Ross Async - Scrolls, Scrolls, Scrolls

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Session Overview

Session Status: Occurred

In Game Date: 23rd Ches - 30th Kythorn 1509

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Cadoras Damellawar,Professor Delta

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Summary

During the break between major events, Harry withdraws from social life and throws himself into magical study and work. Through scroll scribing, experimentation, and the decoding of a mysterious spellbook, he begins engaging with unstable and unfamiliar magic tied to a group known as The Silent Equation.

This culminates in a clandestine meeting with "Professor Delta", where Harry delivers completed work in exchange for payment, further deepening his involvement in something he does not yet fully understand.

Withdrawal and Focus

• Following recent events, Harry becomes increasingly isolated:
  • Distances himself from others, particularly after anger surrounding Lyra
  • Focuses almost exclusively on:
    • Attending classes
    • Studying
    • Deciphering the mysterious spellbook
• Outside of academics:
  • Spends time stewing on unresolved emotions
  • Begins producing spell scrolls for sale with the help of Cadoras

Scroll Scribing Business

• Over several months:
  • Cadoras brings 33 scroll requests
  • Increasing demand from:
    • Upperclassmen
    • Students requesting modified or custom spells
• Harry chooses to:
  • Attempt modifications himself rather than outsource
  • Occasionally seek help when needed
• Outcomes:
  • Most modifications succeed
  • One request (modified Chaos Bolt for performance use) proves difficult
• After failed attempts:
  • Cadoras is unable to assist
  • Vigilius is consulted but cannot help
  • Harry eventually turns to H'er:
    • Pays 20gp for assistance
    • Completes the scroll at a 5gp loss
• Despite setbacks:
  • The business proves highly profitable
  • Total earnings: 396gp

Deciphering the Spellbook

• Harry continues working through the spellbook’s pages using Arcana checks and experimentation

Page 2 – Constant Zero

• Enchantment-based magic:
  • Removes energy from living systems
  • Described as “reducing variance to null”
• Notes suggest:
  • A philosophy of stillness through subtraction
• Successfully copied to a scroll

Page 3 – Recursive Function

• Illusion magic with fractal, self-repeating runes
• Noted as:
  • Slightly unstable
  • Based on recursive manipulation of reality
• Inscription:
  • “Reality is an iterative function; loop long enough, and it rewrites itself.”
• Successfully copied

Page 4 – Mean of Averages

• Abjuration-style stabilising magic:
  • Balances harm and protection
• Harry tests the spell on himself:
  • Feels temporarily resilient
  • Still takes damage, but reduced
• Insight:
  • Not true immunity — more like damage smoothing or mitigation
• Successfully copied

Page 5 – Fractal Bloom

• Hypnotic geometric patterns:
  • Difficult to study directly
• Attempts:
  • Magnification reduces hypnosis but distorts the spell
  • Library research fails
• With Cadoras’ help:
  • Successfully deciphered and copied
• Noted phrase:
  • “All colour is chaos seeking symmetry.”

Page 6 – Limit Approaching Zero

• Incomplete spell:
  • Appears to invert gravitational principles
• Harry:
  • Uses Magnify Gravity as a reference
  • Completes the spell through experimentation
• Final note:
  • “When gravity is cancelled, so too is consequence.”
• Spell is:
  • Successfully completed
  • Added to both scroll and spellbook

Costs and Commitment

• Total scribing costs:
  • 275gp invested into spell production
• Despite the expense:
  • Harry prioritises magical knowledge over wealth

The Meeting with Delta

• Harry arranges a meeting with Professor Delta:
  • Location: Cultivarium on Quandrix campus
  • Cadoras observes from a distance under magical concealment
• Harry delivers the completed scrolls:
  • Delta provides a pouch containing:
    • 375gp (costs + 100gp reward)
• Conversation reveals:
  • Delta speaks cryptically about:
    • “Solving the weave”
    • Harry as a “variable”
  • Confirms:
    • The spellbook is Harry’s to keep
    • He will be contacted again
  • Harry presses for answers:
    • Receives none of substance

Attempted Confrontation

• As Delta departs:
  • Harry attempts to use Lightning Lure to reveal his identity
• Result:
  • Delta resists the spell
  • Escapes without revealing his face
• Harry responds:
  • Openly expresses distrust

Ongoing Threads

• The Silent Equation – A mysterious group studying or attempting to “solve” the weave
• Delta – An unknown figure manipulating and testing Harry
• The Spellbook – Contains unstable, modified, and philosophically driven magic
• Unstable Magic – Many spells show signs of alteration and unpredictability
• Harry’s Isolation – Emotional withdrawal and increasing obsession with magic
• Cadoras’ Involvement – Acting as assistant, collaborator, and lookout
• Fractal & Zero-Based Magic – Recurring themes of recursion, balance, and nullification
• Trust and Secrecy – Harry actively hiding his work from staff and most peers