Empire Group Session XII Report

General Summary

Empire Group Finds The Exigent Emporium

• The Empire Group meets up at the Colosseum to volunteer as fighters for the day. Atlas has his new armor color and haircut beforehand. Afterward, they search for a shop that sells magic items. While looking, they pass a theatre with ripped posters that mention a playwright nicknamed "Shakescurra." The actors on the posters are dressed in ogre and donkey costumes. 
• Eventually, they find a magic shop called the Exigent Emporium.
• Atlas gets his blood sword here, while Radigan gets his Barrel of Safety. Scarlet gets a new axe. Doc gets a fake hammer that is able to store a piece of the Crown of Truth, and has the magic shop owner permanently infuse it with the Alarm spell.

Leo Falls Into a "Glitch"

• Leo is accidentally sucked into a "glitch"--a tear in the Plane of Dreams and the Modern Plane (the future of this world) that are repeatedly colliding and ripping due to an unknown phenomenon happening to the time stream.
• Leo is shot through multiple glitches, also known as "liminal spaces." Some of these glitches involved him playing DDR, a room full of TVs, or seeing the silhouette of a man holding an axe. Scarlet ended up teleporting in to save Leo right as the axe man approached him. Reality glitched several more times until a door appeared with a sign that said "NOTHING TO SEE HERE." Scarlet opened the door. Inside was a pile of dead bodies with their eyes removed and bodies mutilated. Their souls were also missing.
• When Leo put his hand through the blood-covered walls, they started warping and rippling like water. Scarlet immediately grabbed Leo and teleported them back to Elysia due to his fear of water.
• Leo ends up upset because he wanted to see what else would happen if he had stayed.
• Scarlet says he has no idea what happened, as he had never seen anything like it. However, he could see reality was ripping and warping in front of them. Someone must be doing something in the Modern Plane (the future).
• Leo wants to collect the pieces of the Crown of Truth because he thinks it's possible for him to get access to a "plane shifting ability" that way.