From the Flames

The Myste-Hass Calender

08/11/2022

Arriving back in town, the man, raised on a crate, shouts out about Garr's angels. He is a human in ordinary clothes. There are a crowd of around sixty people listening to him.

Corym shouts out, objecting to Garr's involvement. Reinhold says that we have higher priest of Garr. The cleric of Garr tells everyone to kneel and then come to Temple of Garr tonight, and worship will be held in a proper way.

A shudder shakes the town, a small earthquake.

Gartok questions the man, Lake Rone. He claims that his mother, Seraya, was ill, and as she passed on the creature arrived. They are from Equil originally. They spent time in the Tower of Dariss during the occupation.

Dramos and Maolmhuire follows Lake to find his mother.

The others head to the Temple of Imogen to find Til. Goraz confronts them as they move through the Market Place, asking if they could come to The Halls for a meeting with the Council of Myste-Hass.

At the Temple of Imogen, Engaro is talking to Tatiana. Reinhold convinces Lorey to join the group in the temple. Engaro takes the group down the corridor to the right, he presses a stone in the wall and down a flight of stairs into a well-lit basement level. There are plenty of doors down here. Engaro unlocks the door to where Til is being kept.

Information is shared, about Til's death, the demonic creatures, Fate and the event with Heller.

Meanwhile, the other two head to a humble building in town. Maolmhuire prepares a ritual, but Dramos chats to Lake Rone, asking about what they were doing in the north. The man changes whilst he's chatting to Dramos, taking on the personality of Ravaran. He is trying to convince Dramos to come north. He says if the teifling calls out, one of Dramos's friends will die. It would only take a thought. He speaks about Dramos's parental issues, and unlocking his potential. He says, "You've got a lot to inherit, Dramos. That could benefit both of us, not to mention, the others like you. We're rebuilding, better this time. Less grandeur, just actual grandeur. I'll be in charge here, you back at home."

He threatens that Harbinger is the first to die if he acts out. Ravaran's people are apparently everywhere, wandering through the street.

Dramos tries to cast darkness, but Ravaran counterspells. He runs through into the backroom where Maolmhuire is performing his ritual, shouting Ravaran. Ravaran then casts slow on both of them. He then tells Maolmhuire that he is irrelevant. The Garr cleric runs, but he can't get out of the window. Dramos turns into a bat, but he can't get out through the window blocked by Maolmhuire's gravestone. When the wizard can't hit Maolmhuire through shield, Ravaran says - "Maybe I'm focusing on the wrong person. Maolmhuire, lets have a conversation."

The priest drinks a potion of giant's strength, and bursts from the building running into the streets. Dramos becomes a bat, then gets bludgeoned back into teifling form with a ice storm. He asks the wizard for a week, but he refuses. He runs into the street.

But, Maolmhuire runs back in and says "I do believe the phrase is - do you wrestle?" He grapples Ravaran, then a black line forms in the air near Maolmhuire becoming a blade-like planar rift. Maolmhuire casts shield in the nick of time.

Dramos runs, pursued by the void blade. Then all goes quiet. Maolmhuire is banished. A bell is ringing, deeper in town towards the market. He keeps running, moving towards the Market Place.

Maolmhuire looks around, he's somewhere entierly dark. There are flashes of white light, lightening that illuminates a bright tower in the distance. There are creatures swirling the tower in the distance. The cleric sits, calming himself and praying to Garr. As the lightenening flashes, he sees wisps of light travelling towards the tower. He feels that communication with Garr is blocked.