Episode 18: Fair Trade

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**September 16, 2020**

We began this session with Koko Dotharl seeking an object of power from Craftmaster Ashfall and the rest of the group working to exchange information with Bookkeeper Volyn. Ashfall revealed to Koko that the requirements for an item of the power she seeks is a fragment of her soul. She agreed to these terms, and he summoned a Towenaar to perform the required procedure. Prime Towenaar Nimbus arrived, and debated with Ashfall about whether this should be done on Koko's kind, but eventually agreed. He snappedhis fingers, and her vision went dark.

We then came back to the rest of the group in the Library. Volyn had just been giving a tale from Muud about the meteor shower and the stone attached to his hand. Volyn was pleased enough with the information to ask what he wanted to know in return. Muud asked for the story of Captain Fangald, and Volyn obliged by recounting it to him. Ridgely also attempted to trade some information, tempting her with a mushroom, but she knew what it was already. Luberos showed her the family crest upon an amulet, and she did not recognize it. She said that if he finds out what it is, that would be information she'd be interested in. He then also showed her the old map of Frigate, but this held little interest to her. Rhistel then told her about the ritual he learned from Pire that shows the ritualee something of great importance that is currently occurring. She was very interested in this, and first wanted to actually learn it. Rhistel resisted this, though, and instead just offered to show her. He told her it required a source of life force, and she said she could provide one if he will show her the ritual. On this, though, Rhistel needed more time to think. The group searched the library themselves for books of relevance, but were unable to find anything too useful, though Ridgely did find a book on plants in the Gaosin Desert which could eventually prove useful.

The group then made their way back to Ashfall to find Koko. Luberos was distracted by a group of elven fighters training in the courtyard, overlooked by a dwarf (Towenaar of Combat Pilanthis) and an elf, Commander Aeolith, calling commands and wandering through the ranks. Commander Aeolith greeted Luberos who mentioned he was a fighter himself. Upon shaking hands, Aeolith pulled Luberos to the ground with a quick flourish and Luberos found himself lying on his back looking up at Aeolith. Aeolith laughed and offered Luberos a hand up, but Luberos retaliated with his own take-down, from which Aeolith recovered in a lithe motion. Aeolith laughed more, and complimented Luberos on his combat skills, inviting him to train with them in the mornings.

The rest of the group went inside to find Koko while this was happening. There they found Ashfall who informed them that Koko had agreed to a procedure in return for a weapon of great power. They pushed, but he resisted divulging any more information except that she would be back in the morning. Ridgely then had a chat with Ashfall, asking him for a new cutlass. Ashfall resisted at first, but upon Ridgely's offer of a favor, said he would give him a new set of cutlasses in exchange for Ridgely finding one of his kind and delivering to them a message. Ridgely agreed, and that is where we left off.