Qandela Obscura/The Story So Far - Revision history

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		⚫	Hook: The investigators now carry a discovery that could stop the Dreamer as the world twists into a nightmare beneath his hand. But they will have to get back to the Pharos in one piece if they are to enact their plan.
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	Content Warnings: This assignment will include themes of body horror, distorted reality, violence, psychological distress, monstrous imagery, claustrophobic environments, survival horror, and desperate escape.		Content Warnings: This assignment will include themes of body horror, distorted reality, violence, psychological distress, monstrous imagery, claustrophobic environments, survival horror, and desperate escape.

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⚫	~~Characters~~: The investigators now carry a discovery that could stop the Dreamer as the world twists into a nightmare beneath his hand. But they will have to get back to the Pharos in one piece if they are to enact their plan.

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	# '''Return to 38 CR''' The investigators, awakening once more, were shaken by all they had witnessed. Their most important discovery came through [[Feyre Archeron\|Feyre]], who immediately used her eidetic memory to recreate the map and engineering drawings shown to them by Borin Halvek. Among them was the marked location of a second tower, a site the investigators now knew would one day become Newfaire, revealing that the Resonator was not an isolated invention, but the descendant of a forgotten Vaelonic network once built to connect cities, continents, and worlds. And that a second tower had potentially been built beneath [[Newfaire]].		# '''Return to 38 CR''' The investigators, awakening once more, were shaken by all they had witnessed. Their most important discovery came through [[Feyre Archeron\|Feyre]], who immediately used her eidetic memory to recreate the map and engineering drawings shown to them by Borin Halvek. Among them was the marked location of a second tower, a site the investigators now knew would one day become Newfaire, revealing that the Resonator was not an isolated invention, but the descendant of a forgotten Vaelonic network once built to connect cities, continents, and worlds. And that a second tower had potentially been built beneath [[Newfaire]].

	=== '''Assignment #30 - "~~The Transformed~~"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #30 - "Resonance"''' ===
	[[Session]] Tags:		[[Session]] Tags:

			Hook: Beneath the broken streets of Newfaire lies something older than the city itself. In the ruins below, forgotten structures stir with strange power, and echoes from a vanished age still linger in the dark. Investigators must descend into the depths to find an ancient power and hopefully use it to stop The Dreamer.
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			Content Warnings: This assignment will include themes of claustrophobic environments, ancient ruins, darkness, occult phenomena, psychological distress, environmental hazards, and exploration under extreme danger.
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	Characters:		Characters:

	GM: ~~Jay~~		GM: Matt

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	=== '''Assignment #31 - "~~Resonance~~"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #31 - "The Transformed"''' ===
	[[Session]] Tags:		[[Session]] Tags:

	Hook:		Hook:

			Content Warnings: This assignment will include themes of body horror, distorted reality, violence, psychological distress, monstrous imagery, claustrophobic environments, survival horror, and desperate escape.
	Content Warnings:

			Characters: The investigators now carry a discovery that could stop the Dreamer as the world twists into a nightmare beneath his hand. But they will have to get back to the Pharos in one piece if they are to enact their plan.
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	GM: ~~Matt~~		GM: Jay

	Important NPCs:		Important NPCs:

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	They were nearly intercepted in the air, but they managed to cross back into Noman territory and return to Newfaire.		They were nearly intercepted in the air, but they managed to cross back into Noman territory and return to Newfaire.

	Celeste ~~Marrow~~ and Sable left together.		Celeste and Sable left together.

	The investigators came home wounded, but with the research notes in hand.		The investigators came home wounded, but with the research notes in hand.

	=== '''Assignment #29 - "Perchance to Dream"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #29 - "Perchance to Dream"''' ===
			[[Session]] Tags: Time Travel, Ancient History, Vaelon, Resonator, Atycos, The Flare, Thinnings, Lost Civilization, Mythic Lore, Super Science
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	Hook: ''Answers to The Arcanum's and plans and what role The Dreamer plays lie just within Candela Obscura’s grasp. But at what cost to the investigators?''		Hook: ''Answers to The Arcanum's and plans and what role The Dreamer plays lie just within Candela Obscura’s grasp. But at what cost to the investigators?''

			Content Warnings: This assignment may include themes of psychological distress, out of body experiences, experimentation, altered states of consciousness, existential horror.
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			Characters: Avyaan Kumar, [[Feyre Archeron]], Noelle Silva, [[Mocking-Bird\|Olive “Mocking-Bird” Horvat]], Percy Montgomery
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	GM: ~~Jay~~		GM: Matt

			Important NPCs: Atycos, Caleb Zener, Damien (the Ember-Wrought Heart), Emily Zener, Eryssa (the Far-Seer), Ithros (the Quiet Keeper), Kaedor (the Wind-Bound Step), Dr. Michael Heywood, Pelethra (Stormbound Spear)
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			Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Recovered historical knowledge through the observant time travel, Confirmation that the Resonator is tied to ancient Vaelonic consciousness-transfer technology, Eidetically drawn recreation of a bass relief of the fall of Vaelon, Eidetically recreated engineering plans of the tower at Thalos’ Reach (Tower of Thalos)
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	District/Locations:		District/Locations: The Fourth Pharos, Thalos’ Reach

	Important Things that Happened:		Important Things that Happened:

			# '''Setting and Initial Observations''' The investigators entered the Resonator for a second controlled projection under the supervision of Dr. Michel Heywood with the assistance of Emily and Caleb Zener within the Pharos. Moments after activation, the machine destabilized and locked onto multiple thinnings in The Flare, pulling the investigators violently across several eras of history.
			# '''First Projection: The Ancient Battle''' The investigators awakened in the bodies of guards serving the Umbra Arcanum during a final confrontation with Atycos. They found themselves in the place of five very different warriors: an elf, a human, a fire soul genasi, a half-orc, and a halfling. They stood within an ancient Vaelonic chamber where a carefully prepared trap had been sprung. Atycos had been drawn into the chamber and now battled the forces of the Umbra Arcanum at the heart of an immense warding structure. The investigators were forced into the conflict immediately, engaging highly skilled fighters dressed in black who appeared to be allies of Atycos. During the battle, Pelethra and Kaedor directly engaged Atycos in combat, matching her with speed and ferocity. At the same time, Damien and Ithros began a ritual that caused the chamber itself to destabilize. As they worked, it became clear the magick they were invoking would allow them to abandon their present places in time and transfer themselves into the place of individuals in the past. Forced to act within the bodies they inhabited, the investigators were drawn deeper into the battle. During the chaos, Avyaan suffered a broken leg before the fight turned fully against them. The investigators were slain in the bodies they occupied. In their final moments, they witnessed the Arcanum unleash overwhelming power, kill Atycos’s allies, and complete the trap within the chamber as it came down around all of their heads.
			# '''Return to 38 CR''' The investigators were violently torn free of the past and slammed back into their own time within the Resonator chamber in The Foundry. They awoke disoriented, bruised, and carrying vivid memories of a battle fought in another age. The clash of steel and the sound of collapsing stone lingered in their minds long after the vision had ended. Most immediate among their injuries was Avyaan’s broken leg. The wounds they had gained in the past remained. Jacen and Olive moved quickly to help him. Together they reset the break. Once Avyaan was taken care of, the investigators compared what they had witnessed. Feyre immediately began recreating a bass relief she had seen in the chamber, complete with Vaelonic runes, though they were too worn by time to be decipherable. Their trip back in time had presented more questions than answers. Rather than shutting the Resonator down, the investigators made a dangerous decision. They would go back again. With Dr. Heywood’s reluctant assistance, the machine was recalibrated in hopes of following the same thinning in The Flare and uncovering where the vision led next.
			# '''Second Projection: Thalos Reach''' The Resonator activated once more, and the investigators were dragged backward through another thinning in The Flare. When the light faded, they arrived in a vast desert beneath an open sky. Around them was a great sigil burned into the sand and fused into glass by intense heat. A quick assessment made it clear they stood within an ancient Vaelonic summoning circle. As the projection settled, each investigator realized whose place they had taken in this era. Percy stood in the place of Eryssa. Feyre had taken the place of Pelethra. Olive stood where Ithros once had, and Noelle in the place of Kaedor. Avyaan, still recovering from his broken leg, remained behind in 38 CR. Before they could fully orient themselves, figures emerged through the heat shimmer. It was Atycos and her companions. The group soon traveled with them to Thalos Reach, where they were received by the settlement’s magistrate, Myrra Willowshade, an elf who had survived Vaelon’s final years and now guided the growing community. While the others adjusted to the strange new era, Percy did his best to quietly draw information from Atycos and those around her. It was here that Atycos placed a carved stone into Eryssa’s hands, its symbol unmistakably similar to the Candela sigil known in the present day. She told her: ''“As long as you have that, call my name and I will come to you.”'' Atycos then explained that she intended to seek out the Weave Singers, hoping they might understand the strange changes in the world that all of them could now feel. It also became clear that she and Eryssa had chosen to part ways with the others. They no longer agreed with the methods or attitudes their companions had adopted while trying to heal the damage left behind by Vaelon’s fall and the corruption of magick. When Atycos asked Eryssa about her intention to gather Light Keepers, she gave no argument. Instead, she mounted the back of a Pegasus and vanished into the horizon.
			# '''Thalos Reach and the Tower''' While Percy remained with Eryssa, [[Feyre Archeron\|Feyre]], [[Mocking-Bird\|Olive]], and Noelle entered the settlement proper and learned more of the people who called Thalos Reach home. Among them were Talan Verrow, one of the earliest humans to settle there, practical and observant; Sera Larkspur, a swift sylph-blooded scout; and Rhogar Emberhide, a drakeborn warden who guarded the settlement’s borders. They also learned of a great tower constructed there, intended to reconnect the scattered survivors of Vaelon with other surviving communities across the world after the empire’s collapse two hundred and fifty years earlier. The magistrate, Myrra, also spoke of the young race of humans, newcomers to Quelmar who knew little of Vaelon but had already proven themselves skilled builders, collaborators, and valued members of the growing communities. The investigators were then introduced to Borin Halvek, dwarf explorer, engineer, and master builder of the tower. Borin explained that he had discovered the plans in a ruined ancient library. Though he had found no intact mind shards, he recovered a damaged one and transcribed what knowledge he could before it failed forever. He then spent the next fifty years overseeing the tower’s construction while the people of Thalos Reach awaited the return of The Archons, the honorific they used for Atycos and her companions. Borin also revealed that another member of his original expedition had departed years earlier to construct a second tower elsewhere, and that it was nearly complete. When Feyre asked to see where that second tower stood on a map, the investigators were struck silent. The marked location was the place where Newfaire would one day rise, built unknowingly atop ancient ruins. Using her eidetic memory, Feyre committed the map and Borin’s documents to memory in full. The people of Thalos Reach spoke of the Archons with reverence, not merely as heroes, but as something close to divine. After receiving a blessing from Feyre, Borin Halvek quietly died. His life’s purpose had been fulfilled. He had lived to see the glory of Vaelon return, if only for a moment.
			# '''The Tower Activation''' Hours later, the people of Thalos Reach gathered for a ceremony. Myrra Willowshade spoke openly of hope. Hope that the towers would once again do what they had done in ages past. Hope that they would reconnect cities, continents, and worlds. Hope that Quelmar might rise again and touch the stars. Then the test began. An elderly man entered the tower. Moments later, a beam of brilliant blue light erupted from its summit and shot into the heavens. There it struck an unseen layer of energy that only became visible upon contact. As the two connected, the blue beam turned gold. The hidden layer above twisted and drew downward toward the tower, like fabric pulled taut by a new thread. Seconds later, a child ran into the tower and emerged carrying a glowing orange crystal. Myrra received the crystal and carefully placed it into the chest cavity of a waiting automaton. The construct shuddered. Its eyes lit with life. The old man had returned in a new form. The tower had worked. Yet the lay of the land and the placement of the tower struck the investigators with immediate dread. It closely resembled the bass relief Feyre had recreated from the first projection. The struggle they had witnessed in the ancient chamber and the hope they now saw in Thalos Reach were somehow part of the same story. With that realization, the Resonator tore them free once more and returned them to 38 CR.
			# '''Return to 38 CR''' The investigators, awakening once more, were shaken by all they had witnessed. Their most important discovery came through [[Feyre Archeron\|Feyre]], who immediately used her eidetic memory to recreate the map and engineering drawings shown to them by Borin Halvek. Among them was the marked location of a second tower, a site the investigators now knew would one day become Newfaire, revealing that the Resonator was not an isolated invention, but the descendant of a forgotten Vaelonic network once built to connect cities, continents, and worlds. And that a second tower had potentially been built beneath [[Newfaire]].

	=== '''Assignment #30 - "The Transformed"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #30 - "The Transformed"''' ===

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #28 - "East Hills" */

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Assignment #28 - "East Hills"

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			Avyaan, Jackson, and Mocking-Bird were sent to East Hills alongside the former head of the Red Hand, Celeste Marrow, to trace the origin of The Aegises. In exchange for her help, she would be set free and given back all the wealth she had lost thanks to Candela’s interference with her last auction.

			They chose the slower, quieter route. The team entered through the industrial border town of Krasnytska by rail and then traveled by car to Vostrya. Using false identities, they posed as Celeste’s entourage. Celeste presented herself as a wealthy heiress, letting the investigators believe that she was actually this person. Mocking-Bird acted as her maid, Evelyna. Avyaan served as her bodyguard, and Jackson took on the role of her accountant.

			The team settled into a mansion on the outskirts of the capital (Celeste told them was a family home that was vacated for the season), Celeste arranged a meeting with her contact, “Sable”. Jackson accompanied her to the meeting.

			While they were away, Mocking-Bird left the mansion to find Mila Korovin, the only Candela investigator operating in East Hills. She discovered Mila in the middle of sabotaging a government rocket that was set to be displayed in a military parade the next day. The rocket was meant to symbolize national pride and technological strength.

			The sabotage did not go as planned.

			Mila stumbled, and the tool she was using clattered loudly across the quad. Guards were alerted. Members of the resistance scattered, but several were shot and killed before they could escape.

			Mocking-Bird managed to pull Mila out and bring her back to the mansion.

			At the meeting, Sable told Jackson and Celeste that there were no additional pairs of The Aegises. The original pair had been removed from K-12. There were no others.

			When Jackson and Celeste returned to the mansion, the group regrouped and Mila was brought up to speed. Not long after, state radio announced that a foreign disruptor identified as Mocking-Bird had attempted to sabotage the military parade as part of a Noman effort to undermine East Hills and sow unrest in its smaller regions.

			Mila admitted she knew nothing about another set of Aegises. However, she had kept a copy of the research notes she and her colleagues had submitted to the government.

			Jackson volunteered to retrieve them.

			Posing as a university scientist, he bluffed his way past laboratory security while Avyaan waited nearby in a car as the getaway driver. Jackson secured the notes and returned to the mansion.

			When they arrived, they found Celeste attempting to double-cross them. She had Mocking-Bird at gunpoint and was preparing to flee.

			Avyaan burst inside and managed to disarm her, though he was shot twice in the process.

			Celeste then revealed she had an airplane waiting at a private airfield.

			With East Hills tightening its grip and propaganda spreading quickly, the group made for the airfield. Sable was waiting there. She agreed to fly them back to Noma on one condition: Celeste would be allowed to leave with her.

			They were nearly intercepted in the air, but they managed to cross back into Noman territory and return to Newfaire.

			Celeste Marrow and Sable left together.

			The investigators came home wounded, but with the research notes in hand.

	=== '''Assignment #29 - "Perchance to Dream"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #29 - "Perchance to Dream"''' ===

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #17 - "Liber Aeternum" */

2026-03-02T01:41:00Z

Assignment #17 - "Liber Aeternum"

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	'''GM:''' Matt		'''GM:''' Matt

	'''Important NPCs:''' ~~Jacen~~ ~~Beck~~, Elias Creel (informant)~~, Celeste Marrow~~, Neriah Saelis, Shard, The Hollow		'''Important NPCs:''' Celeste Marrow, Elias Creel (informant), Neriah Saelis, Shard, The Hollow

	'''Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:''' ''The Aegises'' - Once per assignment, on a successful Move attempt, take an immediate scar. Place The Aegises on one phenomena's wrists. While worn, these manicles suppress all supernatural abilities and bleed-related effects of the individual bound in this way.		'''Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:''' ''The Aegises'' - Once per assignment, on a successful Move attempt, take an immediate scar. Place The Aegises on one phenomena's wrists. While worn, these manicles suppress all supernatural abilities and bleed-related effects of the individual bound in this way.

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #17 - "Liber Aeternum" */

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Assignment #17 - "Liber Aeternum"

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	'''Important NPCs:''' Jacen Beck, Elias Creel (informant), Celeste Marrow, Neriah Saelis~~, Iris and Lilly Vale~~, Shard, The Hollow		'''Important NPCs:''' Jacen Beck, Elias Creel (informant), Celeste Marrow, Neriah Saelis, Shard, The Hollow

	'''Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:''' ''The Aegises'' - Once per assignment, on a successful Move attempt, take an immediate scar. Place The Aegises on one phenomena's wrists. While worn, these manicles suppress all supernatural abilities and bleed-related effects of the individual bound in this way.		'''Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:''' ''The Aegises'' - Once per assignment, on a successful Move attempt, take an immediate scar. Place The Aegises on one phenomena's wrists. While worn, these manicles suppress all supernatural abilities and bleed-related effects of the individual bound in this way.
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	=== '''Assignment #28 - "East Hills"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #28 - "East Hills"''' ===
	[[Session]] Tags:		[[Session]] Tags: Qandela Obscura

	Hook: ''The investigators are dispatched to East Hills, the former enemy of Noma during the Great No Man’s War, to'' '''''[REDACTED]''''' .		Hook: ''The investigators are dispatched to East Hills, the former enemy of Noma during the Great No Man’s War, to'' '''''[REDACTED]''''' .

			Content Warnings: '''''Content Warning: This assignment may include themes of surveillance, institutional secrecy, Nationalism/National Rivalries and body horror.'''''
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			Characters: Avyaan Kumar, [[Jackson Cunningham]], [[Mocking-Bird]]
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	GM: Matt		GM: Matt

	Important NPCs:		Important NPCs: Celesta Marrow, Mila Korovin

	Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:		Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Research notes, photos, designs of ancient machines

	District/Locations:		District/Locations: The Pharos, Krasnytska - East Hills, Vostrya - East Hills

	Important Things that Happened:		Important Things that Happened:

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #8 - "Faulty Memory" */

2026-02-25T03:14:16Z

Assignment #8 - "Faulty Memory"

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	* Olive changed into her disguise as Mocking-bird and shadowed Judge Donnelly.		* Olive changed into her disguise as Mocking-bird and shadowed Judge Donnelly.
	** She hid outside the fourth story window of the study at his home and overheard him discussing manipulation of the case with a man, whos eyes glowed like hot embers and that his “''...keepers wanted Lemmon taken care of or they would find a judge who would follow their instructions.''” Donnelly was promised significant wealth and political power in exchange for his services.		** She hid outside the fourth story window of the study at his home and overheard him discussing manipulation of the case with a man, whos eyes glowed like hot embers and that his “''... my keepers wanted Lemmon taken care of or they would find a judge who would follow their instructions.''” Donnelly was promised significant wealth and political power in exchange for his services.
	* After the Man with the Ember Eyes left, and Donnelly retired for the evening, Mocking-bird searched his home and found recordings and accounting documents revealing that Donnelly was taking bribes. There was also a tape recorder of conversations with the Man with the Ember Eyes clearly meant for use if Donnelly needed to black mail the group who was controlling his work as a judge.		* After the Man with the Ember Eyes left, and Donnelly retired for the evening, Mocking-bird searched his home and found recordings and accounting documents revealing that Donnelly was taking bribes. There was also a tape recorder of conversations with the Man with the Ember Eyes clearly meant for use if Donnelly needed to black mail the group who was controlling his work as a judge.

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #10 - "Hot off the Presses" */

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Assignment #10 - "Hot off the Presses"

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 Content Warnings: Graphic death (spontaneous combustion), Themes of suppression of truth, Political conspiracy, Supernatural and physical violence
-Characters: Carmen Baxter, Olive Horvat (Mocking-bird), Byron Hans Core (Regicide), Dr. Phyllis "Filly" Bailey, Dexter "Dex" Miller
+Characters: Byron Hans Core, [[Carmen Baxter]], Dexter "Dex" Miller, Dr. Phyllis "Filly" Bailey, [[Mocking-Bird]],
 GM: Matt
-Important NPCs: James Hendrix, the Man with the Ember Eyes, Malcolm "Mac" Voss
+Important NPCs: James Hendrix, Ember Eyes, Lucian Grim, [[The Nighthawk]]
 Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Evidence that Hendrix's story was being suppressed, Learning Worms, Bones used in the forming of a portal
-District/Locations: The Civil Tribune (Silverslip), The No Tell Motel - Room #17 (The Red Lamp), An Abandoned Warehouse (The Steel)
+District/Locations: The Civil Tribune (Silverslip), The No Tell Motel - Room #17 (The Red Lamp), An Abandoned Warehouse (The Steel), Grand Noman Hospital, Ember Eyes' Apartment
 Important Things that Happened:
 === '''Assignment #11 - "Behind Closed Doors"''' ===

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #27 - "Not a Dream, but a Nightmare." */

2026-02-25T02:51:07Z

Assignment #27 - "Not a Dream, but a Nightmare."

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	=== '''Assignment #27 - "Not a Dream, but a Nightmare."''' ===		=== '''Assignment #27 - "Not a Dream, but a Nightmare."''' ===
	[[Session]] Tags:		[[Session]] Tags: Qandela Obscura

	Hook: ''You’ve discovered where Lincoln is being held. A hidden facility beneath a series of abandoned warehouses… and a secret the Arcanum has been willing to kill to protect.''		Hook: ''You’ve discovered where Lincoln is being held. A hidden facility beneath a series of abandoned warehouses… and a secret the Arcanum has been willing to kill to protect.''
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	''Your task: get inside, get him out, and stop whatever they’re about to do.'' ''But take care... what you find there may not want to stay asleep.''		''Your task: get inside, get him out, and stop whatever they’re about to do.'' ''But take care... what you find there may not want to stay asleep.''

			Content Warnings: '''''This assignment may include themes of psychological distress, experimentation, altered states of consciousness, existential horror.'''''
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			Characters: Byron Hans Core, [[Carmen Baxter]], Dr. Phyllis "Filly" Bailey, [[Mocking-Bird]], Percy Montgomery
	Characters:

	GM: Matt		GM: Matt

	Important NPCs:		Important NPCs: Dr. Sabine Dirac, [[Lincoln Renfield-Murray]], The Dreamer

	Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered:		Phenomenon/Artifact Recovered: Lincoln Renfield-Murray

	District/Locations:		District/Locations: The Soffit, O.C.O. Fort Black

	Important Things that Happened:		Important Things that Happened:

			The investigators infiltrated Fort Black and reached Lincoln in the containment chamber. Filly shut down the medical systems sustaining the experiment, and Carmen entered the dreamscape to disrupt the magick fueling the sigil around the apparatus. Their actions destabilized the transfer, and a fragment of The Dreamer’s consciousness took hold within Lincoln as the chamber began to fail. As they fled with him, pursuing guards were reduced to sparks of orange light, and the corridors twisted around them as alarms blared. Before they could fully understand what had happened, Lincoln vanished in a flash of orange light. On the road back to Newfaire, the world began to change. Farmers stood like scarecrows fighting off massive, multi-eyed crows, and the city reshaped into a living monolith of brick and steel. Beck’s Gym has been destroyed. In its place floats a writhing throne of flesh, stars, fire, and shattered masonry, with Lincoln seated above streets of kneeling figures whose palms burn with his sigil. Beneath the broken skyline, a shadowed woman chants by a fire as glyphs ignite along her forearm and she screams into the night. The world has not ended, but it no longer feels stable, and nothing about it feels right.

	=== '''Assignment #28 - "East Hills"''' ===		=== '''Assignment #28 - "East Hills"''' ===

MattyFerdyWordy: /* Assignment #25 - "And Then It Got Stranger" */

2026-02-25T02:43:19Z

Assignment #25 - "And Then It Got Stranger"

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