Waiting for the rest of the day the expected caravan
arrives and they negotiate a fee with Rooner for protecting them through the
forest. With the battle so recent the travel through the night but are attacked
before sunrise with the forest edge in sight. Bolts fly at the caravan from
both sides and a tree falls across the road. The party scatters into the brush
and slay the orcs on the left; the rest flee before the onslaught. Camped away
from the forest they rest for the morning but are attacked by a phase spider
that drags away one of the guards.
Late in the evening they get to D’Onquay and leave
the caravan to go shopping at the armourer and wizard’s tower. Morlaf seeks
employment at the tower but is rebuffed by Vincent the White Mage when he admits
to following chaos.
They stay the night at the Wyvern Inn and Ulalume
starts paying peculiar curiosity to the patrons. She sneaks into a room in to a
patron’s room in the middle of the night and cruelly slays him in the dark.
The next morning she sees the intended victim
sitting to breakfast…