Session 23
Sessionlog
The group shares a moment inside Lavarr's cabin and decides to engage in some conversation. The forest being rather scary, is an obvious conversation piece. Delbellis remembers an old story they used to tell to scare the younglings. The Siren Woods are supposedly haunted by a witch that abducts youn Aaracokra for their bones, which have the best potency for her spells. Cerrule however, remembers the story differently and tells them the witch lives in the mountains instead and has claimed the forest as an elder sorcerer to keep it safe. There was never any proof for any version to be true, but druids tend to fear magic that goes against nature and they believe this witch was once a druid who has corrupted herself and her surroundings by using necromancy spells. They both agree the witch is called 'Siren', and the forest was named after her.
A spooked Aragir asks to stop telling ghost stories and reassures everyone, but especially himself that such things could never be true.
Cerrule starts prying into the other member's motivations and origins, they decide to indulge her and start talking. Starting with Cynic because of his brief retreat outside, he tells about his dealings with pirates in his past, working for them against his will after they had raided his homeland. Managed to escape from them and wound up in the Adventurer's Guild, hating the pirates ever since. Learning Cynic's story, Cerrule asks if the others are looking for certain people too. Aragir tells the team he is looking for his old mentor who disappeared some 40 years ago, the one who was conducting the 9 realms research with him at the Academy.
Even Cassius eventually gives in a little and tells them about his initial mission at the Fold and the fact that the Weylin mission is highly confidential. However, there is some dissatisfaction within the Fold for the decision (mainly Eldgran's, but [Belkin