"Thank you, Clerk," Amareth says. "Shall we go, Kjell?"
"Be safe sister, you will find yourslef welcome in Valwick. We'll see you there soon enough and then we'll get to talk." Sādhanā says with a smile before giving Amareth a hug. "Be safe Kjell, I would recommend Valwick. I'm sure a man of your talents will find plenty to do."
As Arista asks her question the magus ponders for a moment. "Actually, there is one other thing. I've heard of gloves that can affect the ability to apply magic's range would that be something you had available?"
"Yes, we'd better," Kjell answers.
As they walk outside, you see a large cloud of magical energy coming from the direction of Valwick. "That doesn't look good."
He draws out magical energy from Elder Sister, until she is nothing more than a desiccated corpse. Nethys glows with divine energy and his body seems to heal itself. Nethys sighs with relief, until magical energy tears at his flesh, rendering him the same as he was before. "No power can undo what has been done to me. But it is finished."
Elder Sister's remains turn to dust which Nethys scatters to the wind. He dons his robe and replaces his mask. "Farewell. I cannot be bound to this world anymore. I do just one last thing."
He waves his hand and you hear the cries of many freed souls coming from all over.
You hear the sound, much like at the camp, of souls being freed from the green shards.
Ylrhea screams as her shard explodes and the soul within is freed. "What the hell is happening?!"
Sienna likewise lets out a scream and jumps back as her shard explodes. "The souls are being...freed? But who is doing it?"
Arista's mouth pops open and she just stares blankly while blinking her eyes a few times, "Holy S@+!!" Is all she's able to manage before handing the sack of money to Kjell with a look towards her companions she says, "I made a promise to the leader of the Dark Dwarves and I intend to keep it. Please...take this money back with you and see to it that it goes to Barclay, he's in charge of the town now. Tell him that we need a ship large enough to carry about 20 or so refugees who need to learn to sail by the way, as well as any remaining dark dwarf survivors. It needs to have a galley complete with food stores and a sleeping area to accommodate at least forty at a time. I have sent a note ahead to Barclay with Rikali....but if you could do this for me and see that it gets done, I would forever be in your debt." Opening up one of the boxes she takes a piece and passes it around. Closing her eyes she hums softly, "Mmm...now that's good. Here..." She takes about three boxes and hands them to Kjell, "Could you see that Toni gets these please?" She smiles sweetly at him as they get ready to leave.
Clerk glances at the sky before handing Sādhanā a pair of gloves. "Seems like it's Nethys. That will be six thousand gold."
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"You're oddly calm about something akin to the apocalypse," Ylrhea says, composing herself.
At the sound Arista jumps, "What's going on?"
"I've seen worse," Clerk says.
Kjell takes the sack of money after Arista pays for Sādhanā's gloves. "I'll do that."
The cloud dissipates after a moment or so. "I guess it's safe again."
Kjell nods at Amareth and heads outside.
"Our shards have been destroyed," Sienna says. "If it's Nethys, then...Elder Sister must be gone."
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Amareth embraces Arista and Sādhanā before following Kjell. "See you when you return."
Going to the bag she had handed to Kjell she pulls out six thousand gold and hands it to Clerk, "Thank you very much, for everything. I think we better get going though." She says as she takes the opened box of chocolate and stows it in the bag.
Looking at Kjell one last time she says, "Oh...if there's anything left after making the ship...just tell him I said to use it to get some working cannons up on the wall of the fort by the port and such. The town can always use more fortification."
Caught off guard by the sudden hug she just stands there for a second before returning it, "Alright, you be careful too and we'll see you when we get home."
He gives his daughter a warm embrace. "These kids don't know what to do now. So it'll be like raising you all over again."
The dwarf laughs and smiles before turning and heading into Priroda.
The ranger wanders around the shop for awhile before a pair of bracers catch her eye, drawn to their familiar magic she tries them on. "These are perfect."
Cyna looks shocked and confused. "What the hell happened and what do you mean gone?"
"The shards just exploded," Sienna says. "Elder Sister made them, so they couldn't be unmade unless something happened to her...like killed, dead, or something like that."
Yulia takes the goggles and puts them on. "Who is Elder Sister?"
"She's the leader of the green circle, or one of the circles anyway. But why would Nethys... "
"I don't know, but we'll find out and we'll deal with it after we deal with Vencious," Ylrhea says, her face grim.
She nods, "Yeah...let's not get distracted anymore from what we're all the way out here to do. We can deal with everything else as it comes, once we're done dealing with that bastard. Then once we get back home, we'll find out what happened to Elder Sister. If someone did something to her, killed her...we'll find whoever is responsible and beat the living daylights outta them....it's just....there's nothing we can do about it right at this moment so I don't want it to distract us from what we have to do. Don't worry Cyna, we'll get it all worked out somehow. It's what we do right?" She tries to give her friend a supportive smile, but she can't help but worry about it herself. It would take something pretty powerful to hurt Elder Sister....and if Nethys was involved, there was no telling what was going on. Best to just leave it for the moment and concentrate on what they had to do next. Kill Vencious and restart the tower.
"Well, if that's all, I need to be heading on," Clerk says.
She thinks for a bit and looks at the others, "Should we see about getting more food supplies, if he has stuff like that?"
"Wouldn't hurt."
Turning to Clerk she asks, "Do you have food stuffs? I'll need enough to last for about a week or so at least. Breads, cheeses, meats, some fruit and vegetables too if you have them. I'll just take a weeks supply of whatever you have, if that's alright?"
"I do happen to keep some fresh foodstuffs," Clerk says, guiding Arista to a section of the store no one had noticed before.
Looking kind of amazed she says, "Wow...well that's great. I'll take about a weeks supply of everything. I'm hoping that this business with Vencious doesn't take much longer and we can be on our way home soon and not have to worry about food so much."
"Help yourself," Clerk says. "We'll just say that the young girl's sword will cover whatever you take."
She looks at him a little curiously as she starts with the bread, taking enough of each item to last them for at least another week. All in all she takes bread, cheese, fruit, meat, and vegetables. As she packs everything in the bag she sighs, "Wow...so her sword was really that special huh? I'm not sure what a tiamat is....but if the sword came from it I guess it would be pretty important huh? Anyways, thanks for everything and safe journey to you." She says as she finishes up her shopping and secures everything safely in the bag to keep it fresh until they need it.
After trying on her bracers a gleam catches Cyna's eye. A suit of breathtaking mythril chain dangling from a nearby stand. She approaches Clerk with the two items and offers her old armor, the fighter's fork and an amulet of natural armor to offset the hit to their reserve.
Cyna looks over as the cloud disperses from view. Torn between two paths she clenches her fists tightly at her sides.
"Screw that." Cyna finally says before grabbing her gear and preparing to leave.
"Cyna, where are you considering going?" the magus asks, noticing her friend's shift in focus.
"To find out what the hell just happened." Cyna answers quickly.
"Whatever it is we can handle it afterwards. She gave you this mission and considering how much hinges on us restoring the tower, do you think she'd want you to turn away from it to go looking for her? Every time we've turned away so far has been for something concrete....freeing people, rescuing someone.....do you reaaly think going to look into this is worth betraying her trust in us to do this?" Sādhanā asks.
"I've been apart of the green circle for most of my life and it all just went up in smoke. If you expect me to let all those people march into Valwick after that..." Cyna stops herself and takes a breath.
She straps her pack across her shoulder. "I'll be waiting back home when you're done."
"So what's your plan? The other circle seems to do good work even without those crystals, you've seen how they were corrupted, you know what we've discovered so far. There's more to the Green Circle, the Anizari, their arrangement, than we know. Abandoning something concrete for what? What is it you think you can do on your own that you have to do right this minute?" the magus asks in frustration. "We take the tower, we'll all be with you heading back and we can get to the bottom of whatever just happened. You think I'm not worried about what's going on in Valwick?"
As they land on the beach, Rhadaya’s eyes are alight as Tes kisses her hand. [b}”Yeah, I’m sure it must be weighing on his mind, and I’m looking forward to seeing his reaction.”[/b] she replies.
As Drago looked through the shop, something caught his eye. A pair of dark colored lenses tucked away on one of the shelves. Turning to Clerk, the Dhampir asked, "Excuse me, what are these?"
Cyna grinds her teeth as her emotions get the better of her. "I think that if Rhea or one of your precious swords were involved you wouldn't be giving me such a hard time over this." she snaps.
"Do you have an issue with me? Because this is the second time you've pulled the guilt trip tactic recently so it makes me wonder."
"No I don't. If it were to save you, or Sienna, or any of our lives at stake, I'd be right alongside you in taking care of it first, but do you even have any idea what you're rushing off into? You were all about following orders and completing the mission, you've chafed at all the diversions more than anybody here, so I'd expect you to want to get this done so we can all go home and take care of the things that matter most to us." Sādhanā responds. "Look, I won't pretend to understand what's going on with the Green Circle, and I can't begin to imagine what something you've been a part of for so long means to you, or what Elder Sister must mean to you. If you need to do this then fine, I hope you find the answers you're searching for but I believe we need to stop Vencious and take the tower, and we need everything in our power to do so. It will be that much harder without you, but we have to try. No guilt trip, just a fact."