Editing Game-Summaries:2/7/2020 Recollections (section)

===Assembling the Team===
Jeroy enters the grand hall of the keep.  He creates several green shower of sparks and sounds of bells ringing, in his booming voice he announces to the hall "[[The Green]] has ordered me to investigate the caverns that lead to Pardor Pass.  The Pass is the last choke point between the moving eternal army and the town of Aethelfirth.  If needed we must be prepared to collapse the pass to give the city enough time to evacuate.  Who would like to join me on the away team?"  He is greeted by [[Ford]], [[Tallulah]], [[Iago]], and [[Loco]].  

"You have my steel" Ford says as he sheaths his rapier.

"And my bow!" Talluah adds in.

"''Annnnnnnnnd you shall haaaaaaaaaaaave my...."'' Iago begins to sing but is cut off by Jeroy.

"Your songs, yes thank you I got that" He says in monotone.

"And you have my potions!" Loco adds with a thunderous roar as he spikes a potion to the floor that erupts in a cloud of smoke around the Eternal Order.  "To the Magistery!"

The team leaves the Keep and makes their way to the Magistery to request the help of fellow Magisters to aid in the battle.  As they walk through the halls Jeroy turns to the group "So who and how many should we get to follow us? Anyone owed any favors?"  Iago sounds a few melodic notes and dances to the front of the group.  "Leave that to meeeeeeeeeeeee!" He says as he dances away and around the corner. Jeroy hesitates, blinks, and then looks to the others. "Perhaps we meet back here in a hour?  Go make sure you have all the supplies you need." He tells the other.

The group returns to find Iago surrounded by 17 members of the Magistery, two masters from each house and three additional of house green. We are joined by Celenwe (Brown), Domus Durocco (Brown), Felicia (Blue), Wyny (Blue), Reshi (Green), Ancis Decaius (Green), Sasisbai (Green), Nisa (Green), Vargo (Green), Gina (Yellow), [[First Weaver|Wisakedjak]] (Yellow), Tamus Bonuso (Red), Kali (Red), Sacra Fadanius (Gray), Niditu (Gray), Voltaire (White), and Uchala (White).

''"Jeeeeeeroy! I've found more to join our initiative.''" Iago announces with a flourish.

A smile comes over Jeroy's face "OK, no point in standing around and trying to figure out our chances - lets go into the caverns. Who knows teleport?"

Iago interjects "''We don't even know the exact locations of these caverns friend. That is not something one should attempt to teleport to. First we will need to identify the exact location we wish to transport to. Amon and perhaps some of the newly recruited masters can assist in scrying an appropriate location. We should have sufficient detail from Warden to be able to find an appropriate nearby location that we can spy on."''

"where are we going?" Says Felicia. "I wasn't about to leave this one alone on a suicide mission" she nods towards Iago. 

Jeroy responds to her "Kord showed me the entrance to Dwarven caves that have been abandoned for hundreds of years.  They lead under the Pardor Pass.  We need to head off the Eternal Army at the pass"

Felicia nods to the group "I can bring us close. We should approach on foot, we don't really know what we're getting into, it would be dangerous to teleport directly into the mountain, or frankly even right next to it. I know of a river that feeds from the Pardor Pass, we can teleport a day's walk downstream and walk along the river bank. What say you?"

"Works for me." Jeroy responds.

"''Agreed, that is the safer route and leaves us time to figure things out."'' Iago sings back.

“A lovely stroll along a river before a high likelihood of doom? Why not.” Ford adds in.

Celenwe juts in "can we have until tonight before we depart? I have a number of experiments I'll need to carefully dismantle and reassign"

Sasisbai is heard letting out an audible groan "ugh let's just get on with it."

Reshi tries to keep the peace and says "this is Jeroy's idea, why doesn't he decide?"

Jeroy looks over Ford's shoulder and says to Amon "Amon you know the movement of the Army the best, do we have time to wait?"  The entire group turns to face Amon who is standing behind the group. As he waits for Amon to scry he turns back to Celenwe "Celenwe - what happens if you don't disassemble and reassign the experiments?  Is it worse than a city being overrun by an invading army?"

She raises her eyebrows at him and visibly tries to calmly say "Maybe you're right. Maybe I should stay instead."

"I don't mean to be rude but this is the reality that we face." Jeroy responds "If we wait too long a city can be lost.  If leaving the experiments could cost us to lose Solace then by all means, tend to them.  But if we delay too long we risk losing Aethelfirth.  So I ask you Master, how much time do you need?"

Iago, seeing the situation escalating interjects between them "'''I'm fairly certain another 24 hours to prepare is fine. The last time we decided not to wait was meet with total disaster. Is prefer that tonight or tomorrow if that works for everyone and perhaps we can use that time to enlist further help.''" He motions to Jeroy with a grin that says without saying 'Don't you agree friend?'

Amon pulls put his crystal orb, stares deeply into and responds "They're still marching slow enough that they should arrive in 3 weeks. While we have no way of knowing what you'll face in the caverns unless your attempt is significantly delayed you should be able to set out tomorrow and still achieve the objective."

Jeroy turns back to Celenwe and with a slight bow of his head he says "Celenwe, take the time you need with your experiments.  If an extra hand would help I offer my services."  Jeroy turns back to the group "Everyone - take this time to prep, we may not be back for a while.  We leave at first light."

Celenwe sniffs and heads off to the artificery.  Jeroy turns to Iago and says "I take it she doesn't want my help?"

Iago responds through cackling laughter "What makes you think that Jeeeeeeeeeroy?" Jeroy sniffs and leaves to speak with Kord as he continues to hear Tiefling giggling follow him down the hallway.