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+Numenera 3-3-24
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+- Looking for how the kingdom can expand in the Beyond.
+- Looking for a base of operations for now.
+- 150 people are a part of this expedition in Rahul's Den.
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+- A week has passed and we are traveling with the party.
+- Titus, the commander of Rattler unit.
+- Aada, the boa commander, she is a nano. She has a grass monkey called Spot on her shoulder.
+- Jessy, cobra commander.
+- Logan, eastern hognose commander, a total tool.
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+- GM intrusion if Logan has a 1 OR a 2.
+- **GM intrusion!**: Jessy slams Logan against the wall. She threatens him and then storms out.
+- Jessy Firdous goes into my book of grudges.
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+- Logan volunteers us, as leader of the hognoses, to head to a towering obelisk first, then further east.
+- We are riding dog fur, with elephant noses. They are Northern Chauggneus (pronounced hognoses).
+- We come across a watering hole, but the water is purple and solid despite flowing.
+- Tadej breaks some of the ice-like pieces and tries to melt them in a pot like water. It begins to glow.
+- Logan thinks it is some sort of material that takes the shape and properties of what it is placed into.
+- We have discovered "the solid lake."
+- We get one point of XP. Tadej levels up.
+- We continue to travel and come across a massive tower - the Melodiscape. Sleek metallic surface, it hums with a faint melody. It has intricate glyphs carved on it. Lights pulsate on it.
+- A shimmering energy emanates from it. Logan recognizes that the beat of the music matches the glow of the glyphs.
+- Tadej ties up the hognoses to a nearby tree.
+- As we break the energy barrier around it, the music swells and the whole body feels it.
+- A spiraling stairwell goes upward. Musical instruments are on the wall and even turn to face.
+- There are rooms on the ground floor, looks like concessions, empty storage.
+- No stairs heading downward. We begin to climb upward. There is a floral element to the stairs. They begin to grow as we climb.
+- There is a grand chamber on the second floor. We look out a window and it looks like we are a mile in the air. The music is much louder now, hard to talk to each other.
+- There are seats and booths but no stage.
+- **GM intrusion**: we listen to the music.
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+- We look outside and it is night time. We notice a plate of food near us that suddenly appeared.
+- I attempt to track what or who put this food here. We follow it to the flowered walls and footsteps end there.
+- As I inspect the wall, the flowers part to reveal a figure. A porcelain-like figure, covered in roses and blue tinted. Lilyastra is her name.
+- She greets Tadej and Logan, and says she put the food there.
+- We ask her a lot of questions. The music has been playing for 6 billion years. She says she has other staff.
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+- Logan fails a test and it is a GM intrusion.
+- Logan uses his headband and it shows we were in a trance-like state for about 6 hours.
+- The next day, I go back in to try and pull an instrument off the wall since we feel sickly without it.
+- I fail to pull an instrument off the wall, but explore to find more locations.
+- I am found by Lilyastra. She doesn't mind that I take an instrument, she offers a Slugelheim. An accordion and bagpipe combo.
+- We leave with the instrument and head east again.