Re-keeping a rug

Jul 22 2023

Healing shop

Orthas the priest

Ascoria temple, towards the north west wall.

• Priest would pay for items brough back from temple.

• a book "recording of confessions"

• began to suspect a cult was forming from the "very evil that (assaulted this place)"

• "does the name Malika mean anything to you. I was told she was defeated and yet we find outselfs under her shadow"

Raven chat

A few ravens with "a general air of menace". Hoobert tries to talk to crow, but it caws and flies off.

Crow says "whooo!". ...."that joke probably doesn't translate in Raven" 🤣

Crows want to "not be weird". They are weird "when she comes". They "feel in mind". She comes "Many times many places". They have "no memory of weird stuff". It asks "you go deep? Deep down?".

Points in westerly direction. "you see building with shadows, she lives there, deep underground". Humans put other humans there (maybe graveyard or crypt). "you will die there." and "you will die faster with friends, whatever you bring with you, it brings back."

Time to get murdered!

We leave past "Jeffry" the ballista. Drawbridge is still down. Ravens bobbing about in front of the fortress.

A black creeper vine has appeared.

🐦‍⬛ Crows get taken over and chant "better together".

• We murder them a bit and then Scatters blows a bunch of them.

🌹 Next up is fighting the corpse flower on the bridge, shockingly successfully!

• it spits out a glowing thing.
• plant appears to be a variant of dread-thistle, adapted for urban drawing energy from the ground.

We loot the entry way

• Rug!
• Broken chain shirt (8), melted chain shirt (3), long bow (5) , broken scimiatar (3)
• 90 arrows
• Tapestry - Duke of Marson smiting an Orc
• 10' chain (5)
• Lock & key

Back to town

Bridge captain grew up in keep.
Bird lives in belfree of "weird chain people building" in the northwest