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			== 1/15/2026 ==
			* The jewel of Caer Sen has collapsed in on itself - the castle is gone in seconds
			* The fountain in the center of the plaza we come to is overflowing with ichor, the tile cracked
			* The people we called to the center of town stand away from the fountain
			* A bright dome covers the (former) palace as one man in a white cloak and a metal leg casting this spell
			* Four other individuals stand next to this man
			* IT'S PALLAS!!!!!
			* They're straining to keep this magic dome together
			* Citizens wait, watching
			* Beyond the wall, darkness is descending. Clouds fill the sky.
			* From the darkness, descends The Black Sky landing on the steps leading to the glistening dome
			* The sheer size of this dragon is enormous, ichor dripping from it, pooling from its mouth onto the stones.
			* Light is absorbed by the scales of this dragon
			* Emerging around the pools, more small shadowy creatures
			* Randir gives a big ol' speech
			* The battle begins with the dragon
			* The rain is coming down, it's ichor? Kind of?
			** It's tearing into things, breaking down the buildings
			* Cass and [other Ranger] show up with seige weapons???
			* The battle is TOUGH - The dragon is kicking our ass
			* An ICHOR MONSTER is summoned from the nearby fountain!!
			* THROUGH THE RAIN - A FLASHING BALISTA BOLT HITS THE DRAGON
			* Randir and Theo are on the ropes against the Dragon - DEFINITELY GONNA DIE
			* ULERTU FUCKIN PULLS A 9TH LEVEL HEAL OUT OF HIS CIRCLET (FORGED IN THE FORGE??!??!?!)
			* Theo, blasting radiant damage with his lazer sword... FELLS THE DRAGON
			* The rain stops, and there's some silence
			* The buildings and marketplace are shattered, but the people are still here
			* Pallas and his magic friends collapse, their wall of force disappearing
			* Beyond the barrier, people of all backgrounds stand - The city of a thousand tribes
			* Randir looks to Theo, tears in his eyes, smiles with relief
			* He turns around to Ulertu, he yells "It's gone! IT'S GOOOOONE!!!!"
			* The foundation of this city is in ruins, but the people are still breathing, still standing
			* CUT TO: Randir wrote a letter a while ago, and now he receives a response
			** He gets a letter from Bram Fairkettle and it's addressed to Theo, Ulertu, and Randir
			* Bram writes about fear and worry and uncertainty, but it's a letter about friendship and care and love
			** "Wherever this letter finds you, Pella's Wish remembers"
			* THE END?????

	== 1/8/2026 ==		== 1/8/2026 ==

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			== 1/8/2026 ==
			* We stand upon the dias, Theo bound to this power of The Weave
			* The sound of thunderous booms can be heard from outside
			* Theo feels the strands of The Weave breaking
			** This is the magic around him coming apart
			* We realize the grandness of this Throneroom was an enchantment made to appear larger, it shrinks down to real size
			** It looks almost dilapidated
			* A column falls revealing a hole in the ceiling
			* An enormous eye appears in the hole, and a familiar voice booms: "Ah, I've found you."
			* We feel a charge of power in this room; a cold, dangerous power
			* AND THEN IT'S FIGHT TIME
			* The dragon hits Randir with a BIG lightning spell and then takes off
			* The palace begins to fall in on itself as the weight of everything bears down
			* Randir heals himself just before the hall they run down collapses in on itself, the gang lands in a collapsed tunnel below the palace
			* WE CONTINUE TO RUN BUT THERE'S A ZILLION OF THESE ICHOR MONSTERS
			* It's looking DIRE
			* Just before we escape, ChukChuk is devoured by a few ichor monsters
			** :(
			* We circle down to a section of the under-palace and find an exit, beaten and battered, as the palace collapses behind us
			* END SESSION

	== 12/11/2025 ==		== 12/11/2025 ==

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			== 12/11/2025 ==
			* The bells are ringing, the sky starts to darken as clouds roll in with a coming storm.
			* We defer to the Rangers to handle the people of the city coming to the palace
			* The gang heads to the palace, and arrive at the large circular plaza just outside of the palace gates
			* The eternal entranceway to the palace is open, and a warm glow eminates from the open door
			* We cross the courtyard to the entranceway
			* The glow is warm and orange and inside the doorway is a long hallway
			* Randir notices a glowing thread that leads from the entrance down the corridor - this appears to be what is giving off light
			* We move through the hallway - Randir hears a noise from a doorway off from the main hall
			* He sees a shimmer of something down the hallway
			* We investigate a bit but it seems to be nothing... Ulertu hears the sound of a song, but Randir assures him it's nothing and that we must move to find the Empress
			* As we continue down, we see motes of floating light
			* But we make it to the Throne Room
			* This whole room looks like it was made by Giants
			* The thread we've been following twists up to the throne, motes of light float all over
			* In the throne, a slumped figure of the Empress
			* Randir sees this and we begin to head towards the throne at a quick pace
			* As we move, we suddenly hear the Empress' voice as if she's right next to us
			* From the throme, we see the Empress rise slightly
			* Suddenly the thread of light tightens and we're very close to the Empress
			* Randir asks: "Why have you done nothing against the dragon in your city?!"
			* The Empress says, "I have summoned power."
			* She says, "My father's power was to convince others to kill the dragon."
			* Randir calls out to the Empress, "You have all this power and you have done nothing with it! Are you a coward?"
			* The Empress flickers and fades
			** Randir gets the Archdruid Feat????
			The vitality of nature constantly blooms within you, granting you the following benefits.

			Evergreen Wild Shape. Whenever you roll Initiative and have no uses of Wild Shape left, you regain one expended use of it.

			Nature Magician. You can convert uses of Wild Shape into a spell slot (no action required). Choose a number of your unexpended uses of Wild Shape and convert them into a single spell slot, with each use contributing 2 spell levels. For example, if you convert two uses of Wild Shape, you produce a level 4 spell slot. Once you use this benefit, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

			Longevity. The primal magic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every ten years that pass, your body ages only one year.
			* The Empress explains that she has lost her power but she gave it up to those who she deemed worthy
			** The Weave Flows through her?????
			* The gang became her hand, her strength, her eyes in the world
			* The dragon wants to steal the magic of this world????
			* She became this conduit at a young age and it has weighed on her since then
			** The vision of her wiping out those dudes was her "darkest day"
			* She gave up pieces of herself to people like us - OUR POWER COMES FROM THE EMPRESS??????
			* The power is trapped in the tapestry created by the old Emperor
			* She says, "Perhaps someone could be the new knot that holds things together, or you can let it unravel..."
			* Randir is not pleased by this explanation. "Now? WE DO THIS NOW?"
			* She says, "It was not supposed to be like this."
			* Randir refuses the offer of the conduit. He needs to seek the rest of this world and cannot be burdened by this.
			* Ulertu says the same. He cannot be trapped by this power.
			* Theo cannot make this decision now.
			* She presses on: You must decide now.
			* We cannot pass this on to anyone - she has made this gift for us.
			* Randir offers himself to take this burden
			** "If we do not take this, then what was this all for? Perhaps we turn away and run to the furthest edges of the land and hope this all passes without worry."
			* Theo, hearing this, steps in and says he will take it. "You have more life to lead! I have nothing. Let this be my burden."
			* Randir hugs him, thanks him.
			** In the embrace, we see a memory of the Empress as a child, running in the sun.
			* A BOOM is heard off in the distance.
			* Theo reiterates, "I will take this power."
			* Suddenly we see many memories of the Empress.
			* Then she turns to Theo, "Is it you".
			* Theo: "It must be."
			* The Empress sits up straight, and says, "Then I must ask you to do one more thing."
			** "In order to transfer this power, it must be taken." And she glances at Theo's sword.
			* Theo: "If this is the only way..."
			* The movements are awkward here, this isn't battle, this is... something else, but still violent.
			* Theo presses the hilt of his Radiant Blade passes through the knot of magic within her
			* The knot is then tied within Theo. It feels heavy, and it twists within him.
			* The Empress sits back in the throne, relief washing over her face. "Thank you. I feel so much lighter now."
			** "I'm sorry we couldn't speak in the ways I imagined... it's been a long time since our first meeting."
			** "I need to unburden myself of more than just this knot..."
			* Theo feels the power of the Weave
			* The Empress thought she could tell our story, but we made choices she couldn't have anticipated.
			** It's beautiful.
			** END SESSION

	== 11/13/2025 ==		== 11/13/2025 ==

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			== 11/13/2025 ==
			* We flash back to a time where banners groups came together to unite as one to build a massive place to a thousand to become one
			* This city needs a foundation and as they dig downward, they find one... a giant one.
			* We see a town grow from a large lighthouse and onward and onward
			* This is Caer Sen in its early days and it grows ever onward
			* We cut to... the same city, burning.
			* Theo, Ulertu, and Randir gather together
			** Randir as giant eagle, Torbin off his back
			** Ulertu with Bell and Dove
			** Theo from another direction
			* Randir hugs his friends and then sees Bell and Dove and brings them up into a big hug
			* Randir wants to get to the Empress but Torbin says "What about the people of this city?"
			* Ulertu suggests we make some kind of sanctuary, Torbin agrees
			* Dove says, "The bells... the bells chimed when we were here last to signal when the empress was to speak"
			* Torbin says, "There are three bells that are rung when the city wishes to signal something"
			* Ringing these bells would rally people to the palace?
			* Maybe that could rally the Empress? Or more people who can fight?
			* WHY IS THERE ORGANIZATION IN THIS CITY?????
			* Torbin says he saw some priests battling towards the palace, and some order of truth folks heading that way too
			* Can we bring everyone together and get some kind of way to tell everyone they need to come to the city?
			* Oh, Randir has Skywrite as a ritual
			* What will we write in the sky???
			* Something about "1000 become 1"? Something else?
			* We hear some fighting on the next street over
			* A heated argument turning into a fight between many people - an explosion dispurses the fight
			* An old man in a robe yelling "Why are we fighting?!"
			* The man sees us - It's Thalor!
			* It's a bit chaotic, but Thalor is excited to hear us
			* The people on the street are arguing about getting weapons from a building they want to get into
			* We talk to the old man inside the building refusing to give out weapons
			* Randir is getting frustrated but eventually we convince him to open the door after Ulertu promises him we'll tell the Empress about his help
			* This dude is LOADED with crossbows and bolts
			* On the wall is a beautifully rendered painting of this old Gnome (Fergus) next to a beautiful Silversmith and a petrified tree
			* Randir calls out to the group and tells them to stay together with Thalor who will take them to the palace
			** He warns them that the beasts in the city are deadly and that if anyone separates from the group, they will likely be killed
			* Thalor agrees to take the group up the hill
			* We decide to stick together to ring the bells, starting with the lower city
			* We come across a hoarde of corrupted civilians at the base of the belltower, they're pushing two figures back, away from the bell tower
			* Randir casts invisibility on Bell, Dove, and Torbin to sneak into the bell tower
			* The horde starts to close in on the two people outside of the bell tower and Randir casts Ice Storm to pummel the ichor corrupted people
			* We approach the two people as the majority of the corrupted people are felled
			* The woman of the two is Cass the Ranger!
			* She hands a collection of items to Randir in a bag
			** Inside is a 6-pack of superior healing potions - missing one (Cass used it)
			* And the other person is Harold! And his dog, Kodiak.
			** Kodiak is limping a bit - NOOOOOOOOO
			* Harold pulls out a box and hands it to Ulertu from the people in the Ember Vale
			** Inside is a soft bed of satin fabric holding up 9 small glowing orbs
			** Pearls of POWER!!!!!!
			*** BASICALLY SPELL SLOTS??? We can figure it out later
			* Suddenly a body falls out of the bell tower!?
			* Torbin leans out, "Sorry! There were some in here."
			* Harold says, "Oh the bells, don't you want to ring them all at the same?"
			** Shit.
			* Harold says, "Cass and I will go find the middle tower, just let us know when to ring"
			* We decide we'll put a sign in the sky and then everyone will ring at once
			* We start to head back up into the city - the initial chaos has died down, many are dead or hiding
			* We find ourselves at the base of the bell tower - maybe a mile from the Palace
			* It's very quiet... there appears to be NO signs of combat.
			** This feels weird. Randir studies the area.
			** The upper city is DESIGNED for flow, if people were fleeing there would be signs
			** Randir can tell that people have been through here, but it's still strange
			** We can't figure out what that means...
			* We make our way up the bell tower
			* Up at the top of the bell tower, we hear a roar
			* Clouds begin to form above the palace
			** This is just as the Giants spoke of
			** "A black sky covering above"
			* Randir prepares the ritual and spells out:
			** '''A braid of 1000 strands come together at the palace'''
			* As the words are spelled out in the sky the bells begin to ring
			** The lower city rings (cracked but loud, iron bells of the humans)
			** The middle city rings (bolder and stronger, bronze bells of the dwarves)
			** The upper city rings (brightly, silver bells of the elves)
			* The people of the city feel the vibrancy of the bells, voices join in cries and shouts and song as they move up the hill towards us
			* The dragon's roar sounds again, almost trying to drown out the sound of the bells
			* Lights down the hillside make their way toward us in the form of lamps and torches

	== 11/6/2025 ==		== 11/6/2025 ==

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			== 11/6/2025 ==
			* We begin SPLIT apart
			* Ulertu is at the docks and there are ichor monsters! He starts to fight them off, but it's looking dire.
			* Suddently two huge monsters POOF into chickens!
			* It's Belle and Dove from the Cinder Root Trio!
			* They got our letter
			* They mention a dragon in Caer Sen!?
			** Yeahhhhhhhhhhh
			* They know the "truth" about the Empress?
			** They started to look into the Empress' dynasty
			** Elena was doing something to stop some kind of "venom" from entering the city??
			** The Empress' grandfather was trying to eradicate dragons because their "venom" can kill gods?
			** Belle and Dove ask why the Empress hasn't done anything in town
			* Theo finds himself in a fight near the Oldest House
			** There are a few dead younger people outside as Theo fights
			** Yo it's Zelias!
			** He tells Theo about how he's been searching for the next custodian of The House
			*** The dead were Zelias' disciples... Zelias seems unphased???
			** Zelias offers Theo to be the Custodian of the House
			** There's a secret of some kind of that Zelias needs to tell... someone. Perhaps it should be Theo??
			** The house is not only the oldest house, it was built by the giants, but perhaps it was older than that.
			*** "This house has always been"
			** There is an inverted Pyramid inside that he shows Theo - Zelias things the Giants build this city AROUND the inverted pyramid?
			*** (Is this similar to the one we saw in Pella's Wish???????)
			** Zelias always thought this place was good, meant to serve the city, but now he believes this may be something else?
			*** Theo knows Zelias is physically bound to this place
			** Now Zelias fears that The Oldest House is part of the darkness gracing the city now, the house has corrupted his students, it corrupts Zelias, and perhaps it corrupts Theo now????
			** Zelias says there is much more to the story of the house, so he offers to SHOW Theo in his ''mind''
			*** Theo sees civilizations rise and fall, rise and fall, but he sees the Pyramid being built but it isn't clear whether or not the Pyramids were always there
			*** He sees the continent form and cities grow, he sees the foundations being built by Giants
			** Theo takes it in and tells Zelias he will need more to this story when he returns
			*** Zelias calls after him, "Good fortune to you, Theo. And I'm sorry if I set you off on the wrong path."
			** Theo heads out to find Ulertu and Randir
			* Randir appears in the city square of Caer Sen at night
			** Buildings WERE on fire
			** People are screaming off in the distance, the sounds of trained voices shouting, steel on steel
			** The café is in front of Randir, magically lit lamp are lit but half have been knocked down or are out
			** Along the ground are bodies, townsfolk, guards, stains of ichor
			** There was a battle at this cafe
			** But this area is silent until he hears a voice
			** Sitting at one of these tables, the same table we were at last time we were here
			*** It's Torbin Lockewood
			** Dude tries to apologize, Randir tells him we need to go
			** He says he would, but he is wounded... mortally wounded by Ichor monsters
			** Randir knows this is a curse and he cannot heal it, but Torbin says "Maybe I can be of some use to the city still"
			*** Randir grins at him almost childishly, "That is the hope, my friend" and he heals him
			** This dude has an AMBER BLADE??>!??!?!?!
			** Randir explains this blade is "of the mountain" and it ERADICATES the ichor monsters
			* End Session!!!!!!

	== 9/25/2025 ==		== 9/25/2025 ==

Mike at 02:57, 27 September 2025

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			== 9/25/2025 ==
			* TO recap: We descend from the Auory, we collected journals regarding constellations, some tools about navigation, and charts of the stars.
			** We make our way to THE GATE
			** Ulertu drops a vial of ichor and it rolls away, clicking itself against the gate
			** Ulertu removed and replaced his circlet and took some psychic damage
			* Ulertu makes a note that there's something in here about memory and poems???
			* Ulertu and Theo spend some more time pouring over the journals to try to figure out ''something'' about this gate
			** They find some esoteric instructions of some kind to operate this gate
			* Ulertu recognizes a specific era of Giants
			* He focuses in on one poem:
			** ''The gateway in the city's heart sleeps, waiting for the song only you can sing. It must hear the music of your belonging and it will part the veils between worlds.''
			* Randir offers to sing a song from the Cinder Root Trio, "Last Morning's Breakfast"
			** Randir knows this song start to finish because it has so many endings, a sad one, a funny one, a smarmy one, and a happy one
			** Randir knows this song because the happy ending was his hope and his love for Elena
			* The song ends and Randir is not hurt by the Gate... (but he did make a widsdom save?????)
			* But... nothing happens?
			* Theo discovers that the gate maybe requires an image of the place you want to go '''AND''' a frequency of the place?
			* So we decide:
			** Theo Pulls a lever with the POWER symbol
			** Randir pushes his Stone of Fates into the Gate
			** Randir is singing his song
			** Everyone is imagining Caer Sen
			* Everything begins to thrum and shake
			* The stone isn't being taken like the entrane to this city, it is being powered by the generator we turned on
			* Theo envisions Caer Sen: He sees the doorway of the Oldest House where Zacharias lived
			** A FLASH OF AN INVERTED OBELISK ABOVE THE DOOR(?!)
			* Ulertu envisions Caer Sen: He sees the colors and vibrancy of the port city, the colorful sails and fabrics, the different looking people, and sounds of a large city
			**
			* Randir envisions Caer Sen: Randir thinks of the size and the impressiveness of the city, the pastry he had for breakfast on that morning in the square
			** There is a flash of an obelisk above the city
			* Each of our memories pour into this gateway
			* But it feels unstable, but it is open
			* We decide to move through, quickly
			* Suddenly, we're hearing voices singing "Last Morning's Breakfast", strange and familiar
			* Flashing light flowing past us
			* We feel the gate recognizes us, by the music of our souls
			* Theo sees the Oldest House, but is suddenly cold as he is ripped through the stars
			* Ulertu sees the colors of the city
			* Randir see the cafe as the song swells in his head -- the Cinder Root Trio sing loudly in his mind. Hands on him bolstering him.
			* It feels like an eternity and an instant, and we coalesce in Caer Sen as reality snaps back into focus
			* We feel our feet on the ground that knows our name, the sweetness of air from the idea of the city we imagined ourselves in
			** Ulertu is on the docks
			** Randir is at the cafe
			** Theo is in the bowels of the Oldest House
			* Caer Sen is burning
			* END SESSION


	== 9/11/2025 ==		== 9/11/2025 ==

Mike at 00:09, 26 September 2025

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			* Ulertu investigates the instruments he was looking into before the battle
			* Ulertu investigates the stars, we don't recognize this sky
			* We decide to make our way back inside and down into the city
			* We look for THE GATE and can see it as we come back inside, a huge gate ringed in a part of the city
			* We make our way towards this large gate
			* Ulertu attempts to see what kind metal the ring(?) is made of
			* Ulertu's circlet begins to resonate
			* Theo can her a thrumming coming from Ulertu
			* Ulertu tries to sense the center of the feeling he has
			* "I feel like something in my circlet is resonating with the metal here"
			* Randir, after being informed, begins to hear and FEEL this vibration
			* Now we're talkin about HARMONIC RESONANCE lol
			* "Gooooood vibrations"
			* Randir recognizes "a child calling out to his mother" or "a part reaching out to its whole"
			* Despite Randir's suggestion of bringing his circlet to the metal in the gate, Ulertu wants to try something else byu investigating what he believes are the controls to this gate
			* Randir helps Ulertu up onto a large lectern of sorts and... there ARE controls!
			* But Ulertu can't figure out what the controls do, so he climbs back down
			* Fuck it, we're putting the circle on the ground. Let's see what happens
			* After a beat.... nothing happens.
			* Putting the circlet back on, Ulertu feels 'right' with the world again like when he first put the circlet on
			* ABRUPT END SESSION (sorry)

	== 8/7/2025 ==		== 8/7/2025 ==

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			* Ulertu investigates the tools
			* They seem to be used for Mathematics?
			* Ulertu spends some time investigating these tools
			* Meanwhile the plaque Randir is looking at gets translated by Theo and it says "All that remains of a dream once held" (I think ....)
			* Randir steps closer to get to the plaque, the flowers begin to glow with the light of the stars???
			* Theo and Randir regain 11 hp from the plants / flowers????
			* Meanwhile the papers that Ulertu is reading mentions trying to change the properties of... something. conceptual research and recordings of hypotheses...
			* After some digging (and help from Chuk-Chuk) Ulertu sorts out a little more information... this perhaps has to deal with the ichor??
			* Theo and Randir feel better... Randir notices that the flowers appear a bit dimmer now.
			** Randir hasn't seen a plant like this before, but properties of OTHER plants could do something similar but not like this, not without working them into something else
			** These flowers are almost a mirror of the sky above
			** Randir wonders if these flowers are important to whatever work was being done with the tools Ulertu is looking into
			* Randir and Theo head over to Ulertu to see if these things are related
			* Ulertu isn't sure, but hearing about these flowers Ulertu heads over to the flowers and trims a small leaf off of one of the flowers
			* Ulertu glows for a short moment
			* Randir surmises this isn't natural and says as much to Ulertu
			* Then Randir shimmers with light
			* Then Theo
			* Randir notices that the flowers have closed their buds and are going into the dirt
			* Randir feels a wind pick up and begins to warn his friends
			* Before they have a chance to move, an explosion rips into them
			* UHHHHH THE GANG IS FIGHTING LIVING MAGIC? MAGIC MADE ALIVE?
			* A fire being, then an earth being, then a wind being, and a water/ice being???
			* Theo UNMAKEs the Wind Being
			* The battle goes on as we begin to dispell the magical constructs
			* Randir in specific... has Dispell Magic and it works VERY well
			* We end combat
			* END SESSION

	== 7/10/2025 ==		== 7/10/2025 ==

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2025-07-12T15:29:14Z

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			== 7/10/2025 ==
			* We head to the Aurory
			* The Aurory is high up in the dome... hmmmmm
			* We climb up the stairs - the Domed City flows inward toward the center, where we are coming out from the forge.
			* We see vines hanging from the ceilings, now that the "lights" are on
			* Thousands of crystals give off light, and HUGE crystals
			* Randir sees these growing rocks/crystals that looks like moss, and have almost covered different surfaces
			** These formations of crystals seem to have "grown" based on how they're placed on various objects and on walls
			* We walk past a raised flat platform, huge in size and in the center, an arch that goes up 50-100ft tall
			* There is a path to the arch (which we believe is The Gate)
			* We also see a staircase that climbs up the side of the dome, and there are levels of to the promenade - higher levels attached the side of the dome that run rings on the edges of the dome
			* We make our way back to where we saw signs to lead us to the Aurory.
			* We see buildings attached to stairs that attach to the sides of the levels of the promenade attached to the sides of the dome
			* We walk and walk and walk, up stairs of our size next to stairs for Giants.
			* Eventually the larger stairs taper off and it's just medium sized creature steps.
			* At the top of these steps we see a door with a sign attached to it that says Aurory.
			* A faint light shines from beneath the door
			* Ulertu detects no magic...
			* We push through the door...
			* The light we see... is starlight? Blue and purple and twinkly
			* Pillars reach upward to the sky, and the roof is gone... Nothing but sky is above us. We stand in a temple looking outward.
			* Ulertu and Randir realize... this is a magical illusion
			* Ulertu notices some tools and begins to investigate
			* At the far end of the temple, Randir sees a garden - a raised bed?
			* There are only a few plants, just three, and these are glowing with the same light as the sky
			** The plants that survive have grown a bit wild, but have not taken over the garden... weirdly enough
			** There are flowers on the ends of these plants and theyn turn ever so slightly towards Randir as he approaches
			** The flowers on these plants look like star-shaped orchids
			* Randir uses his speech of beast and leaf and asks, "How have you lived so long?"
			** The flowers point upwards to the stars
			* He asks "Are the stars giving you sustenance?"
			** They wiggle in the positive
			* Randir asks, "Are you three all that remain?"
			** They wiggle in affirmative
			* Randir moves a little closer to see what the heck is up with these plants and the raised bed they're in
			* He sees a plaque attached to the raised bed... in Giant
			* Meanwhile, Theo and Ulertu are looking over these tools
			* END SESSION (due to tech issues :( )

	== 6/26/2025 ==		== 6/26/2025 ==

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			* We return to the Forge
			* It seems charged with energy
			* Ulertu sees that this thing is INTENSE and can work with materials that are tough to work with otherwise
			* Esker tells us about a metal here that is, well, indestructable
			* Ulertu plays around with a scrap piece we found and cannot mar it in any way - no scratching, no chipping... it seems to exist outside of material forces
			** "Resilient against all planar forces"
			* We decided that Theo can't use the bunch we have, Randir feels it's out of place, so Ulertu decides that he'll make a circlet.
			* Esker wants to teach us how to forge this metal with the intense forge
			* This metal is not forged with fire but with ''intention''
			* Esker shows Ulertu how to forge items and shows the history of the Giants as they used this material in the past
			** ''insert the clay scene from Ghost''
			* Ulertu wants to forge something that helps
			* He quenches the circlet he forges with ichor
			* The forging of this circlet takes some time
			* Ulertu places the circlet on his head and it feels balanced, and the uplifiting feeling of healing others
			* Suddenly he sees a vision of the future, ichor flooding all around him; something hunting...
			* But the feeling he is left with is confidence and certainty that he can stop whatever is coming.
			* Randir resisted watching this forging, but can't help but watch in the end and realizes this is knowledge and he follows along the process
			* Theo watches as well, but sees deeply into the magicks beyond the light spectrum on the magical spectrum, ribbons splash outward and he attempts to grab one... the feeling of power dwindles, but the feeling of his shattered blade is present. Theo summons his blade se this feeling fades...
			** He feels the universe connecting with us and a sense of peace - perhaps we are nearing the end of the journey and he can finally be at peace. A Hopeful, Warm Peace.
			** Theo receives a new Dawnblade
			*** It shines brighter in the presence of Ichor / Darkness
			*** It can break magical darkness
			* Ulertu thanks Esker for sharing this knowledge
			* Other places we could explore:
			** The Auorory
			** The Promenade
			** The Gate
			* So we decide we should check out the Aurorory - there may be some star charts? Or some way to tell us where we are.
			** END SESSION

	== 6/5/2025 ==		== 6/5/2025 ==