okay, folks, i'm just going to summarize this one because it was a very book-keepy session and probably everyone's already thinking there's way too much die-rolling and numbers-talking in these write-ups!
so after we toasted leanara and quasimund and their cultists on the stairs to the temple ruins, the captain of the outskirt guards, hardy, comes barreling up and demanding to know what's going on. we show him the cult tattoos on all the bodies and tell him how we got the magic sword out of the crypt under the temple. the dude was pretty shook that sweet little annabella from the three stags inn got killed, and also that she was in cahoots with quasimund and they were all demon-worshipping cultists. and on top of that, his mind was more or less blown by sir quackenscrump waving the legendary um-durman sword around. put all that together and he insisted there needed to be a pow-wow of all the important people in town about these applecart-upsetting events, so we ended up in a not-so-huge hall they use for town meetings, with hardy and vagnhild and dranath and master ulvar and a few others talking everything through.
they wanted to know if we'd be heading straight for mirror lake to take care of azrahel koth, sathmog's right-hand evil cleric, which we weren't all too sure we were ready for, exactly. dranath expressed certainty that the omens were good that we had a destiny to defeat koth, which sounded pretty good, except that one piece of evidence he cited was the miraculous way he was returned to youth when he treated dilfriida for disease. he called this a gift from the gods for playing his part in the success of the destined heroes, but we couldn't help remembering that it happened because he demoned his spellcasting roll.
long story short, this semi-official town council said everyone should keep the discovery of the sword under wraps, although there was no hiding the fact that the crypt had been opened. dranath took in on himself to risk getting lightning-bolted by reading the book of eledain, but it turned out to be kind of a big puff-piece on how great the dragon emperor and his dragon knights had been, and how they'd eventually return once azrahel koth was defeated.
so we spent a couple weeks in town training up using the rules for studying under teachers, because dolora still needed filvius to teach her animism, and brandywise took "magic talent" for her heroic ability and needed teaching too.
next time we'll start off figuring out whether we want to head right for mirror lake, or if it would be better to do some more adventuring and get ourselves into even buffer shape. but it may be a bit, because i think we're going to give elle a break from gm-ing and play some more in akane's d&d campaign!
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