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• [This is back when we were meeting with Vasalor
  • Theres a shell on Vasalor’s desk
    • It reflects light into her eye
    • Spiral-y cone ish
    • Not sharp
    • Rather heavy
    • Not open, it has a snail in it, there is a slime trail that goes up the side of the desk to where Aella found it
    • Not a natural snail
    • Shell is really strange; outside looks like inside of most shells, like mother of pearl
    • Aella is talking to the snail in deepspeech, she doesn't get a response
    • Aster notices this too, they don't really know what this snail is exactly but they have seen the type of shell, its an ingredient for magical items because it acts as a mirror (scintillating)]
• We are woken up by the deep gnome, she tells us the end of day meeting is happening 
• The central meeting room is very packed, there are about 17 people, we see another dragonborn and a tiefling
• Food is happening now
• Vasalor stands
  • Meph stands up and introduces the group
  • Drow stands, reports about carriage with supplies + encounter with The Dreaming One ("Grandpa")
  • Saubrigon talks about the behut
  • The Emissary has nothing to say really
  • Taolthetoth, still no sign of the missing skiff, that had been lost last Bril, still missing two people, we will not consider them dead yet
    • Aella leaned over to Quill and Vasalor noticed and said he can talk with them later
  • The tiefling found something that needs eyes before reporting on it further
• Clares sits down at our table and tells us he got one (of the behut buttons) to stick
  • He got the red kite to stay down, its glowing, if another button is pressed, the kite pops back up
  • Lya knows that traditionally, the four colors are sort of associated with the time of day of feywild kingdoms (each kingdom exists in one time of day)
  • Aella shakes box, something thumps inside
• Maeve is talking to the Halfling
  • She is sitting at a table with a cup
  • Maeve introduces herself and tells the halfling that she looks like someone from her dreams
  • The halfling says that she never changes, she has heard Maeve say that before
  • The halfling knows her, they spent a lot of time together before she ended up here for a while
  • It's been somewhere between 8 and 18 months since she has been here
  • They are probably about 120 years, this is probably somewhere in the gap where they don't appear on the box
  • Maeve asked if she has happened to wake up in a box, she said not to get here but she has woken up in a box before
• Dorian is going to just sit in a storage room
• Aster pulls Lya aside
  • They find a storage room
  • “So you, you know things”-Aster
  • They are asking about their eye
  • Aster apparently has a very specific moon in their eye, the second one (Chioni), the one that goes the opposite direction in the sky, the brightest one, its a commonly associated symbol in the Feywild
  • The people in the Feywild that have eyes like that can change their appearance
  • The mark denotes the prexistence of powerful magic
  • Its hard to describe what the old ones are but there is a subset of people that exist in the feywild that are of another echelon
  • “You’re a wizard right, you’re smart”-Lya
  • Lya is confused with the box and wants to figure it out
• Meph and Quill talk about past with Vasalor
  • Quill used to be part of his crew
  • Adventures (“missions”)
  • Meph doesn't like Vasalor either
  • Quill liked him a lot at first
    • He was gonna show him the world and stories and things
  • “Would you be interested in causing chaos and maybe ousting …”
  • Aella joins in the drama
  • Nobody trusts Vasalor
  • Plan to cause chaos
  • Take/read his spellbook
  • Truth serum !!?
  • Lya is stealthy
    • Slip serum into his glass/meal/whatever
    • Ask the right questions, expose his a-hole-ness to the reavers
  • “The snail is important”
    • Coraz
  • Counterpoint: Vasalor is powerful and we need that right now
  • Mariana is good at diplomacy
  • Take care of dragon first(?)
  • Befriend dragon?
  • Both it + Aella have lightning
• Dorian is long resting in his corner, he just wants to sit and feel sad
• A few people are messing with box
  • None of the outer buttons glow
  • The white button gets pressed and it glows and pops back up, like its able to be pressed again
  • Look for the advocatus tomorrow maybe they have the code
  • Vasalor has looked at the box but hasnt done stuff with it
• Long rest for realsies this time
• Frog familiar exists
• Touching box again
  • The white button when pressed again clicks off and doesn’t click and glow again
  • Black circle glows in middle of night
  • Definitely time based thing probably
• Thing catches fire
  • Weird magic fire
• Initiative
• Uh
• Try to not burn down the whole boat
• It burns green !
• Meph is on fire
• Meph is no longer on fire
• Quill grabs red cloak to smother it
• It was ripped off a sleeping person
• Meph smothers fire successfully
• Aella looking at bits and bobs
  • Javelin she recognizes
  • Standard issued weapon of the storm sisters
  • She runs over to it and picks it up and runs to wall of names (none are recognizable)
  • Stolen or found in sand some other way?
  • Nearly unused
  • Sad grip :(
  • Equipped
• Aella approaches Vasalor
  • Javelin was found about 4 months ago in the wreckage of a building
  • Saubrigon would know more
  • Vasalor knows more than he’s letting on, he knows what it does, not lying about its recovery tho
• Saubrigon sitting in the sleeping chamber doin his thing
  • Javelin crashed through the veil, came with breastplate with hole + burns (same symbol as rey had on a lot of her items)
• 2 buttons pushed!
• Aster wakes up, has froggy familiar
• Maeve wakes up
• Meph approaches Dorian
  • Talking about the weather
  • She is helping Dorian remove sand from him
  • Partial success
• Maeve and Lya are going to talk with Vasalor
  • Lya asks him if hes seen someone who looks like her but a different color, he says he has seen some people like her, one or two from where she is from, Lya does not recognize the name of the person from where she is from but might have heard a story about someone in power having been banished
  • Vasalor has been asked if he knows the blue guy and human from Maeve's box and he says 
  • Vasalor says he knows Quill from a different time, its a rocky relationship, he says he doesn't hate Quill
  • Today should be a rather exciting day for us so hes been told
• Weiss is nervous about Gog
• Animals leave
• Behut is given to deep gnome, Kaviah
  • “These [gems] are not very well cut”
• Vasalor comes back in, Meph is told that she is on hold
• Junk time, everything is pretty organized
  • Dorian found a baton, usually they are made of wood, this is a simple bronze and clearly lumped into magic item pile
    • As soon as its in their hand they start to see spiraling musical staffs
  • Lyandra sees a shortsword nicely hung up on the wall, shes seen it before but finally decided to pick it up, worked into the metal is a style of winds, the handle is scaly and there are aquamarines worked into the handle, it is lighter than normal
    • Conjuration transmutation mix
  • Maeve finds a flail, the head is hollow, its spiked and she recognizes it as a sensor(a ritualistic religion device)
  • Aster doesnt know why it calls to them but its a flat bronze disk with a series of concentric circles etched into it, there is divot with a familiar shape, maybe their stone fits into it, pulls out focus to identify it and they lower it towards it and there is an attraction
    • The focus snaps into place and the rings glow and then nothing changes but a series of whirring clicks inside
    • Mostly divination magic
    • This is like a storage vessel of magic
    • Astraea picks it up, the whole disk unfolds into an armillary sphere, along the inside edge there are magic inscription, it seems to have a similar writing style as a spell book, it will eventually need attunement