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[Enemy post]

We visit the weapon shop.

You drop in on Tyx's Quality Weapons and Armor, a large warehouse with many aisles displaying metal armor and weapons, and a smith hammering away in the back. Despite the huge selection, many of the items are overpriced, with just a few good deals being strictly better than all the other purchases. A large sign in front announces that the store is uninterested in purchasing used goods of any kind—especially magical goods, which are illegal.

Sam goes to the corner to pray, which is apparently his reaction to being bored out of his mind.

Verdigris keeps twisting around on your shoulder to look at the smith, but when you try to unattach her and set her down to watch, she doesn't want to let go of you.

What will you buy here? (You have 10 gold.)

A quality kite shield. (200 gold.)
A light set of chain mail. (300 gold.)
A new set of chain mail for Tal. (300 gold.)
A sturdy set of plate mail. (400 gold.)
A very well-balanced sword. (200 gold.)
A nice sword for Tal. (200 gold.)
1.I'd like to go to another store. (The clothing store is the only one left, and we still probably can't afford anything.)
2.I'm ready to head to the Cathedral.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Scribe Foo

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:7
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:9

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 4 (Good)

Personality
Optimism:62%/Caution:38%   
Humor:54%/Solemnity:46%   
Empathy:45%/Calculation:55%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 46 (Bad)
Sam: 70 (Great)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 2

Kingdom
Adoration: 52%/Vilification: 48%

Inventory
Gold: 10 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
Blessed Sam

Pets
Verdigris the Baby Dragon

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.
Cos and you agreed that you would secretly work for Akriton.
Though you thought you kept a low profile, you heard inquisitors are coming to town anyway.

Chapter 3

Two inquisitors came to your door: the more aggressive Blessed Jacob, and the kinder Blessed Sam.
An old man intervened, claiming you weren't home.
You waited until the inquisitors left.
The old man revealed himself to be Mayor Cos, who is a shapeshifter.
You went to a House of Sun service, led by Blessed Sam.
In the middle, your vivomancy disguise wore off, but Blessed Sam did not take any action to pursue you.
Blessed Sam asked you to heal his pet dragon, Thomas.
You agreed and healed Sam's dragon.
You offered to teach Sam vivomancy, and he agreed.

Chapter 4

You rode to the capital in a wagon with Sam and Jacob.

[King Zultan]

1 Never hurts to just look.

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Sure, clothes shop. I just hope there's no hats that we can't afford.

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[Enemy post]

We'll take a look.

The finest tailors in the capital have only one or two elaborate pieces in their storefront windows, as they assume their work will always be custom. You're in a bit of a rush, so you find a shop that advertises all its outfits as ready to go, with free alterations.

Sam looks like a fish out of water, and gazes out the window from the moment you set foot in the place.

What sort of outfit were you looking for? You can have any of these for 300 gold. (You have 10 gold.)

A dashing outfit that still allows freedom of movement for fighting.
The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.
I won't get a new set of clothes today after all.

Where would you like to go now?

On second thought, I'm ready to head to the Cathedral.

You return to the inquisitors' wagon, where some but not all of the guards have returned from shopping. But it's close to the deadline the inquisitors set for the guards. You pass the time waiting by playing with your dragon, Verdigris, who seems quite enamored with a stray piece of string you dangle before her until she gets excited enough to breathe flame, consuming the string and convincing you that playing in the wooden wagon may be inadvisable.

Sure enough, the guards return promptly just as the Cathedral bell tolls the hour that the inquisitors had set as the deadline.

You all proceed to the Cathedral.

When you reach the Cathedral, Blessed Sam and Blessed Jacob ask two guards to stay while the rest depart to their barracks. You enter through the huge bronze double doors in the center of the Cathedral, which appear to always remain open. You ask whether it's all right to bring Verdigris in with you, and Sam says yes. Verdigris perches on your shoulder as you enter.

You pass through a narthex decorated with ornate candelabra and a red carpet that leads to the towers at either end of the Cathedral. Proceeding straight ahead instead, you pass through another huge set of bronze double doors decorated with an engraved Eye of Abraxas. From there, you pass into the huge central chapel.

Stained-glass windows depicting the most famous saints of the past two thousand years light the room with a rainbow of color. The miracles depicted in the stained glass are mostly healing miracles, but one involves quieting a rampaging mob, and another depicts Saint Aug causing a negative-energy cloud to vanish. It occurs to you that these are all effects that could be achieved with magic—vivomancy for healing, glamor to quiet a mob, negation to dissipate the negative-energy cloud.

"Impressive, aren't they?" Sam says as you walk down the aisle between the pews. "Both the windows and the people."

1."I could do that stuff."
2."Yes, definitely."
3."Were the saints all wizards?"

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Scribe Foo

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:7
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:9

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 4 (Good)

Personality
Optimism:62%/Caution:38%   
Humor:54%/Solemnity:46%   
Empathy:45%/Calculation:55%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 46 (Bad)
Sam: 70 (Great)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 2

Kingdom
Adoration: 52%/Vilification: 48%

Inventory
Gold: 10 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
Blessed Sam

Pets
Verdigris the Baby Dragon

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.
Cos and you agreed that you would secretly work for Akriton.
Though you thought you kept a low profile, you heard inquisitors are coming to town anyway.

Chapter 3

Two inquisitors came to your door: the more aggressive Blessed Jacob, and the kinder Blessed Sam.
An old man intervened, claiming you weren't home.
You waited until the inquisitors left.
The old man revealed himself to be Mayor Cos, who is a shapeshifter.
You went to a House of Sun service, led by Blessed Sam.
In the middle, your vivomancy disguise wore off, but Blessed Sam did not take any action to pursue you.
Blessed Sam asked you to heal his pet dragon, Thomas.
You agreed and healed Sam's dragon.
You offered to teach Sam vivomancy, and he agreed.

Chapter 4

You rode to the capital in a wagon with Sam and Jacob.

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[Enemy post]

Were the saints all wizards?

"What makes you say that?" Sam says with a slight grin.

"All of those miracles are things that are possible with magic," you say.

"Really," Sam says, now definitely excited.

"No," Blessed Jacob growls. "The correct answer is no."

Sam shrugs. "I suppose," he says innocently.

You pass the pulpit and proceed through a door behind it to a tightly wound spiral staircase made of metal.

A heavy man with a big curly beard is ascending the staircase from below. As he gets closer, you feel a surprising warmth toward him. You can tell just from looking at him that he is kind, generous, thoughtful. He wants to make the world a better place.

As he reaches your floor, he stops to smile and wave at Verdigris. "Hi, cutie," he says to Verdigris.

As he ascends the stairs, you just want to follow right behind him. But as you start to do so, Blessed Jacob pulls you back.

"Hey, you're with us, not that idiot," Blessed Jacob says.

Sam looks offended. "That's no way to speak of Saint Twimsby!"

"I'm sorry, I don't see why everybody fawns over that fool," Blessed Jacob says. "Blessed or not, I'm pretty sure he's an idiot."

But as the distance increases between you and Saint Twimsby, you realize you know why everybody loves the saint. That was definitely a glamor, which has worn off now that Saint Twimsby is out of range. Blessed Jacob seems to have some kind of natural resistance to them.

"Sam, you and Holy Guard Ral can go up first," Jacob says. "I'll take up the rear."

Sam still looks offended, despite the glamor being out of range. "How can you just nonchalantly offend a saint, and then act as if nothing happened?"

Blessed Jacob gets in Sam's face. "Could we please just finish this damned mission without another holier-than-thou word out of you?"

It occurs to you that now is probably your best and last opportunity to make a break for it. The two inquisitors are distracting each other, and the two guards are watching them and not you. You could probably sneak down the stairwell. This place has piqued your curiosity, and you suspect you'll find out more in its basement, which you recall was once the basement of the great prewar magic academy that stood here before the Cathedral was built.

1.Sneak down the stairwell while the guards are arguing.
2.I throw down the "quick-acting 'incense'" capsule and make a break for it.
3.I still want to be a saint. Wait for the argument to play out.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Scribe Foo

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:7
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:9

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 4 (Good)

Personality
Optimism:62%/Caution:38%   
Humor:54%/Solemnity:46%   
Empathy:45%/Calculation:55%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 46 (Bad)
Sam: 70 (Great)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 2

Kingdom
Adoration: 52%/Vilification: 48%

Inventory
Gold: 10 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
Blessed Sam

Pets
Verdigris the Baby Dragon

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.
Cos and you agreed that you would secretly work for Akriton.
Though you thought you kept a low profile, you heard inquisitors are coming to town anyway.

Chapter 3

Two inquisitors came to your door: the more aggressive Blessed Jacob, and the kinder Blessed Sam.
An old man intervened, claiming you weren't home.
You waited until the inquisitors left.
The old man revealed himself to be Mayor Cos, who is a shapeshifter.
You went to a House of Sun service, led by Blessed Sam.
In the middle, your vivomancy disguise wore off, but Blessed Sam did not take any action to pursue you.
Blessed Sam asked you to heal his pet dragon, Thomas.
You agreed and healed Sam's dragon.
You offered to teach Sam vivomancy, and he agreed.

Chapter 4

You rode to the capital in a wagon with Sam and Jacob.

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[brewer bob]

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[Glass]

...it’ll annoy the priests, but fuck it, 1.

[King Zultan]

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[Enemy post]

We sneak down the stairwell.

You try sneaking down the stairwell. The inquisitors don't notice, and once you're out of sight, you begin bounding down the steps two and three at a time.

When you reach the bottom, you find yourself in a maze of ancient stone corridors, dank and mildewed. You return to moving stealthily, but it doesn't seem to be necessary; these corridors seem seldom used.

You head in a random direction and quickly find yourself entering a block of prison-like cells. Someone has scratched "PURGATORY" into the floor here. You wonder if this is where you would have gone if you had continued on the path to sainthood. Purgatory is the waiting area before Heaven, right?

You carefully peer into each cell. Most of them are empty.

Sam catches up to you.

"You're still here," you observe.

"I know," Sam says. "Listen, how about if I just…escort you? You can think of me as your prisoner. Though I would certainly prefer to be your guide. I just…I just can't stand the thought of your running away and disappearing forever."

1.I chase him away. He can't be trusted.
2.I let him come with me.
3.I kiss him.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Scribe Foo

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:7
  Automation:7
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:9

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 4 (Good)

Personality
Optimism:62%/Caution:38%   
Humor:54%/Solemnity:46%   
Empathy:45%/Calculation:55%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
Tal

Tal: 56 (Good)
Cos: 46 (Bad)
Sam: 70 (Great)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 2

Kingdom
Adoration: 52%/Vilification: 48%

Inventory
Gold: 10 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
Blessed Sam

Pets
Verdigris the Baby Dragon

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.
You kissed Tal.
You restarted the automated mine that was the dodecapede's lair.
You restarted Akriton's giant fans after the death cloud passed.
Cos and you agreed that you would secretly work for Akriton.
Though you thought you kept a low profile, you heard inquisitors are coming to town anyway.

Chapter 3

Two inquisitors came to your door: the more aggressive Blessed Jacob, and the kinder Blessed Sam.
An old man intervened, claiming you weren't home.
You waited until the inquisitors left.
The old man revealed himself to be Mayor Cos, who is a shapeshifter.
You went to a House of Sun service, led by Blessed Sam.
In the middle, your vivomancy disguise wore off, but Blessed Sam did not take any action to pursue you.
Blessed Sam asked you to heal his pet dragon, Thomas.
You agreed and healed Sam's dragon.
You offered to teach Sam vivomancy, and he agreed.

Chapter 4

You rode to the capital in a wagon with Sam and Jacob.
While Sam and Jacob fought, you sneaked into the basement.

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