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• Its thursday!! Thermisdan, we are starting with Lya stalking Reason
  • Reason is walking to the horns, he has a meeting with Sten, he is also going to search out Voden Voom(IDK how its spelled)
  • Reason is aware Lya is following him as he heads to the horns
  • The horns is not guarded right now, students are coming in and out and they use side doors sometimes, he goes into one of the side doors and enters the hall with the professor hall
  • He goes in the first open door in the hallway, he knocks in the side of the open door and hears a high but clear voice call to him, they ask him what brings him to their office, Reason explains they were looking for someone else
    • The professor looks young and has a large tome open on the desk and is seemingly copying something out of it
  • The project manager offices are upstairs, they suggest Reason may be able to catch him in the break room and direct how to get there, he thanks then turns to leave then dramatically turns back and asks about the drill
    • The professors students were responsible for the headframe, Master Bhihlud, they are confused why Reason is asking, he explains he is an interested party, he wants to have a longer talk once he is done talking with Voo
      • He also asked who was responsible for what, the drill was ironthread, rigging to the frame was split up amongst other professors, not sure who worked on the fastening that failed the top
    • The professor asks his name and mentions they feel like they have met them before, he subtle spells detect thoughts, apparently it was a joke
    • Reason would like to have an extended talk, he says it seems to him that the headframe may be part of the failure of the drill, the prof says that the headframe did not fail
    • Reason explains he is trying to prevent malpractice with this kind of magic
  • Lya just stayed outside the horns while Realson talks in there
  • Reason exits the horns before the end of the vigil, he opens the door and sees Lya looking at the door when it opened, she pretends to something else, he holds the door open and asks if she needs to go in, she does not
  • He walks towards the drill, he notices Lya following her and he turns a corner that allows him to do an abrupt turn, Reason wraps around and goes to where he is behind her
  • Lya has lost track of Reason but thinks he may just be ahead of her, she hears Reason speak in her mind, she spins around, he is waiting to show himself though
    • Lya is confused as to why she spun around but doesn’t say anything
    • She asks where he is, eventually he shows himself, he still hasn't spoken outloud, he asks why she is following him
    • Its clear to Reason she is a pawn of someone else
    • He asks what business she has in this town, she says she is unemployed and thinks she has a month to kill
    • He mentions that he is on the way to drill to see what happened, she asks if Reason thinks the drill is a bad idea too
      • The pursuit of knowledge in the arcane is not without its dangers so he doesn’t think its a bad idea
    • Convo about how deep the island, Lya is confused by islands
    • Reason is off to the drill, Lya will approach it later, he starts to walk away and speaks in her head again saying it was good to talk with her
  • Reason knows things about the drill hole that others don't know about the drill hole
• Meph time
  • Astraea said to Aella they should share a room, silence falls in the room
  • Meph gets Aella's attention and mentions how their partner just asked to share a bed with them, Meph says that her books aren’t as important as Aster, the books will always be there but Aster won’t always be there
    • The mood of the room drops, Aella closes her book says she needn’t be reminded of that, she sat back in her throne, she tells her she should leave
    • Meph knocks on Aster’s door, it is silent
    • She eventually opens Aster’s door and tries to tell them they want to spend time together
    • Eventually Aster says they would like company and Meph grabs her book and walks into Aster’s room and sits down and starts reading
    • Eventually Lya appears in the window as previously said
• Clara time
  • She looks into the hole of the drill, she is trying to get a better view from the headframe
    • She makes her way up and finds a good spot to look in the hole
      • She sees down a hole, it gets very very dark and cannot see the bottom but she can see a flickering yellow light down there, it is very faint, it goes out then stays out for about 3 mins then come back unevenly again
      • She can see it better than the guards can, they don’t know it is down there
      • There is a faint breeze from down there, it feels dry and unnatural, it is not constant and it is faint, it smells on fungus(thats not good for frogs by the way)
• The green thing disappears from the sky, the other two are still there
  • Aster gets frog data
  • The blue one goes away
  • The violet(the last one) goes away
  • Aster tells the others about the light, not being able to see the bottom, the faint breeze and the fungus
  • Aster thinks about the yellow light
    • It is possibly magical or it could be a weird torch or nothing
  • More discussions about what they could have drilled into
    • Meph mentioned maybe Yaro’s people have stories about
• After being tailed by Lya, Reason tries to keep tabs on all of us
• We are woken before dawn and check into the work site
  • As dawn rises, ponderous and dark clouds hang overhead all morning
  • Aella thinks they look like rain, she brought her book and asks the lead if she can, she allows Aella to and a guard escorts her back to put it away, she gets to walk back to the job site in the rain
  • Just before Luin, they tear open like a water skin, the storm doesn’t begin to abate until well into evening
    • We are all soaked, Dorian is going to need to laydown outside to let it drain or he will have a problem
  • During a break, Aella asks if on the next break if she could get an escort to the bathhouse
    • She is told that if she can be a little bit more good for the rest of the week, she can go to the bathhouse
• Maeve’s timer is long and the rain sucks but the camp has some amount of protection from the sky
  • There are 4 eyes, they don't seem to care about the rain
  • Slyza doesn’t like the rain
• The ground is still very soft the next day, it takes us a while to clear off all the water and get back to work and we get to finish of the jail today, we are escorted back, Aella asks Tenmen if they could go to the bathhouse, Tenmen apologizes to her and asks the guards to escort them back, a while later, three guards come to the door and escort everyone except Aella to the bathhouse
  • We go to the front desk and get signed in, we have to wait a while for a group of students to get out
  • Aster splashes to cause a wild magic to wild, the water that gets flown up vaporizes and swirls up and hail drops on us, Dorian takes damage from this
  • 6 seconds pass and we take more damage, Dorian is downed
    • Meph runs to the front yelling for them to help saying one of us is unconscious and that hail is falling from the ceiling 
    • Dorian Succeeds a death save
    • Aella bangs on the door and tells the guards outside that something happened at the bathhouse and they need to help, the guard is unhelpful
    • The guards come in  and start sliding all over the room, one is fully thrown off by entering a bathhouse full of naked people, slips and falls into the pool
      • Wild magic again, the guard falls into the pool and an illusionary copy of the guard walks in, trips on an ice cube that isn’t there and falls in the pool again
    • The other two guards come in, see Dorian unconscious and grab him and start on dragging him out of the room, they make it 20 feet
    • Aster gets to Dorian, grazes him with the tip of their finger and cast cure wounds on him
    • Hail time, Dorian is down again
    • Meph runs up to one of the guards and steals his healers kit which causes him to drop dorian, dorian takes a failed death save, meph runs out of the zone of the hail
    • Dorian just barely doesn’t fail
    • Aella casts healing on herself again, very confused, she tries to explain to the guard again
    • The guard recollects Dorian's top half and take him into the entry way and tries to make a health check and fails, the guard in the pool is able to get out of the pool, he falls on his way out the door though
    • Aster follows behind and touches Dorian to heal him again
  • Silly goofy switch to Rhyme and Reasons place, they think our group is good at doing things, Lya could use some work on stealth but its refreshing that she can’t lie
  • Meph asks if she can keep the medkit and the guard she took it from lets her
  • Anyone who paid attention noticed that Meph has a large scar on the left side of her chest
• Maeve is at camp, its still kind of damp today, her wings are out and on fire, one is bandaged
  • She tried to fly at one point was didn’t get air and was thrown off balance
  • She sat around and thought a lot and pondered the eyes
  • She sees Lya around midday, she has an interview to get to later in the day but is currently talking with Reldan, Tila, Arycis and Slyza, Maeve seeks Lya and approaches her
  • Tila is telling Reldan and Lya rain misinformation, they said they don’t get rain where they are from and they are the ones that put rain here, maybe not here, its weird here
  • Maeve approaches slowly to ask if she can talk with Lya, She wants to talk to Lya alone
  • Maeve pulls Lya aside from the group
    • She asks Lya if she can ask her a favor, she apologizes for before and for blaming Lya, Lya didn’t expect an apology from Maeve and says that they are all good
    • Maeve doesn’t know what will happen and she wants to be sure that whatever she can do now about this that she doesn't lose the opportunity
    • She brings out the golden scale from Clares and holds it out, she says she doesn’t want anything to happen to it, she wants Lya to take it, she doesn’t think that she will ever see Clares again, she doesn’t want him to see her like this, she tells Lya that if she sees him again to tell him Maeve loves him and that she is sorry
    • Maeve hands over the scale very reluctantly, Lya says she will keep it safe, hearing that, Maeve strains a smile, a genuine one but its so hard for her to do so, she thanks Lya saying that she knows she will see her promise through
    • She wanted to ask Lya, she said Lya has been kind to her, even though she hasn’t been a great person
    • Lya watches her go, looks down at the scale in her hand and stands there frozen, thinking and processing
      • She puts the scale in her pocket or bag and slowly approaches the group
  • Maeve's timer runs out in the night (purple moon by shady cicada plays)
    • She can feel the timer ticking down, she knows it will end, she doesn’t leave this time, she is looking around camp for something, not a person, just an animal
      • She finds nothing and after looking for a while, she comes to Arycis and Salyza, they have stepped away from the group and are looking up at the night sky together, they are about 50 feet from the camp
      • They call out to Maeve and tell her they should join them, she’s been distant, Maeve starts walking back away
      • They ask if she is alright, she doesn’t look alright, she looks pale
      • The timer gets down and she is desperately looking around and when it gets close enough she looks and lights the tinder box again, she apologizes to them as she drops it
      • Syliza stands up and stands in front of Arycis as it drops, ae just slightly take to the air
        • The emissary, Lya and the Harbormaster are awake
      • As the ignited kindling drops from her hand and streaks toward the ground, she reaches inward and calls towards the purple fire, everything stops, nothing is moving but her heartbeat is slowly, she feels weight on her, all around her and her lungs and she is in the ocean just off the shore of Wallingsor, she is 5
        • Maeve is confused and frozen for a minute
        • There is a fire, she knows, she can see it, its in the water in front of her, 5…4….3…2…. She grabs for it
        • The ocean in front of her ignites and it begins to boil away
      • She is in a forge, she is 12, her first piece lies in front of her, still molten, her uncle and mom are here coaching her through it… 10…9…8…….5…4…the kiln isn’t lit but the piece is molten still, at the last second she reaches for the piece, purple flames streak down teh anvil across the room consuming it and them
      • She is older than she is now, there is someone to her left, someone to her right and someone in front of her on their hands and knees
    • Lya hears a shout from the distance and her and teh harbor master charge in teh direction of the purple flickering light, Maeve is there and fire is snaking towards Syliza and Arycis, Maeve is smoking
      • Maeve stands with Clares, Calwyn, a human man and there is a triton who just emerged from the deep, they have a fire in them…10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…”sorry” she knows she burns all of them…..including Clares
      • She is much much older, there is a yellow hive that has spread up her chest and neck, it is killing her, she knows because it took everyone else, she is in bed, she knows her time is coming, but her family will live, she know she brought peoples together across a boundary they never could have crossed. There is an eye of fire, its her, making sure she is ok, with her to the end even though her time is long gone…10…9…8…7, she doesn’t let it finish, she reaches for the eye and the scene burns in front of her, she doesn't feel her anymore and she is young and fit and worth saving, there is kindling, it dropped in the grass in front of her and it is ignited
      • The flames ignite towards the pair and Sylza charges towards them, she is resistant to fire but it still burns her, the bandage on her wrist wraps around her and binds her arms to her side, Sylza screams
      • Her hands are bound, something is stopping her from burning, the world will end now if she does not burn something right now
        • Athletics, Arcana, and survival
      • She cannot free her arms through strength but they are just as ephemeral now as the bandages that bind her, a bandage wraps around her eyes, she can see nothing but the fire but knows where it must go
    • Lya is on the scene right now, she sees Maeve unraveling in front of her desperately trying to burn her friends, Sylza is injured and down, Arycis is torn between fleeing and staying to save who is most important to them, she calls Maeve's name
      • Maeve has failed herself
      • She reaches for the fire and feels her arms give way, she cannot, she is unraveling and it is too late, the fire goes out fully and her world is ending right now, the only hope is the someone else, someone who sees the flame knows what is happening can help, and someone is here, Lya has seen it
      • “Lya, keep it burning, if it goes out we all—--” a bandage wraps around her mouth and her tongue ceases to exist and she is not Maeve anymore
    • Initiative (desolation by shady cicada plays)
      • They see this thing of smoke and horror that Maeve becomes(a Mallip), it lets out this horrific scream of agony and sadness, it's impossible to fully perceive what it is, wis save for everyone
        • People aren’t rolling well, only Lya and Arycis succeeded, everyone else is stunned until the end of next turn
      • Lya’s turn, this is NOT funny, she runs to Slyza and lays a hand on her shoulder and teleports her and Sylza 30ft towards the camp, she pulls out her hand crossbow and takes a shot at Maeve, ac of 13, she hits the Mallip and it only takes half damage
      • Harbor master can’t do anything
      • Arycis books it to Sylza, Lya yells after them to get help
      • The Mallip doesn’t move, the smoke shoots out, the bandages shoot out and reach for the harbormaster, the bandages wrap the same places they were around Maeve, the hand, the wrist, the eyes, the mouth the neck, especially down her right arm and her sword begins to move
        • The harbormaster failed and must make an attack against the nearest person
        • Lya notices the Harbormaster moves and swings and Lya disappears a split second later, the sword cleaves through the very magic of the spell and she cannot cast shield again EVER
      • The harbormaster mouths words at Lya, trying to communicate without letting the Millip know, she mouths “take the blade”, Lya runs towards her and takes the blade from her, she feels it settle in her hand, she knows full well that she was never meant to hold it, Lya feysteps 30 ft away from the Millip, she holds the blade without even slightly nicking herself, she is moving slowly towards the 
      • The harbormaster sees that Lya is stable, sees she is retreating and trusts Lya, she takes the dash action towards Lya to draw the thing away from camp
      • The millip goes towards camp 40 feet, there are more people that way to whisper to, the emissary is coming this way, Sylza and Arycis are here, Henum is here and definitely awake now, its bandages reach towards the three closest creatures, they wrap around Arycis and Sylza, the Emissary is fine
        • Arycis and Sylza draw their blades on each other, Sylza pulls out a dagger and plunges it into Arycis’ side, Arycis misses a blast of flame aimed at Sylza
      • The harbormaster is running with Lya, lets her know that the millip turned on the camp, Lya turns and dashes back to camp, sprinting towards the swirling mass of ash that was once her friend, she goes to slash her friend
        • The harbormaster tells her she can run faster, she pauses for half a second and takes off into a sprint, she runs aways then teleports, the tip comes first and a slash starts, the rest of her appears as the sword takes on the energy she used to teleport, the glow flows onto the blade and the tiny pricks of light speckling it shine a white, violet color and a trial of it follows as it slashes across the millip leaving violet where it cuts before the halves separate and what is left of Maeve can never again be her

Idle chatter flits about. Astraea’s legs swing freely as they relax on the branch of a tree. Across from them, Reavers sit atop the Armide. Whether it stands upright or on its side they cannot remember. The important thing is the companions surrounding them, and the tall grass swaying peacefully in the distance. It’s home and it’s the island and it’s the old intact ship.

 

Then came the gray branches, thick and gnarled, bursting from the ground. Aster jumps from their perch in fright and by the time they land, the other trees are all gone. Only the bare, gray branches remain.

 

Looking around, they see fire spread. From where? And what color? No matter, it’s spreading. People are running about. Astraea recites a familiar encantation to quell the flames with an icy ray.

 

The wind picks up.

 

What burst from their hand instead was a horribly blinding ray of light. In the chaos, it strikes Aella. Dorian and Meph see this. Meph laments that this is what became of the Digit’s potential. Aster runs to Aella, inspecting her face, but she assures them she is alright. They find it hard to believe with the one blinded eye. Aella hugs them in an attempt to bring comfort. It only half works, as looking down Aster sees their freckles begin to glow impossibly bright.

 

The branches tower higher, bringing destruction. Aster panics aloud about what to do. In front of them stands Quill, completely resolute.

“What are you talking about?” he asks. “The obvious choice is right in front of us.” He disappears, engulfed entirely by shadow.

 

Astraea tries to go after him but he is gone in a puff of smoke. Instead they find Lya and Reldan. The former is simply giggling at the sight before her. Aster turns to Reldan, hoping he might know how to fix this. Before he can reply, his face morphs into horror. “You are one of them,” he says.

 

Looking down, patches of Aster’s skin have turned a deep purple.

 

The patches keep growing. “I don’t understand… what…?”

 

“Darling, your eyes…” Aella shows them their reflection from their old compact mirror. Both their eyes are purple and moonstruck.

 

The Magi is in the distance. “It’s a gift,” their voice echoes. Whether it’s the present or a memory is unclear.

Astraea looks up at them. “What sort of gift is this, anyways?” Silence. “Answer me!” they yell.

 

A white light shines from above. The chaos stills. Aster turns and sees a slender, elven, masculine figure, hair a flicked bob reminiscent of a crescent, robes pearlescent and pure white.

 

 “So, it is yours?  What do I make of it?” They ask Sehanine the Nomad.

 

He gives no answer, but Aella takes Aster’s hand and leads them towards him. A path carves itself towards him as everything else seems to fall away. Astraea looks up at the god in wonder, and any remnants of an old hesitation disappear. They follow, picking up pace, getting ahead of Aella.

 

They’re getting closer when they hear a yell from behind, then a thump. Chains of lightning shackle Aella and pull her to the ground. The Nomad looks on with a sad face.

 

Chaos still roars in the distance.

 

“I am lost.”

 

And the last thing they remember is a glowing hand on their shoulder and a wind blowing through.