In this exciting episode I don't get to murder the party with a ten headed Lion and again they try desperatly to avoid walking any great distance in a Jungle.
Standing outside the entrance to the enclave, the party suddenly realised that the mortar shells of the Ob had antimagic properties and were really neat and possibly useful. Except they could not store them in an extradimensional (magical) space, which ruled out the Web, the Portable Hole, the Picture, Manuels Mecha and about a dozen other little things, and anyone carrying them would be effected which meant Nevla, Ulvar and William could not stick one in a bag. Manuel, Nevla and William were also not strong wnough to carry them and their normal gear without being encumbered so after much discusion they buried these wonderful toys in a hole.
In the meantime they send a sending to Asraby and erect a message saying that they come in peace with the tents of the Danoran/Ob team They wait and after an hour or so the portal opens and they are admitted by Faedravan , Asraby and a squad of Rajputs they are impressed with the amount of magical gear the Eladrin troops have . Faedraven grudgingly welcomes them in closing the portal as fast as she can, she then heads off to report to her Great Grandmother while Asraby takes the party to meet Kasavarina.
On the way to meet Kasavarina they pass the traing ground and observing that the Eladrin only have one rifle open up the Absurdists web and hand over all of the Danorans rifles and revolvers as well as the mortar without being asked.
Kasavarina is facing away from them reading when they arrive and Asraby orders the old scholar and everyone else out of the house, Kasavarina turns around and is shocked to see Dala standing amid this odd group and asks if it is Dala with the response 'I don't know ,I think so' ignoring everyone else she demands answers and learns of Nevla/Dala's dreams , she recognises the amulet Nevla is wearing as one she gave Dala but she can't understand how it came to Nevla , surely Dala would have worn it when she died. The conversation ends in puzzlement but acceptance that Nevla is indeed Dala reborn, she can even recreate the flavors of Dala's favourite spices with Presdigitation , spices that have been gone for centuries.
Nevla and Kasavarina want to find out more and Kasavarina finally starts to talk to the rest of the team, they discuss the Ob and what they know of her own actions and she is appalled at what she seems to have done it makes no sense she remembers being a fairly junior combat mage with a personal grudge against the clergy and a duty to fight them , not a leader , terrorist and conspirator. The Collossus comes up in conversation and she is momentarily ovwewhelmed by memories/visions which leave her shaking and wishing to go home, Nevla embraces her and she weeps for a moment before gathering herself and telling them about the Arc of Reida . At which point everyone gets a raiders of the lost arc moment and Manuels player asks if its known abilities include melting Nazi's, unfortunatly that has never been tested. She then explains Athrylla while being courteous won't let her leave or send Asraby to fetch it, and her impression that Athrylla is bearing some kind of grudge or ill feeling about something she did as her old self, she hopes the team can convinve Athrylla to cooperate.
Asraby returned and asked the team to take responsibility for protecting Kasavarina while he returned to his duties with the unseen court. There was a brief discussion and the team came away with the impression that he was conflicted his loyalty was to the Kasavarina of old not this one and he thought she was weak , and as a result wished to go back to his duties until matters were settled or he decided what to think.
With a meeting scheduled with Athrylla in a couple of hours Nevla remained to talk with Kasavarina following up memories and so on while the others wondered around the enclave. There they met up with Copperhead who told them of Rackus leaving him to follow a pretty face and they agreed that sounded like him, he asked how the web was working for them and if they had indeed had a bunch of bodies to stash they said they had and it was great expecting to take away their favourite toy but he let them keep it for now . Then of course he headed off to talk to the Voice of Rot but that's a suprise for later.
Athyrlla met with them atop they pyramid with Faedraven among her attendants . Nevla made most of the case for the team with William backing her up. They explained about the Ob and the Collossus and how they were a threat to everyone, and that Kasavarina's memories could be the key to defeating them, they told her that Kasavarina wanted to help tear down the organisation she had built and thought that her previous self had been mad, they pushed Athyrlla politely on what she had against Kasavarina and she told them how Kasavarina had prevented any chance of peace with the clergy and of the assassination attempt and how unfortunate it had been that it had failed but she agreed to meet with Kasavarina to see if this change of heart was true. She had been largely convinced by their arguements so far but being a ruler sensibly asked what Risur could offer them in return for their aid, would Risur recognise their ownership of the land. After a quick discussion silently betweent the team they determimed that Risur already had a relationship with the enclaves near their colony and apart from that they would be recognising the Eladrin claim to other peoples colonies , and that it really was the Eladrins land. William speaking for Risur agreed in principle subject to royal confirmation that Risur would recognise Elfaivar as the land of the Eladrin , not just Sentosa's claims and that Risur would negotiate with the local Eladrin to buy or lease the land their colonies stood on as the Eladrin did not need all the land and the Risuri wished their freindship. Athrylla was happy with this agreement and said she would meet with Kasavarina that night and announce her decision in the morning. The constables got agreement for William to leave and return to the enclave after teleporting to Risur to make sure his agreement was confirmed.
In the morning Athyrllar agreed to let the constables fetch the Arc but said that Kasavarina should remain safely here until she had to depart with the arc, however she did agree to send her Faedraven and three rajput bodyguards to assist with Faedraven aiming to travel to Risur as ambassador. As the discussion about how to travel to Ingatans refuge began she agreed to provide 4 scrolls of shadowalking to help them travel.
They said their farewells and then shadowalked to Ingatans refuge emerging about two kilometeres from the reguge , they soon ran into a weretiger scout and Nevla convinced the scout to talk to them and guide them to the refuge. As they reached the refuge they suddenly recalled the Arsenal of Dhbisu and which god it had defeated , William hurridly hid it in the absurdists web before any Weretiger noticed it.
The number of young eladrin at the camp suprised them and their meeting with Betronga started , he told them that to prove their freindship and gain access to the Lost Arc he wanted their help dealing with the Vigil soldiers attacking his community he made it clear that being freinds with the cowardly enclaves was not impressing him, they provisionally agreed.
Since the session they have been discussing how and what to do
So far diplomacy seems out because it will annoy the weretigers, reveal RHC involement in the area and probably not work. Anyway they don't like what the clergy is doing, Nevla in particular still prefers some way of not killing everyone in the fortress . On the other hand Manuel thinks this may be a good use for the BOMB