 * Xanesha? He's never heard of her
 * Council of magnimar, no mistress of the seven
 * She's operating on the down low
 * Asana has a map of the 7 kingdoms of thasselon
 * Her map lines up with a map of varisia
 * One weird kingdom is made of water?
 * Where does the big bridge in magnimar play into this?
 * We show him the deed/agreement from the townhouse
 * The abbertions were faceless stalkers, which are pretty rare
 * Someone had to be the summoner
 * Some boat tried to land in sandpoint, but ended up getting lost in marshtomp swamp
 * Aroden was the last of the aslanti, because the star crashing destroyed everything
 * Aroden tried to rally his people, but no one listened
 * He made it to the isle where the star fell, and had to compute 3 challenges, which are a mystery
 * He raised the star and became a god and made absalom
 * One king ruled over all of the 7 other kingdoms/people
 * Ever since aroden died, oracles have had trouble seeing the future
 * 4606 - aroden died
 * 4624 - deed happens
 * Verner’s codename: the silver sphinx
 * To contact verner again, we send a messenger to his school/work (founders archive)
 * Mwiswin is an elf at the front desk we can trust, shell personally announce him
 * “The silver sphinx has a shipment at the bizarre of sales ”
 * Then meet at the bizarre of sales, at the car-dune fishery
 * Riddleport cyphergate is that big circle with thessalonian that's underwater
 * The cyphergate is also in the same water that is part of the underwater kingdom?
 * Forged fury is most famous blacksmith in magnimar?
 * Were going to stop at a blacksmith, and try to intercept payment
 * We hire carts to go to the church for gishy
 * 5 gold from our party fund
 * Magnimar is having an iron shortage???
 * We get gishy, but he is being difficult
 * Were now at the forged fire - blacksmith
 * All windows are covered in iron bars
 * We see a man with a shaved head and scars all over his body, he's missing 3 fingers in his left hand, he only has thumb and index
 * He is missing chunks of his tongue
 * We leave and head to the island with the mysterious sawmill
 * We cross the yanda-baquari river
 * Rags end (poorest part of magnimar) is near kibers island
 * The gallows are active in rags end!!
 * This is who unkin owed money too!
 * Anyone with a hangman tattoo on their forearm is part of the gallows
 * Gishy sees a group of 5 people, 3 evil but they’re leaving
 * We go into a sawmill and ask around
 * Aldern went to the flood fire sawmill and check around the side
 * Flood fire is a massive lighthouse
 * We find 4 floor sawmill off by itself and quiet
 * Evil on 3rd floor
 * 4 blips of evil
 * Two guys come up behind us
 * One is evil
 * Aqua kills one, the other we tie up
 * The dead guy has a razor like aldern did (cultists, not ironbriar)
 * We tried to interrogate the other guy but he didt say anything
 * Aqua killed him
 * The people did have evil god staffs?
 * We hear chanting start on a higher floor
 * We charge up and there’s a shit ton of people
 * I pull a mask off a man, and he is: half elf man black hair and dark eyebrows
 * Orok (bull) is summoned and charges us
 * Dead lady in the room also has a carving on her back
 * We kill everyone, and asana almost dies
 * I saved asana by gliding her to a lower floor
 * Kevin found a bunch of stuff on the big guy (ironbriar):
 * Key
 * Broken wand - mended but dead of magic - given to Asana
 * Hand Crossbow - given to Jonathan
 * Sword - plus one sword, not magical
 * Armored shirt - Mithral, given to me
 * Evil mask - similar to the mask Jonathan has
 * 10 drippy arrows - drow poison, makes people unconscious if they fail save, from 1 min to 8 hours - given to Jonathan
 * We open the door into a small room
 * It's full of weird eggs and faces stretched over them (5 of them)
 * The faces are grimaced, and all different races and sexes
 * There is a ladder leading up to a trap door in the ceiling
 * There is a messy ledger on the desk in small room
 * Grauk looks in footlocker, but its locked
 * Aqua unlocks
 * Book on varisian gulf - blaze
 * Sea charts about underwater rock formation - blaze
 * Rolled up piece of parchment with arcane ruins - blaze
 * Small rolled up canvas about the ice city - aqua
 * Books:
 * Wizard spellbook - black with 2 snakes - blaze
 * blink, cats grace, chill touch, enlarge person, fox's cunning, grease, haste, lightning bolt, mage armor, magic missile, scorching ray, shocking grasp, shrink item, spider climb and web
 * Serpents tane: fairy tales of the eldest - blaze
 * Slim leather bound journal - fancy leather, dark maroon, thin cord holding it together - blaze
 * Journal:
 * Slim leather bound journal - fancy leather, dark maroon, thin cord holding it together - blaze
 * Journal:


 * Combination of 3 languages and cyphered
 * Dwarven, draconic, elven
 * Will take blaze a full day to translate/figure out
 * Other room has barrells with nonsense in it
 * Blaze mends the broken wand, but it is permanently broken
 * Aqua find wood molds
 * I climb the ladder and am on roof
 * In room i find cabinet:
 * 3 ravens
 * Table with blank parchment
 * Quill and ink
 * Bags of feed for birds
 * We send raven east followed by erasmus
 * Erasmus comes back, but doesn’t know the place he was gonna land
 * He was trying to fly under the massive bridge
 * Take the two birds
 * Its like 1:30
 * We pass the wandering druid pub
 * They say : you can see us????
 * We all go inside
 * It is a new moon today
 * The gnomes say we will not be in any danger
 * Most people cannot see it
 * We take a drink from the lady at the bar
 * The white hair gnome is named Nivyn with a faint white mustache
 * Xoxif has a small magical cart at the dockways, sells magical items
 * Mention nivyn’s name and he’ll offer good items
 * I got a letter at the bar! Also the hidden leaves got 2 letters
 * Letter from the mayor:
 * Lord mayor of magnimar Haldmeer Grobaras: formally requests the presences of: the hidden leaves this friday the 9th day of Abadius 4708 Absaloms Reckoning at 6:00 in the Eve at Cinderland Winds in the visa district Please note formal attire is required no weapons will not be permitted within the premisses
 * The letter from captain Trask:
 * Hello little temptress, I was a little disappointed, sharing a drink with myself and an empty bar. It was not my idea of fun, and im sure not yours either. No controlling the tide, i guess. I received your letter though and the rider emphasized the expediency with which it was to be delivered. I was touched. I wont be back in sandpoint for a while. Unfortunately, my shipping ways will blow me up to riddleport. If you find yourself up there you can send word for me at the beast hunters guild or the yellow flail tavern. I frequent both. I will be on my way to magnimar in early calistrail, just in time to celebrate the merrymead festival. Come buy a poor girl a drink? Heres hoping, captain trask
 * The letter from ameiko:
 * The hidden leaves, I truly hope this letter has found you well and whole. You told me to share any more dreams I have in case they are relevant. Most of mine are ominous and leave me with a foul sense of dread when I wake. Yesterday though i had one of the most vivid dreams that had me waking in a terrible fright. I was standing on the shore of the varisian gulf. The land I was standing on was muddy and all around me the air was humid and dense. I could see the distant lights of sandpoint to my right and on my left, I could barely make out the silhouette of magnimar. Out in the ocean a massive storm cloud was building, larger than anything I have ever seen. It moved with an impossible speed, swallowing island after island in its terrible embrace. Lightning lashed down dozens of times illuminating the surface of the ocean. The tendrils of lightning appeared as if they were grasping and searching for something or someone. Right before I awoke, I heard a sound, deeper than a mountain and more powerful than a tidal wave echo out across the water. It said [WHERE ARE YOU ] ? This was an old language my father spoke, the language of the tian people from across the ocean in tianxia. I fear something is out there and getting closer. I know you are on an important mission for the good of sandpoint and i do not want to appear a helpless woman fearing for her life, but I would be lying if I didn't have a fear setting into my skin, crawling over me during the daytime. If i could impose on you one last time to help me, I would be eternally grateful. I think perhaps the area i was standing in during my dream might be important, oh i so wish i could give you more information. I have enclosed 500 gold along with this letter for your troubles. Thank you so much for all you have done for me, I consider you to be true friends. Sincerely, ameiko
 * We don't split ameikos gold, and we plan to give it back to her
 * We go to sleep in the inn
 * Grauk hears a large creature outside and sees people running
 * Across the avenue i see a flash of black across the rooftops, a half elf person dressed in black, with a cloak
 * They're wrestling something on the rooftop, and they scampers into a window
 * 15ish minutes later they leaf the window with a sack in their arms and they leap away
 * Erasmus can't help, too many people
 * A wolf the size of a horse is outside fucking around
 * White and grey fur with blue fur around its muzzle
 * Blue eyes
 * Its bouncing around, but not attacking anyone
 * Has a chain on its neck
 * We go downstairs
 * Behind the wolf there is a robed woman running
 * I try to calm the wolf
 * The wolf is magical in nature
 * The fangs are tinged with the metallic blue color
 * Seems like a magical beast
 * The woman told us not to approach as she caught up
 * The wolf calms down and the woman thanks us!
 * Nyx is her name, the wolf is sapphire
 * She's part of the taboo menagerie
 * They're at the serpents run
 * They're here today today and tomorrow
 * We get free tickets!
 * It’ll take us 3-4 hours as a group to decipher the letter
 * My snake is veronica
 * We send erasmus and veronica with a note to ajani and gishy
 * They send back another note with a wand from a bad guy from gishy that he wants us to give the church
 * Were a half hour into the translation of the note
 * Hour into translation, we sent a note to the church
 * Church sends back note that we aren't trustworthy
 * Were almost halfway through translation
 * The earth moves ??
 * A loud bang accompanies the moving
 * Far to the north, a single tendril of black smoke is on the horizon
 * It must be massive up close
 * It looks like it happened 180-240 miles away
 * Riddleport???
 * 15 black armored guards march towards dockways
 * Erasmus follows them
 * The tide is different now
 * The guards went to docks and were watching water
 * Erasmus sees a huge/enormous ripple in the water
 * A big thing was approaching the shore
 * At least 50 ft long
 * But then the thing is gone, the guards salute, then a man walks up the stairs at the docks
 * Big blue robes, blue hair, he kinda looked like a fish
 * The guards and fish boy talk, then the guy gets angry and the guards get scared
 * One makes a joke, tension gone
 * The guards give him something small, fits into hand, and walked back into the water
 * The man disappears for a second and then the same type of ripple goes the other way
 * The ripple came from and went back to the north
 * One of the guards was BERDAIN
 * Berdain used to be posted at some trio dio circle
 * We finish translating the journal:
 * Records of the seven kept by justice ironbriar
 * Visited my lovely xanesha again. She has opened my eyes to the true possibilities and given me new methods of harvesting. She is so intelligent and beautiful; all I seek I find with her. Praise be to norgorber for sending her to me.
 * Payment received for more recruitment
 * Plans progressing perfectly. That doddering old fool doesn't suspect a thing. His soul is particularly rife with greed but we cannot risk reaping it yet. He is a fool but a well-connected one. If we take him too early the council of ushers might replace him with a more … inquisitive lord mayor. I cannot risk that quite yet.
 * Aldern came to us again. The fool murdered his wife and had nowhere to go. We promised we would take care of it, for a price.
 * Investigation into the murders continue, led by myself of course. How convenient, I order the harvesting, then I lead the guards on a fruitless trail to nowhere.
 * Red-mantis paid in full for our delivery to mediogalti. Always enjoyable working with professionals. Norgorber only knows what they want with that place.
 * Xanesha requested to speak to aldern, I admit my jealousy but obeyed nonetheless. When I saw him next, he looked different, unwell. Perhaps my jealousy was foolish. Few enter the shadowclock unscathed.
 * Payment sent: donations to impoverished communities.
 * My skinsaw men have been particularly active. 15 more victims this moon alone. Mostly the downtrodden and overlooked. The greediest souls are the affluent but desperation breeds its own forms of greed.
 * Visited xanesha again. That makes several times this month alone. She grows closer to me, I can feel it.
 * Berdain says something impacted an island up north near riddleport
 * He lied, didn't mention the person he saw crawl out of the water
 * He was part of a company that heard from an “ambassador” and he says they should be okay
 * He doesn't know what will happen to the weather, ash from the north maybe?
 * The ambassador could only say very little, travelled very fast to get there
 * He says sheriff hemlock sent a letter to the mayor saying who we were and that we were good people
 * 13 justices in Magnamar
 * Mediogalti time is an island nation, country, southwest of ra ha doom
 * It’s 4 pm, Jonathan talks to bartender and sets up a poker match
 * The bartender gets 30% of the table
 * Palidan/cleric from Reggie’s church show up and they start doing shit to the dead bodies
 * The Palidan’s have connection with justice bale?
 * The palidan wants to burn the thing down
 * norgirbor is an evil god? He’s bad news - “reaper of bad reputations”
 * Reggie lets the palidans tell justice bale
 * The palidans lock the mill and leave Reggie/Russell
 * As Jonathan stays to gamble, me grauk and asana go to buy clothes
 * Over 2 hours Jonathan earns a shit ton of money, 204 gold, 61 of that goes to the bartender
 * Dwarf, male, fiery red beard, and elf, tall, not super thin, pretty muscular, both betted really high and lost
 * They’re grilling Jonathan, and as they leave the dwarf shakes jonathan’s hand and jonathan sees a tattoo on his wrist
 * The tattoo looks like the snake with its mouth open (cupcake kind of) which is the tattoo FOR THE OPPOSING THIEVES GUILD TO JONATHANS
 * The above happens at 10 pm
 * We look for clothes - we ask a tall half elf woman for where we can find clothing but she’s a bitch
 * We go up to an older dwarf who is dressed nicely, he goes to a shop up the road - Edina has shop called Edina’s clothing
 * Tell her galatis send us
 * On our way we hear about political tension between Corsova and magnimar; a rumor about a magical circus near the bizarre of sales; a sailor man and a beautiful business lady or prostitute talk about hope he saw dobachu  and she was impressed
 * Edina’s is made of glass and stone, very open air
 * Edina is halfling woman, and she’s smoking a cigarette, cropped black hair (Edna from the incredibles)
 * Moldy groby is what she called the Lord Mayor
 * He is fat apparently
 * She calls blaze too tall
 * Blaze - purple dress low cut and no back, high heels
 * Light blue blouse for me, with black trousers, and bracelets/belt, will wear snake around my neck
 * Kevin will wear red and his red pelt, and an orange belt
 * Get a black skirt and boots for jonathan
 * Receipt is 175 gold
 * Asana 63
 * Me 46
 * Grauk 27
 * Jonathan 29
 * She takes off 10 gold because she’ll be our plus one
 * We leave, far out to the horizon grauk sees a massive column rising into the sky turning into a black cloud, this is in the direction of riddleport
 * We send Erasmus with food to investigate the cloud
 * Reggie and Russell come back
 * Reggie asks lots of questions, goes to our clothing shop
 * Reggie gets suit - 40
 * Russell gets something loose - 40
 * Kevin asks barkeep about the shadowclock - beneath the ironspan, no good area, is he looking for trouble? Old clock tower, never any light down there, tried gentrifications the area but it’s crooked and the clock no longer works - broke about XX (dan didn’t have timeline) years ago
 * Very tall, big staircase inside, treacherous and dangerous stairs, lots of people get hurt inside, about 200 ft tall
 * He tells us not to climb the stairs
 * The fight club under the ironspan got closed down (the one we fought at with unkin? )
 * The discrete giant, halfling called amis, organizes private fights, but they’re more dangerous, fights planned on Sundays
 * It’s now 7:30
 * Were sitting together at a round table, blaze sees through the door the tall elf and short red headed dwarf watching the inn
 * Reggie gets a room at the inn - 2 gold
 * Gallows and gargoyles are not same gang
 * Is the discrete giant the same things? Ctrl f it
 * We get to the dockways at 11 pm
 * Were at the gollum’s works? We continue walking
 * In the north, there’s still a blacked out portion of the sky from that black column
 * We find xoxif at the docks and he shows us his items:
 * Small bottle filled with white viscous fluid - unsticks stuff
 * Small necklace with dried gnarled hand - picks stuff up less than 5 pounds, 30 ft, 400 gold
 * Unlit candle - one time thing, when you light it and are near it you cant lie for about an hour within 5 ft, gnomes dont like this, but you dont have to tell the truth, you just cant lie
 * Crystal wind chime - chime of opening, opens shit, breaks after 6 uses, works on magical portals
 * Coiled rope - uncoils and attaches itself to the wall, can hold 10 grauk at once, can easily hold a wagon, 2000 gold
 * Grey leather bag - bag of tricks, only pull out animals
 * Small eyeglass, monocle - add 5 to perception, 2800 gold
 * Empty bottle - bottle of air, always has air in it, lets you breath underwater, 5300 gold
 * Human with grey hair bought a bag of holding a month ago
 * Jonathan buys the necklace
 * Me and Jonathan both buy headgear that will let us disguise ourselves as anyone
 * Everything is ready in 2 days
 * As we are walking home, a man is sitting on a roof of a building we pass
 * Man is wearing all leather and long braided black hair, with a long sword
 * Ten hooded figures pop up with bows and long swords
 * I tried to intimidate him, but it failed
 * It’s goddamn Jonas
 * We fight, and Jonathan lies, so he actually tries to stop fighting BUT we continue so we can kill him now rather than later
 * He takes a potion and disappears
 * We loot:
 * 60 gold in total (15 gold each)
 * 2 vials of black fluid
 * thieves tools
 * 30 ft of rope
 * We notice two new tattoos, little claws and wings (presumably of a gargoyle)
 * We run away from the scene and hide behind statue
 * We get back to inn safely
 * We went to sleep that 1:30 am
 * We wake up at 9:30 am
 * Someone (dressed in scarves and small size) dropped off a letter at the inn for us, it may be verner ?
 * It is snowing outside
 * Ajani has a thick stack of parchment that was the delivery
 * The silver Sphinx dropped off a letter about thasselonians
 * Document called: The buried truth!
 * Gargoyles and the nightscales are gearing up for a fight??
 * Gargoyles - dockways
 * Nightscales - low cleft
 * Nightscales are another gang - been around for ages
 * Mistress of the dockways tries to keep things calm, but it doesn’t always work
 * We take baths and wash our clothes
 * Before the party we go to the taboo menagerie
 * It’s not snowing, its raining ash frost the tower of black in the north
 * One vendor, still open, calls out to us
 * I buy a winter melon for 1 copper
 * His name is trandor
 * A silver for him to slice up the melon
 * We all eat the remaining melon
 * I see 2 guards taking tickets and a sorcerer making sure people won't use weapons
 * Past guards, nyx is arguing with 2 guards
 * We go up to her and nyx says were the extra security for the events
 * We get to stay on the field with her as the show goes on
 * We get chairs, and there are about 25 druids/wizards/sorcerers at attention throughout the audience watching attentively - some types of guards?
 * The hippodrome changes after the magic casters perform a spell, and a seal goes around the hippodrome
 * The first performer is tzuzong, who has one arm normal and one arm metal, he is from tsien, so we should ask him to help translate the words on amikos note
 * We talk to him afterwards, and we go into a different dimension to speak with him
 * Pair of twins from tsien? THE ONES WE FOUGHT
 * Tsien is broken up into 5 groups
 * Min chai emperor was overthrown by his general? The five storms
 * The cat lets me pet him!
 * We give him ameikos name and address so they can be pen pals
 * Mammoth lords are up north where it is always winter
 * Gnomish sorcerer made him a metal arm
 * They will be going to riddleport or turtle head ferry
 * Maybe caramaga ? But its built in a cliff and they trade in slaves
 * Erasmus comes back into the window
 * Asana gets him food and water
 * Most of the ocean is ocean, its very hot
 * He gets to riddleport, and some of it is flooded by the ocean
 * 18 flaps to the left there is a crescent island (moon shape) that wasn’t on fire but it was shooting up a bunch of ash
 * Used to be enormous mountain forest? Now molten magma and ash, big crater where an explosion happened?
 * It is 5:30 and were all dressed and nice looking in the hallway
 * We get a cart to take us to the party
 * The driver (Giles) of the cart has a tattoo behind his ear -
 * There is a clockwork golem - created life - and it is pushing smoke from its back
 * This Gollum is front he golumworks - the empty place we passed earlier on our night time adventures, before we fought Jonas
 * The Gollum looked at us for weapons as we enter
 * We see and smell a lot of food and drinks
 * Rich nobles are chatting each other up
 * Older man with grey beard rushes over to Russell - looks similar to mayor derven (mayor of sandpoint)
 * Hobart derven is his name, the father of mayor derven
 * “The simple lord” is what he’s called
 * Incredibly large, 300-350 pound man in a very loud outfit, bald with only sideburns - the mayor
 * The blind woman that Jonathan saw is there in very nice clothing - madame gao
 * Most are elves, half-elves, or humans
 * A mysterious buy outside the city has been buying large quantities of iron from magnimar, so it is more and more difficult to find iron and silver
 * Several local queries outside magnimar, all shipments are going to this buyer
 * Yondibacardi river has quarries on it
 * The man that told this stuff to Jonathan was wearing a ring with this symbol: circle with two crosses, one upside down with a dream catcher in the center RINS ?
 * Mivionus vanderall speaks with Russell and Grauk and compliments their bodies, as he is buff himself
 * Then he asks about trade and if they think stuff is available in good quantities
 * Rumors of iron and steel running short? “Hahaha makes you think someone is preparing for war” FORESHADOWING ??
 * 3 noblewomen ask me about my snake necklace
 * Asana is approached by version woman, who is scantily clad - almond colored eyes, black leather trousers, and corset top, jingling jewelry
 * She asks asana about magic, and she is a magic user
 * She asks a question about gnomish magic users?
 * Zamandri caldron is her name
 * Where do gnomes get their magic? Has asana been to the santos forest?
 * She is starting to flirt with asana - “sharing magical secrets” at bilaruns benevolent balms and effligent elixirs
 * Ones by belovin bilirun
 * I hear 2 nobles whispering about “one of my shop owners said a raggedy traveler tried to sell coins from tsien” “anyone can get those at a bank” “no from before the regime from the brinestump marsh” one man one woman
 * I follow them looking for their names to find this shop
 * Man - ordon krinst - shop owner
 * Low cleft quill shop
 * Ordellia (south of kyvers islet) butcher/jerky shop?
 * Dockways brothel
 * Woman - vealetta covarn
 * They’re good friends ,
 * Cousin from turtle back ferry - gambling bar got burned down and sunk? Some noblewoman ran it
 * Blind woman hooks aquas arm and starts walking with her
 * “So you managed to startle Jonas, good for you”
 * “Jonas is a very very good archer, we won't see him again”
 * “Ill make you a deal, consider the debt paid, but consider coming to work for me”
 * Aqua cant speak with anyone about what she is saying, but it will be an open offer to accept or decline
 * She isn’t actually blind, and she sounds genuine
 * She has called off all hits on us, go talk to a woman at the docks - Sabriya
 * Say “a silver tiara” to sabriya to accept the offer
 * The children are now hers, and they are alive and well
 * “My dear friend has arrived” - its adina looking FANTASTIC
 * She goes up to lord haldmeer and they are super passive aggressive to each other
 * Empty tub of water on the end of the long table
 * Plate was set, but food was never served
 * I go to a gnomish woman with two drinks - get the scoop, info added above
 * Madame GAO and adina are talking dick, and randrid and valani are the top daddy contenders
 * They are very close, talking about sex scandal
 * Adina is passive aggressively speaking about who has her clothes and who is wearing other people’s clothes
 * Convo with Haldmir and Asana. Talking about how big the city is.
 * Nostalgic Glory run by Sharice Shale, in the Vespa district run by uma thurcup
 * Yonderhof delve is run by Murman oorton
 * Mayoral discount if you say: haldmeer enjoys a full plate
 * The ticket man comes in (blonde ponytail) is looking for someone and the tub of water is stirring
 * Asana detects a summoning spell being activated on the tub
 * Servants are drawing a thick curtain between the appetizer and dinner room
 * I tell Veronica to peek in the room, but 2.5 seconds later she runs back and is scared
 * Haldmeer is saying something, and a daddy answers but we cant understand words
 * Adina is leaving, and she calls madame GAO “vammy”
 * Jonathan asks daddy derven about bathtub, but he doesn’t know anything about it
 * Veronica says that a man comes out of the rub with blue hair
 * Jonathan introduces herself to adina
 * Moldy groby says adina isn’t influential enough to get invited to the parties herself
 * Commune with animals
 * 1. A terrifying man came out of the bathtub, I don't think he is what he seems
 * 2. Bird recognizes no one
 * 3. Bird went to Shadow clock
 * 4. Me and other birds were used in rotation, he went 4 times last month, this month no times, I killed his master
 * 5. Did not deliver to person, left on top floor, other birds received replies
 * 6. Talk about Island destruction in the room
 * 7. 8. 9. People the bird has heard their names:
 * Olmur davancuss - alive
 * Haldmeer groberas - alive
 * Sontal vrigg - dead
 * Salgun caldrun - dead
 * Haliss corvaski - alive
 * Sabriya calmerum - alive
 * Femgrith the slasher - dead
 * 10. Dohbar-chu is the fish daddy
 * We go back in and only haldmeer is in the room - no fish daddy
 * He asks us how averse we are to traveling
 * He hasn’t heard from fort rannick in a while
 * Ever since the cult murders, guards have been busy
 * Ironbriar was supposed to come to this party
 * Ironbriar works with the ushers?
 * 1000 gold a piece to travel to fort rannick and investigate
 * 400 miles
 * We will be passing metzorose
 * Then turtleback ferry is the closest to the fort
 * A weeks journey with the horses
 * Hire a ferry to take us to turtleback ferry
 * A week on ferry’s too
 * Turtleback ferry
 * Podunk
 * Smaller than sandpoint
 * Speak to Lamatar baden of the black arrows at turtleback
 * We will get a word at the shops in magnimar here and ferry tickets on him
 * Black arrows are the elite of the elite
 * Where to find mayor:
 * Most afternoons in lord mayor’s menagerie
 * Sunday defiants garden
 * Weekday in pediments building
 * Ushers hall
 * Blond assistant at door is valani
 * Tomorrow he will be resting
 * We get sent back and gishy has arrived
 * I start eavesdropping again
 * D - very well I will not prevent ships moving in and out of the harbor, however if chillax war ships come in I WILL NOT DEFEND THE CITY
 * as someone as old as him, someone as petty as haldmeer has no effect on him
 * he allows magnimar existence, remind the navy and guards that the water is his, he watched the death of the vydartch he and he did nothing because it did not benefit him
 * He will scout the bottom of the ocean for iron in return for territory of water in riddleport
 * Mayor agrees enthusiastically
 * Then a splash of water as the curtain is drawn back again
 * The mayor is now red and sweaty and nervous looking
 * The vydarth seems like a creature or beast, or maybe an enemy force, but I think the former
 * 2 drunk nobles:
 * Did you hear about that thing in the osprey
 * I heard there’s a secret prison out there
 * I hear it's worse than the hill
 * There’s nothing worse than the hills
 * The osprey might be referring to the irespan itself
 * Later this month the gollum works is going to have a Gollum works walk where they show off the new models
 * Valani high fives the Gollum
 * Gollum’s are at least 10k gold
 * Stories about gollum’s gaining consciousness and forming bonds
 * The toothbrush tattoo? He doesn’t know
 * Tattoos always mean something - guild, gang, familial, but usually a gang
 * Gangs like to tattoo shopkeepers and expensive citizens
 * Means that they are protected
 * Zesp - the carriage driver back
 * We are going back to the inn
 * Asana makes funny faces at the people in the restaurants
 * Ladies on one side, men on the other
 * Ajani sees a spire on a building detach and fly away
 * A black angular sphere is in the sky - we have to roll a dex save
 * A creature comes?
 * The horses are obliterated
 * Blood and dust are everywhere
 * Heist massive creature is eating the horses
 * Zesp is not doing okay
 * The creature picks up zesp
 * This creature speaks Tehran
 * He says: “zesp ?”
 * Once the creature gets a yes it snaps his neck
 * There was a bounty on zesp that this guy got
 * He asks if Russell wants a horse
 * He takes Zesp and one horse and flies away
 * Jonathan pickpockets some dried meat jerky from zesp’s body
 * This gargoyle was bigger than the one I fought
 * It went northwest, but most of magnimar was to the northwest
 * The gargoyle was (syrod) sigh-rod
 * Magnimar is full of stone gargoyles, so no one knows who he is
 * That night aqua had a disturbing dream :
 * She is alone in a bed in the center of the room
 * Some pressure has a hold of her
 * She’s being pressed down into the bed
 * She cant sit up
 * Coils are around her
 * Feminine voice behind her ear: “interesting”
 * She doesn’t recognize the voice
 * The most real dream she’s ever had
 * The dream is not related to madame GAO
 * I sneak out and throw a bottle into the water with a note and a rock and something shiny for dohbar-chu and a letter with help in thasselonian, signed small dwarf
 * That morning asana casts a spell on aqua to look at that dream
 * Thick massive viper coils wrapped around her legs, but they aren’t connected to her legs
 * They just appeared around her
 * Something affecting her thoughts not in her brain
 * There’s a gilded mask next to her face, with black wild hair that’s stringy and knotted, almost turning to white people dreads
 * The mask and coils are very snake like
 * The mask was gold
 * The interesting word comes out almost hissed
 * Asana then goes through the madame GAO dream, and knows about that conversation and the conversation aqua had
 * Asana tells me about the dream and the conversation with madame GAO
 * It’s about 10 am
 * Aqua is currently under a suggestion spell
 * I’m going to go with asana to pick up our magic hats
 * Everyone else is going to the bounty hunter’s guild to Sus out the gargoyle
 * We walk by the golemworks
 * We get to the bizarre of sales
 * We see a woman sitting on crates (like a thrown of crates) watching things
 * She waves us over and she has a half orc - Duurk
 * She is sabriya
 * Amiko and sabriya used to go adventuring together??
 * Red shawl and scarf, varisian, has showanti in her too?
 * She has tattoos in very thin silver over her body, they catch the light when she moves
 * The tattoos are magic! - expeditious retreat, acid splash, etc
 * On her arm she has full sleeves basically
 * She gives us a thin metal brooch - circle with a slash through it - symbols for today - doesn’t work tomorrow
 * Captains club is an inn
 * Shucked oyster - her guards like it - raunchy?
 * Go to old fangs - old ma’am grotto has excellent drinks
 * I slap duurks ass - “half orc women slap hard - but not bad”
 * We get our stuff and go back to the inn to meet up with the party
 * We had disguises on when we went to the bounty hunters, so no one recognizes aqua and the party with him
 * It costs 6k to hire syrod for a death
 * It costs 5k for alive, but he might not take
 * Syrod just picked up a bounty this morning
 * Syrod cam in around 4am and dropped off zesp (7k)
 * Zesp was caught cheating on a nobleman wife - that’s the bounty
 * We don’t know enough to open a bounty on Xanesha
 * There are a lot of open bounties that need completing
 * We walk disguised to the clock tower
 * We head to under bridge on our way, unknowns to us
 * It’s gotten nasty in this district
 * We see gargoyle statues and I throw rocks at them - no shift
 * We see dog fights, cock fights, people living in tents, mostly half orcs
 * We walk by the fight bar we once fought at
 * We finally see the shadowclock
 * We get closer, and an older human tells us not to climb the tower - the scarecrow is about - he carries a scythe
 * He likes unattended children
 * Scarecrow will shamble about of the shadows and eat us
 * He is telling the truth
 * The scarecrow has a big broad hat with stitches in his skin and a big scythe where he skins people and he’s more than 100 years old
 * People says he’s the golemworks first mistake
 * Old man has seen scarecrow come out of some alley and headed towards the sea
 * For 100 feet around the clock, there are no buildings, its overgrown with mushrooms and moss and bugs - the ground is sunken a bit
 * Spires on the top of the clock, near the bottom of the bridge
 * Clock is frozen at 3 o’clock
 * Broken stone angel is at the top
 * On the floor we cant see a door because of the vines
 * Near the top we see a small wooden staircase stabbed into the exterior and holes near top
 * About 18-20 floors
 * We start to leave, and aqua sees some vines move at one spot on the tower, and hears a low deep sigh
 * Jonathan burns the mask
 * He then remembers the face of the dream snake, and what the thing looked like, and he thinks the dream and the mask were connected
 * When we leave for the under bridge, I notice two people watching us on rooftops, and they checked a piece of paper and said no
 * They were looking at our group in total not a specific person
 * A tall dirty looking half orc comes out drunk at us - its durum!!
 * I offer 20 gold to fight with us in the shadowclock but he says hell nah
 * He says he’s had a string of bad luck
 * We get a sense that something is wrong
 * It is pitch black because of the bridge above us
 * Reggie uses detect evil, but we aren’t close enough tot the tower
 * We go into an abandoned building
 * We send Erasmus and Ronnie together to scope out the tower
 * They come back, Erasmus is burned but Ronnie is okay
 * Erasmus there:
 * Smoke demon tail wings
 * Scales
 * Black fur
 * Smells bad like burns my nose bad
 * He dropped off Ronnie and then flew away
 * Demon shot 2 magic missiles
 * Demon in the roof, the roof is open
 * Upstairs has angel statue
 * Has lots of wooden boxes
 * Has some bells under demon
 * Hole in wall
 * Veronica
 * Saw other things beside demon (between 2-3 things)
 * She went down one floor
 * It was scary
 * 3 people on the floor down
 * Veronica is twisting into shapes - she saw weird shapes moving
 * They didn’t look like girls or boys
 * They looked like blobs
 * Also smelled bad o that floor
 * She heard them grunting
 * Something stopping her going down more
 * She may have been seen? No/maybe
 * Too unstable to go down again
 * Scarier than the fish man
 * the window at the top of the tower has smoke and weird enemy in there circling around - maybe coming down?
 * This tower is not held up by rocks - something else aka magic
 * We run to paladins and they send two with us to come back
 * Rankin and moisty are the paladins
 * We get to the tower
 * The three paladins go in, one is gishy
 * There is a curving tower going up
 * The scarecrow pops out from under a pile of moss
 * The scarecrow is a golem
 * Rankin gets one shot
 * Moisty dies too
 * After 12 seconds Russell runs to the door
 * Asana and aqua follow
 * Asana and aqua pop in the window and kill the scarecrow/golem
 * Russell almost dies
 * On paladins:
 * Runes of sarenrae
 * Potion of cure light wounds (Russell uses)
 * Aqua becomes compelled again and tries to climb the ladder to the next floor
 * Asana kicks the ladder out
 * They came back
 * We go back to inn, Reggie goes to church
 * We get up at noonish
 * Ironbriar was smushed so no one recognized him
 * We go to the garden to talk to the mayor
 * We enter the garden, guards let us in
 * There’s a glass house in the garden
 * Valani is inside with mayor in a pool
 * Jonathan tries to tell the mayor about ironbriar potentially being dead
 * The council of ushers would need to vote for the guards to get involved in the shadowclock
 * Lord direxi?
 * We show the mayor justice ironbriar notes
 * He wants us to help him with his situation
 * He offers gold
 * He says go to bale - SHE has a very different outlook on politics
 * He wants us to tell her everything and say to send Utarn (wutang) and his clan
 * The scarecrow was an escaped Gollum from the gollum works
 * There is surprisingly a good reason that haldmeer is the mayor
 * We go to ushers hall to talk to bale
 * “Protection and goodwill and justice for the people” is written around
 * Building is maze like
 * 2nd floor 3rd door on right next to ugly plant in purple pot
 * Her name - bale argentine
 * We go into her office
 * Black robe, not much frill, translucent veil over her face - like wedding veil but black
 * Two in keystone district
 * We take writs of execution to first floor
 * We wait outside - 11 people 7men 4women
 * 2 dwarves
 * Utarn 4’6’’ - studded armor, long battle axe - braided red hair and beard
 * 5 humans
 * 3 half orcs
 * 1 halfling
 * 5 have bows/crossbows, the others are melee, no magic casters
 * The men line up behind Utarn, they don't talk a lot
 * No magic tattoos
 * The paladins are being rude
 * They only send gisath
 * I get the cleric at the door smote by serenrae
 * Utarn is a very respected war veteran
 * He had multiple plaques on the wall in the justice hall usher place
 * We go inside and climb up to second floor
 * When we climb stairs we rope ourselves together
 * A bell drops from above and hurts aqua and one of Utarns clan
 * Grauk gives the guard a potion and aqua as well
 * There is a small trap door at the top of the staircase
 * It leads to that room with bells
 * There’s a hole in one wall leading up to where we hear breathing and smell brimstone
 * A guard bumps his elbow against the bell, and a goop thing falls out and throws him down the hole where he falls to his death
 * We fight!
 * When we kill the 3 guys, we climb to the top
 * The demon is an illusion and then xanesha appears and stabs 3 guards
 * I kill her and I glide down and loot her:
 * Ring of 5 keys
 * Pouch with 100 platinum
 * Pin attached to her belt - looks like a scarab - Gollum bane scarab it detects gollum’s around if you focus on it - forever - within 60 ft - attack gollum’s without their natural defenses
 * Impaler of thorns - has a sihedron thing (7 pointed star)
 * They search the room:
 * Toggle on the statue - fixed on one toe
 * Statue moves and a hollow is revealed - 5 chests
 * 6740 gold
 * 1000 gold goes to wutangs clan
 * 4 potions cure moderate wounds
 * Small knife - curved magic knife
 * Ring of jumping
 * 2 notes
 * Wutangs archers come out of hiding
 * Archers go to the dead bodies of the dead wutang clansmen
 * Little hay pile that the scarecrow slept in
 * They find giant needle for the human flesh he attaches flesh to his body
 * Gishy and Ajani go to church
 * We go to see justice - pediment building
 * The guards question us on our way into the building - go see bale in room 102
 * We go into the meeting room with only bale and Utarn in it
 * Bale says she will not log evidence so the ushers dont find out about anything
 * Lady of blessed waters cemetery below lowcleft district tonight for funeral for the dead wutang clansmen
 * We leave, and Utarn mention “about that other request I had”
 * We all meet up in the tavern and Reggie and Russell say goodbye to us
 * We go to sleep
 * In the morning I train the birds!
 * The birds love me! Just the start of training, they are more comfortable with me now
 * We leave the inn and see an elderly lady walk by with a wolf who growls at my animals
 * We head to the pediments building to see the mayor
 * The guards let us in
 * The room is lavish
 * The Lord Mayor is trying to shuffle papers to maybe look like he’s doing something? which he hands to valani
 * Valani tries to hide the paper, but the contents are unknown
 * We tell him about fort rannick, and show him the note
 * He offers an additional 5000 gold to take care of this problem
 * We get handed payment of 10k gold and 5k gold !!!!!
 * The room is lavish
 * The Lord Mayor is trying to shuffle papers to maybe look like he’s doing something? which he hands to valani
 * Valani tries to hide the paper, but the contents are unknown
 * We tell him about fort rannick, and show him the note
 * He offers an additional 5000 gold to take care of this problem
 * We get handed payment of 10k gold and 5k gold !!!!!