Session 026
General Summary
Jamie's Notes 2025-10-04
Day 21, Dysis 8, Year 352
- Goblin leader, Porche.
- Goblintown of Iero. (Sanctuary)
- Cirina investigates the arcanotech tower.
- It starts glowing as soon as I approach.
- Radius cannot extend beyond the wall of the city. Tethered the location, unable to be assailed by any interplanar entity.
- Tinkered with/altered after the fact.
- Radjic asked various questions about the Harlequin D’Arcane.
- The goblins have no idea about it, just like really vague ideas.
- Can't read any of the books in the library.
- Lotta pipes and shit around. Gaslamps. Very steampunky?
- All the book sin the library are very old. (Akito 6 Int check)
- Akito digs into the floor thinking it's weird the library is really cold.
- Faint growls can be heard throughout the message. I have better things to do, so I’ll be keeping mine short. Phara should know better than to force this on me, but… The sound of great wings rustling. My name doesn’t matter. I’ll not be me on the other side; we’re putting too much in the creation of this. A distant roar, and the sound of spells being cast. Other screams blot out the voice for a moment …admittedly, it is as much for our benefit as yours that we’ve built it. Breaking through weakens you in a fundamental way. If something does, be quick and you might survive. Good luck, mortals. Our peoples have worked well together; may it continue to be so. A wash of static, and a distant voice shouting something about a tear and more coming through, before the sound dissolves into a clearly draconic roar.
- Can function as a Wand of Translate, 5th level.
- Cirina able to fix the tower to contact Ponpiketes. He knows about Lyara.
- Lyara has three lieutenants who contain aspects of the pacts of her power.
- One like troll/ogre like thing.
- One with large sword.
- One in full plate, iced over eyes.
- Can interrupt her portal, snapback would throw her and her minions (most) back to where she came from.
- Cirina has figured out a lot of shit about the artifact.
- Able to open it up as fast travel locations.
- Akito brings out some library books.
- Vasia shows off for the crowd, finds some loot stashed away.
- 50g = 10g each.
- Cat-sìth shows up. Is there to help.
Day 22, Dysis 9, Year 352
- Approach of the tower.
- Straight in, bad idea, hidden guards/structures. Other paths where her mortal followers can't traverse the other paths freely.
- Tower not meant to be climbed. Sharp spikes, jagged edges. Vasia would get us up easily though.
- To the South, giant ballista, shooting at Ponpiketes.
- Neesja spots workshop where Lyara is experimenting on people/creatures.
- Secret tunnel.
Evan's Session Report
Towards the Heart of Winter
Our Harlequins made their introductions to the goblins of Iero, eventually discovering that they were largely in the same boat as the party. Both, it seems, had found some fragments of a group whose cause seemed worthwhile and begun to act towards those aims. Though the goblins had found the Athetisi as a whole rather than the Harlequins specifically, they were quick to show the party whatever hospitality they could.
Ianthe Vasia found a spot where another member of the assassins had made their lair, while Akito attempted to pry up the floor of a library for no real reason, stopping Cirina just before she could make contact with Ponpiketes once more.
That problem aside, Cirina was able to get the strange machine in the center of Iero reconnected to the old Athetisi Network, reestablishing a set of pathways that the organization of old used to travel quickly. Another message was left, this from some great draconic creature, the words roughly translated into common - this one containing a fragment of something useful; that individuals were stripped of large amounts of power when they pushed through the mesh, leaving them vulnerable to rapid counterstrikes.
With that in mind, the party set out in the morning, taking with them a petrified basilisk - a single-use weapon of tremendous potential. Cirina’s pathfinding, as ever, got them there quickly and they found a place rapidly shifting out of the natural.
Lyara’s tower, a crystalline structure that pierced the fundament itself, and around it an army’s worth of trolls, elementals, fae and captured mortals. Her goals, as stated, are quite clear: rewrite this plane according to her will.
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