Embers of the Wilds: Episode 07

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==Recap==
===Sunday, 7th of June, Year 22===
Upon seeing the bandits, the posse hides in the nearby house. Pearl asks for some inspiration to intimidate the bandits. Tristelle gives her bardic inspiration. Peal climbs the top of the cliff and addresses Gloria. Pearl threatens them with magic, Gloria offers to leave town if she can take ‘cat girl’ with her. During the discussion, Gloria whistles and 2 of the bandits raise their crossbows. Pearl demands they leave the gold and hostages they took and make their way out of time. Gloria declines and the crossbows fire at Pearl. Kyra and Tristelle reveal their position and ready for combat
Combat start: The posse vs Gloria's Glorious
Gloria engages the town's guard. Pearl fires at Gloria, does 27 damage. Her magic pulls an uncontrolled elemental that attacks , then vanishes. One bandit shoots Pearl, the other one downs Wedge, 2 bandits kill the hostages and throw them over the bridge. Tristelle dashes onto the bridge. attacks Gloria, misses. A bandit attacks and hits Biggs. casts on Wedge. Kyra shoots Gloria in the back. Biggs attempts to throw a guard across the bridge.
Gloria attacks twice, she drops her spear and surrenders. Pearl fires on Gloria, bringing her near death. One bandit shoots Pearl. One bandit goes into the temple to loot. One bandit runs into Tristelle, tries to swing at her. Pearl gets hit by another arrow. Tristelle slips past the bandits on the bridge and goes towards Gloria. Jessie runs away. Annabelle casts on herself and gives to Briggs. Kyra shoots a bandit, misses twice, and casts Rally on Pearl. Briggs attempts again to throw the bandit off the bridge, to no avail. 
Gloria hits Annabelle with a spear, Annabelle surrenders. Gloria threatens Pearl with killing Annabelle, Pearl , missiles twist and come right back at her. She reacts with and negates the damage. Bandit downs Riggs. Tristelle casts , it knocks out everyone in the proximity except for Gloria. Kyra shoots Gloria.
Gloria runs into to temple to loot. Pearl shoots at one bandit. Tristelle uses Cutting words on one bandit that tried to grapple her. Bandits go towards Gloria, crossbowmen aim at Pearl. Tristelle casts again. Kyra shoots at bandits.
Crossbow means heads towards the temple. Tristelle misses them and casts into the temple.
Combat end.
Kyra stabilises Biggs, then stabs all the sleeping bandits, takes one hostage, then wakes up Annabelle. Pearl scales down the cliff and hides. Kyra tells Gloria she will kill the hostage if Gloria doesn't surrender. Gloria says she will burn the temple from the inside, Kyra kills the hostage. Tristelle says she will put Gloria to sleep if she doesn't come out.
Gloria opens the door, smoke is coming out of the temple.
Combat start: The posse vs Gloria's Not So Glorious
Bandit attempts to tackle Kyra, she kills him. Tristelle casts . Bandit slam into Kyra, does nothing. Gloria hits Kyra twice. Bandit hits Kyra. Kyra heals herself with Second Wind, and almost kills Gloria. Pearl continues to hide. 
 Tristelle kills Gloria with a dagger. Kyra hits one bandit. Annabelle joins the commotion in the center.
Tristelle hits the last bandit, the bandit surrenders, Kyra accepts.
Combat end.
Annabelle casts on Gloria, Kyra is frustrated with her. The fire continues to rage inside the temple. Townsfolk mourn their dead and recollect their items.
Kyra is very disappointed in herself. Tristelle feels responsible for the attack, Pearl is pondering the morality of killing the guards. Kyra isn't mad at Jessie for surrendering. Families of the dead blame Kyra for letting the ‘thing’ negotiate with the bandits. She takes the full blame, saying Pearl's negotiation was her decision.
Tristelle is dubbed The Siren, and receives gifts for her contribution. The townsfolk are generally pleased with Pearl's actions. has a talk with Pearl about the elemental she summoned on the bridge and decides to postpone her moving back into town. Pearl promises to not use any magic for a week, and the Major gives in.
===10th June===
While townsfolk sift through the ruins of the temple, they discover a small room behind Annabelle's room. In it, they find an inanimate golem with a device behind it. They summon the posse to check out the discovery.
Tristelle finds magical runes written around the golems limbs, similar to the runes on the device. Tristelle casts , sees both the golem and device are magical, of Conjuration and Enchantment schools. The device has a cylindrical and rectangular slot in it.
The posse learns more about how Annabelle came to be a cleric. They decide to wait a bit before doing any more investigation.
That night, coming through the canyon, they hear barks of Blink Dogs,  a pack of 4, running through town. They create a ruckus but don't attack humans, so the posse leaves them be.
Pearl interrogates Gloria why they came to their town. Gloria mentions a village on the seaside they robbed, she comes Northridge. Pearl asks Gloria about her motivations. Gloria is scared of mages because of the destruction they've wrought during the war. They discuss democracy. Tristelle suggests hanging Gloria, Kyra decides to deal with the golem first.
Party gets experience.
===14th June===
Tristelle tells Annabelle to put the staff into the cylindrical opening, and half of the runes ignite. They are unsure if the effect is the result of the staff itself or just the proximity of magic. After tinkering with the discovery for a few moments, they find nothing of note.
They look through the records room, what's left of it from the fire, but find nothing. Pearl asks her mother about magical items and Northridge. She explains to Pearl that the temple is near the bridge.
Kyra delegates the town duties to her father in preparation for the journey to Northridge.
===16th June===
Coming in from the east side of town, there is a traveling mage, . She calls out from the distance for someone to speak to. The mage asks about the magic in the area, the posse informs her of strange magical happenings as of late.
They lead her to strange clusters of magic Tristelle marked previously. She calls Pearl a Tabaxi. She has not personally met another tabaxi. Henrietta is not familiar with Draconians and Blink Dogs, but knows Magmin are elementals.
After telling her more information about Draconians, Henrietta is very disturbed. She deduces there might be more types of Draconians, since they reproduce from eggs of the good dragons, and might be stronger. Of the unknown types, Bozaks must be the bronze and Sivaks (Sabak?) the silver.
Henrietta pulls out a potion of invisibility and holds it over the aura. The potion shivers and she pulls it back, then asks if she would be able to return to Trog Canyon.
On the walk back to town, they ask about golems. Golems have a device to control it and a key to activate it. The Ferrin Empire long ago used golems in remote locations they couldn't send the army to.
Pearl complains about the chaotic nature of her magic. Henrietta explains the difference between sorcerers and wizards, and that her magic cannot be controlled like wizards do. She departs.
==Experience==
1916 exp each.
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