Runelords 27.0 - Prepare for War

After spending the night in Aldern's townhouse, there were ten days until the deadline Lucretia had given them. Requiring supplies and, in the case of the three ascended men, clothes, they spent most of this day rushing around Medinipur doing shopping. Not wanting to waste time, however, they left that night, hitching a rented horse to their wagon and setting out towards the threatened village.
They made their way to Sandpoint as quickly as possible. Luna and Aldern, neither bothered by fatigue or strain, pulled the wagon through the late night hours while the others slept in it in order to spare the horse and maximize travel time. With their fast pace, they made it back to the edge of town by the third night.
In the late afternoon, a few miles outside of Sandpoint, a strange phenomenon caught Virgil's attention: the horse seemed to be slowing down, despite looking like it was moving in the same way. As he and Eamon looked about, they saw everything seemed to be slowing down except them and, after a swift kick to wake him up, Khyr. When everything came to a complete stop, a cloaked, hooded angel manifested in the road. She informed them that she was Azariel, of the Court Marshal's Office of Pandemonium. After Eamon explained himself to her, she spoke to him with a hint of pity, informed him that due to the situation, he would be honourably discharged; Virgil and Khyr, however, were treated with a measure of scorn and were dishonourably discharged. With that, she rose up into the air and vanished through a portal, leaving the dismayed Eamon behind.
After the angel left, time returned to its normal flow. A moment later, all of the contents of Khyr and Virgil's bunk were dumped unceremoniously on the road, forcing them to stop and collect Khyr's extensive drapery collection.
Not long afterwards, Sandpoint was reached. After boarding the horse, Shadliss went home immediately, Luna went to go see Quint and inform him of current developments, Aldern retired to his room to continue catching up on work, and the rest visited with Ameiko and delivered the bad news.
The next day, the group, including Shadliss and Ameiko, met with the mayor and the sheriff to discuss the incoming army. A scroll of Commune was used to narrow down the army's approach and intent; they learned that the army wasn't coming by sea, that they were coming for something in the ruined lighthouse, and that whatever it was, it had no obvious value and couldn't be carried by one person alone.
With the lighthouse determined to be the army's focus, the group split up: the mayor, Ameiko and sheriff Hemlock called a town meeting to inform citizens of the impending evacuation, while the others collected Quint and investigated the sunken lighthouse. Though they spent several hours swimming through the barren, underwater halls, they found nothing.
Category:Rise of the Runelords