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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 2799703" data-attributes="member: 29558">Wrap Up At The WickOK, here's the synopsis of the wrap up of A Night In Out of the Rain (the Wickshine's Last Inn).Cerallos manages to talk to the children without quite scaring them to death, but the only thing they are able to tell him is that they fell asleep, had some really strange dreams that they don't quite remember, and woke up downstairs aching all over.  They remember nothing specific about attacking the inhabitants of the Wick, or about being attacked in turn.In their gratitude to the party for saving their livelihood and their lives, the Stills gift the party with a bottle of  Wickshine Apple Brandy, distilled about 100 years ago from the last of the Wickshine apples.  There are only 6 bottles left in existance (counting the one the party is given).  The Stills have the other five.Abel Still is also a source of some knowledge.  He spins a tale told him by his grandfather, which he did not believe at the time.  The supernatural events of last night have at least half convinced Abel that the tale is true.  He tells the party that (the legend is):Before it was the Wickshine's Last Inn, the Wick was the Wickshine Inn.  It stood in the middle of a small town from which the inn took it's name.  The town o fWickshine was famous for its apple orchards and more famous for its brandy.  Wickshine bacame a destination for merchants and traders, and the town's brandy gained popularity across the land from the lowliest taverns and alehouses to the monor houses of nobles.  Then, at the peak of the town's popularity, the bounty fo the orchards began to diminish.  With each year, the trees produced fewer and fewer of the apples for which the town was famous.  This led to the disintigration of the town as the people left one by one before the crops dried up completely, and the merchants quit stopping in Wickshine.  Now, only the Wickshine's Last Inn and the trees -- still turning green in season but never producing blossoms or apples -- remain.But there is an even older account of the area, which is what Abel Still's grandfather let him in on.  Centuries before Wickshine existed, a temple to a foul god stood on this land.  As the temple spread its influence across the land, it came to the attention of the forces of law and justice.  A long struggle began, eventually breaking into open war.  In the end, the forces of Good prevailed, and the temple walls were toppled, it's acolytes and priests slain.  In time, the evil taint of the temple faded, and people came to settle the area again.  Homes were built, often using stones from the ruined temple, and the small community grew into the town of Wickshine -- so named as a shortening of the 'wicked shrine' that used claim the area.Wishing to dissociate themselves from the town's dark history, the people came up with their own origin of the name -- they claimed it came from the time when the people were out late in the fall picking apples, and their families left candles shining in the windows to guide them home.The party leaves fairly late that morning, after eating a hearty breakfast and being provisioned with a days worth of fresh food to supplement their trail rations. They are on the road three days, getting to know one another and making their way to the approximate location of the supposed mines in the Wilderlands, when the Face to Face adventure starts.</blockquote>

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