Our intrepid adventurers, having recently procured a map the evening before, found themselves to slumber. A dream takes each one of them, placing them upon a road of a separate color for each. The paths wound along, eventually connecting. A strange dark force entered into the dream, and a person warned them. They had to find Evie, the figure said, before it was too late. The adventurers woke and found themselves to breakfast, wherein Pippa revealed that each one of them gave off a celestial presence. There was also a fiendish presence (other than Melpomene) within the room. This presence approached, disguised as an old woman, and asked to travel with the party. Uneasy, especially after Melpomene realized the figure was using magic to disguise their form, the party went to a private room upstairs to ask the figure to reveal themselves. They discovered this figure to be a hag. The hag proclaimed they would return for the blessed of Celestian before vanishing. The party began digging into the religious backgrounds of each, questioning what had brought them here. Locke reaffirmed his faith to Celestian; Pippa was honest about her following the path of Farlaghn; Denma begrudgingly admitted village tradition followed Melora; and Melpomene has always been a devout follower of the Raven Queen. It was revealed that Melpomene had taken a journal emblazoned with the symbol of Istus -- twined snakes -- and that she also carried this symbol on her shoulder. Through a series of out loud ponderings, the party realized that the figure in their dreams was Sut’si, a traveller they had encountered before...but also that Sut’si was an anagram for Istus themselves. Struck by this, they started to pour over the journal, what it contained, and decipher more about who it belonged to. Finally, as all the objects of current importance were laid upon a desk, Melpomene asked Pufpuf, the party’s companion flumph, if it had ever seen the woman in the photograph she had taken from the lab. Pufpuf said a life sized wooden statue of the woman had been removed from the laboratory. Moments later, Melpomene and Pippa realized the terrible fate that must have befallen this “Evie” by recognizing the symbol drawn over her picture as the alchemic symbol for “wood”.
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