Editing Forging the Free Rangers (section)

==Post Combat==

There’s some talking to the Regent, who, rather dubiously, wants to know why were there cataurs in our ritual?  We explain that they took exception to our plans to thwart the Breaker.  Ah.   Vidan thanks the Regent for the guards' timely assistance.  The Regent offers Vidan the ability to stay if he wants, but he’d probably have to learn some Red.

Scout relays some details about what he found out in Middlesea.  He wonders about contacting His Majesty to update him about what’s going on.  Hmm.  

We decide to stay overnight, look for Broken priests in the morning, and then head towards Melmane.  

[Salamander 3]

DI in hand, Scout scouts, with Nesh, Gale, and Diomarche.  With DI in Sensing Broken Miracles, some scouting, and 2 successes on a Karma check, they find a place where there was a miracle a while ago.  On the edge of how long ago that can be noticed, so probably a week or two.  But that means it was fairly large.  Close to Berenson’s death, which was about 8 days ago, so probably a little before?  But maybe the day of, or shortly after.  Only a taste of it left.  It was probably subtle, so might have been Bent, rather than Broken.  It’s in a tavern, not far from Temple Square.

So there’s definitely some evidence of a Broken or Bent priest that’s been around recently.  Gale chats up the bartender ( [[Doyle]], who runs [[The Crimson Flagon]]), who is happy to chat and flirt.  It’s a reasonably upper-class bar– not where nobles stay, they stay with other nobles, but if you have money but not connections it’s a good place to stay.  He doesn’t gossip about his clientele, so we don’t get specifics, but he does note that business spiked after the King’s death, as there were many travelers coming to pay respects, etc.  The High Priest of the Nameless did come through that week, although not that evening.

Thinking about it further, Scout’s pretty sure it was on the first floor, which has the bar and the dining room and the kitchen and a couple of bedrooms.  It wasn’t the kitchen, it probably wasn’t the bar.  Probably the private dining room or bedrooms.  It was targeting the people in the room, not the room itself.  

Stella Brings It, asking What Broke Here?  It was a foreign miracle; a bunch of DI was spent, but it’s indirect enough that it’s not going up against their full defenses.  Nothing explicitly Broke, but it was part of a Breaking of the Church of the Five.

Vidan gathers information about meetings of priests that happened in the Tavern.  The local priest of Jord ([[Bert]]) was in for a meeting a week and a half ago, with [[Greg]], and traveling priests of Orellian and Navere.  [[Stephen]] was the priest of Navere from out of town, [[Lily]] was the priest of Orellian.  

Vidan feels compelled to tell Violet what we have gleaned; he says that we think the meeting was targeted by a Broken miracle, it’s not clear if the miracle was cast by one of them or someone outside.  Violet says she will keep an eye open; she had met Stephen and Lily but didn’t think they were Bent or Broken.