log:2022.03.29 [evan]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 6×6 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.

evan