My Alchemical Romance
Elmyra Manticore
"Chaos can be chosen."
Elmyra Manticore, known as Prism, is an infernal Witchborn sorcerer whose magic first kept her alive as street performance before earning her a place among VQU's First Five. She turns raw instability into color, motion, and sudden elemental transformation.
Greta Wunsch assigned Elmyra to My Alchemical Romance after Maine's arrest; she pushed the QUEST item-quota objective and helped investigate the Nick Kremp lead.
Listener / practical endpoint
Leaves with Ash after Mergel’s secret request and begins considering sending more Wingkin to flood or destabilize the false-savior situation.
Status: No direct status change.
Knowledge: Players know Elmyra is open to sending Wingkin rather than returning them to Orval.
Welfare-check leader / non-kidnapper
Asks whether the blue Wingkin is safe and whether he wants to return, then accepts that the party is not in the business of kidnapping him.
Status: No direct status change.
Knowledge: Players know Elmyra is willing to leave a target in place if they are choosing it freely.
Negotiator / mission-framer
Argues that the party only needs to verify the Wingkin is safe and does not need to kidnap him back to Orval Finkus.
Status: No direct status change.
Knowledge: Players know Elmyra frames the mission as welfare-check, not forced return.
Problem-solver / void-dust collector
Argues through possible magical fixes and impulsively takes the void dust before Morgan calls out the corpse-scavenging hypocrisy.
Status: Briefly collects about 25 void dust from Fidelphi’s remains.
Knowledge: Players know the residue is valuable or notable but ethically uncomfortable.
Trust-Jixi advocate / Ash critic
Argues that following and helping Jixi is still the practical path because the party must enter New Gob City anyway, even if it could be a trap.
Status: Elmyra and Ash clash over trust, leverage, and leadership
Knowledge: Players know Elmyra prioritizes actionable direction over suspicion spirals.
Pragmatic defender / threat escalator
Frames the post-spider collector confrontation as necessary leverage and protection while pursuing the dragonborn lead.
Status: Elmyra's leadership ethics contrast with Jonah's caution
Knowledge: Players know she prioritizes successful logistics over clean moral optics.
Intimidator / thunder striker
Threatens the collectors after they beat the ledger goblin and fires a Chromatic Orb at the attacker while trying to stop the beating.
Status: Elmyra escalates collector dispute to violence
Knowledge: Players know she will defend useful informants forcefully.
Chaos blaster / spider finisher
Uses twin Chromatic Orb, chaos-surge Bless on herself, Vic, and Jonah, a bonus extra action after a crit, and Fire Bolt to finish the spider fight.
Status: Elmyra helps finish the boosted spider fight through chaos momentum
Knowledge: Players know her magic can cascade into extra actions and burst damage.
Trapped lower-cavern ally / chaos blaster
Remains below with Jonah after her previous Thaumaturgy command drew the boosted phase spiders' attention.
Status: Elmyra remains central to the lower-cavern danger
Knowledge: Players know her amplified command escalated the scene into combat.
Amplified commander / accidental spider alerter
Uses Thaumaturgy to command the goblins to safely put the captive back on the rock, drawing the attention of seven additional spiders.
Status: Elmyra's command escalates the lower-cavern crisis
Knowledge: Players know the rescue attempt triggers a larger spider threat.
Lower-cavern discoverer / command voice
Jumps down after Jonah, sees goblins dangling a captive over boost gas and spiders, and prepares to intervene loudly.
Status: Elmyra enters New Goblin City discovery scene
Knowledge: Players know she is trapped below with Jonah when the settlement is revealed.
Immediate follower / rescue jumper
Runs to the hole, checks on Jonah, and immediately jumps down next to him.
Status: Elmyra joins Jonah in lower cavern cliff path
Knowledge: Players know she acts quickly rather than waiting for the rest of the party.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 15
2026-04-09 / Little Shop of Horticulture
After Maine's arrest, Greta assigns Elmyra Manticore to My Alchemical Romance as a new or temporary leader and restates the QUEST item quota.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 16
2026-04-09 / Little Shop of Horticulture
Elmyra is established as a chaos-powered Manticore, one of VQU's First Five students, and someone who failed alchemy partly because she refused to attend smelly labs.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 17
2026-04-09 / Gloomspire / Oskar’s new home
The party retrieves Oskar from Gloomspire after his failed Aboleth challenge and finds him withdrawn, disheveled, and researching void matters.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 18
2026-04-09 / Gravenhurst square
Gemma Goldgrace appears as a Queefdom postal carrier and warns the party about Graven Scourge ties, Kaya's targeting, and Alfred Rallus's void manifestation power.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 20
2026-04-09 / Gravenhurst streets
Gemma and Elmyra report seeing Nick Kremp alive near a farm, contradicting the party's memory of his death at Point Pringle.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 22
2026-04-09 / Outside Pink Pony Tavern
Ash and Morgan cash in Mystery Machine tokens outside Pink Pony Tavern, gaining tax-cleared magic items that can be attuned immediately.
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After Maine's arrest, Greta assigns Elmyra Manticore to My Alchemical Romance as a new or temporary leader and restates the QUEST item quota.
storyElmyra is established as a chaos-powered Manticore, one of VQU's First Five students, and someone who failed alchemy partly because she refused to attend smelly labs.
storyThe party retrieves Oskar from Gloomspire after his failed Aboleth challenge and finds him withdrawn, disheveled, and researching void matters.
storyGemma Goldgrace appears as a Queefdom postal carrier and warns the party about Graven Scourge ties, Kaya's targeting, and Alfred Rallus's void manifestation power.
storyGemma and Elmyra report seeing Nick Kremp alive near a farm, contradicting the party's memory of his death at Point Pringle.
storyAsh and Morgan cash in Mystery Machine tokens outside Pink Pony Tavern, gaining tax-cleared magic items that can be attuned immediately.
storyThe party chooses to investigate the farm where Nick has reportedly been seen with I.J. and P.B., despite Elmyra's push toward the QUEST quota.
storyThis session starts the post-Maine-arrest roster rebuild: Elmyra/Prism joins as temporary leader, Oskar returns from failed Aboleth challenge, Gemma gives Gravenhurst intelligence, Jonah clashes with Djon Charleston’s Djeebus donation movement, the group sees or hears of Nick Kremp alive despite remembering his death, and a new Castro-hunting infernal enters the orbit.
storyAsh and Jonah turn in Paulus Levius's Death Mask and the Cloak of Billowing to QUEST, removing Maine's most dangerous tool from circulation.
storyJonah's Sending to I.J. works normally and gives the party a concrete route to the farm where Nick has reportedly been seen.
storyA harvested troll corpse under a bridge channels through Morgan's necromancy, briefly possessing her and turning the road into party conflict.
storyKatrine Draxler arrives by portal, identifies Morgan's corpse use as illegal under revival-right law, and fines her one hundred gold.
storyOn the road toward Root Barrel Farm, Jonah identifies lantern-bearing stone figures as petrified victims rather than carved statues.
storyAt Root Barrel Farm, Orval Finkus performs strained hospitality before Nick Kremp emerges and greets Jonah and Ash like old friends.
storyAfter the troll and Katrine incident, Elmyra and Vic question how the team functions at all while the party resets on the road.
storyThis session moves the post-arrest party from Gravenhurst toward the Nick/I.J. farm mystery: they turn in Paulus Levius’s Death Mask and Cloak of Billowing for QUEST value, Jonah receives the Crown of Thorns from Djon Charleston’s movement, Sending to I.J. gives a route, Morgan is possessed by a troll spirit after Vic triggers a corpse, Katrine Draxler fines Morgan, and the party reaches Root Barrel Farm where Nick Kremp appears alive.
storyOrval Finkus explains that several displaced dragonborn workers have gone missing from Root Barrel Farm and offers payment for their return.
storyNick appears cheerful and helpful at Root Barrel Farm, but fails Ash's memory and catchphrase tests, deepening suspicion that something is wrong.
storyA Blue Wingkin refugee tells Elmyra the farm is better than the void prisons, clarifying the morally complicated Castro-survivor labor situation.
storyAfter leaving Root Barrel Farm, the party agrees something is wrong with Nick but chooses to rescue the missing dragonborn before confronting him.
storyAt an abandoned chapel near the necromancer-hut lead, the party rescues a Black Wingkin hiding above zombies eating a dead necromancer.
storyThe chapel yields Vayne necromancy loot, including Gloves of Rotting Flesh that Hugo quietly pockets after Vic discards them.
storyThe rescued Black Wingkin returns toward Root Barrel Farm with Jonah's mundane warhammer while Orval praises the party for recovering one of his dragonborn.
storyNear the cave lead, the party meets VQU students Zetch, Ellenthyra Mew, and Nell Quiv arguing over a legendary wand.
storyJonah proposes splitting a legendary wand into thirds, but Nell Quiv's objection helps settle the dispute around preservation rather than possession.
storyAfter a short rest, the party re-enters the cave with Zetch, Ellenthyra Mew, and Nell Quiv as lower-year VQU guides.
storyThe party enters the cave and triggers a gnoll ambush around partially eaten owlbear corpses after finding the students' earlier fight site.
storyElmyra's Fireball wipes out the witch doctor, summoned hyenas, and gnoll support, resolving the main cave ambush with chaotic collateral.
storyJonah investigates an owlbear nest, finds an egg, and falls through the collapsing floor into a lower cavern with Elmyra jumping after him.
storyJonah and Elmyra discover New Goblin City beneath the cave, where goblins are torturing a captive over a boost-gas spider pit.
storyElmyra's amplified command draws seven boosted phase spiders, leaving her and Jonah trapped in New Goblin City's lower cavern.
storyVic jumps down to help Jonah and Elmyra, inhales boost vapor, and suffers only the poisoning side of the drug's tradeoff.
storyMorgan misty steps into the lower cavern and fires Lightning Bolt through boosted phase spiders as the rescue becomes emergency combat.
storyVic drops to zero in the boost pit, and Zetch leaps down through the danger to revive him with a potion.
storyHugo follows the party into New Goblin City's spider fight and becomes an active combat ally.
storyJonah's triage and Elmyra's chaos-fueled spellwork carry the party through the end of the boosted phase spider fight.
storyAfter the spiders die, a ledger goblin explains New Goblin City's three routes, the Dimoggio collectors, and the Emrite lead toward the Wingkin.
storyA Dimoggio collector beats the ledger goblin for talking, and the party uses threats, Darkness, and Vic's javelin to stop an alarm from reaching the city.
storyAfter Hugo's Darkness, Zetch is found over a collector's body beside a wounded ledger goblin and a mysterious chained box with three magical locks.
storyAfter the bridge fight, Jonah worries that My Alchemical Romance is setting a terrible example for the younger VQU students.
storyThis session resolves the boosted phase spider cliffhanger under the cave. Vic Vaurr becomes boost-poisoned and drops, Zetch saves him with a potion, Hugo joins the fight directly, Jonah keeps the party alive, and Elmyra clears multiple spiders with chaotic sorcery. Afterward, the party learns New Goblin City has Moe Dimoggio collectors, Emrys-worshiping Emrites who receive Wingkin, and a lawless center market.
storyJixie explains that the chained box has to reach his boss, accepts Jonah's healing, resists Hugo's bargaining, and guides the party toward New Goblin City.
storyJixie explains New Goblin City's power structure, naming the Dimoggio Clan, Tech Runners, workers, Queen loyalists, and Emrites.
storyJixie collapses with the chained box, Hugo briefly unlocks one of four locks, and Elmyra heals Jixie before he re-secures the cargo.
storyAt Runner Landing, the toll goblin points the Wingkin lead left toward the Emrites while Jixie redirects Hugo toward the black market for Fidelphi Castro.
storyMorgan meets Dr. Gristlewick Poplimb in New Goblin City's black market and buys a halfling leg gun.
storyFidelphi Castro dies from a black-ooze curse after claiming someone wore his face, leaving Hugo with void dust instead of closure.
storyAfter Fidelphi's death, goblins try to charge harvest rights and a commotion fee before selling the party a lead toward the Wingkin near the Emrites.
storyA Tech Runner offers directions for twenty-five gold, Morgan blinds him, and Ash finds a crude map pointing toward the Emrite/Wingkin route.
storyThe party reaches the stream-level Emrite bridge, negotiates with a sentry, and gains conditional disarmed access to the blue Wingkin.
storyThe party rests in the Emrite outsiders' area, where Jonah prepares to debate a honeymooning couple's one-true-god belief.
storyElmyra and Ash find the blue Wingkin alive, worshiped as Biresh, and uninterested in leaving or sharing attention with other Wingkin.
storyMergel of the Blue Candle secretly asks Ash and Elmyra to send real Wingkin to the Emrite settlement, because Biresh's tricks are not the salvation his people need.
storyThe party regroups with Zetch, Ellenthyra, and Nell, escapes New Goblin City without a citywide fight, and camps before pursuing the remaining northern Wingkin lead.
storyAfter the long rest outside New Goblin City, Ellenthyra gives Ash her VQU dorm number before the VQU students split away from QUEST.
storyQUEST joins the road crowd toward Gravenhurst as rumors about MAINE's trial, Krane, Nora, Albert, and Castro infiltration conceal fake Rill and fake Redwave.
storyAt the Gravenhurst gate, Len Baphomet and the Lawful lock the city down before MAINE's trial, trapping the crowd before Castro reveals itself.
storyThe Castro attack begins from above and within Gravenhurst, turning the gate crowd into a battlefield as Djon's barrier ignites and the Black Ward seals itself.
itemElmyra gave Jixie a healing potion after he collapsed near the bottom of the descent.
aspectChaos Magic is an imported aspect from the Jericha Aspect Data sheet. Its full lore and named powers can be expanded here as the canon text is added.
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