1 Magefire 23 Tuesday
Matt casts intuition gate out to Sartol

Tents

• "The raven empire" sigil
• "Saphire exploration co."

A Wizard (not a mage!) shows up

• Woman wearing light dusty Grey robes
• name: Nicholas Harvest

Pendant is south west west

Head west and find a Crater

• Big antimagic zone in thew crater
• The size of Azena
• straiations of whitestone

Just outside the crater

• vines cover ancient whitestone buildings
• Anson Sussurus (Phadros - Daniel's older brother) in charge of security
• Tain Highshade
  • The man in charge of the Saphire trading company
  • Happy to share where his funding is coming from and all the amazing things he's done
    • "The empress herself funded this expedition, no NDA!"
    • "Funding from some benefactors in Azena"
      • House of Bones, Domas Osa, looking for artifacts, anything historical about who lived here before. He has the thesis from him on the markavian empire.
        • Drak duror thinks the markavian empire is real, seems designed to get funding from the raven empire.
        • I memorize it
• Anson saw someone in long blue robes in the forest, but they vanished
  • In the ruins, they came around a corner and they vanished

We gate to Oar's Rest

• I get a flight of hotdogs that are the best hotdogs I've ever had
• I get another flight

We gate back to Sartol

• We take horseback out to the craters
• There's a bunch of craters
• Buildings outside the crater The blasted city
• Wizard had a theory that the craters destroy everything other than whitestone
• Plants shrivel up in the craters
• There's a stone dam blocking water from leaving the crater
• Vibrant green jungle, we see some big lizard creatures that stay in the jungle

We are getting close to the city that our knob is pointing at

• We see someone in brown out there.
  • Jornak
  • Seems to be a mage, has a wand at his side.
  • Human, sandy brown hair, pale complexion
  • Says he's from mageport. Here helping out a friend.
    • We ask if it's the red mage, and he rolls and says it's a different friend.

We find a smoldering heap of bronze gears and mechanisms and stuff.

• Jornak said it showed up recently. 1 Magefire 22 Monday
• it's hella bronze
• Jornak says the wizards tower has a black room

uh oh! Jornak is the red mage!

• He stabbed Zach in the bush! Our soul line vanishes.
• We fight him trying to tackle him and break his knife hand
• the soldiers help out
• We disarm him
• He says "see you next time"

Splash (he clicked his knob)