Arodus 12, 4712
After our long night out I welcomed sleep as a good friend. We awoke in the evening and planned to just check up on Uksahkka. As we approached the temple of Shelyn we spotted two large earth elementals attacking the temple. Kali freaked out about these things destroying her gods temple and put one of the elementals into some type of water bubble. This is a really cool spell. Again we tried out the enlarge Sparna spell; the results were again mixed but I had to do something as my arrows were just bouncing off these creatures. Once I realized that Radella had spotted the red feathered raven my focus change to searching for the raven. While the elementals were dispatched it was not before they made a mess of the temple.
This was just a distraction to allow them time to abduct Usahkka. This girl just can’t keep herself out of trouble. The poison blow dart and the large black feather found are clear indications that Usahkka was taken. Just more evidence pointing to Usahkka being a victim and not the person that sent the ninjas. I told them that she seemed trust worthy.
We decided that it was time to go to the Rimerunners Guild and suddenly the magic helm started talking to Qatana. The amazing helm turns out to be a follower of Desna named Helgarval. Helgarval told us that he was called to this plane as a familiar for a follower of Desna. It was really cool when Helgarval transformed when held by Koya. Anyway Helgarval has been tracking the oni of the Five Storms for the last five years which are demons. Helgarval also provided us the information that the head of the Rimerunners Guild Silverskorr has a raven with blood-red feathers.
Qatana is truly blessed to have Helgarval providing Desna’s divine guidance on an ongoing basis. I can see Helgarval and Qatana becoming fast friends. Although I am not sure if Qatana would even view Helgarval as a blessing from Desna. She likely just thinks of this as a magic item. Desna truly works in mysterious ways.
The entire trip through the city streets Kali and Qatana were making plans on how they were going to trick the Rimerunners into revealing information on where to find Ulf and the sword. I enjoyed the mid-sentence paused when they discovered that the guild was closed for the day. So we moved to plan B, breaking in.
Redella and I broke into the Rimerunners guild, I have to admit that she did most of the work. This is my first time breaking in, scary but also very exciting. With Radella invisible I had to watch the door and enter once I saw the door open. Once inside Radella locked the door just in case someone checked the door later. All of a sudden we hear a door down the hall unlocking. I duck into the first room just in time and I hear Radella tell me she is also in the room. Hearing the guard moving around I crawled under the bed to hide. Before long the door opens and I hear footsteps enter the room pause for a moment and then leave. He continue down the hall and back through a door at the end of the hall. Radella investigated and then returned to hide on the guard’s next round. She decided that it would be best to check on the locked room next door. We entered the room as soon as she had unlocked the door.
Usahkka was chained inside this room. We agreed to lock ourselves in this room and try to get Usahkka out after the next guard rotation. I quickly moved over to Usahkka to make sure she didn’t call out and to let her know that we are going to help her get out. While Radella was locking the door I just kept whispering in her ear to comfort her. I put my hand on her face and healed up some of her new wounds. Even with the healing I could still feel her shaking. She seemed a little better after Radella removed the chains. Once the guard had gone Radella quickly unlocked the door, moved to the outside door and unlocked that door as well. I started moving Usahkka as soon as I thought Radella was close to having the door unlocked. Usahkka was very shaky so I had to help her make it to the outside door. For a moment I thought that she would not be able to make it to our friends on her own but she steadied herself once she saw the open door, in fact I had to prevent her from running for the door. We got her out and then quickly headed back to the room and locked ourselves back into that room again. We just made it.
We repeated the same procedure as we moved to the next room, I could tell that this was a harder lock but Radella conquered this lock as well. Redella again proved why she is the expert as she found the secret door. My role was to create a light and then hold it while she unlocked the chest. Gold and secret books, a quick check of the books pretty much indicated that this is what we were looking for. We made our way back out, well actually I stood guard while Radella did all of the work to get us out of the guild. I really had a lot of fun working with Radella.
On the way back to the caravan Usahkka was visibly overwhelmed. She says that she can not handle all of this stuff with the criminals and assassins. She is apparently just trying to learn how to be a guide. Once we got back to the caravan we arrange to have Usahkka stay with the caravan while we find Ulf and the sword but first we have some shopping to do.
Arodus 13, 4712
I have decided to put my overwhelming urge to purchase the efficient quiver aside to instead purchase a ring of sustenance along with Kali, Sparna, and Olmos. We got a deal for buying 4 of them and I saved over 100 gold. Food in the crown of the world is impossible to find so we needed to reduce the amount of food that we consume. I do like the idea of not starving even if I get separated from the caravan.
Kali, Koya, spivey, Ameiko all decided to go shopping, Ameiko using the ring again. I decided to go along to help provide protection and to spend some time getting to know Ameiko, Spivey, and Koya better. Put on my new cloths and we wandered the city looking at everything from art supplies to magic equipment.
During the day we stopped by the remains of the temple of Shelyn. Kali, Ameiko, Koya, and Yin-Po were discussing the plans to rebuild the temple when something inside the temple caught my eye, I could swear that it was a butterfly. I felt like there was a reason for me to check this out. Stealthly moved into the temple to see what it was that caught my eye. Inside on the ground was a small broken songbird statue. With my magic the songbird was restored. I moved one of the unbroken pedestals over to where debris would not fall on the pedestal. I then placed the songbird on the pedestal so it could watch over the Shelyn followers as they work to rebuild there temple. Maybe this will help restore hope.
Moving out of the remains to the temple I noticed Spivey looking at me. I just shrugged my shoulders and moved back with the others. Looking back some people had stopped to look at the songbird so I used my magic to add the sounds of the songbird. It just seems right to help people find the good in the moment even when something bad like this happens.