Devourer of Minds

> We meet the Mind Flayer... and his answers aren't encouraging...
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## Summary

The group goes over what they're going to do. Adrian Tanlaial, Seven and Hoshimi head for the temple for the tour while Olwen Edgeworth, Flint, Ray and Sybl Indrax go for the interogation. Adrian gives her the *Horrors of the Underdark* book. Adrian goes through his lockbox and gives items to his comrades. Olwen gets the crying angel pendant while Flint gets the alchemical crossbow, Adrian gets the thunderbird tuft and Seven gets the crushing rune. Flint tries out his crossbow on a drumstick to launch to Seven but Adrian notices Hollyhock's mark on Flint's shoulder. He goes solemn right away and notes Hollyhocks mark. Olwen goes to close the doors and the party asks him if what Hollyhock asked of him. Flint assures the party that he didn't tell them the truth about something following them or about his father's song. Adrian feels bad because he mentioned he didn't know if they had dream protection so Olwen suggests talking with the Lightbringer for any clues. Adrian decides that his stop is the temple of the Lightbringer instead and Princess Abigail decides to come with them. Olwen adjusts the groups so Hoshimi goes with Ray into the underbelly to look for Arpolian.

Flint, Sybl and Olwen head to the precinct with Flint talking with Sybl about Oin. As they head down, they notice a police report about someone's arm, weird noises below and finding a dog carcass. They arrive at the prison and smell something ungodly fishy. Apparently this mindflayer came out of the underdark because he was hungry. He thinks himself superior but they find it odd that he's repeating himself and it's involuntary. Sybl asks how the mindflayer knows that Flint is about to die and within one week the city of Directian will fall. They learn of an elder brain that's ordering the mind flayers around and that he's repeating himself again. Olwen tells Reshky to look for an Abolith before heading to Father Goose.

Father Goose holds the arm of another mind flayer and it's clear that it was blasted with fire while struggling with something mentally. After that Olwen asks Father Goose about the Wayangs and Father Goose mentions that he went to college with one, Miss Etwali. He mentions she made a pass at him but he rejected her so she returned to Sahala. Sybl knows the name Sahala but doesn't know why. They find out it's in the iron woodlands of the eastern dominion and it was full of immigrants from Pikoria. Apparently something happened to Sahala and no one knows what. Sybl believes he's a survivor of what happened there but can't remember it. Father Goose decides to point him in the right directions. Flint asks about if a potion of shared memories could help but Father Goose says using that potion was a reason a child was put in prison. Olwen says she is familiar with that case and realizes that Father Goose was one of the officers working on that case. In fact it was the reason he left the eastern dominion. Olwen explains how they prooved Raquel's innocence but Father Goose wants some proof. Olwen is ready to use the fiery jokers on herself for proof but Flint hesitates. He eventually goes through with it and sets fire to the fiery jokers.

## Notable events

* Olwen Edgeworth, Flint and Sybl Indrax interogate the Mindflayer