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Riversmeet Menagerie and Old Mage School

Summary

Riversmeet’s Menagerie is the former mage school, later locked down by mages, and became the party’s entry into historical school planes, emotion-orb clues, Grand Towers origins, automations, void spheres, and time-erased Hannah.

Known Details

  • Day 35 identified Lady Yadreya Egrine as Baroness of Riversmeet and connected her menagerie to stolen experimental creatures later recognized as memory grubs.
  • Day 43 reported that mages at the Menagerie did not return to Grand Towers and locked it down; it used to be the mage school.
  • Day 43 also identified the interfering memory spell as waterwise at the Mages College at Riversmeet, involving Attabre magic plus another force.
  • On day-44, the party reached Riversmeet, found Ruby Eye’s melted house ruins and gravestone, and joined Lady Igraine of Riversmeet’s siege outside the Menagerie.
  • The Menagerie grounds had broken cages for griffon, dragon, wolf, and human subjects and a wall of force or similar effect.
  • Inside, the party entered old-school time or planes: apothecary, infirmary, head teacher’s office, Divination, transmutation, study hall, common rooms, lessons, Air common room, tower tunnels, classrooms, and astronomy.
  • The old school involved Cardonald, Ruby Eye, Everard Browning, Thomas / Ennuyé, Hannah, Valenth, Bosh, Mr Moreley, Principal Grey, Torlish Hartwall / Hartwall, Humerous Torn, Hammerguards, and Grand Towers transfer plans. Thomas was Ennuyé’s earlier name before he changed it.
  • Major discoveries included an empathy alteration orb, the green liquid / possible Noxia blood, power armour, an automaton core, Bynx as a baby Attabre spirit, a draconic book for Ruby Eye, a sixth sphinx clue, void containment, and the need for eight spheres.
  • On Day 46, the party continued through the school, encountering chimeras, squid-headed experimenters, Willowispa, Tarnished copper-goliath offspring, a basement map with eight orb divots, the Storm Orb, a mushroom organism, Metatous’s incomplete soul, and Garadul’s reincarnation.
  • The school contained the Original Goliath Sphinx, stolen and altered long ago when the Dome was created and used to alter memories across the Dome.
  • The Dome was created by Everard Browning, Ennuyé, Brutor Ruby Eye, Valenth Cardonald, and Lady Evalina Hartwall.
  • Mr Moreley was the spectral dragon holding the altered Sphinx down during the orb-room battle.
  • During the battle, an invisible entity escaped and made the party forget it, but the entity was defeated; the party’s memories were restored after they protected a glowing thing in linked rooms.
  • Day 46 also connected the school to Riversmeet’s current town-hall infiltration, because mind magic used by the infiltrators began malfunctioning after something happened at the school.

Open Questions

  • Are the school spaces time travel, preserved planes, memory rooms, or another mechanism?
  • What are the eight spheres, and who created or hid them?
  • What happened to Hannah after being wiped from time and space?
  • What is the current state of the twenty wizards who locked down the Menagerie?
  • Which of the Dome creators stole and altered the original Goliath Sphinx, and did any of the others oppose it?
  • What is the relationship between Willowispa, Mother, the Tarnished, and the hidden objects in the school?