A mission from the Prince himself

Erebos was
escorted from the great study from his meeting with the prince to the infirmary
which was nestled within the guard complex of the keep. A priest managed to
restore his eyesight in his eye however told him that he has only 4 weeks of
sight left before having to use greater means to restore his vision. Erebos
contemplated for a while before drifting off into a long rest.

In the darkness
of the lower crypt of the Thornton mausoleum a crackle of energy surged through
the tomb displacing dust and lose rubble. A small rip in the material plane
started to open and through it a naked figure slumps through before forcing the
rift to close behind him as foul shadows attempt to pursue. The figure stands,
unable to see in the pitch black and attempts to use his magic to attempt darkvision.
Unused to the material planes magical potent it fails after barely 15 feet but
allowing him to escape back towards the exit of the mausoleum.

The light of
the moonlight illuminates his dark skin, covered in scars and burns. With barely
a pair of tattered makeshift shorts and with a burn mark on his palm in the
shape of an alchemical sign he stumbles out of the cemetery. Firstly, towards the
coliseum trying to recount his memories and then towards the south of the city
slowly finding a place to sleep.

In the
morning the prince briefed Erebos on where to find Adventis through his compatriot
Skryborn the soothsayer in the Golden Clove inn in the southern district. Erebos’
met his two new knights of the Northern Frost Gynk and Gerald and went looking
for the Inn.

Not too long
passed before finding it and found Skyrborn’s room not realising that he had
been watched by the mysterious figure who had appeared the night before who had
been resting in the same inn as Skryborn.  Erebos stormed into his room and threw a pail
of water to rouse the old man, shocked the druid almost cast a spell before
recognising the regalia of the knights and calmed down. He said that he had no
word from Adventis apart from knowing that he agreed to the Prince’s call. He
attempted to scry and find the wizard but to no avail, he then tried to get a
clue from his home and pulled a barnacle shell covered in blood, the sign of
Myserios the cursed Dark Elf, Thrall of Vicragon.

Erebos went
back to the prince to give him the bad news, on his return down to the bottom
floor he saw the figure. A dark elf, slender and baring an exact resemblance to
Ansem, it was Ansem, yet it wasn’t. Erebos convinced him to come join and
proceeded to back to the keep.

Plans were drawn
to quickly visit the shrine of denier not far from Oxenburt and then to
continue southwards towards Riverford hoping to see what’s happened to the
wizard and deal with some loose ends.

They proceeded
to the shrine, its outer limits were defended by priestesses, Yuan Ti pureblood.
The first level was then infested by the horrific Yuan Ti Broodlords who were
defending the statue of a medusa. They destroyed the medusa freeing a knight
who had been turned. He gave Erebos the key to a safe and he recovered five cards
of the deck of many things. 3 more shrines to go.

They
proceeded back to Oxenburt, preparing to travel south. Will they accept
Skryborn’s offer to magically teleport southwards with a slight detour, or will
they travel south via carriage?