- Everyone has dinner together (almost - April's was a bit late)
- Norman says that Vianola's Herbs north of the city provides many of the herbs in the apothecary
- While the group is waiting for Marta and Birel to get the list of names of the people who have the skills and access to cut out tongues, they head to Vianola's
- They arrive at Vianola's cottage midafternoon.
- Vianola is an elf and her front room has a counter like in a store, but it is absolutely packed with dried herbs.
- She remembers a tall, broad-shouldered, human fellow with brown hair from a few weeks ago who bought wurmwood and murgwort which she doesn't sell a lot of. He did not give a name
- Vianola grows or gathers all of the herbs she sells herself, so she doesn't have any of the exotic ingredients Theophania wants for her magic items
- Vianola has a magical ring when Osiris uses Detect Magic, which is enchanted to help with gardening
- V has been in the area for a couple of hundred years now and likes it in the forest.
- Osiris wants to go, but Theophania wants to stay for tea and a chat
- Lyrielle doesn't trust V
- Rusty is bored and not interested in gardening at all.
- V is originally from the Emberwood west(ish) of Mistverge whereas Osiris is from the Shiverskin
- Rusty remebers being from Kunzhak, which Raiàn knows is the Dwarven name for the old Dwarven civilization southwest of Rhoanor. Most humans knew it as Laufberg.
- V offers Rusty some Lionsmane mushrooms which are good for focus and memory since his memory is kind of patchy
- Raiàn encourages Rusty to try all the drugs
- Spotted Purple nightcaps are mushrooms used in Druidic rituals for spirit quests
- Rusty asks for a sampler pack, so she makes him up a satchet that if he steeps it in some warm water and drinks it might have some fun effects
- Rusty makes the mistake of asking Theophania what she wants all this stuff she was asking about for
- Lyrielle plays her flute quietly for herself to drown out Tiff
- They get back to the Temple just after dark
- When they get back the list of names are ready:
- From the Rites wing:
- Birel
- Osiris
- Cassandra
- Ayen
- Arrana
- From the Hospital wing:
- Marta
- Rina
- Jassan
- Wenton
- Harry
- Kitty
- While they are reviewing the people on the list, they realize that the description given to them by Vianola matches the description of the guard Henry who chased them down a hill away from the Blackmore estate on the Winfair Hillock
- They decide to start interviews in the morning.
- Rusty brews up his concoction in Osiris's room with the idea that she can trance in Theophania's room if he needs the room overnight
- They lock his weapons in her closet too just in case
RUSTY'S TRIP
- Rusty looks like he is sitting in a chair staring into space with opposite of dialated eyes, but to him he is floating in a black void, but then there is a lot of light that almost hurts his eyes and he is surrounded by people who are much shorter than him all with beards (dwarves) and also other mechanical people like himself some of whom are also short
- It seems like they are doing something with or two him, but then he is hit from behind and it all goes black again
- When the light returns there is a lot of turmoil with monsters with too many legs and tentacles attacking, and he knows its important to kill them all
- In the real world, he becomes agitated and starts punching Osiris's furniture.
- Rusty in his dream gets injured, knows he's injured, and then he keeps fighting anyway, and more and more stuff keeps showing up until it all goes black again
- The third time the light returns and he is still underground, but now he's alone and he wanders around with no where to go or knowing where he's going until he just sits down somewhere and fades to black again.
- While protecting her bookshelf, Osiris gives him a shield smash and he falls on his back and doesn't get up again.
THEOPHANIA'S TRIP
- Tiff takes the rest of the tea to her room and gets ready for bed and waits for Osiris in her fluffy jammies
- She closes her eyes and she smells flowers and when she opens her eyes she can still see Osiris but she is sitting on a giant flower
- As she watches the flowers keep spreading until it looks like she's in an idyllic meadow
- She looks away from Osiris, but when she looks back she thinks it's her great-aunt Thessalie standing there posted against a tree
- She asks Osiris-Thessalie where she went, and Osiris knowing that Thessalie went to Laufberg to try to destroy the sword of Lellzutho, but Osiris just says she went back to Laufberg to take care of something
- As they are having this conversation, it looks to Theophania like Thessalie has vines growing up and around her as she slowly gets older and older until she's covered in vines and disappears
- Theophania then curls up on her bed-flower and the petals close up around her and she drifts off to proper sleep.
- 1,200 XP ea. for 19,190 total ea.
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