Episode 30: Family Reunion

"''Mountain finally faces his father...' '"

Episode Events
The dinner banquet finishes, and King Ragrim praises the party once more. Mountain excuses himself early, Taxi following shortly after. Sylnan and Br'aad exit to talk with each other. Velrisa is left in the banquet hall, when suddenly she experiences a feeling crawling down her spine. A pain enters the back of her mind, and when she reopens her eyes, something feels different, but she cannot pinpoint what. She abruptly stands, concerned for herself, and she suddenly hears dwarvish in the back of her mind, but no one around is casting or causing such. She exits in search of the party.

The party slowly reconvenes outside, talking to Mountain about his father. Mountain, reluctantly and angrily, agrees to go speak with him. Sylnan, Velrisa, Br'aad, and Taxi attempt to follow, but are stopped by guards. Br'aad turns Taxi into an invisible cat, and Taxi is able to follow Mountain, but cannot access the same room, so he is unable to overhear much of anything.

Mountain enters a small lounge where Ragrim awaits him. Mountain approaches with anger, demanding answers. Ragrim calms him, and they spend the night drinking and talking, growing bonds between eachother. The party heads to a tavern, and stays the night.

The party is awoken the next morning by a breakfast delivery. Taxi and Br'aad go on a long, 5 kilometre run, both getting stronger. Mountain, Velrisa, Sylnan go out into the town, getting cleaned and freshened up at a bath house, and going to the castle to get hair styled. After Br'aad's run, he goes into the town to entertain children with magic, while Taxi goes to use druid magic on a garden area.

Sylnan traverses into the impoverish side of town with the goal of preaching the religion of Katherine. He stumbles upon a dragonborn, who he sits down next to. He attempts to talk and reassure him, and offer to get him something that he may desire. Sylnan explains that this isn't something he is familiar with doing, and simply wants to help. The dragonborn turns down his offer, and Sylnan leaves him be, embarrassed and sad at his failed attempt. Returning to the tavern, Sylnan gets extremely intoxicated.

Katherine comes into Sylnan's mind, bringing him into her realm. She shows to him the dragonborn, who is praying to Katherine. Katherine in enveloped in a golden aura with the gaining of a new follower. Sylnan drunkenly passes out onto Katherine, falling asleep for the night.

The next day, the party heads to the castle, meeting with the king. He informs them of a duty he has for them. In a nearby cave system, there are dangerous creatures, but also a strong weapon of high importance to the dwarves. Ragrim offers to pay heavily and grant Br'aad one wish, and the party agrees. They discuss the possibility of having the dwarven kingdom aide in recovering the wharf and even killing King Rigmond. Ragrim explains it is much trickier than that, but he agrees to speak to the Queen regarding what can be done for the wharf.