- Fellowship of the Penguins
- First thing in the morning, Tiff opens the portal to the desert, introduces herself to Striker and Breaker, checks on the patients (no worse, but not better either), and then goes back and helps the change of the nursing staff shift from her side as well
- Osiris casts Commune in her butterfly garden with her butterfly
- Are me and my friends ready to kill the dragon? No.
- Are we capable of freeing the souls in the gems? Yes.
- Is the only way to free the soul to kill the dragon? No.
- Osiris then goes and asks Rowan what she knows about souls, their composition, and that the souls are drawn to the celestial realm without the anchor of the body, but maybe Lady Blackmore's grimoires of necromancy might have some answers?
- Osiris then goes to find Rusty (Earring: "Hey Rusty, where are you? Are you wearing pants?" Which is funny because he does wear nor need to wear pants since he has no visibly genitalia as a robot man.) since the grimoires are in Dwarven and Rusty is the only person she knows who speaks Dwarven.
- Tiff starts carefully analyzing the chemical and structural make-up of the crystal from the soul hoard. It's just gonna take time.
- Raiàn goes and vists their rich friends
- Lyrielle is running around town and notices there's the start of a riot in the market over food. She sends over the earrings about it, and Raiàn and Osiris say they will come help. Tiff doesn't respond at all.
- Osiris goes to the Temple kitchen and grabs some bags of potatoes and apples and what she can carry and Sends to Captain Swinson, "There's a riot in the market. Didn't know if you knew. Bring food. Byyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
- Captain Swinson responds, "Damn. Be there in a bit."
- Osiris gets there first due to proximity and tries to start with one guy offering him food, but he takes the potato and throws it at the head of one of the guard. She moves on and tries to find other people who truly just want food and has about a 50% / 50% success rate, but the crowd grows a little bit smaller. A LITTLE bit.
- Osiris then identifies the person yelling the loudest and hardest at the guards and interposes herself between the two and discovers that there is like a 20x increase in prices since last week.
- Raiàn arrives at about this time.
- Osiris buys three stalls worth of food for 50GP and rations it out to the mob and that calms things at least for today
- She tells Marta about how she's sending hungry people to the temple who laughs about how angry Norman will be since he was released from the hospital this morning
- Osiris runs to beat Marta to Norman so she can fill out an expense report to get reimbursed for the food she bought
- She gets the just ahead of Marta enough to fill out the form in her best handwriting, which then Marta promptly approves for her upon arrival, and as she's speedwalking away down the hall she hears Norman's exclamation of "WHAT?!"
- Tiff's analyzing the crystal and when she turns back to where the slab black tendrils has already grown down the table and she shouts one of her very rare curses, "FOUK!" She chops the tendrils with a dagger and they dry out pretty quickly.
- The crystals themselves don't seem to be special. They're just a common mineral like a smoky quartz.
- A watched tendril never grows (or at least grows much more slowly than if you aren't paying attention).
- Osiris heads back to Rusty who has found the sections of the grimoires related to trapping souls and has begun transcribing those bits into Common.
- Osiris and Rusty arrive to Tiff stomping on a black tendril she has freshly chopped off the crystals again
- Osiris voluntarily goes to talk to Magnus and offers to teach him the spell Create Food and Water if he promises not to charge for it until after the crisis is over so that he gains knowledge and maybe eventually something profitable. They agree to meet the next morning for the lesson
- Tiff does a Sending to Tina, "Can you reverse necromancy stuff or bring a friend who can? Whole new problem in Mistverge and it's getting worse. Miss you!"
- Tina responds, "Necromancy? Oh my gosh, still? I thought you got all that stuff sorted? It's not my best subject, but I've done a few Speak with Deads. How can I help?"
- Tiff Sends to Tina again, "TLFS*, but there's souls trapped in crystals by the thousands. There's a dragon. Any help appreciated and needed ASAP. Did I mention DRAGON?!"
- *Too Long for Sending
- The response is, "Shit, a dragon! Kill it with fire! LOL. Will look into soul trapping stuff. Don't get eaten."
- Raiàn and Rusty immediately start arguing about his translation skills while Tiff is furiously
- Tina Sends to Tiff, "Sharai says that creating a bunch of soul crystal would be really hard. They would need to be networked together for the spell to work on them."
- Tiff responds, "Thanks. P.S. Breaking the crystals destroys the soul, so not an option. Nothing special about crystals chemically or structurally. Maybe that helps your further researches."
- With her new knowledge she realizes that the black tendrils are the network that connects the crystals and the crystals growing the tendrils are them trying to reconnect with the network.
- Rusty proposes going back to the hoard and chopping tendrils instead of crystals, and Tiff has them turn their backs on the soul crystals taken back out of the bag of holding and turning their backs on them for 5 minutes, and there are 18" of tendrils in only five minutes, so that's probably not a feasible option.
- The tendrils don't seem to grow inside the bag, so they go back into the bag after the tendrils are chopped again.
- Tiff Sends to her cousin Cora Goodkey whose a farmer out in the Hives (Punchipalma), "There's a food crisis in Mistverge. Please send any surplus this direction."
- She gets in response, "But all us Littl'un are leaving Mistverge. Shouldn't we keep the food here?"
- Same problem with another cousin in a different direction.
- Apparently all the farm workers in the Mistverge area are halflings...
-3,000 XP ea. for 109,000 XP total ea.
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