Lanal 2, 652 DR: The Priestess of Drāūn confronts an inhospitable guild master with the help of a long dead friend. A meeting is planned to discuss the reorganization and re-education of the Guild of Mourners.
Continued from The Hunted.
Kændor, 2 Lanal 652
Alcèrra and Jak, accompanied by two Temple apprentices pushed through the crowds of Temple Square toward the Hall of Sorrows, the guildhouse of the Mourners’ Guild. Ossis, a huge long-limbed man-creature, led him into the stacks of a sealed storage room and handed him a box with the Daralien family name scrawled across its front. When Jak opened the box it exploded, nearly killing him. He was able to find a few fragments of paper that had been the box’s contents but most everything was destroyed in the blast. Alcèrra was taken to the Guildmaster Nejredar Clamandel who was not very receptive, insisting at first that she was mocking him with her presence, and that Drāūn was not only the God of the Dead, but also a dead god. In short order the priestess was able to convince him otherwise and they arranged a meeting with other guild leaders for the month’s end.
After leaving the guildhouse Alcèrra returned to a nearby graveyard and summoned a skeleton forward from a tomb there. The guildmaster had asked for a display of her power, and she resolved to give him “a sign”. The skeleton marched into Temple Square, terrifying the passerbys, it entered the guildhouse to the hosts’ collective dismay, and marched up to the Guildmaster’s office. Cornering the horrified man, the skeleton drew Drāūn’s symbol in the dust, and collapsed into a pile of bones. Thereafter, Jak and Alcèrra returned in the rain to the Temple, followed by two very frightened apprentices of Roð.
Continued in Rime of the Animator.
Characters
- Alcèrra Nàdrelan
- Dammon Shroudson
- Jak of Cænden
- Kaithah Argentale
- Mishara Mythdaras
- Angan
- Curlp
- Danatha
- Familiar
- Ganath
- Ignammuth
- Nejredar Clamandel
- Ossis
Played: 26 Jul 1997