Session 24: Business in Vezehen Report

The party spent the remainder of the day and night in the dreaded dockside warehouse chosen for them in hasty necessity. Ballisar was alive but barely capable of voluntary movement. The Demhaz warriors offer some respite on the generosity of their hesed, but Blackwolf declines. The Party would rather settle to live upon its own devices.

Blackwolf and Orin travel deeper into Vezehen and seek some minor Corgastorian elements within. They discover a small, comfortable home with a steel necklace of the open hand in the window. Perhaps lacking significant personal shelter or resources, they known upon the door. A man with dark hair, a speckled beard and moustache, and sharp features with nervous eyes opened the door. He spoke with suspicious measure to Blackwolf, but relaxed himself when Orin flashed the sign of Corgastor. He invited them inside. The man introduced himself as Dorelast, then notes his wife Sella, and their sons Gehenel and Ferstor. He allowed the pair to remain for a meal and offers them lodging. They eventually return to the warehouse having secured that unexpected ally.

Ballisar invites Cravinyol into the Dramana. Cravinyol is reluctant, however, and denies a clear answer.

Dorelast offers Orin an opportunity to send a letter. A friend of his could take a voyage across the Bitter Straights for only 20 dolns. Orin accepts.

Ballisar returns to the Astorian ship with Cravinyol. He enters the aft-cabin and speaks with Lyndos Venon Menar along with his disheartened fellows. They were suspicious and rather fearful of his intentions, but Ballisar assuaged them and revealed that he was actually the Tressar of the Dramana. This gained their attention. Ballisar then offered them all positions in the reformed Dramana- Venon Menar would became a pentast while the other men would become iochas. They accepted.

Calista and Blackwolf travel out into the hinterlands and hill to hunt, and they successfully bag food and pelts over the course of five days awaiting the recovery of Ballisar.