Following up on the previous entry, the group and I had moved on largely to the library to do some research, where Li Tiao eventually joined back up with us after his "romantic sparring".
While in the library, Ms. Morozov takes a look at a newspaper article and leaves in a huff. I took a look at the stuff and see that one person on the Odeneese team, Selena Moonstar, is a dead ringer for our resident Dark Elf (but is a high elf and has graduated), and Issari Moonstar, the secretary is her sister, and a Watcher named Hercules as well as Odeneese, and of course Tessa Voltaire. Odeneese claims in one of the newspaper that Tessa tends to disappear from time to time to go to her “wellspring for ideas”.
When we come upstairs to see an atlas to find a possible wellspring, but find Misa, the bunny girl who told us that Ms. Fenris is looking to headhunt/recruit Tessa, and that a “wellspring of Ideas” often appear in the forests outside the city.
We deduce that Hercules the Watcher can probably find Tessa, and is a 1st year who is on campus, he has apparently left Odeneese industries in somewhat of a huff just a few weeks ago. Tersh excuses himself in this time to go off on his date with Issari Moonstar and will rejoin us later.
Meanwhile we go to speak to the Watcher, Hercules, who informs us a bit more about Tessa and gives us a direction to follow, and we go “collect” Ms. Morozov character, which takes some physical convincing (and we end up bagging her and go on). We do find that Tessa is an inspiration elemental from Mr. Hercules.
On the way we go and collect Tersh and Malorie, and move on with the squirming bag of Ms. Morozov to the forest. Azura offers to carry Ms. Morozov and we move along. We made it to the edge of the city, and enter into the forbidden woods (o’doom as we had found out before).
After wandering around for a bit, Tersh and Azura hear some shambling off in the brush. We all prepare ourselves and proceed onward, only to see 6 human-sized blobs of grey goo-ness that suck the vitality out of several of us, including myself. The creatures are lesser mopelings and we engage and after a difficult struggle, we prevail. Tersh heals us and we move on. Shortly later, we hear something in the distance that Azura says sounds like a small fey creature being threatened by a harmful set of creatures. We move forward and we stumble upon a small fey creature being threatened by several wolves, Tersh growls demonically at them and they run.
Noting that the creature is a fey creature that subsists on ideas, we start to follow it, with Tersh saying that it will “lead the way” to where we need to go. We follow the creature to a small natural spring like pond that has an intensely blue color. Tersh took a drink and feels that he was inspired. Searching around, I found a submarine style door and we proceeded down and found a table with some flasks one with a mark at 1 mm, the other at 9 mm. There is a door in the wall on one side, and funnel near the door. We think that it is 1 mm water, and 9 mm sweat is the key. After some exercise, enough sweat is collected to be able to open the door. We step inside, and Li Tiao gets zapped by a ray gun and we notice that Tessa is there, hiding in the shadows. She is more than distrustful at first, and claims that her special tools were taken by her partner Odenise, who claimed they were the company's. After some tense talking and comments from Ms. Morozov, she gives some stuff to help us overcome the security systems, and we devise a plan.probably a bad one, time will tell.
-Eirrún Amyntor, Stallari Seiðr of the Fólkvangr III Oversight Wing-Group, Host Triquetra Bravo, 4th Choir, 112th Chorus, Congregation "V". Elohim number: 3E7D9H-111