Early Game

The Chasm

This played out over a long time, we where given small about of information over a long time that there was something going on. Someone where planning to do something against the guilds and there was a clear threat against Orzhovia. We tried to talk with the guildpact and Orzhow to get help but ended up investigating this our self.

We realized that there where encoded messages inside The Ravnica Standard. Looking back we realized that this went several issues back and there where someone instructing someone to cause destruction to the current formation of the Guild Pact. The living Guild Pact, Jace, was still missing at this point (he had been missing since we started playing).

Slowly things started to come together and we found old Izzet blueprints about an old canceled underground railway going from the smelting district all the way to New Prahv. The tunnel went really close to Orzhova and we found indications that this sounded like the intended target from the encoded messages in the newspaper.

This was during the Festival of the Guild Pact that did distract us a little with fun activities where we investigated this conspiracy theory deeper.

Project lighting bug ∾

We visited the lab of Raul who was involved in a project that attached an tracker to people. This was a project instructed to Raul by Niv Mizzet. The idea was to track people that they beveled "could jump to other planes of existence", back then a crazy conspiracy theory.

The Race ∾

We played a mini game in a session racing cars, there where a few nice cash rewards here that a few members of the group got. This was also one of the first public events that we did as a group even of some of us took a more discrete role in the race.

Xovus found his way in to the race by convincing the eccentric relative Howdy that there where an economic gain by letting me borrowing the racing car he pays for.

Gore House ∾

We visited the Gore House and was thrown in the arena and had to fight of a few fighters. We also got the chance to see Rakdos him self watching the show. We found Raul down in one of the bars outside the arena and we talked about his project and the conspiracy theory and the danger to the guilds. He was the one that pointed out and helped us with the secret messages in the news paper.

The Ravnica Standard's office ∾

We investigated how the secret messages got imprinted to the newspaper by visiting the Ravnica Standard's office. There we met the person behind it, Mr Taz and his co-conspirators Raul and Krenko. Whey all had different motives behind destroying, or rather disturbing the guild pact. Raul was reveled to be a plane walker, a person that can jump between planes. Jace is a plane walker to and he may be lost in another plane, that would explain why he can't be found at Ravnica.

They had a plan to restore the real magic of the guild pact, the old guild pact before the living guild pact was needed. But to harness the magic needed to restore it again they needed to destroy the new pact, and kill several guild leaders to harness the needed magic.

Raul and Taz did it for the "grater good of Ravnica" and Krenko mostly for money and influence.

We where invited to join, we did not. They let us go after, feeling that there was a possibility that we could be useful, and maybe change out minds later on.

The Tunnel ∾

We finally found our way to a warehouse in the smelting district where we found a gang of guildless gobblings guarding the entrance to the tunnel. After we took care of them we entered the tunnel and finally found or way to the explosives that where scattered all the way in the tunnel. They where almost ready to lit it and blow it! We started to fight them and this triggered a to early explosion that really should have killed us... but instead we sparked!

We Sparked

Xovus Journey ∾

The first plane walk was triggered by a near death experience when an enormous explosion caused the spark to awake and Xovus discovered his abilities. On the first plane walk, he ended up in the realm of Eldraine (3) where he spent some time to gain streight and learn more about his new skill. After that, the first controlled jump took him to Kaladesh (7). After that he made an easy jump to Dominaria (6) where he immediately jumped to Mercadia (2). He then moved on to Ikoria (18) and then finally back to Ravnica (15). He then took a short visit to 19 before returning and meeting up with the rest of the team.

It took Xovus some time to realize that the talk about "other planes" and "plane walkes" where real. He first woke up in a forest alone in Eldraine with was a strange sensation for him, no buildings!

Eldraine ∾

He believed for quite some time that he had been teleported to a distent district on Ravnica. That made a lot of more sense! He was really hurt after the explosion, and the added strain from his first, uncontrolled, plane walk was almost to much for him. But he felt better after he found an animal to feed on and started to explore.

Garenbrig ∾

He found his way to the Castle Garenbrig be following enormous stone constructions in the landscape. Where he met his first people, and he got to know Hal, knight of Garenbrig.

They did not know about vampires, not sure of this was a good or bad thing but Xovus lived on animal blood for some time until he felt to poisoned and needed real humanoid blood. He considered if he would drink in the cover of night or just straight out ask them if he could bite them. The knights where friendly so he talking with them about his needs and ho his surprise there where really eager to offer their blood to him.

Xovus did not understand this at the moment, but they showed courage by doing this to help me. But that explains why the knights where so eager for me to drink from them.

I spend a few weeks there to recover, after that I asked for a place of magic with the hope of regaining some knowledge about plane waking and how to do that again, controlled this time. I needed to find a path home again. Hal offered to guild me to Castle Vantress, a school of magic and "the place to be" for magic enquirers.

Lochtwain ∾

Xovus and Hal passed this kingdom on our way to Vantress. The current high king Queen Ayara of Lochtwain is ruling the realm of Eldraine.

Vantress ∾

They finally found they way to Castle Vantress, Hal and Xovus parted ways hand entered the castle. He was brought before the mirror who is a magic talking mirror that has a quest of know everything! It was curious about me and I offered up some information about my home (I talked a little about Orzhov, and how awesome we are) and the mirror offered up some information it contained, knowledge about plane walking.

It had acquired that from two plane waking twins. The mirror did not know that much about the other planes so I spent about a months studying books and magic in the school to find, understand and control my spark.

Under that time I needed to drink and I started to get close to a dwarf called Neverhilda, one thing lead to another and I did not only get a person to drink from, I also got my self a girlfriend.

I was knighted and tasked by the mirror to bring back knowledge to the mirror. Sounded like and easy task considered that the mirror know almost nothing about other planes. He also felt that it did not interfere with his Orzhov beliefs.

He and Nerverhilda had started to make custom a magical cape with part Knight of Vantress and part Orzhov design. Xovus left the plane before it was completed but later on collected it.

Kaladesh ∾

His first jump was draining but nothing compared to the last time. He ended up in a city in Kaladesh. This was an interesting place with no mana, only a more raw form of magic, the ether. The Ether powered most things in the society including constructs more refined he had ever seen Izzet construct home in Ravnica.

He entered a shop to try to buy medical supplies (maybe to sell later on to make a profit). The shopkeeper had never seen a Viashino and misidentified him and called the police. Xovus tried to play nice telling them he was from a remote part of the world but the police where corrupt and he got thrown in the bridge for a missing training license. One of the larger prisoners tried to "show who's the bos" but he just ended up being bitten and almost drained of blood by Xovus. Since then, Xovus had half the cell for him self, the rest tried to stay away.

He talked with one of the prisons who had been there for years without any formal sentence. Xovus realized that waiting or talking his way out was unlikely. The prisoner was a species that he had never seen before. They lived naturally with the ether, but humans that controlled Kaladesh had claimed sole ownership and control of all the ether.

Xovus had finally "recharged" from his last jump and jumped away in front of the suprised prisoners.

Dominaria ∾

His second jump took almost no effort compared to the last one. This was an easy plane walk. He ended up at the world of Dominaria, but did not know it. It was just empty field with enormous dead beasts at the horizon, Xovus jumped again.

Mercadia ∾

He ended up outside a city that was on the top of an up side down pyramid in the middle of the desert. He spent a night there exploring the city little. It looked to be a trading spot in the middle of a desert on this plane. On the bottom there was a slum and trading stations where traders unloaded their camels. The main city was on the top and there there where several different layers as well, the more wealthy where living on the top.

Xovus socialized with some people, build expensive drinks. The leader of group at the table got really drunk and went for a piss from the edge and Xovus used that to drink from him to satisfy his needs. He had not consumed blood for some time.

Ikoria ∾

The next destination was Ikoria where he got to know X and explored the landscape. There was mana crystals growing out of the ground and enormous beasts (large like mountains) roaming the landscape. He met X in the forest where he jumped in and they journeyed to the city of X but was attacked outside the city walls when they realized he was a magic user. Apparently they did not allow others to do magic. This was a close call but Xovus was able to escape back to the forest again.

He got the means to contact X if he ever returned.

Ravnica ∾

Xovus had learned to "listen" for the life and feel the type of magic in the surrounding realms early one. This was probably from the knowledge the mirror shared with him, combined with his own studies. With this knowledge he was able to stay away from dead and chaotic worlds. When he was ready to jump from Ikoria he felt the signature magic and enormous amount of life from a realm close by, it had to be Ravnica and it was! He jumped home and ended up in Tin Street.

Xovus visited the Hoods and Adams mother Eveline believed Adam was dead, and at this point, so did Xovus. Xovus assumed that he was the only one that survived. Eveline removed the debt Xovus had to the Hoods.

19 ∾

With district 10 in chaos, all his friends dead he jumped to plane 19 and had a meeting with Red Riding Hood and Werewolves, another close call that he survived.

We found each other ∾

Back on Ravnica again I found that the rest had survived as well, they had just needed more time to get back to Ravnica. Some got back to the correct plane, but found them self in a remote district. We spent time in the realm of Serra's Realm where we felt self and shared out experiences with antother.

The most interesting cliff notes where that Izkri had found Jace in Ixalan. He had lost his memories. There where an item there that prevented plane walking that later on got stolen by person with a silver hand, in the process killing another plane walker from Ravnica, the love of Jace. Jace jumps away.

Upzec jailbreak ∾

When the rift opened after the grand explosion criminals escaped all over the city and caused chaos. Some of the more hi-end criminals have apparently joined Mr Taz.

The new guild order ∾

After the rift opened several guilds have changed leaders, or people in powers has been replaced. There are rumors of a new group that controls it all from behind the scenes. People that are suspected to be part of it are:

• Navaid Bon (Azorius)
• Nikya of the Old Ways (Gruul)
• Prime Speaker Vannifar (Simic)
• Teysa Karlov (orzhov) [suspected]
• Some Golgari factions [suspected]

Note that Teysa has been been disposed and is currently on the run. Navaid, Nikya and Prime has replaced the guilds previous leaders. Little is known about the Selesnya.

Fopter ∾

Flying "helecopter style" of craft run by the Azorius to monitor the citizens since the cataclysmic event after the explosion. There is an curfew after the sun goes down. When we first arrived back after our spark, we had to get ID:s from the Azorius. Xovus used his new name Tzim Meshir in the documents.

Plane Walks

Arcavios ∾

We learned that there are several factions of powerful planewalkers out there. Some of them like to do good, others are more focused at personal gain. Then of course the idea of what's good can differ from person to person.

Kasmina liked us to join her "no name" order (it has no name). She refuses to reveal how is members before we join, but she tells us that she protects the planes from evil. She is powerfull, and we learn that planewalkers where even more powerful in the past. The plane walkers that lived then (like her) sacrificed most of their powers to stabilize the multiverse from a collapse. Dominaria is the nexus of the multiverse and it was ripping the plane apart, their sacrifice stabilized it.

Theo Verada ∾

New recruit of the "no name" order, shy, from Gobakhan. Gobakhan has storms of diamond dust that will slice people apart unless protected by shields mages. He was one but failed, everyone in his village died, but he survived because he sparked. He is still traumatized.

Kasmina ∾

Human and really old and powerful. Lives in Strixhaven. She was much more powerful back in the day before Dominaria collapsed in to it self and powerful plane walkers from her group stepped in an used most of their collective power to prevent the collapse of Dominaria by preforming the mending, and because Dominaria is/was the nexus, prevent the collapse of the planes.

Infomation ∾

We got to know that Jace was part of a group of plane walkers called Infinite Consideum, left it and later created The Gate Watch. There is also a group called Order of the Open Flame.

Dominaria ∾

We liked to get some more information about her order and of we could trust Kasmina, she asked us to talk with Teferi over at Dominaria so we traveled there. We where new travelers and had no idea how to get close to or find Teferi so we choose to travel to Tolaria West and ask around. Vazzix had been here during his travels and we where able to follow him when he jumped.

Tolaria West ∾

We met Professor Donato, Brine Seer in Tolaria West Campus that took us to Professor Venters, Archvist of Planar Studies. Venters was attacked and almost killed when "the silver handed man" tried to kill him to steal a book about the ice age. It looked like the man had purple mana. He also rearranged the magical map of the planes and studied it.

The Journey to Jamuraa ∾

Professor Venters suggested we take the boat from Tolaria West (top left) to Jamuraa (middle right).

Tolaria West to Spice Isles ∾

We started by paying a fishing boat to travel to Spice Isles (red line). We got the journey for free because we helped the fishing boat with a record catch of fish.

At the Spice Isles we found Soror Marium, Duchess of the Spice Isles. She tried to catch a ride to Corondor from the ship The Valeriad, a ship captained by Captain Barbe Violette. We got paid 2000 Westmark to guard The Duchess from pirates and dangers at the sea. We will part our ways at the city Suqata, Jamuraa.

The Valeriad ∾

We got to know the crew a little after we left port and started to cross the open sea. Xovus asked about our destination Suq'ata, it sounded like a place with a lot of wildlife, savanna/tropical style of animals. He was pointed out that do no disturb the order in the city and do not hunt their animals.

During the voyage, we where attacked by a Tolarian Serpent. A huge battle occurred and we where victorious to the surprise to the ships crew. The serpent is usually the end of a ship like this. The crew tell us that some of the Tolarian Serpents are intelligent and they some times allies with pirates.

We increased the speed of the ship to try to outrun possible pirates, but after a few hours two giant albatross with a 100ft wingspan approached carrying two pirates each on their back. They started attacking the ship. During the combat, dash used the wand and it randomly rolled a wild magic chaos sphere with a radius of 964 feet where all magic casts where randomized. The effect will last for 90-something years, and it's invisible from the outside.

One pirate that we captured tells me he is a Talas Privateer that works for the crown of Caliman during the interrogation. They are at war with most everyone at sea, and an attack during war is always an acceptable spoil of war. He also tells us that we most likely are hunted by his people still... we kill him and sails on. During the following night we realize that we are followed and we play cat and mouse trying to get rid of them during the night with a decoy, it failed.

The pirate ship catches up with us. The island Ru-Nora will not be friendly to us and we would probably be even worse of if we headed there so we choose to fight close to a few small islands to get some additional strategic cover. A large ship to ship combat starts, we win the battle and sink the pirate ship.

Xovus and Ø loots the ship from the bottom of the sea. We fins a few interesting items. The captain of the Valeriad conscripts the surviving pirates as crew and the journey continues to Suqata, Jamuraa where we part our ways. Valeriad will unload cargo and prepare to travel back. The Duchess will carry on to Corondor where she lives.

Jamuraa ∾

Suqata ∾

The largest continent on Dominaria. We exit at the port of Suqata, an old medivial looking city with an Arabian or middle east type of feeling. There are a lot of different spice trading going on in the city, some of the group buy some spice and trade a little but Xovus mainly stays out of the way.

A mr. T (we assume Teferi) pays for your stay in the inn for the night.

Femeref ∾

Teferi is somewhere in Femeref, we passed the cost earlier but we followed our promise to deliver the Duchess to Suqata.

Teferi Akosa ∾

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    Teferi wait for us at the beach of Tefemburu
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We meet Teferi and his daughter Niambi in the small village of Tefemburu. The village is a small village of just 10 houses. Before the disaster this village was a much larger town. The village has an African style to it.

Teferi is an cronomage, a time mage. He remember us from the future and the past. This is the first time we meet him from our point of view.

Teferi is a bit over 1200 years old, he is not a plane walker at the moment because he lost his spark when he was part of the mending that prevented the destruction of the multiverse and Dominaria. His daughter is over 140 years old and looks older than Teferi.

The Mending ∾

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    Teferi welcomes us
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About 60 years ago Teferi sacrificed his spark to prevent the collapse of the multiverse. Plane walkers before this was much more powerful, they where like goods, almost impossible to destroy, could form an reshape worlds and so on.

They traveled all over the multiverse, but all that travel had the cost of puncturing holes in the fabric of time and space. Plane walkers could transport living things with them, and there where gates that could transport entire ships between planes. The ferections from a plane called frerexia, a machine civilization used these gates to attack and convert living beings to machines.

All the holes and fractured space and time caused the multiverse to start to collapse, this caused chaos especially on Dominaria who was the nexus of the planes. The mending of the time streams together to close the time rifts and heal the multiverse. This stopped the collapse but caused ripple effects in the multiverse. Most likely this is the reason why the nexus started to move away from Dominaria, and probably why the guild pact broke down at Ravnica, who also lifted the protected cloak that had protected Ravnica and opened the plane for plane walkers.

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    The daughter of Teferi
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As part of the mending, the time streams where manipulated to greatly limit the power of the spark. The spark is now much more limited compared to before. It is also impossible to create gates, and a plane walker cant anymore bring living matter with him in a jump like before.

He know nothing about the man with the metal arm that tried to take the book about the Ice Age. Teferi become quite worrisome that he did no know that we had the book with us. As a time mage he was able to see in the future, but for some reason this was cloaked for him. What else did he not see? Was the man planning this?

FAQ with Teferi ∾

• Dominaria is not longer the nexus
• Kasmina's "no name" group. Cause is just, but not always the methods
• Teferi tells us that Jace is a mind reader. He grow up in Ravnica, the metal arm man as a father figure. Later lived in Kaladesh (maybe). He did bad things, whiped peoples mindes, changed laws to his gains.
• The identity of the metal armed man is hidden from Teferi in some way.
• He told us that Jace had lost his memory before, he would be found at the grave grieving his loss.
• The metal armed man, and Jace was in some location in Ravnica when he looked 10 years old. They where at a location with medical supplies.
• The Vadalken we handed Krenko to was Mr Taz. Taz is a shapeshifter, but it's unclear if he really exists. He is probably an avatar of someone else.
• The Chasm under the guild hall was created because they like to stop Ravnica from being discovered. Has something to do with the moon, someone is prisoned "on a moon", possible on a world with just the one moon. Teferi can't really describe the moon, this moon is an ice moon. Felt like it was encasing something.
• Teferi don't know about the end of the story where the metal armed man took The Immortal Sun that prevented plane walks. A story line that played out during Izkris initial plane walks.
• Dash (Ø) was made by a person who is not a person, an elf scientist. Uses amoebas of some kind. He is not the original, also a creations. Bald, green skin.
• Losty has not got all the memories unlocked yet. A skilled telepath could unlock these memories. There are possible future memories where Jace unlocks the memories.
• I asked who my sire was. He has no idea, this was before the guild pact was broken and Ravnica was cloaked.

Living Guild Pact

Cevraya ∾

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    Golgari shaman
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Helped us when we handled crazy people in Medori Park, with the worm attack on. She sacrificed her right of succession by visiting the surface to help us stop the plague that made people crazy.

We asked her for directions to the grave of Razkra where we believe Jace is. She tells us that we where at the funeral a week ago, Vazzix remembers something vaguely.

Jace ∾

When we are getting close to the tomb an illusion if Jace appears asking us to turn back. It vanish again. We carry on and it repeats several times. Jace tells us that we have lost every time, asks us to turn back.

We considering is there is some memory wipe, or time traveling going on here? When we finally arrive at the tomb it's overgrown with Jace laying over the chest asking us to leave. We try to talk him down, he reveals that we have been here every day for a week. Each time we whips our memories but we are returning over and over again repeating the pattern. This time I ask to get our memories back "to have a proper conversation" and he returns them.

We hoped to be able to solve it without combat because he is really powerful, but he starts combat like the last times anyway. This time we have our memories from the last times we fight with him so we have an advantage and are able to get him to calm down finally.

Xovus used Speak With Dead to spek with Razkra body. This did not give us that much information but it did distract Jace during the fight.

We noticed a darkness over him, something where affecting his mind. We where able to get him to collapse and then later on clear up his mind. He got out of it with no memory since last time he was at Ravnica before he disappeared the first time.

After the the fight, Krenko arrives. We blasts his people with fireballs and we win easily. We catch Krenko and Losty uses magic on him to sugest that he will ask Mr Taz to meet us.

Jace Sanctum ∾

We have been in the sanctum before when we looked for him. This was before we where plane walkers and the books and notes made much more sense now.

We talk about the book if the ice age that the silver handed man tried to steal, The Eternal Ice: A Chronicle of the Age of Ice by Egal Tiram. He tells us about an being in ice, travels between planes. Book written by this entity. An entity that destroys worlds and drives them insane. It's called Marit Lage (note the books authors name, read it backwards). It has since then been sealed away in a ball of ice back in the ice age on Dominaria.

Maybe she is free, maybe she is lose to Ravnica considering the insanity that has started to be more and more common here. The plague that we helped with earlier is just one of many similar problems that have occurred recently. Then of course, someone did affect Jace mind to.

He tells us that he has no memory from the time his mind was affected. The metal armed man is his adoptive father, he has not seen him for a long time. His name is Tezzeret. We did grow up with the Growl but where thrown out of the guild.

Jaces memory had been repeatably whiped over and over by Montor on Wrin. He worked for Tezzeret chime syndicate for a time.

Jace has opened up his sanctum for us so we can enter it. He is considering to try to restore the office of the guild pact, maybe try to restore the laylanies.

Meeting at the opera ∾

We have a meeting with Mr. Taz at the Opera, a wondrous Rakdos performance with explosions, death and blood. We are introduced to Tomik Vrona and Orzhov law mage, one of the best and has studied under Teysa. He is also the boyfrind of Raul. Pivlic, the casino owner. Krenko and finally Mr Taz.

Krenko is not there mentally because Mr Taz had ripped Lostys magical spell out of Krenkos mind. He did still think a meeting again sounded like a good idea so he still set one up. Where all where very open about everything together, they know that Jace, Raul and us where plane walkers. Taz did most of the talking but he is really cryptic so it's had to get a good answer from him. He did once again tried to convince us to join their cause.

The chasm was not their intensions, they only like to make chaos to move their people in the right places. This did not work out exactly like they liked but Taz is really old, as old as the original guild pact, so over 10 000 years old, maybe more. He has been guiding Ravnica from the shadows since them, tweaking and affecting outcomes.

Later on we talk and tries to figure out who Mr Taz is. He is really old, are several people. Care about Ravnica (in his way). It was suggested that he may be a world soul of Ravnica. If that's true he is even more powerful that we suggested and maybe we should not mess with him?

We also realized that the living guild pacts is bound to Jace, a human. He will not live for more than another 60 maybe 100 years with some magic. The new guild order with a living entry to enforce the magic is not as stable as the old one based in pure magic and laylines.

Meeting with Niv Mizzet ∾

We setup a meeting with Niv Mizzet to rescue Raul that Niv have captured. Raul was captures when he did not play ball with the project lighting bug research.

We where greeted by Chembelarin Marie at Nivix. She did not recognize us, and was confused when we asked about her age. We think she was a clone and not the same one we talked with earlier at Rauls lab.

We talk with Niv Mizzet, he figure out that Izkri is a plane walker and one more... he do not know that Xovus can plane walk. He tells us that he has experimented with cloning for some time and he has been studying Raul and is trying to understand his plane walking ability and tries to clone him. It do not work.

Molmir Meg is and old Selesnya leader that Niv is cloning and is used as a scientist. An earlier clone was the one that created dash, and the current one is experimenting with Raul. Niv gives us permission to collect Raul if Izkri assist Niv with his plane walk research to protect Ravnica, something we are not that found of doing because we are afraid of what would happen if Niv figure out a way to turn him self to a plane walker.

Clones do no last that long, some a few years. But Niv can just make more and modify the memories. At the moment dash was made was there two Molmir Meg clones active.

After a tea time with Niv (he loves tea), he shows us a teleportation circle that takes us to the lab of Molmir Meg where Raul is.

Fight with the clone ∾

Niv told us that he did not control Niv Mizzet and could not order him to release Raul, he was to fixated at the research. He was correct and we had to kill the clone to free Raul. Niv seamed fine with it when we returned from the circle. I guess he can just make another.

Xovus was briefly turned to a whale during the fight when he was stabbed by a mutation dagger.

Raul is back ∾

Raul was quite hurt and out of his mind from the experiments that had been done to him. Jace was able to bring him back mentally and we healed him physically. We then had a discussion with Raul who was part of Mr Taz group and we learned a few things.

Lavinia was part of Mr Taz group as well and she is on the run. We scryed on one of her old friends Micha Gift and followed him down to a hide out in the chasm below what once where the chamber of the guild pact. It worked and we found Lavinia and she was convinced to come back up to street level to help us to free Teysa who also was on the run but she was found and jailed. The idea is to free her and help her overthrow the Obzedat like the original plan was. Xovus do not like the idea but recognizes that this is the best for Ravnica long term survival, especially with the external dangers that may cause a threat.

Back in the day, Lavinia and Tesa did try to run things between the fall of the old guild pact and the formation of the new living guild pact.

Niv has expelled Raul from the Izzet guild.

Heist

Prepare for the heist ∾

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    Priest Father Morel
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Xovus and Adan scouts the curch, we talk with a Commander and Father Morel. We did not get the much confirmation about if she really was here, and where (they where not high enough rank to know). But we understood that there was a lot of activity in the tower and that they had started to enforce the walls.

Vazzix talked with one of the debt:ers that did the construction and we found out that there was a hole in the foundation to the catacombs that they where tasked to fix. The hole was probably a result of the chasm opening up. We scouted this entrance.

We also scouted the tower and found her chambers, she was locked in to a room protected my magic and there was and angel guarding her in an adjacent room. Losty was detected but was able to escape. In the meantime Xovus got a little romantic with another priest (Sands) who showed him a secret passage that we later had use for.

The Heist ∾

Xovus, Izkri and Dash went in via the catacombs with the idea of going in from below. Vazzix created and distraction by creating a lot of smoke in the main hall during the night mess ceremony. Adam and Losty went directly and sneaked in to Teysas room.

Things did not go as expected, in the catacombs Xovus found a crypt with a really nice freshly installed sign "Uncle Karlov". We decided to open it and there was the Ghost of Uncle Karlow rolling in money and gemstones. He is part of the Obzedat and we tried to talk our way out of it (badly) and failed so he started to attack us.

This triggered a chain reaction of him summering more members of the Obzedat to help with the fight until all of them where there fighting us. In the meantime Adam and Losty tried to figure out how to unlock Teysas door. We provided a key that we wound in Uncle Karlovs crypt via a shared pocket dimension that helped them. But we where unable to help them because of the fight so they started to go down from the tower against the crypts to figure out what was going on.

Xovus did take a lot of damage during the fight, they where hard hitters and it's tricky to heal an undead with most magic. But finally we where all fighting them and we started to pick them off one by one, they exploded in coins and gemstones when they died. Xovus got the kill for Uncle Karlov and Fautomni.

Izkri activate Project Boulder during the attack with was an Izzet automaton that he had designed that helped a lot. We also found and sentient Boros shield and enormous amount of coins and gems down there.

Dash killed the last of them, who then was the leader of the Obzedat (all the other where then dead). Because the Obzedat are technically dead already, this triggered a special clause in the legal documents that transferred money and assets over to the killer. Xovus "only" got money and assets from Uncle Karlov and Fautomni but Dash also got the guild leader token transferred. By law and magic she is now the Orzhov guild leader. At this point we had not fully realized it yet.

We cleared out the level and started to realize that Orzhov felt a strong desire to follow dash commands. We used this to talk our way up again but was stopped by an angel that attacked us and convinced others to follow. We where victorious and when the angel was dead was Dash able to ask the rest to stand down and leave us.

We returned up again to the tower, figured out how to unlock the lock with another key we found in the dungeon and released Theysa. She looked almost dead, she had tried to kill her self by stop eating and drinking since a month but they kept her alive with magic. Probably because they where more afraid of ghost Theysa than living Theysa.

Post Heist ∾

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    Dash as the Guild Master of the Orzhov. Not the final look...
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Teysa with the help of Tomik are creating the legal framework for Dash to become the guild master. She commands a lot of changes, some a little to extreme for some do the guild loses some members. But we also gain a few guildless in to the guild.

Xovus will be the cleric representation in Dash new council and promoted to a Pontiff. Adam will join the council as well as the representative of the army. Teysa will not join the council but stay as a mentor for Dash. Adam and Xovus have been given nice living apartments in Orzhovia.

Dash got a more respectable and Orzhov looking cloths. Will be given a more respectable title and a new name for "the new Obzedat" need to be created.

There where a lot of money locked up in the Obzedat, most of it got distributed to heirs. Because the age of the ghosts the actual living relatives where a substantial part of the Orzhov population, resulting in most people getting rich over night. This triggered a hyper inflation.

As a result of the hyper inflation, Orzhov Zinos has lost most if it's value. The other guilds have disconnected their money from Orzhovs to protect their value.

Because dash is not technically living this will trigger the same type of corner case of the law that resulting dash becoming the guild leader. If you kill Dash you will be the next leader. To prevent this Tomik created a will for dash that regulated what happens meaning that the killer will not become leader anymore. Without the will there was a great chance that someone would kill dash to gain power and riches like dash did. Tomik that Xovus should do the same, considering that he is technically dead, so Xovus did write a will as well. Part of Dash will says that there will be a voting for the new guild leader if Dash dies.

35% of the members left the guild due to a mix of changes Dash did, the hyper inflation and just the fact that "the killer of Obsidat" did run the guild. But we gained some new people from the guildless due dash changes as well.

Dash will start to work in a maximum about of time for a debt, they may also be a shortened amount of time left for current debters. Debt will not be transferred as inherence anymore.

A embassy for the guildless will be opened, and dash will also try to clear up the criminal accusations at Teysa and Jace.

Six week downtime ∾

Over the last weeks I will spend a lot of time to discuss different policies with dash and part of the council. I will be sent as a representative to different guilds, starting with the Azorius Senate, I will also listen for influences and trying to figure out what's going on with the guilds, I will listen specifically for Mr. Taz strange heartbeats to make sure he is not pretending to be one of them.

I arranged a meeting with Mr. Taz to make sure he is happy with how things are going, he is and feel that at the moment things are moving in a direction that both are happy with. I asked him to keep in touch if things changed. My thinking is that even if I do not fully trust him, I rather have him close and work with him when our plans aligns.

I'm asked to preform the midnight mess once a week at the main church at Orzhova with I do. I also focus on secureing my position and formalize my power as a pontiff and part of the leaders of the guild. I will also find young fanatic recruits to create my personal cabal.

Finally I focus on securing assets and grabbing power and influence. Both personal and indirectly via the curch. I for example buy companies, stock and influence various projects and people.

The rest of the group ∾

Dash will mainly focus on it's new role as Guild Master. Adam will start to train the new recruits and formalize his power as leader of the Orzhov army. He will, just like Xovus, spend quite some time doing guild businesses. Izkri will focus on his tea businesses and trade.

Vazzix is the only one traveling to other planes with the intention to figure out more about the external threats to Ravnica. He will get a name and they will setup a future meeting at Ravnica. Losty will mainly focus on hunting down and killing Azorius police in an Raktos driven drive to make chaos and mess with their police state type of businesses.