Orhan 5 Day 1 TE 6060

We putter!

Oathar treats his wife to a luxurious weekend.

Haeraan goes to some council meetings on taxes. While there he here's a bunch of rumors about the Nameless One being around in the area, perhaps as far away as Danarchis, or maybe even here, but no solid info. Also at the meeting, Haeraan is hounded by his banking friends trying to fix him up with their daughters.

Down at the villa there's a visitor. Kyrik and Alynna are there. A woman dressed as a monk arrives. Doesn't seem to be Changramai, but she asks to speak with Alynna alone. When alone she says, "Master I have come long and far to study under you!" Alynna looks her over. She comes from the south from a little villiage near Kaitaine. Other masters won't train her because she's a woman. Her name is Ara. Alynna takes her on.

Kyrik goes shopping at Krystie's Rare Books, but doesn't find anything super exciting. A diary from Old Emer seems promising. The diary has one entry in which four figures riding flying horses are riding north to Jaiman.

Oathar commissions some student to look into ancient stories or texts on Neela.

Imre talks to Arisia about Haeraan's trouble with the young daughter of house Elgata. They decide the best way to proceed is to find some poor sacrificial victim to throw in the girl's path.

Nusmoi and Simon show up, and she reports that Simon has been wandering around town "question"ing people.

We go to an exhibition of the temple of Valris. Lot's of member of the Brotherhood of the Word are present for the display of artifiacts. Oathar thinks the brotherhood of the holy word have the same symbol on their banner that we found on the special "terran" cloth. They notice out cloaks of the substance and get all squirley. Eventually a pair of hooded cloaked figures follow us home.

We invite them in, but they get shocked and shuffle off into the shadows and vanish. We're offended.

The next morning we send word to them only to find that the Brotherhood of the Word all packed up and left town last night.

Orhan 5 Day 7 TE 6060

We leave for the Emerald Forest to get Imre's magic item. We go to Santa Vallandra, and then hop over to Orian, where Oathar has a house kept by James the woodcutter. He says that Stroane has consolidated enough to start their expansion again. There's some general (Guard Captain Snythe) in charge down in Stroane and their getting ready to go on the move.

Oathar gives 200 gold to the temple. The party mocks him for being so stingy. The temple praises his name.

The next day we get horses and ride out to the forest.

Orhan 5 Day 12 TE 6060

We get to the edge of the forest. Haeraan asks for a dream from Reanne. He gets lost in a big hedge maze, unable to get to the center. There's stuff in the center, noise and movement, but he can't get there. He hacks at the hedges and they bleed blood and then grow thorns. He calls out and a voice calls back from the center. He asks to be let in, and the hedge maze parts and opens a path.

We head into the forest, but most of the party starts wigging out. Imre calls out that we mean no harm, and after a little bit, a little boy comes out and tells us we shouldn't be here.

He tells us we can't bring metal into the forest. So we go out and camp outside the forest. Ara cooks for us. The meal is terrible, but Imre and Oathar have "Improve Taste" spells so it's OK. sadly, she gets over encouraged.

Orhan 5 Day 13 TE 6060

We kill some time memorizing the site and testing Ara. Imre gives her some cooking hints, but finds she's really just not good at it. We teleport all around for a day to leave our "metal" in Santa Vallandra. Then we need to rest again to get all those spell points back.

Orhan 5 Day 15 TE 6060

Back into the forest. We start getting nervous, so Imre calls out again, but this time we don't get an answer. We head into the forest, but get too creeped out and flee. From outside, Imre calls the little boy again, and he asks what we'll give him to let us through. Alynna offers him a song and starts playing on her flute. After a bit, a whol eparty shows up, and Kyrik starts dancing. They try to drag the rest of us into dancing, and some of us join too. They pick us up and bring us into the forest. Woo!

We march in and they bring us into this camp with a little settlement, with sort of houses and sort of structures, and things, in a big clearing with lot's of casks. They start pouring drinks from casks and start celebrating. Alynna plays really well. We drink some of their Danarchan wine. Several of us get smashed. Haeraan gets totally plastered! He staggers, he snorts, he dances on what appear to be tables! We all get drunk.

Orhan 5 Day 16 TE 6060

We wake up with hangovers, except Haeraan who wakes up with an incredible hangover. There are a couple of passed out fawns lying around. Oathar tries out his new comfort bolts on people. Then the fawn says that we might not want to go to the center of the forest as Kel lives there. We ask him to guide us then, and he agrees. The fawn escorts us to the middle of the forest and there's a great tree there. The little boy shows up and says the fawns liekus but still we shouldn't stay too long. So Imre describes our destination. The little boy says, "Ah yes, the old man of the mountain." We ask him to lead us there. He says he can't but the fawn can. Teh fawn seems depressed by this, but says he'll do it after he takes a nap. The little boy says he has to leave now, but before he goes we ask his name and he says it's Kel.

Orhan 5 Day 17 TE 6060

We rest for the night with no fire or magic. During the night a bunch of acorns fall from the trees. The fawn wakes up in the morning and says breakfast and starts eating acorns. They like way-acorns as six of them fill you up for the day.

While we walk there, he tells us about it, but it's not very helpful, so we start singing instead. We sing and walk along.