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Q:What is something you work hard on/for? A: Fostering community bonds and togetherness a la Old World villages.
 
BEGIN SESSION
We're back in the city now, and I have a point of exhaustion for hoofing it back. Nightmare from the way back: the city is on fire, sacred buildings destroyed, martial law.
 
Rorin, Druss, and I head to HP Impartial and the mayor to fill them in on what is happening out in the East. Melfine, Marda, and Spike take the body to the Sanctum rep Lenny Potts, who offers hit serial killer shed and table for dissection of the corpse. They gather some books on Necromancy and Evocation. Melfine rolls a nat 20 REL based on me taking a suicide shot of the potions Cerra brought. The gem/body combo connects to Shadowfell, pretending to be fey magic. Marda pulls a book out of the sack, written in Dwarvish with pictures, about geology. She also gets a little geode of alexandrite. Then another little book with handwritten notes. It is in shorthand, so not really a language. The Shadowfell realization comes here as well, providing a throughline.
 
Rorin, Druss, and I get back to the Sanctum, but no one answers the door. Laughing from behind the building draws us back, and we see the shack responding to the magic going on inside. I rap on the door, and it opens to reveal Marda. Rorin reads the Dwarvish book, and it's a kids' book on rocks. The other book is about time spent in Shadowfell, written also by Charles Corbin, probably. Shadowfell is a theorized alternate world, within which is decay and rot. Marda pulls out a huge bottle of port in a cock bottle. The girls find a book about Shadowfell on the shelves inside the main building. Helen can't get out of the shack, so when Melfine leaves with Spike in tow, Helen is trapped. The shack gets ready to blow from some bad juju, but Helen gets a nat 20 to escape and breaks the veil of the magic barrier. Rorin steals some keys from Lenny. Marda goes back in, and the staff, focus, and body are all gone. Lenny says they got yeeted back to the Sanctum, the closest one being the Cerulean Sanctum. Marda rushes off to the main building, where there is a message delivery system connected to the Sanctum in Cherwood. She gives them the low-down about the body, the blight that emanates from it, and what we've dealt with so far.
 
At the docks in Lake Town, we find some ships heading west, The Glory of My Fist captained by a Dawn's Reach military man, and the Sea Ghost Coast to Coast, a fishing trawler. Rorin talks to the Elvish The Will of the Stars (20gp, leaving tomorrow at dawn, 2 weeks to Cherwood, Velma Starmore). The city is more somber now that the festival has passed. I meet up with everyone minus Rorin at an inn where we have secured some rooms for the night, and fill them in on the ship prospects. We head back the Glory, and talk to Lt. Lassiter. They are preparing for war, heading west then south. They wanna conscript us, uh no. So we head to the Sea Ghost and greet by Dottie the Quartermaster. (2-3 weeks, leaves 3 days from now, 25gp).
 
We reconvene at the inn and decide to look into Charles Corbin via Melfine using Sending at him. She sends telling him that we need info and he responds, asking where we are. Druss wants our meeting with this guy to have Max present, to soften whatever sort of blow comes with that.
 
Next morning, we load up into the ship with our mounts. Rorin, Melfine, and I are going to meet the captain, and are met with a busty Elven gal, Velma.
 
As the voyage sets off, we end.
END SESSION
 
Current stats: INSP, HP 75/75