edrick rivers
we're bad news
"multiple soul branded ones can not be, only one can enter, one can leave"
"never abuse the inbetween for gains in the real"

touching the temple makes a ripple and an etherial sound
Fairy is still with us.

There are signs "Do not enter the lake, do not touch the lake" in common.
Small tavern looks like a public building. Recognizable to us. "The Wizard's Candle" in common.

• Sign is outside a hedge maze, building is inside the hedge maze

The gemstone dragon is Nelasser's pet

• Nelasser is a ghost, he runs the tavern
• Gems in payment vanish over night

In the tavern, we talk to two elves

• Zerena - elven capital, best place to learn history or magic. They have most of their knowledge.
• Camtara - good noodles and floating islands
• Erlan - the elf. has a deep backstory I'm sure. Other elf is Rolan
• Elora Trisna, from Zerena, good at unstructured magic

We ride the dragonflies to Zerena

• We travel over night
• Stop at a dragonfly stable/docks on the way

In Zerena

• Great trees blot out the sky, a dark green glow from the ceiling
• Bioluminescent orbs the size of people hanging from branches and balconies
• Long spiral stairs up the great trees
• Giant Frogs croaking
• We go to talk with Elora Trisna (she's not there)
  • We follow the shell staircase (huge snail shell woven into the trees) staircase starts in the snail shell leads up the tree
  • We find a debate stadium
  • Their discussing "the third trajectory" which is maybe a reference to enlightenment?
  • Elora is visiting a fairy village north west of here, it's called "the fairy village"
• We go to the inn "the great tree guesthouse" it's very big, beautiful and welcoming, carved into the great tree (normally buildings aren't carved in like this.)
  • Phadros - Daniel asks if anyone knows about the time of the ascendants
    • Kyberos is often discussing this in the debate stadium
      • He has pale hair and is 900 years old
• Back to the debate stadium
  • Phadros talks with them in elven
    • They only heard of one person with a soul brand "Panor", theorized to be on an extradimensional pocket dimension.
      • He was the second descendant after reyos
      • "Only one can enter, only one can leave" was about his dimension
      • He's a kobold DX - I made this up
    • We're told Learin knows soul magic, can be found in the emerald hammer
  • I ask them about where to get weed, they say on the third level
    • Milo Ashwood - Matt gets some crazy time drugs, if you see purple it's too much
  • “The only true way to close a gateway is to seal it from both sides. The only way out of a dimensional prison is through.”
    • You can blow them up
• Vyre picks us up from the inn
  • On our way to fairy land we get tiny, takes all day to get there
• In the fairy village
  • We look for Elora
• at an Ancient temple built out of an upside down teapot, with a spout coming out of the side
  • Elora is sitting there with some fairies
    • Matt talks to her, laments how dumb everyone is about unstructured magic
    • "Takes a long time lots of practice"
    • She gets him to try and grow a plant
    • He does it worse than a dwarf
    • She levetates something and asks him to meta magic it
    • He tries to take control of the spell
    • She tells him that charging a powerstone is a good shaping exercise, structured magic can't do this!
    • Gives him a list of things to practice
• Back to zerena
• Then up to Nilalume
  • Atop the branches of a single great tree, all the way up the whole tree
  • River is full of ships boat racing
  • At the bottom of the tree is a red roofed building, the emerald hammer
    • The size of a palace
    • One of Kris's favorite taverns
    • Guard squad in magical armor guarding the entrance to the tavern
    • Innkeeper greets us all by name, thin female elf. knows where Learin is (4th floor room 23)
• We to talk to Learin
  • He doesn't care about us, but refers Daniel to Varitan
• Daniel talks to Varitan
  • daniel gets him talking about gurps rules
  • You can take an advantage called energy reserve but it has another name
  • We can ask Kris other gurps rules and "Varitan" can tell us them! so exciting!