i didn't want to talk to my dad with only bad news so i delayed ... and it worked!
around noon d'cannith merrix 2 dropped by the h&h looking for me because they found ways to simplify the renew spell
for 3 hours they covered my planning board in schemata while bell and i made suggestions
apparently "d'cannith zorlan" is prone to bruised pride and they were concerned that i'd feel similarly hurt when they publish the improvements ... but i'm delighted!
but from there it's all bad news
last night while medya and i slept the others were down in khyber's gate
to prove that our group can survive another visit to the sewers captain iyanna deputized them for one night shift there
but it turns out the watch in that area are absurdly corrupt and unfriendly to everyone and just plain terrible
also the boromar clan seem to be moving ash through khyber's gate? possibly to make it look like daask are responsible?
oh and the warehouse they found the ash remnants in was gutted by a violent magical explosion that they barely escaped
so that was exciting for them
then today rakela stopped by to share some more bad news
everyone's favorite filthy-hearted artificer-of-suffering emmer sykes has somehow fled custody just before his trial date should have been announced ... and all relevant records are now "classified" beyond rakela's reach
smells like rotten cabbage to all of us
also a group of mostly-forged silver flame zealots called "the embers" have claimed the brelish fort "sword keep" as thrane territory and have occupied it so that stokes some tensions
and on top of all this rakela had a folder of everything she could find on the monstrous regiments including service records
searchlight: deceased
early bloom: discharged honorably
hellebore: deserted
... deserted?
knowing what i know now i may have some guesses why
all of this is weighty but i'll be fine
in two days i'll have my usual support chat with ploughshare and it's guaranteed to be an interesting one
in the meantime when medya isn't singing songs about jewelry techniques she's improvising alongside spark and her flute
so i've had good music around to lift my heart!
all right back to sculpting