The Assassination

Life, Death

Another Party member meets their end.

The party reaches a small town on their way to Akozar and decide to spend the night in the tavern/inn where Thril spends the night regaling the population with her songs. It's there they meet a...fan. She seems absolutely in awe of Thril, who eats it up. The next night they set up camp, unaware that they had been followed. Their tail drugs the people who are standing watch then sneaks in and stabs Yara through the chest, stealing the dagger she always kept in wrapped in her hair as proof of her deed before heading off into the night. The next morning when the group woke they were horrified to find their friend covered in blood and very much dead, although the wound had closed with the help of a magical item Yara had always carried on her person. Wargraff stalked the murderer back to the town they had spent the night in where the Tavernkeeper informed him that the only person who was not from that town, besides themselves, had been the woman that had fawned over them the night before, and that she was sleeping in her room even then. They headed up to the room and indeed found her there. While Wargraff tied her up Thril started searching through the woman's belongings finding Yara's knife and Bounty posters for herself, olivia, Lila, and Ravrin. Furious she woke the woman up while Wargraff continued to search her things. That was when the dwarf found the murder weapon, an enchanted blade that now housed Yara's soul. Yara was able to speak with him so long as he held the blade and between her and Rajan, who was able to read the woman's thoughts, they were able to piece together what had happened and why. In a fit of rage Thril savagely drove Yara's dagger into the woman's heart, unaware that it was a sacrificial blade. With a shrill screech that echoed through the desert the woman shriveled up as her essence and blood was sucked up into the dagger, much to everyone's surprise. While Wargraff and Umbra went about making a example of the woman's corpse they discovered that it wouldn't burn, so they were forced to think of something else, taking it further into the desert to set it up as a warning for the assassins that the party was not to be messed with.