Paths of Legend: The Journey

[crazy_monkey1956]

OOC: Okie dokie. Thanks for the heads up and let me know if things get worse or better. shadowmask will be joining us, playing Corath, in the next couple of days.

Miraki shakes his head, "Nope, haven't heard from Jolly in a few months. Your name rings a bell, though. Were you friends with that Tureni fellow who came into town last season? The one with the hawk?"

 

[ethandrew]

"Yes, Valen. I traveled with them on the way to Silvergard but had to split with the group in Vedlund. I knew Norali too, and I'm sorry for your family's loss." She slowly stops her play and stands casually, as if catching up with an old acquaintance.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Miraki shoos the children back inside at the mention of Norali, "Go on, get inside, help Aunt Vidani with dinner. Go on!"

Once they are all back inside, he approaches Estelle, a more serious tone in his voice, "We'd heard that she went missing and sent Gentiri, my younger brother, to go find her. He hadn't heard anything from him either, until just an hour before you showed up. The city guard arrested him for disturbing the peace. He's gone insane, rambling on about how Norali can finally rest. I don't know what to make of it."

 

[ethandrew]

A sad look came over Estelle's face. She sighed and looked at the man, "I'll tell you what I know and then what I've been told by others." She sighed again, taking the time to gather her thoughts. "At the quarry before Vedlund we faced some undead and discovered some bizarre stone. Sensing and fearing some dark magic was involved, it was destroyed. This created some force which affected some more than others. Personally I was unconscious for over a day. Norali, well, somehow it turned her hair all white and something scared her something fierce.

"I left the group shortly after that. Apparently when they reached Silvergard she left the group too, this time she had a dagger with her, the one involving the druid and ranger and the murder of their master. I don't know if you're aware of this dagger, but apparently it's something special, something dark, and it controlled Norali and ultimately lead to her end," she struggled over the last few words, then paused. "But this is all what I heard from Jolly, after I left that is. I was there for the beginning."

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Miraki nods, thoughtful, "Maybe you can talk to Gentiri then. He and I haven't seen eye to eye for years, so I doubt he'll say much to me."

 

[ethandrew]

If Estelle looked apprehensive, it wasn't because she didn't want to help out, but because she had just finished hearing how this man was insane. Certainly not the most promising conversation...

"Well if it'll help your family, of course. Jolly helped me out, more than I'm sure I realize, so I owe it to you. To all of you."

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Miraki smiles, "We appreciate it. Jolly's a meddlesome sort, always getting the family involved in stuff halflings don't really have any business being involved in. Still, we don't complain. Family is family after all. But it causes more than our fair share of sorrow sometimes."

 

[ethandrew]

Estelle places a reassuring hand on the man's shoulder, giving it a small squeeze. She felt like a giantess at this moment, and it was half-humorous to her. She smiled, "Lead the way, good sir."

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Miraki yells into the house, "Vidani, I'll be right back. I'm going to see Gentiri."

He leads Estelle to the city's jail and courthouse. Miraki informs the constable on duty that he's hear to see his brother and a guard escorts the pair into the cell area.

Estelle and her small companion pass several holding cells, most of them either empty or containing relatively harmless drunks and vagrants. Just before reaching Gentiri's cell, an arm reaches out of one of the cells, grasping at Estelle, "You thieving retch! You cost me a fortune!" Estelle has never seen the man attached to that arm before in her life.

 

[ethandrew]

Estelle deftly dodges the hand, "What the... go back to sleep you drunk." She looks at the man oddly as she walked past when the foreman's words at the quarry struck her, how Estelle had already returned to Azgund. This couldn't merely be a coincidence.

She grabbed the halfling and stopped him in front of an empty cell, "This may sound weird, but have you heard word of me being in the city for the past few days?"