Overview

Travelling back from Eldeen Reaches to Sharn, catch-up with lord ir'Roole and the business with press house representative Vassilia Kan Santiar. Who's following you?

Back to the black woods

A moment of despair took place when it occurred to the slowly descending heroes in the gnomish slow-falling slow-temporal-field cone, that the gnomes might have the patience to wait until everyone have descended through the portal, back to Khorvaire. Onni made a sign-language performance significant enough to keep the gnomes entertained for a moment, enough to let everyone to slowly enter the portal and splash down to the black pool of water.

Where next? Tracks around the spring showed a lot of movement had recently happened, although now there was nothing in sight, save the slowly roaming tree-monsters in distance. Nix's compass helped to orienteer and read the time of the day approximately, which lead to a general idea of how to find the correct way to return to the druidic woods.

Dyana's troops found the heros soon from the green and with Dyana's treestrider, you were soon facing Oalian themself with big news. The Ancient was very happy with your help. Also, they had been your request in mind: the operation in the gnomish demiplane had took five days. That mean The Suns Blessing is today!

"I remembered your cause and did send a group of powerful druids already to Sharn. They have performed weather controlling ritual and the city will enjoy sunshine today."

Enriching House Orion

Instead of treestriding you back to civilization, Oalian suggested you should walk, "to be able to enjoy nature and to give it the time it deserves". A walk to even a nearest settlement, Niern, was beyond one days hike, so you spent a one last night in the peaceful druidic forest. From Delethorn on you could take an elemental galleon to get you across the iconic Lake Galifar.

When you got to Passage, you finally had the feeling to be back in the man-made world. The lightning train would leave tomorrow afternoon, now you have some time to get the greenery out from your feet and enjoy the city life again.

Lightning rail is truly like a lighting, 30 mph, powered with huge fire elementals. With that it took only a couple of days to reach Wroat, the metropolis capital of Breland, your homeland. What a great city!

Train to Sharn left at the morning of the next day, and no later than afternoon you already were walking on familiar streets of Clifftop. It was raining.

Catching up with the free press (there are no free lunches)

The headquarters of Korranberg Chronicle was at the far end of Upper Menthis. You asked for your friend Vassilia, with who you ended up in the near coffee shop called Lemon & Lime Diner. She was extremely interested in

• any stories you could share
• the matter regarding Drevan ir'Roole and events of The Suns Blessings

You agreed to meet her on daily basis, at 10 o'clock, here in Lemon & Lime. Every meeting will cost you 1 gp per person, including Vassilias tea & cake.

Lestra was observing the scene from afar and realised that apart from the agent of House Tharask, there is also another figure tracking you. He or she is a skilled infiltrator, looks like a gnome. That's all you got out of that one. Nix changed appearance to trick the followers, but the gnome was nowhere to be seen.

House Tharask agent was lazily hiding himself and ended up having a dinner in the same room with you in The Serious Tavern. Then you decided to finally go to Drevan's estate.

The butler informed you that the lord will meet you in his office tomorrow at 10 o'clock.

Tomorrow at 10 o'clock you told Drevan everything. He believed your sincerity, even though you had gone to a reporter first, instead of coming straight to the estate.

Later on the same day, a messenger brought you a letter with a draft from Vassilia for the next issue of the Korranberg Chronicles and an urge to have a word from you as soon as possible to get the insert on the paper tonight. It would be the main news!

With a few additions to her text in mind, you searched her and together worked on a nice piece of text dealing with the insights of the Suns Blessings miracle and the political position of ir'Roole's house in the competition with the ir'Tain, the ruling house Sharn.

Developments

• major outline: ir'Roole is going to give you a new assigment in two months
• what's going to happen meanwhile: we'll chat that through up to next weeks session
• open matters include: Who captured Drevan ir'Roole? Where's lady Nora? (What did she stole? Drevan mentioned this, but it was not discussed. If you get audience to Drevan and ask, he won't tell you this, not yet or not until you give him a reason to share the information.)
• about Vassilia, you can use her to get information from local events, current or historical

NPC's met

• Dyana the master druid
• Oalian the ancient
• people in accomondation or travel business in the towns of Niern, Delethron and Cree in Eldeen Reaches, in the city of Passage, in the kingdom of Aundair and the metropolitan capital city Wroat
• Vassilia Kan Santiar, from Korranberg Chronicles
• ir'Roole staff: guard Alexys Neugent, female human warrior
• ir'Roole staff: low servant Piers Chalker, male human commoner
• ir'Roole staff: the butler Abbot Anne, male human elder commoner, the chief of in-door servants
• lord Drevan ir'Roole

Items of interest

• 50 gp for each, "some pocket money for you" from Drevan

For next session, two months have passed and Drevan is going to send you out from Sharn. In similar fashion prior the last mission, he will grant each of you any equipment you require to achieve the task within these limits:

• use 100 gp or less item advantage for max 20 times
• use one-time special Rare magic item for max 1 times

Drevan will inform this two days before you have to leave. Meaning you don't have two months time to collect these items, they need to be found "from stock" because of the short time frame.