Idum Tan Misath 15305

Restful Drinks and Restless Conversation
After the blowup on the cliff, the party made its way uneasily back to Finethil's Rest and the Restful Drink tavern. Eli quickly made plans with Fabian and left notes for everyone to gather in a special place at sundown.

When everyone gathered, each of them having dressed specially for the dinner--Aislinn in a humbling commoner's garb, Ana in a nicer dress, et cetera--Eli mediated a long, honest conversation where they each shared their histories with each other.

Eli began with her marriage of necessity, her husband's untimely demise at the hands of a village plague. Ana followed with her tale of love and loss, her husband Tobias, her miscarriages, her son Julien, and the beginnings of her devotion to Tamara. Aislinn shared the truth of her royal beginnings, how she stole an important artifact from her own family in order to uphold a deal with Simon, and that it's very likely that she'd have been stripped of her title because of her actions. And finally, Noose told them of his two unsuccessful hangings, his fiercest regrets, and his new pledge to do better by following Ana's example.

They then had a short food fight and a decent dinner.

When they came out into the tavern's main room, they met up with Toman, who had been trying to crack the code on one of the documents found in Dimia's pack. They worked it out together in order to discover that it was a long letter of orders, with no named source, detailing how to take over Finethil's delapitated Cult of Lolth, how to convince the cultists to fight for a new cause without telling them what it is, and how to get them to kill people they might not have previously.

Before they could decide what to do with that information, Noose heard a voice in his head. After some fear, it was discovered that the voice belonged to Urmmek, a dead dwarven necromancer who claims to be a part of the Covenant, and that the party had been helping the Covenant since the dwarf had started paying attention; he was a soul trapped in a ring that Noose had taken from Eliose Twor. After some prodding, they got out of him that if they wanted to join the Covenant or at least see what it was all about, all they had to do was become necromancers and present an impressive piece of magical knowledge to the Legendary Library. The location he can give to them without issue; the part he doubted they could cover was the 'becoming a necromancer' and 'presenting an impressive piece of magical knowledge'.

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