date: 2026-06-02

Start with BB receiving the sword, Triumph
BB finished forging together his Mythril armour
News of The Great Hunt reaches Constanbul
Kostas asks that no customers are sent from Vermandois
Mycean Empire is preparing to trade embargo Vermandois due to strained relations
Some don’t agree, others agree due to the destabilising effects of the war
Inside the adventurer’s guild, very busy (100s) due to info about the Great Hunt
- Also due to the promise of gold and renown
- Also items of great historical importance (Dark Seals)
- BB realises that most adventurers with magical powers tend to go to the colleges of Wizardry instead of the adventurers guild
- Not uncommon for quests about undoing work of the Fixers
  - Retrieving stolen items
  - Investigating attacks
- Clerk mentions there is a new request that just came in
  - A request for assistance in figuring out what happened at the museum
  - Issued by the Constanbul constabulary looking for assistance with magical detection
  - Accept the request for assistance and will stop off on the way
At the Altisian Embassy we see the environment and buildings becoming much more expensive and regal
- Behind the Embassy is the royal grounds, surrounded by a 20ft massive stone wall
- A beautiful stone engraved and embellished stone buildilng as a part of the campus
- No pings of scrying or anything are sensed walking around the grounds
- J’s detect magic spell only detects within the walls, and cannot penetrate them
- People walking around are wearing gowns, a cross between wizard robes and graduation gowns
- No hats are being worn either, but in old photos there are some
- A cat is sitting on a desk
  - Black cat, yellow eyes wearing a wizard hat and robes, and talking with the admission staff about potential early admission
  - Admission begins next month for the next year’s intake
  - On the cat is an aura of divination, ‘Comprehend Languages’
  - Sounds like Matthew Berry
- Speaking with the clerk, they are always looking for working business relationships
  - Kostas gave a referral so we mention him
  - They are very intrigued that he was willing, and that someone was able to merge and craft magical items, and the Ambassador is interested
  - They can provide a meeting with the Ambassador, with regards to the teleportation circles, and connections with Schmeid Mead at 1pm
- Conversation shifts to the magical cat, ‘Binks’, a Wizard of great power
  - He mentions he wants to join the College, but doesn’t meet the age requirements
  - A referral to the Ambassador makes him bery happy
  - He is a fan of mead, and likes the idea of Schmeid Mead
  - Is staying in the tavern ‘The Itchy Lion’, but doesn’t have much coin to his name
  - He is struggling to find work in the city
  - Luc convinces him to work for Schmeid Mead in return for College sponsorship
  - Is an enchantment wizard, and specialises in making people ‘malleable’
At the Museum of Constanbul
- A very fine buildling, with a group of constabulary outside the building
- A few detectives are talking inside the grounds
- We hear, ‘we don’t have any idea how they might have even done it’
- Suppositions that the Fixers are involved
- Demetrios Papadopolos is the lead investigator
- Introduces us to the main patron of the museum, ‘Katherine von Ringkobing’
  - Relatively tall woman in a big flowy gown/dress
  - Dark hair and pale skin
  - Quite beautiful noble woman
  - The party introduces themselves as
    - Brother Blingus
    - Oscar von Schmeid
    - Alzrarth
- Sometime yesterday, unclear when, an item was stolen with no witnesses
- Should tell High Cleric Bambathir that all religious items are accounted for
- Clearly displayed in the central dais is the holy sword of Khorne, Triumph
- The item that was stolen was relatively small
  - In Wing B, typically for items without a specific themed collection
  - She mentions that the stolen item could have been a cover for something else being stolen
  - Museum description
    - Many years ago during the age of strife the college of Altis gifted a number of items to the Mycean crown to solidify their cooperation or independent status as being affiliated but not integrated with the empire
    - It appears that in the times when the college was founded they essentially provided a number of gifts, and this is one of them
    - The item is described as simply being a small but very fancy mundane compass
    - To their knowledge the compass has been broken for a very long time, so they don’t know why the item would have been stolen
    - The item has no magical properties as was simply a token of good will between the izards the the royal house
  - One of the other items in the display case is a very old and dus5ty looking wizard hat
  - A few other items related to the agreement forged between the wizards and the empire, first emperor of the empire, Gregoras the First
  - The name of the founder was lost to their records, only known as ‘the Dean’
- Looking at the display case, it is only locked with a key
- They mentioned they haven’t touched the display case at all
- Investigating the lock, there are no signs of tampering
- The item was retrieved from the lock without using the key or opening the lock
- There are guards stationed in all rooms of the museum, and they didn’t see anyone do anything sus
- In the mid to late afternoon the item was there when they started their shift
- The upcoming festivities means there are more people in the museum than normal
- Detect magic doesn’t detect any currently active spells, but detects the residual hints of transmutation magic occurring
  - Luc senses that it was a very powerful spell, because two different transmutation spells were cast here
  - One was very basic spell, but the other is being interfered with by a spell ‘as powerful as it gets’
  - Very likely that they cast ‘Time Stop’
  - The second spell was a cantrip
- On mentioning that 9th level magic, time stop, was used, the blood drains from their faces
- Exploring area 4 for item of Nordlandish origin
  - Multiple artworks and textiles
  - Similar clothes and textiles with patterns as El wore
  - There are a number of artworks from Nordland, but one draws Jorgrim’s eye as it is related to dragons
  - The plaque identifies it as named ‘Draconic Lineage’, with unknown artist and location
  - Dated to 100 years BB
  - Depicts a large gathering of dragons, dozens, within an icy mountain basin during the age of empires
  - All metallic dragons, as well as a few people
  - In the centre of the gathering is an enormous Silver Dragon presiding over
  - Very likely the Ancient Nordland Silver Dragon, and already ancient in the painting
  - Some families in Nordland have silver hair, and that is due to an ancient link to Draconic heritage
- Gallery 5 is for extra-continental items
  - A heavy bias to art from Iberia, likely due to the Mycean empire stretching into Iberia
  - Iberian continent is very heavily dominated by familial and clan ties between groups
  - \All artwork comes from the landmass
  - In Goethia, region 2, people mostly stick to the rivers and don;t travel to the internal wilds
  - Area 4 is a Steppe land with a mobile horse culture, and separated by mountain ranges
    - There are some cultural ties between them and region 5, Toshiie
  - Areas 8 and 9 are the least civilised areas of the supercontinent
    - Very little trade between those regions and the rest
    - Aparently there are many more elves in these regions, and it is likely the homeland of elves
    - A lot of the region is covered by wildlands
- Gallery 9 is Pax Mycea, painted by Gregorios Gregorio in 789 AB
  - Depicts the founding myths of the Mycean empire with the first Gregorias emperor being crowned
  - Surrounded by the personifications of the major states
  - Nobles, Royals and Craftsmen, and the churches of Bathirus and Khorne opposite
- Gallery 7 is related to ancient artworks from the Age of Strife
  - Painting - The beginning and the end, brother bishbosh, Genova
    - Describes the discovery of the blade of the horned rat and its effects
    - Displays a sword causing havok
    - Very clearly a religious context
    - Donated by the temple of Khorne to the museum
  - Painting - The foundation of all Knowledge, 1167 Janos Mycea, Genova
    - Relates to the Altisian College of Wizards
    - Depicts the first stone laid for the college
    - In the painting the person laying the stone is familiar
    - The elven adventurer
    - One of the people depicted might be the smiling wizard
- Gallery 6
  - Huge Painting 50x50ft - Titled by Museum, Painting of the fall of Nullimell, ~1066 AB
    - unknown painter
    - Huge red beam, surrealist
    - Bottom half with city in ruins and blight
    - Top half with streets filled with corpses and people rising as Ratmen
    - Like nothing any of the party has seen
    - The artist had to conceptualise the incident in a way mortals can understand
    - THe incident pushed the artist into a surrealist style in an effort the draw it
    - Detect magic senses behind the canvas ink that registers as magical
      - Only in the bottom left corner, invisible ink that bears two initials
      - E.D. (Gurpo, Elvington Daniels)
- Overhear Katherine saying, “we never should have moved it into the other wing”
- The display used to be in Wing A, where there were a lot more guards
- Binks says, he might be able to help
  - He has the spell Legend Lore
  - When he shows his coin purse the party detects a coin with scrying, similar to the Fixers
  - The party waits for Binks to get the items required for Legend Lore
- Jorgrim casts locate object on the missing Compass but doesn’t find it
- Possibly Gurpo did the crime, we followed them to Constanbul, they are a high level caster
- Scrying on Gurpo shows Gurpo walking down a road
  - Walking North towards a crossroads, pauses to take the compass out of her pocket
  - She looks down at it, then looks at the crossroad and walks right
  - Surface thoughts are “will I get there in time”
  - She sees the scrying orb, but doesn’t destroy it as Luc writes ‘pocketwatch’ with the orb
  - Gurpo says “meet me in Aleal” then disperses the orb
BB goes to the Silver Trout Inn and gives a secret passcode
- Given entry to the speakeasy, which is a trade room for magical items
Lyre of Building - equal magical item
Sending Stones - 1000gp
Saddle of the Cavalier - 250gp
Potion of Fire breath
Greater healing potion
Keoghtom’s Ointment
Luc found a Fey gate, portal to the fey wild in the Constanbul

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During the age of strife many magical swords were used
there are multiple Holy Swords of Khorne and the other gods
All were lost to time
Binks’ eyes did cast charm person, but it affected 2 individuals
- This is an enchantment wizard ability
- Means that Binks is definitely an enchantment wizard

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Session 10

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