- From the docks market as they are walking to the Temple, the group realizes that it's only been a month since they fought their first blob together, but it does feel like it's been longer because so much has happened. Thanks for the reminder, Tina!
- While they are resting at the Temple, there's a roll of thunder and it starts to rain
- Osiris checks and the weather pattern seems to be a normal storm coming from in the west
- She waits to see if there's any lightning, but it just ripples through the clouds
- Theophania crafts a thermos and fill it with hot tea for the long, cold, rainy, overnight stakeout.
- The group, including Tina, head to the cemetery (because that's how Sharai got her experience)
- "People like that used to bother me more, but then Ms Sharai taught me that some people are just bitches." This is because Osiris gave her a one word answer to the question, "So you work at the Temple?" and then left her in the dust.
- When Osiris gets to the cemetery (ahead of everybody) she casts Leomund's Tiny Hut so they can wait in the "not rain". She sets it close enough to the destroyed circle that they can watch it without it being super obvious
- Tina and Tiff sit in the Hut and chat and Osiris slowly (or not so slowly) loses her mind
- Osiris convinces Tiff (finally) to take Tina to see where the summoning circle was before Rusty destroyed it
- The nearest headstone marker says that it is a bear of some sort
- Raiàn does a bit of a patrol staying within sight of the hut
- Tiff and Tina return to the hut, much to Osiris's dismay
- Raiàn looks for but doesn't find any graves marked for any kind of dragonkind
- Tina and Lyrielle settle down to Trance, so Tiff also settles down to rest
- Osiris sees a couple of figures (short, maybe 48-54" tall max), and they are maybe 100' from the Hut
- The figures go over to a grave area and start doing something
- Raiàn who was still walking around creeps closer to them and sees that they seem to be trying to draw another circle, but the rain and mud is making it difficult. They look like tweens or early teenage humans.
- Raiàn walks right up to both of them and puts her arms around their shoulders and asks what they are up to.
- Tiff, Tina, Lyrielle, and Rusty walk up to the boys as well. They are Jeff and Dave and they are drawing "circles", but won't say why.
- Tiff looks over what they were drawing and sees a few similarities to the other necromantic summoning circles, so she asks Lyrielle and Rusty to hold them while she goes through their pockets
- She finds a drawing and hands it to Tina who says this wouldn't summon or conjure anything. All of the runes are gibberish
- Tiff also finds a pouch with 5 GP
- They are urchins. "Independent"
- Rusty Intimidates them into telling him that a "lady" gave them the paper and the GP to draw circles
- They said that the lady was wearing a fancy hat, but they don't know her name
- She found them in the neighborhood of the Strongwall Prison
- Rusty and Osiris (who abandoned the Hut after a while) insist that they get a walking tour of the city to see all the circles they've drawn so far.
- "What's a carrot?"
- The next circle is slightly better drawn, and Tina says that MAYBE you could add some lines and marks to make it actually do something (because as drawn it does nothing)
- Another Tiny Hut is cast (as a ritual) so that they can pull out Tiff's maps and have the boys point out all the places they were drawing circle and all the locations they point to are in the east half of the city
- There's one just outside of the Trader's Gate, there's this one near the Arena, there's a cemetery just outside the Farmer's Gate, and Tiff knows that there's another cemetery near the prison, and it's one of the very few inside the city walls, and the "lady" specifically told them NOT to go there.
- Rusty pays the urchins 10 GP for being helpful and then tries to convince them to turn double agent and report to Birel at the Temple if she hits them up, and they scamper off with no promises made
- The group heads to the the one cemetery the boys were told not to go to, and on the way there, it finally stops raining
- The cemetery has constructed terrace levels and a mausoleum in the center. There's some kind of greenish light coming from the mausoleum.
- Tiff ritually casts Detect Magic, but in the time it takes for her to do that, Osiris starts looking for circles that Lady B might have drawn herself.
- Lyrielle sneaks around to see if there's another entrance or exit to the mausoleum
- Rusty and Raiàn is watching the door
- Tina is distracting and causes Osiris to make noise, and Henry comes out of the mausoleum and announces the presence of the group
- 2,300 XP ea for 53,890 XP total ea.
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