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Story One: Conspiracy Theories

(Sessions: 2 to date)
Year of the Dolphin, Mercury Era of the Fourth Epoch of the Dragon-Blooded Shogunate

Moonday, 9th of Descending Water

• Takashi Daialla, Joshai Fuego, and Hedodath Srat are transferred to the city of Blueglass Springs.
• In a meeting with the mayor in which the town's head doctor, Kyril Aurum, is also invited, the three are told that the mayor suspects a conspiracy in place that could have political reprecussions, and asks them to investigate.
• The group checks out the offices of the deceased Dragon-Blooded. It transpires that someone has been by in the last week and cleared out secret caches of information in both offices. Fuego learns that Shozei Ballar suspects Kazei Passan of involvement and smuggling. Srat is assigned to guard Daialla and Fuego in case would-be murderers attack again.
• The group arranges to get travel permits into Shalaian to examine the crash site, and spends the intervening time getting to know their new comrades.

Mercuryday, 16th of Descending Water

• The group, along with a pilot and assistant, travel to three miles past the Shalaian border and meet with Kazei Gareth of Shalaian, who has been assigned to oversee their investigation.
• Inspecting the grounds, they discover that not only did a mysterious stranger investigate it a few days after Shalaian's own investigation (and thus within a day or two of the directors' files going missing), but strange multi-legged things also came by two days ago, and then left. Using their Charms to track them, they followed the course that Manager Ren's ship would have taken, before veering slightly off from a military checkpoint and stopping at a hill.
• Using his powerful artifact, Daialla found a sorcery-concealed passage. Gareth sent a soldier to report, and the group entered the passage cautiously.
• In the centre of the passage was what appeared to be a magical material version of amethyst, which Daialla could not pass through. Entering normally, the group was ambushed by a trio of six-legged hand creatures, which attempted to murder them with little success (although they managed to land one blow). The resulting fight failed to damage the amethyst chamber.
• Extensive geomantic surveys over the next hour revealed that the site was a Level N/A demesne, which was connecting itself to local Dragon Lines for some reason. Daialla was unable to figure out what the demesne's aspect was; it resonated with none of the known elements of Creation, Malfeas, the Underworld, or the Wyld. Kazei Gareth ordered a military guard be placed on the site, and the group arranged to have Scholars of Mela come to examine it later. Uncertain of what they had learned, they departed.