In which our heroes celebrate the wedding of their
comrade...
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and following....
Imre works on his book. It sells pretty well in the first few weeks.
Oathar buys stores around the city.
With Alynna help Oathar hires 4 changramai for the day before, during,
and after the wedding.
Kyrik arranges for some soup kitchens to be funded around Nuyom Kom.
People to remember to invite: Divad, Jack, Byron, Kyse, Gireg, Anton,
D., Veriak, Cornelia, merchant buds, ...
Seems the wedding will be the last day of summer.
Haeraan funds 7 paladins for training and sendingg to Nuyom Kom. (2nd
and 3rd level paladins. The leader is 4th.)
Imre and Imre buy wedding presents.
Imre completely stocks the party wine cellar and wet bar.
Imre organizes Oathar's bachelor party.
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and following....
Kieronalia. Gosh.
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Water day. Oathar tries to get everyone to go to Neela services.
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The bachelor party! (Imre hires two Changramai as bouncers.)
Imre supplies the Raven Crown, and the Raven Sword, and the Raven Amulet.
Divad arranges the *ahem* entertainment. Six cloaked figures enter the
room, but they are strippers so it's OK.
All survive.
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Cornelia arrives for the wedding. Oathar introduces her to Arisia. (Alynna
knows one of the Changramai on Arisia.) There's a rehearsal. The priestess
of Neela blesses the ballroom and stuff like that. All sorts of presents
arrive. They are piled in the back of the room. The party is invited to
stay in the palace for the evening.
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The wedding!!! There a wedding march. Arisia has a giant white gown with
attendants and flower girls. The high priestess of Neela gives lots of
water blessing. There's plenty of kneeling and standing and splashing
and blessing.
Finally, "If any man should object, speak now or forever hold your
peace." We survive that part.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife!" Hooray! They are married!
While heading down the aisle... One of the Changramai attacks Arisia!
Everyone is stunned! He stabs her with a little dagger and she falls over.
Simultaneously, Oathar is attacked by one of *his* Changramai, (Thera,
the one known by Alynna.). Everyone is still stunned!
Imre recovers quickly and UnMinds one of them. The other, the one on
Oathar holds up his dagger and the two of them go poof and vanish. Cornelia
appears over Arisia with her compass out. The other two Changramai finally
recover and attack the remaining (not unminded) evil Changramai.
Next round, Imre collapses a lung on the evil Changramai, Therra. Cornelia
casts a healing spell on Arisia. Alynna and Kyrik finally close and completely
pulp Therra, the evil Changramai, in a single round. Security jumps on
the unminded one.
Imre examines Arisia and finds she's been Absolved, sort of. Her soul
was stolen by the dagger. Oathar's would have been stolen as well if he
had not saved.
Alynna interrogates the remaining Changramai. They relate that the two
evil ones arrived on a ship from the west and were last minute replacements.
The ship was named, something like, "The White er... White Something."
Alynna rushes to the docks.
The Prince attempts to maintain order while Coran Maas scans everyone
in sight. Imre drops a Preservation IV on Arisia. Imre attempts to calm
Oathar.
Haeraan has Veriak go home and see what he can divine about this. Meanwhile,
Oathar is still hysterical, so Imre sleeps him.
Coraan Maas asks the party to follow him to the monk. Coran Maas starts
the interrogation. "Who hired you!" The guy struggles and dies.
Imre walks over to him. "This is not a route of escape for you."
and casts Lifegiving at him.
Meanwhile, down on the docks, Alynna is looking for the ship they arrived
on. She finds two ships, one named, "The White Swan", and one
named "The White Mask". There are sailors on each one.
Back in the dungeon, Imre is praying for lifegiving. Eissa replies, "Be
that as it may child, it is his foreordained time, however, you may speak
to him before he finally goes. You may have five minutes." Interrogation
continues. Imre gets from him, Xiax in Pryten in the capital is behind
it and the daggers have returned to him. Damn Xiax. He finds that the
real Changramai are still alive, Xiax simply studied them in Danarchis.
He met Xiax in Xooba, the capital of Pryten. Xiax is working with Morian
one of the crime lords. Xiax is in Xooba.
Imre releases him.
Morian was rumored to be the black sheep of a wealthy SelKai family.
The other pirate lord Chyris is rumored to have been kicked out of the
Changramai monastery in his youth.
Alynna figures out it was the White Mask.
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