The party knows John was involved in their deaths, but the shape of that involvement is not settled. Memory, guilt, and truth may not be saying the same thing.
Open Questions
Player investigation board
Open Questions
The unresolved mysteries the party can safely track between sessions. These are not answers. They are the threads still tugging at the table.
Field Notes
John Smith
It looked like John, fought like something else, and disappeared back into the other world when Clerix separated and calmed them both.
After the confrontation, John can draw on some of the other self's power even though that other self returned to its own world. The cost, limits, and risks are still unknown.
Field Notes
Party Threads
He separated John from the monstrous other self and calmed them both. Whether that was faith, instinct, magic, or something stranger remains open.
Clerix took the ring. Its meaning, owner, and importance have not been confirmed.
At the water, Clerix saw something unsettling, prayed with his coin, heard a whisper, and went to bed. Whether that was memory, magic, faith, or something else is unknown.
Clerix accused his companions of theft and jumped from the wagon to search. The coin was recovered, but the search cost a day's travel, and he looked gaunt and drained afterward, before reaching Kymal.
Clerix studied the blank journal and revealed the incomplete word or fragment "NICO--" by shading the end of the page. It may point toward a person, a place, or something the party has not recognized yet.
The same shading revealed the phrase "not yet," then faded after some time. Whether that was a warning, a refusal, a timing condition, or something else is unknown.
After speaking to his god, Clerix saw a vision of a pier and a raven. The source and meaning of that vision are still unclear.
The party's private wounds and strange objects keep collecting in the same place. That may be coincidence, fate, design, or none of the above.
Whispered Truth
World Questions
The world remembers the Saviors and the Fallen Machina with certainty. The campaign keeps asking what certainty costs.
Some institutions protect memory. Some control it. The party has only begun learning the difference.
The party has left Kymal and stopped at the foot of Ironseat Ridge. The journal clues and pier-and-raven vision remain unresolved alongside the forest's banshees, Clerix's missing-coin episode, and the performance's unsettling effects.
Leaf sensed clear, sunny weather, but the party woke in fog without a visible sun. Sion sensed an overwhelming undead presence, and the group escaped a screaming horde of banshees. The cause remains unknown.
The dancers appeared entranced, and the party's apparent magic gifts proved to be ordinary cheap trinkets and clothing when Clerix cast Identify. That discovery did not explain the music's influence or their hunger and exhaustion afterward.
The party felt as if days had passed. Men Clerix had approached wore different attire, but clouds hid the moon when Leaf tried to check its phase. The actual elapsed time remains unknown, as does whether the influence ended after departure.
The Searchers pushed the party to prepare for something large and to become a team. Their full motives are still unclear.
The blank journal marked with the strange Vox Machina logo is meant for someone in Nicodranas, but the party does not yet know who. The new "NICO--" clue may matter.
The first bandit fight led to a Bramblewood camp, hostages, and a death the party could not prevent. The three surviving prisoners are now in prison in Westruun, and the killed hostage's funeral has been held. Any further consequences remain open.
The party remembers the public version: Grog sacked half of Westruun during the Vox Machina War, and the rebuilt Burned Quarter is often called the Quiet Side. Locals rarely say his name; children call him "the Tide" or "the wrong giant." What that shame does to the party's stop remains open.