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-====== Session 9 ======+====== Session 9: The New Moon Festival ======
 ===== The Hollow Star and the Ice Dragon ===== ===== The Hollow Star and the Ice Dragon =====
 ==== Confrontation at the Fissure ==== ==== Confrontation at the Fissure ====
-Back outside the hollow star, the anchor remains intact as the glowing star persists. Sol hands the //*Crown of Stars//* to Moss; the artifact appears dimmer than before. The party climbs the rope to exit the fissure, finding Joyboy (JB) waiting at the top. +Back outside the hollow star, the anchor remains intact as the glowing star persists. Sol hands the *//Crown of Stars//* to Moss; the artifact appears dimmer than before. The party climbs the rope to exit the fissure, finding Joyboy (JB) waiting at the top. 
->"You didn't break the chain"+ 
 +> "You didn't break the chain" 
  
   * As he speaks, the ground trembles, the light dims, and the area is swallowed by shadows.   * As he speaks, the ground trembles, the light dims, and the area is swallowed by shadows.
   * JB falls to the ground. The party attempts to explain, but JB grows furious.   * JB falls to the ground. The party attempts to explain, but JB grows furious.
  
->"I don't want excuses."+> "I don't want excuses." 
  
 JB wields a crystal star battleaxe as an ice dragon rises from the shadows to join him. JB wields a crystal star battleaxe as an ice dragon rises from the shadows to join him.
 >"Do you feel it? The light is dying, the dawn is drowning... The drowning star will save me." >"Do you feel it? The light is dying, the dawn is drowning... The drowning star will save me."
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 === The Battle === === The Battle ===
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 The meeting is interrupted as the door flies open. //**Captain Vayra Dorn**// of House Marrow enters, beaten and bloodied. The meeting is interrupted as the door flies open. //**Captain Vayra Dorn**// of House Marrow enters, beaten and bloodied.
 >"The dead are rising... they are revolting. The crypts are broken. Lord Marrow demands aid. House Marrow has fallen." >"The dead are rising... they are revolting. The crypts are broken. Lord Marrow demands aid. House Marrow has fallen."
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 As said by **//The Flame//**: //"By the new moon, a house will fall."// As said by **//The Flame//**: //"By the new moon, a house will fall."//
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 While Solara bathes, Moss places the crown on Sol’s head. Sol communicates with the artifact. While Solara bathes, Moss places the crown on Sol’s head. Sol communicates with the artifact.
 >"Heavens bow only to the worthy" >"Heavens bow only to the worthy"
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 >"Let the stars themselves witness the oath" >"Let the stars themselves witness the oath"
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   * The Crown claims the "tether" in the mountain wasn't its doing.   * The Crown claims the "tether" in the mountain wasn't its doing.
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 Sol and the fortune teller disappear into a cloud of ash as the assassins vanish. Sol and the fortune teller disappear into a cloud of ash as the assassins vanish.
 +Moss thinks back on the mirror used during the ritual to sever Nan's connection to the flame, and remembers seeing the ash assassin's mask on the figure he then glimpsed in the mirror.
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