Editing Session009 (section)

====SHORT VERSION====
The dwarf Mogadon Ironheart, recently arrived in the village and by happenstance nearby, forces the evil sorcerer <u>[[Merriath the Quick]]</u> to drop <u>[[Kadra Tourmaline|Kadra's]]</u> body and flee into the night, wounded but invisible.

In the aftermath of the battle, Council member <u>[[Paumine Sandalwood]]</u> arrived and put out the fire in Kadra's house by using her druidic magic, the village priestess <u>[[Isperil Lightwind]]</u> arrived and revived Drex and Cormir, and <u>[[Brenaform Steelcrest|Sir Brenaform Steelcrest]]</u>, leader of the <u>[[Knights of the Last Bastion]]</u> tried to take control, but was shooed away by <u>[[Bjalien Viadias]]</u>, the current Village Master not wanting them to interfere in "village business" - as well as insulted/shamed by the righteous dwarf Mogadon.

Mogadon and Morthos brought Kadra's unconscious body to Isperil, who removed the poison so that Kadra could be revived. The final council member <u>[[Colinus Birthwitch]]</u> was summoned with his one-eyed mastiff to help try to track down the sorcerer, but the trail of blood went cold behind the palisade of the Knight's wooden fort and the group gave up the search in the night - realising that with her magical abilities to either go invisible or put on another face, she would be very difficult to track down.

Paumine agreed to host Kadra whilst her house was unliveable and Morthos agreed to also stay the night to help reassure Kadra.  With "Barbie" crisped, Drex summoned a new familiar, surprised when a "fire-monkey" stepped out of the fireplace, before heading back with Cormir and Mogadon to the inn to sleep.

In the morning, Paumine helped Kadra start to clean up and repair her somewhat charred house whilst Mogadon joined the "Heroes of Fort Frostfell" as they considered their options on how to track down Merriath the Quick.  Since Merriath would no doubt need space, time and materials to perform the ritual, the group headed to see <u>[[Bazil the Bizarre]]</u>, where they discovered that Merriath had already been there and that Bazil was in fact mad and had three dead bodies in his basement.  The council were summoned and the bodies were recognised as: 
* Kylar Birthwitch (''Nephew of council member Colinus Birthwitch'')
* Vibnor Prefect (''a 15-year-old orphan who had been reported missing by the brewery owner'') 
* Dreena Capple (''the half-elf apprentice to Elred Olfusal, the village Goldsmith'')

An altar in the basement has weird symbols on it that Drex identifies as Abyssal - he doesn't recognise much, but does see what looks like the name of a demon - "'''Xancrown'''".