Summary: Session A027

## Events

* The party comes onto Kel with James’ dead body, and finds a mass sea of tents surrounding the city with a huge mass of refugees.
* The guards approach the party, recognizing them and leads them to Keenaxe. They take the body of James and give him to clerics.
* Inside Keenaxe’s office the party sees him at his desk working on paperwork and Anna perched on his shoulders, burning papers that he hands up to her. As the party walks into the office, Anna sees them and runs up to Lusine, giving her a big hug.
* Keenaxe welcomes the party, grateful that they have returned alive and with James’ body. He apologizes to the party for possibly putting them in the worst position in town, and thanking them for going above and beyond what he had asked of them originally.
* Because of this, Keenaxe must ask for their help again. He wants the party to gather allies and supplies. He informs the party of their options. They can Pirate around Fisc, Lon, or the Yas Union, or Trade with Fisc, the Stal Empire, or the Kras Sentinels for the goods and services they need.
* Tholgar mutters under his breath, visibly upset at the mention of Ogres
* The party discusses what to do for some time. Sobek thinks it would be best to hit up Fisc or the Stal Empire. Saber agrees with the Stal Empire. Lusine is adamant about not going to Lon and thinks the Stal Empire could have the best chances of gathering the help that the city really needs: paladins and clerics.
* The party decides to try and diplomatically gather resources from the Stal Empire despite their rocky relationship with the Nosk Raiders.
* Keenaxe clarifies that the refugees don’t need food, right now. They have a supply that should last 3 months. What they really need are tools, allies, and resources to help reclaim and rebuild Jormundar.
* Keenaxe also tells them that because the group has done so much for him, he has decided to give them land, making them Earls of the land. The land is along the Western shore of the Nosk Raiders in the Tropical Rainforest. There is already a hamlet there.
* Keenaxe also tells the party that the clerics had spoken to James’ spirit, but says that he does not wish to come back to life. James’ was not ‘in his right mind.’

## Cohort Events

* Hikari and Rama first meet as Rama is suddenly teleported to Hikari. Hikari is quite startled by this, while Rama seems in awe of everything around her. The two decide to travel together as Hikari explains she is on a mission to solve what she believes is a riddle, to find "The saber with an estoc."
* The two travel west as Hikari feels the pull she has to her goal move and change. At one point they find themselves in a large ravine. When suddenly a tear, a giant portal opens in front of them. Inside they can see a massive army and ruined city. Then some kind of large creature with huge claws and a massive eye appears and beings to reach through the portal at them. Before it can make contact the portal closes and its just Hikari and Rama once again.
* The two continue on and encounter a traveling merchant who got his wagon stuck in the sand. The convince the guard to not kill the merchant, and the guard simply knocks the merchant out and decides to head home. The two continue toward the Nosk Raiders.
* Gale gets word in Gaen that something in brewing to the west. Always ready to seek adventure and a bit tired of the small fry in the east, she decides to travel toward the Askian Tribes and beyond.
* She encounters a hungry owl bear and barely escapes. After coming joining a caravan and making it across the desert, Gale finds her self at the crater of Jormundar. The city has collapsed and is filling with water. She follows the refugees to Kel.
* Tilly finds herself in a small town where she is almost instantly berated for her appearance and chased out of town. Priests yelling that they must smite the dark entity. She runs and escapes.
* Coincidentally, the four all find themselves at the foot of the building that the main party is presently in. They enter together and make it to the top floor, bursting in on the party's meeting with Keenaxe. The party breaks from the meeting to talk with their mysterious guests.