Gailen's Gate: Episode 21

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***Gailen's Gate* Episode 21** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on December 16, 2019, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on May 13, 2020.

## Summary

              Continuing on with the shopping spree, Belanovan commissions for a botanical garden to be grown at Gailen’s Gate. With this final purchase accomplished, the group looks for a place to find the spices from the prophecy. They find a small, barely there shop ran by a goblin. She gives them the flower of Nine, Rosemary, and Tyme they require, but the group can tell something is unnatural about her. She exhibits a sharp change from her initial persona, with extreme precision in laying out the boxes of flowers and spice, manicured movements, and glazed eyes. After payments, she turned pure gold, and Belanovan is able to tell she is a seer. The containers holding the spices disappear, being replaced by three Harrow Cards.

             Belanovan walks up to the seer for the reading. The first card is the Empty Throne. The second is the Wanderer. The third card is the Publican. Belanovan, as a follower of the Matron of Fate, is able to see the meanings of the cards. However, the seer draws a fourth card, one not from a Horrowing deck, one with a violet back; a ship-wrecked man, slowly turning into crystal. The seer gives Belanovan a scroll before she scatters into dust. The group finds the stall was one made quickly.

             The group goes off to somewhere not too crowded and open the scroll, which is a map of the Sickened Sea. Looking at his star map, Belanovan sees that one of the stars is missing; this shows that a thread of the tapestry of fate is missing, and therefore fates could change drastically, and specifically connected to dragons. Deciding to try to talk to one of the two dragons known alive, the group heads back to Gailen’s Gate.

             Since they have been gone, actual buildings have been finished. The Assassins guild, docks and the Drow Commander’s residence have been finished. Several newcomers are in the town. The first they meet is Helena Half-Blood, a Druid of the Autumn God Vinsc. Sent by the Archdruid to serve at the Grove, she is looking for Ozzy, who himself had already walked past the entirety of the people to the Brothel. The second to come up to talk to them is HuRt, a Hobgoblin who wishes for a chance at glory, who talks to Gruff, since he has heard about the demigod wresting. They send him to talk to the Guard captain until the next great battle. The next to arrive is Lady Viska Vineer, the Scaleforger, who talks to Braktor. She, having heard of his skill, wishes to work under her directly. Despite the cultural differences, he hires her on.

Hackne moves to talk to Deeda the Warhawk, a follower of Gazenaroc, a woman covered in Green Pantheon tattoos, who goes out of her way to insult Hackne. She quickly starts flirting with Gruff, despite her also being there to assist at the Grove. Moving on, Belenovan talks with Alana the White, a Revenant who sells necromantic “life insurance.” She wishes to set up office within the town, an idea they put a heavy pin in.

             Elsewhere, Ozzy goes directly to the Brothel, where he catches up with Mrs. Court. The Brothel is not finished yet, but they are starting to bring in a profit. Helena approaches him, and the two head to Grove, where Deeda is waiting for the two. Ozzy, a self-taught Druid, is not sure what they specifically do, put agrees to put them to work.

             Back with Bellenovan and Gruff, they go to check out the Assassin’s Guild, lead by Cackle Blade. Cackle fills him in on the problems; Denacia, who is in change of a large flow of money, and the Incan Priest Korn, are in a disagreement that could pull the town apart, to where one is recommended to be killed; there is a dissenting merchant in a Sicken Sea whose “silence” would bring in more profit; and a Charismatic Orc is gathering an Army for another assault on the town. Belanovan decides that the Orcs are the greatest issue and tells Cackle to “take care of it.”

             After all the reacquainting, the group informs Gailen what they have been up to. Gailen, for all they have done to the city, gives them the resources to build a Guildhall.

## Magic Items/Purchases

* Armor for the catfish

* Botanical garden for Gailen's Gate
* Flower of Nine, Rosemary, and Tyme