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Session 8

2025-10-03 381.9.15

Taliesin heads to the hospital to talk to Priestess Genelen of Mityara. He is directed to a courtyard where he finds Genelen who listens to his description of the nightmare, and asks him to report back to her if he sees any more. In the meantime Aurelia buys feed (5 days of feed -2GP/4GP)for the horses as well as Saddles and Tack -10GP. We also buy food for the journey -1sp Then we head towards Siadanos.

Along the way we hear a birdcall which is clearly man made and are ambushed by a band of 16 bandits. Aurelia reacts quickly with a loosed arrow and kills their leader, before being felled by an arrow herself. Taliesin fells two others, and Titania is struck by two arrows and is downed. Valorian successfully casts Slumber on 4 of the remaining and this breaks the rest and they flee. The party does not pursue and quickly acts to stabilize the wounded and loot the dead. We find:

  • 40GP (8GP ea)
  • A potion which has silver-gold iridescence (Sustained Swift Sword).
  • 250XP 50 XP ea Killing bandits
  • 40xp 8 XP ea Gold from bandits

We decide to head back to Turos Tem to get help from the hospital in healing Aurelia and Titania. Aurelia suffers a puckered scar from a puncture wound on her left leg, and titania suffers an injured eye (-2 missile attack at med/long range).

We arrive at the gates of Turos Tem after dark and convince the guards to allow us in by name-dropping the Legate. They escort us to the hospital where we find the priestess and novices praying. A couple of the novices interrupt their vigil to speak to us. They cannot help that night since they must maintain the vigil, but the courtyard is a nexus of good and will aid in healing. Aurelia and Titania are laid out in the courtyard and spend the rest of the night there. We make plans to rest for a week.

Innelen 15-20, Ammonadras

Taliesin continues his conversation with Genelen and she confides that she believes that there is some curse or dark power is at work with these nightmares. Taliesin gets to know the novices better: Hyapse Hyatavie, Nauriva Nuvicerres and Syrena Suromus. Nauriva shares a rumor:

The black fang and red eye knoll war bands are the toughest in the area.

and Syrena shares another rumor:

When a dragon's scales turn purple, it means the creature is diseased and near death.

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