Orhan 2 Day 30 TE 6062

Imre summons a navigator and Cornelia shows up. We have a nice dinner which Imre arranged, and Cornelia chats with Nusmoi and Arisia. It appears that Cornelia visits every now and then whenever we are out of town. How odd.

We get down to negotiating our round trip journey. Oathar and Haeraan do some poking at Cornelia. She's a 19th level illusionist now as expected. Poor Oathar doesn't even show up on mind typing any more.

Haeraan, Imre, and Cornelia discuss the journey looking for relatively almost safe areas to stop in. Don't teleport near Ixyia, avoid the Raven Queen of Galt, dodge the lugraki invasion, veer around the demon infestation in the Empire of 1000 dawns, etc. It's fairly complicated. It seems the world is a pretty doomed place.

Kyrik attempts to find us a route that gets us a couple of teleport points. 3.5-4 weeks the fast way. 5-6 weeks with the stopovers. We'll plan to take the short way home.

Oathar bucks up the morale of his crew ("We're going to the end of the world! We'll fall off!") by telling them that they'll be hiring a navigator.

Oathar arranges for Cornelia to escort a second supply ship as well, for the whole round trip, with her staying behind to guard the ships while the party is away. Oathar pays for this extravagance with his Navigator Free Trip Pass that he has been saving since second level.

We plan to leave at dawn in three days.

Kyrik and Imre go to the curch of Valris and get water resistant, fire resistant books. They buy scrolls of stuff too.

Oathar prays to Neela for guidance on how to deal with Jewel Knights on Her behalf.

Kyrik commissions a griffin saddle of +20 aerial combat and DB for the griffin.

Imre goes to the alchemist guild to look for specialized tools. Harry and Sally can buy the necessary tools from the Alchemist's Guild for like 300 gold. They get a titanium ladle like thing, with a deep lead tray with indentations, for making gemstones from gem pools. It's highly treated to be heat resistent, etc.

That night Oathar has a dream. He's a happy dolphin swimming around the ocean. He rises up to the surface and there he sees a shoreline. In the shallows is Neela. She reaches down and pulls out a golden chalice which she hands to a little girl on the shore. The little girl curtseys and drinks from the chalice. Neela dives into the sea and the little girls takes the chalice and sits there on the beach. Later on, a ship is in a storm. The storm rages and a whitsling ringing sound and a hail of glittering bits envelope the ship which is shredded. Out the back of the ship the golden chalice gets swept up into the hail of little bits. It goes up into the sky and winks out. Then he sees a barren rocky dessert, and a cloud comes by and the whisling sound comes back and a chalice falls out of the sky and hits the ground, and it lies there. The chalice still has water in it. A seed on the ground draws on the water from the chalice and grows into a solitary tree in the dessert.

Imre gets a dream too. He gets an insect hive of bees. At the entrance is a bee. Tree sap falls on it and it gets stuck. It turns to amber and the bee is preserved and alive in the amber as vast time passes. It's unable to escape the amber.

Orhan 2 Day 31 TE 6062

We tell Gireg Jan we're headed to Folenn. Gireg Jan says to not bring back anything that moves on it's own. The Agothu have influences on things there. Just don't bring anyone back.

Imre has a long discussion about the future with Nusmoi. There's not really going to be any settling down anytime soon.

Orhan 2 Day 32 TE 6062

The boat gets blessed. The sailors get a blessing. Arisia brings the kids to say bye. Nusmoi blesses the boat, but his doesn't reassure the sailors. The priest of Valris blesses the boat. The preist of Rianne blesses the boat. Cornelia our navigator shows up. Oathar gets all riled up as Cornelia starts giving orders to the crew. Cornelia gives Oathar a give floppy Admiral's hat, black with a raven's feather. The Monkey Business, our aux power to cargo ship follows behind teh flagship, the Righteous Current. We set sail for Folenn.