Tombs of Scoria: Episode 71

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== Synopsis ==
In the summer of 1513, Anton McGary prepares a grand ceremony for Velthara in Shirebrook, crafting potions and seeking sacrifices. Concurrently, Imrik delves into research on a powerful fire spell. Tyrael maintains an alliance with The Family and prepares for his upcoming wedding, while Anton uses an Aerial Servant to capture an elven cat for a potion ingredient. As wedding preparations unfold, Anton checks divinations for safe travels and future offspring. Following the wedding on July 13, Anton performs rituals and brews potions, while Tyrael learns dragon riding. Imrik's quest for rare ingredients leads to a pact with the Elven Ambassador. Tyrael uncovers a plot to incite a forest fire and reports it, leading to his wedding on August 13, where he is promised kingship. Anton's ceremony culminates in a sacrificial ritual to create the mythril spear Widow Maker. By September, Imrik has mastered the spell, and the rare ichor arrives.
==Recap==
===June, 1513===
Anton plans for a grand ceremony in the name of Velthara that will be held in Shirebrook, in exchange for a better spear. Imrik starts to research an LVL 6 fire spell. 
Anton makes Potion of Slipperyness for 2 weeks. He asks The Queen to get 20 Mistreyan soldiers to sacrifice to Velthara. 10k gold is spent on the ritual.
Tyrael deals with The Family, accompanies him, and their mother in their keep in Riverlands. The keep is going along splendidly, which worries the mother. Mother asks about the wedding. They agree for her to plan the wedding. The deal with The Family is being upheld.
Anton casts to fetch him an elven cat so he can harvest the Agility of the elven cat for a potion. He gets his mother to prepare the wedding with 5000 gold. The wedding interferes with Imrik's research, he will attend anyway. Tyrael is his best man. 
===10th of July, 1513===
While the wedding preparations are in full swing, a screeching elven cat floats into the Temple of Velthara, carried by an invisible servant. Anton casts . He apologises to a cat profusely before he kills it. He gives Imrik the whiskers. 
Anton casts :
Are me and going to return unscaved if I plane-shift us to the feywild?
*Ready disenchantments and charm removals for your path to luxury. 
He decides not to go. 
===Wedding of Anton McGary, 13th of July, 1513===
After the vows, he casts of her favourite memory and .
Before the wedding night, he casts Divination to check if that is the night Alyx will get pregnant. He gets a negative answer and declines to consummate the marriage. The next day, Alyx manages to change his mind, a crucifix is involved. 
===Mid July - August, 1513===
Tyrael sends out a word to the dragons to get a meeting with . He spends 6 weeks learning to ride a dragon with Shine. 
Anton manages to brew 6 potions. He then sets up a ceremony in Shirebrook. 
Imrik needs either a Tears of a Royal mermaid or ichor of the Sentient Aloe Vera plant. Shine tells him it can be found in the Feywild. Anton suggests Shine asks the mermaids for tears. She fails to get the tears because mermaids want Drekissians to burn under Scoria, but she did find where the mermaids reside. 
Imrik visits the Elven Ambassador, in search of Sentient Aloa Vera plant. Ambassador agrees to procure the ingredient, for a favor in return. He wants one elven tree to be planted in their keep courtyard and it must be protected.
===3rd August, 1513===
Tyrael is called in by The Queen. Mistryan soldiers have crossed East Voden and made their way into Flatwoods, with crates. Some generals think that Tyrael would do a reconnaissance mission to inspect their motive for this movement, he agrees. Wedding will be held on 13 August.
Imrik gives the spell storing ring to Tyrael and the Teleport amulet. Anton gives him an Oil of slipperiness. Tyrael gets , , and cast on him.
Shine and Tyrael land before Bon' Theris. Tyrael casts , he notices ballista named after McGary Family. He heads towards Flatwoods, over the river. Tyrael decides for a sport to cross the river Vodan, he goes over undetected. 
He walks a mile into the woods. No sign of people. 6 miles in, nothing. Tyrael returns to the river Vodan and tracks where the guards went and follows the track for miles. 11 miles in, there is a small camp, with 3 carts. Tyrael changes and activates a Ring of Seeing, and approaches one of the carts. Inside the cart, there is a strange contraption he'd never seen before, boxes with taught fabric, with a connecting end. All carts but the last are filled with these, the last one has supplies and a bunch of bottles of unknown fluid.
Tyrael backstabs one guard and sneaks up to the other one. He pulls out a Darkness stone and lays a sword on the back of the guard, and threatens him. He surrenders. Carts are filled with fans, they plan to set the forest on fire and blow it into the country. Tyrael knocks him unconscious with Bracers of Shocking. He takes the guard and teleports them to the mountain. 
===6th August, 1513===
He goes to The Capital and notifies the generals of the plan and the prisoner
===Wedding of Tyrael McGary, 13th of August, 1513===
Wedding happens. Imrik comes to the wedding. The Queen gifts them a very expensive tapestry with symbols of their family. After the vows, the Queen sets a golden crown on the table and makes an announcement:
===18th August, 1513===
Anton leaves for Shirebrook with his wife. The town is ruined by the demons. The prisoners and families with a vengeance wish have been brought. They gather around before sunset, a dark shadow crosses over the sun. Anton doesn't know what it is. 
He holds a speech about vengeance since this is the place where they started the war. he casts to get Velthara's attention. The families sacrifice the prisoners, one at a time, the blood dripping on a mithril spear. After the last one, Anton brings Alyx in and casts , then carves a symbol of Velthara on her belly. 
Anton promises to Velthara to take the firstborn child with him to Solum and mold him into a Spear of Vengeance, and one day, they will use this spear to strike Anton down. The sacrificial spears burn down and in the ashes of the fire is left a brand new spear Widow Maker: it is made completely of Mythril, shines red, the tip looks like a Velthara symbol, and the handle is textured, unnaturally carved with faces of the people he's killed thus far. 
He threatens the observers to keep silent.
===11th September, 1513===
Imrik has learned the spell. The ichor has arrived. 
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