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Valin Halcyon

A big goofy magic nerd! A member of the Tinkerer's guild. Currently a vehicle for a wolf spirit named Athiss.

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Grew up on the frontier, parents were farmers attempting to develop farmland in the prairies using athyrium. Exposure to athyrium (and the many failed attempts to make farmland arable with it) led to desire to learn more about it, which is why I became a member of the Tinker's guild, after 2 years mandatory military service.     Infusions Known: 1. Enhanced Arcane Focus 2. Enhanced Defense 3. Replicate Magic Item: Bag of Holding 4. Replicate Magic Item: Sending Stones   Airship: *Sandham aerotech *6 powered down automatons *Front Cannon (mundane) *Needs Fuel (pure athyrium) -6 Canisters of athyrium *Needs elemental conductor *Needs wiring (need expertise) (magical metal) (50ft) *Prosthetic Arm (thing in airship only I knew about)   Kirkwood: *Tinkers are in town *Tavern: The Red Bells *Athyrium: -Sandham's - 50 GP/canister, 500gp for conductor, 1gp/ft -Lincoln - lower quality (10% cheaper) -Starry - mediocre quality (5% cheaper) *Winston Bullock - Athyrium machinery manufacturer - Wants "it" back and doesn't care how many people he has to send to get "it." *Priest from church of Arestia *Map of Leylines - used to run under kirkwood - now curves and touches ravenswood *Ravenswood = summer camp for wizards for evocation magic *Red Turner bough land in ravenswood, invented green athyrium glove (healing) - factory produced large amount of green athyrium (from organic matter) - very efficient - Roland (orc) set up machines - analyze athyrium flow through types of artificery - *Go see guild smith hammeram for athyrium condensers and recording devices - Green Good - White eh - flashing white bad - blue run! - illuminate as much as a torch - Welder's goggles that record - Time reversal gun (5sec) only inorganic *Received factory blueprint * Handwritten Notebooks - Evalyn turner (2), turn into red turner (3) - 4 hours to read (1 hour to read one) - To my son, you died too early - Green athyrium for rivivification - can revive tissue, but can't revive soul - extracting ridiculous amounts of athyrium - Goddess???? - 2nd book, give up on green athyrium, start looking for divine athyrium - 17 to 18 pages empty in notebook - experiument conducted by evalyn about 3 weeks before she died - 3rd notebook: I do this in memory of my wife and son - secret chest - ancient device documented in assorted handwriting - cube, but very strange - religious texts from church of arrestia - The Mother's Palm - Could transition athyrium into green athyrium - Sealed letter (blue wax) the mark of the bullock family - "I'm giving you the artifact to study, turner, you'd better make me a lot of money. You don't know what I had to do to get it." - *Athyrial stratocaster - 12 shots per day - *Rented motor bikes - if we return the missing bikes, we get 5gp back per person   * Free Motorbike!!!!   *Gave Mother's palm to Bullock * Bullock may or may not be 3000 years old   *Guild will fix our automated Crew   *Go talk to Vivaldi -DONE   5/13/20 *Repair elf evalyne *Serena the tabaxi sorceress *Electircal guy: Ish(mael) *Strong Man: Teal *Airship has additional thrust capacity (pirate ship) *Vesima: Cook/tiefling wizard *For next session: -Examine Armor   5/22/20 * Evalyne installed updated software in robits * Robit Scooter = Repairman, orange mohawk * Inquisitor Nicolo Castrodinovo * 512 Gold Total * Arrestia Armor and Clothing * 2 crossbows, 100 bolts * 2 Horses *   5/28/20 * Lady Antonia - Called the paladin to the chapel, was greeted by enzo and raul, they took him to see another priestess (red irises humanoid), hooked him up to a machine 2.5 hours to get tattoo. * Niccolo is a paladin of the Unseelie Fae * Spire is guarded by the queen's own. Silver Talons (all black cloaks) * ~60 men, training cadre. Currently reduced numbers. * Have my own sink and toilet on airship! * Can expand our cargo hold and maybe get a fridge * Know how to fix armor but need precision smithy (maybe goldsmith) *   6/5/20 * Dwarven Runes in the breastplate - Spell - Breastplate made in Valnoz (near June's people) - Unfinished! Not quite sure what the spell is, but seems rather potent - Every 6th word = life, every 3rd = return * Projecticles made by roland et al, self propelled (no powder needed), could destroy a gun when firing * Scooter offered to teach me, said evalyne put him in the body. Possibly a soul? * Dockmaster Matthias Hardwood (having wood in his name is probably a slight), nee Ironred (half-brother to Coleros Ironred of the miner's guild) - Feldras wood chairs - Almost impossible to cut and manipulate - Toolsey for ship mods - Ship name Thulga's Excellent Adventure (T.E.A.) * Governor 6'3", Gaunt, not muscular, bald, no facial hair, ~mid 50's blue eyes, plain black suit but very well cut, human - Problems at waterfall mine: * Miners being killed by some animal - 7000GP bounty for what's killing the miners. 6000GP for just removing it. No fur, teeth, claws found. Broken bones, teeth and claw damage. Talk to mine foreman Norm Ostred (member of mining and shipping guild). * Mining guild has begun importing constructs similar to Nox (not as intelligent). Over 200 have been brought to the mine, but miners have bombed constructs and the mines. Stop the bloodshed. Main goal is reopening the mines. POC: Dwarf Coleros Ironred. Need to ask the guild about the price. * Can visit governor after 8PM at his villa * The Pink Rocks Inn - Owned by Leann * At the hostel: - Jonas - Grunklesomething - Miner. - Aethyrium crystalized inside structure of silver, magical properties. Made into weapons. This aethyrium is not as volatile as usual. - Bullock's ballistics sent guns to help miners.....ask Kulros.   6/11/20 * Dwarf (FAT), short (6") beard, blue eyes - Kulros Ironred * Tall Elf (Norm Ostred?) and batman. 6'5", lanky, colonial ponytail, black exsquisite clothing. * Parellium: Mythical Substance (theoretical, alchemists want to make it, crystalized aethyrium). - Discovered in the mines, interlaced in iron deposits - Dockmaster didn't let tinkerer's shipment through, so miners exposed to parellium. - We're gonna take on the bug with the robits. - 1500 for dead bug offered by kulros. Then offered to match it if we don't go to the governor * Lucas Bullock: Brains. Winston: Face. * Bullock family has been here 300+ years. From Caonia, married into Caonian families. Except Winston (married princess Ruvella for political reasons). Winston's son Nick (Nicholas, pale, medium build blonde hair).   6/19/20 * Dusty Cross - Tin Man * Alma owes Nox money. Vesema is probably a prisoner. * Thulga Deputized * Trevor MacGuinness survived the creature - Mining parellium - Kulros fixed people with aethyrium mutations....... - Big Bug attacked. Black chitin, ~8ft tall, screamed, returned with antenna. People exploded when it started screaming. Tail end of the parellium shaft. Planar interference. SHOULD cause an explosion, but that didn't happen.   6/25/20 * Nox visits Alma. - Picks lock, eats rotten food, makes bed, finds note/contract from Mr. Alstread. - Went back to hotel, talked to my stalker and Leann Rimes - When the constructs were defeated, smoke drifted up to the bluffs. - Leann has a cease and desist order from the church of arrestia. If she hasn't left by end of month, they'll force her. Signed Abbot Mayer (Leann can't find the abbot in town) - Leann also has a bill of lading (weapons, tinkerer's gear) destined for Kulros. Stopped by the church. - Leann Directed her to the mines   * June on the shelves - Eat shelf first - Sees blind man smoking Mab's Tears. Doesn't know what they do. He says it causes euphoria, is an analgesic and mild psychadelic. - He "sees" a darkness upon her. - Mr. Alstread came and asked for their lumber, specifically Ironwood. They refused to give it to him. (Stronger than steel). He probably wants to build something and this holds a lot of magical power. - He hears the earth-mother crying. - Apprentice Sue - Plant: The Queen's Kiss. POWERFUL vision inducing plant. Can happen just inhaling pollen. Must be bloomed by a Druid. Repeated exposure can cause delusion inseparable from reality. - East shelf = Seelie, West Shelf = Unseelie - Spire built by gnome who studied under Joachim (?), and founded tinkerer's guild. - Blind man has touched spires near Avern (Salagi)   * Smitty, his eyes greedy - Valin meets nox at the mines, she stinks, opens chest cavity and drops rotten food+gold. - Smitty tries to take gold, we catch him, bubba intervenes, Tom takes nox's gold.   * Graven and Vern at the university - Vern felt a chill when letter leaves her hands. Felt the same when Sebastian took the letter from her. - When the two letters are overlayed, language starts to change, and take on new dimensions. - Tiefling dude is ca-ray-zee. * Start trying to summon SOMETHING - Zab transported to strange yellow/black/brown plane in front of black pyramid. Sandy, with rivers of blue sand running through pale yellow sand. - Vern tries to speak, but no sound. - Zab walks up to pyramid, puts his hands on it and he starts to dissolve. Black cloaked figure with pale human hand strokes his hair as he melts, starts lapping up Zab juice. Looks at Vern with VERY green eyes. Vern snaps back to reality. - Vern has a star symbol on her chest.   * The nun, her arms wide - Nun available after ~9PM. Gives Thulga "Her Mother's Whispers" (no pictures :-( )   * June, on the West Shelf - Unsettlingly cold - Flora is more evergreen - Naked woman with red hair and pale skin performing ritual - Black panthers circling june - Woman is covered in tattoos. - eyes are blood red. She's an eladrin - Queen cahente? - When a forest is old you burn it? Burn aethyrium??????? - Too proud - Corruption left over from prior civ. Fell due to too much knowledge, not enough wisdom. -   *The Mines, when the group meets - Visema was captured, currently in the bluffs, was charmed. - Kulros * Michael Tokran from tinkerer's guild elimination squad. (Huge badass, hexblade) - Elimination and Excavation team.. Aethryium draws monsters - Head to meet june.   * The team on the Bluffs - Smoke went to the east side. - East side like bourbon street - The singing clam - Alma trying to do illegal work for Alstread. - Gold Dragonborn - Shenanigans - Dusty shows up, intimidates bartender into giving us back room - Says "Let's Talk......"   6/30/20 * Dusty thinks we were targeted for a reason. US, specifically. * Warehouses where some hinky stuff is going on. - One in the bluffs, airship warehouse, western side - One where magically gifted children and artifacts (seemingly ancient) * One exploded in a man's hand * Other looks like two halves of a sphere smashed together - Feels very cold. Leeching aethyrium from me! - Nox picks it up, lights become solid. Eats a spell slot. * Vern's chest star is entangled with her. * Shipping companies owned by Golden Tide (laundering operation). Only has files dating to about 2 months ago. Done over 10k gold in cargo shipped per week, starting with first week! Only have 2 ships to their name. Had tinkerer Selphine (tiefling, part of Tokran's EE team). Golden Tide owned by Bertand Oles. Airship = Dauntless, water ship = Golden Lake (confiscated!) * Definitely money laundering operation, probably organized crime. - Vern's chest star threw dusty across the room. Symbol similar to that found at warehouse where children were being trafficked. - Dusty's boss is Kurt Spangler. Tin men are kinda like gunslinger paladins. - Maybe the smoke monsters are abducting the children. - Dusty locks the door and holds out a coin and asks us to touch it. Coin gives us a long rest. Dusty passes out immediately afterward. - Sphere opens up alternate world. In alternate world, star is trailing Vern. - Travel to alternate plane. Void magic everywhere. - Visema chained near smoke tentacle. Pile of corpses. - Fought some stuff. Shadow demons, drow, mutated humans. - Looted - Get magical orb that uses 1 spell slot. Travels through space/time/planes. 7/4/20
  • Everyone sleeps at 6. Graven and Thulga wake up at 12.
  • Graven sees a man who is DEFINITELY related to Winston Bullock (carrying a cane)
  • Leann Calls him Nick.
  • * Being very thankful.
  • He apparently told Leann to give us free rooms.
  • He's a magic user.
  • Talks to Graven.
  • Winston bullock is playing with us like a cat?!
  • Nick Bullock gave graven a series of coordinates.
  • Nox is NOT an infernal Hexblade. She is not a feyblade (no elven master). Means she is either a servant of The Raven Queen (caonian goddess of undeath), arestian form of death. Steward of death/life/judgement. OR, sword is something else. Think back to ancients, who fought mysterious entity (forgotten ones in history books).
  • Drow on our ship. Captured. Confiscated 4 daggers with corrosive poision. He has the same star as vern, but carved into his skin multiple times. +1d6 corrosive.
  • * Document Tube - Everything written in code. Sealed with black wax, raven's feather seal. Would take about an hour to break.
  • Cargo ship in dock 57: The Archimedes. Captain Nathan Drumond. Has the gear, 18k GP worth. MUST be sold to Kulors, or wait 48 hours. Has bracers of featherfall. Don't require attunement. ONLY SOMATIC requirement. 3 Charges. 15 GP each. Cannot be recharged. Only last about a month. I can figure out how to make them, but would have to destroy a pair.
  • Kulros has a medallion of stone, with some slits on the bottom. Pulls aethyrium out of the miner, and teases out the blue/purplish aethyrium (the corrupted aethyrium), Vern knows it's ancient tech.
  • Convert giant condensers into stake lamps, improve efficiency of personal condensers.
  • Umber hulk recently teleported, has void magic upon it, but not influenced by magic at all.
  • Touch parellium, vision goes black and white. I get darkvision! My eyes go catlike.
  • Found a piece of some ancient tech, made of spire metal, buried in the ground. We don't know what it does.
  • Return to mine camp, send child to get kulros. child is shot by Norm, who takes off with Kulros using sphere. Graven attempts to heal child, but mutation causes mutation in child. Child is healed with device Kulros had (an aligner).
  • Get 7k from Rufio.
  • * 1400 to graven (SELFISH)
  • Dusty at the corner of chestnut and granite blvd
  • Heading to orphanage to use aligner to heal orphan with aethyrium poisoning.
  • Smoke monster over orphan. Wants to talk. We open the dome, it becomes ALMA. She is decaying. Has a wound from Nox's sword. Was working for Alstead. Trying to steal ironwood from druids. Other thefts. He killed alma in the other plane and now she's stuck as a smoke monster/thing for eternity. Mother of orphan (admon). Has a small feather brand on her shoulder. Alstead is building device to use parellium. Device is in other plane but can use parellium in our plane. Locked up with crazy people dressed in cloaks. Act like a cult. Ranting about black stars? Stole orb artifact from mine (malfunctioning), shipping manifests, bills of ladind, placed documents in governor's mansion, stole money. Using dockmaster (has some leverage). The governor is his lover. Nox knows about the cottage. Loose floorboard under bed with all her savings (8k+ gp). Wants it given to the sister at the monestary. "They" are having a meeting tomorrow night. Alstread and cult at his house. Chestnut and granite. Bring her back to our reality, she collapses and turns to dust.
  • As vern heals admon, sister theras prays. Golden energy rises around her and speeds healing. She used at least 3 years of her life.
  • June flirts with nicollo via magic scroll.
  • We go to see the druids (Sammy and apprentice naela)
  • June attempts the queen's kiss.
  • Graven gets threatening note from Norm Alstread, indicating we can meet at the sunset bistro unarmed at 2PM.
  • We all meet up at the pink rocks ~Noon.
  • July 17 2020 *Visema playing with orb, holographic language similar to dwarven but not quite. Learning how to use the orb. Can manipulate time. *Goldsmith - Orvo Westin (dwarf) - Elderly, white beard, bald, brown eyes, 3 piece suit. "Old Magic" Can make the runes glow. The artificer that made it was using runes. Dispersion is the important part. Can restart a heart. Uses green aethyrium to heal. Assistant looks 30ish (human age). Alice Westin. Traded Dyrn's tentacle whip for the repair. Will take about 12 hours. Pick it up tomorrow. * Dusty is dead. > 3 people have been killed in this room. Runes in abyssal, written in blood all around the room.   July 23, 2020 * Enter caves, find aethyrium powered generator, runs off parellium, no corrupting energy. Probably parellium inside it. Harmony with orb. My hands move on their own, but I stop before I finish it. I complete the sequence. Vern and I are transported to a plane of dark smoke. Parellium there. Condensers flash blue immediately. Gyroscope type device made of wood, parellium in the center (suspended). Wood is infused with magical energy. Runes on device are the same as the orb and what Visema was reading from her orb. Almost heiroglyphs. * Vern hears from Norm: Finding things from the spire. Learning things about the dark ones. Reaching the Apotheosis of our species that we should've reached long ago but that bitch got in the way. Dark Masters will be watching and will prey upon these "fetal godlings." * Find gems and such worth ~1200 GP * On the way out, meet Jebediah Cross, Tin Man. Wants to have a conversation with Thulga. Accompanied by ravnagonian guards. * Definitely ironwood. Can hold a lot of magical energy. * Quantum entanglement field. Not in aethyrial plane, but in the weird sand or weird gray plane (vibrate between the 2). Aethyrium can transverse between planes at will. Parellium placed in alternate plane to eliminate mutational effects. Can transport machine and both planes will move. * Need to stop the rings in the smoke plane to stop the power. Nox instinctively knows how to stop it. Return to our plane. * Kulros will help us transport the "fusion" device, assuming we get Tin Man approval. * Tin man wants us to go to spire of san d'oria. Airship can FLOAT! * Tin man heals us all! * Head of the tin men is Matthias Pearson. Family runs deep in ravnagon. Asked me to stay "critical" of everything I see. * Dagger I found is a blnking dagger. +1 dagger (can throw up to 50 feet, and can teleport to dagger's position as a bonus action). Requires attunement.   7/27/20
  • Nox's sword grabs Leann's neice!
  • Pink rocks burns. Return to ship. Note requiring us to vacate Granport in 3 days.
  • Coordinates lie 30 mi SSW (similar to tinkerer's outpost)
  • Go to get breastplate. Orvo is polishing an old watch. Blue satin-wrapped package. Entire breatsplate is shiny blue. Dull glow. Green aethyrium canisters loaded into it. Runes dancing around it. Extraorinarily high level work. 3 Charges in it. Can use a reaction to regain 10HP. Can revive by using all 3 charges, back to ~20% of health. He has a PTSD issue with nox and blows up his fucking shop. We brain him, heal him, then escape.
  • Graven and Thulga go hat shoppping.
  • June sees a wolf with crystalline green eyes that follows her to the library. She learns some stuff about Nic (28th in line to the throne of San D'Oria).
  • I get posessed by a fae wolf. "It's only for a while I promise"
  • As I wake up I feel a snap of magical energy.
  • Lose my darkvision, I now have green eyes.
  • Got the money from kulros (3000).
  • Got 4 rounds for ship cannon from explosive lady
  • 21 rounds for ship cannon from bullock for 100GP
  • 1020GP for ship funding.
  • Generator delivered to ship.
  • - 7/31/20
  • Working with MITROS robots to get the generator into the ship.
  • Can set up the generator to siphon off red aethyrium
  • * will need ~300 Gold to get the equipment for this * Only runs off parellium. - 17 years of parellium, will have to bleed a lot off. * Swear to join the crew, receive Bear Pin on my lapel. :-D * I realize that in the smoke realm, aethyrium has to be organic. It's aethyrium locked. * Travel to tinkerer's camp * EE team went in this morning but hasn't come out yet. - Same dude as before (Ion storm) * Peta is the half-elf tinkerer there. * Fight simulations * Find ring of spectral armaments, can generate any weapon you're proficient with in your hand (magic, but not +1, just standard) * Rig computer to work. * There has been a break, this containment unit can no longer be salvaged. Self-destruct initiated. Vorghaunts must be stopped, even if "we" have to be trapped to do it. Tell my wife I love her, captain Oov, out. * This was a power station that was attacked by the vorghaunts, and was teleported to somewhere the vorghaunts couldn't get to it. * Nox sees a man in light that says "Find Me." * Level 7 Access granted (via nox)   8/14/2020 * Get back to corridor, Nox enters and disables the light screens. * Get an arm tattoo for access. * Go Right in dungeon, find silvery jumpsuits like dragonborn from hologram was wearing. Coins with patterns like the tattoos (~50 GP worth) all patterns slightly different. Actually numbers (like serial numbers), similar to brand (has 7 written over and over) * Dead people made premise of arrestia. She/It is a combination of many gods. Same people that made the spires (cradle altars). Original purpose was to kill the gods and create arrestia. * Release ghosts. Find 6 jade, 3 sapphires, 6 diamonds. ~300 more of the currency. * Unspoken are punishment for hubris for reaching into the other side. Yellow sky plane creatures. * Other side was created by scientists by splitting reality. Sent ripples throughout deeper pockets of reality and caught the attention of the unspoken. They created a "sister reality" to feed off of ours. Arrestia created to help fight them. Arrestia is dead or dying because the unspoken are coming back. * Need to go to a spire to figure out if we can repair/revive arrestia. * Nox is a "sharl" what used to be an "in between bodies" state. * Person near us has been possessed by an unspoken. * Nox's greatsword was an unspoken! * Reality at 75% integrity, return to normalcy = 700 km radius explosion. * Find 57GP and black diamond after fighting vorghaunts *hand crossbow, bottle lightning, sleeping poison (maybe more)   8/19/2020 * Graven becoming more draconic (golden). I know that aethyrium poisoning can cause changes, but don't know how it affects changelings. * June gets impaled by sword from baddie. Unspoken trying to take her. * Thulga asks us to write down that we made arrestia to protect us from monsters, and she saved us when we were dying but we can save her. * Nox goes to investigate the ship, gets stopped by guards. Leann and Nick Bullock taking something from the ship, and putting something on it. * Captain Pensworth of the granport city guard. * Leann possibly controlling Nick. * Nick has the same mark as Vern did on his chest. * They take our generator that we took from the manor. * Can power the ship at current efficiency for ~20ish years. * NEXT SESSION, ask Vizema about the Keys. * My key is different from vizemas. Mine mostly spatial, hers mostly time based. Typically work in unison with each other. Typically work with other side (what raynia was referring to). The fact I can traverse to the yellow realm is weird and should not be possible. * Learn how to teleport 20ft with the key (will improve with use) as bonus action. Must have 1 hand free to hold the key.   9/3/20 * Disguise metios robots (badly) * Realize that Vern mentinoed a demon name when talking to Leanne. * Bracers of featherfall - Can enchant something for ~1 week in about 1 hour of work. Permanent enchantment would take about 6-8 hours. Would require aethyrium. Spell slots or long rest right after. * Punched through wall. Black claws. * June talks to spirit and I get to observe. I see myself in 3rd person. See another presence "take center stage." I'm a useful carrier for where the spirit needs to go. It is needed there by a vassal of the queen. My face begins to turn into a muzzle, grow white hair, eyes change color. "I will not harm him." Does not mean I won't be hurt. Will protect me from harm. Growing in size. Werewolf! Athis. * Arrive in Saldana (after Nox sleeps with scooter, lol) * Talking to Nicolo. He references the Golden Tide, etc. Has "other bad news to share." His father if dying and there will be a succession. 390 years old?! Athis takes over briefly (but not as intenselyf as with june) to intidmidate Nick. * Nick promises me some of his brother's shirts. At leas tone. *   9/11/20 * Talk to Nic some. He suggests we might have to attend a ball. * I get 3 shirts and get fitted for a suit (San d'Orian silk, done noon next day). Tailor has the same defensive stance as Nox (rogue), slips me a note. "We see you are not of this land. Have you come to help our cause, or have you come to stand against us." Red was feather seal. * Thulga orders a grey cloak. * Learn graven is planning a festival. * June wanders into the forest, and is being followed by a black wolf, maybe fae. Transforms into bear for defense. * Goliath buying drinks for Vern. Galdiran accent. Barbarians/Tribals. Wander into the forests between San d'Oria and Ravnagon. Vern feeds on him. * Javier Magri(owner of the old chair) tries to get Vern to kill captain of spire guards (ex-lover, Lorenzo, not corrupt). * Javier is higher level than Leanne. * We end up fighting a demon, there's a RIVER of athyrium in the hole the demon came out of. Following the literal river. Maybe headed towards the spire? * ~36 people from the town survive (of about 50-80) * Dam in the leyline. Caused the prevalence of magic at Saldana. *

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