Day 220 - Stormhaven - Quercuis

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**Quercius @ The Circle Of Stones**

**Day 220 (20th September)**

Quercius stays at the Circle of Stones whilst the rest of the party go off to investigate the old Tournament field and Royal Palace grounds.

**Day 221 (21st September)**

The day is spent teaching others about the potion recipes, observing Groundtall and generally assisting in the maintenance of the temple grounds.

Groundtall is an enthusiastic and skilled gardener, and seems to spend pretty much all of his free time around the grounds. He eschews using magic to achieve his goals, seeming to prefer getting his hands dirty. Whilst gardening, he seems to be a lot less irascible, though still somewhat more flippant in attitude than you would naturally expect from a High Priest of Wyldwood.

Towards the end of the day, just after the evening ceremonies, whilst tidying up gardening tools and the like you observe Groundtall suddenly stiffen, and then rush off to the entrance to the underground chamber. You consider following him briefly, but note that two of the temple guards have taken up position at the entrance.

**Day 222 (22nd September)**

Groundtall does not reappear in the morning, one of the other priests takes over his ceremonial duties. Visitors to the underground shrine are gently turned away by the guards.

Around lunchtime a messenger arrives for Quercius, apparently sent by the rest of the party to update her on their activities….. which seem largely to consist of splitting the party.

Just after lunch, a group of three male humans arrive at the shrine, and are escorted to the entrance to the underground cavern. With some surprise you note that one of the humans is Thirson, the three are admitted by the guards – who were obviously expecting them. Some discrete enquiries reveal that the other two are Eriza, the high priest of Sarn and Chlono, the high priest of Barosa – certainly a strange gathering.

At least two hours pass before the three emerge and they immediately leave the shrine, although Thirson does catch sight of Quercius and waves in greeting, with a rather sardonic grin on his face.

Early evening still brings no return of Groundtall, although there are now reports coming in from temple visitors that the Elves and local militia seem to be on the streets in force. Rumours soon start coming in of a large force sighted to the Northwest of Stormhaven and approaching quickly.

Quercius sleeps lightly that night, and is somehow not surprised to find herself being shook to full wakefulness by Groundtall just before dawn the next day.

**Day 223 (23rd September)**

Groundtall: “Right young druid, there is a fire approaching, and I do not think the city will stand against it. The Elves have been over confident and somehow the Lizards got word how thin the garrison here is, they will be in the city in a matter of hours I think. I have sent the seeds ahead with another pilgrim, but think you should also look to complete the pilgrimage if possible. Eriza tells me that you and your group have items that need to make it into the hands of Eliezure as soon as possible, but that you have put at least two of them into the University for lore. You need to retrieve these now and get out of the city then gather up your flock and get on the road to Northlake.”

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