Vega Spritzer

Vega Spritzer is a reluctant priestess of Eldath and the primary muscle behind The Ladies' Hiking Club.

Personal History

Born to the priestly caste in the Grand Mausoleum on the 29th of Springfall, 816WA, Vega Spritzer was raised under high expectations. Expecting the talented youngster from a good family to succeed to a diplomatic role with the Kingdom of Hell, the ecclesiastical orders put many resources and extraordinary pressure on Vega to maximize her facility with channeling divine energy. As a rare child of the Eastern Elven Tower, she was expected to obtain high office.
Spritzer rose through the clerical orders quickly and with intention, becoming one of the youngest women to be ordained a Bishop in the nearly 900 years of Human stewardship there. She excelled at academics and divine magic, but was often encouraged to work on her diplomacy. Submissions to Hell were requests made to higher powers, after all, and not debates to be won or lost.
In the course of her diplomatic and clerical career, she was quite successful in petitioning Clerks of the Incunabulum but (though she would never admit it) struggled on the two occasions when she had matters that raised the interest of the Potentates of Hell: the shinigami for whom Hell is their natural habitat. The clerks of the Incunabulum, deceased souls shackled to the bureaucracy of the underworld, were creatures of rules and regulations and could be readily reasoned with; the Potentates operated largely out of whimsy and ennui.

That woman is a baritone.
-Clytemnestra Glitters

Petition of Sylvio Overmere

On the 30th of Winterfall, 856WA, Sylvio Overmere, Count of Novon, arrived at the Grand Mausoleum after a treacherous and clandestine journey, seeking to petition the Kindly Ones for a dictum certifying that an intercessor of the Grand Mausoleum spoke with his eldest brother, Ericus Overmere, in the underworld and confirmed that he was murdered by the second-elders Overmere son, the current Emperor, Kern Overmere.
Rather than awaiting the return of a more senior intercessor or rousing the Pontifex, the ambitious Bishop Spritzer conducted the intercession herself, bringing his offering of riches and the service of his infant sister to whomever in Hell would deign to listen. She worked her way through the Incunabulum and the Atrium of Hell without making eye contact with any of Hell's residents, leading her to believe this case had been claimed by one of the Lieutenants of Hell. Upon arriving at their location, a place that had yet to be named in scripture, they too declined to speak with her, prompting her towards yet another door. Upon crossing its threshold and laying eyes upon a figure that could only have been Lord Arcus, her connection to Hell was severed and she returned to the Black Throne emptyhanded.
This incident was, somehow, broadcast to The Ladies' Hiking Club as a whole in a dream on or about the 14th of Winterfall, 856WA.

Life After the Grand Mausoleum

Spritzer left the Grand Mausoleum on or about 858WA, joining the Kindly Ones' infantry regiment and eventually making her way south to Halfling country.

Military Career

Although the interim between that event and Vega's military career are not yet public knowledge, it is understood that she was serving as a healer in a company of the Kindly Ones' infantry (pictured left; note: distinct from the elite droz'ohn-ka) in an assault on Pandemonium: the city at the precipice of the Infernal Plane just across the bay from Templeborne. She encountered a Pit Lord there and miraculously survived the encounter, though none of her colleagues did.

Term as Hedge Witch

Some time after this event, Vega Spritzer made her way south along the High Spine to the town of Bridlip in the Corran county of Timbermore. She set up shop just outside the town limits on the Halfling side of the wall, offering her services as a healer and herbalist. The townsfolk of Bridlip, Cricklewood and The Overcroft never fully embraced or trusted her, but many a young woman in an unfortunate way or a chronic pain sufferer with nowhere else to turn found themselves grateful for the help available in Vega Spritzer's hut.

Adventuring Career

Detecting enemy movement over the hills on the 29th of Summerfall, 856WA and seeing Clytemnestra "Fanny" Glitters swindle her way into the poorly watched gate, Vega Spritzer donned her armour, threw on a rough cloak and entered the city intent on defending it. She was unceremoniously hustled into a stable for protection with a number of other elderly women, children and The Ladies' Hiking Club.
The group took cover below the town chapel, where they discovered an ancient Yishamin structure fully preserved. An academic at heart, Spritzer took pleasure in exploring, investigating and translating whatever she could in an attempt to determine what an ancient Paladinate order was duing buried under the bumblefuck town next to which she'd opted to put down stakes. At several different junctures during this adventure, her hair was singed, burnt and razored away. In a Room of Non-Canonical Events, she also came across her new weapon of choice: an enchanted flail, the handle of which is woven with the coarse hair of a giant red dog.
Throughout the investigation of this structure, later revealed to have been known as The "Lighthouse" , numerous shrines and other devotional objects venerating the goddess of peace, Eldath, seemed to come to life and perform in unusual ways around Spritzer. After the Club had investigated most of the underlying structure and overcome The Silent Man tampering with the Lantern in the lowest level of the Lighthouse, an area effect healing spell cast by Spritzer began to spread throughout the entire Lighthouse like an aurora. When it appeared to have some possibility of reviving Jad, the brother of the skeletal toddler Irma, Vega and Clytemnestra ventured to the chapel to pray for Eldath's aid in his recovery.
To her own surprise and the shock of Clytemnestra, shortly after the prayer concluded and Vega believed it had had no effect, her eyes began to seep out aurora-like green light and she entered an avatar state, floating in the air and discharging radiant green energy in a nebula around her. She returned to Jad, returned him to unlife, and promptly passed out.

Eldath? I don’t really know how to do this. I don’t know what’s going on between you and me. I don’t know what you want with me, and I don’t know how to do any of the things I think you want me to do. All I know is, there’s a little girl down here. And the only person she’s had for a thousand years has been taken from her, and… it seems like maybe there’s a chance to help her. Something you can do. If you can use me somehow, if there’s anything I can do to make that happen, please. Please.
-- Vega Spritzer

Exit from Bridlip

After concluding her adventures in the Lighthouse, Vega came across a partially completed deed to a small freeholding just east of town. As the rest of the Ladies' Hiking Club were up to adventures of deception and persuasion, she attempted to try her hand at convincing the Aedile's office that her shoddy forgery was legitimate, and also to ask them where the farm she totally owned... was. The clerk with whom she spoke addressed a manager out of earshot and Vega skedaddled.

Journey Through Hundred House

Turtledove Prophecy and Hair Miracle
As the Hiking Club moved southwest through Hundred House, Vega was once addressed by animals in a sacred grove. A deer invited her to drink from a stream of fresh water, and her hair grew back in glorious, naturally curled flaxen blonde. A pair of turtledoves informed her that "Our Lady delighted to hear from you in the Lighthouse. She feared your heart would be closed to her. She bears you this message: She was with you in your dreams as a child, though you dressed her all in black. The dreams were true and worthy of telling. She bids you cleave tightly to your friends, as she did in life.” Here the turtledoves alighted and landed momentarily in her hair. “Do so, for you will lose much more than this, Vega Spritzer, and soon.” With that, they set off into the canopy and out of sight.
Seelie Court and Losing "Bob"
Shortly after the events at The Purple Peach, the Ladies' Hiking Club were directed into an instance of the Seelie Court where their mettle was tested and the group met and retained Peaseblossom as an emissary. In the course of those games and activities, Vega's competitive streak roared to the surface and using a Thorns spell, she killed a baby bunny that was beating her in the marquee mile-race event. She was persona non grata with the Seelie Court after that hiccup, though the group as a whole was permitted to continue their testing.
After the group left the instance and began to journey further southwest, Vega was the only one minded to look for "Bob", who had become separated from the group as they chased a lost dog all the way back to Peachton and the Purple Peach. She half-assedly looked around for him while foraging for medicinal herbs, and did find some snapped twigs and footprints roughly where they left the road leading into the woods. Those twigs were snapped up to about two and a half feet off the ground, and the area was saturated with poisonous mushrooms. In response to this discovery, Vega left a note formed with rocks on the curb:
B O B
------>
She is confident that did the trick. She went along with the group through Blackacre, into the Thetford Forest, through Lakeshore and into Echadnaur.

Echadnaur
In the ruins of the Wood Elf hamlet of Echadnaur, the Ladies' Hiking Club encountered and defeated an Arachnomancer in a chapel dedicated to Eldath but overrun by Sylvan influence. In the course of that battle, Vega once again entered into an avatar state, speaking as Eldath in a brief exchange with her adopted father, Sylvanas, who spoke through the Arachnomancer. When the battle was complete, Vega felt compelled to cleanse the chapel and did so, banishing the influence of Sylvanas and restoring the sanctity of the sanctuary. This excited the former intercessor greatly, and her dedication to her faith was significantly strengthened.
Three Nixies and a Funeral
During their river cruise down to Angel's Rest, Spritzer was interrupted by an adherent of Eldath, who begged her to conduct the funeral ceremony for his recently passed wife: another adherent of the faith. She did an excellent job, being somewhat of a specialist in divinity concerning death, and was rewarded with a hand-carved rosewood symbol of Eldath.
Vega then travelled through the woods to Angel's Rest with the rest of the group and crossed to the Wandering City on a rickety old whaling boat captained by a man named Gus.

Arrival at the Wandering City

Upon drydocking, the whaling boat came apart and Vega nearly fell to her death. She managed to catch on to a cargo net on the second docking level on the starboard side, but lost her grip when she tried to take a rope offered to her by Cherry Merrybottom. Despite her best efforts to save herself, she fell into the water and cast a spell returning her to the surface.
Then, dizzy from her misadventure and standing upon the water, she tied herself to a passing passenger raft, cast a Daylight spell on herself and demanded to be rowed back to the docks. Ultimately she had to walk; the ferryman couldn't row hard enough to move her.
Vega returned to the shell only moderately injured, to some applause before the sight of her armour turned away the largely Corran population. She remained with the rest of the Club for the rest of the day, leaving them only long enough to go shopping for a black notch-lapelled jacket, a white blouse and pinstriped black pants with a fresh pair of black leather ankle boots. She had decided to blend in, you see.

Omens from Eldath

Shortly after settling in at The Lamplight Inn in The Portavian Quarter, Vega attended at a humble temple to Eldath stewarded by Sister Janet. In that virtually deserted temple, through an incredible effort of will, she fully emptied her mind of her material concerns and opened herself to guidance from the goddess.

She was rewarded with visions of the Petition of Sylvio Overmere that marked the height of her powers as a Bishop in the Grand Mausoleum. Her path was familiar, proceeding past the Clerks of the Incunabulum, the Potentates of Hell and the Lord Lieutenants of Hell into a stone door behind those gargantuan figures. She prepared herself for the vision that had played itself out in her dreams a thousand times before: the colossal, obfuscated back and shadowy wings of what she could only assume was Lord Arcus. She reflexively held her breath, awaiting the recollection of her abrupt ejection from Hell -- but instead saw a vision of herself over Lord Arcus' shoulder in an avatar state, radiating the green aurora she had when resurrecting Jad Galmore and cleansing the temple at Echadnaur.Her mind boiled over at the shock, severing her meditative state. Was that a metaphor? A message? Or was it a literal representation: had she looked like that somehow? Or was it a mixture of both? Was it Eldath's presence within her that was ejected from Hell all those years ago?
Though her memories of the events of the Petition remained vivid, upon later reflection it occurred to her that this vision was taken from a different perspective both from her own memory and from that experienced by the entire group just outside of Angel's Rest. It led her to wonder whether that previous recounting of events in the party's dreams had indeed originated from Eldath as she had assumed.
Trying to seize upon whatever residual connection remained with the Goddess, Vega cast Druidcraft and sought an augury of what was to come: whether or not Eldath was steeling herself for some kind of conflict. Despite the day being clear and bright, her magic revealed tidal waves and violent thunderstorms. Vega got up with a smile on her lips. She was a champion again.

She raised these visions with Sister Janet, spilling her guts about most of the events to date but leaving out the details of the phylactery. The priestess rejected that Eldath would have directed the adventurers to the Wandering City because she needed some arcane assistance from Anthur-Ro; Eldath never did traffic in academic magic. She wondered openly why the goddess had caused her path to cross with Vega's. Moments later, her adopted daughter -- beautiful, blonde and of Elvish ancestry -- poked her head in and left. Vega concluded the conversation and followed her, thinking she might be one of Clytemnestra's children.
The young woman was taking a Storytelling class at the Bard's College in the Portavian Quarter, and after a brief conversation with the principal there, Vega burst into the class and invited the lot of them to Bella Garland's performance at the Lamplight later that evening. In doing so, she cast a spell on herself that inexplicably resulted in grave moths covering her and evaporating into the air, and then made creepy eye contact with the young lady, replicating the stormy augury from earlier that afternoon in her hands. Remarkably, despite this display, she actually was among the students that did attend the Lamplight later that evening.

Encounter with Torwall's Patron

After having enticed Violet Verihendrion Miller to attend the Lamplight, Vega watched her reconnect with her mother and offer to come back the next day. Somewhat of a smitten kitten, Vega resolved to wait for her in case she came back early, staying in the Lamplight's third-storey apartment rather than following Beulah and Cherry down into the Portside Sewer to explore. She rushed down upon hearing an explosion, and managed to heal an unconscious Beulah as she was being devoured alive by a Gelatinous Cube.
In the course of that combat, Cherry, Beulah and Peaseblossom were snapped out of existence with a thunderclap and Vega retreated to the apartment, closing the door behind her. She managed to make contact with both women, and Beulah returned a few hours later much worse for the wear. Violet came for dinner and at one point threw her arms around Vega to emphasize her strength and utility as a bodyguard, at which point Vega excused herself to conceal her deep blushing. After her departure, Vega discussed Violet with Fanny at the entrance of the Lamplight, heedless of the fact that Torwall's Patron was sitting next to them. He got up to leave and the adventurers, kicking themselves, tailed him. They worked through a darkness spell to find him in a new form, sitting in the pews in Sister Janet's temple. Vega initiated a fight and in the course of it was dropped more than 200 feet into a demiplane portal.

Return to Hell

Through an incredible feat of will, Vega was able to detect that the demiplane was adjacent to Hell and used her residual grace from Kelemvor to tear through the dimensional wall into the Incunabulum. There she encountered an odd little clerk she nicknamed "Lemmy" and made a deal with Reex, Second Lord of the Stygian Well to return to the living world in exchange for a promise to return one day to scandalize the Potentates of Hell.
Returning to her mates at the Lamplight, she urged Fanny to shut up and listen, because she had a plan for dealing with Torwall's patron Glabrezu. She then promptly fell asleep.

Reasserting the Initiative

Shaken up by the events of the past few days, Vega rededicated herself to being the adult supervision in the group and vowed to keep everyone safer than she had when she was focused on other pursuits. She appointed herself occasional escort for Violet and when she was safely ensconced in her temple, Vega cleft tightly to the rest of the group.
It was in this "mode" that she accompanied the rest of the group to Wakecrest to attend Gavinus Garland's investiture ceremony and to watch out for Beulah if anything negative were to transpire. Things did, of course, go drastically worse than any of them imagined and the event would thereafter be known as the Ambush at Commissioner's Hall. Vega acquitted herself admirably in that situation, as she would often note to herself with satisfaction in the days following. She clocked Violet weeping and running up stairs, followed by Fanny, and decided to follow along. On a hunch, she kicked the door in while they were having a "private talk" and confronted Azas as he possessed Violet and stood over a passed-out Fanny. The demon fled and Vega gathered the women and rushed downstairs.
She found Beulah doubled over and bleeding, half-dead at the hands of a circling Carrie Quattrociocchi. Within five minutes she and Fanny had taken the assassin down and, upon hearing her bull-like brother coming down the stairs with a massive warhammer, did what the others were too weak to do and finally eliminated one of the people chasing them. She stabbed an incapacitated Carrie through the heart with her own dagger, killing her instantly. She then drew all the fire from an enraged Yorick Quattrociocchi and with some deft armour work, crafty deflections and a few bad spear shots to the thigh managed to kite him to the entrance and ultimately escape.

Vega was even more pleased with herself upon returning to The Lamplight Inn, and with good cause.
The apparent "Plan B" team in the event that anyone survived the hit was a solitary middle-aged gnome in possession of multiple vials of high-explosive liquid that attempted to slip into their headquarters and trap up the place to polish off any survivors. It must have been a shock to him to find that the place was already rigged with a bomb: a glyph Vega set to go off in the event any man attempted to gain access to the unit. The glyph, if it didn't kill him outright, certainly knocked him back onto his haunches resulting in an unplanned detonation and blasting a good chunk of the roof off the Lamplight.
According to the timeline given by guests, Minnie Stone noped off the premises well before the Ladies returned, suggesting that the bomber slipped in rather shortly after the Ladies left. Perhaps they were being surveilled. In any event, Minnie packed up and left a few hours before they were back from Wakecrest.

Catching up with Torwall

With their haven in shambles, the Ladies decided to go to the Moons for refuge. After staying overnight, Vega ventured out with Fanny on an implicitly understood mission to go talk to Torwall Ignus such that Beulah would not be in violation of her injunction not to speak with him "directly or indirectly" at the behest of Torwall's patron.
While on their way, the women encountered Tara Thessaly, who was being arrested for theft from Anthur-Ro. Fanny pocketed the hot goods, but Vega followed the paddy wagon for the better part of an hour, ultimately engaging with the Archon and his retinue and challenging their (extremely valid) grounds for arrest. Displeased with their response, and probably not anticipating the extent of her own power, Vega drew up the waters from below the Foxall Fountain and used them to knock the wagon over. The sheer volume of water, however, was phenomenal and ended up killing the Archon and his journeyman attendant (the novitiate survived thanks to some strong swimming skills). Half the street market was washed away, an entire city block was destroyed and the train station was put under emergency maintenance.
Vega extracted Tara from the mess and ran back to the Port Metro with her, getting unintelligible bits and pieces from that skeptical fugitive.

The following day, Vega attended Torwall's flat for an eventful visit. Her presence spooked the assembled crew -- Torwall, his partner Alejandro, his ward Carlo, Violet and Sister Janet -- into hiding, until a towel-clad Violet gave the all-clear to vouch for her. Her stammering was detected by Sister Janet, who subtly intimated that she was skeptical about her prospects with the young bard. Vega also had an extended visit with gardening prodigy Carlo, who was able to either identify or assist her in projecting the nature of her seeds obtained from the catalogue in The "Lighthouse", prior to her meeting with Torwall himself. He made a compelling case for forgiving those that have made pacts with demons as they are often the demons' most thoroughly abused victims.
In the course of that conversation it began to dawn on Vega that Azas' IOU and the Lantern prototype that he made the vertex of his pact with Torwall are both potential means of surviving an Omnicide: a favour from someone in the confidence of the O.G. Omnicide survivor and a capsule designed by the greatest archmage and artificer in history to weather the tides of Sylvanas' wrath on the outside and the arcane force of the most powerful being ever to live on Oa on the other. She is still thinking through whether these things are intended to work in concert somehow or if the Patron is not smart enough for that, and instead is just piling up possible floatation devices in case of emergency.

Stille'en

For Stille'en, Vega handed out potions she had brewed from her various foragings across the continent and with existing reagents. She prepared:

• Potion of Booming Voice for Beulah, which allows her a single shot of extending the audible range of her voice such that anyone within 400' hears her as though she were standing right next to them.
• Potion of Extraordinary Animal Friendship for Chantrelle, crafted of the rare reishi mushrooms she obtained outside Echadnaur and the super-concentrated remnants of an Animal Friendship potion found in The "Lighthouse" months earlier, which she suspects may allow Chantrelle to speak with Azmouf.
• Potion of Forgetfulness for Fanny, which allows her to wipe the last 1d8+1 minutes of memory from the person upon whom this drink is thrown.
• Potion of Heroism for Violet
• Unknown Opalescent Potion for Peaseblossom

Assault on Anthur-Ro

On commencing The Assault on Anthur-Ro, Vega rescued a petrified Clytemnestra with the judicious application of basilisk eye to blechnum fern to create a rough home remedy, and smashed her way into the Hall of Events Non-Canonical. While there, she encountered The Hobgoblin Who Got His Dog’s Throat Cut And His Balls Almost Torn Off, Ongli, The Silent Man in quadruplicate, and the bunny she killed in the Seelie Court.
In the course of those encounters, Chantrelle Pittypat was killed by a Silent Man. To the group's enormous relief, she was resurrected after the encounter by the rules of that chamber and Vega could not help herself from seizing the Halfling and swinging her about in a bear hug. Overcome with gratitude and relief, she even consented to piggybacking her into the next room while Ch--- shouted that she was Peaseblossom now.

It took an extraordinary effort from Fanny to convince Vega in the room containing the bunny she'd murdered to muster a half-hearted apology. Once she grudgingly did so, the bunny released a key into the next chamber. Vega dropped the bunny on its head, discarded, and proceeded to the door. The bunny -- a member of the Seelie Court, it must be noted -- narrowed its eyes and hopped away seething.
The group then proceeded through the Anthur-Ro catacombs, and Vega managed to come away without a bone parasite lodged in her spine by a matter of seconds, which was pretty good news all around. The lowest level of Anthur-Ro proper, it appeared, was another demiplane of some description, and with minimal discussion the group agreed to ask Vega to try to rip through it to free both themselves and the odd, long-imprisoned smoke-like creatures residing within. Vega managed to succeed in that exceedingly difficult task, leading her to believe that perhaps her unusual upbringing and gifts had granted her some degree of skill in piercing the boundaries between planes.
Vega solved a roadblock with the Anthur-Ro elevator by attuning herself to the tower with the crystal taper given to her by Tarts McGillicuddy about a month prior. TED-E greeted her as Master Sturges and allowed her to take the group up to the prison cells where the group massacred a prison guard (Vega having had the foresight to grab all the papers off his desk), condemned "Bob" to the abyss and freed Tarts. The group then recovered some important literature from the library and escaped through the atrium. Vega had the hardest go of the escape, sledding steeply downhill on a shield that went quite a bit faster than the backpacks the others were using as vehicles. She ended up careening across a few sharp rocks before breaking her fall, but her passenger Tarts was neither so strong nor so lucky, perishing after failing to get a grip on the rocks as he tumbled down the cliff face.
Vega reached out to Eldath to confirm Tarts' demise, which provided the group some comfort that there was no point in pursuing him despite aerial surveillance from Anthur-Ro. Then, shortly after dawn, she had a dream in which she was ostensibly visited by Kelemvor. After getting her head around that for a while, she followed the rest of the team to the waterslides exiting Dun Argor. Once again she chose to be the lead sled captain, and once again capsized and fell some 600 feet to the jungle below, using her nature magic to break her fall with overgrown branches and vines.

Romance in the Mist

In an attempt to recover from her fall, Vega stumbled across a reclusive coterie of Wood Elves that make their home in the mists at the base of the spire at the center of the Shell.  While one of the welcoming party quickly lost interest in the interloper, the other -- a handsome strapping lad of no more than 70 or 80 years -- was fascinated to come across another cleric bearing a sigil of Eldath.  Although they struggled at first to find a common language, an exchange of Vega's Wand of Magic Missiles for the stranger's enchanted heartwood spear opened the door both diplomatically and literally.  Vega was invited into the small community and quickly excelled in updating her academic Sylvan into a spoken tongue.
Just as Vega and the elf, Théodamar, were beginning to bond over their approaches to simple rites near a covered stream, the mages of Anthur-Ro located her and assaulted the village.  Vega departed in haste to draw them away from innocent people, and after a vigorous chase managed to escape a particularly nasty Justiciar by playing dead in a canal and tucking her way into a dock after capsizing off the end of the Shell -- to all appearances, having fallen into the sea unconscious.

Peculiar Callbacks

 
Unbeknownst to Vega, the rest of the Hiking Club sought refuge in the Freaks' Quarter and discovered, unbeknownst to them, that the Freaks had elected two of Vega's charges -- "Lemmy" the Clerk of the Incunabulum and "Ronald", a corpse she had set in motion despite the cautions of Sister Janet in an attempt to 'flag down' the droz'ohn-ka shortly after the Ambush at Commissioner's Hall.  They were carrying them about on chairs and styling them Kings for Life.  
Between their orders and the assistance of Fanny's old friend Glendy, a skiff was arranged to take Beulah, Cherry and Fanny to Nessardine.  Unfortunately in all the excitement, Lemmy stood up off his throne and lost it forever.  (Apparently sovereignty over the Freaks' Quarter is determined by something akin to musical chairs, and the title of the King for Life is somewhat inapt.)  The portside of the Wandering City was then promptly evacuated due to the Red Fleet of reavers coming alongside, staved off only by a hodgepodge of trade and fishing vessels and one of the City's twin flagships, the Serayavian.  Beulah reached out to Vega by way of Sending and was advised that the reaver fleet was under the command of Lucida Baldelli and that she should make for the flagship.
From her position on the dock, Vega managed to arrange for a Halfling vessel to take her out to the reaver fleet.

Voyage to Nessardine

Vega had perhaps the most uneventful journey to Nessardine with Baldelli's fleet and crew.  Apart from managing to wrest a great Yishanim trunk with channels of glowing energy on its faces from a colossal squid and soothing the great creature back down to sleep beneath the waves, the only memorable part of that experience came after the catastrophic naval exercise in which the fleet unwisely partook.  The men, shaken by the experience and the loss of ships and colleagues over the prior two days, looked to Vega for priestly wisdom and benediction.  She was surprised to find herself actually providing it, and holding the murderous pirates enraptured in a pious pause.  She was beginning, at last, to gain an intuitive sense of the peace promised by the Way of the Water, and was less shy about preaching it.

Surviving Nessardine

Much to Vega's distaste, the Hiking Club -- now endowed with a stolen, ripping fast Tenth pirate-hunter cutter christened the Last Chance -- docked with Joker Dith in Nessardine.  After some cutthroat negotiations, the Ladies refused to do any business with him, earning his enmity.  After the Ladies broke off to pursue their own interests -- Vega ended up learning about Yishanim ruins just northeast of the city, and having a small child steal her heartwood spear such that she went Judge Dredd mode door-to-door getting it back -- they returned to find the great Yishanim chest (which they now believed to be a battery of some description) stolen.
Just as they were planning a brilliant plot to have the battery returned, a conflagration occurred in the east harbour and the pink, green and white of the Mercy's ensign were flown and blown up above the city in the form of fireworks.  The Ladies left their pilfered squid booty behind and raced back to the Last Chance, discovering only minutes after they pushed off that Gavinus Garland had smuggled himself aboard.

Return to Ruins

Alignment

Neutral Good

Age

50

Date of Birth

29th of Springfall

Birthplace

Eastern Elvish Tower, Grand Mausoleum

Current Residence

Hut Just Outside of Bridlip, Possibly Farm Property to the East

Gender

Female

Eyes

Grey

Hair

Blonde, glorious

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Sallow

Height

5'10"

Weight

160 lbs.

Belief/Deity

Mostly Eldath but Possibly Still Some Kelemvor, as a Treat

Aligned Organization

The Ladies' Hiking Club

Related Historical Events

• 16473
  The Siege of Bridlip
• 16456
  Sylvio Overmere Makes a Petition to Hell
• 16423
  Birth of Vega Spritzer