We have been commanded to take the next three days off, and as the others disperse through the town I have a funeral to prepare. I choose a quiet area outside of town and begin by digging a 10ft wide hole to be filled with layers of wood and iron-grass before topping it with a sheet of woven iron-grass. I then craft a rudimentary stand to hold the pot of oil I intend to use to light it out of the spare wood scraps i had and some simple rope. As i head back home to gather the bones and oil I grab the attention of each of my party members and ask if they could meet me at the pyre just before sunset and head home. Once inside I loosen a few of the floorboards and uncover a secret space beneath the house, pulling out 2 bags of bones (Erwin and Ash's) and a large ceramic pot of oil. Replacing the floorboards and grabbing the bones of my mother (Elizabeth) i make the final preparations, laying out each of the bones carefully and suspending the pot of oil above them. Once done I sit down and prepare the fire arrow until the rest of the group arrives.
I call Tweet to my side and ask him to get out his tinderbox as we will need it in a second, I equip my bow and knock the fire arrow gesturing for Tweet to light it. Once lit i aim and fire at the pot of oil and douse the rest of the pyre in now flaming oil, it is rapidly engulfed in flames as 2 silhouettes appear in the smoke plume. I ask Jeremiah to give them their last rights and I can finally say my goodbyes as the spirits of my parents follow the smoke into the sky and off into the night. To the parties surprise a ghost materializes behind me with his hand on my shoulder before wiping away my tears, nodding to each of the party members before turning to eldritch smoke and being absorbed back into Ash. As the pyre buns down and the last of the ash blows away Ash picks back up the shovel and fills the pit back in before replacing the grass, the only evidence of the funeral being slight scorch marks around the circle of grass. We all retire for the night.
Day 2 i try and secure some armor as up until now i have been getting by on guile alone, but alas all the armors are too rich for my blood and i retire home empty handed.
Day 3 i begin preparations for our upcoming expedition and acquire an antique set of woodworking tools from before the collapse, these will be perfect for fletching arrows.
Dawn of the forth day begins with us meeting up at the Guild hall and planning our next expedition. We decide on journeying to Plorpa to see the Temple of Death and investigate how deep the ruins of the old city goes. We are issued 10 days of rations and head to the Deep-road tram station to take a shortcut to Kraith Draco from where we will begin our journey in earnest.