Ragnorra Session 18

Start: 8 am, Saturday, Kythorn 26, 1396.

The group arrived in Minroe.

Dorn decided to check in on his belongings. His cart and horse, Widget, were present and taken care of.

He talked to a guard he previously knew from tending to the sick, named Paulie. Paulie informed him of the condition of the ill, and the fact they had new arrivals, including the ranger named Peter, and the older dwarven couple the party previously met on the road.

Peter's condition was more dire than the dwarves. The rest of the ill were worse off than Peter and the dwarves, presumably because they had been ill for longer.

However, during the conversation, the group of them discovered from Paulie, that the sickness does not uniformly take lives in the same amount of time. Some seem to last longer, and he did not understand why. When prompted, he revealed that the person who lasted the longest was a woodsman hermit who was rumored to be a druid.

Paulie also informed the group he had been burning the bodies in a pyre on the edge of the wood outside of town.

Armed with this information, Dorn decursed the two dwarves. They seemed out of sorts, spacy, and very suggestable. They were quite responsive to questioning, but their answers were not always the most helpful. They collectively revealed they were being led in some sort of dream state through a ruined world with a sky-spanning stretched skin over the sky, filled with corrupted creatures and plants. For what seemed like a near eternity, they were dragged along by an unseen force and whispered to periodically, forced to bear witness to all kinds of unspeakable horrors.

The party decided to bring them along.

They asked Paulie to do what he could drafting a letter of introduction to Goran Highmountain, a high ranking captain of the purple dragon knights, said to be stationed at Waymoot for the time. Paulie went on to describe how kidnappings and supposed cult activity was picking up on the roads to the northeast of Waymoot.

The letter read as follows: "To whom it might concern, these travelers have demonstrated the ability to handle this affliction, and bear news about the healing shrines. I bid you to hear these people out and reserve judgement until you have heard their story. - Patrolman Paul Wilkes"

Excepting Dorn, the group of them packed up and headed to Waymoot. Dorn decided to stay behind and tend to the wounded. They unloaded the pieces of broken gold and bronze statue into Dorn's cart.

They made their way to Waymoot.

Dorn examined the sick more closely during the interval, and found most of the sick were quite far gone, excepting the woodsman. He was somewhat far gone, with the growths beginning to show on his body.

Upon arrival in Waymoot, the lot of them excepting Dorn set up camp somewhere around the temple of Tymora.

Cassius sought entrance and after some questioning by the guard, who were keeping the temple under guard, allowed him supervised entry.

He spoke with a temple maiden and passed on some of the information they uncovered. He was directed to speak with the high priest, Roy Challand, who was cryptically engaged with some business in the jail.

Cassius and Ronja made their way to the jail. Vix gave Isadora and Lilly some coin to get some food. They did so.

Cassius and Ronja were granted passage into the jail to meet the priest after some questioning. They met him in the interrogation room.

The priest was quite guarded at first with information, probing for who they were and what they knew. He revealed he knew a great bit himself, and described how he questioned a captive cultist using Magic Circle Against Evil and Zone of Truth, and was able to get some answers to direct questions. He expressed curiosity at Ronja's story and specified the cult were ready for them at the north shrine. They are expected. The priest specified the identity of the man he was questioning as a Zenythri named Federat Yaurig.

Cassius and Ronja told the priest of their companion, a great healer named Dorn of the priesthood of Gond, devised a cure for this plague, and specified the nature of the decursing procedure. The high priest was impressed and expressed a desire to chat with this Dorn.

The priest provided Cassius with potions of restoration to use on the infected.

Suitably unnerved, but intrigued, Ronja and Cassius returned to the party and passed along the information.

Ronja attempted hunting, and they passed the night. Vix sent Omen out to feed, which he unsuccessfully attempted.

Cassius made haste with the priest's care package to go collect Dorn.

In the interim, Vix and Ronja studied, Isadora went for a walk, Lilly relaxed with Vix.

Cassius made it back to Minroe successfully without incident. He passed on the news to Dorn. Dorn attempted to decurse and feed the potion to the afflicted ranger, and miraculously, was successful. The ranger remembered almost nothing of the ordeal, divulging a large gap in his memory. He was calm and emboldened. He agreed to accompany the men back to Waymoot to be a witness for their success. He revealed he is in the employ of Trollkiller, the mayor of Waymoot, as well.

Cassius finished off the sick, after the two men failed to cure any more infected, as a mercy killing.

The two men made their way back to Waymoot.

Omen hunted unsuccessfully once again.

Upon waking in the morning, the group of them headed over to the temple of Tymora, and sought audience with Roy Challand, the high priest.

They were granted one, and went on to describe the process of curing the sick, and had Peter the ranger give testimony. Peter departed after this, presumably to send word higher up the chain of command.

The priest gave them a package of curative goods, and Vix made the decision to tell the group of them more about what she knew.

Time until Omen must feed: 12 hours.
End: 9 am, Tuesday, Kythorn 29, 1396.