* Chosen: The Secret Eleventh Town of Ten-Towns
* Katrina, the Records Keeper, invites Chosen in and speaks to him with great reverence. The statue has an inscription of the town motto:
* “Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of it."
* Grit Brinwall states that he has fulfilled his duty to return Chosen Wan to his town as it was foretold and is done.
* Grit tries to leave but is stopped by Lohengrin
* We find out Grit has a brother named Ian who still lives in town
* Katrina takes us all to the tavern Chosen Brew
* Everyone in the tavern is shocked except for one woman, Mai
* Cloak talks to Mai and finds out she was told to open up “The Chosen House” before we arrived
* They were warned about the freeze before it happened and hid themselves away
* This town does not believe in sacrificing anything to the Frost Maiden
* We go to meet Ian at the
* A full orc runs the front desk
* A dwarf makes the statues
* They say that Grit stole half their silver relics and skipped town. They have Ian chained and working there in order to get Grit to come back
* Grit admits to stealing 5,000 GP worth of silver statues
* We leave to meet Ballan Loranala the Town Speaker
* He tells us almost nothing
* We learn he is highly magical
* Turns out that Azel is Lizbeth’s sister!! She works in the library in the town hall
* Sally tells her all about our adventures
* Azel and Lizbeth’s family were killed in East Town’s sacrifices
* Azel asks us to tell Lizbeth to return to her sister
* Lohengrin decyphers some of the books and they contain aphorisms:
* A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
* Advice, when most needed, is least heeded.
* Allow compassion to guide your decisions.
* Advice, when most needed, is least heeded.
* Allow compassion to guide your decisions.
* If you wish to see the best in others, show the best of yourself.
* Small confidences mark the onset of a friendship.
* Swimming is easy. Stay floating is hard.
* Speaker Ballan has a long conversation with Lohengrin about magic and gives him stones of sending
* Half the party returns to Mai in the tavern. She tells the straight history of the town:
* Founded by some lost people who supposedly knew the Rhyme was going to happen
* They made this isolated village and based it upon a parchment that supposedly foretold of it’s founding
* The elders left symbols in each of the Ten-Towns that would lead to the 11th town and people who figure it out just start showing up
* The town elders talked to a magical speaker asking to talk to the Chosen One who had the visions that saved the town. All the sketches and statues were made from that meeting
* The Chosen One is supposed to end the Rhyme
* Speaker Ballan is rumored to be as old as the town
* Talia Ebonscale passed through Chosen with an egg and left with a different item
* Quote of the Game: “Words confuse me, magic man.”
* Sous, Swagger, and Titanius have a very dumb conversation with Speaker Ballan about Talia Ebonscale
* She came through town long ago with an egg that ended up being Lockheed
* She left an object behind that the speaker said he didn’t want to tell us about it
* Chosen Wan asks the tavern owner how he can be old enough to have written the sacred scrolls and the answer is , “Magic”