Session Date: 04/20/2026
Session Start
Bion has grown vengeful after everything that transpired before him. Within his office all of his papers and notes are now stacked in the corner, and he no longer looks at them. He’s filing out note after note and sending runners to different parts of the complex. He’s currently hyperfocusing and isn’t aware that we are here unless we speak to him.
Edeis isn’t sure what we can do - she feels we need to make contact with the entity and then see what happens. Perhaps seeing what happens isn’t enough, but she doesn’t know. She doesn’t have enough information. She swears she’ll never not have information again.
Tabby goes to check in on Bion and peeks over his shoulder and he can tell that Bion is summoning people to him. Bion explains that the scales have fallen from his eyes and he is seeing things for the first time - he is seeing how many things around him are wrong. He’s never been in trouble before, and his entire life he’s done everything that was expected of him. He was excited because they were finally about to break through and he could learn more things, and now he doesn’t know what’s real, or if anything is real. He says that he’s never made mistakes, but mistakes were made at him, and we were all hurt by something, and he wants to ask some questions and understand.
Bion decides that he is angry at this. He had all of this excitement in his head leading up to this and he admits he got into his own head and lost it a little bit. He feels that everyone was used. Bosch asks if closing the eye is what he wants, if that’s the healthy choice? Bion says health was never a consideration, and Bosch asks if it would be safer if the eye was closed, then? Bion says perhaps - maybe then they could build something for themselves. Bion doesn’t know what to do either, he just knows that the option to make a decision has been taken from all of us. The people here were given an instinct to follow, but now things are breaking down because the prime function was discovered. Bosch asks that this was never their decision? Bion explains that this was keeping them from making decisions since their civilization started. Bion himself admits that vengeance can be rather messy and he doesn’t know if that’s right, but it’s wanting something. They just want a home.
Bion explains they thought the night sky went further, but what if this is all there is? Bosch suggests that maybe there’s something further up, and Bion thinks that they’d be aware of it if there were, but he’s not sure. Bosch ends the chat and moves on.
Before long, people begin arriving and they aren’t sure what to do either. Faylen and Mary both recognize the idea of cold rage where you’re so angry you’re calm, which is what Bion is.
We go ahead and leave and Bosch pulls us into a supply closet. He explains he believes we started a war, and now he decides we are going to go up.
We begin to plan. Faylen realizes that the buildings here arose from the ground rather than being built, or perhaps the ground was shaved down or lowered so that the buildings would be carved/exist. Mary asks if the building is like the trees, and Faylen agrees. Bosch tries to carve a tree into the wall - it starts to grow back and there’s a secondary layer that is pulsing. Bosch tells it to stop that, and Faylen asks what, and he peels off some of the stone and throws it to the floor and it dissolves into the floor.
The Plan
We go outside and climb the building. As we are working on our plan to harness energy from this place. As we are climbing the temple building, the eye opens and swivels over to us and asks what we are doing. We help Bosch unload his things and then Tabby looks up at it and asks what it is: the voice explains it’s the keeper of this place and it’s trying to learn - it doesn’t like not knowing things. It very much wants us to go, it says that we need to leave. It says that helping us would use up too much of its own energy, too much of its own focus.
The entity explains that this isn’t the only experiment that it’s running. It says that Faylen wouldn’t understand, and Faylen suggests that it give him a try. The being dumps information into Faylen’s head and he can’t understand it all because he has no context. Faylen doesn’t know how powerful this thing actually is, but it’s operating under a set of circumstances that are impossible to understand. Faylen explains what he understands and this being explains that all it cares about is seeing what happens in a universe without entropy, and he ultimately starts to tell this thing that it’s done a poor job designing this experiment if it thinks humanoids aren’t worth much, and Mary joins in with Faylen on this. They start to bicker with the creature.
Meanwhile, Bosch starts chipping away at some part of the wall and he’s essentially trying to create a fake see-saw to catapult himself to the eye that’s grown closer. Bosch hits the “wall” - this place is either much smaller than originally thought, or the keeper moved the wall with it. The sky is a projection, but behind the wall cracks a little and he sees more of the eye. Bosch falls to the ground and asks what that was, the sky isn’t solid.
The being calls us all exhausting. It’s trying to understand - it’s tried being nice for generations. It’s done all that it can, so it is now trying to be efficient. It doesn’t ask because it’s observing - it doesn’t know why it bothers, but it’s trying to understand these beings that they put here, but they’re not impressed, and it’s their function to do this.
Bosch sees Bion now, standing right next to him. Bion’s heard all of this. The being is not pleased seeing Bion here. Bosch suggests that it asks, and it asks what it’d ask - individuals are not important (Tabby is pissed). Tabby says that individuals are the most important thing, and the being doesn’t care. It plans to simply destroy the universe and clear it out.
Bion begins to break out at the wall and we all grab pickaxes and start to help him with the pickaxe. The Keeper begins to goad us and call us all pathetic, and then once it starts threatening us, Bion reaches through the crack of the wall and rips a piece of it out. Bion eats it and then everyone swarms out to eat it. Bosch does steal a chunk of it for Edeis.
Edeis has the power needed to get us going and she sets up the sand and we tumble through. As we get ready to go, Faylen notices the star getting consumed by darkness and he realizes that it never occurred to him to really look up at the sky while he was here. It felt different than when he had been here last. We see the people merge into one form of darkness as they become an idea, and darkness begins to spread quickly. We tumble into the sand and fall through.
Finally Back Home (Sorta)
We tumble for a while and suddenly a door opens and Salaavethor asks what we are doing in the broom closet. Bosch says we went on an adventure in this broom closet and Sal says he knows he has some questions for us. He takes us into the kitchen and offers us food, beer, tea - whatever we want. We stand around and Bosch gives the most abbreviated version of events that doesn’t explain anything in any detail. He does have the Seal of Infinity that he gives to us, and Faylen gives over Axamonar’s crystal.
Sal puts Axamonar’s crystal into something small that will float - something Axamonar won’t love, but it’ll be something so he’s at least present and we can work on his body in due time.
Later, Bosch pulls Sal aside and asks if he’s going to be in trouble if he brings back future technology. Sal says he won’t tell if Bosch doesn’t.