Letting go of Ghosts Part 2

## Episode 19 - The FeyWild West

Talia and Seline Argent-Grey return to outside Anthonopolis from Bluepeak. They start to travel back to the oasis so they can open the door from there to Old Town. While they're traveling the two days to the oasis Talia is sending her thoughts and hopes to the Warden that he is okay in the aftermath of shattering crystal. The Warden appears with them and tells them that he's fine. He was able to speak to the others and his awareness was extended beyond the hundred-mile radius it used to be. For example, he was a little north of Crankshaft when he responded to Talia's thoughts. Talia introduces Rhenalle to the Warden, emphasizing that she could also call him John. Talia hugs the Warden before he leaves. When they arrive at the oasis, they travel via the Realm of Pale Shadows to Old Town. Here this morning and people are just getting started with their days. Talia says that she and Rhenalle are going to ask around for the way to Breakpeak. She has Seline give Rhenalle her cap of disguise. Seline suggests to Rhenalle that she have an extensive backstory to go along with her disguise. However when Rhenalle puts on the cap the only thing she changes is adding a mustache. Talia and Rhenalle are going to work on Rhenalle’s disguise. Meanwhile, Seline goes to find Selvikia. She meets Selvikia outside where Selvikia was staying at. Selvikia tells Seline that things have changed in the past day and quickly takes her inside the building to her living quarters. Selvikia reminds Seline of the dreams that she was having but now she can hear the woman in her dreams for the past few nights. Selvikia says that the woman in her dream she knows who she is. She's from the stories the elders told like Rucker. She is Sosara, the Desert Flower. When her ancestors were traveling the deserts, the Desert Flower would come and provide water and shade to protect them from the Sun. She is the goddess of oasis and respite. The Desert Flower told Selvikia she had chosen her. The Desert Flower heard Selvikia's cries as a child and would have her help with people. Seline cuts her hand with her bone dagger and says to Selvikia heal me. Selvikia, confused but concerned that the cut will get infected, pours water over the wound and it closes. Seline congratulates Selvikia on being a cleric of the Desert Flower. Seline explains some things that Selvikia can do now as a cleric including mending. Selvikia tries it on a broken cup she had nearby. Selvikia says that the Desert Flower also told her she would have the power to turn away Legacy. Seline explains to Selvikia how to connect to her goddess and turn the undead. A spectral copy of Selvikia leaves her body and morphs into a humanoid shape before dispersing. Looking Selvikia over, Seline sees that she's no longer holding herself in pain and the color is returning to her skin but Seline thinks that Legacy is gone now. With tears streaming down her face, Selvikia steps out and starts gathering as many as she can find. Selvikia makes her way to the center of Old Town and steps onto a well there. Seline encourages Selvikia to continue. With a prayer to her goddess, Selvikia pours some of her canteen’s water back into the well. A breeze blows through the area and desert flowers sprout up around the well. The people around scream out in surprise and then joy as the shades are forced out from their bodies purging Legacy. Selvikia nearly falls into the well exhausted and Seline helps her. Selvikia asks for Father Martin and Seline deftly explains Brother Martin chose to stay behind in the city. Selvikia stands up a little straighter and answers people's questions as they come. She explains to them her dreams and how the Desert Flower is granted her the power to help them. After another group gathers, Seline has Selvikia go through the steps that she did before without turning the undead. Instead, Seline turns the undead herself. Selvikia is a little uncomfortable with this deception at first but seeing that the results are the same, she relaxes into it. Seline is happy to let Selvikia take credit. Meanwhile, Rhenalle admits to Talia the mustache thing was to mess with Seline. Redonning the cap of disguise, Rhenalle now looks like an orc of the same height. After asking around they find out that Breakpeak is 2 weeks to the South on the coast of the ocean and it is a dangerous journey. The area between here to Breakpeak is where whole communities were swallowed by the sand. However, it's a four-day journey by airship and far less dangerous. Talia reluctantly chooses to travel by airship. While she's asking questions, an air of excitement starts to reach them. After a short time, people she had seen in Old Town begin to pass her and she realizes they don't have Legacy anymore. Talia returns to Old Town in time to see Selvikia and Seline turning more Legacy away. On instinct, Talia dons Grave’s Silence in shovel form and puts the head into the sand. Her world shifts and the sky is now the infinite starry expanse it was before. She watches the malformed first ones being ejected from their host bodies and dispersing. As they do the door appears and then flickers away as the first ones disperse. Talia gets the impression that they don't have enough energy to go through the door. Talia also decides that she will practice going to the Ethereal plane without having to plant Grave’s Silence in the ground as she picks the shovel out of the ground. Over the next few days, Selvikia and Seline heal as many as they can of Legacy. Seline helps guide Selvikia as best she can by sharing her experiences as a cleric. Selvikia also gives Seline a desert flower as a keepsake. At The mention Of Breakpeak, Selvikia says that the 12 have little influence in the area. Selvikia gathers some of the desert flowers into a basket and ask Seline to come with her to an area outside the Old Town. Selvikia leads Seline to a dug pit with wrapped bodies. Selvikia says that they're supposed to burn the bodies to prevent the spread of disease. Seline doesn't detect any undead or any lingering presence of Legacy now. They haven't yet burnt bodies because it's the dry season and they don't want to risk the crops catching fire. She leads Seline down into the pit. Even though some of the bodies are stacked, they are laid as reverently as possible with things that people have left for their loved ones. They go to the body of Menara and they pray to the Desert Flower and the Undertaker respectively. Selvikia asked if Seline knows what happens to them when they die. Seline explains that there's a door they go to but she doesn't know what happens to them after they go through the door. Selvikia explains that Rucker is similar that he guides the spirits to dance among the stars in the sky. Selvikia decides to leave and go rest when Seline notices that one of the bodies has started to come unraveled and exposed. A small hand is now sticking out from the linen. Seline comes to the partially unwrapped desiccated body of a child who's been here for a few months. Someone has left her an offering the food. An animal probably came down to get out the food and unwrapped part of the body. Seline is saddened by the loss of one so young and tries to clean the dirt off the body and re-wrap it. As she contacts the body a shiver passes over her in the center of her chest goes ice cold and the sound of a door cracking open behind her. The Undertaker's black door is behind her with a little girl standing just inside the threshold. The same little girl who Seline was attempting to rewrap. She asks if Seline's there to take her home and that she misses her mother. Seline nods thinking to guide her back to the door. Seline reaches out her hand offering to take the girl home. As their hands connect a whirlwind of energies swirls up but then suddenly stops. Seline finds herself cradling the body in her arms except it's no longer a corpse. The girl coughs and starts to clear the dirt away from her. Though Seline calls out for Selvikia other people thinking that someone has fallen into the pit respond. Seeing Seline holding a wrapped body they start to tell her to put it down until they realize the child is alive. They take the child from Seline's arms and crowd around her. Seline feels the cold in her chest and it feels as if something was pulled from her. The cold recedes though as she hears the door behind her close. One of the people turn to ask what happened and Seline shakes her head turns and flies off. Talia's been off helping with food prep or with anything else she could. Seline quickly meets up with Rhenalle and Talia saying they need to leave now and opening a door. Our adventurers leave just as word begins to arrive in the old city about the girl who has returned to life.

## Location

* Anthonopolis, District 3
* Old Town

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* The Warden
* Rhenalle
* Selvikia