The following call for aid circulates Acryn, starting in the Guilds but filtering into the streets:

Adventurers and otherwise capable individuals are sought to investigate disturbances to the continued construction and maintenance work beneath Founders' Square. Interested individuals should meet with the site Foreman at 11 on the coming Saturday. Payment 36R and negotiable.

• Peter Kally - Andrew
• Evan - Dan
• Marian Terrec - Mat
• Emilio Redan - Vicky
• Otto Strang - Joe

The party awaken to a sight of blood and despair, only remembering having gone to meet the Foreman for this job. There's a broken mirror, a terrifying creature, wisps of draconic influence, and a woman dying. The party are quickly cut through as the woman tells them to try to remember and then they find their minds yanked through some magical ritual and find themselves heading down to meet the Foreman.

Startled, they attempt to work out what to do next and decide to continue. Warily, they meet the Foreman and ask about the vision and what's been going on, but behind them a man starts attacking workers. The workers flee as draconic wisps start attacking but are defeated by the party. Evan determines that the man is possessed by draconic influence and the party consider they need extra payment for this. Emilio and Marian send runners to the Council to explain what's going on and to order an evacuation of the Square as they investigate and try to put a stop to the draconic incursion. The unhelpful Foreman is put on probation and informs the party as well that some mages, including one Amelia Stone, went down to look into this thing.

Down in the tunnels, they encounter a manner of Flux undead creatures (identified by Peter) and put a stop to them before wrestling with a draconic puzzle of statues and hellish beams of untold power to advance after their quarry. They find themselves following the tunnel into a deep library of the College of the Stars where an irate librarian insists on their silence as they work out how to free Miss Stone from a book she's become trapped in. Having made too much noise, the Librarian orders books to attack them, and Otto ends up stuck inside a book about Symbols of Destruction. Evan uses a ritual to rip out the page Amelia was trapped in and frees her, then checks out the book Otto was trapped in in order to free him. Otto finds himself with a due by date inked on his arm.

Amelia explains she was pursuing the thing along and they continue chasing, finding some more draconically possessed individuals and stopping the dragon trying to heal a wound. Otto transfers the possession into a cloth for analysis and notices that the text shies away from Stone.

They then come across a number of entities referring to themselves as “Scales” and refer to themselves as Triskelion. The party talk and try to work out what to do as the Scales inform there are cracks and wounds at risk of opening, and that the thing they seek is part of all of the dragons, and Stone. The Scales suggest Stone is the key to fixing the wound, but also necessarily part of the wound itself. Evan assumes some of Stone's mind and uses a Veil to give himself a vision of the events of Dissonance from Stone's perspective and gets a greater understanding of what is going on, and that the Thing they saw at the start must be destroyed.

While discussing what to do next, Triskelion's scales become aware of an imminent attack by claws of Carlaeon which swiftly attack. Triskelion protects the party as Carlaeon claws at them, and the party get away into a twisting geometrically unsound tunnel network where things get stranger. They encounter some builders who have lost their minds and started their own Empire Beneath The Surface and take from them a mana crystal connected to the Thing, more Flux entities of the Earth and another draconic puzzle before finding themselves outside a room marked by the Leader's Sigil. Inside, Ravens greet the party but insist Marian must leave as a traitor. She refuses to and they try to peck her eyes out, but she calls down a Miracle to control the Leader's Ravens. With a flock at her disposal, they investigate the Mirror and see its engraving “ASK THAT YOU MAY KNOW WHAT YOU DENY OR REFUSE TO ACCEPT”. Evan asks it for assistance but it remains silent. The mirror is identified as Divine by Marian, particular around cracks that look like someone punched it very hard.

The Thing is identified down a nearby tunnel, and as it notices the party it summons draconic wisps to attack them. They fight it off, wounding it with their combined power and the crystal taken from the Empire, but it starts to phase away. Stone is brought forward to attack it, but when she touches it there is a blinding light and the Thing disappears, leaving only Stone behind. She's dying, but thanks the party: the city is safe, and reality is healed. Otto checks his scarf and the text which previously said “THE WOUND MUST BE HEALED” now reads “THE WOUND IS HEALED”.

The party bid farewell to Stone, and look for a way out. They realise they are in the Vault of the Leader, but with Marian's authority over Ravens and the power of the Leader radiating off her, they're able to command guards to let them past, with Evan carrying the Mirror of Revelation for good measure. Otto apologises to the guards and suggests they deal with the huge hole left by the draconic incursion.

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