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># Lame
><div class="sessionday">67</div>
><div class="sessionlocation">Session 43</div>
><div class="sessionsum">Nothing, it seems, was ever right in the world of man.</div>
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>[!infobox|manifest wider no-title] <span class='at-badge ghost at-md'>Session Overview</span>
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>|Session|Session 43|
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>|Date|9th August 2026|
>|Day|Truceday<br>27th Hirotashi, 4361</br>|
>|Season|Summer<br>Season of Clear Skies</br>|
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>>[!footer]
>>## Index
>>- Received Scripture _[[Fear Not, Bride of Hallow]]_
>>- Received Scripture _[[Natural Temple]]_
>>---
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>>[!location]
>>## Locations
>>- [[Convent of Mercy]]
>
>>[!npcs]
> >## Characters
> >| | |
> >|-|-|-|
>>|[[Mendekua]]|||
>>|[[Finneas]]|||
>>|[[Potter]]|||
>>|[[Tony]]|||
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>>[!izeroids]
>>## Izeroids
>>- Princess Mannequin
>>- Cavern Carving (inscription 1)
## Session Notes
- Mendekua leaves to get the Jewelled Star
- Izre asks Finneas to follow Mendekua after he leaves the Calefectory
- Mendekua brings back the Jewelled Star
- Jewelled Star cannot be opened unless by the one who last attuned to it
- Two agree for Mendekua to hand over the item, in exchange for an item from Mendekua
- Izre gives back 2 of Mendekua's izreoids, Izre keeps one
- Izre & Diletta talk post-physical examination about the bandages being Vindarr's
- Izre goes to talk to Vindarr
- Asks Vindarr to find a personal item of his to part with
- Vindarr hesitantly agrees; says Mendekua 'clearly wants something to scry on him with'
- Abby asks Mei about what she knows about what Mendekua wants with her
- Talks about protecting Mei and not wanting to exchange anything for Mendekua's deal
- Mei calls Absence 'lame'
- Group (minus Vindarr) in dorm room
- Catching up
- Diletta tells them about the balneary experience/voices/etc.
- Izre tells them about his conversation/bargain with Mendekua
- Izre suggests bargaining with Mendekua about the Wyrmling meeting with instead returning the Jewelled Star
- Decide to go into the hole the next day
- Diletta goes to speak to Mendekua in his dorm
- Mendekua reveals Wyrmlings are going extinct
- Talk about Finneas' origin, cursed to be unable to say what Finneas is
- Diletta sits by the exorcism door
- Heres incoherent babbling (Hopelessness is confirmed as the only hope. Death and cruelty and contempt are normal. Anything comely or beautiful is an illusion. Nothing, it seems, was ever right in the world of man.)
- An entire night of whining/screaming (What one imagines a wolf or tiger would make if it were disembowelled slowly)
- Mei return straitjacket & helps with tying the corset
### Group Goes to the Hole
- Gabriel does not come with
- Izre drinks Blueberry & Hazelnut tea
- Diletta goes in first; rope tied around Mei (90ft)
- both get Bardic Inspiration (d8)
- Move through; find small cavern with a mannequin in a costume
- Other's join; remove rope from Mei
- Continue on
- "Aren't you forgetting something?"
- "...Or someone?"