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+---
+campaign: Avalon Adventuring Academy
+type: session
+session_number: 4
+date: 2025-11-26
+arc: leyline
+status: planned
+---
+# The Descent
+> [!quote] **READ ALOUD – Elias leaves**
+> Elias runs a hand through his hair and looks at the hatch like it personally insulted him.  
+“All right. You go down, I’ll stay topside and make sure nobody catches on that someone’s popped the tap-cell hatch.” He holds up the sap-tap. 
+>“I’ll keep this synced. If the heartbeat does anything _really_ stupid, I’ll send you a message. If you start screaming, I’ll… file a report, I guess.”
+>He forces a tight smile. “Have fun in the forbidden sublevels.”
+
+Give them a moment to tie up any loose ends on the surface before they descend.
+
+>[!quote] **READ ALOUD - The Hatch**
+>The hatch sits half-buried between the last two supports of the home bleachers, a slab of old metal bolted into cracked concrete. Someone tried to hide it under a mix of scrub and trash — ticket stubs, a crushed soda can, what might once have been a hot dog.
+>Now that you’re looking straight at it, it’s obvious this isn’t “just” plumbing access.
+>Set into the top of the hatch is a **rune plate** about the size of a clipboard. Four tiny crystals sit at the corners, pulsing faintly. In the middle, the Avalon crest glows dim amber.
+
+Joe recognizes this- its a mageball play diagram.
+>[!quote] When Joe notices:
+>The lines are routes. Small circles marking “players.” Little arrows showing how the “ball” — or in this case, **power** — is supposed to move across the field.
+
+>[!quote] Elias comments:
+>“It looks like a routing diagram. Same idea as a playbook — don’t overload one lane, don’t leave one wide open.  
+You jocks want to earn your scholarships, here’s your chance.”
+
+Up close, they see:
+	- Four crystals, one at each corner: **Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right.**
+	- Faint lines etched between them like routes on a field diagram.
+	- Three lines are thin, one is thicker. The thicker one is a high-risk, all in lane.
+	- In the center, the amber Avalon crest sits over a small circular rune.
+	- A small line of text along the bottom reads, in tiny script:  
+	 **“LOAD MUST BE DISTRIBUTED – NO LANE LEFT EXPOSED.”**
+Have joe make a athetics check DC 13. On success, he knows which order to hit the buttons.
+>[!quote] On success
+>As you tap the crystals in your chosen sequence, the etched lines flare to life one by one.
+>Each corner you hit sends a soft pulse of light across the plate — first to one side, then fanning out across all four paths. The thicker “high-risk” line lights up, but never stays bright for long; the others pick up the slack.
+>When you hit the last crystal, there’s a low _thunk_ from inside the hatch. The Avalon crest in the center shifts from amber to **green**, and the whole plate cools under your hand.
+>Bolts slide. Wards unwind. The hatch shudders, then relaxes.
+
+>[!quote] On failure:
+>You start the sequence, tapping the corners in the pattern you decided on. At first, the lines flare, but then:
+>One lane — the thick “all-in” path — suddenly surges brighter than the others, swallowing the load. The plate heats under your fingers.
+>“UNSAFE LOAD DISTRIBUTION DETECTED – LOGGED.” runs across the bottom of the hatch.
+
+Joe must then take make a DC 12 con save or 1d4 lightning.
+
+If they say fuck the puzzle, DC16 str check with a crowbar. Or thieves tools dc 15 to bypass the lock. This IMMEDIATELY alerts administration.
+
+>[!quote] When they enter:
+>A vertical ladder drops into darkness. Faint blue light pulses at intervals below, in time with the rhythm you’ve come to recognize.
+
+
+Soren hears a whisper:
+>[!quote] 
+>"Roots remember games before they're played."
+
+Joe feels the rungs vibrate like the crowd stomping at a game.
+
+>[!quote] **At the Bottom**
+>You step off the ladder into a low concrete chamber, barely tall enough for Joe to stand up straight. Pipes and conduit run along the ceiling and vanish into the walls.
+>A single, flickering crystal strip tries and fails to provide “adequate lighting,” pulsing a sickly blue-white.
+
+The room has a single door- it is thick, and made of metal. There is a rune plate which shows solid amber (standby/locked, not hostile).
+
+# The Antechamber
+After they enter the first door (an easy lock- if joe tries to lockpick, let him. if soren tries knock, that works too).
+>[!quote] **Inside the next room**
+>The next room is cramped but busy — the kind of place only maintenance techs and people who die in boiler accidents usually see.
+>There’s a half-collapsed **maintenance construct** in the corner, like a cross between a janitor cart and a crab, its limbs twisted and crystal eye dark.
+>A wall-mounted **console** hums with a faint glow, showing scrolling text and sigil graphs.  
+Several thick, rune-inscribed pipes run through the far wall, all labeled with worn metal tags.
+
+## Stuff to Interact With
+1. **Dead Construct**
+	- Investigation DC 12: This wasn't the work of students/ It was overloaded. Melted plastic blown out from the inside. It is equipped for calibration and safety- not "security" like the constructs in the detention room.
+	- If they try to loot it, it gives a **Tap Calibration Wand**
+2. **The Console**
+	- A shitty old interface- fallout, but arcane.
+	- On arcana or investigation dc13:
+		>[!quote] On Success:
+		>Lines of text scroll past in a cramped system font. Most of it is boring — power levels, maintenance schedules, ‘Calibrate Field Pulses Every 30 Days Or Else’ warnings.
+	>Then you hit a section of **Error Logs**.
+	>- ERR_B2_LOAD: Draw anomaly – pattern divergence from A-series root.
+	>- SAFETY FLAG: DISTRIBUTION TAP (NODE B2) approaching redline.
+	>- AUTO-THROTTLE ENGAGED – SURFACE BLEED INCREASED TO COMPENSATE.
+	>- NOTE: Students reporting “echoes,” “visions,” and “network instability” considered acceptable collateral.
+	>- ADMIN OVERRIDE: LOG REDACTION IN PROGRESS – AUTH ID: [REDACTED]
+	>- WARNING: ROOT OVERSIGHT PROTOCOL ACTIVE – USER: D’_ _RRIS (LOCKED)
+>[!quote] On Failure:
+>You see two errors:
+>- AUTO-THROTTLE ENGAGED – SURFACE BLEED INCREASED
+>- LOG REDACTION IN PROGRESS – AUTH ID: [REDACTED]
+
+3. **Labels on the walls**
+	- Metal tags on pipes:
+		- "FEED - FIELD GRID"
+		- "FEED - SUBWARD LAYER 2"
+		- "FEED - CAMPUS NET"
+		- One tag is missing, screws empty.
+		- On a DC 10 Perception, someone notices something is missing.
+4. **Heavy Door with Rune Lock**
+	- This leads directly to the **junction chamber**.
+
+## Core Ideas
+
+- B2’s load was throttled on purpose.
+- Admin accepted surface weirdness as “collateral” to keep something else from exploding.
+- Someone with redacted credentials is scrubbing logs.
+- There’s a locked “root oversight” user still in the system.
+# The Junction Chamber
+
+
+> [!quote] Room Description
+> The door to the tap cell is heavier than the others, banded with dull metal and etched with a dozen overlapping ward circles. As you approach, the sap-tap in your pack/at your belt starts pulsing faster — like a heart speeding up in anticipation.
+> 
+> When the door creaks open, the air on the other side is suddenly cooler, but _thicker_, like it’s full of invisible water.
+> 
+> Node B2 is a **cylindrical chamber**, maybe 40 feet across and 25 feet high.
+> In the center, a **vertical crystal trunk** rises from the floor and disappears into the ceiling — a translucent “tree” of light, with **four thick branches** extending outward and merging into the walls as glowing conduits. Each branch is engraved with faint labels.
+> 
+> Sigils flicker and crawl along the surfaces like ants. The whole room hums with the same double-beat rhythm you felt above… but here, it’s so loud it makes your teeth vibrate.
+
+## Puzzle Interface
+On the ground around the central trunk, there are **arcane calibration circles** and a **control pedestal** with a few obvious handles / dials.
+
+The four branches have these labels (some partial, some damaged):
+1. FIELD GRID
+2. WARD ARRAY L2
+3. NET RELAY (LIMITED)
+4. \[SCRAPED OFF] - only a faint triangle sigil remains.
+The party can clearly see:
+- Field and Net branches are over-bright. Clearly overworked.
+- Ward branch is faint- underfed.
+- Scraped branch is just weird. It flickers with a pulse, off-beat from the main pulse.
+## Mechanics
+Admin has throttled B2 so it wouldn't overload the unknown fourth branch. To compensate, it's bleeding excess into the field + net, which is what's causing the network issues. The system is unstable, but not yet exploding.  I want them to stabilize B2 by moving power elsewhere.
+## Interactables
+
+1. **Control Pedestal**
+	- Four sliders, labeled:
+		- FIELD
+		- WARD
+		- NET
+		- UNKNOWN
+	- A big central dial, labeled, INTAKE
+	- A gauge showing "STRESS", currently in the yellow zone, bordering red.
+	- Solution:
+		- Turn the intake down slightly, FIELD/NET as well, WARD up a bit, stress goes down.
+		- Otherwise, stress spikes.
+	 - On a DC 14 Arcana/Investigation save:
+		 >[!quote] On success:
+			 >“This is exactly what it looks like: distribution controls. You can’t shut the tap off completely (the dial has a safety lock), but you can adjust how much each branch gets.”
+			 >“If you slam any one branch too low or too high, the stress gauge goes red. Stress in the red too long = something breaks.”
+	- Goal: 3 good adjustments before 3 bad ones. 
+### On bad adjustments:
+1. Echo Surge
+		-  Each creatrure makes a DC 13 wis save
+		- On fail, for 1 round, you have disadvantage on attacks/skill checks as a delayed echo yourself interrupts.
+2. Static Elementals
+	- 1-2 small Arcane Wisps form. They flicker and "scream" in the sound of the PA announcements and crowd noise.
+3. Branch Flare
+	- One branch overloads briefly, causing:
+		- FIELD: Illusory Mageball players materialize and run phantom routes, tackling anyone near the trunk (DC 13 str save or prone)
+		- Net: Everyone hears a cascade of half-formed whispers and gets Int save DC 13 or has disadvantage on their next mental check.
+		- WARD: A ward backlash throws sparks. Dex save DC13 or 1d6 lightning.
+### Success- Stabilizing B2
+
+
+> [!quote] On success:
+> The hum in the chamber drops from a painful buzz to a low, steady thrum.
+> The gauge on the pedestal eases down into the green.
+> 
+> The FIELD and NET branches dim slightly, their glow less frantic. The WARD branch brightens, lines of runes along it filling in like ink spreading through paper.
+> 
+> The unknown fourth branch flickers once, like an eye opening in the dark… then settles into a quiet, unsettling pulse.
+
+Little do they know- the unknown branch is now better fed. 
+### Failure- Destabilization
+Stress gauge locks at max. Braches flicked. Field output drops heavily. Net goes jittery. Ward gets a modest boost. Unknown sucks everything left to stay online.
+>[!quote] On failure:
+>There’s a rising whine, like a kettle boiling somewhere under your feet, and then all four branches flare at once.
+>The gauge slams into the red, and a harsh, mechanical voice barks: “FAILSAFE ENGAGED. RE-ROUTING. ROOT OVERSIGHT PRIORITY.”
+>The lights go out for a second. When they come back, the room feels… drained. Like the node is sulking, not dead.
+## The Plate/ Inscription
+Once things calm down, if they party looks around, they find a plaque, partly hidden behind the conduit, which reads:
+>[!quote] PLAQUE
+>ROOT TAP SYSTEM – DESIGN REV. 3
+>PRIMARY: A-SERIES (ROOT)
+>SECONDARY: B-SERIES (DISTRIBUTION)
+>TERTIARY: C-SERIES (OVERSIGHT / RESEARCH) – ACCESS RESTRICTED – SEE DR. K. D’_ _RRIS”
+
+And a maintenance note, scratched into the wall:
+>[!quote]
+>“If B2 keeps redlining, tell admin to shut the C-line off. They won’t. Not after what they paid him. – T.”
+
+## Epilogue
+
+> [!quote] As they finish up in B2:
+> The double heartbeat you’ve all gotten used to fades to a single, slower beat. For a moment, the world feels _less loud_.
+> 
+> Then Soren hears, very faintly, curling up from the trunk and the conduits and the stone itself: 
+> 
+> “Roots remember what rivers forget.  
+Roots remember what _they_ bury.”
+
+Ben recieves a message on his phone:
+>[!quote] Elias:
+>“Hey. The tap just… _changed_. Whatever you did, the hum up here just dropped. Also, three different campus systems just rebooted at once.  
+You alive down there? Because administration sure as hell noticed something.”