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-====== Session 5 ======
+====== Session 5: The Catacombs and Visions of the Anchor ======
-Session 5
-Still in the catacombs beneath the church
-  * Party goes to the shimmering door
+===== The Trial of the Judges =====
-  * Dorr has a handprint, party tries their hands, doesn’t work
+  * The party continues through the catacombs beneath the church.
-  * Use Selene's (DB) hand to open the door
+  * They encounter a //**shimmering door**// with a handprint; it only opens when //**Selene's**// hand is used.
+  * //**The Courtroom**//: Inside, they meet three spectral judges. The party is questioned about their burdens and secrets:
+    * //**Solara**// reveals her sacrifices for her patron.
+    * //**The Betrayal**//: The judges ask who betrayed someone unknowingly. The party guesses incorrectly and takes psychic damage.
+    * //**The Truth**//: It was //**Solara**// killing the man **//Joyboy//** had spared in the sewers.
+  * //**The Scepter**//: The party convinces the judges they are worthy. They receive the //**Scepter of Oaths**//, which identifies lies by making the liar glow (similar to a //**Zone of Truth**//).
+  * //**Moss**// takes custody of the scepter, it does not vibe with anyone in the party.
-Party enters, they hear the sound of a gavel  \\
+===== Shared Visions =====
-spectral judges in the room  \\
+The court adjourns, and the party blacks out, experiencing a series of shared visions.
-Judges ask if we have a burden or secret
-  * Sol reveals sacrifices for her patron
+  * //**Vesper’s Vision**//:
+    * A dim, flickering lantern and tents with drained color.
+    * A masked performer (wearing //**Vesper’s**// mask, presumably past //**Vesper**//) drags a child into a main tent toward a circular well of pale fire.
+    * The crowd points at //**Vesper**// (//**Vesper**// the viewer)
+    * ‘You were part of this’
+    * "The Anchor feeds on what you abandoned."
+    * //**Reveal**//: The child is an //**anchor**//.
+  * //**Solara’s Vision**//:
+    * The night of her pact in a large cathedral.
+    * A figure of pale white fire—not //**Glasya**//—claims the souls from her sacrifices.
+    * Sees her nanny crying and her own beauty rotting on the //**Ember Throne**//.
+    * "When the fourth anchor breaks, your true form will be revealed."
+    * See //**Solara's**// true face smiling from the throne
+    * //**Reveal**//: //**Solara’s Nanny**// is an //**anchor**//.
+  * //**Moss’s Vision**//:
+    * A rotting forest where a lantern flickers in the distance, revealed to belong to //**Bartholomew**//.
+    * //**Moss**// follows footprints into the grove where cloth, rope, and gear hangs from branches.
+    * //**Bartholomew**// is found coiled in roots in a silent grove.
+    * "The forest does not forget who was abandoned."
+    * //**Bartholomew**// is pulled under with a silent scream.
+    * //**Reveal**//: //**Bartholomew**// is an //**anchor**//.
+  * //**Gimbol’s Vision**//:
+    * //**Durim’s**// workshop, where the anvil is cracked open like a ribcage by pale fire.
+    * //**Parsons**//, wrapped in white flame, reveals he manipulated //**Gimbol’s**// absence.
+    * //**Parsons**//: ‘He waited for you but you weren't here, you were somewhere else’
+    * //**Gimbol**// is on errand on a street full of decay, a pale white figure blocking an alley, a merchant that wasn't really there calls out to //**Gimbol**//.
+    * //*Parsons//*: ‘You think you chose to leave him alone but I needed you gone.’
+    * //**Durim**// is pulled beneath the stone with pale fire.
+    * //**Reveal**//: //**Durim**// is an //**anchor**//.
-Judges ask who betrayed someone unknowingly
+===== Aftermath and the Emissary =====
+  * Moss appeals to the scepter, scepter says it will help him if he feels it is just.
+  * The party returns to the tavern and finds //**Jin**// (//a man with notably large hands//) being harassed by guards. //**Solara**// invites him to drink.
+  * //**Stormcall Emissary**//: An emissary from //**Lysander**// arrives with a note for //**Gimbol**// regarding missing hunters near the observatory.
+  * //**Gimbol**// informs him that //**Joyboy**// is dead. He embellishes the story, causing the //**Scepter of Oaths**// to make him glow. The emissary arranges to recover the body.
-  * party got it wrong, takes psychic damage
+===== The Patron's Fury =====
-  * It was solara killing the guy that jb let go in the sewer
+  * Back at the mansion, //**Glasya**// possesses one of //**Solara’s**// maids.
+  * She demands //**Solara**// sacrifice her favorite maid; //**Solara**// complies, but //**Glasya**// is unable to claim the soul—the white flame figure already has it.
+  * //**Glasya**// attempts to fix //**Solara’s**// scar but fails. She seems happy that //**Solara**// will be hideous because without her the beauty will fade,  but enraged that she no longer holds the pact, she leaves through a hell gate.
+  * //**Solara’s**// lover returns with news: the //**Sea League**// is aware of the artifact.
+  * The party decides to head into //**Sea League**// territory to investigate the //**Shadowsong**// family and the //**Nanny**//.
+  * The party agrees //**Moss**// should take the bag of holding and the //**Scepter**//.
+  * //**Solara**// and //**Moss**//* bang for thee minutes crazy style.
-Asks who is looking  for power
+===== The Barracks Incident =====
+  * At the guard barracks to retrieve //**Jin’s**// belongings, and to steal some armor, //**Jin**// is ambushed in the armory by three men.
+  * //**Moss**// (in spider form) heals //**Jin**// during the struggle.
+  * //**The Arrest**//: The Commander arrives. //**Jin**// attempts to lie about his presence, but the //**Scepter**// reveals the lie. //**Jin**// attempts to flee but is captured and dragged away.
-  * No one really is, take psychic damage
-Party convinces judges they are worth to take the scepter\\
-Party get the scepter, it doesn’t really vibe with anyone
-  * Moss gets the scepter
-Scepter makes liars glow, zone of truth kinda style\\
-Court adjourned, we black out  \\
-The entire party sees visions, everyone sees everyone else's vision.\\
-**Vesper’s Vision**
-  * See a flickering lantern kind of dim
-  * See tents, not the past ones color drained
-  * Taste copper, like blood in the air
-  * Hear panicked laughter
-Masked performer escorts child into main tent
-  * Performer turns, the mask is Vesper’s
-  * The crowd points at vesper (Vesper watching the vision not Vesper IN the vision)
-  * ‘You were part of this’
-  * There’s a circular well of pale fire
-Masked vesper drags the child to the edge
-  * ‘**The Anchor feeds on what you abandoned**’
-  * Vesper watching rushes to save the child, the Vesper in the vision pushes Vesper and the child in
-**The child is an anchor**
-**Solara’s Vision**  \\
-It’s the Night Solara made her pact with her patron (Glasya)
-  * She’s standing in a large cathedral
-  * Sol calls out to her patron
-  * Candles flared pale light
-Was not patron pale white fire figure
-  * ‘You made your pact with me not her’
-  * Sol does the sacrifice, but the souls go to the figure
-Solara sees her nanny crying
-  * The fourth anchor
-  * The ember throne
-Sol sees her own beauty rot
-  * ‘Did you truly think she shaped you’
-  * ‘Glasya believes she owns your soul, but she’ll never have the one that i claimed’
-  * ‘When the fourth anchor breaks your true form will be revealed’
-  * Sees true face smiling from the throne
-**Sol’s Nanny is an anchor**
-**Moss’s vision**
-Damp heavy rain in a forest that has stopped growing
-  * Scent of rot
-  * Lantern flickers in the distance
-Lantern of bartholomew, one moss left behind
-  * Moss follows footprints into grove
-  * Cloth rope gear hangs from branches
-Stuff is Bartholomew’s
-  * Roots coiled around person, its Bartholomew
-  * Voice rises from soil
-  * ‘The forest does not forget who was abandoned’
-  * Bart gets pulled down under, with a silent scream
-‘The third anchor’
-  * Bart breaks free a little ‘you left me’
-  * Pit shuts lantern goes out
-**Bartholomew is an anchor**\\
-**Gimbol’s vision**
-The Forge at Durim’s workshop
-  * Anvil cracked open like a ribcage by pale fire light
-  * Durim hammering, doesn't respond
-Second figure (Parsons) wrapped in pale white flame watching Durim
-  * Parsons says: ‘He waited for you but you weren't here, you were somewhere else’
-  * Gimbal is on errand on a street full of decay, a pale white figure blocking an alley, merchant that wasn't really there calls out to Gimbol
-  * Parsons: ‘You think you chose to leave him alone but I needed you gone’
-  * Durim, hollow eyed: ’Gimbol why havent you come back’
-  * With pale fire, Durim is pulled beneath the stone
-**Durim is an anchor**
-Moss appeals to the scepter, scepter says it will help him if he feels its just
-Discuss what to do with JB’s body
-  * Ring on his finger, insignia of stormcall
-Goto Tavern
-  *Guy outside tavern laying on stoop w/ bottle
-  * 2 guards poking him
-Its Jin
-  * Sol invites him to drink
-**Jin has big hands** \\
-An Emissary of stormcall has note for Gimbol from Lysander
-  * ‘**Joyboy please give us an update, having hunters disappear near the observatory, may need help**’
-  * Gimbol tells him JB is dead
-  * Gimbol embellishes the truth a little, the lies make him glow
-Emissary arranges to take JB’s body\\
-Return to mansion\\
-Sol hears from her patron, Glasya, Glasya says to sacrifice more, Sol wakes everybody up
-  * Glasya has possessed one of Sol’s maids
-  * Glasya tells Sol to sacrifice her favorite maid, sol totally offs the maid
-  * Glasya tries to get soul, doesnt work, now Glasya knows
-  * Glasya goes to fix sols scar, doesnt work
-  * Glasya seems happy that Solara will be hideous because without her the beauty will fade. And she is pissed
-  * Glasya walks off through hell gate
-Turns out her Glasya didn't have the pact, white flame figure had the pact\\
-**Long rest**\\
-Sol's lover boy is back \\
-He has news, Sea league knows about artifact
-  * Sol calls meeting still at night to tell party
-Party agrees Moss should take the bag of holding and the scepter
-  * Sol and moss bang
-=== Next day ===
-Gimbol meets up with stormcall emissary
-  * Tells em just about everything
-Party decide to deal with shadowsong stuff, nanny etc in sea league territory \\
-Party goes to the guard barracks to get Jin's stuff
-  * Sol convinces guards to let them in
-Jin goes in armory, jumped by 3 dudes
-  * Knocks one out, but gets beat down
-  * Moss hides on Jin as a spider and heals Jin
-Guards are alerted   \\
-Commander shows up
-  * Jin lies saying he had stuff to pick up, but spider-moss is on him, and moss has the scepter, glows cuz of the lie
-Commander recognizes zone of truth type effect, says to lock em up  \\
-Jin bolts, gets caught, dragged off
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