• We go invisible and sneak past the guard to the temple like structure
  • inside, there's fancy gold ornamentation
  • we get ambushed by assassins decked out in magic gear
  • there's a black obsidian wall, a dragonborn is standing there
  • We offer to trade information
    • She gives us the name of the person who ordered the kill on Grindholm and Alanic
    • We give her the type of magic they know that they were targeted for
  • she throws us in the dungeon
  • she summons us
    • We offer to never leave, and keep trading information
    • The settlement of Tiar is outside of the citadel. they're going to keep us there
    • She turns on the TV
      • "Hired to assassinate 1 Alanic priest of the light" reward: a dagger that can destroy someone's soul.
      • the red mage hired the assassins: Xataqar's buddy
      • we can summon the acartiar by drawing a teardrop on the statue of the hero of the light in the radiance of the light in the aquaduct district in blood
    • She says she doesn't know grindholm
• We go to the settlement of Tiar
  • we try to die and succeed

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We save Alanic and go to the Crystal Tower

• Successes: Oliver Rivers - Cameron, Phadros - Daniel, Milo Ashwood - Matt, Solstice Fireleaf - Jordan

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we save Alanic and ask Zach about the red mage he doesn't know
we do a month of meditation

• we can detect other people's souls
• if we meditate we get more details, we see micro structures

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we do another month of meditation

• we descern details of our souls casually
• there's a burn like marker on our souls, pieces that were disconnected seem to be healing
• an additional structure is forming that was not on our original soul
  • Zach's is the most complete and detailed
• at the end of the loop, Alanic congratulates us on our rapid success
  • "if we were to continue this, we'd have to do the next steps slightly more dangerously. the next step is something most people won't ever get access to"
• we can eject souls from our bodies, to learn more, but it's dangerous, we could die
  • Alanic has techniques to do this so we don't die

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we convince him to yeet our souls out

• he takes us to the forest, the circle of stone descends into stairs
• we walk down, not allowed to use light
• the skull floats above a crystal it's very spooky

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another danger loop

• Alanic is projecting himself sober
• we can see a faint connection between all of our souls
  • we see a string to cyoria

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