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NOTE: Session division may be approximate due to threads being out of synch when the session changes or due to lack of detail in the log entries.

24 Grasses 1833, 1403 Celestia - Day 1.

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25 Grasses 1833 - Day 2.

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26 Grasses 1833 - Day 3.

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[2013-08-28 40º Session]

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1 Seeds 1833 - Day 8.

[2013-09-25 44º Session]

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[2013-10-02 45º Session]

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[2013-10-09 46º Session]

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2 Seeds 1833 - Day 9.

[2013-10-16 47º Session]

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[2013-10-23 48º Session]

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[2013-10-30 49º Session]

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[2013-12-04 53º Session]

The Dread Dimensions - Time Uncertain

[2013-12-11 54º Session]

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[2014-01-08 57º Session]

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[At this point did Bryce, by common consent and desire, assume the duties of primary GM of the game.]

[2014-02-05 61º Session]

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[2014-03-26 70º Session]

[2014-04-02 71º Session]

The party begins launching attacks on the golems, and the golems reply in kind The party defeats the golems, after which the party is scanned and a long cylinder descends from the ceiling; a door in the cylinder opens, on the other side of which is an elevator containing an ambulant shadhavar skeleton; the skeleton utters some words in the shadhavar language which cause the shadhavar in the party to cover their ears, and then Rosie bucks it against the elevator wall; it rises, and combat is joined The skeleton begins combat by emitting a sound that stuns all the shadhavar in the party and Wiggles The skeleton takes a beating, and it is finally felled by FWCV flowing a pseudopod into its horn and exploding it from the inside; FWCV then gives the hornstar to Dark Dirge The shadhavar besides Dark Dirge summon magic and leave on their carpets through a hole in the wall (one built there, not blasted) The party discovers that the elevator control system, unfortunately, was damaged in the battle… which is rather easy to discover, because some large and important-looking bits of it are now lying on the floor The party juryrigs a repair, which works, and they set off for the Loremaster’s Private Residence… only for the elevator to stop and descend back to the bottom of the shaft The party tries to try again with the doors open, but the doors close automatically and then reopen without the lift having moved; study of the mechanism resumes The party discovers how to stop the car in the shaft and open the doors, but their first attempt faces a blank wall The second attempt is nearly right; the doors are visible but misaligned FWCV finally works out how to build (presumably reconstructing) a comparator out of the various scattered parts and thus renders the elevator functional again… though the floor codes still have to be entered manually The party rides up, successfully this time, to the Loremaster’s Private Residence

[2014-04-09 72º Session]

The party, after being rather surprised to discover that Eldritch Lore was apparently sharing quarters with a pastry chef (as indicated by a sign on the vestibule door), cautiously enters and begins exploring The apartment seems to still be in good shape, and the amenities are working The party finds a journal written in a gryphon writing system; Wiggles can read it, however, and it appears to have belonged to Eldritch Lore It turns out that Eldritch Lore was using divination magic to try and control the future, with some success, but saw something she really didn’t like and began to despair The party is rather surprised to discover a shadhavar, Dissonant Combination, casually reading in the bedroom; several things, though, seem off about him besides his location Wiggles, followed by Air Foil, looks at Dissonant Combination through the opera glasses and sees that he is definitely not a normal shadhavar Rosie gives Dissonant Combination some of the cake, with no obvious effect FWCV looks through the opera glasses as well Dissonant Combination, after some more conversation, runs out of the room and out of sight, ostensibly to get cake for the others A shadhavar in a “butler suit” appears in the bedroom doorway, announces that dinner is served, and heads to the dining room where Dissonant Combination waits at the head of the table, which is now piled high with cake, as another shadhavar finishes laying out silverware; the butler and the waiter then leave The party is somewhat hesitant, but they sit down to eat Dissonant Combination quite casually reveals that he’s a draconequus, was imprisoned in stone prior to the founding of Equestria, and was released, apparently, in the transition of the Helix to Equestria and back again; the conversation continues to be friendly After a bit, Dissonant Combination leaves, pleading a job interview Dissonant Combination returns in a poof of illogic, wearing a business suit, and proclaims that he got the job, has a few more things to set up, and then has a “simply marvelous surprise” for the party… and then he disappears again Firebug declares that she has had too much cake, then lies on the floor Rosie claims the bed, and Pen Nib follows (though they end up just doing some talking, kissing, and looting for later due to concerns about suddenly-appearing draconequi with scorecards); Firebug and Jay shut themselves in the servants’ breakroom [2014-04-16 73º Session] Parts of the party wake up separately and find that they’re playing a game with Dissonant Combination: capture the flag against a small army of monsters.

[A Thread] lots of stuff happened in the thread I (Owen) was in, and probably at least as much happened in the other thread… and, in any case, it looks like the logs will be sealed until the end of the game [Okay, Bryce has asked me to make a time log from the redacted version of the A thread, and he’ll be doing the same for the B thread later. The A party, hereafter within the brackets referred to simply as “the party” or Red Team, decides on a purely offensive approach to attempt to overwhelm any defenders at the enemy base; if the enemy flag carrier gets the party’s flag, they can be fought in mid While the party is en route, Pen Nib, flying to scout, spots one of the enemy making off with the Red flag; she flies to intercept, fighting and injuring two of the enemy but ultimately being unable to prevent them from escaping Meanwhile, the rest of the party has reached the enemy base and found it defended; though it is apparently unoccupied, Air Foil is killed by a trap The party avoids any further traps, but they discover that the defenders were just in hiding; battle begins Pen Nib joins the others and defends Rosie, but eventually an enemy attack gets past and kills Rosie; Pen Nib kills one of the enemy casters The enemy flag carriers return, but not before Curious Volume is able to get away with the enemy flag; it turns out that the rule require both flags in the same base for a victory Further combat takes place; Firey Wand is able to injure the enemy flag carrier and make off with the Red flag, and Pen Nib runs interference for him As the enemy lick their wounds and seem resigned to their loss, Pen Nib starts flying back to the Red base; however, it turns out that there was one enemy who hadn’t directly shown themselves yet and who had teleported to the Red base, trapping and then killing Curious Volume; Firey Wand is able to hide Pen Nib arrives and attacks the new enemy just as, it turns out, the enemy was teleporting; the enemy is telefragged and Pen Nib ends up back at the enemy base Pen Nib escapes the assault as Firey Wand plants both flags in the Red base, winning the game Or the first round, at least, as Dissonant Combination reappears, “resurrects” the “dead”, and announces that there is one more challenge before the party can claim their prize A giant chaos-breathing silver dragon rises from the ground in a shower of molten rock; combat ensues The party manages to prevail, and Dissonant Combination grants them some wishes] [End A Thread]

[B Thread] The B team, including Shear Steel who has her own body, learns that they are to play capture the flag with a group of monsters Epona and Shady go to capture the enemy flag; Firebug, Wiggles and Shear Steel defend the base. Shear Steel sets magical traps. Epona picks up the flag A horrid, nasty bee monster attacks Epona, but Shady takes the metaphorical bullet for her and is injured The bee apparently kills itself by smashing into the wall trying to hit Epona, and Shady and Epona escapes with the red flag Red team attacks the blue base, a cloud monster is killed by Shear Steel’s trap, battle ensues Wiggles is mortally wounded Blue flag carriers return, but Red team takes the blue flag and recovers their own, despite taking losses Shear Steel winks out to go to the enemy base, but when she returns, she has experienced a horrible winking accident and merged with the awful horrid bee creature The party tries to kill the AHBC but fails, though it is apparently driven off The party loses the game and are teleported to a box where they find themselves alive and healthy, and enjoy their consolation prize of 1 WORD. The party is returned to Eldritch Lore’s quarters [End B Thread]

The party wakes up back in Eldritch Lore’s apartment; Firey Wand and Curious Volume are now separate unicorns, Air Foil is a pegasus, and Rosie is visibly pregnant with her and Pen Nib’s foal (that is, the pregnancy is visible; Rosie doesn’t have its gene sequence printed on her stomach or anything); though the rest of the party lost their test, they were apparently given infinite cupcakes as a consolation prize Rosie takes some of Eldritch Lore’s larger-sized clothes

[2014-04-23 74º Session]

Rosie offers Air Foil her armor and horseshoes, and FW and CV assist with the removal and reapplication of the latter; Jay finally dons the stealthy pegasus stallion armor, which turns out to be magical and have the ability to teleport Firebug finds out from Dark Dirge that apparently the elevator car has left (with the doors into the shaft still open) and that the call button isn’t working The party heads down the stairs in the study to Eldritch Lore’s library, planning to search it and to use the space for the ex-slimepony mages to teach Rosie shield magic; unfortunately, the library seems to be in a fair bit of disrepair and has possibly also already been looted The party begins searching the library anyway The party is making some respectable progress in both tasks when Jay notices a pair of dead shadhavar in a corner… which then turn out to have “un”s in their descriptions Jay’s armor reveals that it can apparently teleport away weapons that strike it… and enemies that the wearer tackles The fight ends when Curious Volume is able to take control of the zombies; Firebug asks to be taught the magic The party begins arguing about the ethics of necromancy The argument is resolved in favor of Firebug being taught, over some objections, and the magic training and library searching resume FW tries to teach Rosie some arcane projectile magic, but this is much less successful than the shield magic lesson The book search finishes, with Rosie stashing the Astronomicon of Queen Stargazer and Sidereal Fragments in her saddlebags Rosie then pulls out and looks through the Tome of Primordial Chaos, which has retitled itself “Everything you wanted to know about anything, but were afraid to ask”; meanwhile, Curious Volume attempts to dissuade some other party members from breaking down a sealed door The party returns to Eldritch Lore’s quarters and begins trying to figure out how to reach the Spire’s panopticon room; fortunately, the lift door into the panopticon room’s antechamber is open, and the party can, and does, just fly up the shaft The party opens the door from the antechamber into the panopticon room, which seems to bear signs of battle Curious Volume dissuades Jay from randomly trying the controls around the periphery of the room and is then called over to investigate the skeleton in the center, which Rosie thinks is odd; Curious Volume scans the skeleton...

[2014-04-30 75º Session]

...Detects strong necromantic magic, and offers a combination of a polite greeting and a shield and slow retreat; the skeleton then comes to “life” and begins speaking Conversation commences, it is revealed that the skeleton is Dusty Tomes, former Archmage of Canterlot and now a lich soulbound to the throne, and CV is persuaded by FW to drop her shield; Rosie expresses continued suspicion, however Various party members attempt to simply move the throne to which Dusty is bound, but it’s firmly magically fixed Firey Wand breaks the binding curse Some book golems arrive from the now-open stairs to the control room Dusty Tomes starts asking about the relative levels of magicalness of the party’s unicorns and is understandably surprised to be told Curious Volume’s name Firey Wand frees Dusty Tomes, who then pardons Curious Volume and gives her his hat, cloak, and signet ring; meanwhile, Epona attacks Rosie and is in turn knocked out by Pen Nib Curious Volume then begins acting a bit oddly… and it turns out that she’s been unwillingly possessed by Dusty Tomes; the attempt to exorcise him fails, and battle is joined against him, in Curious Volume’s body, and the book golems A bolt renders Curious Volume’s body temporarily magic blind (Dusty Tomes not having encountered antiunicorn flashbang bolts before and not knowing how to defend himself), and Dusty Tomes leaves and reclaims his skeleton, taking his equipment with him; he then creates a bubble shield around himself Battle continues The party seems to be winning, but then Dusty casts a great barrage of lighting that injures and stuns most of the party

[2014-05-02 76º Session]

The battle continues; the party begins to rally, but Epona is dissolved into slime and Rosie and Pen Nib are still missing after the lightning barrage Dusty grabs the still magic-blind Curious Volume and tries to flee, sprouting fungal wings, but proves unable to break the containment fields Epona, having become a slime and apparently quickly regained consciousness and her identity, slams one of the golems into the wall, destroying it Firebug frees Curious Volume from Dusty’s telekinesis, and Firey Wand, having overloaded Dusty’s shield in a previous turn, blows the lich into four sections with a fireball, destroying the fungal wings in the process… and this appears to be enough to kill him Epona, still a blob, crushes the bones, then takes slimepony form Rosie and Pen Nib emerge from the stairs down to the control room Dusty Tomes’s hat falls apart as Firebug picks it up Epona tries out various tricks with her new sliminess Dark Dirge calls a bubble full of carpet-riding shadhavar, which appears outside the window Dusty broke Epona gives Wiggles her armor and crossbow The party, before leaving, sends the fliers down to retrieve the books they looked at earlier Epona tries to turn into a powered exoskeleton for Wiggles; this seems to work, but at the cost of embarrassing Wiggles, as Epona, flush with victory (or just being Epona) is in a playful mood Epona flows off Wiggles The party boards the carpets, and the group departs the Spire, Wiggles trying to stamp Epona’s slimy flank as the flight begins The carpets land at the platform near the shadhavar village from which they had departed, where a largish crowd of shadhavar is waiting

[2014-05-05 77º Session]

After True Song recasts the translation spell and the elders invite the party to a feast, Epona goes to see if the shadhavar healer can do anything for slimeification (without much hope of success); Dark Dirge, badly injured, is taken with her, and Firebug and Jay visit the temple of En-Bequ’avar; the rest of the party chats Firebug and Jay return Epona, not looking like a pony (because why not enjoy her sliminess as long as she has it?) returns; the healer was indeed unable to help her but mentioned that she might be able to get a miracle from one of the shadhavar deities While Firebug discusses plans for the future, involving Neighswango, Epona turns into a trampoline for Wiggles Epona decides to look into the miracle option and heads off to the temple of En-Ravanetsep with Wiggles Rosie and the RRC ex-slimeponies get into a debate on the Princesses, Rosie finally having said something that made the ex-slimeponies realize Rosie’s views of the Princesses The debate ends with the FW and AF being rather troubled, and Rosie and Pen Nib discuss plans to scavenge the Helix for foal supplies Rosie and Pen Nib set off in search of a midwife for advice and possibly direct aid, depending on how things turn out; the midwife they find gives them advice and tells them where they could get supplies, but it seems likely that all the foal supplies in the Helix have been looted or ruined already; supplies would have to be bought… or possibly received as gifts, given the party’s fame; the pair set off in search of the appropriate vendor(s) Epona (still slimed) and Wiggles return to the main body of the group, not impressed with En-Ravanetsep; Firebug attempts to get them to consider En-Bequ’avar Rosie and Pen Nib returns, having indeed received foal supplies as gifts The party is summoned to an audience with the elders; it turns out that apparently _Dark Dirge_ beat the Undying One, but the elders are still willing to help the party get home; apparently there is a powerful shadhavar mage named Bone Borer in the castle of Wind Wail in the Wailing Wastes who can probably help; the shadhavar also promise to help the slimeponies retake their territory from the scales if the slimeponies move out early and Bone Borer isn’t able to help after all The feast begins Rosie gives birth to a blue unicorn colt who she and Pen Nib then name Red Ink Firebug, Rosie, and Pen Nib discuss godparenting a bit, and then Pen Nib, Rosie, and Red Ink head off to find a place to sleep (All following this marker is in the future.)

[2014-05-14 78º Session]

6 Seeds 1833 - Day 13.

Rosie’s journal issue will arrive at Leaves and Leaves

26 Seeds 1833 - Day 32.

The first set of library books are due back

2 Heat 1833 - Day 38

The second set of library books are due back

30 Heat 1833 - Day 66. Holiday: Summer Sun Celebration.