Session 2: Trouble at Wynarn University

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Onward to Fairhaven

 * PCs headed to Fairhaven on the train (we all have official papers now!), decide to go to Wynarn University to ask about Gul’s list.
 * At the university, they find a mob of students protesting under a banner with Prince Jurian’s name. They are upset that he’s been exiled by the Queen, and they shut down the university.
 * Convinced one of the students to say who to talk to about planes (Professor Yanger) but he wouldn’t say where they are. The PCs are muscled off campus. A nearby vendor (France, a half-orc) has a book about magic, to do with planar theory. PCs buy it for 50gp (Sarienne doesn’t put in). Mogen looks it over; the right side of Gul’s list is all planes.

University

 * Vikrit and Sarienne go to the university to stake it out. Sarienne notices a group of students who are patrolling. No one is going in or out of the Great Hall.
 * Meanwhile, the other 4 PCs go look in seedy back alleys to get someone to make fake student robes (with hoods!) for 5 gp each. They pay for a room at the closest inn to stash their stuff, where Mogen stays to read.
 * Everyone but Vanesse and Vikrit are able to sneak in to the mess hall, where professors in red robes are tied up and held hostage.
 * Vanesse and Vikrit accidentally call the attention of the guards, then when they go after us with daggers, Vanesse beheads 2 of them and Vikrit bites one’s leg. The other runs screaming. Sarienne ungags one of the red-robed professors, catching the attention of a student. Vesun incites the students to rush outside. Sarienne punches the suspicious student and Vesun brains him.
 * Vikrit and Cornerio hide, Vanesse runs outside. The student-guards chase her; she kills 1 and 1 runs away.
 * Others free the hostages - Marcellus, Andrews, Davidson are professors. They tell the PCs that mages (including Yanger) are in the tower. Miriam is a noble’s daughter leading the students, who are mad the university is allowing in non-human races.
 * Mogen makes it to the university with her new ring and manages to contact Sarienne with it, and Mogen joins the rest of the party.
 * Vanesse opens the huge door to the Great Hall. There is a group of students cowering behind a podium, and a student spellcaster (man) attacking Vanesse from the balcony. Vesun commands him to jump off the balcony and he is knocked out. A female student knocks out Vik and Cornerio, but Vanesse axes her (other PCs heal and stabilize her). One of the students tells them Miriam went into the tower, likely through the catacombs, then the PCs release the students.
 * Catacombs: Encounter some kind of ghoulish undead and kill it, then Darkmantles knock out Vesun &amp; Vikrit and wound Vanesse. They kill one but cannot get past the other(s?), so they backtrack and find a stairway up.

Into the Tower

 * They make it up into the tower where they encounter Miriam, who asks if they were send by Lord Darro (implied to be her ally). She has the symbol of Vaal (EVIL GOD) and wants to kidnap the Minister of Magic and kill everyone else. They follow her while she goes to attack Professor Yanger (revealed to be a minotaur), Mogen accidentally shoots him before she knocks out Vanesse and Vikrit, then Cornerio caves her skull in. They de-escalate and ask Yanger about Gul’s list (and do not remember Darro’s name when they tell him about Miriam).
 * He tells them about places where planes intersect with reality (coterminus planes) - called Manifest Zones. There is one near Sharn (City of Towers).
 * They show him the symbol on Gul’s robes: Stargazer Cult- he says to go to library of Korenburg in Zilargo to learn more. Yanger writes us a letter of introduction so we can get in.
 * The PCs encounter the royal guard and say they are hostages; Yanger calls over to Lord Darro (who we know Miriam thought was on his side) that there are more, and they leave. The PCs hurry off to the inn to sleep.