As the group is walking back, the rest of the party check out their chwinga masks but Wynbella refuses to look at the one in her pack. They came across a mother and her teenage son, Julius. As the party moves more quickly, Wynbella . Wynbella and Charlie started to craft the cure while Eldon and Misty interrogated the mayor. The later seems invested in getting his mom to eat. The mayor says that the innkeeper Aaron may know more information about pretty blonde travelers. Aaron's wife and several others passed away after returning from Hope's End. Hope's End is a barren stretch of country where something erupted from the ground and destroyed the surrounding area. It took the king's army years to kill it. Hope's End is the colony that survives near the canyon. The veterans are wanted to go to the outposts there.
Wynbella convinces Lucy Todd to go back to spend time with her son and takes extra care to look after June.
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*Meanwhile*
Eldon and Misty head over to the inn while Wynnbella and Charlie keep working on the antivenom. They see Hilfra, Julius, an older couple, Stella and the Mage at the inn. Stella comes up to retrieve her silver ring that was among the stolen items. The mage inspected the two masks and gave the adventurers gold and a purify food and drink potion. They also got gold from the return of the stolen items.
Julius has a note for Misty from someone while Eldon talks about his mentor who may have passed.
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Wynnbella has a heart to heart with Major Amelia about how rambunctious kids can be. She gets Charlie to take the antivenom and has Eldon take her back to the inn while she watches over the children.
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*Meanwhile*
Misty learns that Mayor Amelia doesn't like the rabbit of the twins as it is mean. It sleeps next to the children and hates adults to the point that it attacks them. Julius's dad wasn't the best according to the barmaid. The Init husband wants to leave to join the Legion. Stella had some guys with her last time she came to the inn April 1st. One of them had curly brown hair, Haywood, and one was blonde. Paid through to April 8th. Aaron didnt write their names which he noted was odd. Eldon and Charlie share a bed.
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Gray woke up for a bit and Wynn gave him water. She comforted the kids by humming to them.
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Misty reads about how Prince Dommerick along with his guards were destroyed by an unknown beast on his bachelor party hunt. The land was tilled up as if a creature had moved it with brute strength and that there was no sign of battle. May have been a shard beast. Prince Harrod (the younger sibling) took over soon after when their father also passed. This book's telling of the prince is a lie with a nat 20. This is 6 generations down from the statue.
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*Dreams*
Charlie- feels sensations of her past, she feels the click in her head for her mechanical beasts
Eldon- feels rain and snow while he works and looks down at an empty grave that he just dug for "one of the bravest women he has knowm"
Misty- feels a rocking on a boat, sees a smiling woman with orange fur laughing at her, the face morphs into an older blue woman also laughing (pitying and she is less than), for a moment think they are right about everything
Wynnbella- humming the same song and you are holding a warm body with a scent you haven't smelled in so long.