We start the session with a short rest while we wait for the druids to return. While short resting we forage and loot the dead Kobolds finding:
- 14 unidentified herbs (Henrietta has them)
- a +1 shield, some spears
After about 2 hours the druids appear, led by a wood elf in a camofaging cloak
- Fennian Oakwood, leader of the druids of the Elven Forest
- he doesn't really believe in a hierarchy, but he is the one who communes with the Earth Mother
- the Earth Mother (he claims) is the deity that gives druids their ability to commune with nature
- He knows of th esnow leopards when Smodi asks
- He has seen one in the Mountains of Mist, says they are a strong omen
- This reminds Arodeyr of the warning
Deacon Harold gave to Smodi regarding what would happen if he went to the mountains
- He also has met Link in the forest, who remembered the party
- He had a message specifically for Smodi
- Smodi gave him a Gilded Acorn afterwards
- He tells us of a portal within a cave not far from us that could bring us back to Porion
- The portal is known only to druids and we are requested to keep its existance a secret
- it's only a 1-way trip, with some potentially adverse effects
- It must be opened by a druid, and there are others around that can be found in nature, not in the developed world
The cave (15min walk away) is blocked by a fallen tree that Fennian Oakwood moves for us
- He says to go to the archway, going North
- Don't touch the portal before saying the incantation
- The cave appears to have been cut by an underground river
- After a 20min or so walk we can hear shuffling stones
- Amon casts Find Familiar (conjuration magic...) and send his bat in, who sees 3 basilisks
- In the ensuing battle Raas gets turned into stone
It's late afternoon (18:00-19:00) when we return to Porion through the portal
- Raas' wing gets chipped while going through
- the portal lets out in an alley in
The Trade Quarter, and close to the Nobility Quarter
- The church is roughly an hour walk from this location (at half speed --> exhausion)
- There are more guards milling about than usual
- There are posters about the "Light Bringers" plastered about, some having been defaced with the word "traitor"
We take Raas to the church in the hopes of getting him healed
-
Deacon Harold is there and says that he is capable of healing Raas, but its been a while since he's done that kind of magic
- He also mentioned wanting Henrietta's assistance with something
- Raas was healed. His wing will be fine, but he may not be himself for a few days according to the Deacon
- Tanmore has been moved to a hospital in the Nobility Quarter
When asekd about the Light Bringers the Deacon said its a movement of the people
- started out simply as rumours
- the extra guards are a reaction to the growing concern with them
- Some of the guards are actually from the house of
Lady Eredith
The Deacon also mentioned that a young fellow, a Kenku, came asking for Smodi
- Assuming that this was
Snapper
- he'd be pretty resourceful to track Smodi to the church the day after we helped them
- Smodi asked if the Kenku had a peg leg??
Amon didn't try going inside the church
- When the Deacon saw him he only said 'intriguing' without any hint of malice
- He also said to him before leaving, "Should you wish to seek the
Light you are most welcome here"
Smodi thinks that the Light Bringers would make for good allies
- The party then splits to check on multiple things
Smodi heads to The Green Leaf Tea Shop
The following isn't yet known by the party
- Prices are going up in the city
- Torbin didn't have a lot of (or any) info on the Light Bringers, but said to talk to Amon
- Smodi called the Light Bringers 'The Fulcrum'
Amon, Raas, and Dacso head to The Sapphire Shores
- The people in the tavern are enamoured with Amon for standing up to the Nobles
- They call him Amon Lightbringer
- They say the Raas and Dacso can't be too good of friends of Amon's if they didn't even know Amon's last name
- We didn't know Amon's last name --> he denied having one at his trial
- They tell him about a considerable bounty on his head from
Lady Eredith
- perhaps she's furious with the trial outcome??
- Folks from the Mining Guild are on Amon's side --> we have a quest from Torbin to help them
Henrietta and Arodeyr stay to check out the evening service at the church
- Patrons of the church are primarily dwarves and halflings
- the powers of Zanarin are to 'heal' and 'disperse evil'
- the church has been given special licence to help rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them
- day services are held every 5 days, 4 from this day
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