Times Well Spent

Caerle'on's gates.

The Dreamers spend their first day of relaxation in Caerle'on with a shopping trip.

## Plot:

A single cart makes its way through fairly heavy rain.  Two voices are arguing within.  “Listen, I don’t know what you’re going on about… we haven’t heard hide nor hair from—” he is cut off by the other voice “Shh, you don’t wanna wake it up!”

A large being in the back of the cart stirs, then settles back down to rest.  The one voice says that it’s just the stuff of dreams, and the other, to prove him wrong, conjures a golden spear into his hand.  “Soon, we won’t have to worry about doing odd jobs no more.  Prayers of the Vathid, my friend.  Prayers of the Vathid.”

### Back in Caerle’on

The morning is warm, with fresh beds, food brought to the rooms, and the voices of commoners grace the streets outdoors.  Gwendolyn bursts from the room, bright eyed and bushy tailed, ecstatic to take her friends shopping, and Emelya is up and about, also excited, though containing herself more.

Gwendolyn knocks on Saoirse’s door to get her up for the shopping trip, finding her covered in grease and with splinters in her face.  She and Emelya talk Saoirse into going dress shopping with the two of them.

The rest of the party eventually rouses and they enter into the city proper so that Gwendolyn and Emelya can take everyone dress shopping.  The Guards let everyone in without question except Lucius, who’s spears need to be bound.  They simply assume that the Entity is a knight and let her in with her longsword.

The Dreamers then make their way into the Bank and General store, where Emelya finds some interesting scrolls, including a few deeds as well as a single scroll of Conjure Animals.  Gwendolyn realizes that this is an outlet of the North West Banking company, and she withdraws 200 gold from her father’s accounts there.  Gwendolyn makes certain to ask the shopkeep, a half-orc with reddish-tanned skin, his name.  Which is Trillug.

The Entity uses its platinum to buy a Grey Bag of Tricks, and has a Panther join it as its companion after pulling it out.  Emelya trades in her goblets and some platinum for the scroll and a hundred gold coins.

The party then makes their way to the Armorer’s, so that Gwendolyn can look at new fancy armor and maybe so that Saoirse can get some medium armor.  Emelya spies a Mythril breastplate marked with the symbol of Orian.  Gwendolyn manages to haggle the price down and eventually buys it for two thousand gold pieces.  Lucius pays for his armor to be repaired and cleaned.

The party also finds a Adamantine chain shirt that would work well for Saoirse, but Gwendolyn wants to be sure that they can find something to go with it at the tailor’s.  And thus, the Dreamers head over to the Tailors, where they learn that many people have been into the store to get attire for this evening’s party.

Gwendolyn helps Saoirse and Emelya find proper attire, and Emelya changes her appearance while in the changing room, having more color to her normally pallid appearance, and darker hair.  Saoirse remarks on how the corset of her dress seems to be perfectly made for someone who is missing a chunk out of her torso.

Lucius gets a very earthy-toned outfit together for himself, matching Emelya’s burgundy dress.

Gwendolyn picks out an obscenely large blue-jeweled necklace for the Entity and fits it around the Entity’s waist as body jewelry.

Lady Elanor of Caerle’on, Lord Bae’artha’s wife, was the mystery woman in the back of the shop, and upon learning that the party was going out of their way to be properly dressed for the party she is pleasantly surprised and instructs the Tailor to put the costs of the Dreamer’s garb on her husband’s tab.

Upon learning that, Emelya adorns herself with an additional piece of jewelry.

Doc comes out of the changing room wearing a nice suit that buttons up the front with faux gold trimming and maroon fabric.  It has a high collar and a ruffled white undershirt.  He is still wearing his mask, but his hood is no longer on and everyone can see his long, light-brown hair that falls below his shoulders.  He is wearing nice gloves.

Latisha, the Tailor’s assistant, rushes to get a lovely shoulder-duster cape to go with Doc’s attire.

The Entity picks out some green fabrics and with Gwendolyn’s help attaches them to points around its armor to give it sort of a draping, fine cloth look.

Saoirse runs off to buy the Adamantine Chain Shirt, and then she goes hairing off to meet the Blacksmith, the Entity runs off to make sure Saoirse isn’t alone.

During this time, Lucius and Doc notice Warbler walking down the street, and a little girl calls out to him saying “Daddy!” and runs up to Warbler and jumps into his arms.  Warbler then meets up with another woman and the three of them carry off down the street.

Then Lucius and Doc find their way to an arena in town where people are doing sparring matches.  Doc and Lucius sign up for the next day’s tournament, and find out from Mance that Sir John is also competing.

Meanwhile, Saoirse and the Entity arrive at the Blacksmith.  Saoirse lays out her blueprints and converses with the blacksmith, asking for pieces for her crossbow design to be made.  She haggles and describes what she needs, and winds up paying 80 gold and putting the Entity’s silver chain down as collateral.  The Blacksmith says that he can get the pieces done by the end of the evening because Saoirse has the parts from the smaller version she is copying.

At the same time, Emelya is shopping at the Alchemist’s supplies shop, buying ingredients for her potion crafting.

The Entity enters the tournament after meeting back up with everyone else.

After regrouping, a tremor shakes through the ground, and everyone realizes that they are closer than ever before to the ruins in which we all met, within the dream.  Everyone realizes that they have looked in the same direction at the same exact time.