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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 175965" data-attributes="member: 67">Session 5, part 2Maialin and Dex manage to climb up the ropes and descend into the depths of the hull.  Moments later, a gnome, who had been pinned inside, emerges.  Still later, Dex and Maialin (with the help of some guards, who were able to climb up) manage to hoist Virian’s shattered body up on some ropes and lower him to the ground.  The bard is breathing unevenly as he drifts through unconsciousness.  Again, Fruffy embraces Virian and the wild power of nature mends his bones.I escort the gnome to some newly arrived carriages—and to the emerging priests of Shimdar.  I am interested to see that Father Mehmet is with them and share a brief word or two of greeting with the high priest.  A large group of townsfolk have gathered to watch the priests put out the fires.  They crowd around my friends and I, calling us heroes, if you can believe it!I catch sight of a face I know in the crowd and make my way toward it.  He is a sailor—and was on this ship.  He exclaims that a great winged lizard, with many claws, had attacked the ship.  I know the creature; it is a zephyr.  They are said to be terrible beasts.  This one opened its jaws, as if to bite, and belched forth a bolt of lightning, tearing away the side of the ship and igniting it.  It is a tragedy, without question.  One detail troubles me greatly, however.Someone was riding on the back of the zephyr.Eventually, we all head to my comfortable sod house to sleep for the night.  That is to say, some of us sleep; in the course of the night, Maialin takes Virian and slips into the darkness.  Jared and I let her go and discuss the possible ramifications.  We are sure that she is going to meet with the group of teenagers who assailed her during the day.  The last thing she needs, right now, is to get mixed up in another Ring.In the morning, they slip back in and Maialin goes to sleep.  Virian leaves again, this time with Dexerion, who has spent the last hour or more studying his books.  Fruffy has already left, he is outside somewhere, being one with his precious "Nature."  At least he is clean.A loud knock at my door interrupts our breakfast.  An unbelievably rude woman is its origin.  She reeks of opulent affluence."Mr. Roderick!  Are you the man responsible for killing the fire elemental in the bathhouse yesterday?"I choose my words carefully.  "I would not say that I am responsible, but I did aid the guard in vanquishing the creature.""Then you are the man who killed it?  And these are your compatriots?""Yes.""I own that bathhouse.  I will be pressing charges against you unless you procure a suitable replacement.  I will even pay you for the service, should you do it."Her last sentence is a sneer.What is your angle, lady?After a moment of discussion and deliberation—and after she has assured me that the replacement fire elemental would be better warded—we agree to do so, provided she gives us detailed information, when we need it.  She leaves her name--Madame Nina Lipschum--and her address with us and rolls away from my humble dwelling and into her own excessively wealthy life.I hate that woman, as I have hated no other person.  Somehow, I am sure—I can feel it in the pit of my stomach—that she is going to be our ally.</blockquote>

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