Plot Points

There's a possibility someone is purposefully using high-level magic to invade the college grounds with beetles, to get past the magic barrier. It's odd, though, that our past venture underground and this one has lead us to the water supply - the past venture had a witch who tried to raise the water levels, and the current fight used the rain to force the beetles out in our direction. What's more, the beetles seem focused on attacking the students, purposefully.

• Lizard tail sighted by flooded area
• Lizardfolk implicated in market flooding with weapons
• Absolutely illogical for lizardfolk to openly attack the school (politics crit scs) (whole world would band together against them)

• When investigating the Grippli they slip away too often
• Froglegs (local crime lord) named by reagent peddler
  • Has a swirl symbol as her sign
  • Completely illogical for Froglegs to openly attack the school (politics crit scs)
  • Why would she leave her lockpick in the open?
  • Is she mind-controlled? Not magically trained, so easily influenced…
• Master of Mind Magic / Illusions

• They ARE domesticated, but Griffins are notoriously hard to domesticate
• Visiting Oba's Wondrous Creatures
• “Students” had been there before the animals broke out of their cages
  • The two lizardfolk we killed??
• Animals are a bit unkempt, not enough meat!!
  • Meat records don't align with how much meat are in the cages.
  • Have been acting up a lot recently (since when the anadi started getting headaches)
• Cages:
  • All locks have been attempted lockpicked.
  • Small metal piece on the ground right inside. Locally made metal. Grippli lockpick.
  • Was feeding the griffins small dead spiders as treats.
  • Hit by a spell that made them go crazy
• Debt: Uni always pays on time

• With Janatimo
• Chimeringers and police are stretched thin, (flooding, lizard invasion)
• Crime happens in a poor area, why are they not targeting the rich areas?
• Clue 1: Chimeringer says: this area's one most easy to sneak into. Their hideout's in the poor district.
• Clue 2: Chimeringer says: criminals may realise that this is a safe time and place to do petty crime.
• Clue 3: Clown backstage says: leader is a lizardfolk marred with black slashes.
• Clue 4: Voluptuous woman says: they're stealing musical instruments
• Clue 5: They attack when the crowds are the loudest

We piece together the hideout's location.

• Idiot just opens the door
• We kill 4 crew members including 2 lizardfolk
• Kitchen: They spent a lot of money on fancy cooking ware. 15 gp.
• Downstairs: Disguise kit for the Froglegs operation. 61 sp, flute worth 10 gp.
• Upstairs: Unlocked chest: 51 gp 80 sp 80 cp.
  • 115 gp, 40 sp, 80 cp.
  • 3 virtuoso handheld instruments.
  • Reed flute is radiating magic: Maestro's instrument.
  • Note from Froglegs: “Your payments have been too low recently. Keep the payments up or I'm gonna come visit you.”

• Ten magic warriors formed a second secret school (rumor up north)
• Tribe who are decendants of these students claim to give sentience to the masks
• You can never take off the masks in the presence of anyone else
• Tribe lives near the big storm of magic at the time of Jetembe

• or… Are there other people controlling the mask as a vessel?

• Traitor amongst us: shaping university stone is ILLEGAL BY MAGIC, but someone has shaped the stone in our first dungeon. They'd need a 9th level dispell magic spell.
• Teachers are spying on us through the masks (MASKS ARE DIVINATION POWERED)