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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9369461" data-attributes="member: 12388">3 Uktar - The RottingThird day of the first tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedFeatherlung fells five. Chessentan crop sails for Marsember. Summer warms the Drum and Mirror. ELVERSULT - Rumors of plague spreading through the city have forced Elversult’s leaders to temporarily halt new arrivals and prevent folk from leaving. Members of the Maces, who serve as both watch and city guard, have massed on the outskirts of Elversult to maintain order and to ride in mounted patrols that circle the city, watching for folk trying to evade the quarantine. Within Elversult, the Jailgates infirmary holds five corpses suspected to suffer from Featherlung, which turns healthy lungs into rotting flesh and slowly asphyxiates its victims. In a rare show of cooperation, priests of Waukeen, Gond, and Aumanator have spread throughout Elversult to find the source of the plague and isolate it. With the majority of her forces encircling the city, Elversult’s ruling Lord has chosen to give the priesthoods the (temporary) power to put down mobs and rescue anyone the populace identifies as a plague spreader. Both priests and lay folk are on the lookout for persons with obvious tattoos (commoners assume such folk are priests of Talona, Lady of Poison), as well as anyone dressed in ragged robes or sporting garish scars or disfigurements (a holy custom among practicing Talonites is to allow disease or acid to do the work of disfiguring their bodies). MARSEMBER - Ships laden with carrots, beets and potatoes have made port in Marsember. The root vegetables will be moved to Cormyrean markets as fast as caravan masters are willing to brave Cormyr’s trails before snow makes them impassable. Whereas prices would be driven down thanks to an excess of foodstuffs, merchants are betting Arabel will serve as a ready market thanks to the conflict to its north that has interrupted harvests and curtailed shipments from the Dalelands. All along Marember’s docks, ship’s captains are advising far-traders and merchants to expect another wave of food-laden boats from Chessenta, which experienced a banner harvest this year. SELGAUNT - Hardjaws (barflies) from the Drum and Mirror tavern were treated to a surprise display from a Rod of Summer. The rod’s wielder, a robed man of unknown reputation who identified himself as Lingalade, conjured forth a man-high sphere of magic at the entrance to the Mirror, and invited a customer to step inside. While onlookers held their cloaks close to keep out the creeping Uktar cold, the customer felt only pleasant warmth in the sphere. One at a time folk stepped into and out of the sphere, which remained unaffected by their movements. After, Lingalade departed the Drum and Mirror, and was seen to walk the length of Galgogar’s Ride before disappearing inside a building one door down from the Fish Market.</blockquote>

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