Spike's Hireling Party:
We sold most of the prisoners from Helmut's tower to the mines in Keening. However, there were a couple of the wizard's former agents we decided to keep. The four of them served as Helmut's elite, traveling spies and enforcers and weren't very interested in working for the king back in Nashik. We paid them a healthy sum of gold and they agreed to work for us (specifically, our Shadar-kai mystic). Spike, our mystic, gave his hirelings the old land deed we discovered in the ossuary and ordered them to find the place.
Elves and Their Masters' Offer:
We ran into Nico and friends around Keening. They said that their Elemental masters desperately demanded an audience with us. Nico loaned us his magic mirror and we had a conference with the Elementals. The Elemental in the mirror offered us a huge amount of money, artifacts and land if we could bring them the Ossuary Grymoir. They seemed more than a little annoyed that we'd given it to the Aons. We agreed to get the book for them and ended the conference. The nearly destitute hippie elves were super angry and stormed away. I'm convinced the deal is a setup. It would certainly break the Aon/Elemental truce and I don't buy the Elemental in the mirror's argument that it could be kept secret. I think it's reasonably safe to assume the Elves are working for some kind of splinter group, the same group that attacked the Aons' Game. I just keep seeing that pyro-dragon with that Iblis-like symbol on it. These guys are making me very nervous and there's pretty much no way in Heck I'm going to give them that book. It looks like we have another book forging adventure ahead of us.
Herrick's Mistake:
Katja told us that her nasty plan for Herrick was prepared. She decided it would be best just to tell Herrick her secret for refining the essentia ore. That way we could collect our reward and have a chance at getting Herrick to reveal more about his plan. I thought it a strange decision considering how furious she was when we first talked about it. I guess, in spite of her temper, Katja really is a shrewd operator. Anyway, we secured an audience with Herrick at once. We told him, under a zone of truth, that Katja used a dragon's breath to refine the ore. Herrick gave us our generous reward for the information. Herrick then offered us a fortune to steal the dragon. He said he'd also pay for another dragon, but not nearly as much because he wanted Katja out of the picture. I'll bet, dear reader, you can guess what we did with that information!
Katja and Kwaku:
I suspect that something has changed with whatever is going on between the dragon and the elf. Sometimes, when she glances at him, I notice something more than lust in her eyes. And, the other day, I caught him rehearsing some lines from that book we bought in Eibelstat. I asked him about it, but he's tight lipped about the whole thing. I sure hope he knows what he's doing; I can imagine about a baker's dozen ways this could end in disaster. Of course, I have to admit, I do find his predicament extremely entertaining.
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