Ok... so that guy is dead.

The group, as it is, has decided to head west in search of new adventures. Many things happen in their journey, including a battle with some not so nice gargoyles and a few goblins. The crew owned everyone, and thus the battle ended quickly, with many of the blood stains covering the mountain pass.

Substitute Balrog for a couple gargoyles and you've got it.

After that, we catch up with the adventurers they have found their way into the tower city of Sharn (as in it is made up of towers. Like, lot's of towers. Enough that it's called the City of Towers.) So our guys are hanging out, and it's a pretty rain day *insert clap of thunder/ rain sounds here* and they are walking back to the rooms they are renting. It's night time so they can really only see what the lamps are showing them, which is some dude in a cloak standing over another dude who is laying on a bridge spanning the distance between two towers  Not suspicious at all. As the group approaches the cloaked dude backs off, melting into the night. (Ooooooooo.... Kinda like that).

As they walk up on broseph on the ground, they realize that dude has been straight up shanked!

Now, obviously, the first thing you do when you find a dead body is look for loot. 

Obviously.

They find papers identifying the man as Bonel Geldem. As well as some monies (woot woot!) and an apple. 

Yummmm....

What else they find will have to wait till later because at that very moment, they are attacked!!! 

By this guy ----->

Warforged

This, my friends, is a Warforged. It's the unholy offspring of Captain America, a Ku Klux Klan member, and a demonic toaster oven. With a battle axe. (Don't ask me how that works, it's magic ok.) Made completely of metal bits, this guy (his name is Cutter) has all the social class and mental stability as a charging rhino on steroids. He jumps in too attack the group from the side of the bridge they are on (which is maybe 200 feet in the air. Like I said, bad ass.) He attacks the nearest person with a mighty swing of his battleaxe and the fight ensues.

However, despite the fact that this guy took after Achilles and was dipped in the river "Badasskickyouinthefacetwice", he was no match for our group. The pummel him and, in a last ditch effort to get away, jumps over the side of the bridge and plummets to his death.

Not the brightest crayon in the box

The group, now euphoric at killing a thing (they are a bunch of psychopaths), are high-fiving each other with blood... or I guess Oil... covered hands. They search the rest of deady's stuff, and find some more coin, and a leather bound journal that... is just a whole bunch of scribbles. They snatch that up because this is a fantasy environment and anything you can't read has something to do with a sweet quest.
Then the guards show up. only about 10 of them but still. The group manages to sweet talk themselves out of another night in prison (a situation that they have grown truly tired of after the events at Redwall.) They agree that after a successful night of killing a dude that had apparently killed another dude (they recognize the cloak that Cutter was wearing as the one of they guy who melted into the darkness) that they should go get their party on in a tavern. It's right about then that ANOTHER cloaked guy (how many are in this damn city?) walks up to them all sly like and whispers some stuff to them. 

Most peoples would immediately be skeptical of this dude. He is probably wanting to sell them some stolen pomade or discounted cuttlefish pillows or maps to where famous bards live.

Wanna buy a sun dial? 

Yea, just like that. 

But really he tells them that if they want to know the truth about dead guy's non-livification (aka his death)  that they should hit up this sweet new tavern over on beat street called The Broken Anvil. All the hip cats and cool kids hang at that dope crib. 

They all agree, some of them begrudgingly, that they should check it out. And so, still in the pourig rain, they head over to this sick joint, to see if it really is...

off the chain.
  

   

Ok... we are going to skip ahead.

(This next section is going to skip ahead quite a bit but I will cover the essentials. Sorry for the inconvenience.) 

 

What you need to know:

• The team then took out the horde of rat men. It was sweet.
• They fight some undead dudes.
• Eddy is actually Edina, and is having them babies. 
• She has them babies. Qila squeals a little bit. 

  

  AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

  
  
  
  
• Ornack got a sick returning javelin from the nest of a long dead, giant spider. 
• They find their way to the second level and it is dark. Like really REALLY dark. That's what happens when there is no lights.
• They have a run in with some other adventurers and have an epic battle that is... well epic. They win, and steal the peoples things. 
• They find an skeletal T-Rex and decide "eh, better not."

• They run away and the T-Rex almost brings the entire cave down on top of them, and actually causes a huge flood which terrifies poor Ornack to the point of hysteria and he nearly gets himself and everyone else killed with doors trapped with fire bombs. #opps
• They fight a ghost guy who nearly kills all of them too. 
• The find the lair of the Rat Deity. Dora casts a darkness spell on accident #doubleopps and then they are surrounded by THOUSANDS of rats. The best part was a tie between Vaylan controlling some rats to become Rat Armor, with them feeding him jelly beans every so often, and also Ornack just laying on the ground and flopping this way and that, crushing them. 
• Rat deity comes out...
• They kill rat deity... in like... 3 minutes...
• Out strolls the new rat deity... EDDY!!!!

  

  Bow down before me, mortals.

• That's right, Eddy is a god now. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 
• They leave the dungeon, and head outside. 

NOW... this is going to be a very quick summery...

Redwall was taken over by Doppelgangers... the food source to the peasants was cut off... the peasants started eating each other... Ornack and Dora fell in love, Gram through a broom at Ornack, Vaylan toad ring jumped while a dude was holding him and it ripped the other guys arms off. They ran into a gold dragon that was actually the king of Redwall, and he left them the Rooster ring. They left. 

UP NEXT! The adventures in Sharn! Stay tuned ;)    

  

Ok... are those butterflies?

Were we left off last time the group was making it's way across an underground lake to hopefully find the Rat Ring. Stalactites are falling from the ceiling and headed straight towards the adventures on their little raft.

So, they book it. pull as hard and as fast as they can to get away and unfortunately, all of them survived. Now that they're on the other side, the group decides to search around. Going down a small hallway they find a room that has a BIG skeleton in it... big with wings and sharp teeth and it's totally a dragon skeleton. Swarming around it are some...

butterflies?

Yep. That's butterflies. And butterflies are harmless unless you have butterfly-phobia (which I don't think any of them do.)

A few of them walk into the room and, believe it or not, are instantly attacked by the millions of carnivorous butterflies (HA! Harmless they thought. Why be afraid of butterflies, they thought....)

Now fighting swarms is kinda tricky. You see, millions of tiny things that are fluttering about in the air are really hard to hit with a sword or a great club or a fist. The group soon realizes this and panic, and in their panic start unloading various elemental damage, the most of which is dealt out by ye old faith bunny! Being in control of pretty much any elemental blast that you want is pretty nifty.

*At this point I am going to skip ahead. I apologize greatly but it has been too long since this took place, and so I have no idea what actually happens after this*


After killing the butterflies and making there way across the lake again (they had to freeze Ornack in time once more) they start heading down the path that was giving everyone a kind of creepy feel. In front of them was a BIG statue of a dog with 4 ears. (looks kinda like a rottweiler).

That strange feeling keeps pressing on them until, out of nowhere, Dora, Ornack, and Qila decided that this is their new deity, and will worship it... now... like RIGHT now. Not TOMORROW, not after CSI, now.

So while they are all worshiping the strange dog icon, Moggle, in his infinite wisdom thinks, "Eh?" and decides to question the goings on of her new companions. His looks very deep into the soul of the dog statue and calls upon it's essence. There was much of the glowing eyes, chanting, and thunderstorm calling in this process.

"Oh great spirit," Moggle said, bowing his head.

The dog deity looks down on Moggle and in a deep voice asks, "What is it that you want, little one? Why are you before me?"

Moggle looked into the Dog deities eyes and with great confidence...




Is interrupted  by a small child (the one whose soul is trapped inside the bunny) who has just yelled

"PANCAKES!!!!"



*epic time wizard facepalm Moggle*

"As you wish," the dog replies, and summons a plate of warm, soft, drenched in syrup pancakes, that the bunny immediately starts worshiping (not eating, mind you. She has no mouth. Just bowing down to in dramatic fashion.)

  *At this point I am going to skip ahead. I apologize greatly but it has been too long since this took place, and so I have no idea what actually happens after this. I know the group is saved by Moggle. Unfortunately this is going to happen a lot. So I'm going to write about the highlights of the quest instead.*

Next the group make it to a fountain that says "Blessed be those who do not accept the norm." If they put the cup in the water upside down it fills with fire breathing potion.

Now, the group is getting tired and know they need someplace to rest. So they find a small alcove that turns out to be a BIG room with a BIG statue in it. The statue is of an ancient goddess that, because of the modern trends, is naked.

Now if you or I were to see this statue, after what happened with the weird dog thingy, we would stay away from it. We would NOT attempt to toss a wizard up to its boobs so he can get his grope on.

Which is EXACTLY what Vaylan and Gram do... (obviously Gram isn't tossing Vaylan, that would be impossible.) Gram manages to lock onto a boob when the rest of the group notice another fountain with the words "Blessed are those who are pure of mind" engraved on it.


Opps. Big oops.

That statue does not like being fondled by a Werebear and 1/2 a wizard. So it kills them.

No really. Dead. Boom. Gone. Do not pass go. Do not collect your entrails that are now cast to the 4 winds.

Moggle, again, swoops in to save the day. He manages to chat the Goddess down into just cursing them. So now, whenever Gram looks at a woman, his eyes burn (literally. smoke and everything.) and Vaylan... well Vaylan got herpes.

But that's not the best part, ladies and gentlemen. Not by a long shot. Cause Gram has some integrity/ Not the "Maybe i shouldn't molest this statue" kind but more of a "oops, I gave my buddy herpes because I felt up a goddess... i should fix this" kind.

So he makes a pact that if he is completely celibate for the rest of his life, Vaylan no longer has the Herp.

The goddess agrees... and watches the door while the whole group sleeps.

OK... so let's go to the dungeon!!!!

First thing's first: Moggle is the most Bad A$$ cat you will ever meet ever x10. He is a time wizard, meaning he can travel to any point in time he wants, along with blasting people with time energy, he can't really be tricked by anything, also can't see everything's true form, and has his own paw on a string around his neck... except it's the paw of his dad's best friend.... he is a complicated little cat...

He shows up and thinks, know what? I'm kinda bored. Let's help these guys out.

POOF! time travel all of them to 4 hours earlier. So while they are breaking into the library they are also back at an Inn getting drunk like nobodies business. Even the bunny. (Imagine a bunny stuffed animal jumping into a tankard of mead... soaking all that up... and drunk)

All the while, Moggle sets to deciphering the script that tells them where the Zodiac Rings are. Like I said, he can do whatever he wants. And you love him for doing it.

Earlier that day, a part of the group discovered a secret hatch directly beneath the palace (I can't remember who it was but I'm pretty sure it was Qila and Dora again). They started heading down there by themselves but got a funny feeling that they needed the rest of the group ;)

Yes. It was divine intervention.

They let the group know the next day what they found and decide its a good place to start. 

And so... They enter the dungeon... Fun dun DUUUUUNNNNNN. 

(oh! I'll also point out that Dora stole a wand of darkness from Gram... Just because. It's important later)

The group enters the cavern, including Moggle and Eddie, and Eddie becomes very ill for some reason... Qila looks her over and has a sudden realization... Eddie is a girl!!!

congratulations! 

Yea. He was always a she. Also she's prego. Little baby fire rats are on their way! And while most people would vote for burning them alive in sight, Qila instead squeals in a way that forces all the men in the party to grow ovaries. And all the girls in the party to grow an extra ovary. Ovaries for everyone!

They leave Eddie there to do her thing and head into the cavern. One direction gives them all a bad feeling... So they avoid that. A second direction they can hear deep running water, meaning the half-Orc says hell no. That leaves option number 3! A small path that leads to practically no where but hey, might as well check it out. 

It was only a few meters into the tunnel that Qila is hoisted up by her leg on a hidden snare trap. Just then a loud bell rings and Moggle notices a green wire of magic energy running from the snare trap into the cave wall (towards the interior). The rest of the group hears shouting coming from a small tunnel beneath the snare trap... And five or six rat people pop out and ATTACK! 

Kill the infidels! 

They look like this. Half human, half rat, all nasty. They will eat anything: pickles, humans, liver and onions, humans, rotten cabbage, little humans, and even insects. But they mostly prefer humans. 

They come busting out of the hole in the ground and immediately attack the group who were to surprised to do anything about it. However, the battle ends pretty quick. You got Qila hanging upside down, Vaylan and Ornack handling the front line, Dora and the wizard doing a thing, and the bunny and cat handling epic long range attacks. 

They finish them off and let Qila down to get to the end of the tunnel where they find a treasure chest full of goodies. Probably stuff like what you find at a dentist office that you get to pick from if you don't bite the dentist and it was his fault anyway, I just wanted a bouncy ball. 

This cavern however comes to a dead end. So they have to turn around and choose a different path. 

They are all still getting bad vibes from one path so the decide, much the the disgust of Ornak, to check out the other path.

They find an underground lake. It was two ropes that allow you to pull yourself on one of two paths across the water while standing on a make shift raft. Vaylan just goes ahead and dives in, cause swimming is awesome.

Ornack freaks the crap out. He saying he won't go just leave him here he'll be fine. 

Enter Moggle stage left. 

He does this nifty little trick where he time  stops Ornak. Literally freezing him mid sentence. They can move him around but he has no clue what's happening. So the load him on to the raft and set out, choosing the lower path. It wasn't long however until they hear a loud rumble... And stalactites start falling from the ceiling towards their boat...  

Ok... so what is that smell? and who is Isadora?

Later that night, all the adventures are sleepy-time. The Bunny (who does not sleep) keeps watch but frankly, how much is a 6yr old trapped in the body of a stuffed animal going to pay attention?
Correct. not much.

So she DOESN'T notice when there is a sudden sulfuric smell in the air. Or the large group of goblins that have suddenly popped up and... grabbed everyone. Well that's unfortunate. Everyone is tied up really tight BUT because of how awesome everyone is, some of them are already free. (Vaylan isn't but if he decides to go full bear form he is gonna bust those ropes anyway... he's a big dude.)

Now the Captain of the Goblin party is talking and rambling and I honestly don't remember what he says... It wasn't important. Probably something like "Don't vaccinate your kids" or "How dare you not have a vegan option" but most probably "Blah blah blah blah". You get the idea. The basics are they're evil, there to eat people, and probably think the halfling is kinda cute ;)

Vaylan, being the one with the sharpest eyes, has noticed that Chadwick is making pointed staring motions to a spot by the fire. It's about then that Vaylan notices the toad ring next to the fire It's also about then that Chadwick gets his head cut off.

that escalated quickly

You read that right. Zip! Off goes the head. It bounces about and probably rolls someplace with his tongue sticking out in a comical manner... which means at some point he probably licked the ground... Remember kids! In eminent decapitation, keep your mouth closed. You don't want to suffer that kind of indignity.

His body and head are taken away and that's when people go hulk on these guys. All of them are in a rage. All of them are there to kick ass and hand out lollipops... none of them had any more lollipops. 

Needless to say, they owned. A few survived by running away like the french natives they are. 

The group is also ready to track them down and hand out more non-existent lollipops. But it is then that a lovely young lady wanders into the camp. Her name is Isadora. Instantly both the Half-Orc and the Half dead wizard are in love.

when I say lovely young lady I mean dead sexy

She hears the groups plan to go avenge their friend but tells them it's a suicide mission. Like... a fly is trying to attack a Venus fly trap in order to avenge it's fallen comrades. Unfortunately the outcome of this tact would be the same result as the stupid fly: discovering a new definition of pain as they are slowly digested. Or they will raped, killed, eaten, and sewn into clothing, though not necessarily in that order.

She instead asks if she can join them on their trip to Redwall, the place that Chadwhick translated from the scroll as housing the Rat Deity ring.

Sure. Why not. She pretty sexy.

So they start their trip. A few days later they reach the city of Redwall. It is a desert city built into the sides of a giant red rock (think Australia) with a teared city layout. It's situated in a half circle with one main outer wall close to 80 feet high and 5 man gates set at intervals around the wall. After that it forms a kind of waggon wheel, with walls stretching from the main wall to the plaza of a giant palace. A second wall sets inside that city, halfway between the main wall and the palace, and it separates the living areas and markets from the palace, prison, and guard house along with a few other noble houses and swankier shops.

The architecture of the city looks like a time line. Newer buildings and house are just build on the top of other ones after the city is conquered by a new leader. The person in charge now is a man by the name of Duke Sky. He was at one time an adventurer as well and loves to accommodate them. He has even set up an enormous library in order to assist them on new information they might need. 

So that's what the group finds when they get there. First thing they decide to do is get the rest of the scroll translated. Not knowing where to begin they head to a local pub to ask information. Or at least, the bunny does. She sets off and prays that everyone else follows her, cause she don't need no man! she will live her own life. 

Hell yes bunny. You can do it! 

Moving on. They gain information that says that if they look in the library (shock) and decided to head that way. 

Or rather, the bunny, Qila (that is all) Maybe Isadora as well... A few of them go to the library.

When they show up they are stopped by someone with a long drawl that would put anyone to sleep, though why you would want to sleep near this guy is beyond me. He looks like he might steal your kidney and use it as a pocket watch.
He introduces himself as the butler (creeeeeeeepppppppyyyyyy) and asks if he can help them. After explaining what they are looking for the butler giggles to himself in a "gonna get his throat punched" kind of way and explains they are not allowed into the library. He also steals the bunny. (Not gonna lie, dude sucks.)

That's when Qila and Isadora come up with a plan.... break into the library at night and steal what they can!!!!!!!! Woot! Rebels!

That's when they wait until time to break in... So here is the tricky part... the guys of the group Gram, Vaylan, and Ornak have the EXACT same idea. On the same night... and pretty much the same time.

Now I sadly do not recall most of what goes down. Highlights
Qila and Isadora break in without too much trouble.
Gram and Vaylan I'm pretty sure have to knock out some guards.
Ornack is drunk out on the front steps.
Qila scars a man for life by basically slicing his face off...
Vaylan scars people so bad they die.
The bunny throws a books case at some people.
Ornack is singing while drunk on the front steps.
Lots of guards... lots of them die (Vaylan doesn't know his own strength)
Ornack is REALLY drunk. He is also chatting with a guard named Isaac.

They lit the library on fire. 

The eventually find the book and make it out of the library which is in the castle. But how are they going to get away with this? They can' have ANOTHER city out for their blood....

enter the most powerful creature they have ever met in their lives... a creature of legend and one the stands out in sophistication and raw cunning. A creature that is wise, long lived, able to travel through time, and a cat.

Meet Moggle. An orange tabby cat that can control time.

Shit just got real. 

Ok... what is the zodiac?

Where we left off the group had just found out they were responsible for the death/soul mutation of a young girl so that now she is a whisk wielding, pink bunny stuffed animal that is immune to fire and can absorb energy. (Which in all honesty is really awesome, but a tiny bit sad.)

Now the group is on the run. They are wanted by the guard for the murder of one of their knights so they must hide out in a lot of unsavory places. Their only hope is to sneak out of the city but that's kinda hard when the entire city is on lock down.

Gram, who uses a disguise self spell to travel the city looking for options, decides to sell some of the loot they got in the sewer and forest tower in order to help pay for an escape. When he tries to sell the ZODIAC scroll, the merchant just laughs and says he doesn't need any of that junk and directs Gram to a wizard by the name of Chadwick who owns a shop in the city.

Chadwick: Tall, stringy, short hair and longish nose. He is busy playing with a fly buzzing around the desk when Gram walks in.  

They chat. blah blah blah.

That's when the scroll comes out. And that's when Chadwick gets a face like this:

This is what his face looked like. 

He has heard of the zodiac scroll and had actually come to the city in order to find it. He says he is willing to help the group sneak out of the city as long as they take him with them. (Gram is suspicious, but he takes the win.)

This is the plan: Massive disguise spells that will allow the group to join a supply train that's going towards one of the bigger raiding parties for the city. They wait for their chance and then scurry away.

The plan goes well. They get out of the city without much hassle and join a supply train. With them are two knights, an archer, and a guy who just owns the horses they are using.

While riding they talk to their companions and learn that the city is under siege from goblins. Instead of fighting all out against them, the city counsel  decided to close the city, and just wait for the horde to leave (they had the supplies so they were fine). They also sent out small raiding parties in order to weaken the goblins just encase a real fight broke out.

The problem is, some of the supply trains (like this one) have been getting hit by goblin raids as well. It is suspected that there is a mole someplace in the city giving out information.

It was about this time that Vaylan (bear man himself) starts to smell... sulfur?  Yep, that is totally sulfur. That's weird...


Boom. Horse is dead. Hit with a flying arrow right to the neck. Falls over like a drunk frat boy who skips leg days.

And that's when the goblins attack.

Goblin

This is a goblin. Small but strong. WAY meaner and harder to deal with than kobolds. They tend to stick to caves and dungeons, but it's not unusual to have them terrorize villages, or to see them cry. (10 points to whoever gets that reference.)

Now these guys start running up and yell, "Kill the non-beilibers!" (Yes you read that correctly. I am of the opinion that all fans of the beibs are secretly goblins in heavy makeup. Think about it: small, good at forming militia groups, and dumber than a high school freshman trying to convince the world that it's a grown-up now.)

Well, the group sets to work killing ickel-gobbli-kins. (Insert dramatic BOOM CRASH SLASH and ZING here.)

The fight isn't what matters. What matters is while the battle was going on, Chadwick tells Ornack that this was their chance to run. Just abandon the soldiers and slip away during the battle.

Ornack is now feeling the weight of a moral dilemma: Leave and hopefully these people survive or stay and fight, in which case they will probably die.

Ornack thinks... and thinks... and thinks...and thinks... and thinks...and thinks... and thinks... and thinks... and thinks... and so on.

They run. He yells to the rest of the group and they all follow suit, just as they see Worg Riders headed their way.

These guys are running into battle. They are Paladins of the Beiber world. 

And so, the group takes off. Behind them they here yells from the knights "You've betrayed us! You cowards!" and then they die. So it's all good.

Later that night, once they have made it to a safe location, Chadwick shares with them the legend of the zodiac rings.




Long long ago, there was an animalistic deity who hated the relentless march of man on nature. He warred against men but their progress would not be stopped. Eventually the deity felt his consciousness waning and decided to split his being into thirteen animal spirits. Each one could be distinguished by the fact that each one was much larger than it's mortal counterparts, was highly intelligent, and each worn a distinctive ring around it's neck.

The animals included 9 minor deities: the hound, the monkey, the ox, the boar, the toad, the frog, the hare, the bear, the tiger, the rat, and the snake. Also 3 major deities that ruled over their domain: the rooster in the heavens, the octopus in the sea, the elephant over all the land.

Once this zodiac was created, the old god faded away. These new gods were also no longer angry with the humans. So they ruled their domains in relative peace, though guarded them viciously if attacked.

At this point came a clan of dwarfs, who saw the chance to take control over those deities. The tracked down and slew three of them: the toad, the hare, and the rooster. Once the gods were killed, their rings shrunk down to be worn by someone new, and each granted them amazing power, each unique to the deity it came from. It wasn't long however until the dwarfs went to war with each other over the rings, and eventually split into three factions, and the whereabouts of the remaining deities was lost.  


Until now...

Chadwick went on to explain that the scroll they had found could be used to find the others. He could translate the inscriptions and deciphered that the nearest ring resided in the city of REDWALL to the west.

At this point the group showed doubt. I'm pretty sure it was Vaylan who spoke up, asking how he knew these legends were true.

Chadwick grinned and pulled a long chain from under his shirt. On it was a black ring that was smooth on the inside and rough and bumpy on the outside. It gleamed in the light as he placed it on his finger and immediately thrust his hand into the fire. (the ring makes the wearer completely fire proof).

He then jumped nearly 20 ft from a standing position, disappearing into the dark before launching back again.

"This is the toad ring."

The group nodded in the mutual appreciation of the rings awesome. agreed to find the rat ring, and went to bed.      

Ok... Who is that bunny?

When the group gets back to the city... no one is there. The guards aren't there. The archers aren't there. The wizard isn't there. The Knight is still sorta there... you know... his burnt remains and all that... But he doesn't count. Point: the place is deserted.
And when they make their way to the man hole cover... it's open.
And when they get to the room with the dire crocodile... it's dead.
And the trap door thingy is open.

Charity, sensing something is wrong, takes off to find her sisters.
It takes a little while to catch up to her. She has found  the middle sister Hope. As it turns out, because of the death of the knight (a.k.a Sir Crispy) The guard did a more thorough search of the area to find weaknesses in the fortifications. It didn't take them long to backtrack the groups movements though the sewers and locate anyone who noticed them (hint: the inn keeper where the party was housing the girls.)

Hope was ambushed by guards while she was at work. She managed to get away... but when she made it back to the inn, she saw the guards dragging Grace out. She was still very sick and wasn't in complete control of her powers (reminder: she has the traits of a psionic. Meaning psychic. Meaning she can do pretty much anything anyone else can do... but with her mind.)

While trying to fight back she released a huge amount of psionic energy... but the stress was too much for her. She died while trying to get away.

Now the girls blame the group... if they had hurried they could have saved her. Or better yet, they could have left the girls alone and the guards never would have found their hiding place. Or better yet, maybe they shouldn't have LIT A KNIGHT ON FIRE! (I'm looking at you Vaylan and Gram)

The girls leave, hating the group.

That night, while making their way to an inn (they have to be sneaky since they are wanted fugitives now...) when Qila hears something behind them. They all turn, and out of the shadows emerges...

The Good King, Mr. Schnibles (He is supposed to be holding a whisk instead of a knife)

It's the small pink bunny that Grace was holding that first time they met... It only takes a few moments to realize that what everyone else had assumed was Grace trying to defend herself, was actually her transferring her consciousness from her weak, sick body, to a body she knew couldn't get hurt. And now she can go on adventures like she always wanted.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of the first quest "Chasing Charity".

Tune in next time when the party learns about the mysterious Zodiac scroll, and the incredible powers it can lead them to.