Chapter 1: Festival & Fire

Saldrina and Wess


One of the dart players can't help but hear your question about the hagfish and drunkenly tries to explain. "You see, it's the hagfish challenge," he says. "You pay a silver and it goes in the pouch. Then you have to drink a tankard of water from the tank. If you finish it and keep it down the winnings is yours."

Chigaru and Grimwulf

"5 silvers hon," Katrine tells you the price of the charm.

She turns her attention to Grimwulf with a smile. "Thanks for the warning. Will let her know to stay away," she says in jest.





Khel

"They would be the people to see then," Father Zantus confirms. "I wish you luck with your quest for knowledge."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a lot to do before the consecration at sundown," he passes you to move towards a small office off to the side. Before he reaches it, he turns to you. "It will be at sundown. Hope to see you here."




Li

Bart tells you the address for his house. "Will have a hell of a time to get through his servants. Though his daughter, Ameiko, runs the Rusty Dragon Inn, might be she can get you a meeting. Word on street is that there's bad blood between generations."

The Hagfish

The drunk smiles at Wess. "Tried it once. Didn't finish. All I got from it was one silver less for proper drinks and ruined my nice shirt."

His friend laughs and puts a hand around his shoulder. "He threw up all over it. Only proves that you need to be proper drunk or stupid to even attempt."

Li & Khel

Bruno nods at Li, and sneaks back into the street to see what he can arrange.

Li arrives at the Cathedral just as Khel is leaving. In fact, it is just barely that Li is able to avoid crashing into another for the second time in an hour.

Luna was definitely late as she did her best to keep a brisk pace towards Sandpoint. She cursed herself for sleeping in, but alas, her dreams were so pleasant! Surely a small gift from her goddess, Desna.
Luna had begun her trek westward from Korvosa. It would have been better to have simply bought passage on a ship since both points were situated on the coast, but, where's the adventure in that? Besides, it was hard to lose her way since as she needed to do was basically follow the rivers!

As she made it into town, Luna could feel her stomach growling for sustenance; her throat begged for a drink. She knew it was certainly too late for the announcements that were to be at noon. She could smell the fresh pastries and other street treats. But something was at the front of her mind, somewhere she desired to visit first above all else: the cathedral!

People likely stared Luna's way as she walked with purpose to her destination. She was, after all, a tall
and muscular woman to begin with! Perhaps, more likely, the fact that her horns and ruby red skin betrayed her tiefling heritage.
Her armor was simple: a scale shirt, leather leggings and boots, and no helm. She always had a difficult time finding one that would accommodate her fiendish horns.She carried her shield on her backback as her longsword hung from her belt in its sheath.
People would perhaps also spot the holy symbol that hung from her neck and over her armor: that of a butterfly - that of Desna. She'd worshipped her for much of her life: she and one of her sisters. She had only a year ago finished her training to become a champion of Desna, so this was her largest adventure since.

She approached the cathedral determined, elated, and somewhat absentminded of all else.