Chapter Three - Return to the Mournland

Vice teeters over to Virtue and clasp her hand. "Looks like your safe for now partner. Rest up and stay out of trouble for a while."

"So needy, take, take, take, . . " Vice mutters as he cheerily walks off to find some drinking water.

Laulalith enters the temple and lets her disguise drops as the surveys the destruction. The others seem to have it under control, so she gets straight to business.

"There's no time to rest yet, Vice. Have you forgotten how this happened? Virtue's curse was not an accident. The death of the other Grey Dogs were not accidents. Ikar's crew attacked and killed to get their hands on the thing we now have on the cart. They will do so again if we let them. Even now, their cat is watching us and when she reports to Ikar they will start planning how to end us. What we have is too valuable and what we know is too damning for them to do otherwise." She throws two vials of healing potion to Vice to give the battered gnome a chance to recover.

Then she turns to Mother Janahah and 37 to consult their local knowledge. "Is the sheriff any good? I say we take this matter to him immediately. Enlist his help if we can. Convince him not to get in our way if we cannot. And then we take the fight to Ikar before they have time to prepare."

Reminded by Laulalith about the cart, Tryne returned outside to check on Talon and the coach.

Vice passes Virtue a waterskin, "Laulalith, I can not argue with you. Because you are right, and because I I am too weak. If Ikar's team makes a move now, I'd be of little use to you all."

"We could always nail their doors and windows shut and set their home base on fire."

Due to 37's usual lack of vocal inflection, it's quite difficult to tell if he's joking... or not.

"Alright, that's one vote for murder. Also, they arent all in the house, and there may be innocents inside. But hey, no bad ideas right now." Vice replied. He'd known 37 longer than most of the others here, and even he wasn't sure if he should laugh or get some kindling