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Learning that there are more rooms to the south, as the team speaks about someone agile jumping, Wulfgar goes back into the rooms, looking at the walls he asks "Junpink good idea comrades, however I am thinkink if no one is wantink to be jumpink, could not we be breakink a hole in the wall and crossink through there, da?" pointing south through the bed room pulling his crowbar out of his pack for effect.
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Fuzzfoot enters the office and looks around. He finds rotten papers, the text on it is not readably any more, several useless tools like letter openers or paper clips. The piece of the Sky Key is not there.
This sleeping room's floor is covered with ice. The blankets on the bed are frozen, also in this room you don't find the piece of the Sky Key.
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Wulfgar looks around the four bedrooms, the office and the room where the dwarf was sitting. He begins using detect magic in each room, as he looks he asks aloud, almost talking to himself. "Is anyone knowink what the 'skykey' is lookink like, or what it is beink made of? going to the dwarven corpes he removes the hexagonal hematite beard clasp holding it up and then putting it in a pocket he says "for all I am knowink, this do-dad is beink the key, da? Comrades Shall we be lowerink a rope to see if this place is havink a basement to be searchink there?
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"I think the Venture Captain's information may have been faulty, comrade." Salouris says. "If a relic as important as that is not with the chief, it is more likely than not that the dwarves may have brought it with them when they fled."
He smiles. "But all is not lost, is it? After all, the Society has that Tapestry, do we not?"
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"We have at least a lead on the component we need. Not to mention some more information about this community." Salouris glances at both the clasp Wulfgar holds and the cleanly-shorn hole where the Tapestry magic must have been overlayed. "It may be best to depart before more winterwolves arrive."
The paladin turns towards their guide with concern. "Ms Uliyara, we can escort you back with us across the border if you would like. If you are truly being hunted, you may find it easier to hide out of the country, for now."
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Wulfgar can't believe that the Sky Key fragment is not here and he searches every single room once again, detecting magic where he can, but the fragment does not appear. He even uses the rest of the fire bricks, but the ice he melts does not release anything but rocks.
Just in the moment you start to gather in the entrance hall for leaving Naldak's Point you see a woman, a Dalun guard and a ice bear approaching the entrance.
"We come to rescue Uliyara, let her go and we won't hurt you!" the woman demands. "Her mother Baroness Nadya sent us, my name is Kiryena"
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"Yes, that's correct. I'm here on my own will, they did not take me hostage." Uliyara says.
"If this is the case, tell me who you are and what you do here in Irrisen. Baroness Nadya told me you visited Dalun as merchants, but you won't find any customers or other merchants in these ruins. Uliyara, your mother is concerned, she heard of spies who entered Irisen, coming from Whiterook. She thought they kidnapped you." the winter witch answers.
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Hiro looks to his companions for affirmation, then shrugs. "I suppose there is no point in hiding anything, Uliyara already knows our true intentions." Turning to the winter witch, he holds out his open palms to his side. "We are merely scholars in search of information. We are members of the Pathfinder Society. We have no affiliation with Dalun. As a matter of fact, we narrowly avoided being captured by guards from Whiterook. If it weren't for Uliyara's expert handling of our boat, we surely would have been captured." He finishes, smiling at Uliyara.
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"And I was really carful, they did not know who I am until one of your mother's winter wolves blew my disguise." Uliyara answers.
"Spies would not be good spies if you know that they are spies on first sight. Pathfinders, hm. So, did you find what you are looking for? If so, we would like to escort you back to Dalun. Your mother already awaits you, Uliyara." the winter witch says.
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Wufgar, smiling, his greatsword balanced on his shoulder his right eye spinning and twitching, he pushes his greasy long black hair out of his face, looking from pathfinder to pathfinder, then to Ulyara and the winter witch, then back to Fuzzfoot. He shrugs his broad shoulders and reiterates after Salouris. "Da we are willink to do whatever comrade Ulyara would be likink. Then will be goink on our way to report,"
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"Visiting my mother is a good idea I think. I can offer a warm meal and a heated room if you want to. I will tell my mother about our adventure and what you did for me and she will let you go." Uliyara says.
The group leaves and on the way back the ice bear growls if one of you gets too close to it. The guard and the winter witch talk about Irrisen things while Uliyara talks to you. "How am I able to join the Pathfinder Society?" she asks making sure her cousin does not listen. "Oh, and before I forget. Please take this as a sign of my friendship." Uliyara says while handing her necklace to Nimgaji.
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Brother Salouris beams at Uliyara's question, and tries to whisper in kind. "Eventually you should meet with one of the Venture Captains like Ms Benarry, for a formal induction and some training. But until that can be arraigned, simply remember the tenets that are at our core: Explore, Report, Cooperate. Keeps your eyes and ears open, and assist other agents in kind. There are many wonders yet to be found in this world: we try to bring them into the light."
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The journey from Dalun to Kalsgard proceeds without incident. Once you return to the Grinning Pixie, Venture-Captain Benarry is able to translate the dwarven journal, if needed. While she initially expresses disappointment that you did not recover a piece of the Sky Key, her chagrin quickly turns to excitement as she reads through Vargrim’s journal.
Venture-Captain Benarry’s face breaks into a wide smirk, and she laughs heartily. "To think, Naldak’s piece of the Sky Key has been in the Hao Jin tapestry all along! Well, easy enough. I’ll just have to have a chat with the Master of Spells about sending a group of agents in to pick it up. The tapestry is vast, and we never would have known where to look it weren’t for you. To top that off, studying the section of Naldak’s Point that Hao Jin’s magic narrowly missed ripping out of Golarion could teach us more about the tapestry itself. Well done, Pathfinders!"
The Society gains Uliyara as a contact in Irrisen and considers training her as a Pathfinder if they can get Baroness Nadya’s approval. Venture-Captain Benarry thanks you for finding the Pathfinder Society “a new ally in an unforgiving country.” Benarry uses her network of contacts to keep in touch with Uliyara, trading books on customs of the Inner Sea for news from Irrisen.