Bryling's Heroines Sessions

In the sleepy village of Bryling lay an abbey for Erollisi Marr and a few farmers who find shelter in its shadow. The ladies here strive to uphold the Eight Virtues of Marr with strength and valor.

## Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - Into the Woods (the Musical)

With the ladies of Obed Ridge occupied, word came in from Gojo Woods near Eldric's Crossing of a Mr. and Mrs. Baker having a problem with a witch. Lady Rika, Lady Shilana, and Minette Brea went to a village on the edge of the woods to help the bakers remove a curse on their house. The witch would remove the curse if four items were gathered for her in three days and the ladies agreed to find them. Successfully finding three items, but trying to pass off a false item as real enraged the witch and caused her to attack the heroines, nearly slaying Rika. Upon the death of the witch the curse was lifted and the bakers were able to have a child.

## Thursday, May 7, 2015 - Brass Dragon; Funky Asabi

Gnilon gave Shilana the gift of transporting her to the Void so she may visit with Podrick in the after-life. After explaining that he is now a knight in the Plane of Valor, their talk was interrupted by Mordecai pleading for Shilana's help because he is being tortured in the Plane of Hate. A ride to Bryling was followed by an an angry roar from the wyvren Lady Vox, who received word that a tribe of Asabi lizard-folk stole Brass Dragon eggs. Rika, Shilana and Hope Marr agreed to help and they flew to the northern mountains to retrieve them, because if they were not nested properly in an acidic solution the wyrmlings in the eggs would die. After a heated conflict with a black dragon they teamed up with a mute masked winged dragon disciple named Siek the Bonewing. Quick thinking from Shilana and quick actions from Rika and Siek they saved all of the eggs and returned them safely, but afterword as they were leaving Siek revealed himself as Rika's previously undiscovered uncle.

## Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - Crystals are a Girls Best Friend

Shilana attempted to get info out of Gnilon and Ric'p'od about his hurt arm without success. Rika celebrated the Veeshan holiday of Horde's Night with the Hoshkar family and ran into Franklyn West who made her an offer to sell her some of his land in the future. The paladins of Obed Ridge got Rika her own bed in the tower and made her an honorary member of Obed Ridge to thank her for her help. The next morning, they were approached by Lord Dallin Martell of Eldric's Crossing and 11 soldiers of Lord Chillax who offered to employ the ladies to help assist him in helping protect the workers who were digging a tunnel through the mountains to Kael Drakkel. He also slipped them a note from a worried Dark Iron farmer that the tunnel was heading straight into a Dark Iron encampment of dwarves who couldn't escape without fear of death and if Chillax found them, he would kill them. The ladies agreed to help and after a close fight in a spider-infested crystal cavern, they found the Dark Iron dwarves. Thanks to both of the ladies they were able to defuse the situation and show Chillax the error of his ways, Shilana offered Lord Chillax a Favor Token as thanks. The leader of the Dark Iron dwarves introduced herself as Korra Ogrefist, they learned she was Duvall's sister. Back at Obed Ridge they found gnome named Relop the Banker who introduced himself as being a member of the Izar and wanted to offer to help find homes for all the orphans in each Western City of Sevoh by having Izar and Rika fund it, which she agreed to.

## Wednesday, May 28, 2015 - Field Trip!

Hope Marr offered to be a knight of Lady Shilana after receiving a divine vision. During the ride to Eldric's Crossing Shilana had a nightmare involving Cazic-Thule and Gnilon and when the ladies entered the city they received an invitation to dine with Lord Dallin Martell. Upon visiting the Veeshan temple in the city, Rika had a tense conversation with the Hoshkar granddaughter Irina where she mentioned that the Legion of Dööm killed her father during the attack in Bryling and kidnapped her mentor, the Veeshan priestess. Shilana and Gnilon successfully got a Iwiaxaw crystal from the Mage's guild. During the dinner with Dallin, he also brought his brother Adart, Copper Panther and Lord Chillax. Dallin and Adart admitted that they were once calling the Legion of Dööm 'dirt lords' and that many Lords across the Sevoh Empire are envious of Arya because of her engagement to Joseph Gage and eventual powerful High Lady status. To end the night Lord Chillax made a bet with Rika that he would get more points in the Hunt than she would and that if he won the two ladies would have to visit him in Kael Drakkel.

## Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - Your place or mine?

The paladins of Obed Ridge played host to the the other three families of Bryling during the opening of their hostel 'Podricks Refuge'. While there Franklyn warned Shilana that each of the families that have chosen to live in Bryling are people that were unable to live among others for one reason or another. Lady Rika and Shilana afterwords made good on their bet with Lord Chillax and visited him in Kael Drakkel where he gave each of them a gift and asked their opinions on the other nobles from other cities. Later they were joined by High Lord Isreal Bearstorm who very much wanted to visit with them. While there Isreal Bearstorm also introduced his adopted ward Farmur, a Bronzebeard dwarven adolescent. During a tour of the Underrune Mine they were attacked by a giant purple wurm who they later identified as Nxtrap, the Lord of the Wurms. He claimed that Rika's mother was a coward and weak and claimed that Ruby Dragon (a name that many followers of Veeshan have taken to calling Rika as of late) was also, 'too weak'. They promptly killed him thanks to Shilana being consumed by him, then cutting her way out. After the victory they found Nxtrap to be on deaths door where Rika chose to heal him and told him to never come back.

## Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - The Kobold and the Beautiful

Shilana presses Ric'Pod for information again about rescuing her brother and she admitted that she lived in the Plane of Hate at one time. Back at Obed Ridge the Iksar paladin Zensaadi admitted her shameful past as a former terrorist of Sevoh where she was a member of the Free Razor, a group of Iksars who wanted Cabilis to be free of Sevoh control. Podricks Refuge had it's first two guests; Joanna Baratheon, a distrustful Mage's Guild woman and Maldir, a Yuan'Ti of Seacrest whose wife committed suicide. Obed Ridge then got a visit from Korra Ogrefist asking for help, the Darkiron farmers are being terrorized by Kobold attackers from the mountains with Coldain weapons. Shilana, Rika, Korra and the paladin Jaylin Ivo rode up onto the mountain range to find the kobold slum. After a failed attempt at diplomacy by Shilana the group was led into ambush after ambush where Rika nearly lost her life. Inside the structure they found an elaborate alchemy system and a blind copper dragon trapped inside. After freeing him he said he was Ridley and held captive for nearly three years as the kobolds bled him for alchemical ingredients. However, the Sarnak masters of the building returned and thanks for Ridley and his acidic breath he was able to get revenge, however he used the last of his strength and ended up dying. They ended up burning his valuable body with Lady Vox to honor his death.

## Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - Owlbearstorm

Lady Rika had a chat with Lady Vox and Silverwing about Ridley and the current situation with the dragons in Sevoh, and both parties have very different prespectives. Also Obed Ridge gets their first regular visitor, Maldir as he tries to put his life together. Shilana apologizes to Zensaadi for the way she acted to the kobolds and had a nightmare about her tortured and starved brother in the Plane of Hate where he had to choose between saving her or eating. In the morning during combat training the people of Bryling faced their most difficult challenge, a raid of Southron attackers who were riding owlbears. However nearly all of the residents worked together to fend off the foes and only minor damage was done to the farms. While no one was physically hurt, Rika took a hit to her pride as Irina Hoshkar showed her true power, which was to turn into Black Dragon with a green stripe down her back and defended her family. It was later learned by Rika and Shilana that these men were looking for the villager Shewana, also called the Muffled Viper.

## Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - Gossip Girls

After the fight with the Southron attackers Franklyn and Shewana come clean about her past and Irina Hoshkar tells the ladies at Obed Ridge that they took a prisoner. Rika and Shilana coaxed the information about their attack in exchange for killing him afterword. They learned that it was a group of militia men from Dra'Shol who were led by an elf riding a red owlbear named Redstreak and looking for Shewana. Rika came up with a plan to have her fake her execution in Eldric's Crossing in order to fake her death and stop the attackers. Rika gossiped with the paladin Jaylin, drank with Gnilon and tried to encourage Tanner Hoshkar. Shilana learned that the kobold Coldain weapons were made by the Tusar family blacksmith, stopped Gnilon from converting one of her paladins toward Cazic-Thule and found out that their hostels long-term resident, Joanna Baratheon, is an arcane blacksmith who is capable of reforming enchanted metal. Their time ended on a sour note for Rika as she learned her rival, Irina, received an grey ice psydo-dragon familiar named Paarthurnax from the council of dragons, called the Claws of Veeshan. He also extended invitation to Rika to met with the council provided she, 'dealt with her Black Snake problem.'

## Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - The Darkiron Gamble

A visit from two Tie'flings that the Legion of Dööm saved from vampires made Gnilon and Shilana put on their best face as they both attempted to convert them toward their religions. Rika stumbled on Minette and Tanner kissing at the Hoshkar family house, and she later admitted to seeing him in secret. An odd dream put Shilana at a theater in the Plane of Mischief where she watched a puppet play of the God's Feud and talked to an invisible man named Tarle. He gave her two playing cards, the 4 1/2 of hearts to use and 6 of clubs to be given. The Bryling hostel had a large group come through, the party of 40 of so that travel with Dallin Martell where the guards that protect him heaped praise on the Legion of Dööm for inspiring the common folk to improve, and Dallin informed the ladies that Relop, a member of Izar, attempted to purchase the Brilliant Catacombs, and that they have been buying up property all across Sevoh.

In the second act, the Ladies of Dööm and Minette went to Kael Drakkel to find more information about the Coldain weapons that the Kobolds used to attack Dwemer. Rika met up with one of Isreal Bearstorm's stewards, one of the Gibbleblat brothers and learned more information on him. Shilana and Lord Chillax got information from a local blacksmith held by the Tusar family that they sell arrows used by the Kobolds to very few people, they include the noble Coldain family, the Whiteran. Back at the tavern the ladies heard of rumors of a squad of Darkiron soldiers attacking people on the path between the Coldain cities, upon investigating they found the gambling house 'Spades' and caught the coldains inside in a lie. After finding out that there were Darkiron soldiers being led by a holdout Ragnarose necromancer they convinced them to leave. Minette used an illusion spell to sneak them out of the main path, but came across Lady Whiteran who was wearing illusion resistant glasses, an awkward conversation led Shilana to believe they may have just made another enemy...

## Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - Shilana's Angels

Minette told Shilana about her previously sheltered past in the Desert of Ro and escorted a hired healer named Clarence to help heal the disfiguring wounds caused by the vampires of Pinata. Shilana was able to convince all of the villagers in Bryling to stay at Obed Ridge while her ladies rode to Thurgadin to protect High Lord Isreal Bearstorm from the assassination attempt as part of Gnilon's plan. Priestess Hope when entering the city learned that Lord Chillax was already there visiting Isreal and Kevin had already arrived ahead of them. However, when trying to lay low Jaylin was spotted by her sister Sondra there, who admitted being there for some time in her attempts to court the single High Lord. Accepting an invitation to the castle allowed the ladies to remain close to the High Lord, when they were confronted by the steward Gibbleblat who asked for their help because he may have been involved in allowing people who had planned an assassination attempt on Isreal. After stumbling on a Black Snake assassin with his plans and supplies the ladies sabotaged the Black Snake weapons to prepare for the next day. While the assassins did have several elaborate traps for the High Lord during his morning walk, the ladies of Obed Ridge and Chillax were ready. Kevin, being split from the party chose to flee from his attackers and came back using his hydromancy to control the LaHaur river and bring the party back from the brink of death. The party assumed that a defected Coldain knight in the fight hired these assassins out of anger for a human lording over the Coldain people. The paladins, Isreal, Chillax, and Kevin were victorious in holding off the assassins, but this was but one fight of several yet to come...

## Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - The Moments of Truth

On her way back from Mantua Rika visited with Dallin's wife, Helen Martell in Eldric's Crossing. The paladin Jaylin Ivo explained her noble beginnings in Loxly. In Bryling, Silverwing and Sonny came to Obed Ridge to tell the ladies that they have become aware of the Shewana situation and they wanted her to be moved back into the village and scolded the ladies for making village decisions without telling the villagers. At the village hostel the long term resident and Yuan'Ti, Maldir nearly died in a suicide attempt and was saved by the quick action of Rika. Upon being brought back, Maldir admitted to his false past. He was a member of the Brave Companions who is currently a spy hired by a thieving organization to watch the comings and going of Bryling. He was offered a Brave Companion Favor Token as payment since the payments have stopped and gave it to Shilana when asked for it. Upon learning this the paladin Zensaadi told the group of another spy, that Lady Rika had the same Black Snake symbol on her shoulder as the assassins of High Lord Isreal Bearstorm and she sent a letter to him informing him of what she knew. Furious, Rika and Shilana rode to Thurgadin and told the complete truth of Rika's past to both Gibbleblat and Isreal as he was hidden. With the ladies forgiven, he advised Shilana that if she was honest with High Lord Frostreaver about the Darkiron rescue, that he does not have the right to kill her as a Lady of Rutch, but that her paladin Minette might not have that luxury. Back in Bryling, Shilana decided to keep Maldir in the village as long as the village families would allow him to.

## Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - Touched by an Angel

The organization of Obed Ridge was denied the ability to financially help the merfolk out of Seacrest by the royal court. The arcane blacksmith Joanna pressed Shilana to make a decision on the plane of hate and she told her, 'soon'. Darkiron dwarves from Dwemer came to visit the church in Bryling and Rika was challenged to spar with them, where she beat three at once and impressed Irena. The impersonator Jair came to the ladies and asked for them to help him find his lost elven friend, Katanya. Their search started in Seacrest at the Bard's College where they talked to one of the heads of the college, an elderly woman who goes by Wind. She told them she gave her a job to find a stalker in the Tinea Woods outside of Seacrest. In the woods they found a strange blue pearl building and inside was a celestial elven creature called a Ghale named Ulear who bared a striking resemblance to a legendary holy figure in the Elrosi Marr texts named Briz'raena. After excellent use of her read thoughts ring, Rika learned that the building was filled with illusion magic that showed that this Ghale had humans, a vampire and Katanya as her prisoners. Ulear allowed the ladies to take Katanya, but when she wouldn't allow them to take the humans the ladies resorted to force. After a fight against angels and demons Polychrome appeared and informed them that many extra-planer beings are worried about their impending doom, however she herself feels confident in the abilities of the Legion of Dööm. After the battle, Katanya and Jair traveled together to help make right their wrongs and also hunt down William. Back in Bryling and going over their earnings, a scroll tube that Ulear was carrying had a list of many names on if of potential vampires, while most were crossed out, one that was on the list was Wind...

## Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - Yar, thar be dragons.

When bringing the false Aether artifact back to Legion of Dööm that shows your hearts desire, Shilana looked at it and saw the face of Lady Moxy. The villagers of Bryling were shocked as a green dragon visited the village along with Siek. After talking with Rika about their family past he extended an invitation to her and Irena to see the dragon meeting place of Baramos, this invitation was extended to Shilana to go with as his guest. The ladies we shocked to learn that the home of the dragons is a hidden section in the sky toward the west that upon entering its perimeter they learned that it is a hidden floating island that was a piece of the Plane of Sky given to the dragons of this world as a gift from Veeshan herself. Shilana has an odd dream where she was in the Plane of Growth, and the ladies learn that the Gages have finished work on a second airship and are worried they will find Baramos. Once a few of the members of the Council of Veeshan arrive they say that Rika must go through the Order of Trials and fight a creature to prove her strength. Rika, along with Shilana pretending to be her slave, completed the dragons puzzles and defeated a stunted beholder only to find a trap set up by a shadow dragon named Worpax who wanted revenge for the Legion of Dööm slaying the black dragon during the Dark Iron Purge. After a badass dragon fight they decided to kill Worpax rather than keep him alive. The Council of Veeshan was impressed by her during the trial and offered her a voice on the council during their next meeting.

## Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - Finders Keepers

Rika received a note from one of the Gibbleblat brothers advising her to write High Lord Isreal Bearstorm to keep in touch. Podricks family, the Rivers, traveled through Bryling after an invitation to do so and become very impressed by what Podricks Refuge has been doing for travelers in the area. Lady Vox was impressed by the Legion of Dööm upon their killing of Onyxia, but was concerned that there was no corpse and that the Sevohan people will look at dragonkin with even more hatred. As a side project, Rika has been working with the Relap of the Izar gnomes to build orphanages in many of the western cities, however the ladies have learned that Relap's group was hijacked and taken prisoner by thieves... while they had 6500 of Rika's gold to finish building three orphanages. After tracking down the thieves they came upon a horrifying scene as the thieves were found out to be Keepers, a rival thief gang of the Black Snakes. This hideout was already under attack by others, a group of Southron men lead by an elf who were hunting the Keepers because they also stole money and magical items from their boss. However, they matched the description of the people who lead the attack on Bryling. With Relap found dead and the money in the hands of these Keepers attackers the ladies are greatly outnumbered and running out of options...

## Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - Let's Make a Deal!

Now with the elf attacking the Keepers to be identified as Redstreak the ladies had to make a move in order to get their money back. Shilana took a page from Erollisi Marr and told the truth about the gnomes money. While Redstreak did have their money, he hunted the Keepers because they stole arcane tools of his master, Lord Cumberbatch in Dra'Shol. A deal was made, if the ladies brought him the tools he would happily give them the gold he found in the Keepers hideout. After using her trinkets and items Shilana was able coax the information out of a Keeper prisoner named Patsalor and steal them back from a smuggling caravan without trouble or detection. Redstreak thanked them, handed over the gold and offered an arm of friendship from Cumberbatch if he were in the area. Patsalor told Shilana about the potential gnomish apocalypse and how he wanted to stop it, now he would most likely be shunned from the Keepers he took up Shilana on her offer to stay in Bryling.

Isreal Bearstorm continued the correspondence with Rika and offer to escort her to the future wedding with Arya and Joseph. The hostel in Bryling found a novel artifact in its lost and found; a 7-9 wide tent that when assembled created a portal to another location, one where it is night when it should be day and vice-versa. This other location is a glass domed adobe building in a desert-like area that is also 7-9 feet wide and has a well maintained hot-tub like furnishing. After this the ladies of Bryling were invited to fight in the Three Hammers Arena which was reopened by the Coldain of Kael Drakkel. Rika, Shilana, Hope Marr and Lord Chillax went to fight ten summoned monsters for money and won. Celebrations were obviously held in their new portable hot tub.

## Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - Growing Pains

During a Veeshan service held by a traveling Dragon Knight at Bryling, Rika learns of the Darkiron peoples desire to hopefully be given their city back and they are actively trying to achieve this goal. A familiar visitor, Captain O'Mercy of the Pööpshööt Pirates offered to help the ladies of Obed Ridge in their goal of helping the mermaids of the Mermaid Labyrinth without the government knowing, however this was all a ruse set up by a member of the Royal Court to see if they would follow this kings order to not help the mermaids. The ladies nearly fell into their trick if not for a close call by the resident mage, Joanna pointing out an illusion spell on his crew mate. While the ladies were able to talk their way out of it, this warning was surely their last. The new village resident rogue, Patsalor of Keepers was found peeping on Joanna and conversely blinded by her for a week as retaliation. Shilana felt like that was too strong and instead made him work for the Hoshkar family for a week.

An offer came from the Solesk Ro priestess Ashwind, who runs a border outpost along the edge of Pene Forest. She talked about how the forest has regressed on the western edge and exposed a hastily abandoned Mages Guild school, the Wooded Mages School. She claimed that there should still be many arcane goods left behind that the brave might be able to get out of it. Accepting her offer, and taking nearly half of Bryling with them, the ladies heard a rumor of a blue dragon that was engulfed by the forest nearly two weeks ago as it flew too close to the tree tops. On their way to the forest the dragon emerged from the forest and was covered in vines and seedlings in an attempt to spread the forest beyond its forced borders. After removing the plant-life that entranced him they set him free and Irena scolded Rika again for being reckless and reminded her that going to the Plane of Hate was a bad idea as she claimed that her life was more important than her friends...

## Thursday, November 12, 2015 - Grown Pains

As the ladies began to explore the overgrown mages school they didn't quite find the haul they had hoped for as the creatures of the Pene Forest had become entranced by the magic of an arcane totem pole. This caused the poor creatures in the building to accidentally or purposefully destroy many of the items while under its effects. While they did manage to find a few worthwhile trinkets and wacky dangerous creatures, they also found a faun that was under the effects of Fey Fever. This faun turned out to be Ga'elle, a friend from the past for Shilana, long before she was a Lady of Rutch. After curing her affliction and getting her out Ga'elle stated she had been a part of the forest for 11 months, thankfully that they got her out and she headed back home to Loxly. After the forest excursion and given more time to reflect Lady Shilana went to Seacrest to apologize to Captian O'Mercy and the Royal Court member for how she acted. She gave the captain a Favor Token as an apology, which he instantly used to have her celebrate with him and the crew that night as they threw another party for defeating the dragon Onyxia. While there he asked her what the Legion of Dööm did with their Izar emerald cases they got from the dragon. He told her that since the crew could not get the cases open they ended up selling their two cases to an interested gnome named Halv for 2,500 gold a piece. He then let lady Shilana know that Halv asked if they found the other two cases and the Captain told him that the Legion of Dööm took them as their payment for killing the dragon and that they lived in Rutch if Halv wanted to ask to buy them...

## Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - Debates and Dragons

Now with the Plane of Hate behind them Rika receives many responses from various High Lords across western Sevoh about her building orphanages in their towns and most of them are refusals. Shilana and Rika head to Bryling to attend a goodbye party for the Mage's Guild member and Gnilon's temporary assistant, Joanna Baratheon. Gnilon and Ric'p'od show up to the party to invite Zensaadi to their upcoming wedding only to find a disturbing fact that when Hope Marr is near Gnilon she freezes up and is unresponsive. The ex-mercenary for the Brave Companions Maldir and Joanna share a moment when she leaves. In the morning the ladies are called away again to Baramos by Siek for an official meeting of the fifteen dragons that are a part of the Council of Veeshan. While they were attacked by a dwarven dragon hunter and some Brave Companions, the party managed to survive but their attacker got away. In Baramos they saw an incredible increase in activity since their last visit, as well as a Gnomish Izar visitor. The gnome, Kitboly, was a female dragonborn and kept very separate from others on the island. The council talked about what action they should take about the increase in dragon violence by dragon hunters by Sevohans. Potential actions ranged from attack a Sevohan city; destroy their airships; Kitboly recommended they more their island toward Ak'anon where dragon hunting is forbidden and there the Ak'anites and the Council could make an alliance; Rika recommended they negotiate with Sevoh. The head Red Dragon, Agron, said negotiations with Sevoh always end in their favor and as along as the Sevohan population think themselves stronger than the dragons then they would have no hope in finding favorable terms. They tasked Rika, the Ruby Dragon, to find an acceptable target for the Council to attack to show their power to King Whitefang. Preferably an enemy target in order to not provoke war...

## Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - No Party like a Gnome Party

Back at Bryling, Shilana and Minette both held a moving service that was attended by lots of locals looking for a clue into the afterlife. In Rutch, High Lord Chillax talked about his concern with Lady Martell and his belief that she might hold anger against him for the death of her father during the Darkiron battle they both had fought in. Rika, Shilana and Jaylin went to Thurgadin to join a celebration held by a Izar station freshly based there. As Rika struggled to prove her worth against Sandra Ivo, sister of Jaylin and a noblewoman who is trying to woo the single High Lord Isreal Bearstorm. A late night bar visit had the ladies meet face-to-face the dragonborn gnome, Kitboly. Their on guard stance was rattled by her positive attitude and fandom of the dragon-slayer Rika. A tattooed dwarf named Grymur who ran the local and famous brewery LaHaur Stout Alehouse held a drinking trivia game for the ladies against the gnomes to prove what nation was greater. During this time the ladies met a drunk Halv face to face and a gnomish Plaguefather of Bertoxxolous. Halv declared that Ak'anon only used elven slavery to help them defeat their enemies in battle and assuming they can find an alliance with Sevoh they hope to phase it out to show their friendship with the Sevohians. However, the oddly enjoyable party was ruined by tainted drinkings causing all who drank it to be enraged causing a late night massive dwarven brawl. Thanks to quick thinking by Rika and Shilana they helped save the lives of Lord Martell and Sandra with the help of Kitboly. It was later found out that the ale was tainted by Grymur who robbed the castle treasury and escaped using a technique often done by the thieves guild, the Keepers. Back in Bryling, the ex-keeper that was staying there, Patsalor was nowhere to be found with a note that said, 'Patsalor is not your problem anymore'...

## Thursday, January 21, 2016 - Patsalor Away with Me

Worried about the fate of Patsalor, Shilana accepted the help of the local Bryling Yuan-Ti and ex-Brave Companion, Maldir to find information on where he went. Gibbleblat rode to Bryling to talk with the ladies personally, explaining that Blizzardstorm only allowed Gnomes in Thurgadin to learn more about them militarily and sold them poor quality Velium. Under whose commany Gibbleblat wasn't sure.

After the wedding of Gnilon they learned that Patsalor was last seen in the trade city of Loxly. Shilana, Rika, Maldir and the Loxly native Jaylin went to Loxly to meet with the Brave Companion informant. However, they were pulled off the trail when they ran into Redstreak and talked with him while Maldir learned more. Redstreak told the ladies that he was from the conquered Ak'anon elven city of Kelethin and that he was now working for Lady Moxy in order to raise money to resurrect his murdered brother. Chaos broke out in the city when necrotic creatures were summoned in the southern quarter. Redstreak was summoned away by Moxy's assistant, a Dark Pixie named Drave to help stop the fighting and rescue three of Moxy's most important people. The ladies decided to help destroy these void-born beasts. Gnilon, on his honeymoon in Loxly, also found his way to the chaos and helped close the portal. The rest of the party went after the kidnapping Keepers to their hideout, only to find the kidnapped women surrounded by Keeper thieves and an immortal Lich. While Rika distracted the Lich by being a human shield, Redstreak and Shilana pulled the comatose women to safety. Back in the house the women were kidnapped from Shilana found another eerie room with paraphernalia dedicated to her.

Once Drave learned that Redstreak was successful she met Shilana and told her the horrifying truth that one of those women kidnapped was her mother. Explaining that her mother became Lady Moxy for a time and how accepting that title meant she slowly lost her soul to the Moxy Curse until only a comatose shell was left; for that was the eventual fate of anyone who became Lady Moxy. Shilana declared she would take her shell of a mother back to Bryling with her and Drave asked to stay by her mothers side. Before leaving Loxly, Redstreak having now earned enough to restore his brother to the living, asked Lady Shilana if he would come with him back to Ak'Anon to slay the slaver Brell people and rescue their elven kin. She told him she would have to think on this...

## Sunday, February 7, 2016 - 12 Years an Elf

In Bryling Shilana's specter father had a sad moment with the new resident, his comatose wife, which ended in a tear going down her face. J'zalgo went to the ladies of Obed Ridge to hire an escort to Thurgadin where a new Mage's Guild branch would be installed. Rika offered to escort him while Shilana traveled to the gnomish continent, Ak'Anon. Shilana traveled to Seacrest to meet Redstreak on the boat, the Oakensides. She went there with the ex-keeper member Patsalor who declared he would take the first boat out of Sevoh. On the boat Shilana met the other crew members of importance, Redstreaks tattooed wood elven brother, who will be called Bud; a brownie named Acorn and an older human wizard called C3. With a crew of dimwitted kobolds and a red owlbear below deck the sailed for Ak'Anon. Bud recognized Shilana as the twin to Malachi, when he met him in the jails of the Plane of Justice while they awaited judgement. Shilana had another divine dream where she met a denizen of the Plane of Water who warned her of the crew she sailed with. In Ak'Anon Bud decided to sail to the halfling side of the continent and find an unsuspecting plantation to liberate. As they snuck up to the facility they found a concentration camp style set up that the elven slaves lived in, which was guarded by all manors of lycanthrope infected halflings. While Shilana manged to subdue her enemies, Bud and Redstreak had no choice but to fight their way in to release the elves, only to learn most of them were at the manor proper where there is a large party being held. After learning that the elves were being used as piggy-back style mounts for the halflings while they played a rather violent game, Bud grew angry and wanted to kill everyone in the house. Shilana will have to be careful to control her violent allies and rescue the enslaved wood elves...

## Thursday, February 25, 2016 - Pepperidge Farm Remembers

After releasing the six enslaved elves the party found them under the effects of Dimate, a sedative style drug and with an arcane curse preventing them from using magic and magic items. However, Bud was able to take some of the negative status effects and his natural regeneration healed him. Acorn and Shilana came up with an idea to have the elven slaves drug the food at the halfing manor with Dimate in order to incapacitate the halflings. Incapacitated, Shilana and the party locked the weakened halflings in the basement and freed the elves, only to hear that Princess Feywynd was given to the mayor of Oceanvale as a gift. Suddenly much more interested, Redstreak and his brother said they had to rescue her and the rest of the group agreed. After sneaking into the mayor's house/courthouse they found the Princess naked, chained and on the edge of death where again Bud took some of her negative effects upon himself to relieve her pain. Then with a flight and fleeing into the forest they made it back to the boat with the other slaves, only to find the Kobold crew unwilling to let them on the Oakensides without a lot more money. Angry but relenting Shilana paid the Kobolds off and they quickly sailed away from Ak'Anon, where the Princess wanted to surrender/join the Sevoh Empire. However, as they approached gnomish waters they were flagged down by an Izar military ship with a metal hull and a large metal hammer slamming steamboat style wheel on the front of it. Soon to be overtaken C3 offered to sink their ship with his hydro-magics, but demanded Shilana's holy sword as payment. With no other choice she gave him the sword and he sank the ship, but with him running the hydro-spinner engine to the boat they had no way of getting it back without losing their ride.

Once they sailed back to Sevoh and on first glance of familiar land C3 teleported off deck to the shore with the sword. While Redstreak and Bud swore to kill the traitor and retrieve the sword Shilana told them that his life wasn't worth a piece of metal, he performed a service for a price. Feywynd and the liberated wood elves traveled with Shilana back to Legion of Dööm to hear their input on her plight. Three days after arriving on land, back in Bryling Shilana found her sword at the alter to Podrick in Obed Ridge. Priestess Hope said the sword just appeared there three days ago, upon grabbing it Shilana hear a divine voice tell her to be careful where she lays her trust and that a corrupt soul could not steal the sword when they took such a selfless act.

## Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - In Love and War

While Shilana and the elves traveled to Ak'Anon, Rika agreed to escort J'zalgo into the Coldain mountains. Duvall pleaded with the Lady to take their newest knight with them, Sir Hawkeye. Rika eventually relented and also asked Arya if she wanted to join her to the newest cities to the Empire. While passing through Dwemer, Moira asked a favor of the Legion of Dööm to slowly sell several rare gems and jewels that the Darkirons acquired from someone who wanted to remain anonymous to others. Rika agreed to give them to Carson to sell. Th party stopped at Kael Drakkel,as the city was preparing for a visit from Princess Whitefang and Bartholomew Kettleback as they traveled into the mountains for the first time. Rika stopped by the facility of Lady Whiteran to pick up an item that was being repaired by the arcane blacksmith, Joanna. There Rika found a facility dripping with magical items and creatures and learned that Joanna was actually staying in a pocket space in another dimension while she did her research. However, friendly reunion was soon broken up by the Lady of the house shooing the party off.

In Thurgadin, J'zalgo gave assistance to the newly constructed Mage's Guild branch in the city. Rika and Arya went to stay with High Lord Isreal Bearstorm while in the city. While there they learned that the royal party was coming to the mountains to survey the empty Darkiron city, Western Wastes, to see what it would take to make it ready to settle and to figure out who would be best to run the potentially new city. While in private the High Lord lamented the fact that he felt like a pawn in other people games and made clear that the royal family felt he would be a good husband for the princess, even though he did not enjoy the idea of being married to a shell of a women who was 15 years his elder. The next day however he made his feelings for Rika clear as he took her with him during errands and publicly displayed affection for her. After leaving the city prior to the royal visit, Rika passed through Bryling where she found Irena and Minette yelling about the future of Tanner. The two eventually came to blows and while the dragonborn warrior won, she gave her blessing to the paladin for the earnest attempt in battle.

## Thursday, March 24, 2016 - High Class Reunion

Once the Ladies returned to Rutch they were informed that the woman who ran the local orphanage, Olivia, suddenly quit. Upon investigation they learned that she didn't want to be questioned about it, and the Legion of Dööm jeweler who temporarily took over broke two ribs when her horse was spooked and she fell. Rika decided to get the Bryling local and warrior of Veeshan Irena to run the orphanage and watch herself if something were to happen. During the morning at Bryling the ladies were surprised by Jaylin and Zensaadi who arranged a gathering of people who wanted thank either Shilana or Rika for helping them in some way. They did this because they could see the stress of making difficult decisions beginning to way heavily upon both of them. There were several people there; Margret Bearstorm, Franklin West, Ign O'Mercy, Moira, Joanna Baratheon, Jair and Katana (the Jarrett and Shilana imposters), Podricks family, the Bakers of Gojo, High Lord Chillax, Priestess Ashwind, Yaszana (a Wood Elf from Ak'anon), Siek, Lady Vox, families with adopted children, many Darkiron and Coldain dwarves. While the party was mostly people telling their stories, the ladies did learn some interesting facts: Siek, the dragonborn uncle of Rika, holds no love for the royal family of Sevoh and the Gages of Silverpoint have suddenly outlawed the hunting of dragons; the crew of the Pööpshööt Pirates excavated the sunken gnomish ship, the Tin Explorer for its metal hull and its contents were missing, most likely taken by the merfolk; the Wood Elf Yeszana claimed the Wood Elves and Gnomes were initially in a 'bidding war' to see who could offer the Empire the best alliance, the location of gnomes is unknown, and Redstreak will ascend to the rank of Sworn Sword; and the Podricks family from Silverpoint, the Rivers, visited and their youngest daughter, Catherine asked Shilana if she could become her squire when she came of age like her older brother. The reunion ended with a pledge from the bulk of them that they would follow the Ladies of Dööm in their efforts and a chant started by Catherine Rivers of, "Of the People, For the People."

## Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - Do Not Judge Thy Neighbor

The population of Bryling has doubled due to 'city flight' from Rutch as people who can are attempting to avoid being drawn into a possible war with Ak'Anon. These transplants have brought a new slew of problems for the previous villagers as well as new potentials. The two new wealthy residents Fyodor and Croesus both have chosen to disregard the current people in charge, but have payed handsomely for their temporary living accommodations at Podrick's Refuge. Shilana was glad to hear that the Kagamines, an adventuring family for hire moved in from Rutch, as they were willing to cooperate with the locals. Rika enjoyed prodding the very-in-love teenage couple Triston and Isolde. The main thorn in the side of the ladies were the Pinkmans, alchemy farmers who live in a traveling wooden cart who provoke the locals by showing no respect and grow plants that leave the soil fallow. Nearly none of the transplants were unable to find an enemy among the locals, and Shilana tried her best to calm both sides.

In the morning Shilana played host to her unlikely ally Tarle, an invisible intelligent creature of the Plane of Mischief. While there he sent the ladies to the Plane of Justice as Shilana's brother, Malachi was to be judged. After stopping a potential prison break, the ladies went to the trial where Furious 7, the Demigod of Innoruuk in Tie'fling form, requested that he be given back to the Plane of Hate. Before the trial was over the angelic form of Podrick appeared and gave a motion to allow Malachi to repent his sins against those whose deaths he caused and a chance to slay the ancient dragon Nagafen had he summoned into Terra in order to allow him into the Plane of Valor. While Shilana assisted Malachi in apologizing to the spirits of those he killed, Rika was offered a deal by Furious 7 to cause Malachi to fail his repentance and send him back into the Plane of Hate; in trade, he would call off the hunt on Jayce and Rika by the creatures of Innoruuk. Now Shilana must track down the dragon, summon Malachi for 24 hours and banish the corrupt dragon once again...

## Thursday, June 9, 2016 - Those Who Can, Teach

As the new transplants settle into Bryling, Iclynn moves in with the Southron woman in hiding, Shewana. The arcane blacksmith Joanna Baratheon stopped by to see Maldir, but only as a goodbye as she got a draft-style summons from the Mage's Guild to return to Eldric's Crossing. The ladies met with local adventurer Elmeara Kagamine as she asked the ladies to escort her adventurer-in-training twins, Ren & Len. As they traveled to the haunting timberland south of Rutch they learned more about their young students, Ren is a bubbly girl who is trained as a chaos wizard and Len is a deaf boy equipped with several magical tools as a sword and shield style warrior. They learned that Len trained under Nicolai Rivers as a telepath, the same man who long ago trained Shilana. However, he is much more reserved with his telepathy, but when Shilana mentally connected with him she had a strange vision in a desert. Afterword Len warned her that her frequent usage of her telepathy is leaving her mind open and allows him to see things he shouldn't be able to. As the party travels to find the lost Rutch cherries and mercenary the twins were hired to find, they find a den for a Mindflayer. Inside the twins do a good job at combating the challenges before them and slew the mindflayer. Len was able to harvest spinal fluids from the slain beast and offered to use its mind amplifying effects to help Shilana mentally connect with her mother, or Rika remember more about her infant past. After a debate they decided to assist Rika and she was for the first time able to hear her mothers and fathers voices as a memory of her first few years of life. There she learned how much her father loved her, her aunt Avis was only her 'aunt' as a title given to a friend but not a sister, and Rika's father Finch was not her real father.

## Thursday, July 21, 2016 - Face the Music

Further talks with Len Kagamine resulted in the ladies realizing that the memories that Len had learned from them were forgotten, as no normal human contain the memories of multiple people. A visit from the Order of the Seven Pillers to Obed Ridge excited the paladins in training as they mentioned that the Order is looking for new Divine Knights and may speed up their ascendance to Paladin status. Minette and Zensaadi traveled to the village of Carn to hold a wedding, while Shilana met the new farming family, the VanTraps. The head Song Dragon in the Council of Veeshan, Kaxora met with Rika. She played the now powerless flute of Rika's that she used to summon dragons and made beautiful and powerful music. Kaxora called the flute Syrinx, a set of four instruments owned by the first song dragon. The second instrument, a sitar called Dishex, was owned by the Bards College and sold out from under them to a wizard who gave them faulty phantom armors as payment. The Bards College had no way of getting their item back from the wizard and Kaxora asked Rika to retrieve it before the wizard damaged it and made the magical item mundane. Rika, Shilana and Jaylin traveled to a small emptied village to the south east and found a small army of enhanced phantom armors attacking a group of bards college youth attempting to get the item back. Together they fought their way to the wizard, but not before he used Dishex to link himself physically with a necrotic dragon. Quick thinking by Shilana as she stashed the Sitar in her void-linked quiver of holding and breaking the connection, leaving only the sniveling wizard Slynt to be taken back to Seacrest by the youth for his crimes. Now with Dishex and Syrinx, two powerful draconic instruments, Alduin theorized that with all four instruments they might be able to summon Nagafen...

## Thursday, October 7, 2016 - Cry Me a Rivers

Rika begins her training with Sir Hawkeye in flute playing. Minette and Zensaadi sent a note stating they would went to Silverpoint after helping Carn by capturing the Somepines Gang, which were 24 gang members deep. The Obed Ridge church held an induction ceremony for their first member Maldir Sandira, the Yuan-Ti ex-Brave Companion. During a moment of solace Shilana was visited by Briz'raena, a divine heroine from Marr texts. The ancient elf helped reassure her of her actions as of late and that *She* was proud of her. Rika had dinner with the Hoshkar family, sans Irena for Hordes Night, an ancient holiday where Veeshan worshippers displayed their earnings and bragged about their victories since the previous gathering. She learned Tanners intention to marry Minette by since an engagement ring on the table, and found out Ren Kagamine is attempting inter-planar magic that is more effective than Gnilon's. Shilana had another odd dream in the Plane of Tactics structure, the Harena, watching great creatures fight to the death from the eyes of someone else. Len received a response from his and Shilana's psyonic teacher, Nicoli Rivers. However, it was from Priestess Shimmer of the Marr church in the Desert of Ro telling him that Nicoli has been taken soon after the Jack of Blades came looking for him. After defending merchants from a sand worm attack, they rode to Shimmer to learn more. Jack of Blades was commanding a troop from the Crimson Army, the army of Tieflings who don't typically support the King as they currently rebuilt a fort in the desert called the Warrens. Going to the Warrens to investigate they found resistance from the Tiefling soldiers, but found a friendly face in charge of this unit in Kohl, a Tiefling pyromancer from Shilana's past. The ladies learned that Jack had Nicoli there but had no way to free him, pleading with Kohl to see him he let Shilana in to find he was having his psyonic energy siphoned and gave he gave her one last psyonic gift, to deal psyonic damage with her mind. She sadly used that gift to kill him in order to stop his suffering and make it look self inflicted. In the morning a squadron from the Seven Pillars, a Marr military branch, was in the area and got the blame for killing Nicoli in the night. However, the ladies learned that the Seven Pillars came from Silverpoint and had ascended Minette and Zensaadi early to the level of Divine Knights. Thus completing their training and are now in the kings military...

## Thursday, December 1 & 8, 2016 - A Song of Ice and Scales

Rika, Shilana and Jaylin rode ahead of Order of the Seven Pillars with the body of Nicoli to Bryling in order to have Gnilon assist in communicating with now dead ex-priest. In the Void, Nicoli warned Shilana of a corrupt power-hungry King and that Jack of Blades was attempting to steal his psyonic powers. His last desire was for Shilana to train with the youth Len Kagamine in order to control her psyonic powers. In the city of Fist the orphanage organizer was removed as they were found to be molesting the children, where he then promptly has his privates cut off publicly by High Lord Bearstorm and bled to death. The Order of the Seven Pillars led by Master Divine Knight, Miles the Faithful, came to Bryling to inspect Obed Ridge and found it profoundly successful and also extended an early ascension to Divine Knight for Jaylin who took it without question. Now Bryling loses their three paladins in training, leaving many sad in the village. Rika plays the role of caravan guard for a Dööm wagon train headed to Thurgadin in order to meet with High Lord Isreal Bearstorm in secret, where they declared love for each other. Len begins his psyonic training with Shilana. Brother Pinkman makes his picture more clear as he comes out as a Dragonborn who pays omage to the local Lady Vox but holds no place in his heart for Veeshan.

During the night, from Iclyn's residence shot up columns of ice and eventually a mile long diameter dome covering the whole village, along with several new hostile frost creatures. While Rika, Shilana, Hope and Lady Vox were outnumbered, the remaining villagers of Bryling rallied together to help them in an all out fight against this frozen threat. As the ladies battled they learned the farmers father, Matruce VanTrap was a surprisingly capable fighter. In the center of the dome they found Iclyn asleep being manipulated by the small winged creatures who called themselves 'The Forgotten'. Unable to defeat the Forgotten leader she ended up fleeing after seeing the battle wasn't going her way she stated, "You're too late, it's done." Iclyn was then under a dark curse causing her to remain comatose for the next week.

The villagers of Bryling rally and celebrate a job well done as their first time working as a complete team. As the ladies reunite with the villagers they hear them singing the rebellious Siren song. Eventually they learned that the villagers are actively disrupting the Kings actions and Zensaadi is a spy to get information for military movements. The ladies learn that Matruce is obviously lying, but not sure how. They also learn that Priestess Hope knew about the rebellious actions of the villagers, but didn't let on for fear or her exile from the church.

The next day Alduin learns that in the dragon safe haven of Baramos had a visitor, Princess Whitefang. As Rika and Shilana fly there they get there as a gathering of the dragon leaders is meeting about the surprise visit and as after the Princess had left. Princess Whitefang offered a great many things for the Dragons assistance in the upcoming Ak'anon war: Intellegent status for Dragons in Sevoh, a grand section of land for the Dragonborn north of Silverpoint, *all* of the treasure in 'Tin City' the gnomish capital, and Veeshan temples in every city in Sevoh. Rika spoke up, taking the illusion form of a Ruby Dragon and echoed their beliefs: Do Not Trust a Whitefang and effectively declined the Princesses offer.

## Thursday, December 29, 2016 - Stag Party

After the funeral of Lord Jayce and Lady Llewlyn our heroines head to Bryling to greet Iclyn as she awakens from her coma and give her back her necklace that Rika took for safe keeping. There they found an unpleasant and unfamiliar Iclyn that only cared about getting her necklace back and focused her attention to it. Len Kagamine continued his training with Shilana. The newest knight for the Legion of Dööm, Sunset Knight Sir Philip Banks (voiced by Macho Man), asked for help from the ladies for his newest job from Lady Renly. Lady Renly told the three of them that in the early days of Rutch he towns traders were hassled by a group of bandits called Dobis led by a warlock named C3. She paid them a good sum of 'protection' money to leave the city alone when no other tactics worked. While they made good on their deal, over time the group changed focus to become an underground enchanting organization. They now sent a note to Lady Renly, 'Send help, or else. C3.' Lady Renly asked the three of them to help this unsavory group. At the Sunset Warriors Bunkhouse the ladies met the other boys under Sir Philips command, and learned that he was harboring Big Mike, the eldest orphan boy who ran the Rutch orphanage after the previous woman was scared off. He fought his way out in order to escape military enlistment.

The three of them traveled to the Dobis establishment east of Rutch only to find the stables destroyed and the place almost completely empty. Only at the bottom floor did they realize that there were several non-violent invisible figures around them. In the enchanting room they met Kiki, a goblin from Dobis and En'zo, an invisible Bezekira (Holy Lion). They learned that C3 accidentally opened a portal to the ethereal realm and several dangerous creatures were in the area. With the help of En'zo and Kiki they got the portal wand outside and dispelled it, sending the creatures back to their home plane. Rika realized Kiki had been one of the goblins responsible for the raid on her parents wagon that cost them their lives. After interrogating her she let Kiki go, stalked her into the woods and attempted to attack her as she slept. Weary and ready however, Kiki put up a fight and nearly killed Rika instead. Kiki let Rika stand down because she just saved her life and then fled.

## Thursday, January 5, 2017 - Property Sisters

Starting with a celebration in Bryling for the reopening of the Obed Ridge addition and the young Southron girl Lucinda's birthday. There she announced that she wanted to become a Dragon Knight. Iclyn apologized for her unpleasantness. Crosis pulled Rika aside and asked to borrow Alduin to deliver a delicate message to their spy in the Marr army, in trade he offered information that might assist the Legion of Dööm in the future. The villager and ex-Brave Companion Maldir was sent to Dwemer for a month until things calmed down in Seacrest. After the party the ladies were contacted by C3 who told them that he would have to close Dobis or risk the ladies hunting him down. He then offered Kiki's current location for a price. Forgoing vengeance, Rika would rather have information on who hired C3, Kiki and their allies to attack her parents wagon. Without enough money, they gave C3 the Tri-Fold Staff from the slain Dark Iron necromancer he requested as payment and then told them he was hired by Daniel Black, one of the Queens personal guard. The agreement then ended badly as C3 hoped the two parties would now be at least neutral to each other, but after Rika threatened him he intimated them as he left and remaining their enemy.

A letter from Cathrine Rivers asked Obed Ridge to send someone to pick her up and the ladies, along with Duval, decided to head to Silverpoint to pick her up and see Arya. As they rode out there, Shilana had another inter-planer dream in the Plane of Fire. They met a Khajiit who had a halfling as a prisoner. Shilana payed him to relinquish him into their custody, learned his name was Pipen and set him free. Later the ran into Lord Anter, Lady Sapphire Anter and Lady Qudani Anter, their son Flint and granddaughter Spite hunting a Nightmare Beast. As they traveled back to Silverpoint together they learned the sad fact that their grandson Sharp was one of the proud men who manned the Fourth Sworn Sword during its last flight. Confronted by fleeing naysayers in Silverpoint Rika and Lord Anter slyly attempted to defend them. In Silverpoint the ladies talked with Arya about babies and overthrowing a king. Qudani revealed herself as a devout Innoruuk worshiper, but managed to find common ground with Shilana. The ladies picked up Podricks younger sister Cathrine to have he train to be Shilana's newest squire in Bryling, while their mother cried seeing their last child leave and asked that Shilana keep her safe...

## Thursday, April 20th, 2017 - Legion of Len

Shilana, Rika and Len Karagime travel to the home of Lady Feywind to attempt to make psyonic contact with the princess in the elven body of Martinius (aka Bud). However, with a warning of possible insanity they decided otherwise, but Shilana did hear one final plea from Redstreak as he left a psyonic message with her to save their woodelves. Back in Bryling the village holds an even called 'The Gathering' where many people are traveling back home after the overthrowing of the royal family, and others ready to head back home now that they don't need to stay in Bryling. Jaylin and Minette travel back and ask to stay to finish their training. Irena returns, but after her death her penalty is a permanent human sized dragon arm instead of her own. Joanna Baratheon the arcane blacksmith returns, with a familiar arcane burn on her face after being in the Mages Guild explosion, as well as being penniless and jobless with the Mages guild gone. The VanTraps, Crosis, Trison and Isolde all leave Bryling without the threat of being drawn into a war, with Trison and Isolde being hired by The Premier to be a part of her public works system. Len helps Shilana with her attempt to make a psyonic contact with her comatose mother, and succeeds, if only for a moment.

Len asks the Ladies to travel with him to his former home of Phantasy deep inside the Gojo Woods in order to contine her psyonic training. Once at the edge of the woods he informs them that he brought them there on false pretenses. He wanted two people of authority to be with him as he confronts his father who lives in a nearby village of Wexshire in order to flee his previous life as a father to become a mercenary again. While heading to the village they did find villagers of Wexshire in the middle of the 'Defang', an event where they kill Beasts of Malor, savage creatures of the forest to make it safe. In Wexshire the group did find Len's father, but Len had become enthralled by something else. The ladies learned the mayor of the Village, an orc named Duan-Hoo, is using an artifact of Vallon Zek to enthrall warriors to kill Beasts of Malor for him. As an elaborate scheme is revealed for Duan-Hoo to kill a great GulGuthyrda, the ladies agree to help him so he'll release the villagers and now, the two ladies stand in the stench of the creature and they are readying for one hell of a fight...