Last Time...

Post by Phil/Milo with commentary by Jae/Eren...

While Larkin was otherwise engaged (back to Daggerford with the "cleric in a bottle", researching how to get her out), the rest of the crew did some prep work for the upcoming bridal celebration. The ladies in our group, plus a couple extras, will be the bridesmaids. The guys in our group won't be in the actual bridal party since the groomsmen are going to be Alraythien's ranger buddies. I think Milo, Larkin and Theeg are maybe doing guard/usher duty or some such? ("Bride's side, Groom's side, or I'll-See-That-Outsider-Wench-Dead-Before-She-Can-Sully-Our-Prince side?")

There were several teleport trips made. We contacted Kyra's dad and brother in Silverymoon and brought them in for the nuptuals. We also made a side trip to Waterdeep to shop for wedding gifts. There was a slight run-in with Roe, the dragonslayer bard (We ran into her just before Larkin joined the group. This chick hunts dragons, solo.) She and Bill (Remember our halfling buddy who is really an adult red dragon but prefers to be a halfling?) (Of course he does - I can understand him preferring a superior form - Eren) had met before and apparently have agreed not to go at each other. We were all real tense but they just exchanged pleasantries, Bill gave Roe a bottle of Elverquist wine, and we went our seperate ways.

We all ended up back in the wild elf city. The bride's group went to meet up with Kyra who was in the middle of getting her wedding tattoo(s). Kyra's are fairly involved, including some facial tattooing and several different bits of unmentionable anatomy. Eren and Bethany's tattoos will just be on one arm and Jaana was given special dispensation to go without tattoos. (Hmm. She is from a country where their blood enemies, the Red Wizards of Thay, distingquish themselves by having lots of tattoos. Gee, ya think that might have something to do with her aversion?)

So, later that evening, our group of friends is travelling back across the city, headed for their quarters for the night. A ghostly apparition of an elf woman jumps out of a tree and attacks Kyra, to the exclusion of any other target. We have a heck of a time fighting it because of the incorporeal deal. (I hate incorporeal undead.) We finally start dealing out real damage when the Prince gets ahold of that family heirloom greatbow we found in the dragon lair and Milo gets ahold of his special wood comp longbow. (Hey, Eren's ghost-touch staff did some damage... okay, just a little, but it was much more effective once Bill started using it - Eren) Kyra was flying (spell) and playing keep away from the baneshee while Alraythien and Milo fill it full of arrows and Eren does her best to penetrate its spell resistance. (And Bill hit it with my stick. Hard. Repeatedly. -Eren)

The baneshee finally dissipated and we went to report to the king. Milo was convinced the ghost had been summoned by Virilia, the king's advisor that hates us. Come to find out, almost nobody is that powerful and this baneshee is the result of something that happened long ago. Seems there was another prince who wished to marry an elf who wasn't "one of their own" many centuries ago. There was a jealous suitor who was killed when she attacked the prince and his paramour. (Suicide by royal guard.) It is thought that this is where the baneshee actually came from.

And that's about where we left it. The next things on the agenda are an "official" presentation of the family heirloom bow from Milo to King Malandritch, which is scheduled to happen in a day or two, and the wedding, five days hence.