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## More time with V.

* V. doesn't believe that Sitone uses any charm spells or similar - just has high charisma.
* Duke Adamas may hold things together for a longer rather than a shorter time - as long as he 'controls' the Dragon.
* No known Elf called Elsiurs - just Eleizure.
* Wearing/owning the 'normal' Pathfinder cloak should be OK.
* V. has walked around Wingsport with a 'cup', including meeting Sitone .
* Can provide an update on current religious politics/positions etc.
* Can give info on Riverside.
* Has no idea about Tobar
* Best way to contact him in future is through the local Universal priest. (But not Pullas who's a twat.)
* Requisitions 600gp for the party. (Yay!)
* Asks us to write up the brain-dump info for him

## Meeting a priest of Dekatur

Dougal and Caradoc go along to meet Sitone - Dougal out of an academic interest in the religion, and Caradoc who initially thought to use his magic protection to 'check Sitone out', but actually becomes quite interested in the religion itself. ("Charmed, I'm sure")

Sitone himself is highly charismatic (22), and though wise, not particularly intelligent. He lays the charm on thick, almost unaware (or uncaring) of the effect it has on people. We discuss the tenets of his worship of Dekatur (and it is OK to say His name, just thought by others to be ill-omened to do so), and how he worships Dekatur as the conveyor of souls to the afterlife and part of the natural cycle of life and death. Anything that interrupts this, or seeks to 'pierce the veil' and bring people back is anathema to him.  The orcs of Ghoulaggaba have combined worship of Dekatur with necromancy in an extreme perversion of this. (The Lizardmen also worship Dekatur and raise undead, but not to the same extent.) Other info:

* Totems: Has heard of 'instant resurrection' on the battlefield. There is a price to pay in the long term - 'depends on how much you lean on it.'
* Mithril Leaf: Anathema to him as it pierces the veil.
* Vendor: The rumour is that it suffered from the scourge of a Vampire brought back through the use of Mithril Leaf. (He repeats Legend 81 to us)
* When asked about a possible connection between Dekatur and Hashandara, he says that is beyond his knowledge of theology - but we should ask the Dekatur priest in Stormhaven - if we can find him!
* He has no followers here - but people of all religions come to him when they (or a loved one) is dying to help with the passage.
* There are refugees from Riverside in the slums.
* Dougal asks if he can tell if someone has died - ie 'passed through the Veil'. He can, if given an object that they owned. He agrees to see if Francis' father has died using the gem from the sword pommel. For a few gp (just the cost of the ingredients used), he confirms that Francis' father has died.

The party holds a wake for Francis' father: Much was drunk, and many stories (some that might even have been true) were told by Francis to honour his father's memory.

## Jobs for the Boyz

The following jobs (ignoring those lasting more than a week) are posted on the noticeboard at the Customs Keep:

* Protective sweep of the local environs - 2gp pp for a week
* Find a missing pet cat from the The Highlands: Reward 3gp
* Find a missing missing person (male human, late teens) from The Highlands: Reward 1gp

## Other activities:

* Francis manages to find some Riverside refugees in the Warrens, and they are able to provide a more detailed account of what happened there.
* Garaf continues to learn spells. (We buy Fly. We didn't need to buy Haste - we already had that.)
* The party scribes write out the info that V. requested
* Q continues to brew.

## A meeting with Coincounter

Joshua and Brokev meet Coincounter in the Customs Keep: He is somewhat taken aback when he realises that this is not about official business - but having established that we were Clearsighted before the GSOV failed, agrees to meet the party at our tavern in the evening.

So that evening, Coincounter (accompanied by bodyguard) joins us at in the common room. He is happy to discuss history, legends and like, and shares information. We promise him a copy of the Song of Spheres - with the hidden runic writing. We learn:

* The Mithril Statue is Willston (Legend 7): It supposedly appeared when Soratan sacrificed his Dragon. When we said that the Elves were looking for it, Coincutter said that SARN were also looking for something in Willston
* Thirson definitely came through Wingsport - he spent some time in the Warrens, then headed southeast towards Northlake. (Info came from bodyguard)
* He has seen the Twisted Ladder (Legend 12): In his youth he saw it about 30 miles north of Ghoulagabba. It was a simple wooden ladder, but the wood was all warped. It had 15 rungs, and was about 20 foot off the ground, just hanging in the air. Nobody ever tried to climb it.
* Re 'The unlikely Dragon hunters' legend - apparently there were people who went hunting dragons for trophies/honour/bodyparts etc.
* Palewing believes that while true Dragons cannot be healed (ie no cures, regen etc, they only heal over time), Soratan was somehow able to heal his Mithril Dragon.
* There is/was a whole spectrum of Dragons from things the size of Garaf's familiar, right up to the 600' True Dragons. They are worried that the rest of the Wild Dragons will be coming through at some stage - Wild creatures generally seem to appear with the weaker first, then the stronger ones later.
* There is a goblin staying in the Warrens in Wingsport - he is called Payaul.
* He doesn't know anything about Vendor or the legends associated with it. (Which seems a bit strange!)
* He doesn't know anything about the 'Time Lords' - though comments that time does pass differently on either side of a Great Spell.

At this point, we are joined at our table by a ***hobbit*** carrying a bottle of HighTower brandy. We recognise that it is Vinmira, as does Coincounter. V. tells us that orders have come through for us - we are to deliver the sapling to Willston or Stormhaven. Not so urgently that we shouldn't spend our week in Wingsport, but not too tardily either. With that said, V. leaves.

We discuss V. with Coincounter, who says he has seen him in various forms - mainly Dwarf, but Hobbit, Human and Ariel as well. This leads on to a discussion about the Shieldbreakers - Coincounter knew Olg well (and liked him), but didn't know too much about Miriam, except that she could walk all over V. if she wanted to! In fact the whole team was very impressive. He could find out more, but we'd have to do him a favour...

## Here, kitty kitty...

Coincutter has been given the task of finding the missing cat (the one advertised on the 'jobs' board). This isn't his area of expertise, so will take the opportunity to pass the job onto us.

It turns out that this cat is the totem of a high level/ranking Perceval druid. The druid knows his totem is still alive, but cannot contact or even sense it all. An extensive search is already being made for it - both mundane (street urchins and informers etc) as well as magical (location spells, divinations, hordes of summoned rats etc). The search so far has mainly been centred around the Warrens.

Normally, they would expect a ransom demand to be made for the totem, but nothing has been received so far. If it hasn't been taken for ransom, Coincutter is far more interested in why it has been taken than actually recovering it! He gives us a full description of the cat (large house-cat) and a pouch of its hair.

## A bit of a faux-pas

Joshua freely vents his anti-Perseval prejudices during this discussion - before realising that Coincutter must be a priest of Perceval. Oh well. Mind you, it makes him review the conversation and realise just how much useful information we have 'given' him, and whether the information he 'gave' us back was worth it.