# A new member (S22 - 18/08/2024) - getting out of the city - party finds a bunch of scrolls - party avoids the silver order by going further west - party encounters a weird tree - gets stuck into quicksand - gets out of it - the tree starts speaking - tells the party to be careful - that tree heard about the party's good deed with trees in Queen's Park Garden - thought the party was made of 5 - party tells him that Paracelsus is no more - apologizes for being late - offers to escort the part to the edge of the forest - name is Oak Heart - Oak Heart takes the party to the edge of the forest - Quake asks if the party can do anything for him - the trees don't like the silver order camp - Oak Heart gives the party a piece of bark - one use of entangle - party is on the other side of the silver order camp and on the road towards Emberwood - takes the rest of the day - in Emberwood - night time - take a tour of the villages - Crowe - Emma is liking blacksmithing - everyone seems fine there - Red Lion Hotel - Kosta Stavros - discussing with someone - Stavros seems happy - he is throwing out the other person - the other person says that Stavros should know who he is - the person mentions that he is named Valkyss - Stavros calls him a liar and that he is tarnishing the reputation of a dead man by saying that - Valkyss tries to convince Stavros that he is indeed who he says he is - Valkyss asks Stavros to let him talk to his cousin who for sure will recognize him - Stavros refuses and kicks out Valkyss out of the Red Lion Hotel - Valkyss mentions he might just go to the river to wash a bit - party talk - party mentions that there is a bath here in emberwood - Valkyss didn't know and thanks the party - some plasantries ar shared - party asks what happened to him - he was hired by his cousin with a group of mercenaries - he got backstabbed - at night the group was trying to get out of the city - Valkyss was at the front - the group got found by monsters - the group stabbed Valkyss in the back and left him there to die as bait so they could escape - managed to survive and got to the hooded lanterns' outpost at Shepherd's Gate - there he got treated for a while by Alena Kruger - after a while recuperating he escaped the rest of the way to here today - Chapel of Saint Ardena - chapel is a mess - Herton tries to see the footsteps here with his cobblers tools - heavy footprints - no light footsteps - Baz looks at the book left on the floor - on a page about purge contamination spell - too high level for Baz (3rd) - her own handwriting - Baz looks at other pages - note at the back > in case I am gone - hastily written - Baz folds the note - Baz hands the book to Quake to study the spell - after the suggestion Valkyss goes to the bath house before meeting the party in their room - Quake starts studying Hannah's book - tavern - Baz makes so Valkyss is redirected to the party once back from the bath house - party takes something to eat - after a while Valkyss comes back to the party - Quake starts learning the spell - with no teacher it'll take days and components to research - Quake shows Valkyss what that turning into soup was about - Herton summons a tiny servant - it'll copy the ritual for purge contamination on a piece of paper - imperfect copy - might needed to reference back to the original one - it'll clean the room - party asks Valkyss what he can do - Valkyss fights Old Rattlecan to show his abilities - monk - uses a polearm - does crazy jumps - after a jump can sweep and push back targets in an arc - can attack people approaching him - debrief with party - seems convincing - Valkyss tells the party he is here for monster hunting - let him kill named monsters - he'll help in exchange - party asks Valkyss where he was sleeping - Red Lion Inn - Quest asks Valkyss his name as this place is *expensive* - it is Valkyss Jones - yes noble but not the best standing - trying to get back some standing so he can have a nice retirement later - night - Valkyss takes a separate room for tonight - Baz takes a watch - Tobias Crowe runs to the party - both Emma and Sybil are gone - took some cake and their slings - Baz wakes up the party and Valkyss - Tobias asks where they might have gone - Baz mentions that Emma talked about Eventide Manor during the tour - Baz apologizes for giving the girls slings - party prepares for the manor - Eventide Manor - Valkyss lights up his lantern to see something - lights can be seen inside in the east wing on the ground floor - Quake opens the main door - *desc* - foyer - cracked floor - lots of dust - chandelier with missing crystals - cobwebs - Baz eyes of the grave - no undeads around - tiny servents look inside - they see tiny creatures - point towards the room - Valkyss notice - cobwebs are thicker all the way to the back near the stairs - Lump takes a look inside - goes where the tiny servants pointed - they are dust mephit - Baz sees 2 sets of footprints - small girls size - going both directions - Herton goes to the mephits - *desc* - dining room - stuff is dusty and broken - Valkyss and Quake go too - Herton shows his ring and ask friend or foe - asks if they saw 2 girls coming here - mephits ask for shiny - Herton throws some silver coins - the mephits ask for more - party is allowed to stay for a bit - Baz starts moving stealthily - Valkyss points the creaky planks - Baz steps in - more cobwebs - Baz activates the ethereal lantern - starts moving towards the lit up room - there is a painting of a woman - Lennith Eventide - member of the Amethyst Academy - southern room - *desc* - lounge - yellow seats - tiny spiders - small table with a fire place - door going further south - 2 doors - right is a back room office - left is a steward office - no secret door - northern room - *desc* - big bookshelves - moldy tomes - dusty - disturbed by small tracks - a small lantern can be seen on the floor - near a reading table with a tarnished silvered monocle - the lantern is suddenly thrown towards Herton - it misses and starts burning a bookself - Herton snuffs it with control flames - Baz enters the room and reveals the ghost with the lantern