elwyn
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A wandering monster attacked me.
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Holy frackin' . . . what? I miss one session and you all get killed?
Sean texted me to say so, but I assumed he was just bullshitting me.
I guess it must be really hard to get through a fight without any defenders. I'm sorry for your losses, guys, but I'm looking forward to see what your new characters will be like.
Well, I guess what Luke would do is start to get worried after the other characters had been gone for ~5 days. On the sixth day, whether he's feeling well or not -- and with or without Brent -- he would get up and go try to find out what happened to Aerandis, Dayereth, and Aaron. He'd proceed cautiously, not wishing to simply get slaughtered by whatever may have defeated his comrades, but he'd probably head to the big tree and try to get the dryad to talk to him; and/or climb down and try to communicate with the mushroom people.
If he learns that they're dead, he'd want to see if he could get the bodies, but wouldn't seriously risk his life in order to do so.
Once he knows they're dead, Luke vows that they will not be forgotten. Sooner or later, he thinks, this adventuring life will bring in a bit of money if he lives long enough. And when that happens, he'll commission a stained glass window, or a statue, or at the very least an engraved plaque, in a church/chapel/monastery of Heironeous somewhere, to keep alive the memory of these brave men.
In the meantime, lacking the funds for such a memorial, he will at least get a pen, ink, and paper, and spend a couple of days jotting down his memories of the three dead men: their bravery and smarts, and the stories they told, whatever memories are most vivid. Luke's handwriting is crap and his style is simple and plain, a poor substitute for a bard's work but enough to preserve his impressions of them for future generations. The church of Heironeous has many historical records of brave and noble warriors; Luke knows that his dead companions will amount to little more than a footnote, but that's still something. So he will be on the lookout, in his travels, for a church or monastery where there is a historian or custodian of records to whom he can give a copy of his notes.
Then Luke heads back to Feyfields and tells Nerisella of what has befallen. She should be able to get word to Aerandis's people. Luke recalls that Aaron used to be a guardsman in Holderness, so he writes a letter addressed to the town guards of that city, telling of what Aaron did before his death and how he died. Unfortunately Luke has no idea how to contact any of Dayereth's people.
Luke decides not to abandon the hope that Nadarresh can be revived. It will be sad, he thinks, to bring him back into a world that no longer contains Aerandis or Dayereth or Aaron. But that's not reason enough to abandon Nadarresh to death too. So he asks Nerisella what else needs to be done in order to accomplish that.
After Nadarresh is revived (or if that attempt proves unsuccessful), Luke wants to head in the direction of Shattered Bridge and learn more about what is going on with Stitches and the dracolich. He feels that it is still his duty to atone for the disaster of the Drakespire, and furthermore that he must do it for the sake of his dead companions, so that their now-ended lives aren't permanently stained with having loosed this evil into the world.
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