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 [[Orion]] realizes that these are holy runes for binding and trapping evil beings.  We see a summoning circle in the middle of the room.  There is an [[erinys]] devil in the room, petting on one of a set of manticores.  The devil name is [[Uranieth]] who was summoned and trapped to summon for the Great White Shark.  [[Uranieth]] recognized the black dragon scale we picked up at the  broken down temple.  She reveals that someone like [[Orion]] was interested in the blood of the dragon.  [[Uranieth]] revealed that a slick-backed haired man traded a scroll of [[timemagic|Loose Time's Arrow]].  [[Ayin]] asked what the blood of the dragon was for.  [[Uranieth]] wants to conquer the domain/plane she was summoned from and since blood has power, the blood of a dragon would have lots of power.  We decide that we will let her out of the summoning trap on a few conditions.  She would hand over the scroll of [[timemagic|Loose Time's Arrow]].  She makes a mistake and we end up giving her an empty vial.  We also learn that the black dragon's name is [[Naseal]].  He is a conspirator dragon that pretends to go by the name of [[Naseal|Korvald]].  He holds [[The Eclipse]] [[Harrow Gang]] card and [[Naseal|Korvald]] is a member of the [[Thousand Sword Alliance]].
-[[Sees-Nails]] has a flashback to hunting [[Naseal]].  [[Orion]] and [[Lawrence]] scratch out the trapping runes and [[Uranieth]] leaves the summoning dungeon.  [[Orion]] and [[Lawrence]] record the scratched out runes before they remove them so they can come back later and record all the runes.  We walk out the backdoor we spy in the room.  We enter a pristine, but spartan, room.  There is a bed and desk, but not much else.  There is also a pool of water and a metal safe. There are items in the desk, a set of documents and ledgers. safe.
+[[Sees-Nails]] has a flashback to hunting [[Naseal]].  [[Orion]] and [[Lawrence]] scratch out the trapping runes and [[Uranieth]] leaves the summoning dungeon.  [[Orion]] and [[Lawrence]] record the scratched out runes before they remove them so they can come back later and record all the runes.  We walk out the backdoor we spy in the room.  We enter a pristine, but spartan, room.  There is a bed and desk, but not much else.  There is also a pool of water and a metal safe. There are items in the desk, a set of documents and ledgers.
+There is also a second set of documents noting the declared content of ships passing through [[port friendship]] vs the known contents.  There are discrepancies oft used for smuggling.  [[Taron]] deduces that the gang had an inside man and that the ships are sneaking in [[primal obsidian]].  [[Sees-Nails]] opens the safe.  Inside the safe is some good loot.
+[[Del]] dives into the pool of water and swims 300 feet before running into a greate.  There is a a 'blood lock'? with a harpoon trap pointing at it.  [[Sees-Nails]] surprisingly fails to open the lock.  The trap triggers and obliterates a ruffian finger [[Sees-Nails]] used to attempt.  [[Orion]] transforms into a prawn and continues swimming through the gate to investigate.  After another hundred feet or so, [[Orion]] pops out into a gaudy and comfortable room.  There is a small kitchenette and a comfy bed.  [[Orion]] detransforms and pulls 1 of 2 levers on a wall.  In the distance he hears "Great White's here".  There's also a wooden lock that [[Orion]] identifies as a 'bloodlock', just like the one back in the underwater tunnel.  [[Orion]] pulls the other level and and he can hear the hum of [[primal obsidian]] being pumped with magic.  Moments later, a werecrocodile shows up.  [[Orion]] hides.  The werecrocodile looks around and mutters "She must be up there" and looks at the ladder and bloodlock.  The werecrocodile leaves and [[Orion]] takes the opportunity to attempt to bypass the wooden door.  He eventually manages to burn through it without using the lock, but [[Orion]] passed through the destroyed door.
+He climbs the ladder into an office.  There is the loud sound of metal on metal.  There is a desk with various ledgers on it.  The office looks like a prepared "legitimate" office for business.  [[Orion]] looks out a window and recognizes the location.  He is at the [[Key Forge]].
+===2024-01-31===
+The group catches up to [[Orion]] inside the bedroom.  [[Del]] steals some [[Barclay Vineyard Wine]]. It is a pinot Noir.  We also steal some scotch that is from the [[Truscian Isles]].
+We decide to advance and clear out the basement instead of attempting any stealth or such.  [[Thalacos]] kicks down the door.  There are two werecrocodile guards.  [[Lawrence]] shouts at them.
+We do a running fight, but one guard manages to send out an alarm.  [[Del]] is also severely injured by the fight.  [[Ayin]] opens a set of doors revealing a bunch of loot and an injured man bound in a chair.  He was clearly tortured.  The man has a red bandana, indicating he is with the [[Upstanding Gentlemen]].  In another room, there is a corpse with an arm replaced by [[primal obsidian]] in the shape of an arm.  The [[primal obsidian]] is pulsing with magic, but the man is very dead.  There is also a dwarf with white hair in that same room.  He is taking notes and fiddling with dials on a machine.  He is very focused and does not notice us watching him.  We recall that [[Queen Ryla]] of [[Redcastle]] is the only known person who has created a working [[primal obsidian]] prosthesis on herself(or anyone).  Everyone else dies or rejects the prosthesis.  We take the loot and the prisoner.
+We sneak back to the hotel we rented our rooms at, [[Key House 1]].  Before we can enter in to the building, we see effigies of the party.  There is a corpse painted green with a note saying "Leave 800 gold at the Halfway House and the party may be allowed to live".
+===2024-02-14===
+==11th of Humid==
+We wake up the prisoner and learn his name is [[Dale]].  He informs us that he's a simple town guard for [[Bassari]].  We decide he's withholding information from us and we press him.  He informs us that a boat was bringing in [[primal obsidian]].  He says it's a special kind of boat, an underwater boat.
+We recruit [[Dale]] to help continue the enterprises in [[Valcastle]].  [[Orion]] fakes putting a mark on [[Dale]] to track him and force him to go to [[Valcastle]].  [[Dale]] also says that the [[Upstanding Gentlemen]] are going to raid the music festival where it's suspected that a lot of the [[Docksiders Gang]] members will be.  We chartered a caravan so [[Dale]] can have a safe trip to [[Valcastle]].  He informs us of a few [[Upstanding Gentlemen]].  [[Lieutenant Strohl]] organized the volunteer gang members.
+We head back into [[Bassari]].  The line to enter the city is much longer than when we first entered it 24 hours ago.  We spy a half-orc named [[Boss]] who headed up the caravan we initially all met on. We give [[Boss]] a favor to take [[Dale]] to [[Valcastle]].
+As we re-enter the city and head to the upper district, we see some 3rd hand images of our visages on bounty posters.  It lists several of our crimes.  We take a few as keepsakes.  The posters bear the seal of the Governor of [[Bassari]].  We decide to sneak further into the city via the harbor instead of through the city streets.  It is quite easy.  We walk up to a ship drydock.  No one is working, but there are musicians and street performers all warming up for the [[Festival of Sheylin]].  There is also some good smelling street/festival food.  There are town criers shouting out for people to buy wares and events and so on.  We see a few people taking a step back from us as we walk through.  There are also no guards or [[Docksiders Gang]] selling anything.  The party splits, some are going to the music paradate.  [[Orion]] and [[Taron]] look for [[Lieutenant Strohl]].  They notice there are guards in the Upper District of the city.
+Back to the party in the paradate.  The musicians see [Osol] who is there to start the parade.  He starts with an intermediately difficult song titled "[[Hym of the Radiant]]".  It talks of 7 knights who were blessed to transform into dragons.  [[Orion]] and [[Zara]] recognize the song as vaguely something the leader of the [[Citrine Academy]] would sing to transform into his [[Aspect]].  We also posit that the song may be related to the temple we discovered and found the black scale at.
+As the crowd disperses and musicians fall from the parade, as per the competition, and the last songs start playing, a guard shows up and declares that the remaining crowd/parade is disturbing the peace and that everyone there is under arrest.
+There is a fight and we capture/kill the guards that come to arrest us. We save a few folks and [[Osol]].
+[[Zara]] continues playing during the whole process and wins the music festival.  Congratulations!
+===2024-02-21===
+We follow [[Osol]] back to the [[Church of the Radiant Prism]] into a private office for discussions.  There are some scrolls and diaries in the office.  [[Osol]] informs us that there is a possible secret prison.  He further informs us that [[Lieutenant Strohl]] has an office at "[[The Armory]]" if we wish to see him.
+The party splits up to investigate the information we've gained.  [[Lawrence]], [[Sees-Nails]], [[Orion]] stealth in to the upper district.  [[Del]], [[Taron]], [[Thalacos]] put on disguises.  The disguises get the party up to the wall separating the upper district from the lower district, where two women stop them.  [[Orion]] gets captured by the guards, but for a fat bribe, they'll let him go.  He pays, but [[Sees-Nails]] gets/will get the gold back.
+The upper district is vastly different than the lower district.  There are [[primal obsidian]] tracks that run through the streets.  Trollies are pulled by weird [[primal obsidian]] arms, dragging the trolley smoothly behind them.
+We board a trolley, our object is to head to the Governor's mansion.  We get off at the the appropriate stop, right in front of his house.  There are steps that light up as we appraoch.  A goblin exits the house.  [[Orion]] pulls out a wanted poster and shows it to the house manager, [[May]].  [[May]] leads us to a waiting room.  Two minutes later a maid [[Salane]] appears to make sure we are comfortable and pour some alcohol.  A while later,  governor [[Sud]] appears and explains his position.