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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jarval" data-source="post: 2524856" data-attributes="member: 421">Previously on Strife in Sokara...Fairest Sister Mariele of the church of Aymara asks Brystasia to help two Morwynites (Ged and Hestia) to investigate two deaths that had occurred close to the Compass Theatre.  Undead were suspected as the killers.The investigation of the Compass initially leads the three to believe it long abandoned, but it quickly  proves to still be in use, but for rather more sinister reasons than its original purpose.  A strange undead creature with a bite capable of sheering through wood, steel and flesh nearly costs Ged his arm, a skeletal sweeper unnerves the party, and a thorough search of the upper floor of the theatre reveals a chest full of poisons, suspect robes and daggers, and a book written in an unknown language.  A brief excursion down to the cellar yields two more skeletons and locked door.  A trapped, locked door, but this fact is only revealed after Ged had tried to open it, and triggered the trap in the process.  He wasn't having the best of days...The door proving uncooperative, the three decide to return to the Healing Hall and speak with the Holy Mother.  A locksmith and two of the Obedient Brotherhood of Mormekar are called to join the group, one of whom Brystasia recognises as her friend Velimir.  The group proceeds back to the theatre, only to find the footprints of someone or something that had been moving around since Brystasia, Hestia and Ged had left.  They cautiously head back to the cellar, where Master Aster quickly picks the lock.The group presses on into the darkness spell on the other side of the door, where they are assaulted by four ghouls.  They defeat them, but the battle almost costs Ryat his life, and proves to be the first time that Hestia has used a weapon in anger.  Velimir and Ryat's examination of the ghoul's corpses reveals a tattoo of the symbol of Thellos on the flesh of one, a discovery that seems to trouble the two Obedient Brothers a great deal.The group (minus Ryat, who returns to the temple of Mormekar to rest his injured leg) make their way back to the Healing Hall.  On the way, Ged and Hestia persuade Brystasia to accompany them when they leave Marlock City to see more of the country, an offer the Fair Sister is more than happy to accept.  Holy Mother Asha meets them on their return, and quickly outlines Asmodeus' corruption of the Three Brothers, and the content of the book they had found.  Written in Abyssal, it is a journal which makes many references to the 'Ebon Maw', a turn of phrase that both Mother Asha and Velimir agree backs up the indication of the Thellos tattoo...Heavily edited highlights there, but I think that should help to bring us both back up to speed with events so far.</blockquote>

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