- "It's a bear suit, Joel."
- Soliana succeeds in casting Legend Lore on her book. She goes into a Trance and starts seeing things from the prospective of the book. She is looking up at a man who is writing "in her" (Kinky, no inky.) The man is wearing a green robe. He looks to be a middle aged human with short-cropped black hair and a short black beard. He seems to be very intent on his work. A younger person comes into the room and asks him a question, and she hears that the man's name is Professor Fellhart. The conversation seems amiable. Then the book is closed and trance shifts. At some point the book is opened again, and the professor is there again and he reviews his notes and starts writing again. Whatever he's writing is magical in natural, but it's not the usual sort of thing. It feels weird and different. An older man comes into the room, also human. They also have a conversation, but this time the conversation seems antagonistic. The older man tells Fellhart "I will not approve any experimentation. It's beyond question." Fellhart responds, "No, you don't understand! We're on the verge of a breakthrough. It's just about memory, it's about your soul. Everything is connected." The older man responds, "That's what I'm afraid of. You can't pick at these magical threads without everything unraveling." The scene fades and then Fellhart is standing at a lectern with the book and there's a younger man in a circle and Fellhart is directing him to cast spells into the circle, and the younger man after a few spells the circle shimmers and the man explodes into a whirling hurricane of magical energy which Fellhart shoos out the window with disappointment. The scene fades. The book is opened again and the older man (NOT Fellhart) makes a few notation in the book and closes it again. The next scene is Fellhart again, trying another magical ritual, but this time something seems to go wrong and his face gets closer and closer and closer to the book until it's pushed into the book and disappears. There's darkness and a feeling of anger then confusion then darkness. The book opens again and it's Soliana's before the accident looking into the book and there's a flash of energy and the book reaches out and grabs onto something in Soliana and Soliana starts out of the Trance.
- Soliana goes and tells Caleb all this. She casts Silent Image to show Caleb what Fellhart looked like.
- Soliana broaches the subject of maybe talking to his wizard parents, Anlyth Haenénar (mother) and Ardred Haenénar (father). (They were granted an estate in a small town just south of Arrandale, now called Nörienna, the New Dawn.) Caleb isn't happy about the idea of talking to them, but he's sure they would help even if they would be insufferable about it. (There were two rules growing up: 1. Education is the key to Success. 2. The Measure of Success is Status.)
- They have a hard conversation about parents and then Soliana darts out of the room with Grim.
- The next morning, exposition to the rest of the group happens, and everyone agrees to go to Arrandale and maybe to Caleb's parents house too.
- They check in with Foxglove, and he, Tanelia, and Ailas are all busy pouring over books and maps.
- Caleb talks to Emmyth on the way about Soliana and how protective he is of her, but also how he has complicated feelings and she's so young, and please help. Emmyth is confused, and Caleb stammers some more about his feelings and advice about involving Soliana in a romantic entanglement. Emmyth assures him that he is not too old for Soliana, but that Soliana is probably completely unaware of any feelings he is harboring. She also tells him not to let fear hold him back.
- Alvin Bronzebelch slips Caleb a sheepskin condom in the hallway after accidentally eavesdropping.
- He gets to the library just as Soliana starts looking for him before she casts Teleportation Circle to Arrandale.
- They arrive in front of Sharai's office just as an angry wizard student slams out of the door. Niniel trips him with a tentacle. Only Caleb notices her doing it.
- Soliana explains about what she saw and does two Silent Images to show the two men in the book, and Sharai recognizes the old man who sabotaged the book as Quellmoor (the one who Grim thought was an idiot). He was also a headmaster of a school from the southern continent called Ember Spire. She met him once at a symposium for teachers of the arcane arts. The Ember Spire school is in the middle of the southern continent near the mountain ridge.
- Mistress Sharai confirms that the Haenénars are unlikely to murder Soliana for Grim, but they are in fact overbearing.
- If they are in town, they would be staying with the Count and Countess Harthor, so they thank Sharai for her time, and then head to that estate. They knock on the door and Caleb introduces himself by his full name (Celeborn Valuthar Haenénar) and asks after his parents, who are in fact in residence. The Keepers are invited inside.
- 2,000 XP ea for 62,700 XP total ea.
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