Session Thirty-Six Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 36, March 17 2021

Introduction

We continue at 6:40AM on the 23rd of Tenrilden with the party having infiltrated the Silver Throne embassy in Malgrim via astral projection and shadow-stepping before neutralizing the emergency security protocols. Before resting to improve Velkin's chances of disarming the trap guarding the Silver Throne's secret papers, the group arrives at a deal with Jax to share information and strategies for restoring magic ...

Kauri reads the book on DVLs and Rallion reads the book on the Fall of the Dwarves due to Prixathalma while resting. Jax claims the high priests room.

The next morning, Jax uses DVL magic to identify Brendil's mace - a mace of disruption.

All the spellcasters top of their magic and Lambertus and Felix heal up the party.

Rallion is finally able to learn a spell. However, crossing the threshold causes the loss of that spell. Lambertus uses the cloaking ring and shadow steps and all of his remaining spells are gone. However, the effects of casting cure light wounds on himself remains.

Jax tries darkness 15 foot radius and casts it just inside the entryway and the sphere is cut short and is like a wall of darkness. So the full effects of the spell happens inside this place, but cannot cross.

Velkin uses all his skill and expertly opens the trapped chest and packs away the bomb to be used later.

There is a map to the Dragon Emperor's (DE) secret lab and a letter to and from Marchmain. There is also schematics of the generator and pylons for trapping DVLS. This embassy is the prototype/proof of concept built by Suttung the fire giant.

MAP:
Anotations on map.

• D.E.’s secret research laboratory? Send word to Marchmain
• Exit to temple of Naga [Naga's guarded entrance to Xen Khel....]

Copies of fragmentary notes in Ancient Dwarven.

Seems like ancient research on binding and controlling DVLs without Xenotel.

Full sentence commentary.

Belief that ancients were working from fragmentary knowledge stolen from Azrael, but abandoned

Only capable of warding a fixed location.

Original research of dragon emperor may lead to a way to do this.

Letter From Marchmain to Ambassador:
Dear Ambassador Yrmir,
I send you my greetings and sincerest well wishes from our temporary headquarters at Xen’Khel. The research you forwarded on was of great interest, although there are other matters delaying any search for Azrael’s hidden laboratory too delicate to detail in this missive. In the meantime, I have shared those fragmentary notes with Suttung (our gifted Fire Giant friend) and he has drafted the attached schematics. If you could please implement these and report back on the results, that would be greatly appreciated by the Silver Throne Company. Please be discreet in your work – if assistance from the gnomes is required, be sure to work with Clan Karst as they are the most in alignment with our interests.
May Xen’Teler watch over you,
Marchmain Sivis.

Notes:
Copied fragments of ancient research on binding and controlling DVLs without Xeno’Tel; copy of modern research notes indicates a belief that the ancients were working from fragmentary knowledge stolen from Azrael that was meant to counter Prixithalma’s virus – the ancient abandoned it, though, when Azrael betrayed Prixithalma (not needed); currently only capable of warding a fixed location, although there is suspicion that the Dragon Emperor’s original research, if found, could lead to a better version.

Technical specifications for installing pylons in the walls of the embassy engraved with the circuitry and glyphs that would ward the location against DVLs (binding their spirits to the power turbine for later extraction)

We send Bili to order 5 pairs of "sunglasses" for those of the underdark going to the surface. Bili brings news that something riding a fire breathing horse stepped out of the shadows in the undermarket and told yellow hat that he was needed by Belial due to an attack by elves. Yellow Hat left with the other outsider.

We suspect that the Dragon Emperor's lab is under Xen Khel. We plan to use Commune and Divination to determine if this is the case.

We will go to the temple on Old Greybeard to retrieve our ancient dwarven gear before going to Xen Khel.

Then we will go to the mountain North of Old Greybeard.

We rest more and Lambertus heals the party to full health.

We wait for Jax to identify the spider box.

We then plan to head to the surface and leave Billi as a spy for us to keep an eye on Jax.