Tianchao Wangguo Chapter 1: Calm before the storm

[Nephtys]

"If you think that's best. Perhaps that Water temple the monk was talking about?"

 

[Gez]

« But we'll have first to rejoin the others, so that they do not worry about our prolonged absence. »

 

[Rhialto]

Pan Chou nods. "Tell them what we've found. And then--the Water Temple, perhaps..."

 

[Ariakor]

About half an hour after they had left, Lin Xu, Pan Chou and Jian Guo return to the others who have just finished their work at the shrine. The scroll has been placed and the markings have been cleaned, as much as can be done at the moment. So you tell them what you found.

 

[Nephtys]

"And now to the Temple?", Jian Guo asks the others.

 

[Gez]

« It seems a good idea. If our guides know the way... »

 

[Ariakor]

At that, Kairan says: "Sure i do. That Temple is famous for its crystal caves and the wisdom of the spirits living their. I travel there myself once a year together with a few other people from our village to bring offerings and ask for the spirt's help in certain things on behalf of your community. I can lead you there, once we have reached our village. it is not far, six miles distant from our village, towards the coast, but it is a little hidden, not close to the main trails in the area. So if you're finished here we can go back and join the others and i can lead you there before nightfall."

He seems to be glad about the prosbect of leaving this defiled site. It still unsettles him, even after the most obvious signs and influences of the taint are removed. But their lingering effects can still be felt by everyone present.

 

[sword-dancer]

Arishan Tüen Li

He bows to the shrine

"We should inform the temple, they could be able to cleanse this shrine much better than we."

 

[Gez]

« Perfect. Let's do, then. »

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Guchiko had been very quiet since seeing the shrine, and the truth of it was it shook her to the core. Such violence and desperate disregard for her kin was nearly unthinkable, though she had known, intellectually, that it existed. The raw evidence of so blatant a betray was hard to take in. Numbly she followed the others down the road.