Sessions

Session 1: The First Day of School!

Session Planning

Go through scenes with each of their families (use their family themes).

• Cassius: Robot servant wakes him up, and serves him breakfast in bed. “Master, I have made your salmon, avocado, and salmon roe toast for breakfast this morning. Please let me know if it is up to your standards.” His mom offers to drive him to school. Dad is busy in his office.
• Seren: step mom wakes her up and cooks a very healthy breakfast (so many griffin eggs!! Multigrain toast with fresh made jam), Dad comes out and talks about growing to be a big strong man just like him. Step mom gives Seren one of Novak’s hair pins (it has stars and the moon on it) (wait Seren, before you leave the car. Your dad didn’t want to let go of anything of your mother’s, but I noticed you were growing your hair out and I thought you might want her hairpin. As a reminder of her love).Step mother then drives Seren and her sibling to school.
• Murphy: Nyvorlas is sleeping on the couch when he wakes up. Gets startled awake by Murphy walking around in the creaky ass apartment. All the milk in the fridge is chunky and the cereal is moldy. Nyvorlas apologizes pathetically. Murphy takes the bus or walks alone
• Revil: wakes up in the lake. Has to get back into the treehouse without being suspicious. Both mothers are drinking herbal tea and offer herbal tea to Revil when they see him. Fae breakfast before riding the axolotl to school.
• Elizabeth: William wakes her up annoyingly as she wakes up at her desk. Her mother is in the garden and her father is making waffles. Her mother comes in with fresh blackberries and they have a family breakfast. Driven to school in a Woobaloo car.
• Ciria: anime ringtone. Father wakes her up

At school:

• Anton comes up to Cassius and tells him that if he wants to survive, he’s gotta pick a fight with one of the jocks
• Vanessa comes up to Elizabeth
  • Hey! I just wanted to welcome you to the school and to let you know that your hair is soo pretty! Like oh my gosh! Anyways,if you ever need anything you know where to find me
• School bell rings
• Homeroom
  • Doctor Nork as homeroom teacher
  • Group in their own homeroom with some other freshmen
  • “You’ll be put in an adventuring party with each other if you don’t find a party by the end of the day”
• Lunch time
  • Bloodrush tryouts
    • if murphy is an ass he gets detention
• Druid class
  • Mx Wolafeth talks to Revil after class
    • Hey bud, I noticed there’s something a little off about you. Do you mind staying a bit after school so we can talk? I have to talk with Principal Dumpsterdive for a bit but you can just wait in Room 21A while you wait for me. Just tell the coach I sent you.
• Fighter class
  • Rax Zilyn is teaching, fighter class and barbarian class combined
  • What makes you angry
    • If not enthusiastic, detention
• Bard class
  • Ciria plays anime song instead of traditional music: detention
• After school
• Detention
  • Coach falls asleep
  • Papers underneath his head crinkles and folds
  • Origami fortune teller creating
  • Origami crane swarm
    • More keep summoning each round
  • Caused by warlock kid

Session Summary

Each family brought their child to school as mentioned in the document. Anton comes up to Cassius and tells him that in order to survive he needs to beat up a jock. Vanessa compliments Ciria’s hair and something else that I can’t remember. Beth talks to Elizabeth. Cassius goes up to Murphy and asks for his lunch money, which he doesn’t have. Cassius pulls out a gun on him. Seren goes to interject but Jacquis Blakely gives them both detention. Revil meets and helps Arialion Ovayeth carry her books. Homeroom: Revil calls Elizabeth a sea hag. Talk about how the school works. Everyone introduces themselves. Revil is given book recommendation about species. Elizabeth falls asleep and gets detention. Monk class: Murphy was late, meditation druid class: grass weaving and connecting with nature bard class: ciria calls classical music not Real music. Detention. Terrible recorder noises. Artificer class: explosions and a little bit of brainstorming. Strong Acids with a hyperbase creates explosions. Fighter/Barbarian class: anger yelling and rage. Lot of cursing. Seren not loud enough: detention. Wizard class: mess of a classroom, went over magic types. Crazy. Lunch : both Murphy and Seren fail tryouts. Revil gets a waterproof book and goes in the pool. Beth introduces Elizabeth to her monk friends. Cassius learns more about explosions. Detention: Ciria gets one shot by a crit. Revived.Murphy falls into the fortune teller and pulls out the mini fortune teller inside. Unfolds it. Jumps into portal and gets killed by cranes. Gimo Kills Coach Yellowtail. Drive home: Revil had a great day. Cassius talks to his mother about death and feels weird about his fathers company. Ciria cries. Nyvorlas mentions eating expired yogurt when asked if he ever faced death. Elizabeth is still bloody and had a great day. Parents are worried. Brother is like what the fuck. Seren tells father she purposely failed the tryouts and comes out. Father is an ass about it and tells Seren she’s no longer his child. Seren threatens to tell mom. Father says fine you’re still my son. Swearing match ensues.

Session 2: A Dreadful Puzzle

Session Planning

• players have choice of what to do, but here are some general events that can happen
• Fortune Teller Investigation (may want to make this a puzzle??)
  • DC 15 arcana check reveals it to be a sylvan summoning contract
  • DC 10 arcana shows it is a summoning contract
  • Puzzle hints!
• Cassius’s mother talks to him about death
• Cassius’s father brings Cassius into his room to tell him that they’ll be talking with the uncle about a business deal
• Violet (Seren’s mother) gives her a plain shaped, glittery violet resin hairstick
• Aria comes up to Revil and shows him her new mage hand, which is helping her carry all her books
• Vanessa comes up to Ciria during bard class
  • Oh my god, your music is like soo pretty! I didn’t realize you were a bard too! Do you wanna like, maybe sit with me and my friends during lunch?
• 25 letters

Session Summary

Puzzle was too hard. Cassius was interested in ciphers. Cassius invited to business meeting with father and uncle at the Ooslyian Steakhouse, Thursday evening. Violet gives Seren a hairstick. Vanessa comes up to Ciria during lunch, but Ciria is too focused on the puzzle. Everyone goes to Ciria’s house to try to solve the puzzle and stays there until 2AM.

Session 3: Some Answers?

Session Planning

• Aria comes up to Revil and shows him her new mage hand, which is helping her carry all her books.
  • Asks where he’s been.
• Lily Lunalin searching
  • Found at the back of the school alongside Skye and Arabella.
  • “Woah, we’ve got a freshman looking for shit! Starting early, that’s great to see. What do you want?”

Session Summary

Group searches for Atsumari in the library to no avail. Cassius comes up to Skye and asks what she is making. Cassius finds large book on robots and asks Doctor Nork about grenades and alchemists fire. Revil keeps eating fungi and shares a moment with the druid teacher over seaweed. Revil finds book on sea god which is slimy. Aria comes up to Revil to show off unseen servant. During lunch, Murphy, Ciria, and Seren look for the kids at the back of the school. There is a huge fog cloud, and they only see Skye and Lily at first. Lily, when questioned, tells them it’s to make them stronger, it happens every year, and that Coach Yellowtail was known for trying to put cameras in the girl’s locker rooms. Murphy is suspicious but Seren and Ciria accept it as a hazing ritual. After school, Cassius goes to the robotics club which meets every day after school and on the weekends, led by Doctor Nork. Seren goes to GSA club which is run by Arabella. Contains Wimwarith, Heras, and Aria. Ciria interested in band and theater clubs, but those aren’t on Wednesday. Murphy gets a job at 11/7, interviews with a dwarven tired employee. Salary starts as 1GP/week, eventually will go up to 2GP/week. Revil, Beth, and Elizabeth go buckwild at 11/7. Murphy has a dream where ~~Astumari~~ a mysterious voice offering magical trinkets for collecting trinkets, to which he declines. Elizabeth is messing with electrocuting oobleck.

Session 4: The Mines

Session Planning

• stuff to do
  • create npcs for band and theater and swim
  • flesh out robotics team
  • create stat blocks for Lily, Skye, and Arabella
    • find music
• Business meeting at Ooslyian Steakhouse
  • “Ah, Lucian and Cassius. Right on time. Welcome. Please, meet our head weapons scientist, Gary Risoul.” (wearing his old tattered military outfit, as always)
    • Gary Risoul is a human, wearing a suit
  • “Pleasure to see you again, Alexander, and pleasure to meet you Mr. Risoul. clears throat Right well, let’s get on with it then. What is this “new technology” you’re boasting about?”
  • Alexander nods at Gary
  • Gary: “We call it Sylver. It’s a new way of infusing magic into our technical creations. Currently, the magic infused into our weapons and security technology is weak and diluted. By focusing a magic user’s power on something like steel, something so non resonant with magic, most of the magic that goes into the weapon is lost. Sylver refers to gems that are attuned to life, and thus, attuned to magic. The singular is Sylveri. By using these Sylver, we achieve a much higher concentration of magical power than previously thought.”
  • Lucian: “Fascinating. Do you have an example of a creation using Sylver? How much more concentrated are we talking?”
  • Gary: “Depends on the size. With a Sylveri the size of a human tooth, such as this one, we can create an explosion crater around 15 feet in diameter. But the exact power granted varies based on the specific Sylver’s origin.”
  • Lucian: “And, how does one attune these Sylver to magic?”
  • Gary: “Sylver are not artificially attuned. Sylver, due to their arcano-chemical construction, are naturally attuned to magic.”
  • Lucian: “And how do you construct a Sylveri?”
  • Gary: “Well, much like an or…”
  • Alexander: “We’re still working on that part. For right now, we can use naturally occurring Sylver.”
  • Lucian: “Right. So you have an unfinished product design that isn’t even replicable. Of what use is that to the Callahan Corporation?”
  • Alexander: “(laughs) I don’t think you understand. These are like scrolls on steroids.”
  • Lucian: “(looks to Cassius) Do you have any questions for them, son?”
    • In the event Cassius asks if he can have one
      • Oh that’s right, you are in an adventuring party aren’t you boy? Well, we can’t just give away our proprietary technology for free. I’ll tell you what though, if you and your little friends are up for it, I’d be willing to let you test one out in return for a job.
      • Prototype Sylver Pistol: A regular-seeming Callahan Corporation pistol with a small lever on the left side.
        • Twice per day, you can pull the lever as part of a ranged attack action. The pistol shoots a ray of pink flame which extends for 30 ft or until it hits an object or creature. If the ranged attack succeeds, deal 3D6 fire damage. If unsuccessful, the creature takes half. The target must then roll a DC 14 dexterity save. On a failed save, the target becomes ignited and takes 1D6 fire damage each turn, or until it or a creature within 5 ft uses the help action to put them out.
      • There's some Sylver being stolen from one of our sources in the Theta mines. I don't know who's dumb enough to mess with the Callahan family, but we need those gems back. I don't care what you do to them as long as you get back what they stole and scare them into never touching our stuff again.
    • Sylver being stolen by a guardian of the dead (Thanara "Ghostwalker" Ira) accompanied by a spectre (Willow).
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Session Summary

Cassius talked to Lee and Joseph in artificer class. Cassius spends his lunch at the robotics table with Poppy, Lee, and Arialion. Ciria spends her lunch with Vanessa, gets a tour of the school. Seren hangs out with the stoners and plays concentration. Cue business meeting with Alexander, in which Cassius realizes Sylver is like Sylvan. Cassius accepts the deal, his father will allocate 75 gp to pay his friends, and Cassius gets Poppy to come along for 12.5 gp. Friday is a day full of normal classes. Saturday at 4 (after Murphy's 11/7 shift) they go to the mines, go through the maze, see the thumping ground, which Murphy sets on fire. It burns purple at the center. The ground, unbeknownst to them, has a dead body underneath it. Seren sees smallish medium sized footprints leading to another path down the mines. As the follow it, they see a ghostly dreguar (Willow) who they procede to shoot at and try to burn. As they evacuate the path, Cassius gets shot by a creature he cannot see.

Session 5: What are Sylveri?

Session Planning

to-do

• finish the mines encounter
• make more npcs for art and GSA club
• make sylver npcs

When friendly conversation with Thanara happens:

"The ghosts keep telling me 'Don't forget to look inside.' Well, that and 'Our bodies are being disturbed, please grab them' but the first one is much more cryptic.

For the past month, ghosts I don't know keep telling me these strange sentences with numbers at the end. I don't know what they mean."

She shows you a notebook with the following sentences inscribed

I am ever passing every second (4)

The day before is flat (5)

Put on thick wheat noodles (5)

Exclamation of alcohol markers (5)

Universal basic income from Astronomer Vera (5)

Sounds like two in a molecule (4)

Images of ancient poems (5)

Session Summary

• Elizabeth sings "You can make a difference" and Thanara realized they were high schoolers. Thanara apologizes and finishes stealing bodies. Explains.
• Cassius sicovers there is a filtering magic on the gem, and that it was made using fae magic.
• Cassius talks with his dad about the mines and Lucian says he'll talk to Alexander about it.
• Seren asks mother about starting HRT.
• beth and monk friends (elizabeth and murphy), robotics club, vanessa, heras
• Art club on Mondays in which Ciria acts weird and Seren talks to Iming and gives her a gift.
• skeletons in my basement quest: 8 skeletons in my basement, reward shit i dont know bones, pet our dog, and 1 gp. skeletons now in elizabeth's basement playing eternal jenga
• time skip to second Friday, where Cassius gets a message from Thanara with puzzle.

Session 6: Say Their Names

• starts monday of the third week
• investigate potential names,
• Start club festival arc,
• Robotics club does robot fights, gsa club sells stickers and pins, band club performs, art club sets up a drawing table, magic club has magic competition qualifiers,
• Vanessa uses subtle spell to summon three grinning cats with butterfly wings to-do
• magic competition questions
• magic club npcs
• Ciria's parents give her magical rollerskates.
  • Rollerscapes: When wearing, a creature's speed is increased to 50ft. Additionally, the wearer can disengage as a bonus action.
• Lily Lunalin invites Seren and her group on a quest
  • some giant, unrelenting creatures made of mud (mud hulks) (3) have been attacking fishermen in the local swamp (Siv's Swamp)

Summary

Puzzle is solved! Lily invites Seren and her group on their quest. Mentions of the club festival are happening. Adam tries to steal from art club and gets bodied. Cassius is prepping the second robot for the fall festival. Murphy visits Martin over the weekend. Monday of the third week.

Magic Competition Questions

Round One

• list the eight schools of magic
• describe the effects of an abjuration spell
• fireball is an example of what type of magic
• which number system does the traditional wizard transcription of spells use?
• give an example of an enchantment spell
• how many points should one use to describe a spell?

Round Two

• Give an example of a concentration spell
• What is the duration of vicious mockery?
• Is Alter Self a concentration spell?
• What school of magic is darkvision?

Round Three

• What is the range of aid?
• What components does Barkskin require?
• Transcribe the spell invisibility.
• What is the range of bigby's hand?

Session 7: Muddying the Waters

Planning

• Ciria's parents give her magical rollerskates.
  • Rollerscapes: When wearing, a creature's speed is increased to 50ft. Additionally, the wearer can disengage as a bonus action.
• Lily Lunalin invites Seren and her group on a quest
  • some giant, unrelenting creatures made of mud (mud hulks) (3) have been attacking fishermen in the local swamp (Siv's Swamp)
• create npcs for swim team, aquatic themed clubs, language club

Summary

Swim club shenanigans, revil doesn't understand lanes. Revil wants to join freestyle fish swim competition.

Session 8: Wings Hit the Fan

Summary

Adam studies in Magic Club. Ends on Wednesday of fourth week. On monday, Lily sends encoded message. Cassius goes insane and has an existential crisis about the world, calling Poppy. On Tuesday, Lily is at school. Wednesday, Lily is missing, so Skye, Arabella, Seren, and Ciria go to Lily's house, which is a giant purple tree with purple flowers hanging from it. Arabella and Wes climb up and break in to find the house empty. In Lily's room, there is moderate conjuration and transmutation magic, alongside a small orb which had abjurative magic, and plenty of other small traces of magic from her jewlery. The room looks as though powerful winds have gone through. In the kitchen, there is rice burning on the stove. Similarly, there is conjurative and transmutative magic, alongside claw marks in the countertop which start off human and then transform into wolf like claws. There is a faint cat smell which starts in Lily's room and ends in the kitchen.

Session 9: Club Festival Part 1

Planning

• come up with a magic item for someone
  • Friendship is Magic Bracelet (Elizabeth): Allows limited abilities to be used by the other wearer. The ability must be used on the original person's turn. For instance, on Elizabeth's turn, she could cast shocking grasp but have Beth use her hands instead. The relevant abilities allowed are spells and non-offensive ki points.
  • Friendship is Magic Bracelet (Alternative): When one of the wearers takes damage, the other wearer can choose to take half of the damage, so that each wearer takes half the damage. If damage is odd, the original wearer takes the extra point.
  • Mother's Ring: A simple silver ring with a 4 pointed star shape on top. When worn, the silver turns iridescent. +1 bonus to AC and saving throws when wearing the ring.
• change grinning cats stat block
• Wizard teacher pauses time and unleashes grinning cats
• add a few casters in the time pause

Summary

• Elizabeth chose the alt version
• Seren, Ciria, and Stonerwall contemplate what to do regarding Lily's dissapearance. Eventually, they settle on asking Vitalyn to do a scrying spell, which they pay for in brownies and checking up on Cassius.
• Elizabeth and Beth talk about warriors and homestuck.
• Cassius goes insane.
• The scrying spell shows a corner of the wizard classroom. They go to investigate, with Cassius and Murphy distracting Professor Willowpool by talking about magic and magic items.
  • Some minorly horrifying lore about how magic users bodies decay at a slightly faster rate, especially their liver. Also how removing magic is sort of like removing life force.
• With some successful snooping, they find a purple gem with glittery movement inside and take it. They can tell the gem has magic on it, but is not itself inherently magical. Upon looking closer, they can see a silhoette of a person slamming their fist against the wall. Willowpool notices them snooping, but not them taking anything.
• They head to the club festival and begin enjoying themselves, raising money for their clubs and getting a few extra members. Then time suddenly slows to a stop, and only the party and two others are aware and moving. Three grinning cats come out of the portal.

Session 10: Club Festival Part 2

Planning

• Grinning cats fight
• Give Seren her Mother's Ring: A simple silver ring with a 4 pointed star shape on top. When worn, the silver turns iridescent. +1 bonus to AC and saving throws when wearing the ring.
• Let them investigate!