Orhan 4 Day 17 TE 6065

Kyrik takes Oathar's body to the Temple of Neela in Selkai.

Orhan 4 Day 18 TE 6065

Alynna briefs Magellan on the whole kids of slaughtered lugraki parents thing. He seem to think it's par for the course when you work for us. Magellan thinks it'll cost about 100 gold to take care of the kids for a week. Or so he says. Alynna pays him having assumed Oathar's non-existent trading skill.

Then people discuss what to do about Oathar. People decide to stall for a bit. There's a whole lot of people calling "Not it!" on telling Arisia. In the end, Haeraan and Imre go to see her. It's a classic, "Perhaps you want to sit down for this..." sort of conversation. People try to explain to Arisia what happened, and she's pretty upset at the party for letting him keep that dagger around in the first place. In any case, she eventually recovers and asks when he died. Haeraan explains that his soul was taken directly to Neela and Imre claims he can't really fix that at this time. "Neela's decision! Hmph! We'll see about that!" Arisia gets her cloak and storms off.

They chase her down the street. She's planning to storm the temple of Neela it seems. Imre follows her into the temple. "Where's my husband?" "Well, we're preparing the body for..." "No you're not! Hand him over!! Where's your superior?" The priestess comes out, "I'm so sorry for your loss." Arisia snaps, "I haven't lost anything yet! It's an unrealized loss, I'm not prepared for anything crazy yet." They take her to see the body, and she demands that Imre cast something. Imre summons an Angel of Death and asks what Oathar's status is. The angel says, "He's over with Neela. Wait, what? He appears to be taking inventory at the moment." Arisia is annoyed, "Why is he taking inventory? You tell him to get his butt down here!" An image of a crab appears to go take a message. Eventually, they navigate the divine phone tree far enough to speak with Oathar. He's got blue robes and white wings, and after much berating, tells Arisia that he will request a quest for the guys to deal with. If that works out, he could come back. He goes off to make a quest request and the connection goes dead.

Alynna suggests getting some princess of Sarnak to romance Arisia in order to motivate Oathar to get back down here. The conversation appears to come around to how to irritate Oathar so much that he just *has* to come down here.

Haeraan has some pirate flags commissioned and Haeraan instructs Oathar's sons tutors to introduce sharing, helping the needy, charitable works, and the virtues of austerity into the lesson plan.

Then they try to move the Lord Admiral's command flag to an airbarge. The captain is pretty clear that can only be done "over Oathar's dead body". The captain is pretty clear he needs to check with the Lord Admiral first. Haeraan tells the captain to go check with the temple of Neela on the veracity of these new orders. Including finding Captain Jack Sparrow. The priestesses said he's dead, so they take down the main flag, and start spreading the word of Oathar's demise.

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An angel appears to Imre asking him to get Oathar back down here, since she's unsure what's Oathar's doing up there, but it's really starting to get on the other churches nerves. They're making everyone count stuff, and keep track of things, and creating all of these "ledgers", etc. There hasn't been such a disturbance up here since... er... gosh. No one knows when.

The angel confides that there's word that there's a whole bunch of back room dealing going on right now, and it looks like the party is going to have to do something for Phaon. They'll find out.

That night, Haeraan has dreams:

• We wiped out the ligraki so what are the krylites doing now? Haeraan is playing Alpha Centauri and fighting a war against the people next to them. Then the enemy's big city gets eaten by mind worms and he cheers and expands into their empty territory.
• Why did the Krylite's come here in the first place? Haeraan is playing Moo II and builds an outpost ship and heads to the planet and crashes.
• What's the present state of negotiations for the disposition of Oathar's soul? Haeraan's playing SimCity and clicks on the waterfront changing birds to pirates and his score goes down down down down down. Play again?
• What are the trogli using the boundary for if anything? There are a bunch of young trogli playing around, and they use the hoops as a hoola hoop and a lasso, and all sorts of useless stuff. Then they throw it away.

Haeraan wakes and casts "Commune: Does Oathar want to come back yet?" He gets a "No."

Orhan 4 Day 20 TE 6065

Kyrik has one of his snapshots of Alynna going bezerk into a full wall portrait.

A letter arrives for Alynna from the grand council of the selkai. They've asked if she's accept the title of director for the games. It's mostly ceremonial. Spring, summer, and autumn. In recogniztion of her donations to the youth programs and games. There are committee meetings involved, so how can that not be fun?!

Kyrik sits down with a protractor and maps and starts plotting a route back to the adventure. While he's fussing around with it, Imre calls a navigator and gets a price for four poeple teleported to the Grotto Pass. They quote him a special price of 600 gold total.

After about four hours of discussion, they teleport to the bay of Uj and then pay 160 gold to navigators to teleport them to the grotto pass. they wait for a navigator. A gorgeous elf-babe shows up with gold-silver shimering gowns. She collects 160 and teleports them to the grotto pass. Imre pays her out of his own funds.

Then they telport themselves back to the northern lugraki chamber. They trek north from there, and pass all the dead lugraki they killed. After a while, they come upon a simple pit trap. The see it coming, they know it's there, but Haeraan almost fall in anyways. (In lugrak Jehovah begins with an I.)

They make it to the central chamber.

There are a bunch more traps here than were here before. They head off to the north and then pick up speed as the traps thin out.

After a bit they come to an area with mostly humanoid tracks, but not recently.

More trekking and they get to trogli tracks. That's much better...

They cave around and come out on the side of a mountain. Region lore Uj says, "Yup, this is Uj."

They find a new cave entrance and start to head down into the earth. They come to Trogli lands and are detected by hungry Trogli. They head into the ambush and demand to know who is in charge. Apparently, it's the Spear Chucker Tribe. Imre impresses them with his sorcery, by casting pain on one, and then negotiations begin.

They try to get shinies out of the tribe leader.

The tribe leader gives Imre a gelatenous ooze in a jar as tribute. Imre give sit back and chats up the Trogli while others search for the Boundary of the Gods. Alynna and Kyrik come upon barred metal doors. Kyrik finds a bunch of little totem figures stuck into the ground. The totem figures are a warning sign representing trogli lost here. Off in a corner he finds the Boundary of the Gods discarded in a pile of dirt.

Yup, that's the Boundary. Haeraan takes it. Then he vision behinds to see the trogli get blown up at the totems. People gather up and teleport out. Imre heads down to meet Haeraan at the trogli death place. Haeraan sees trogli bite it and explode. Stupid trogli.

Haeraan attunes to it. Yup, it's a portable conscrate Holy Ground spell. After 1 year in place, it can be moved again. Both consecrates holy ground, but also removes and plagues curses, etc, even reversing salting. Can be as big a 1 mile diameter but can't have an active enemy there.

Lo! They have the lootz and teleport back to the original lugraki entry room. Then Kyrik wants people to sit there and wait until they get this as a permanent teleport point. No one else wants to do that, so they leave him there, go home, and have beef Wellington. Kyrik waits there alone. After several hours, he fails to fall asleep. He hears faint voices calling to his soul in the darkness.

Oathar gets the message that Phaon wants the Great Staff of the Sun Disk recovered from the tomb of one of the kings of the kingdom of the desert jewel, before it falls into Alliance hands.

Haeraan goes to the temple of Neela and asks to talk to Oathar. They tell him to pray. "Oh Neela, can I talk to Oathar?"

Oathar briefs Haeraan on the necessity of the quest. Then he goes and briefs the party on the quest.

They spend the rest of the day looking into the location of the Kingdom of the Desert Jewel.

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They brief Gireg Jan who says, Oh that explains everything! Apparently with Oathar dead, several rival houses are suddenly buying interests in Oathars usual commercial areas. It's a fairly serious hostile takeover. They'll have Arisia talk to Gireg Jan.

Imre then tells him about Tethior, the Ilarsiri, and the Boundary of the Gods, but Gireg doesn't want to know any of that.

Kyrik returns from his vigil. Haeraan briefs Kyrik on the coming quest.

It turns out Kyrik has a book about the Kingdom of the Desert Jewel. The place is actually called K'thyra.