- Long May He Reign
- As soon as they get back to the manor, Ailas comes to tell Soliana that the Teleportation Circle should be ready for testing.
- Soliana is beat to hell and says maybe they can do the testing tomorrow. Somehow Caleb shows up with Emmyth who immediately begins fretting over Soliana. She gets dragged off to get a hot bath.
- Soliana Sends to Sir Foxglove asking if he can meet them in Arrandale the next afternoon since he has news per Caleb.
- Foxglove responds, Sigh. "While I generally avoid travel, I suppose this is sufficiently important to warrant a short trip. I can meet you at the Hollow Oak Tavern tomorrow afternoon."
- Niniel scribbles in her book to the Kraken to ask what he knows about Morgion with a bit of the story about Father Powell. The only response she gets is, "No gods are worth your worship." She agrees with him.
- She then feels her Patron Pouch bulge and she finds a piece of parchment inside with two circle diagrams. The first goes to Port Carling (she has a vision of a dark and dusty version of the city). The second sigil looks like a rocky beach that she doesn't recognize when she gets the vision. She runs to give the sigils to Soliana who transcribes them into her book for future use.
- The next morning the carriage arrives a little after dawn, and they get to Arrandale a little after midday.
- Soliana runs into the school leaves a note for Mistress Sharai that they will be back to talk about the cleric situation, then she scribbles down the appropriate sigils for the Teleporation Circle for the school, and then Caleb takes them to the Hollow Oak.
- Sir Foxglove is already at a table in the corner having a glass of wine.
- Niniel gets a glass of Elven brandy made with apples, acorns, and elderberry flowers.
- Port Carling has been come to be called by the Tidal Dominion "The Lord's Gate" so any danger would come from the South rather than over the mountains from the ocean to the east.
- Soliana buys a cloak of protection, 200 GP worth of Teleportation Circle components, and 800 GP worth of general spell components.
- Zemma buys a pair of fingerless gloves that function as an Insignia of Claws
- Caleb buys Glamoured Studded Leather with Soliana and Poetry's help.
- Sharai has not yet heard back from the cleric of Mishakal that she knows, so Soliana just gives a report on everything she has learned and what Caleb has learned (you know, for their "Independent Study").
- The two of them then return to the everyone else at the Hollow Oak where Zemma has been helping get Sir Foxglove well lubricated and having a giant meal of Elven. Niniel is enjoying a citrusy mead.
- "There was a meth lab in one of the music practice rooms at SMU." "Well, Methodist does start with meth."
- They collect their friends and then since there isn't a big enough space in the pub / tavern, they go back to the school again to use one of the ritual practice rooms.
- Soliana successfully casts Teleportation Circle for the first time ever, and they are magically back in Lamarra at the Twilit Grove.
- There is some discussion where Soliana finally finds out about the second tree that Ellie and Niniel and Poetry planted on the other side of town. She likens it to cutting off your left arm at the elbow so that you can use it as a back scratcher. A short term gain for a long term extreme amount of loss.
- The tree is examined and Foxglove confirms Soliana's theory that this is a magical drain that might ruin this area, but it's also not entirely stable.
- Foxglove then gives Soliana an artifact that he invented that is a small cylinder that when twisted becomes a spear-like staff that can be used to modify the anomalies to redirect the focus of the energy. This must be done from near proximity to the anomaly, but not so close you get sucked in to it.
- It is called the Lance of Temporal Manipulation. Or possibly the Lance of Temporal Anomaly Manipulation. Or maybe the Lance of Temporal Articulation.
- Niniel suggests Foxglove's Elongating Shaft.
- Ailas and Tanelia finally show up and Soliana has them escort Sir Foxglove to the arcane lab so that he can search the lay lines for additional anomalies.
- Soliana has Niniel and Poetry take her to the second tree they planted and she examines it and finds it to be the same as the other tree. A proper duplicate.
- She gently touches the tip of the Shaft to the second tree and can feel the energies of the magic flowing through the tree.
- She cannot use the Shaft to manipulate the energy in the tree to redirect it back to where it is coming from, and she cannot pull energy into the Shaft and store it. This tool can only manipulate the energies of the anomalies of a tool shaping clay. It is a conduit.
- They all go back to the manor and Soliana makes a beeline for the arcane study where she is finally going to cast Legend Lore on Grim.
- Caleb tries to ask Zemma her opinion on how big is an age gap before it's creepy to like someone younger than you.
- She says it's not creepy if you are in the same stage of life, which is wise, but not as helpful as Caleb would have hoped.
- 2,500 XP each for 60,700 XP total each
