An Emergency Situation (Pt 5)

Session 9 Recap

General Summary

The afternoon following the battle at Richard's cabin, the party decides to send Bara to ask Captain Stonehammer about the orange banner while Qas and Rayne try to rest and stay out of trouble at the tavern. Bara is able to draw some info from the old dwarf, but isn't able to make any solid connections between the Amaelian family and Verant, so she returns to the tavern. En route, however, she hears that there is trouble back at The Split Rivers and rushes back to check on her allies, who are, indeed, involved in the fight. While Bara was out, several locals, lead by Ebbin Stouthammer, had gotten into an argument with another tavern patron, which turned violent. Qas and Rayne got involved when their guard escort was assaulted, and Bara arrives in time to help them finish the brawl without anyone dying. However, when the guards arrive, they arrest everyone involved, and the party spends the rest of the day in jail. When they are visited by Deputy Howard that evening, he brings them a meal and asks them to leave town immediately, as their presence is starting to cause problems. The party agrees and, after getting permission from the Wells to stay at their old cabin, heads out of town with a new lead, courtesy of Veliel: yellow musk creepers tend to inhabit old graveyards or battlefields, and there is one such place, a ruined hamlet called Abelynn, just about a day northwest of Two Pines. Consequently, the same direction as the Wells' property and the lumbering camp that was overrun the night prior.