Healing Kits, Speaking With Master Thaddeus
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
Ty--
Do our characters get the opportunity to stock up on supplies? I imagine Rennick might want to see if he can get his axe fixed. . .
Pensive would like to purchase some healing kits, if possible-- how much money does he have?
If he can, and if it won't tip his encumberance above light, Pensive will purchase 4 healing kits.
From: Raja
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
Karl, do we want to tell him everything? (I assume that Sa'id and Farron would have talked about this en route). I have composed a message in which we DO tell him everything, but I haven't sent it. What do you think? Should we leave stuff out? Sa'id kind of wants to tell someone else, in a "get it off his chest" sort of way, but I'd like to know what you and Farron think. :)
Raja
From: Ty
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
No, there isn't time. You guys are in the city about 7 hours, all of which are between 10pm and dawn. Not a lot of shops open.
But, to be flexible, we can assume Pensive might have already had some healing kits among his implements.
Split the diff and say he has two?
From: Scott
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
Awright, then.
2 healing kits. . .
From: Karl
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
I'm assuming this is someone Farron trusts completely. (From Ty's writeup, he is Farron's old mentor.) If Farron does think he's completely trustworthy, he'd opt for leaving nothing out. After all, we're their for advice. We can't expect the best advice from someone who's under-informed.
Since you already have the turn written up, I'll go with this:
Sitting in Master Thaddeus's office brings back to mind the dozens (if not hundreds) of times he'd done that very thing, discussing Divination and other magical arts. He lets his eye wander over the professor's bookcase-lined walls, filled with magical tomes and strange implements, only for a moment before beginning.
"No, unfortunately it isn't a social call. We've just last night returned to the city. We've had a rather horrifying couple of weeks and we'd like to see if you have anything that might help us with a very grave problem.
"You should remember Sa'id. He studied here while I was still a student. I'll let him tell you our story since he has a better head for the details."
With that Farron leans back in his chair and coddles his Kaf, only interrupting if Sa'id forgets anything important.
(Ty, Farron will also show Thaddeus the spellbook he got from the mage in the tower and ask if he can assist in getting it opened without destroying it.)
From: Ty
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
K, just waiting on Raja's fabulous turn now. :)
From: Raja
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
Sa'id sips his Kaf. Brewed nice and strong. Deliciously bitter, taken without milk or sugar. He inhales the aroma, and closes his eyes for a few seconds.
"No, sir," Sa'id says, "I only wish we were returning in the same spirits we left." He starts to tell the story, beginning at Overlook, pausing quite often to check or confirm memories with Farron, and letting the other wizard take the lead in the storytelling whenever he wishes. Sa'id takes a detour when it comes to the discoveries they'd made about the halflings, going into some detail about the significance of what they had found, both in the letter and the ruins and mountain, and adding a few theoretical speculations of his own (though clearly noting that they are his own).
Almost nothing is left out -- the encouter with Elise at the farmouse, the dead man in the road, the soulless halflings, Gully's lodge, the catastrophe at the ruined tower, Rennik's battle with Elise, Cadfael's insanity, the zombie trap, the tunnel, the swamp dragon, the mountain, the sacrifice ritual, Promise and his visions (here Sa'id does omit his own alternate vision of commanding an undead army), the flight through the jungle, the halfling village, sending Garyth to Overlook, and finally Cadfael's murder.
By the time he has reached Cadfael's murder his Kaf is long gone. While Farron is talking, Sa'id takes the pot and offers refills to the other two wizards before filling his own cup again.
"I'm sure you can see why we stayed," Sa'id concludes, "but obviously we do not feel very safe in Nesalin now. We did not think that the influence of Kor Garesh reached this far."
From: Ty
Subject: Re: Elementary, My Dear Farron; The Murder Site
Thaddeus listens quietly to the whole story. When Sa'id finishes, he just says, "How is it that you boys think I can help you? I am a creaky old man. My adventuring days are long over."