1/7/24 -- Operation Wax Petal

1/7/24 - Wax Petal - 34th Lionir, 715 AR
- Bloom is using his new power
  - Hand is enraptured in iridescent light
  - Pulse of purifying energy through the body
  - Only has 1 corruption now
- Going to Cordell’s cabin
  - She seems kind of numb
  - Our supplies are very low
  - Going to grove taken by Amis’ soldiers
  - Go and see if we can get any supplies
- Andreas got Sheer I on his spear
  - Marie asked how much worse can it get
  - He does not know, we’re still alive, there is that
  - Here’s to still being alive
- Talking to Philip
  - Recovering
  - Wants to know if we’re gonna make it
  - Not sure if he believes me
- Damon sends spies to get intel - +1 intel
- Taking a barrel of oil with us on the mission = -4 scrap
- Bloom got Sharp II = -4 scrap, 1 relic
- -1 intel = 2 approaches
  - Stealthy, being unseen
  - Disguised
- How dangerous is this mission
  - Stealthy approach = 5
- Stealthy approach under cover of night
  - Moving across rolling grasslands
  - Gotta stick to tall grass
  - A crow pops out of tall grass
  - ~10 more come behind
  - They left something behind
  - Left behind some bundles of alchemical material = +1 recovery
    - Heading to the grove
  - Theatrical stage in the grove
    - Center of stage, strange figures in physicians clothes
    - Other impure parade around the stage
    - The figures in the center are inspecting them
    - Some look like bee
    - 5 buildings in a star pattern around the stage
    - Starting with building one
      - Damon notices black candle burning a green flame
      - Similar to the one from flapjack
      - Made our way around the candle
      - Made it to the building, smells of rendering fat and rotting meat
      - Inside are great cauldrons of bubbling fat
      - More alchemists throwing body parts into the cauldrons
      - Some are ladeling out fat to make candles
      - Women dressed in dark black robes, Gloomweavers, inscribing the candles for their magical effects
      - 3 gloomweavers
      - Mostly the alchemists
    - Continuing clockwise
    - More impure are coming out, the werewolves we say before
      - Getting shots
    - Heavy chemical salts coming from the building before us (2)
      - Very secure iron doors with no windows
      - Made out of some thicker stone
      - Very solid looking structure
      - This building has the least activity
      - Building 3 and 5 have the most
      - Alchemists come and go from 5, impure take crates out of 3
      - Damon hears footsteps and shuffling within
      - More alchemists, their movements are slow and deliberate
        They are being careful
        
        Not many of them
      - Inside is a laboratory
      - There is a rune circle
      - There are 4 alchemist inside
      - Shelves line the walls that contain ornate vials
      - Each labeled with alchemical symbols
      - They are mixing things, occasionally there are sparks
      - Filling jars with dark gray powder with tinges of orange on it
        Think it is some kind of explosive
        
        Placing them in a back room
      - Candles in the rafters
      - Left for the next
    - There is another candle, pink this time
      - One we haven’t seen this time
    - Blocked the candle with a translucent forcefield
      - Made him say shield
      - Disrupted the effect, preventing him from screaming it out loud
      - Placed rune of light on the tarps to block the light successfully
      - Need opaque objects
    - Third house - warehouse
      - Rows and rows of boxes, crates, and tables of alchemical stuff
      - Tried to simultaneously kill two blossomed
      - Success
      - +2 recovery - Damon
      - +3 recovery - Andreas
      - +3 scrap - Andreas
      - + intel - Bloom
        Orders to send stuff to teleportation circle 10 miles from here
        
        Has the codes for the circles
        
        Leads to one of marie carhowls main workshops
        
        Special mission unlocked
      - +10 recovery - Talisman
        Rolled a 6, things are falling making lots of noise
        
        Howls from outside
    - Running to building 2, grabbed thermite
      - Threw some at the stage, some in building 1
      - Talisman detonated building 2 with a timed explosion
    - Bloom is having a vision
      - Sees ilia, 7 yrs old
      - Says he feels sick
      - Black spots pop up along the body
      - Smell like puss
      - He needs a doctor
      - Leaves a note and go to the doctors
      - A lot of tests have been done
      - Hobgoblin dr has been their family doctor for years
      - There is a nurse waiting outside
        Will have ilia take more tests
      - He is sorry
      - They do not know what the disease is
      - Never seen anything like it before
      - Running more diagnostics
      - Needs bedrest and lots of love
      - Prescribing 100 mg of morphine a day, he will need it soon
    - Completely destroyed the camp
    - All somehow still alive
      - One of the largest thermite explosions the primordial ring has ever seen
  - Spent 4 recovery for Bloom and Talisman
  - Spent 5 recovery, 2 intel, and 3 relics for damon’s mother