Chronicles of the Guardians

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Session 18

3 min read

Saturday 12th July 2025 + Sunday 13th July 2025

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Session Notes

  • RAPH RETCONNED / FORGOT
    • Met Ironwhiskers, forgot to tell us what he wanted
      • Wants a specific scroll from the archive in the warehouse
      • Scroll or the box
  • One of the Guards asks to leave
    • We decline him to leave until we’re done
  • Lirael walks to the boxes
    • Big crane creaks ominously
    • Reach the boxes, 5 of them, not huge, seams, middle of each round looks like a pi into five.
      • Slot shape of circle with 5 lines going through it
      • Keyhole?
      • Have letters
        • TC
        • SW
        • GW
        • CT
        • HS
      • Tries picking up one, it is heavy
        • Abductor and Tansy goes to help
        • Able to lift it up
        • Thing inside moves side to side in a self balancing way
      • Tansy knocks on the box
      • Doesn’t move when you dont move the box
      • Knocking has no discernable effect
  • Zu stays with the guards
  • Ruth goes in the unexplored room
    • Office, big desk, shelves, ledgers etc.
    • Takes the keys
    • Note on the door
      • order = first letter - last letter
      • One weird arse circle
      • 5 clicks
    • Lying on the table is a ledger
      • Date + letter code + short summary + client name + rating
      • many are are missing the rating column
    • Ruth delivers the keys before examining the ledger
  • Lirael puts key inside
    • Box makes a humming sound after putting key in, turns off when taking out
    • Tries to work out the letter puzzle
      • Tries first CT
        • Turns key one to right
        • Opens
        • Crate swings open and unfurls like origami
        • A glass bell jar on a wooden base, locked into
          • Inside is a weird blob of light which presses against the glass, looks at you despite not having a face
          • Waves back
          • Lirael says hello
          • Gnomes looking in wonder
          • “Will I let you out?”
          • Speaks in “jingling coils and rustle of paper” directly into brains of people nearby
          • “I would say that this venture has 67% chance of going in my faviour, 23% not going in my favour, rest unforseen”
          • “Will I regret letting you out?”
          • “Very low odds you’ll regert it. But i’ll regret that.”
          • “Do you want to be let out.”
          • “Extremely unlikely”
          • “It’s so loud outside, I can old”
  • Ruth discovers SW - disappears about 4 months ago from the list, before there very incrementally, others regular
    • CT and GW most popular
    • Last entry for SW is ironwhiskers
      • note is “Access to location of island”, “Defective/Retiring”
    • CT used for money/banking
    • HS is for relationships
    • GW appears to be used for finding stuff
    • SW appears to be used for various quests/battles
      • Effective before the last one
      • Notes of concern/strange behaviour
    • TC things related to ships/travel
  • The police arrive, triggered by silent alarm, big knock at the door
    • “Hello police?”
    • Ruth does silent image to make office and warehouse looks fine from a distance
    • Zu rolls nat 20 imtimidation to silence the captured guards
    • Hears commands from outside
    • Yarhekk imitates the orcs voice “everything is fine accidentlly set off the alarm”
    • “can we come in to check?”
    • “Err.. there has been an incident involving a tickle fest, and some bodily extracts”
    • Rolls deceptions passes
    • “Can we file this as a false alarm”
    • “Yes, officer, good night.”
  • Dnor sees some of them going around the building. They also have dragons(!?)
    • Small dragon, drake, seahorse and a horse, bit like a chocobo
      • All terrain vehichle

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