Stormsong: Session 1

General Summary

An unusual schoolday!

After meeting each other in a detention that seemed to drag on forever, some notice that the clock in the room has stopped ticking. Distant shouts can be heard through the walls, and Barby's detect magic sneeze locates a commotion of conjuration magic on the floor below. The party rushes to find the source, and locates a secret passageway. Inside, a short corridor leads to a door.

A large spider of many sickly hues leaps down from the ceiling, attacking the party. It shimmers in and out of existence, and as one is killed, another appears. The party decides to make sure no more are being conjured beyond the door, and find a web nest inside with bundles of humanoids. Lyra cuts the spider's victims loose as the first three phase spiders are finished off, and a fourth one with its babies were put to sleep by Michael's spell. All but one of the baby spider swarm were taken care of, the last vanishing.

More muffled screaming and spells being cast are heard upstairs. Augustus checks it out, finding their detention monitor Professor Hildi scrambling out of the room as he finishes off another large phase spider. Augustus brings him down to the room the party discovered, and Michael threatens to file a class action lawsuit against the school for their negligence in allowing these spiders in. Hildi assures that the school was following every standard inspection procedure, as brings the spiders victims to consciousness. A few are his own students, and they reluctantly explain that they cast the time stop spell in the local area as a precaution while they attempted to break through to another plane as a part of their thesis. They went against school policy at every step of the way, and the phase spiders were an accidental result.

The party helps Professor Hildi take the grad students to the infirmary, and Michael convinces him (with the help of magic) to give a tour of other hidden passages he knew about. Some lead off into the undercity, and some have crates and shelves full of school supplies. Michael isn't satisfied with his explanations.

Minus Lyra, the group pulls off a quick, improvised heist at a guardpost to add some Mundane: the Dispersal cards to Barby's collection. Augustus reveals his changeling nature to the group after using his abilities to dupe the officers into letting them in.

After that, the group checks a community questboard for some ways to make money. They pick out a missing person's poster that says to seek Harscheft Tannem for more details. At the end of the day, Michael goes back into the tunnels to investigate them while the rest of the party crashes at Barby's place for the night.

Character(s) interacted with

• Professor Hilmi (monitored the party in detention, dispelled the time stop spell
• Five grad students who accidentally summoned spiders in a thesis project
• Conroy, Barby's butler

Report Date

13 Mar 2021

Primary Location

Bhunyar