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The xth xth day of Dros, 250AD

Regroup, Recoup, and Recourse

by Alfred (Red) Swainson Bjorkhunts Ursus Arctos Linnaeus

We walked into the cleaned upper levels. Alroy questioned the transition to cleanliness and Rose, Quinn and I filled him in of our skele friend we found. When we got up the stairs I could hear faint classical music which was a relief as the mind whispers got pretty loud after messing with the big brain. I made my way to the entrance as I thought we decided on leaving for now. After about 10 minutes, I figured they got themselves into trouble again so I rounded back. Turns out they found Fenmyar Galf (skele-mage) where we fought the one spider guy and were talking to him. He seemed more...fleshy this time, more than just skeleton. They talked some more, it was a bit hard to follow and I had some trouble concentrating until he asked Rose for one of the coins he gave to us to cast a spell to alleviate me. She flicked him one and he used mage hand to catch it.
During the talk found out the guy used to be a construct or something up in space and was awakened. Would explain that his frestine skull was created. I don't really know much crafts past cooking. I asked about his crystal skull and the Hunter's moon since everyone in basic get it drilled into their heads about no magic during that night. Said he was immune, kinda boring but probably a relief. He did mention that his staff allowed him to spacaly travel as far as luna's surface... and that there was some sort of shrine for dragons there. He also made mention of going to Svendio for some reason I cannot fathom. All that is there is desert and ruins from my understanding. Alroy was talking to him more about the brain we saw and that the white witch told him it was creating "tadpoles" that get implanted into people to control them. I guess he wants to help, but had to get to Svendio for a bit first. There was more chat and idleness, but I was too tired to really follow.
We decided to go and regroup on the surface and investigate a few things, mainly for us to get back to open air and check the mayor for a tadpole thing. We got out the crypt and was greeted by the spider people again. Alroy gave her a rundown of what we encountered. The only bit I really have to add apart of the sonic slams is the faint smell of the sea I recalled. They didn't seem to happy about the news. They had just escaped from Loth just to have the brain show up in their new home. They'd move ,but seems that they are already pretty thin with ~250 in the village. I recommend the mental music thing like what Galf was using. They had concerns about it attracting other things down here. I pointed out it could trade mental exhaustion for physical once and awhile. Either way they had another group of allies about 40 strong to help. There was talks of more diplomacy and reinforcements. I just started to get bored at that point.
Once that meeting was over, she took us to some housing to meet their reinforcements. nice enough place with the silks and whatnot, but it was a tight squeeze for me and Blu, we had to wedge Rose through. Inside was a collection of surface races all sparing and training. They sat to the side as an elf looking chick, or something kinda like Alroy started to talk to us. They had another chat as Rose started into her flask in the corner. I soon joined her. After a bit, the other started to spar again, and I wanted in since the had been looking at Rose and I like were super foreign. Figured it would be a good test against something larger than them. Unfortunately for me, Alroy was ready for us to go to the surface. The spider lady from before led us up and out.

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