The Pantheon War Campaign/Session 10

What to do next? 
*Tome's oracle says to return to Falamar
*Matthis wants to return
*Sunrose is up for exploring but leans "return and warn the Fools camp"
*Elesett wants to go to the capital (or, at least, not give up)
*Falamar exists within time (like Elesett), and therefore doesn't necessarily know what we've learned about the City. Tome can pray to him, but there's no guarantee he will hear that prayer
*Matthis's stack of contracts: what's the pattern between locations listed in transportation contracts?
**A suggestion that the current planet has a Valdosian presence, to enable Matthis's travel to this place.
**Other planets in contracts were more developed than Atarkia. The city does not just prey on backwater planets, but more developed areas as well.
*Time period of this campaign: after Thalran's betrayal of Kirva and joining the Pentacle; before Adarnum (at least, before his elevation to angel/god)
*Tome's oracle suggests returning to Falamar again and is against sending Humboldt to the city in the sky.
*Party discusses sending Humboldt to the city with Haruspex on his back using Valdosian soul contracts. After much debate, this is the decision. 
*Party sends Haruspex and mercenaries to fetch Humboldt, who will be brought back to the party to enact this contracts plan (Haruspex and the City).
Party heading to the capital city of Amaranthia:
*Where are the mercenaries?
**Perhaps in the forest nearby
*We commence towards the capital!! (Sunrose will scout the last mile)
*En route: lots of slaughtered animals and people along roadways
*Then, a congregation of people around a guard tower, taking turns looking up into the city (need to climb the tower to see past the smoke above the capital)
*Small towns around the capital packed full of people (refugees from capital?)
*Hooded riders traveling around the "exclusion zone" blocked by smoke; slit the throat of someone who wandered outside the towns, after a brief interrogation
*Sunrose, lurking around the trees, checks to see if the riders are shocked
**[someone? riders?] are coordinated, all look in his general direction at one time
*People in towns are apparently partially zombified, slightly less so than refugees back in the valley
*Sunrose estimates at least 3-4 patrols of 6 riders each circling the capital.
*Sunrose then tries to scout ahead as we approach… and gets shot at from a cleverly disguised fortification within a drained canal
*Advanced party is approached on all sides by four patrols. Patrols are equipped with swords, crossbows, lances, and axes.
*Matthis and Elesett talk to the patrols. Patrols want to know if the party has seen the light. Matthis says no, which seems to reassure the partrols. Patrols agree to escort the party into the city to request an audience with the king.
Heading into the capital of Amaranthia:
*Area surrounding the city show signs of a large lumber operation.
*Large numbers of refugees surround the outskirts of the city. Many are blind and/or children.
*Food is scarce in the city, people are likely living on reduced rations.
*Elesett asks if there are people that are only partially affected by the light. Patrols respond that some are impacted by the light more than others. We will still need to be interrogated. The effects of the light can fester within people. Nobody has recovered after they have been ‘light-touched'. Those harboring people who are are also executed, so there's no real chance to work on a cure.
*Sunrose ties to land and is surrounded by patrols. Elesett convinces patrols that Sunrose is not a threat. Sunrose must stay on the ground for the duration that the party is in the city.
*Party is brought to the fortified gatehouse of the city. Entrances are only large enough for a single grown adult to enter.
*Each member of the party escorted to separate cubicles to be interviewed by the ‘King's Physician'.
**Matthis: Physician asks about origin. Seems satisfied with interview. Physician uses a series of shaded papers to get different color effects, and test the impact of them on the party; he believes the dilation of the pupils is different based on whether someone has been impacted by the party.
**Gus: Gus does not understand the language of the physician. Physician gets Matthis to translate. Gus tells the physician about the rest of the party at the farm. Gus has cranial proportions that disturb the physician.
**Elesett: Physician asks Elesett where she is from. Elesett says that she has travelled from some distance. Physician presses Elesett about her reasons for being in the city. Physician attempts to perform physical examination of Elesett and detects that she doesn't have a physiology. She doesn't have a pulse. Physician suspects Elesett has been affected by the light; she discloses that she is an angel, formerly of Kirva, and requests that he not share this information. He says he'll only tell the King. Physician asks about what Sunrose is. She 
**Sunrose: Physician states he won't bother with physiological examination. Asks Sunrose about his encounters with the light. Sunrose writes that he has not seen the light, sings a sad song about his past. Shares a little more about the preacher and 
*Matthis and Gus led to a room inside the city. Elesett taken to a disused armory outside the city and securely locked inside. She protests, and the Physician says she'll be released after two days if she hasn't been permitted to meet with the King. Sunrose is sent to the same place. 
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