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We start beside the lifeless body of Gideon. As the seconds past. He shows no signs of life. Lyra tells the party it should have worked, though it seems his soul no longer is willing to return.

The party takes a minute to think about what happened and how to continue. Lyra makes sure the body of Gideon can't return as an undead. They find a nice spot outside of New Ciarta to burry him. Dr. Byron Dark reveals he was working on a experimental potion to fix his hybrid form. But that seems to be no longer useful.

In the mean time Meldor passing through Amber Forge and through The Old Gate. He gives a coin for save passage. Glaring in this Crystal ball it shows him a tiefling. They might be near a tavern. Meldor finds himself at the New Tide Inn. There is no one inside which is strange for this time of day. Only the barkeep and Lyra. They are in a gloomy demeanor.

Meldor is introduced to Lyra. They sync on their ideas of the Ember Empire. The rest of the party walks in. Meldor introduces himself and he tells the party that he once found this cracked crystal ball which he can use to see stuff. While it can be used to scry on people he knows. He explains it also shows him images of people he doesn't know.

He has been studying at the Chillspire Arcanum. Where he hid the orb because the Ember Empire is keeping a close watch. In every class, every hall and every study there is usually 1 or 2 Ember Empire keeping watch. He got sick and tired of that and used the visions in his crystal ball as a guidance. It must mean something. But what...

So he traveled the land and now found Atticus, the tiefling he has recently seen. But he has seen depictions of Artos and Dr. Byron Dark before. And he knew there names.

While the group is suspicious of all of this. It seems we have a common goal. So Meldor is invited to travel north with them on a Northern Nomad Fellowship job.

Walon Brask is confronting the Ember Empire guards. As the guards say that they didn't provide any gems from the mines. Dr. Byron Dark is telling Walon Brask that the mine might have been cleared. The guards are on it's way to the mine to check it out. This might become an issue.

Meldor discusses further about them being on the same page.

The barkeep brings in the bore. Gathers us around. Says he is sorry and hands the party a cloak. As a gift. As a thanks to what ever they have done for New Ciarta. The barkeep explains they have a backup resource of gems to maybe give to the Ember Empire to cool them down for now.

Arranis meets up. He tells us there is a scroll shop, Scorched Scroll in New Ciarta.
We discuss the payment for Mine in trouble, people missing

We going to the Scorched Scroll. Some guards have walked to the mine. But there are some guards left in the village. In the shop is a halfling. Darmo is the shopkeep. While he might have decent stuff. We are low on money.

We discuss also looking at the Burning Lake. Atticus explains that the Ember Empire did something to the lake that changed it into fire. He lost his parents and family. It might be that it is connected to the hells. It is expected to be Phlegethos (4th level of hell)

We hear a story about the leader of Tanbarrat that went mad. In order to keep his wife alive he spawned undead.

We travel towards Tanbarrat. While we see many undead or other creatures. We manage to avoid them or they seem to be distracted by what every.

We get surrounded by zombies in the night. Thanks to Meldor we are kind of save in his dome. But we still deal with the undead before they become a problem in the morning.

LEVEL UP (level 9) and Long Rest

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