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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 828238" data-attributes="member: 1328">Year of Ye Ol' Tankard24th of Myrtul, 1370 DREveren is contacted by a servitor of Gaard, wizard of the Many-Stared Cloaks, and Harper-friend. He's tasked to find tough boys for a dangerous journey from Neverwinter to Silverymoon. Meanwhile, Arn and Sageric are told by the local militia that after their last drunken prowess, they have to leave the city for at least one year, or spend even more time in jail. At the same time, Prisca discover that Neverwinter is still not far enough from her hometown and she has to flee farther. So, everyone had one good reason to use Everen's call for escort as a way to move away and win money at the same time. After the group is gathered, and the first tensions between Prisca and Everen had begun, the party go see Gaard.Gaard's manor is impressive, like all self-respective wizard's mansion. We see talking guardian statues, doors covered by illusory walls, and all that funky stuff. Gaard himself, however, is much less impressive, all old and wrinkled and senile. Our mission, if we accept it, and we've got nothing better to do, is to bring some little stones to the High Lady Alustriel of Silverymoon. These stonelets may be somewhat tied to sinister plots of the dark elves. Alustriel may be able to discover subrepticious traces of vile magic in them rocks. They were supposedly found in the deep depth of the depthly deep caves of Mithral Hall. The dwarven traders that brought them were heading toward Mirabar, then Luskan, then Neverwinter; and we are to bring them nigh full-circle because the Many-Starred Cloaks were unable to find anything shady in the rockies. Gaard tell us that, as he really wants these shards to be brought to Silverymoon, two other parties have already been sent.Strange thing. Why hadn't those dwarves sent the stones directly to Silverymoon, even if by another delegation ? Why not using a simple teleport ? Bah, these questions would have found no answer.We give Gaard a shopping list of what we want for the travel, and leave. Then the hirelings, Arn, Prisca and Sageric, goes to the Broken Tower, a funny tavern with ghosts that repeats the same magical battle over and over every night.25th of Myrtul, 1370 DRAround noon, we distribute the travel goods, mounts, and little rocks (two per person), and leave the city. We rest at the Burned Tree Inn for the night. We are on our road throughout the wildlands, Connyberry being our next somewhat-civilized halt.27th of Myrtul, 1370 DRIn the night, our ears suffer from the distant chilling howls of worgs.28th of Myrtul, 1370 DRWe're halted on our way by the militaristic orcs of the Blood Panther tribe, in great number, who give us a not-that-meaningful speach about their leader, Xred, needing Sageric and Prisca. They capture the two humans, and leave Arn and Everen alone. These two decide to hide the mounts and goods somewhere, and go sneaking on the orcish camp in order to find how to free our comrades. Sneaking past sentries is easy, but we meet a banshee named Agatha. Negociating with her is a difficult passage, like what may be expected with such creatures, but her hatred and resentment toward Xred is so high she wants to use us against him rather than kill us just because. She leave us with a "see you tomorrow" order.29th of Myrtul, 1370 DREveren, who found out he's a distant parent of Agatha, goes alone to the meeting, leaving Arn watch out for the mounts and supplies against potential marauders. Agatha gives Everen a magical amulet Agatha may teleport near, and that would allow her to break through Xred's magical wards if the amulet was sent inside the camp. Everen tie the amulet to an arrow, sneak past the sentries, and shoot it toward the center of the clearing. Immediately after, Agatha appears and begin to storm the camp. Chaos follows. A chaos used by the prisonners to escape. Among them, in addition to Sageric and Prisca, are Söggrin, a Black Raven girl, a cleric of Cyric and over Zentharim agent called Von Fedel (but quickly nicknamed Von Fumble), and a last guy, name unknown, that seems really eager to flee at full speed. Söggrin was a prisoner of the Black Network, and both others were her jailers, before all of them were captured by Xred. Both Manshoon and Xred seems to give a mystical importance to the proud woman, thinking she held the essence of a powerful Netherese arcanist dead for a long while; and that this essence and its power could be gained by making Söggrin pregnant in a wacky ritual. For this ritual, Xred thought he needed chelweed gathered and powdered by humans, so he kidnapped Söggrin's jailer and our companions. Agatha kicked in because that plant was harvested on her territory, and she's not the kind of girl that gives free material components to others, even when she don't use it.Söggrin decide to accompany us, and Von Fedel to, but Everen vehemently oppose the company of the fanatic Cyricist zenth.</blockquote>

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