Mother’s Love Part 5

## Story

Jareth is trying to teach Seline how to summon a familiar while Talia is working on the wolf pelts. Talia rounds up some things to sell in town. Seline make several frustrating attempts at the spell (each attempt takes an hour). Despite this Seline continues to try to succeed for Jareth. Chewing on a bit of bark, she works through steps again until suddenly there's a flash of blue light Cortez disappears and reappears. Seline immediately gets the impression that Cortez is okay but now also aware of wherever Cortez is. Jareth says while Whitney doesn't speak in words he gets impressions of what she's thinking and can see what's she seeing. Hearing this Seline with Jareth and Cortez steps out of the estate and gently launches Cortez into the air. She focuses on the sensation of Cortez in her head and finds herself marveling at the sensation of experiencing the world in Cortez's body as he flies over a Bluepeak. Jareth takes her hand and she wills her senses back to her body. She's briefly overjoyed the sensation of flying something she's always wanted to do ever since she saw the Undertaker's wings. Seline describes the Undertaker and part of the attack on Kan Ranch including when she first saw the Undertaker. Talia is able to sell several Dire Wolf pelts, a bunch of the teeth and one of the skulls as well as the mirror from the massacred bandit camp for a little less than a hundred fifty gold. When the elation of flying wears off a migraine from casting hits Seline. By the time dinner is come and gone, Seline's recovered. They return Jareth to the academy. They hug as they say their goodbyes and Jareth gives Talia who in turn gives to Seline the form for minor illusion. In the morning, they arrive at the constable station the same time as the constable prison transport detail arrives from Airpike. The travel-worn constables and their leader Malcolm respectfully acknowledges Seline and Talia when they see our adventurers' DMP badges. Talia smells Cortez and he doesn't smell exactly like Seline or the Broker but similar and more nature like but still Fey. Seline send a quick note to Brother Arcon apologizing for not visiting while in town. They also look the newspaper to find out what was said about Jaldin. The initial story probably broke a couple of issues prior because the only article about it speak on rebuilding and how some of the residents are relocating to some of the bigger cities. The clerk provides them with last week's issue...

> ***Massacre at Jaldin!***
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> Not but a few days ago, a tragedy struck the frontier of Jaldin, population 275. What started as a simple missing persons case, turned into Undead horror as those who have gone missing returned twisted by machine into some form of abomination. The animated corpses of the townsfolk we're forced to hold their own city in terror for 3 days. Before members of the DMP came in and rescued the town folk. When asked on his opinion of the matter, business owner and candidate for Lord Mayorship, Leroy Brown had this to say, "it is because of horrors and abominations such as this it is important that we secure our homes and our towns. We must preserve the natural order of things at all cost." Leroy Brown further went on to criticize the slowness in which the DMP were to react. "The way I understand it, people had gone missing weeks before this attack started. If the DMP were truly concerned with the security of the frontier, they would have investigated those few poor missing souls and avoided this entire tragedy."
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> The Observer

As they are looking at the newspaper, the constables bring out Victoria shuffling along chained hand and foot. Malcolm gladly welcomes Seline and Talia to joins them in escorting Victoria to Airpike.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent
* Talia Grey

### NPCs

* Jareth Grey
* Cortez
* Malcolm Marcus (DMP)

## References

1. ↑ Seline took the magic initiate feat, with that she got prestidigitation, find familiar, and minor illusion.