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 You have a week to prepare now, and the Estali are preparing rituals that will aid your journey.
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+-Shrett declines the offer to participate in the heroquest. He is concerned that he might end up having a conflict of interest via his Valind connection. Alangellia respects his choice and honours his honesty.
+-Indeed, you all might have feelings about the current situation. You’ve gone back and forth helping the City/Galanini/Alangellia, then the animal people/Black Eyes, acting as a sort of double agent. How comfortable are you about that in terms of your exertion of your free will?
+-The storm does destroy the Mistress of Doldrums. The warehouse gets a thorough search and no hidden tunnels etc. are found. Artukan has no heirs—you’d killed his (semi-innocent) wife Sarynna Ruhl. So, much of his property goes to his Guild, and some of it is liquidated by Estali City, and some important goods are distributed amongst the needy to help them through the storms. His other properties in/very near to Estali City are searched and no more incriminating things are found. Messages are sent around his “territory” with warnings of his guilt and suggesting investigations. The same goes for Pehraln, of whom nothing more is heard in this time.
+-No more assassinations happen. There’s no hint of Krarsht activity, and the tunnel below Artukan’s mansion proves to be hopelessly collapsed; indeed, the Earth elemental-thing that you used the password on is not seen again.
+-(Storm Season) Fraud and Shrett’s recovery ends during a vicious ice-hurricane that sweeps in over the lake, with violent whirlwind spirits unique to Lake Felster, called Ice-Spouts. You visit with Alangellia just after this. Another, milder one hits the following week, but there is a break forecast during the planned time of the heroquest. Another storm is due thereafter. It has been a rough start to Storm Season.
+-You heard news from far-off lands northwest along the lake, that Chaos creatures had been coming out of Tinaros County and plaguing the surrounding lands. Not big nasty ones; “just” broo and scorpion men and other typical foes. This breaks a trend for multiple seasons of there being silence within/near Tinaros. You’d heard back 2-3 seasons ago that Argin Terror had performed a great ritual that Tapped all Chaotic beings within Tinaros; his county across Lake Felster. Tinaros was completely free of Chaos, it was said. But rulers like the Archon worry at what this epic event is building towards. Surely something most dire! And now something is building up again…
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+Since Shrett isn’t going on the quest, he is offered the gift of a Storm Bull runelord teaching him (with usual cost of 5 improvement rolls and 4 weeks) a spell shared with Valind cultists, the miracle Face Chaos:
+Face Chaos
+Cost 1, Duration (Minutes), Rank Initiate, Resist (Willpower)
+When cast upon the recipient, that person stands their ground and fights any chaotic foe they face, even if ordinarily they would have run. If desired the spell may be resisted, but might lead to future accusations of cowardliness. This spell does not render the recipient immune to the effects of such spells as Demoralize or Panic, though they still will not flee.
+There’s still the problem that a Valind priest/shrine doesn’t exist (as far as is known) in Estali City, but Shrett is recommended to visit cities west/north of Estali, as such things might exist there.
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