Mike's spellbook
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Mike’s spellbook is the wizard spellbook Mike carried as part of his standard loadout. It was confiscated by the Aurelian patrol from Mike’s body after his execution at the road approach to The Bright Gate [2]. The patrol “would have searched the body before leaving” (DM, [2], and the spellbook went with them along with the Mizzium Apparatus. Contents are not catalogued in transcript; Mike’s prepared spells across s17 and s18 were a wide-pool list typical of a Vedalken multiclass build (cleric / druid / wizard) leaning on the apparatus for breadth. Now state-held Aurelian property and a potential intelligence asset.
Overview
Mike’s spellbook is the personal wizard spellbook Mike carried throughout sessions 17 and 18. It is named on-transcript only at the moment of its loss: at the end of the patrol encounter, Hugo suggested taking the spellbook from Mike’s body as proof the party had cooperated with the patrol’s heretic execution [3], at which point Mike’s player asked whether the Aurelians had already taken it. The DM confirmed: “They don’t, but they would have searched the body before leaving” [2]. The spellbook left with the patrol.
This is the second item Mike loses to the Aurelian patrol in the same scene, after the Mizzium Apparatus visible-magical-artefact confiscation [4]. The two items together represent the campaign’s first PC-loadout transfer to Aurelian state custody.
Contents
The spellbook’s contents are not formally catalogued in transcript. The s17 spellbook-trade scene [5], L1679-1689) named some of Mike’s prepared spells and broader spellbook references:
- 1st-level prepared: Alarm, Comprehend Languages, Feather Fall, Find Familiar, Identify, Shield, Tenser’s Floating Disk, Unseen Servant.
- Broader spellbook references: Bless, Dragon’s Breath, Hold Person, Invisibility, Levitate, Magic Weapon, Mirror Image, Rope Trick.
Mike’s class composition is multiclass cleric / druid / wizard [6], which complicates the question of which spells were physically inscribed in the wizard spellbook versus prepared from the cleric/druid lists. The wide-pool list working through the Mizzium Apparatus meant Mike rarely needed to scribe scrolls or hold a strict spell economy; the spellbook is therefore a partial, not exhaustive, record of his magical repertoire.
Significance
In Aurelian hands, the spellbook is intelligence value rather than mechanical loot. It catalogues a magic-user’s prepared list, which feeds into the Aurelian arcane-detection apparatus (confessor Insight + apparatus visual flag, per the s18 patrol intercept). It is also a candidate item for whatever Aurelian arcane-research apparatus exists behind the doctrine. The Mizzium Apparatus’s eventual fate is an explicit open thread; the spellbook’s fate sits alongside it.
For the party, the spellbook is now part of the same recovery problem as the apparatus: state-held Aurelian property inside Aurelian territory, accessible only by entering the city.
Status as of session 18
In Aurelian patrol custody. Taken from Mike’s body before the patrol moved on [2]. Whether it makes it back to a central Aurelian repository, gets routed into the same custody chain as the Mizzium Apparatus, or ends up at The Bright Gate checkpoint, is unknown.
See also
References
- ^ Session 18, line 2419 — Mike's player asks whether the patrol took the spellbook: 'Nick, did they take my spellbook?'.
- ^ Session 18, line 2437 — DM confirms: 'They don't, but they would have searched the body before leaving.' Spellbook is gone with the patrol.
- ^ Session 18, line 2417 — Inline citation.
- ^ Session 18, line 2287 — Inline citation.
- ^ Session 17, line 321 — Inline citation.
- ^ Session 17, line 37 — Inline citation.