(OOC: Sadly, yes. Stupid RAW! Sometimes it just leaves you raw...or something)
*After resting for a full day, the group has recovered fairly well, except Almayce, though Almayce doesn't have too much health to recover in the first place. Near the end of their rest, Zaeryl approaches, without Michael. He is wearing a circlet. He looks around with a smirk.*
"So you are all alive. Good. The priest decided that he liked his Fallonese friends more than us, so he went back to them. He also took everything we found in a treasure hoard down there along with him, and he would give us nothing to bring to you, except the Circlet we are wearing right now and a wand he wanted Almayce to have in return for the healing wand. Before you ask--no, he wouldn't give back the healing wand."
*Zaeryl withdraws a dark ebony wand with a black widow spider motif as if spiders and webs were crawling over the wand.*
"Voila, what Michael has left us of the seven items. Probably not a healing wand, but that is Michael Grannion for you. Why he wanted to keep the magic longsword, for instance, when he can't use it is beyond us. He said he's probably returning to Orussus if he can after he reports to the Fallonese too...Perhaps they will not let him out of the quarantine now that he has been inside?"