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Chapter 30 |
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9th day, noon, 10th moon, 26AF
The training has progressed admirably; I have not been updating with every facet of the training, though. Today, Dari jumped in and reported several things about the party's progress:
Sir Gressy wanted to train with me a bit more, and said that I needed a little more physical training, but agreed to let me go.
Nailla is going to remain in Rosenport and coordinate a bit of migration of families to the Valley. Dari will help Nailla to teleport families that wish to resettle in Enclave Mine into the Valley once he is done Kaitlyn is coming with us, to crusade with the Blades.
9th day, afternoon, 10th moon, 26AF
Got to Galensport. Stannis is off somewhere, but the rest of the Blades briefed me about Andrew and his current captive state. We are staying at the Rusty Anchor inn, along one of the walls of the city but not too close to the docks.
Dermond gave us a "state of the city" briefing.
Port is closed. Heavy pirate attacks came in about 10 years ago, maybe longer. One was so powerful that it took over the city; the controllers of the city and the port are quite corrupt.
Why is the dock closed? Nobody knows, there are some rumors of plague, other rumors. Some people can go in and out of the docks area without trouble, but are based inside the dock. One of them had a description that was a lot like Jovvi and Kip's mother and came into the city at maximum a week ago. The docks have been closed for about a week.
We're now going to go try to find Stannis.
9th day, evening, 10th moon, 26AF
Stannis apparently has been wandering around town looking for the shrine of Niana that the temple of Ashari (fertility, apparently) pointed us at. We found the shrine; he didn't. We met back up and I got a story from Stannis about Andrew sacrificing himself into apprenticeship - read: slavery - for a month.
Got the sword and belt back.
9th day, evening, 10th moon, 26AF
Went out and arranged a meeting with the Order. I would want to take Andrew to meet with them, but Andrew is not here. It is close by the inn, so I will go there and negotiate to bring the rest of the party in.
9th day, late evening, 10th moon, 26AF
We met with the head of the Circle in Galensport, a woman we will call Anna. She informed us about our parents' ship (the Wraith) coming in about 4 months ago, when the docks closed. Our parents have a reputation of a good pirate hunter; they would come into docks and donate to various temples, release freed slaves, and prey only on pirates. The temple they frequented in this town was the temple to Ashari. Perhaps the temple of Ashari knows how we can get in touch with our parents, as the dock district is locked down as stated above.
10th day, morning, 10th moon, 26AF
Purity imbued upon me today the spells of cure serious wounds and neutralize poison. Stannis says that it gave him the ability to neutralize poison as well as remove disease. We went to the temple of Ashari and did a few free disease curings, and found that Purity does not help with my innate abilities to remove disease.
Stannis and Kip went to the temple of Ashari and inquired about our parents. The temple of Ashari will direct us to our parents if our parents contact them at all.
11th day, morning, 10th moon, 26AF
A note from the necromancer woman arrived at our door this morning with directions to meet her and Andrew in several days time. I believe the best team to meet Andrew is Stannis (leader), Jovvi (artillery), Team Krage (tracking/crosscountry), and Cilmo (generic support).
12th day, morning, 10th moon, 26AF
Stannis and his squad have headed off to check on Andrew.
13th day, mid-afternoon, 10th moon, 26AF
Kip and Dermond were surveilling the gate, and were approached by several stealthy types over the rooftops this morning, just after I left. Waste of a good spell, but maybe the shadow guild responsible will fail to bother Kip and Dermond again - they scared off the assaulters. Kip seems to be not worried much.
13th day, evening, 10th moon, 26AF
Stannis' squad has returned. Andrew is alive, well, sends his regards, is not evil, wants to see us again, seems to be learning from this undead elven woman Lindofirin, and is pretty much in the best straits he could be at this point given the situation.
I will go to see him and Lindofirin next week on the 19th.
13th day, night, 10th moon, 26AF
Pippa sent her familiar, Fitcher, over the wall and spied out the docks successfully. A few buildings, some lit, and several ships were in port, and one of them was the Raker "Wraith". Finding no opposition to an invisible flying familiar, we wrote a short note to Stannis' parents, included a sigil of Thoren, and had Fitcher deliver it to the guard on duty watching the main ladder of the Wraith.
14th day, evening, 10th moon, 26AF
Kip and Dermond did not see anyone use the gates today. Tonight we are going to have Jovvi send Darky over the wall invisible and look for people from town in the dock district.
14th day, night, 10th moon, 26AF
Jovvi sent Darky over; there was a bit of activity, offloading some cargo, and Jovvi recognized the guard on the Wraith from the town as Frank Ritter, one of the other children's parents. Jovvi initiated a conversation with him.
The crew of the ship, along with the rest of the dock, is under control of "the Master". He is working on some sort of project and using all of the ships and sailors in the dock district as slave labor. He operates with a great deal of manipulation and mind control, and those controlled are afraid of him. Frank asked us to take him down and break the spell.