Fantasms and the Thinning Veil

Session Summary: 10/29/2023

Ahhhh, the veil between worlds grows THINNER still! Another Fantasm had found its way into the waking streets of Lepidstadt, and the heroes destroyed it with the efficiency of a group that has dealt with enough of something to have developed a working process. The battle was brief but the implications were not: each Fantasm that crossed over indicated that the boundary erosion was continuing, possibly accelerating, and the source of that erosion was the unresolved working that Gregor had been constructing across the city for years.

They spent time afterward gathering the last pieces of information they needed before entering Pendergrast Manor for the final confrontation. The picture was now essentially complete, and they laid it out for each other over the common room table at the Golden Stag with the maps and the timelines and the connections between elements that had taken months to assemble.

The corruption at the Owl Gate fed black sand into the aquifer and provided raw material for Morpheus' Tears. The Toymaker used that material to create items that fed on gossamer and sent a portion of the drained energy toward a central collection point. The binding circles at each point of the pentagram trapped captives in dream-states that served as sustained dream-energy sources. The rituals beneath Pendergrast Manor connected all of it to something in the Dreamlands, something that needed enormous quantities of dream-gossamer to achieve an as-yet-unclear purpose. Gregor was at the nexus of it all, though the Withering Man's interest and Moria Dawnwhisper's presence at the Bone House suggested that LARGER powers were also invested in the outcome.

The concert was tomorrow. The manor would be focused outward, on the performance and the guests and the prestige of the Pendergrast name displayed to Lepidstadt's finest. And beneath it, in the underground passages that the guests above would never know existed, the heroes would be conducting the final accounting that Lena Mueller had asked them for. Her locket was warm against Charles's chest. He chose to interpret that as ENCOURAGEMENT!