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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9380662" data-attributes="member: 6696971">SARIEL & STARN (vignette to wrap your conflict goal)Goal: Suss out the presence of malign fey influence in Fallcrest and convince the rulers to lend aid to Starn's ingress to the Septarch Tower and in Sariel's search for his missing brother.* A horse came up missing from our stables overnight some time ago.  Enumbra said she is certain that Sariel's brother Andarien stole it in attempt to go north to Winterbole Forest.  Either he is trying to get as far away from the Feygroves of Harken Forest that give access to Mithrendain, where your father is one of the six Council, from which pursuit is sure to come..or...worse...he is trying to make his way there to access The Lands of Eternal Winter in the Feywild to pledge himself to Queen Mab, the cruel ruler of the Unseelie Court.  She used dung and charcoal from our stables to perform some kind of ritual of tracking and saw a brief glimpse of him on horseback.  While there were no dark entities accompanying him, she said that she felt a malevolent presence all about him.  If its of any worth, in recent times the people of the Vale broadly and Fallcrest in particular have reported seeing shadows moving, laughter lurking from nowhere, and folk have reported vicious or capricious acts without a culprit...all inquiry to date has turned up nothing.  The Market Green in the central part of the city has seen the most recent activity.  While parents engage in carousing and commerce, children play tag or kick-stones or just rough-house.  A whole lot of them were terrified by something they experienced last week there.  None of them will speak of it and they're too stricken to even go back.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lady Markelhay provides Starn her Septarch's Tower Key and the Lord commisions a group of Fallcrest Light Infantry (see below) to accompany your endeavor on one condition; Starn goes with the expeditioners to The Tower of Waiting and helps them sift through the debris for any hint of what this was about or who was behind it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] , briefly vignette what Starn finds when he accompanies the expeditioners to the Tower of Waiting's ruins.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[USER=16586]@Campbell[/USER] , [USER=7028554]@Grendel_Khan[/USER] , along with AbdulAlhazred, each of you pay 2 coin for a Room in the Silver Unicorn Inn.  Take an Extended Rest.  Vignette your rendezvous and what your next move is the morning after, including generating a relevant new Minor Quest.</li> </ul>[HR][/HR]QUESTS/XP/LOOT* Starn Minor Quest - RESOLVED.Inform Lord Markalhey of the disappearance of Nimozaran, and particularly Lady Markalhey, whom he understands is related to his master in some fashion, perhaps cousins. He also suspects she may have at least one of the three keys needed to get back into the Septarch's Tower.Each PC gains 33 xp.* Lief Minor Quest - RESOLVEDAnonymously leave some coin for the widow of Renne, the Loremaster's apprentice who Lief kidnapped for the cult, to tide them over a bit longer. And while he's there, make sure the Elect or anyone else hasn't hurt that family even more while Lief was away.Each PC gains 33 xp.* Sariel Minor Quest - PENDINGWith the help of Starn's knowledge of mortal politics, search for signs of unseelie influence in Fallcrest.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Conflict XP:  200/3 = Each PC gains 33 xp.  375/3 = Each PC gains 125 xp.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Loot:  Sariel and Leif gain one, level 1 magic item; describe it.  PCs gain 1 x 250 coin art object; describe it.</li> </ul>* Fallcrest Light Infantry Companion Character (Monster/NPC) are color until you deploy them in a coming conflict; Single-use.  Name their captain.</blockquote>

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