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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9402570" data-attributes="member: 12388">10 Uktar - The RottingTenth day of the first tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedDiamond takes on cargo. Dead Sembians arrive in Minroe. Cutthroats invade rooming house. Servant reveals Abeir. MARSEMBER - The Blue Diamond is taking on cargo. In addition to crates of mustard, barley, and oats, and casks of ale and berry wine, six thimdrors (a kind of small oxen) and four Cormyrean-bred horses were taken aboard ship. Additional coffers and crates bearing Cormyrean foil tax stamps were loaded (most folk think these held weapons, trade bars, and gemstones) and narrow, horizontal crates that likely housed paintings or possibly tapestries. A rotating squad of Marsember’s watch plus a trio of war wizards have remained at their posts near the Diamond’s berth since its arrival two days ago.MINROE - The unexpected arrival of the Company of the Dead Sembian has spurred a handful of Minroe's villagers to accompany the adventurers up into the mountains after one of the Dead Sembians revived an unconscious member of the Knightshields of Dhedluk who’d been under the care of the villagers ever since he collapsed on the outskirts of the village.The Knightshield, hight Maxsarl Orthwood (of the Orthwood noble family), described a frightening encounter with a creature “wide around at the base as a wagon that looked like one more stalagmite in a cavern filled with them. We didn’t see its tendrils until they erupted out of the cavern floor. I felt their touch on my arm and it went instantly limp. I thought us all doomed until dark elves attacked! They aimed not for us, but the creature we fought. It spared us its attention to focus on the Drow—Tempus forgive me but they’re terrifying up close! The dark elves unleashed spells and hacked at tendrils, but the creature seemed unbothered as it strangled them and yanked their limp bodies into a maw filled with what must have been crystals for teeth. We Knightshields acquitted ourselves well in battle, skewering the thing’s one eye and giving it a dozen bleeding wounds, but it was not enough. Once the drow fell we were no match. I desire to visit that wounded monstrosity and slay it once and for all. Should my companions yet live, I beg your aid in rescuing them.”SUZAIL - Copies of Abeir Revealed, A Chapbook of Continents, Races, and Rulers are being sold as fast as they can be printed. Penned by Elgorn Rhauligan, a retired palace servant, Abeir Revealed is a slim chapbook detailing the lands of the world of Abeir, a place some folk claim is the twin of Toril and the source of the mighty dragonborn peoples. Elgorn admits in his writing to perusing documents and maps of Abeir that were “meant for trusted courtiers and Royal eyes,” but does not apologize for sharing that information with the wider world. Of note to the reader is the chapbook’s dedication, “To Dhalkh Marrowsar, a far-traveled adventurer who has come to know two worlds better than most folk know one.”SELGAUNT (SEMBIA) - Tavern talk at the Drum and Mirror tavern has centered on the fate of the mage Lingalade. Last night a band of cutthroats broke into the rooming house one door over from the Fish Market and turned the place inside out. Several boarders were wounded, but none were killed. The cutthroats escaped through the back entrance to the Market, where ropes and pulleys hang over the High Bridge that straddles the River Arkhen. To hear the hardjaws tell it, everyone was accounted for in the rooming house (several of its tenants are Drum and Mirror regulars), leaving only the cutthroats to lower themselves down to a waiting boat that sailed off into the night.</blockquote>

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