"Hello Captain. That's a surprise. I didn't expect you to come to our grand opening." Abomentolor replies.
"No but I can make him fly." Darthdy says to Tauriell and casts airwalk.
"Well, it's the best opportunity to hand you that little present." Captain Uriana explains while getting a nicely wrapped gift out of her pack and handing it to Abomentolor.
"As no one was desperate enough to appoint YOU as official authority in Underbridge I talked to the mayor again about a little restitution. And he agreed as I found something that you will probably like and that doesn't cost us." she says with a smirk.
Abomentolor raises an eyebrow on that explanation. He unwraps the gift and starts to laugh. "You work hard to make me a law abiding citizen of this town don't you?"
"I'm undecided if I should put that on display here or hide it somewhere in the dark."
"Isabella, take a look at that." he calls over the cleric holding up the document.
Isabella comes over with a mug of ale for the Captain. Reading the deed she asks "Shall I put that up behind the bar?"
"Why not. To honour the good will of Captain Uriana who spared no expense to get that for me." Abomentolor raises his mug. "To our beloved city watch."
"To the city watch." Captain Uriana replies and raises her mug too.
"I hope you hold us in that high regard and contact us the next time you have trouble with someone."
"No need to get your pants in a knot. As it looks we are going to leave town for a while." Abomentolor tells.
"My pants are fine I can assure you. But if you come to us the next time you find someone who tries to illegally profit from you it might be possible to solve this without you dying. Or dozens of citizens who might or might not be involved in these crimes."
Captain Uriana takes a swig from the mug. "Oh, you serve the good ale from the Fancy Reefclaw. My compliments."
"This is a temple of Cayden Cailean. To serve bad beverages would be blasphemy." Abomentolor jokes, ignoring the part about being a lawful citizen.
"In that case I'll stay here for a while and join you in your worship." Captain Uriana replies and takes another swig. "Where are you going to? For your next journey I mean."
"Kaer Maga was the name. Do you know what that is?" Abomentolor asks.
Captain Uriana almost chokes on her ale as she starts laughing. "It's a city. And I bet it's exactly your cup of tea. There are no such things as city guards there. Maybe you were too quick with your decision to open your 'temple' here."
"I'll tell you once I have seen that town." Abomentolor replies and takes a swig himself.
Abomentolor sits over his ale and muses for a while. Then he asks with a smirk "You sitting here with me. Who's reputation gets more damaged - yours or mine?"
"No one of significance is going to show up here. So probably yours. If you wanted to become a figure in organized crime that is." Captain Uriana replies with a smile.
"Now that you remind me - there is still that offer to join the thieves guild. Are there benefits to that?" Abomentolor asks.
"Good old days it were when they were more picky about their members." Uriana teases the gnome.
"I thought so. I'd never join a club that takes members like me. But maybe I should found my own guild of anarchic fire loving deconstructionists." Abomentolor thinks aloud.
"Great idea! I hear that is exactly what they are missing in Kaer Maga." Uriana replies. "For Magnimar you could consider a brewer's guild." she suggests.
"That is boring business stuff. I'm not interested in that." Abomentolor replies.
"Then what did you build this bar for?" Uriana inquires.
"I have to eat and drink. And I don't see myself in the kitchen. While other may cook their meat rare, medium or well done I only do burnt and badly burnt." Abomentolor jokes.
"I know humility and moderation is not yours. But a complete bar seems a bit of an overkill for that." Uriana comments.
"Why? It has a big sign with my name on it and it came with a free bartender/brewer/cook. It's a multi purpose feed and promote Abomentolor enterprise. And if it works out I never have to pay for my food." Abomentolor explains. "And going for the overkill is always nice. If you can afford it."
"Why not. I won't complain about free ale." Uriana tells concentrating on her mug again.
"When shall we plan our journey to Kaer Maga?" Gwenhwyfar asks.
"As soon as you have a reservation in an appropriate hotel and a comfortable way of getting there. Besides that I'm ready to go." Abomentolor replies.
"That's a good idea. Instead of this annoying dungeon crawling we sit in a hotel room and invite the people and monsters we'd normally scare up for an audience with us." Gwenhwyfar jokes. "Maybe I'll ask Lini if she has some magic device that would enable me to move through and see the dungeons without actually being there."
"No that's not good. You don't shit where you eat." Abomentolor replies.
Meanwhile outside
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Tauriell leads Darthdy and her pet up to her room. "Welcome to my home. Take a seat." she offers taking a seat on the bed herself. "Where have you been all this time?"
"Well... do you remember on the island were you forgot Brutus? You have forgoten me too." Darthdy says to Tauriell. After she said it she takes a seat of Tauriells home.
"With Brutus someone who is responsible for him - Niamh, or Abomentolor - forgot him. I think you are old enough to take care of yourself and not get lost. Aren't you?" Tauriell asks. "What did you do on the cape the last weeks?"
"I can take care of myself otherwise I were dead by now. And in the last weeks I found my new friend." Darthdy says and looks at her wolf.
"Good to hear that." Tauriell replies and tells Darthdy what happened here in Magnimar in this time.
Later that week
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Mrs. Heidmarch contacts some people and asks around and organies everything needed to get to Kaer Maga. It takes her a few days to arrange that and get the needed ioun stone. But as she expected everything falls in place finally and she invites Gwenhwyfar and who ever wants to come along into her office.
"Welcome." she greets them and offers everyone a seat. "I managed to get everything together that you'll need to get to Kaer Maga. Eando Kline a Pathfinder that is at the moment in exile went to Kaer Maga and found a really valuable ioun stone and some other things of thassilonian origin there. So it was no big surprise that a shard shold be located there."
"The easiest way to get there is by ship up the Yondabakari River. And I secured you a passage on the Lucky Jenny, the ship of Captain Othlo Janke. It is a very fast ship that takes only about two weeks to reach Kaer Maga instead of the two month that normal donkey pulled ships need. It leaves the day after tomorrow two hours after sunrise."
"If you feel lucky you can try to use your magic to get there with the picture from the shard. But I know there is quite the risk with that."
"Finally I managed to secure a pink rhomboid ioun stone that you will need to activate the shard once you find it. Please don't use it circling around your head. It's to precious to get snatched away by some pickpocket. Also you should be careful in Kaer Maga. It is a melting pot for all people who are not welcome somewhere else in the world. Not all of them are criminals but be careful. It's no use to go there to get the shards you already have stolen." Mrs. Heidmarch explains and hands them a note with the name of the ship and the captain as well as the ioun stone.
Gwenhwyfar stocks up on journals and food rations - just in case.
On the ship she takes some time each day to finally create the potions for Abomentolor he bought the components for weeks ago in Riddleport.
The rest of the time she spends on deck enjoying the sunny and still mild days of Rova. She sits there enjoying the landscape that passes along and if she finds something special she makes a drawing of that.
Tauriell uses the time to have her Armor and her Blade magically enchanted. Besides that she buys some fishing equipment to kill the time while travelling up the river.
On the boat she sits most of the time on deck at stern dragging some bait after the ship with a fishing rod.
Abomentolor is bored to death. First everything that he would be interested in to purchase is far too expensive. And on the ship there is nothing to do. So he decides to have a lot of beauty sleep. He only comes out to the captain's dinners. The only other activity is when Tauriell visits him. But even then he doesn't get out of bed.
Darthdy goes with Tauriell and buys a fishing rod too.
And on the boat she sits beside Tauriell and asks: "Do you want a competention? Who can catch the most fish."
"No thank you. I want to relax. Not compete." Tauriell replies. "I should have bought a hat." she adds squinting her eyes because of the sun.
"OK but just siting there and waiting that a fish bites on the rod without excitement is boring." Darthdy says.
"That is your problem. But sitting here while someone whines about not knowing what to do with herself is annoying." Tauriell tells Darthdy.
Niamh buys different kinds of pie to make sure she won't have to eat the same sort of pie twice on their journey. She also copies some sheets of music to practise for the boat tour and wishes Leruu her farewell before she climbs onto the ship where she plays music most of the time.
Jimmy spends some time investigation some of the prominent names in the city, the rest of the time he spends with Gwen
Tauriell sits up in her bed and nudges Abomentolor. "Cast me invisible. I guess there are some frog asses to kick."
While she waits for Abomentolor to do so she picks up her backpack. Carefully stowed way are the goggles of night that she puts on.
Abomentlor casts greater invisibility on Tauriell "Leave some for me too." Abomentolor says while he considers if he should drink a potion of mage armor. But instead he gets up and holds the door open for the now invisible Tauriell and casts shield instead.