- What one hand gives (front - 20), the other hand takes away (back - 1).
- Male calicos = 1/3000
- Female orange cats = 1/5
- Once Rusty is all put back together, it's already mid afternoon, the group goes to find Kagnar, who says it's no big deal if they want to stay another night.
- Tiff gets directions to the library and immediately goes to go copy everything she can get her little hands on. She starts with children's books to help her learn Dwarven, and then asks for the artifice section. She spends all night doing this.
- Rusty and Osiris chat with Kagnar about the whys of animal mechanicals instead of people-shaped mechanicals (less materials and less expectation of intelligence)
- Osiris then goes back to the temple of Reorx run by Father Orodon and requests a keepsake, and he gives her a belt with a shield for a buckle and an embossed hammer on the shield.
- She in turn gives him her old, non-magically holy symbol to Mishakal.
- "We don't need to go through the Dwarven axe drive thru, you have an axe at home."
- The next morning, Osiris collects a passed out Tiff and Tina from the library.
- Kagnar gives Rusty a belt with a star emblem as a buckle, and the belt looks mechanical or digital in make and tells R that it should interface with R's circuitry.
- Rusty puts on the belt and it tingles through his body and he blinks and suddenly feels like he is a lot stronger (Belt of Hill Giant Strength)
- Kagnar walks with them back to the stairs up to the surface
- They head up and then it takes exhausted Tiff two hours to find some bay tree.
- Additional investigating does not yield a tree protected by a dryad, but they do find a wood sprite living in one, so Osiris casts Tongues on Tiff who gets permission to trim branches from the tree, and that will hopefully help.
- "I'm the only one that does things with truckers." Thank you, Erika
- They walk to the beach with Rusty accommodatingly carrying the two buckets with the bay branches, step through the barrier that prevents teleportation
- Tiff takes the measurements of everyone's heads for their laurel crowns, and then goes off to start weaving crowns and wands and the circlet to go around the opening of the "cauldron"
- Osiris check on the holy water supply, and we are at 175/160 flasks needed, so that's good! She then goes to find Rowan.
- Rowan tells Osiris that while they were gone the temple has come under attack by some kind of ghost, or creature, and it abducts people and presumably kills them. Whatever it is avoids light. Russell has been trying to fight it off, and he may have injured it.
- Birel was taken by the spirit and is presumed lost, as well as a few acolytes.
- Osiris goes to talk to Russell who looks a bit disheveled and fatigued.
- The spirit showed up the first night the party was gone and while everyone was sleeping, they were awoken by screams as people were being taken. It has elongated claw hands and seems semi-ethereal.
- Russell didn't notice a temperature change or a sound when it appeared. It grabs people in its claws and then teleports away, and it was stealthy about it.
- Osiris calls everyone over the earrings to meet in the sanctuary, where Tiff already is with Tina making laurel crowns.
- Everyone meets as requested, and they start planning on how to maybe take out the creature.
- Osiris goes to Norman to requisition spell components. It is the easiest transaction she has ever had with him, exception he write High Priestess Osiris, Rites Wing, and Osiris freaks out. She does NOT want to be in charge.
- Osiris takes the only opal Norman has, 500 GP, and Raiàn to the nicest jewelry store in town to make sure they have the opal she needs for her spell
- Raiàn breaths on the opal before they go in, but they find the shopkeeper is a gnome named Rascivir she doesn't know.
- They introduce themselves, and Osiris tries name dropping herself with her new title.
- Raiàn manages to convince the shopkeeper that he is doing the whole city a favor so he takes the 600 GP opal that they have gives them the 1000 GP one. Osiris gives him a receipt for tax purposes since he offers the difference as a donation.
- Raiàn breaths sparkles on his tea as he has heard of her.
- 3,500 XP ea for 150,500 XP total ea.
