p style="margin: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"Brienne, Wunway, and Revain all headed to Orlane. As they approached the town, a merchant's cart was stalled by the side of the road. As noble Brienne approached the unfortunate fellow, a gang of undesirables ambushed the party, falling back into the nearby woods as they were routed. They lead the a class="autocardanywhere-link autocardanywhere-emphasised" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; display: inline !important; font-style: italic !important;" href=" magic/product/show?ProductName=Intrepid%20Heroutm_medium=card" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-dictionary="mtgen" data-name="Intrepid Hero" data-hasqtip="0"Intrepid Hero/aes to a hidden shrine, with a bowl of teeth and a buried map of the town. Perturbed but unshaken, the band headed back up the road./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"Once in town, the three headed for the Golden Grain Inn, seeking information and being offered absurd prices instead. They were pointed in the direction of the mayor, who was less than helpful and didn't even seem to be aware of the scaly infestation threatening his home. After continuing to be far from useful, he recommended staying at the Golden Grain Inn overnight./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The tired band returned to the pricey inn, swallowing their fiscal pride along with questionable meat and sullen silences. The three bargained for a room, again at a greedy rate, and settled in for what they thought would be a pleasant rest./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"In the dark of the night, a group of sneeple (snake-people, yuan ti) took Wunway by surprise under the cover of a silence spell, and the other two awoke to a missing friend and fiends nearby. Surrounded, they succumbed to the sneeple's sinister strikes./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The three awoke in a dank cave to find their old pal a class="autocardanywhere-link autocardanywhere-emphasised" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; display: inline !important; font-style: italic !important;" href=" magic/product/show?ProductName=Nissa,%20Who%20Shakes%20the%20Worldutm_medium=card" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-dictionary="mtgen" data-name="Nissa" data-hasqtip="1"Nissa/a had been captured as well. Finally all together, the four made quick work of the denizen sneeple of the cave, recovering lost gear and even coming into the possession of a choice set of armor for Brienne and a radical jug of various liquids. The final occupants of the cave were a couple of pesky wisps, but the party decided they were not worth the risk and yeeted themselves to the relative safety of the daylit outdoors./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"Deciding they were turned off from the Golden Grain and its exorbitant prices (and murderous patrons), the group chose to instead explore other destinations of Orlane, including a carpenter and several houses of probable-sneeple. After a night camping away from treacherous innkeepers, the group searched the remainder of the town, finding the northern half of the town to be decidedly friendlier. After acquainting themselves with two retired adventurers, a non-evil innkeeper, a secluded hermit, and a wealthy widow, the gang gathered that the local church was likely to be a main source of the town's recent bad times./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The party secured an audience with the priestess of the temple, who asked them to return the next day to go over the details of a potential job. The party planned to use this as an opportunity to sneak into the upper floor of the temple, where they had intel that an "innocent soul" was being kept. As is usually the case, the distraction was only partially successful, and after a frenzied fight between the priestess and her snogs and sneeple, the group prepared to storm the second floor…/p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"Once in town, the three headed for the Golden Grain Inn, seeking information and being offered absurd prices instead. They were pointed in the direction of the mayor, who was less than helpful and didn't even seem to be aware of the scaly infestation threatening his home. After continuing to be far from useful, he recommended staying at the Golden Grain Inn overnight./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The tired band returned to the pricey inn, swallowing their fiscal pride along with questionable meat and sullen silences. The three bargained for a room, again at a greedy rate, and settled in for what they thought would be a pleasant rest./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"In the dark of the night, a group of sneeple (snake-people, yuan ti) took Wunway by surprise under the cover of a silence spell, and the other two awoke to a missing friend and fiends nearby. Surrounded, they succumbed to the sneeple's sinister strikes./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The three awoke in a dank cave to find their old pal a class="autocardanywhere-link autocardanywhere-emphasised" style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; display: inline !important; font-style: italic !important;" href=" magic/product/show?ProductName=Nissa,%20Who%20Shakes%20the%20Worldutm_medium=card" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-dictionary="mtgen" data-name="Nissa" data-hasqtip="1"Nissa/a had been captured as well. Finally all together, the four made quick work of the denizen sneeple of the cave, recovering lost gear and even coming into the possession of a choice set of armor for Brienne and a radical jug of various liquids. The final occupants of the cave were a couple of pesky wisps, but the party decided they were not worth the risk and yeeted themselves to the relative safety of the daylit outdoors./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"Deciding they were turned off from the Golden Grain and its exorbitant prices (and murderous patrons), the group chose to instead explore other destinations of Orlane, including a carpenter and several houses of probable-sneeple. After a night camping away from treacherous innkeepers, the group searched the remainder of the town, finding the northern half of the town to be decidedly friendlier. After acquainting themselves with two retired adventurers, a non-evil innkeeper, a secluded hermit, and a wealthy widow, the gang gathered that the local church was likely to be a main source of the town's recent bad times./p
p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"The party secured an audience with the priestess of the temple, who asked them to return the next day to go over the details of a potential job. The party planned to use this as an opportunity to sneak into the upper floor of the temple, where they had intel that an "innocent soul" was being kept. As is usually the case, the distraction was only partially successful, and after a frenzied fight between the priestess and her snogs and sneeple, the group prepared to storm the second floor…/p