The party rests before they enter the room where the time-displaced researchers, Euclio Cyprias and Isidorus Peregrinus, are located, before deciding to split up, so that half of the party, more specifically Dareth Lion'el Griffmane, Volk Lesnoy, Sooty and Zora enters the room from one entrance, and the other half, Mikhail and Philomena Snapdragon, enters from the other side. Inside the room, the party finds two figures, existing in many states simultaneously and whispering incoherent things about time and time-space. Initiative is rolled.
Sooty does good progress with his scrolls of Slow and Haste. However, another one of these mantis-triangle-constructs slips through a crack in time-space that opened up during the confrontation. The two time-displaced figures also deal a great amount of damage with their anguished screams and their fists, as they were wildly lashing around. However, using two scrolls of haste and slow respectively, Sooty is able to, finally, bring both men back into the linear time stream, as they immediately fall unconscious.
After the party inspected the room, eventually, Euclio, who looks like a man in his early 20s, is the first to wake up, closely followed by Isidorus, who appears to be in his mid-50s. After some verbal missteps by the party, revealing to both in a quite blunt manner that they both were in stasis for over 2000 years, Isodorus reveals that he feels at fault for what happened. During the experiment, he tested out a rather high-level temporal spell, which seemed to mess with the spell that Euclio, his subordinate, already had cast; resulting in the accident that displaced both in time.
Euclio does comfort his superior a little bit, and thanks the Agate Seekers for rescuing them, but what truly calms down Isodorus is a talk with Volk, in fluent Old Northlandic. The two bond a little bit, and Isodorus thanks Volk personally in the end.
The party then left the ruin to meet up with Horvyn Quickstamp; by now, the sun has already set. They inform him that his two assistants had already passed, by way of the dangers in the ruin, but they introduce him to Euclio and Isodorus. Excited at the prospect of meeting real citizens of The Great Liwilai Empire, he eagerly takes them in and he rewards the party for completing the quest. The party also pawns off the items they found in the ruin that they don't have much use for, earning even more money in the process.
After a good nights sleep, the party travels three more days back to Veduna, earns 500 Guild Credits at the Liwilai Adventurer's Guild Guildhouse, and teleports back to Argentis, returning home. In front of the A Taste of Home, they find the ever-joyful Punchy, who informs them that Kilbi Leaftooth wanted to talk to them, and he also had a request that he talked with her about; he'd like it if the party hired a second guard, so that he wasn't so alone, amongst other things. Zora asks if WIlli, the dog that she brought back after returning from the ruin that Henich and his gang were occupying, wasn't enough. Well, apparently, Kilbi has been spoiling him with treats and he's not much of a conversationalist.
The party then enters the restaurant, which is reasonably packed with merchants, fellow adventurers and middle-class workers. Winter greets the party and once again tells them that Kilbi wanted to talk, offering to get her, but not before giving Mikhail a letter that Cher Ami, one of Pseudogriffons brought back; a letter from Countess Evelyn Nightfall, Mikhail's sponsor. She then gets Kilbi, who greets the party and tells them the news: As the restaurant is becoming more popular, she's starting to strain a little with all the kitchen work, so she'd like it if the party helped hire a Sous-Chef. Dareth, dreading the coming interviews, returns to his room, and the party splits up doing various tasks. Philomena wants to write letters, Volk inspects the customers from afar a little, Mikhail goes into the city to find out news about Zirpa, the kobold they rejected for the bard-position, and Sooty also returns to his room to plan.
After returning, Mikhail does seek out Dareth to tell him about the contents of the letters from the countess; in fact, Mikhail had asked her to look into Clan Steelhand and The Bloodletters, and she found out quite a few things; namely that Clan Steelhand is known in the history of Galon as a family of tyrants that broke from Tyr, in order to worship devils and dark gods, which makes sense as the Bloodletters are known to worship Bane. They tyrannized the populace of their home with the help of dragons, but were brought down by a hero riding a large, black griffon.
Dareth confirms that this sounds like his ancestor, Karl Griffmane and his steed Grimmane, which confirms that this conflict between the Bloodletters and the Griffmane Family goes back to his family's founding times. The two have a tender moment, which is immediately ruined by a very bored and hungry Volk at the door, who is immediately shooed away and picked up by Furnando, who offers him some food and a ballgame; the latter of which Volk only reluctantly agrees to. And with that, a week of downtime starts.
SESSION END.
Note: Next session of the 4th of May, due to Easter and a One-Shot DM'd by Dalton.