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erer and certainly not a ghoul how dare such a thing be suggested caulis a homunculus warlock liberated from its master has made a pact with certain faerie powers garvin otherwise a human rogue and burglar of the ravenswing thieves guild with a very very peculiar past and a zoog pet lenore yam an eccentric gnome illusionist and local graduate student at umbral university yam cares little for money yam is curious yam is yam xp awarded 400 xp the long winter of hex showed no sign of letting up spring was now long overdue and as the days and weeks passed things were looking increasingly dire the river remained frozen crippling the city s port and thus stunting vital trade consequently businesses were struggling farmers outside the city were growing increasingly concerned as their fields remain buried by snow the dagonians had gone into a torpor most sleeping from fourteen to twenty hours a day a handful slipping into states of near hibernation the waspkin stayed in their hives shutting down most of the city s messenger services fungoids had disappeared from the streets fled underground to avoid the cruel frosts only the city s trollbloods seemed to be enjoying the bracing weather holding raucous celebrations in goatsbridge and trollhome the rickety shanty town on the south shores of hex which extends beneath the bridge newspapers and rumours were full of ominous suggestions if the winter did not end soon many worried that the reserves of food would eventually be depleted and famine could result the threat of starvation was worrisome enough but the merchant class had a more abstract but no less serious fear the economic damage being inflicted by the lingering winter had gone from irksome to potentially catastrophic fortunes were in danger of disappearing with losses in the millions of guineas if not more meanwhile however the party were busy deciding what to do with the newly recovered book of dreams debates raged should they give the oneironomicon directly to melchior could they conceal their activities from the velvet shadow could they stow the tome at the shrine of the thirteenth queen eventually a compromise was reached and the party decided to place the precious grimoire in a safety deposit box at the bird key city bank hex s most secure financial institution where it would be magically warded with various non detection spells and magical traps though expensive this would keep some would be thief from divining the book s location for added precaution the group required several passwords from at least three of their number to be stated as part of the access conditions for the box and even disguised the book itself with an illusion just to be safe making it appear quite mundane to the casual reader these measures taken the adventurers considered their next move cephalus unfortunately was now in a state of extreme torpor and it was becoming increasingly obvious that something needed to be done concerning the terrible winter wondering what was being done on the part of hex s authorities to remedy this calamity the party resolved to visit master melchior although they agreed they would not tell him that they had recovered the second of the greater mysteries not yet meanwhile garvin had once again visited the hive of the thirteenth queen here he scrawled a portal using the portal chalk establishing a more secure point of return from wherever the party ventured next several members of the expedition that retrieved the book of dreams met at the green star to decide their next move yam had a particular favour to ask of the group but another situation seemed more dire the winter itself emboldened by their success with the oneironomicon the group wondered whether they might investigate the seemingly preternatural winter cephalus is half asleep these days alabastor pointed out and this winter is unnatural caulis said with distaste i m supposed to be growing new leaves this time of year but look at me the homunculus gestured to its barren limbs yes i m even beginning to worry for some of the specimens in my greenhouse armand said having completed several additional experiments involving his window of metamorphoses and certain botanical cuttings taken from the nightmare tunnels and elsewhere the conditions are such that they can survive for some time without the benefit of summer sun but eventually even the most hardy plants will die if this winter continues the evokers at the citadel of the perpetual storm probably know what s happening caulis pointed out perhaps we should try there could be do you think we should talk to the trollbloods in trollhome alabastor said they seem to be the only ones happy with this situation i also wonder about the other reality we saw armand said the vampires of erubescence could this be their work perhaps we should go to master melchior garvin suggested he s supposed to be this powerufl archwizard he must have some ideas and maybe he can give us an in with the evokers that s a good idea yam said my problem is well it s stable if everyone in hex dies because it s too cold it won t matter anyway so resolved the party returned to the school of thaumaturgy enchantment passing through the griffin guarded gates garvin noting that his waspkin friend at the university seemed healthy enough despite the ravages of cold once in melchior s study they found the brain without its usual illusion but after making themselves known melchior conjured his phantasmal semblance how goes the hunt for the book he asked eagerly very well armand said smoothly and not untruthfully but we have run into something of a snag one of our party members cephalus is much afflicted by the cold you must have noticed the winter outside yes most unfortunate melchior said waving an illusory hand at the window he seemed a bit detached from the harrowing weather beyond his walls i m sure octavia and her weather witches will have it sorted soon enough we re worried it might be more than a spot of bad weather garvin said he and armand explained about the vampire ruled version of hex they had discovered during their expedition into the nightmare tunnels glossing over some of the details of the portal chalk this news seemed to startle melchior from his lassitude this is most disturbing the archmage said yes you d best talk to octavia greyleaf at once i ll write you a letter of introduction to let her know you can be trusted he took quill and ink and scribbled a hasty note all magically of course the feather floating in mid air then sealed it with his personal sigil you ll find her in the weatherspire at the citadel i m afraid i don t have any further insights myself but octavia will know what s going on as they left the school and headed for downpour heights the party discussed melchior s seeming detachment this is what worries me alabastor said he seems so withdrawn from daily goings on in hex this is precisely why well be essential when he does publish his new organon armand noted setting out east the party made their way from the dreamer s quarter to downpour heights as they passed through the wards that surrounded the district the light and sound cordoned off within the district suddenly assailed them as they were plunged into torrential rains which in the city s current winter state were mixed with hail freezing rain and flurries of snow thunder rumbled round their ears and flashes of lightning seared their retinas as they entered the gloomy industrial district the place was dominated by the fulgoria or lightning harvesters which absorbed the electricity generated in the magically generated stormclouds and stored it in arcane batteries windmills and water reservoirs also dominated the district along with associated machines many of them gnome built the streets themselves however were quite uncrowded a handful of individuals passing through the district could be seen along with a few technicians and others employed at the generators the citadel of the perpetual storm hovered over hex like some small but ever present moon perfectly still swathed in clouds heavy with rain illuminated by flashes of lightning while a handful of flying craft carefully warded against the storm came and went from the floating citadel the chief means of access was a single rather precarious looking cable car which extends from the street up to a tiny entrance near the bottom of the chunk of floating rock on which the citadel is built the citadel of course was the university of evocation in centuries past this branch of magic was most associated with warfare fireballs and lightning bolts and the like and this military aspect had never been fully expunged as evinced by the dour stone keep that dominated the flying castle these days however the elementalists and weather witches trained at the citadel had a different focus namely energy production creating winds water fire and lightning and then using these elements as power sources has helped to catapult hex s industrial ambitions transforming it from a small university town into an economic powerhouse and a marvel of engineering in addition the faculty at the citadel managed the weather around hex to ensure bountiful harvests clearly something had gone rather terribly wrong the normally near deserted streets grew suddenly crowded as the party approached the cable car station a sizable mob of people had gathered about the small station enraged the crowd seethed besetting a hapless pair of evokers uniformed in the livery of the stormguard blocking the entrance to the station along with a handful of warders the city s elite arcane police they re responsible for this they re experimenting on us like rats in one of their labs one of the mob cried out raising a cudgel rain and wet snow pattered off the assembled dissidents some shielded by umbrellas most drenched to the skin we need to go up there and make them stop they re killing us i assure you we re doing everything we can to change the weather back to normal one of the citadel wizards insisted if it weren t for us you d all be buried in ten feet of snow liars a woman shouted and someone else hurled a rock several warders growled an incantation and the stone thrower was paralyzed chains of magical force wrapping themselves round their limbs another warder conjured a ball of swirling vapour holding the spell ready to cast the tram up to the citadel is currently closed the warder stated teargas ball at the ready a fresh faced but tough looking man with gleaming spectacles please disperse the crowd roared in agitation we need to get through somehow alabastor said thinking i ve got an idea yam said get ready to move wait what garvin said but it was too late yam had conjured a flash of illusory lightning followed by a cantrip to add a thunderclap a moment later the crowd shrieked and dispersed madly shoving and tripping the party hurried forwards armand was seized his finery perhaps inciting the ire or greed of the distinctly working class crowd but garvin having hastily conjured shadows to pass through the crowd without trace grabbed the sorcerer and pulled him through the crowd to the station our thanks one of the stormguard said that was a sticky situation we ll overlook the improper use of magic to start a panic the bespectacled warder said now what do you want we re here to see octavia greyleaf armand said presenting melchior s letter the guards seeing the seal relaxed very well you can go on up one of the stormguard affirmed inside take the elevator up and head right for the weatherspire the group gave their thanks and hurried inside the damp cable car station packing into the warded car one of the evokers pulled a switch and the car began to move the rickety cable car slowly made its way up towards the citadel of the perpetual storm the lightning playing about the flying castle growing louder and brighter as it ascended the car s tinted windows shielding the party from the worst of its flash as the car got higher and higher a view of the city spreads out below snow covered rooftops extended in every direction while the ice on the radula river glistened coldly smoke rose from thousands of chimneys as the inhabitants of the city burned through vast quantities of wood and gas to keep themselves warm the cable car was swallowed by the floating rock on which the citadel of the perpetual storm was built and came to a stop in a large room carved out of stone a short walkway led from the car to a platform with an elevator beyond guarding the lift wee two mechanical automata that seem to be possessed by elemental spirits one seethed with steam and fire its furnace glowing orange while the other crackled with electricity a generator humming and sparking both had the appearance of ornate suits of armour and carry massive swords state your identity and the purpose of your visit to the citadel of the perpetual storm the guardians intoned elemental guardians as illustrated by bronwyn mcivor caulis player we re here to see octavia greyleaf on behalf of master melchior armand repeated again presenting the invitation the guardians scanned the sigil then assented the group hurried into the lift and took the elevator up through several levels arriving in the bailey of the citadel from here they made their way to the weatherspire a tower fashioned from a glittering fulgurite a massive tube of glass formed from where a lightning strike hit the earth the gleaming crystalline mass had been carved with windows doors and balconies reinforced with metal within a spiralling stair led up to an observation platform where a number of exhausted looking wizards and other spellcasters were casting a steady stream of spells into the surrounding clouds apparently attempting to change the weather from its wintry conditions they found octavia greylead the leader of the weather witches at the very top of the weatherspire in a large chamber in which an illusory map of hex and the surrounding countryside has been conjured complete with weather patterns the map seemed to update itself in real time and was being projected by some sort of gleaming iridescent device that looks to be of librarian origins the woman studying the swirling mass of clouds intently looked basically human but her eyes shifted slightly in colour every few moments and her slightly pointed ears marked her as a changeling her hair was bright silver gathered back in a tight bun she looked vexed who are you she asked warily we re here to help yam proclaimed help with what the winter what you re here to help with the winter what are you talking about we re here on the recommendation of master melchior armand said handing octavia the letter she opened it and scanned it with her ever shifting eyes ringed with dark circles well melchior seems to think you re capable enough she said i suppose we can use all the help we can get at this point the party introduced themselves properly identifying some of their affiliations such as umbral unive...