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++++ Staff Meeting |
  * DoctorCharles is droning one.
    * Meanwhile:
      * Courier gives a letter to TheBethany.
      * A Kobold enters (light blue translucent scales).  She is so pretty, people are drooling.
      * She is here to watch over SkarleTheKobold.
  * Assignments
    * DoctorCharles asks TheMarshall and me to price additional security.
    * The Kobold won't give her name.
    * She calls a mandatory meeting tonight.
  * A Letter from the OfficeOfTheQuestion
    * LadyValore will interview me to see if I am of interest
  * Uniforms
    * CorvusTheValet presents his ideas for uniforms.
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++++ Retirement Ceremony |
  * There is a great ritual circle in the room.
  * SkarleTheKobold goes into the circle (his mount disappears and the circle closes)
  * Ceremony
    * We're ready for the Magus (7 people)
    * She claps her hands and we go into a trance
    * We return to consciousness in an strange realm
      * We are all dragons.
      * I'm a Sapphire dragon
      * SkarleTheKobold has a Crown Of Madness chained to his head.
      * She is a prismatic dragon
    * We follow her to a cave.
      * We bow to the largest dragon we have ever seen (Prismatic Great Worm).  StellarisOfStars - Great Worm of Stars, handmaiden to GodBahamut (LadyVonace's Sister)
      * She wants to right a great wrong.  SkarleTheKobold was the first kobold in BrekenbackAcademy.  He offended a wizard that cursed him.  The wizard was a broodling of LadyVonace
      * She offers SkarleTheKobold to become a dragon, and serve her.  He agrees (even doubles up).
      * He is turned into a dragon
      * Arise Skarle [long draconic name]
  * Afterwards
    * We return to the base.  Each of us have a single scale of the dragon we were (mine is sapphire).
    * SkarleTheKobold appears in a cave in the desert.  He has an armory and must protect the region.
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++++ New Paintjob and a New Recruit |
  * The Warforged get repainted to match CorvusTheValet's uniform scheme.
  * The New Recruit arrives
    * DakotaSandman.  Seems like a tribal type.  Maybe a ranger?
    * CorvusTheValet introduces him to DoctorCharles.
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**Alchemical Merkins**

++++ Dinner |
  * We let him know all the weird things we do.
  * We are thinking about pursuing the BlackLotusTong.
    * CorvusTheValet suggests taking over one of their base as leverage. 
  * DoctorCharles rants about FizzyWig.
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++++ Lady Valore |
  * Lady Valore arrives
    * Simple robes, and a walking stick.  Mid 60s. Regal bearing.
  * We meet in Conference Room A
    * Comments on the Tea Challenge
    * DoctorCharles shows her the skull of PirkessDunlands
    * She uses a glowing net of magic to pull over the skull, and begins to examine it.
      * Symbol of the BlackLotusTong
      * Focus of a humunculus-- PirkessDunlands is still alive.
      * Pulls out a tiny hammer and chisel and disables the rune (she seems displeased, for some reason).
      * It had a scrying link.  They know I disabled it.
    * She asks how we got the skull/humunculus.  DoctorCharles talks us up, but she pretty much gets the idea.
    * She questions me about The Question
      * My approach is unorthodox and outdated.
      * She questions me--I'm not a psychopath, I guess.
      * She will recommend me for training
      * I am now a lay initiate of the OfficeOfTheQuestion
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++++ Raiding |
  * We head out to the BlackLotusTong distribution center.  It is a warehouse in a nearby town.
  * We discuss our tactics.
  * We Arrive.
    * CorvusTheValet misty steps inside and then opens the door for us.
    * We are very sneaky (DakotaSandman cast pass without trace).  We sneak upstairs.
  * Investigation
    * There are 5 desks up hear.  We search them.
    * On one desk we find a nailhead with the symbol of the BlackLotusTong
      * I press it, and a drawer pops out.
      * 1 Sheet of paper: locations, times, amounts
      * CorvusTheValet realizes the codes refer to boxes in the warehouse.
    * We go to 5A.  Box is filled with a bunch of 6x6 inch cartons.
      * DoctorCharles investigates one.  It is empty.
      * Some of the boxes have a gap.  CorvusTheValet finds a hole.  Some of the boxes are taped together.  There is a larger box inside.
      * CorvusTheValet mage hands the other boxes aside.
      * 3'x3' sturdy box.  It is heavy (300 lbs).
      * DoctorCharles opens it.
        * A strange device.  Possibly a bomb.  Has a timer.
    * Disarm
      * DoctorCharles proposes to disarm one.  He does (very tense).
  * Exit
    * We burn the place down.
      * A mutating rat scurries out then dies.  It grew a tentacle.
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