Session Recap
Game Date: 1172-7-7
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(Aside: The Haven Ironworks in in the Labyrinth (U05))
We get up the next morning and head to City Hall and the Council Chamber.
Sitting at a desk in the middle of the room is Mayor Elspeth Windermere. The air seems to vibrate and quiver. In the corner of our eyes we see shapes appear and disappear. external image
The tower has been here for seven days. We explain that the tower was probably built partly in Haven. Nobody knows of it directly. Prof Gearhart knows a little (he’s in the archives).
We tell her about the birds and how they mentioned the mayor by name. Also that she knew the cost and there were phantoms of paradox. As we say that, an apparition appears. external image
Penelope goes to protect the mayor and Turin shoots it with an arrow. There is a shimmer, and we seem to see a human male at the podium arguing and pointing at a council member. The person being pointed to looks like Harz DeLaRiis, a confidant of Lyza.
Arada shakes off the vision and stabs it. Eugene and Martin protect the mayor who withdraws. The spirit attacks Arada and Penelope finishes it off.
Eugene asks what happens in the past. The mayor says one or two come through, hurt a few people, then stop. It started about a month ago.
Eugene casts detect magic. Martin asks about the argument. The mayor says she thinks it was in the past, and was Michael Swiftsword, pointing at Harz De la Riis. The two of them aren’t normally chummy, but that isn’tnexpected.
Eugene doesn’t see anything, but another phantom attacks him, and misses as he had foreseen. Arada shoots it with her bow and misses. Another weird shift happens. The room goes different and a new scene appears. Swiftsword is at a chair, and Harz and Lyza are at the podium. Harz seems to be congratulating her. Things shift back. Turin shoots it but misses and Martin Sacred Flame it.
Penelope rushesp and swaps places with Eugene. Eugene blasts it with magic missile and dissolves it. He continues his detect magic search.
Martin mentions Olivia and Constantine. The mayor thinks that Gearhart mentioned an Olivia Chronosmith.
Turin asks about the Ironwood coal, Earthheart emerald, and Haven steel.
Penelope notices a box of mirrors. The mayor says that they were going to be hungp in the council room.
The mayor gets a page to takes to the archives to meet Gearhart. The page takes to the archives and tells us to go upstairs and leaves. We go upstairs.
As we enter the halls, a wind burst strikes Turin. Martin calls out, and also hits a tornado.
We explore a bit. One of the rooms is a storeroom. The other is Gearhart’s office external image
He wants to know why we are in his office. Martin confuses him. We start discussing the tower and Constantine Chronosmith.
He thinks the tower was built in the long past. We mention Olivia, and he recognizes the name. He thinks Olivia is the last living Chronosmith descendent. He has a book of Constantine’s notes.
We explore a bit and find a stair leading to not this adventure. Penelope finds an old patent tellings how to build beep beep. Eugene’s reading of the notes suggests that we need a temporal resonator.
We look around the library and find many interesting volumes, including sketches of the tower, schematics of defense systems, principles of time magic, and blueprints for a temporal matrix. Eugene leaves some of the books with Gearhart.
Gearhart thinks Olivia might be a watchmaker. There are a few streets where there are a lot of jewelry shops.
Martin suggests we talk to the guards in that area and see if they know of her shop.