Friday, January 5, 2024

In Which There is a Lot of Running Around - January 5, 2024

 - Several days after the porridge battle, Tiff bursts into Osiris's room in the middle of her trance to announce she thinks she has a solution 

- Tiff sits down to let O review her notes and immediately passes out

- Osiris waits a few hours, then messages the rest of the team, none of whom answer

- She then goes and talks to Headpriestess Rowan about the holy water requirement

- She then talks to Marta about the plants, and Marta is able to tell her about 3/5

- Osiris then goes to the Curlywit Boarding House to divide and conquer what she can

- Raiàn and Lyrielle (for moral support only) talk to Lord McNabb about the large requirements of silver needed to craft the 10 gallons of holy water, he agrees to talk to the city council and get in the required amount (40,000 SP worth)

- Osiris and Rusty (for moral support) circle around through the other temples in town to see who has holy water or who could help donate time to make more

    - There's a small temple to Branchala, god of music, in the halfling part of town near the boarding house, the only member / temple halfling there give her one flask (1 cup) of holy water

    - There's a very nice temple to Paladine, god rulers and guardians, in the rich part of town where she learns of a paladin named Russell Santiago in Caledonia and also collects two more flasks (2 cups) of holy water. She comes up with the idea to have a Religious festival where they can 

    - Near Lord McNabb's history library / museum there's a small building for Lunitari, god of neutral magic, where she learns about Moonwort the fern Tiff needs as one of the five ingredients (not including the holy water) and it might be found in the Orcish Caliphate north of what was once known as the town of Birchwood. She also learns that bay trees would grow on the far west coast of the continent past Rusty's desert. 

    - There's a temple to Shinare, goddess of wealth and trade, near the Trader's Gate, where she and Rusty are unable to negotiate a deal for this prosperity-gospel-type, pyramid-scheming jerk for any aid of any kind because the priest only cares about profit.

    - At the temple to Habbakuk, god of animal life and the sea, near the docks, she finds that the acolyte      (Rosemary) under the elderly priest CAN actually cast divine magic and is willing to help craft holy water

- Osiris Sends to Tina, "Need you to go to Caledonia to pick up Russell Santiago from the temple of Paladine.We need divine caster for holy water."

- Tina responds, "Osiris! Great to hear from you! Does he know I'm coming? What does he look like? What do you mean you need casters for holy water?"

- Osiris Sends again, "No idea about appearance. Doesn't know you're coming. Tiff devised plan to release dragon souls. We need holy water, thus casters. Can you get silver?"

- Tina again responds, "So am I kidnapping him? Don't know if I'm down for that. Gotta help get rid of the dragon, though. Silver? I thought his name was Russell."

- Osiris Sends for a third time, "Please ask him to come. There's potential combat glory in the name of Paladine by battling the dragon. Silver is used to make holy water."

- Tina, "Oooooooooh. Cool cool cool. I can do that. Don't have any silver though." 

- Once she finally wakes up Tiff uses the Earring of Message to coordinate with what everyone is up to, and she says she will go talk to Vianola, where she buys six 30" sage stalks and orders 5 lbs of Prunella vulgaris roots. It's not the correct season for the 20 lbs or so of Anaphalis margaritacea flowers, but maybe the druid out at the circle in the woods can help?

- Tiff gets Vianola to mark the approximate location of the stone circle of the druids on her map of the area, and she immediately flies in that direction.

- Raiàn and Lyrielle go to the temple library to learn about the two plants that don't grow in this area. The librarian suggests that bay trees would grow in the area Raiàn comes from, so she and Lyrielle discuss that she might be able to Send (if Tiff can make a scroll) to her cousin to arrange for some bay branches brought to Striker and Breaker which they can teleport to.

- It also occurs to the two of them that Tiff's cousins who run the travelling caravan might have an idea of where to find or get or trade for Moonwort.


- 3,000 XP ea. for 115,500 XP total ea.

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