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- The bookshelf that Osiris examines first looks like it has ledgers
- She grabs her arrow out of the wall and then one of the ledgers and it's just the household ledgers, but the name Blackmore is inside the cover, so she puts it back where she found
- Theophania says that they're obviously one of the big families in the city since they live in a big house on Winfair Hillock
- There's a noise from in the hall, and they rush to the fireplace which is where they came in, but the portal is not there.
- Theophania dives under the desk while Osiris gets behind the divan
- The door opens and a man walks in. He has a pointy noise and a pointy moustache. Then he stops and looks around then walks into the hallway and starts shouting for "Henry!"
- Theophania turns and throws open the window as quickly and quietly as she can and motions for Osiris and she hops out of the window into a little garden
- As Osiris is climbing out of the window and a different man walks in. One assumes it is Henry. He is tall and broad and wearing a leather breastplate and has a shortsword, he yells "Stop, thief!"
- Rusty goes to poke his head through the portal after a few minutes of not hearing from his friends and he just bangs his head against a stone wall
- Raiàn laughs
- Theophania and Osiris dash across the gardens and start scrambling straight down the steep side of the hillock
- Theophania makes it to the edge and is climbing down just fine, but Osiris is racing Henry to the edge and she has to dive to prevent him from catching her, so she goes completely ass over teakettle all the way to the bottom
- They dash across the street into an alley and catch their breath, Osiris having to coach the panting Tiff into a quieter form of breathing
- A very quick discussion between the two of them and they decide to head south to the Golden Bridge (the long way around) rather than crossing by the base of the Hillock to get to the Temple Bridge and they are going STRAIGHT TO Captain Abigail Swinson in the Hall of Justice to show her the necromantic book they found
- They take the quickest few minutes possible to clean themselves up and start heading that direction with Theophania worrying about her friends starving to death in the sewers because she is the one who has the maps
- Meanwhile, back in the sewer / necromantic laboratory, Rusty says, "That's a problem."
- They feel around for the portal a little bit more, but it's just gone.
- Raiàn accidentally brushes against the bloody apron, and gets a smear of blood on her hand. The apron then bleeds and the spot where the bloods was wiped away is immediately covered.
- Raiàn takes it down and folds it carefully and puts it in her backpack tucking it into a corner and holding it there with her water skin, you know, for evidence.
- They decide not to leave a note in case it incriminates them or the Temple (where they expect Osiris and Tiff would have gone)
- Finally, they decide to try to back track their way out of the sewers themselves
- Rusty pulls out his Continual Flame lantern and starts looking for their footprints with Lyrielle helping to point out markings and things
- Raiàn occasionally pulls out the bleeding apron and uses it to mark the walls
- They find their way to a nexus where several tunnels, but there are footprints leading down two different tunnels
- It's quite obvious which set are theirs because of Raiàn's unique clawed feet are only going down one side
- The other set of tracks are obviously humanoid and are relatively fresh as they are walking over some of the party's original prints
- Holding up the "lantern" towards that tunnel just shows more tunnel
- Raiàn takes her bloody apron and writes "blood" in Orc for that tunnel as a note to themselves. Rusty also tells her it means strength in Dwarven
- Then they continue following their own footprints
- It's not too much longer after that they find their way to an exit from the sewers, and it's about dusk by this time
- Osiris and Theophania make it to the Hall of Justice and Tiff bypasses the front desk guard to dash straight to Captain Swinson's office door much to the guard's dismay
- They explain everything that happened after the dragon corpse to the captain and show her the book and she , and she asks them "Are you accusing Lord Blackmore of being a necromancer?"
- He is an Associate Justice of the Court, which means he is one of the five members of the court who try criminal cases, but he is not the Chief Justice
- Lord Blackmore is not the man with the super pointy nose and the super pointy moustache.
- Osiris asks Tiff to open the book, so she casts Mage Hand and opens it to a random page and Osiris tries to compare handwriting to the ledger she saw, but it's two different alphabetical systems
- Tiff draws the captain a map through the sewers to the necromantic laboratory for her records, but they take the book back to show to the leaders at the Temple
- They book it across the street and Osiris leads Theophania to her supervisor, Birel.
- He agrees to hear their tale after a bit of a jumbled explanation, and he gets the other two Headpriests so that they can tell the story only once and get everyone's advice at the same time
- Osiris calmly tells the story after Theophania gets the book out of the Bag of Holding as quickly as possible causing her to slam it on the desk a little bit to show them
- Headpriestess Rowan examines the book very briefly before declaring it an artifact of great evil.
- The explanation is given and the Headpriests agree to hide the necromantic ritual book for the short term while they are both put on special assignment to find the source of the necromantic incursion and root it out.
- They leave the book in Headpriestess Rowan's care for now
- They're heading for Tiff's rooms to talk about what to do about their friends when they run into their friends
- Tiff accidentally blurts out that they were in Lord Blackmore's study and Osiris shoves everyone into the nearest room, which happens to be a storage closet.
- Poor Tiff has her cheek smooshed against someone's thigh because of the cramped space.
- They briefly hear about each other's adventures then reconvene in Tiff's room, where Osiris and Tiff examine the bloody apron.
- Osiris determines that it is a bloody apron.
- Tiff changes the lenses on her goggles, feels the fabric of the apron, takes a little blood rubs it between her fingers (casts Identify as a ritual)
- She learns that the apron is enchanted to improve your abilities with knives and cutting weapons (A Butcher's Bib - once per turn you can choose to reroll your damage, but you must use the second result. Additionally, attacks with a weapon that deals slashing damage deal a critical hit on a 19 or 20. Requires attunement)
- Raiàn agrees to give it to Rusty in the macabre way of using some of the regenerating blood to draw a plus sign on his forehead
- Rusty puts it on and he looks intimidating as fuck.
- Everyone agrees that it's okay for Rusty to use it as long as they don't have to touch it
- Rusty immediately pretends to hug Theophania and she in her tiredness just pulls out a screwdriver and a hammer and gives him a death stare
- 1,200 XP ea for 16,990 XP total ea.
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