Intermission - Return to Silgate

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Stavroula, Uusi, Ida and Glob stop at Rubrik's Dryad Sanctuary while travelling back to Silgate. Uusi and Glob entertain Gilly with (highly flowery and exaggerated) retellings of their recent exploits. Ida and Robby sneak out to the shed and enjoy each other's company as several of the dryads try to listen in. Stavroula and Terry watch the night sky and share a kiss (Stavroula's first). Terry confirms his feelings for Stavroula by presenting her with a crude wood-carved figure of himself.

In Silgate, the party finds Lord Habbsberry negotiating with three dust primordians for the Crown. He dismisses them to hear the party's update. They omit Zilch from the report, merely telling Habbsberry that they were guided into the Blight by Tabitha and remedied the issue. The Lord of Silgate rewards them with 60 acres of land near Fenside.

Ida has another dream. The firbolg from the Fae Glen, The Pathtender, tells her that he was commanded to awaken her druidic abilities. He instructs her to perform a ritual that will "blur the line" and make her even stronger.

Stavroula holds a funeral for Cassandra, pleasing Denizen and earning a favor. She attempts to visit Father Uvier in prison but learns that he was released, turned down the position of High Priest of Silgate and left. His whereabouts are unknown.

Uusi returns to Raktesh and is promoted from "Cloak" to "Hand", permitting her to hire up to three assistants and access the representatives of the schools of magic. She seeks a wizard named Hal to perform a divination ritual which reveals that Uusi's next assignment is to survey the temples in the Oswian Jungle.

The party reconvenes and leaves Silgate to visit their new land near Fenside. The land is wild and undeveloped but for a half-ruined guard tower, where three human men have been squatting. Daryl, George and Stippson are permitted to continue living on the land and are eager to help develop it if they are supplied with funds. They decide to prioritize fixing the first floor of the tower (which they had already started) and construct a cottage.

Ida recruits Stavroula's assistance in the ritual instructed by Pathtender, wildshaping into a bear and having one of her canines extracted. She shapes the tooth into a diminutive knife and becomes permanently half-gnome and half-bear.

Inspired by what she had seen in the divination, Uusi spends the week studying the Oswian Jungle. She discovers that there are three temples in the region - the temples of power, knowledge and guile. Bandits sometimes camp within but the temples were reported to have negative effects on their minds.

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