March 14, 2021

We go to the decrepit house where we saw Magnus send a crow message. Linzi speaks with the crows and learns that they all fly to the tower in the direction of the morning sun. We offer one seeds if it flies slowly to the tower. We name this crow Boss and follow it through the town. If flies to a giant, old stone tower under the bridge. There are 12 symbols on the tower with pointing hands. The symbols look like Thassalonian runes we've seen in the glassworks basement. At the top of the tower is a large room where Boss flies into. We learn from a random dock worker that there's a monster rumored to live in the tower. We return to the police station to retrieve our horses and Billy runs out to tell us that he has captured another guard who went in to speak with Farbus and she has been somewhat forthcoming. We talk to her, Katherine, and learn that she was contacted by the brotherhood out of nowhere, they kidnapped her mother, Priscilla, and demanded that she send a note from Magnus. Katherine told us that the members of the brotherhood have been meeting recently in the under bridge area, and she confirms that they have captured the Lord Mayor Grobaras. We head to the Magnimar library and Laudius convinces the librarian to share his personal collection. We learn that no one really knows how long the tower has been there nor what the symbols mean, and that chimeras are vulnerable to swords and normal attacks. Linzi uses sending to ask Borhir and we learn that the runes on the tower are numbers: 12, 1, 2, 3... So we deduce it is a clock tower despite having never seen a clock. We stop by the garrison on the way back to the clocktower and see Billy and Katherine strip searching additional guards to see if they're tattooed. We ride our horses almost to the tower then walk the rest of the way. The hands are not moving and read 10:25 (or so). Dionaea goes invisible and vine climbs up to the window at the top of the clock tower and sees cultists standing around a triangular basin of mystery fluid with a body levitating above. There are a half dozen others in the room, including Justice Eyenbreyer, a large snake-like creature, and city guards at the door. Laudius uses locate creature to confirm that the mayor is alive and in the tower. We gather pallets from the shipyard as kindling and prepare to storm the tower...