We are still up and we hear a knock on the door. It’s the Innkeeper asking if we are okay and we say send them away. The rest of the night is unevenful. We eat breakfast and head to the Temple of Aladan. As we are getting close to the temple district, a crossbow bolt hits Perrol from behind in the vitals for 7 body, none gets through, and 56 stun; Perrol drops unconscious. Glaive moves over to Perrol, Kross climbs up to a rooftop, I grab Perrol and pull him under a nearby wagon. Glaive noticed that the crossbow bolt has an ichor on it. I do a quick paramedics check on Perrol and don’t see anything other than he’s unconscious. Kross and Glaive are looking around. We do some more searching, but never find anything. Appears to have been a hit and run. Perrol recovers, we grab the crossbow bolt (wrap it in a cloth), and we continue on.
We get to the temple of Aladan enter. We see a balding man sitting at a desk. We let him know we would like to speak to someone that might have knowledge of the Red Talons. He looks at a ledger, says that the expert is out of town but there is another person that has some knowledge. He comes back with a middle-aged lady. She agrees to tell us as much as she can. She gives us a history of how it started. Kelgar is the muscle, Arvaga provides the organization, Yanna has knowledge of slave markets, Valmerillion was brought in when they started to specialize in certain requests. A lot of customers are Orcs and Ogres willing to pay for human slaves. She says mind shields and dispel magic are the best defenses against Valmarillion. There is a secondary ring of lieutenants that are responsible for certain areas. She doesn’t have any special knowledge of their weaknesses. She assumes that Kelgar’s ability to teleport is item based. We thank her for the help and I give 2 sp offering on the way out. We head to the Temple of Varadon. We are on high combat alert as we walk. We notice a wizard walking in front of us that is going to the same place. It has a similar setup as the Temple of Aladan. As we enter, we notice that the person behind the desk’s head snaps up to look at us. A lady comes up to us and relaxes as she notices my Azure Banner outfit and boon. We tell her we are looking for information on combating mind control magic, particularly Valmarillion’s magic, if they are aware of him. A young lady, half elven, comes down and talks to us. She says her name is Coriries Gellantara and we will probably get more information from the wizards. She lets us know he considered a master of sorcery. She let’s us know that there may be an individual in town that has items that may be of use to us. She offers to set up a meeting in a day or two. I drop in 2 sp donation on the way out.
We head to the Wizard’s college but stop at the potion shop on the way. We ask the proprieter if he has more dust of imprisonment; he says yes. He has two doses for 25 sp each; it’s more expensive because we have an unhonorable person with us (Glaive). Perrol and Ghoral each buy one. Perrol also asks if he can analyze the bolt to determine what the ichor is and if there is a possible antedote. He offers to do it for 5 sp. We then go on to the Wizard’s college and head to meet Igor. He lets us know that for teleportation it’s mostly ritualistic magic or large items. General dispel/suppress magic items can be used sometimes but this is not readily made and usually not mobile. He says they did find some items in inventory for combating mind control. There are two pendants in the Wizard’s college inventory that help shield the mind; would need to talk to Aaron. There is also a headband that makes the mind invisible, but it’s doubtful that the college would part with this. He also says that the fact that we can’t read scrolls limits our options. He says there are several items that they have found described, but nothing they have on site. We thank them for the information and go to talk to Aaron. We talk to the receptionist and she says Aaron is not available and won’t be in until tomorrow. We ask if anyone else can help, but she lets us know in a subtle way that due to who we are, it’s best to go through Aaron. We decide to wait. We go back to the inn and there is an evelope with the Regeant Mother’s seal on it. It’s an invitation to the dinner, no weapons larger than a dagger or a stilleto. We kill time in the afternoon and then head to dinner with the Regeant Mother.
As we are heading to the dinner, Perrol, Kross, and I notice we are being tailed. We notice that it appears to be one of Julliene’s people. We get to the castle gates, not problem. We are led in by two privates; we notice no one else has escorts. We are led in through the servants entrance. As we are walking along, Julliene steps in. She lets us know there will be a dinner and then a private meeting afterwards for the delivering of the boons. We have a nice dinner. We as well as others are praised for their service over the last quarter or so. After dinner we go to the Regeant Mother’s study. She offers us boons that she hopes we will find usefule. To Ghoral she gives a necklace that should help against sight/sound attacks. To Perrol she gives a magic travel book that contains an atlas a language primer with automatic familiarity of known world. To Jarlyn she gives a large shield (+3 DCV) that has been magicked to ward off missiles four times/day; extremely light. To Glaive she gives a ring of gliding (feather falling). To cross, she gives him 4 arrows; three that work against spectral entities and one that once/day explodes on impact. The pendant, ring and shield activate automatically.
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