The party, using their finite reserves of human learning capacity, have decided to split into not two, but THREE groups! The park group (Ethan, Lyca, and Van), the ship group (Nael, Arrus), and the gate group (Pheron, Maelrigar, Mystellar, Tallulah). That last one may be further split into the "staying at the gate" group and the "going to the mage guild" group. I suspect that this may be subject to revision, because whatever the hell kind of "plan" this is shaping up to be is... um... still in the shaping up part of becoming a plan. Yeesh.
Anyway, there were noisy bats, and a church of loot and travelling with an off-hand reference to the plot, and a mechanism from DF used to open the drawbridge that allows sandfliers to sail into the city and dock at the... dock. Then the group split into three groups, and may possibly split into a FOURTH soon, pending tactical discussion from the group. Next session is going to be
fun.
Anyway, journals are worth 100 exp per currently character level for everyone who joined the session today. That even includes Tallulah, if you can glean enough info to make a decent journal.
Also, because this week is no-school week, I think we can have an EXTRA SESSION on one of the weekdays! So everyone post what days you'd be available to play over the next week, and whether you'd prefer to have the session start at the usual time or two or three hours earlier.
P.S. given that Ethan shows up for the start of the next session, he's got a random encounter to get through with Van (whose location is defined as "wherever the group needs my blinktankiness most")