Narrative

Day 46 began in the old Riversmeet mage school / Menagerie after midnight. Morgana turned into a bee and scouted toward the kitchen at about 12:30. The drama classroom was larger inside than outside, like an amphitheatre with a huge tree-filled set, and was still well kept. Near the door between the hall and kitchen she heard animalistic snoring behind the scenery. Three cages stood there: one empty, and two holding chimeras. Both had lion and dragon heads; one also had a goat head, and the other had snakes. The corridor contained many hybrid-animal pictures, and the hall had a dome-like barrier against the door.

The party found a first-year dorm with no bedding despite the late hour. In a possible surgical or experiment room, a horse lay cut open but still alive on a slab. Men with squid heads were speaking to an elf with green or moss-like hair. One said, “There’s no need for her to be here.” The elf replied that there was, with the meddlers around and her mother gone. This was identified as Willowispa.

The party tried using the broom to reach the kitchen, but the darkness worsened. The door disappeared, leaving two black holes with a black ring around them. A second attempt with the broom opened into a cathedral, with the door in the ceiling. Morgana tried to detect Dirk’s father and felt they were in Hartwall. The place had strange wood and a vacuum-like feel, and the holes then vanished. Morgana tried to leave a note saying they might have left Valentinhide’s home. She saw Valentinhide, yelped, and asked if she was Lord Squall. Valentinhide told someone to go warn someone.

The party eventually reached the kitchen. A salt pot would not move, but its top behaved like a safe dial. The sequence 6/11/10/13/7 opened it and revealed salt. Mr Moreley appeared from the well and said Evocation would make sense when they got there, with no point in riddles.

In the main hall, the party found a storage area for stock beasts and human wizards. Geldrin tried to deceive the wizards, but one pulled out copper wire and a fight began. The party released an owlbear, and Morgana tried to free the remaining animals. A ledger documented beast sales that had stopped in the last few weeks. A necklace bore snake and scorpion symbols of Noxia. The animals were released out the back door.

The party was then attacked and plunged into darkness. Willowispa attacked them, changed into a dragon outside, and flew off. Two wizards came through the room doors; one looked like one of the twins. When the grub was killed, the party heard a scream from the basement. They used the broom to try to reach the basement. One door opened onto blue sky rather than pitch black. When they went through, the door vanished. Bosh flew down and saw coins glinting in the distance. Paying a penny reopened the door.

The basement contained a relief map, roughly from dome time, with eight divots around the outside, possibly for the orbs. Two doors stood to either side: one had no handle, and one had a handle but was magically trapped, with dried blood seeping underneath and a breaking head on the other side. Traps went off from the outside as designed. An antechamber had three doors. The people who had been in the room were dead, with evidence they had been trying to decipher the traps. Other wizards had apparently been ordered to get in at all costs and had spent twenty years trying to get through. Three were killed by the trap. There was no visible way into a plain room, though the wizards had broken through the ceiling. The party found a gap between the mortar that seemed to be a door but could not open it.

Through the hole, the party seemed to reach the third-year dorm, with about ten people sleeping there. They locked all the dorm doors and went to Evocation. The corridor floor between the third-year dorm and main hall was covered in four rays from different areas: an orange stained-glass-like ray from Dunensend showing Garadul from one angle with the word “Terror” visible, a copper ray with perfect concentric circles, a white fur-like ray like dog or ghost fur, and a cheap-looking hexagonal design split into six primary and secondary colour segments. Pictures on the walls matched the rug styles: dark shirts, tabaxi or elves, a dwarf or copper dragonborn, and a tiny fluffling or thri-kreen male. A far rug was labelled “A gift from the Coppers.”

The music room had a musical lock on the door up to Evocation. The classroom had been ransacked, but a large metal table remained intact with a circle of dark runes. The runes glowed when Geldrin approached with flint and steel. A copper-scaled dragonborn with a human-like head approached. The party subdued him, though no one could see him. He was a copper-goliath mix called one of the Tarnished, apparently the offspring of a prisoner and [unclear] sons. When the party fetched a rock from the excavation hole, a squid-headed man attacked and died. The party found a jellyfish brooch and a 5th-level scroll of Magic Missile.

Another Tarnished came toward Evocation, armed with a coin necklace and a curved sword with a purple crystal in the hilt. The sword activated the summoning circle. This Tarnished wanted to make a deal, saying Willowispa had told everyone the party was there and they were in danger. The party decided to go with them. The Tarnished had to obey Verdigren and would be in trouble otherwise. The summoning circle had a Disintegrate spell trapped on it, activated by command. Another invisible copper Tarnished dropped a note reading “propell.” The Tarnished were sacrificial and had not known the sword would not work. They had a hideout fifteen miles below Tradesmells. The party sent the information to The Basilisk. The Tarnished began fighting among themselves; the sword-bearing one killed the other, and Geldrin destroyed the circle with them on it.

The party returned to the basement to sleep. Three hours in, Geldrin’s Alarm went off. Hushed voices said they had hidden things, that dragons had not known it was Mother, and that they would not be happy. The notes ask whether there were male and female Willowispa. When the party woke from their shifts, their minds were blank, and for some of them memory took longer to return. Morgana felt it was a spiritual effect from something always present in the building but stronger there.

At 8:00, the party left the room and found eleven severed heads lining the hole. The heads looked torn off and apparently had not been killed there. Most of the wizards seemed to be dead. In Elemental Lore, an ornate handle with all the elements on it formed part of the lock. A counter stood at one end, and thirty or forty cages held animals that all seemed dead. Errol tapped on the window, saying he could not find Rubyeye. He was chatty and odd, saying it had been 117 years for him but three days for the party. He looked maintained, did not remember where he had been, and his core seemed to be bursting with energy. He remembered looking for Rubyeye and the dwarves, darkness being with him for forty years, and giving only the answer “lost.” He had been with Abraxus in a really nice city, returned inside the Barrier through the Coalmount Hills portal, and saw a fight involving one black and three green dragons, perhaps Veridian. He had been eating gems for forty years. He thought the party had always owned him, thought Eliana was Evalina, and recognised the others from the time they went to the past. Abraxus had given him to them. Abraxus was Professor Moreley. Moreley was waiting downstairs, very confused and not making sense.

Back at Evocation, Errol had not found any orbs. The party went to the third-year upper dorm and found a globe with a rock inside, then turned it into lava in the Evocation classroom. They wanted a novelty from home and went looking for poor gifts. The shop was very quiet. They persuaded its door to open and found socks, trinkets, and an illusion of a gnome shopkeeper. They asked for a snowglobe from Snowsorrow.

The party apparently obtained or considered racing automatons that were voice activated. They needed to make the snowglobe bigger in Alteration. The door between Necromancy and Alteration seemed to be made of bone. The party got into the room by shrinking, eating cake, and growing again with a potion. They took the remaining cakes and potions from the desks. At the tuck shop, they learned the next targets were in obvious rooms, exactly where expected: Storm in Weather and Life in Herbs.

On the way to Weather, near the shield wall, a vulture man, possibly [unclear: Exhausted], lay prone. He seemed dead, but the party suspected his soul remained. Morgana tried to reincarnate Metatous’s spirit rather than his body. Some of the party went to Weather. The room seemed to open outside onto a clifftop in temperate weather. They closed the door, turned the handle to point to a storm section, and reopened it into a storm. They spotted something floating in the water and retrieved the orb by changing the weather back and using Shape Water. After changing back to storm and holding the orb to the sky, lightning struck a small piece of seasoned stone in the orb. They gained a Storm Orb.

Morgana felt the vulture man’s soul was incomplete and tried to gather the remaining soul parts. In Herbs, Geldrin got a mushroom [unclear] on him that tried to communicate. It called him a flesh bag, asked what he was doing, and said they were friends with Limos Vita. It searched Geldrin’s memories and said he was trapped like they were. Someone was already spreading them around, described as a cat-horned flesh bag.

During the spell, Morgana blanked out. She had a vision of an infinite library aisle with a red carpet stained by dried blood. A voice or sign said “not Terror.” A book labelled “Grand temple city” was blank except for one page. It mentioned hubward, that she left him astray, and [unclear: Hyane] down the corridor. Berry eyes closed and asked what Morgana was doing there, and Morgana returned to the room.

Invar got Dirk to open a door while a warning said the party might not come in and that the creature had to be contained. A tendril spoke to Dirk and asked to be freed. Dirk refused, and it said he had blockers too, then showed him a vision of a sickly goliath entering a tent and being pulled out by a green dragon or dragonborn. The party managed to push the door open enough for Geldrin to get inside. An automaton was holding the door back and was there to stop the mushroom escaping. The mushroom tendrils wanted freedom. The automaton had only ever been in two places; a student of Lord [unclear: Dunthing] had taken it to study. The mushroom wanted to give the party five pieces to plant a mile apart, earthwise from a river. The party agreed to wait five years.

Morgana’s reincarnation formed a male elven body with greenish hair on the floor. He felt full of divine energy and said his name was Garadul. He did not recognise the party. The last thing he remembered was the desert and his people, before any Dome existed. The party told him what had happened, and he seemed good for the moment. When Benn banished Garadul, he had not gone where expected. Morgana thought much of Garadul had been in the vulture body. Emeraldus was wondered to be one of his children. The party decided to call him Groot for the time being.

The party returned to the basement. Garadul sensed spirits protecting the area. They placed the orbs into their relevant slots, producing a slight glow and some light on the locked door, but nothing else happened. The door changed and showed ancient Draconic runes: “You’ve got this far. I’ll do my best to aid you in the battle you are about to have. The creature you are about to face will destroy your memories & you will not remember the spell you are about to cast.” The party tried to tell Garadul what he might encounter. A forty-foot alien, squelchy creature appeared, with an anguished humanoid face half scared and half in pain. Skeletal wings and a spectral dragon were holding it down. Mr Moreley was the spectral dragon restraining it. The creature was the original Sphinx meant for the Goliaths, stolen and altered long ago when the Dome was created, and used to alter the memories of everyone inside the Dome. Mr Moreley was pulled back into the school, and the creature rose.

Ichor sprayed, and the party experienced visions. Eliana saw a cave with small creatures clad in metal, firing repeating crossbows, running past while a dragon roared. Dirk saw a thriving goliath city with many races trading. Geldrin saw a metal tower with zeppelins flying around, and the dragon skull was gone. The party felt the mind-altering effect coming from the back. Morgana saw a grassy field of daisies, a hand on her shoulder, and a warm, calming feeling from a barefoot faceless woman in silks.

The creature died, but an invisible entity escaped through the door. The party attacked it, but forgot it was there. Dirk ran through it and thought it was a wall. It became visible and ran through the orb room. The room began to disappear, and four doors appeared in the map room. One orb was not lit: Amoursorate’s. An illusion of Joy appeared on the far side of the map table, saying she was there because the party had met her and she was lost and always had been, then disappeared. Morgana was a head when she came into the room, and an illusion toad appeared beside her with something in its mouth.

Geldrin appeared in a dark room before Kasha’s throne. Kasha wanted to claim her debt for Garadul and wanted him because he was like her [unclear: father]. Geldrin returned to the room with his bag dripping blood and told Garadul that Kasha wanted his soul. When the party investigated the non-glowing orb, they found a tiny scratch in it. Geldrin asked for cake and tried to hear the orb. A rug on the floor said “lost” in several languages. The main door had disappeared. The orb contained a skull with ruby eyes, which said he had been close to working it out, had given Errol a message, could not stay much longer, and then vanished. Lightning reappeared in the orb.

The water room held the water Excellence the party had battled, dragging the mermaid they had rescued. When Dirk asked why it was there, it replied that because they had seen it, now it would be their end. Garadul removed Morgana’s Feeble Mind. Before returning to herself, she saw two storm Rubyeyes. The party removed the salt orb, and the prison door shut.

Geldrin asked Errol for Rubyeye’s message. Errol said he did not have one, but when Geldrin called out the lie, Errol opened his desk and a ruby dropped out. The ruby played a scene of Ennuyé and Browning in a huddle. Browning asked what Squeal had asked for. He said the weather to come through the Barrier, but the notes clarify that was not what Squeal said; Squeal actually asked for “the loss of everything.” Ennuyé said it was cryptic but might help them. A second message showed red glowing eyes with white minds for eyes, a water Excellence, and a whirlwind being. Errol refused to play the message. Morgana turned into a bat and found something by echolocation, then forgot she had found it and turned back. The lost ring was given to Geldrin. When he put it on, it disappeared. Dirk lost compassion, and Geldrin no longer wanted to learn things. A message said “Bread & Circus” and pretended to be Rubyeye.

Morgana reopened the coral door. The same things were there, but now with an army of fish men. She challenged them, tried to disbelieve the vision, saw leech-like creatures, and told the party to kill them. Geldrin fired a Fireball at the ceiling, revealing many trails to the creature and some to the rooms. Through the Dunnen door, the statue of Sierra was in one piece, Lodest was surrounded by vulture men, and Anastasia was chained up. Lodest hunted him in. Another door showed someone taking a pleasant stroll toward Valentinhide’s prison with purpose. A shock did not seem to register, and the figure continued toward the prison door, which glowed. When Morgana hit the mermaid, the party took damage.

Dirk, Garadul, Eliana, and Morgana protected the glowing thing in the rooms and woke back in the original room. Geldrin and Invar also woke. The notes record “Dead!” The invisible entity was defeated, and then everyone woke with memories flooding back. The party levelled up. Other people’s memories flooded through them all at once and then dissipated. Invar and Eliana remembered that Morgana was more familiar to them than they remembered. Platinum, Cardonald’s cat, said Errol was possessed by one of Squeal’s things. Platinum headed out toward Dotharl, and his eyes turned. A message from Rubyeye / Squeal warned the party to be careful at Riversmeet. Ennuyé had set a trap in the room for Rubyeye, who went to a safe place, his wife’s place, and was imprisoned. Cardonald and the goliaths had spotted tainted dragons and were going to root them out. Amoursorate said, “look after my son.”

Dotharl, played by Joshua, had only been aware for twenty years. A soul crashing into the tower had awakened a few constructs. A magpie landed on Morgana and said it could help her. The Chorus had sent it. Difficult times were coming, but Morgana would know the right path when it came. The magpie could say no more because Morgana had told it not to say anything else, though she could not remember doing so. It said it was time; the Chorus could not help before but could now. Willowispa was flying away furious. Dotharl had awakened around Rhime watches about twenty years earlier, near a door, and something had forcefully propelled him through it.

The notes mark Day 46 again as the party moved mattresses into the map room to rest at 2:00. Geldrin checked whether the power-armour suit was still there with Dothral and brought it back to the map room. The party slept. Platinum last knew Cardonald’s location about two days earlier in Tradesmells; she had been hard to recall, and in the last few days she had become obsessed with the idea of Dothral.

Six people dropped down the hole. They included a gnoll, probably Longfang, who thought the dragon in Lake Azure might be dead; a sparrow aarakocra called Mercy; and a pesky elf connected to the bellow men. Mercy stopped Longfang from opening the trapped door, saying they were on reconnaissance and the boss had said one was here, with quick mystic listening. The party tried to rip out the blade and opened the door. A bubble surrounded the elf, and Mercy pulled through the blade.

Invar brought Garadul out of Feeble Mind. Garadul looked shocked as he now remembered everything. He needed to find his brothers and teleported away. Morgana tried to reincarnate the baby sphinx. She could feel where some light spirit had been and also felt someone else pulling at the spirit. She blacked out and was drawn before Kasha, who said the spirit was hers and Morgana could not have it. Kasha was taking it as alternative payment. Morgana argued that the original payment would be made as promised. She asked Igraine, Abraxas, and [unclear: Typh] for help; they came to Morgana’s feet, allowing her wholly. She drifted toward Heather. A strange warmth came, and Invar blacked out and appeared next to Morgana. Kasha said this had not happened for many years, saw why the party had been chosen, but warned she could not be fooled like the others and would not be taken like them. She allowed them to have the goliath child. The spell completed too quickly, as if someone else had cast it. The baby felt hot and unwell, apparently reflecting the state of goliath civilisation. The Sphinx aspect of the altered memory creature was what reincarnated as Bynx.

The party went back up the hole. Invar’s robes now showed his surname; it had supposedly been there the whole time, and he now recognised it. They exited by the main entrance. The tents were abandoned and empty of people and belongings, though furniture remained. It was 11:00. They went into the town, which was bustling.

At the council offices in the middle of the bridge, two guards stood outside. They said Lady Igraine of Riversmeet had gone away that morning on official or family business toward Grand Towers. The party was allowed to see the Exchequer and skip the queue. He said they had been at the mage school, noted that many animals had been sighted recently and that a wounded dragon had flown off. Morgana heard him think that he wished they would leave and that guards should follow them. Morgana also had a new bird on her shoulder, Bartholomew, who said Betty was pretty and that he had been there since they arrived in town.

The party went to And Pool. Eliana slipped away to spy on the guards. A half-elf in clothing over leather armour came in soon after the party and began writing on paper. He left with a sending stone. The party grappled him and Geldrin intimidated him into surrendering the stone. The Exchequer wanted to know where they were. The party changed the message to point to a different pub, “I’m the Drink.” The Exchequer had said the party looked shifty and had stolen the baby. The spy said the Exchequer had no name, that the seneschal was usually in charge when Lady Igraine was away, and that no aarakocra was important in town, although the spy insisted one existed and that he had worked for him for years. Guards were going to take the party to Lady Igraine.

The guards took the party across the bridge to another door but stopped them entering, saying Lady Igraine did not want to be disturbed. Morgana became a bee and found the room empty; Lady Igraine had been there six hours earlier. The party returned to the Exchequer’s office and burst in. A half-elven man was speaking to traders, but he was not the same person. The receptionist said he had been there all day and had not seen the party before. Morgana went to the toilet and cast Locate Creature on the bird. Bartholomew turned into the “Exchequer” with two small daggers. Morgana became a bear and roared. People in the waiting room ran while others drew daggers, and chairs moved strangely, possibly due to lamias. Eliana was on her way to question the guards about why they had mentioned an Exchequer who did not exist. The waiting-room people transformed into a lamia, rats, and more outside the room. The notes preserve the quote, “We don’t fireball babies.” Bartholomew became a massive vulture-like thing with lightning crackling at his fingers. He seemed to recognise Eliana and said, “I’m doing your bidding.” The party killed the rats, lamia, and vulture. A guard who had told them about the Exchequer was confused and could not really remember, except that the Exchequer had told him the party was coming and that Lady Igraine was away on family business. The loot notes record two lamias including daggers, eighty hexagon coins, a dark grey rose, and Bartholomew’s silver chain with a green pendant.

The seneschal ordered people to search for townsfolk and any remaining infiltrators in the town hall. The guards had altered memories. In Lady Igraine’s room there were no obvious signs of struggle except an earring on the floor, and the party realised a rat had run away. Clerical officers Williams and Terrance received deputy badges. Williams was a man in his mid-thirties; Terrance was a man in his forties.

At Williams’s house on Wayshrill Bridge, whose address came from an accountant, the party found it abandoned for a few weeks with no signs of struggle. Some post in the office connected only to a purchase of 500 gold worth of jade under an uncertain client name, addressed to “I’m the Drink” three weeks earlier. At Terrance’s house on the outskirts, Officer Biggs and another person were already present. Terrance had been there that morning and had recently become more attentive while smelling musty. He had chopped the heads off the neighbours’ sunflowers, left for work at 7:30, and usually got home around 14:00. His wife thought he would be at “I’m the Drink,” though he did not usually go there. He had remembered her birthday, which he usually did not, and she had recently heard a cat-sized rat in the garden. She wore jade earrings her husband had given her for her birthday.

The party went to “I’m the Drink,” a dingy pub on the outskirts of the bridges. A medfolk bartender was there. Alanna, apparently a human Pact leader around eighteen, came over and asked whether the party needed him to do anything. There was no sign of him being Underbelly. The party told him to find Terrance and bring him to them. He implied he was part of the disguised crew. Geldrin disguised his staff as jade and propped it up obviously.

A half-elf entered, interrupted, and headed straight to Geldrin. He said there had been a setback to the plans: they had had a good working in the town hall, but less so after the scuffle. It was taking a lot of power, and someone might go there herself. There were many forgotten passages; people had gone missing using them. They needed reinforcement and thought the artifact had been hidden somewhere. They could not risk another abduction and had not found it when he was abducted. Mind magic had not been working properly since something happened at the school. He would get the town hall back under control and get others to look for the artifact, though they had no suspected location. He also reported the brothers were loose, perhaps with an undead sphinx. He was sixth in charge; numbers one through five were unaccounted for. He would speak to Garrick in another town. Lady Igraine had not been taken again.

The half-elf spoke to Garrick through a mirror and told him to get it for them. An hour later, a fifteen-year-old and an unknown man ran off, and the party chased them. They found him at the races, probably trying to get a new identity. The leads gained were that the Hartwall artifact had been put in one of the prisons; Hartwall was meant to be looking after mind effects and may have stopped her remembering; it was somewhere near Snowsorrow; no team was currently checking it; some people near Pinesprings had been killed by adventurers; and of the brothers, one had disappeared while the other controlled an undead sphinx.

The party learned that Igraine had returned that morning, had two guards on her door, and was now missing. Terrance was fourth in charge and did not know the party had killed everything else in town. He thought they should leave town and reinforce the prisons. The mirror was in the seneschal’s office. The fifth in charge, a greasy halfling, returned with “the mirror” and said they were all going to get on a boat and sail off. The party made him first in command. He took them to the quay, where people were loading things onto the boat. Moonbeam killed the greasy halfling, and Fireball struck the boat and incinerated everything. Diving into the water, the party found 50,000 gp worth of jade. No one seemed to come investigate. Morgana saw a white rabbit out of the corner of her eye. It had arrived on the back of the protector from the snowy area on the lectern and seemed to remember the party.

Militia rewards were distributed at “I’m the Drink” and “The Olde Clay Jug.” The party got the other half of the sending stone from the pub man connected to the Exchequer and gave it to the seneschal. At The Olde Clay Jug, they spotted a waitress carrying a tray with leaves. They could not ask to see Highgate, but asked her as she passed. She went through the “Earth hath no” door. The dwarf the party had been speaking to left, and another dwarf sat in his place.

Bollar men were looking for the party. He agreed to help the militia and find the missing townsfolk. Friends back home, including an ice dwarf, said a mutual friend sent out of the Barrier had taken the opportunity to do something before trying to get back in, had not found a way back, and had visited Lord Bleakstorm. A mirror hummed, and the back of a female lady’s hair appeared. A cold voice said she could take the party there and was a friend. She wished for the same thing they sought and said any debts she perceived would be repaid. The party recognised the “end of all things” as Valentinhide. She would let them use her pathways, wanted the artifact, and said the cost would be some identities, some eyes, and some pride. The party shut her off and decided to go to Hartwall’s lab after resting and eating chicken.

People, Factions, and Places Mentioned

People and name-like figures mentioned include Morgana, Dirk, Dirk’s father, Geldrin, Bosh, Invar, Eliana, Willowispa / Willowwispa, Valentinhide, Lord Squall, Mr Moreley / Abraxus / Professor Moreley, Rubyeye / Ruby Eye / Brutor, Errol, Evalina, Verdigren, The Basilisk, Mother, Metatous, Limos Vita, Berry eyes, Lord [unclear: Dunthing], Garadul / Groot, Benn, Emeraldus, Joy, Kasha / Kashe, Amoursorate, Ennuyé, Browning, Squeal, a water Excellence, Sierra, Lodest, Anastasia, Platinum, Cardonald, Dotharl, The Chorus, Longfang, Mercy, [unclear: Typh], Igraine, Abraxas, Heather, Lady Igraine of Riversmeet, the Exchequer, Bartholomew, Betty, the seneschal, Williams, Terrance, Officer Biggs, Alanna, Garrick, Hartwall, Highgate, Bollar men, Lord Bleakstorm, and the cold female mirror voice identified as Valentinhide.

Groups and factions mentioned include the party, squid-headed men, human wizards, stock-beast handlers, the twins, the Tarnished, copper-goliath offspring, dragons, goliaths, the Dunensend rug imagery, the Coppers, tabaxi, elves, dwarf / copper dragonborn figures, thri-kreen or fluffling figures, vulture men, fish men, leech creatures, bellow men, medfolk, the Pact, Underbelly by absence, militia, town hall infiltrators, guards with altered memories, lamias, rats, an undead sphinx thread, adventurers near Pinesprings, and ice dwarf friends.

Places mentioned include the Riversmeet Menagerie / old mage school, kitchen, drama classroom, hall, first-year dorm, Hartwall, Valentinhide’s home, cathedral, basement, Coalmount Hills portal, Evocation, Elemental Lore, third-year dorm, third-year upper dorm, music room, Dunensend, Tradesmells, Snowsorrow, Alteration, Necromancy, Weather, Herbs, infinite library, Grand temple city, [unclear: Hyane], desert before the Dome, orb room, map room, water room, Dunnen door, Valentinhide’s prison, Rhime watches, Lake Azure, goliath civilisation, Riversmeet town, council offices on the bridge, Grand Towers, And Pool, “I’m the Drink,” Lady Igraine’s room, Wayshrill Bridge, Terrance’s house, The Olde Clay Jug, “Earth hath no” door, Pinesprings, Hartwall’s lab, the prisons, and Lord Bleakstorm’s location.

Creatures and creature-like beings mentioned include chimeras, owlbear, horse on surgical slab, squid-headed men, Willowispa as dragon, grub, dead animals in cages, the defeated invisible entity, the altered original Goliath Sphinx / 40-foot memory-destroying creature, Mr Moreley as spectral dragon, faceless woman in silks, illusion toad, water Excellence, mermaid, fish men, leech-like creatures, vulture-like Bartholomew, cat-sized rat, white rabbit, baby sphinx / goliath child Bynx, undead sphinx, and possible tainted dragons.

Items, Rewards, and Resources

Items, documents, and physical resources mentioned include the broom, salt pot safe with sequence 6/11/10/13/7, salt, beast-sales ledger, Noxia-symbol snake-and-scorpion necklace, basement relief map with eight divots, magical traps, musical lock, dark-rune summoning circle, jellyfish brooch, 5th-level Magic Missile scroll, coin necklace, curved sword with purple-crystal hilt, note reading “propell,” Alarm spell, elemental ornate handle, globe with rock, lava-transformed rock, socks and trinkets, Snowsorrow snowglobe, racing automatons, cakes and potions, Storm Orb, seasoned stone, mushroom pieces, ancient Draconic warning runes, orbs in slots, Amoursorate’s scratched orb, rug saying “lost,” skull-and-ruby-eyes orb, ruby messages, lost ring, coral door, power-armour suit, Invar’s robe surname, deputy badges, sending stones, 500 gp jade purchase, jade earrings, jade-disguised staff, mirror, 80 hexagon coins, dark grey rose, Bartholomew’s silver chain with green pendant, 50,000 gp worth of jade, militia rewards, tray with leaves, and the mirror through which Valentinhide offered pathways.

Spells, visions, and magical effects mentioned include Morgana’s bee scouting, broom door travel, darkness, dome barrier, paying a penny to open a door, trap magic, Disintegrate trap on the summoning circle, command activation, alarm magic, memory blanking, shrinking and growth through cake and potion, reincarnation of Metatous / Garadul, Weather room controls, Shape Water, lightning charging the Storm Orb, mushroom telepathic memory search, Morgana’s infinite-library vision, Dirk’s sickly-goliath vision, Garadul’s reincarnated divine body, Feeble Mind and its removal, ancient Draconic battle warning, memory destruction, party visions during ichor spray, invisibility and forced forgetting of the escaping entity until it was defeated, Joy’s illusion, Kasha’s claim, messages in rubies, echolocation followed by forgetting, emotion / trait loss through the lost ring, Fireball revealing trails, party-wide memory flood and level up, Dothral’s soul-crash awakening constructs, Chorus magpie guidance, baby sphinx reincarnation and divine dispute, mind magic failing after the school event, altered guard memories, Locate Creature on Bartholomew, Moonbeam, Fireball on the boat, and Valentinhide’s proposed pathway magic.

Strategic resources and plans mentioned include the clue that eight orbs / spheres correspond to basement divots, Rubyeye’s message that Squeal asked for “the loss of everything,” Platinum’s warning that Errol was possessed by one of Squeal’s things, the warning to be careful at Riversmeet, the report that Rubyeye was trapped at his wife’s place by Ennuyé, Cardonald and goliaths pursuing tainted dragons, Dothral’s connection to awakened constructs, Garadul’s search for his brothers, the Hartwall artifact hidden in one of the prisons near Snowsorrow, the mind-effect failure after the school event, town hall infiltrators using passages and identities, the militia search for missing townsfolk, the recovered sending-stone half, the lead through the “Earth hath no” door, the mutual friend outside the Barrier who visited Lord Bleakstorm, and Valentinhide’s offer of pathways at the price of identities, eyes, and pride.

Clues, Mysteries, and Open Threads

The Menagerie / old mage school still contains layered rooms, planar routes, time effects, living or dead experiment subjects, traps, and spiritual memory interference. The precise mechanism joining Hartwall, Valentinhide’s home, the cathedral, the kitchen, the basement, and historical school spaces remains unresolved.

Willowispa’s statement about her mother being gone, the possible male and female Willowispa voices, the hidden things unknown to dragons, and the reference to Mother remain active clues.

The basement relief map has eight divots, and the orbs placed into the slots only partly activated the locked door. Amoursorate’s orb was unlit and scratched. The full list of orbs, their sources, and the meaning of the scratched Amoursorate orb remain unresolved.

Errol’s 117-year subjective absence, forty years of darkness, memory gaps, gem-eating, and possession by one of Squeal’s things remain unresolved, as does why he thought Abraxus / Moreley had given him to the party.

The Tarnished, their Verdigren orders, their hideout fifteen miles below Tradesmells, their sacrificial ignorance, and their connection to copper-goliath offspring remain active leads.

Metatous’s incomplete soul, the mushroom organism, Limos Vita, the cat-horned flesh bag spreading mushroom pieces, and the requested five plantings a mile apart earthwise from a river after five years remain unresolved.

Garadul was reincarnated in an elven, green-haired, divine-energy body, remembered the pre-Dome desert after being restored, and left to find his brothers. Whether he is now ally, threat, divided being, or restored protector remains open.

The memory-destroying creature was the original Sphinx meant for the Goliaths, stolen and altered when the Dome was created, then used to alter memories across the Dome. Mr Moreley was the spectral dragon holding it down. The invisible entity that escaped during the battle was defeated, restoring the party’s memories and allowing the Sphinx aspect to reincarnate as Bynx.

Kasha claimed a debt for Garadul and later tried to claim the baby sphinx / goliath child as alternative payment. Her statement that she cannot be fooled or taken like the others raises questions about which gods or powers were fooled and by whom.

Rubyeye’s preserved messages indicate Squeal asked not for weather through the Barrier but for “the loss of everything.” The later “Bread & Circus” impersonation of Rubyeye is unresolved.

The lost ring removed or altered traits: Dirk lost compassion, and Geldrin no longer wanted to learn. The status of those losses and the ring remains unresolved.

The visions behind the doors, including the restored statue of Sierra, Lodest with vulture men and Anastasia chained, and movement toward Valentinhide’s prison, may represent current or historical prison states.

The memory flood restored or revealed relationships, including Invar and Eliana remembering Morgana as more familiar than expected. The source and implications of those restored memories remain unresolved.

Dotharl, Amoursorate’s request to look after her son, Dotharl’s twenty-year awareness, and the constructs awakened by a soul crash remain open threads.

The Chorus magpie told Morgana it can now help and that she will know the right path, despite Morgana apparently having previously told it to be silent and not remembering doing so.

The baby sphinx / goliath child was reincarnated too quickly by someone else and became hot and unwell, reflecting the state of goliath civilisation. Its identity, soul source, and condition remain unresolved.

Riversmeet town hall was infiltrated through false officials, altered memories, rats, lamias, Bartholomew, Terrance, Williams, and unknown chains of command. The missing Lady Igraine of Riversmeet, missing townsfolk, and remaining infiltrators are unresolved.

The Hartwall artifact is said to be hidden in one of the prisons near Snowsorrow, tied to Hartwall’s work on mind effects. Which prison holds it, and why it matters to the infiltrators, remains unresolved.

The huge jade cache on the boat, the 500 gp jade purchase, jade earrings, and jade disguise point to a coordinated resource or control mechanism.

The “Earth hath no” door, Highgate request, waitress with leaves, and dwarf replacement are unresolved leads at The Olde Clay Jug.

Valentinhide offered pathways to Hartwall’s lab or the party’s goal but demanded the artifact and warned of costs in identities, eyes, and pride. The party rejected the immediate offer and planned to rest, eat chicken, and go to Hartwall’s lab.