42. 05/09/2021 Session Writeup

Session Summary
After getting back to the Inn, Paolo and Taer go to cast commune at the Church of Azuth. He finds out that there are no prisoners currently in the Path of Emanence; Tahir is in the city, and that there is a teleportation circle between Eobard the Smiling and the Path of Emanence. Taer takes in the architecture.

Meanwhile, Lu, Masina and Astrid get a job offer from Eobard the Smiling - 2,500 gold flat rate fee for the ruins of Hisal on behalf of house Kossares. They remember that Hisal is an old trading city where the gods fought, back when the veil was thin. The group decides to decline, giving "we hate camping" as the reason.

As Paolo and Taer arrive, they run into Illya Goga. Illya gives them their documents certifying their nobility (which are even partially legal!), received their expense reports, and tells them that while there will be people that have the ability to see through illusions at the party, having an illusion up is not going to be an especially notable situation, and the Sarantine nobles can be very insular.

The next day, the party (minus Paolo) goes to the Path of Emanence for a tour in disguise. Masina is going by Sequoia, Taer is going by Miggy, Lu by Emyra, Astrid by Hulda, and Therelin by Therelin. Xanthi meets up with them and they go to the third floor, an open floor plan laboratory and work space. Here they find out:


 * There are books on binding souls - Therelin steals one
 * The automata/armor is resistant to a lot of different types of damage, and has a giant axe that seemed to do ice damage
 * They had some fireproof barriers at the ready for testing that can be moved around.
 * There was a teleportation section.
 * The Path of Emanence keeps 'lean', they try not to keep more supplies on hand than they absolutely need.

The fourth floor is the library. There they find:


 * Most books are categorized by donor, though they are also on general area
 * There is more information on soul binding
 * Someone working in the library was working on equations to transmute one type of magical energy to another, specifically barriers
 * Information on Hisal
 * Information on Ukka and Azuth, mixed into a section that seemed to be on historical catastrophes.

The fifth floor has a conference room and the president's office. They spy a map for other locations, and in the midst of trying to get a copy of the locations, they get strongly encouraged to leave. Between all of the attempts, they've managed to get the following information

Cordoba and Mumbai had icons but they could not be written down.

Meanwhile, Paolo makes Quark look like a very fancy rat. So fancy, in fact, that the staff leaves him alone. The party heads back to the inn to discuss what they've learned.