The Price of Honour

Apart from an encounter with a wounded giant mermaid, the boat journey to Ael’Tas went quite swimmingly. Tara summoned a kitten familiar and was frustrated by a staff that stubbornly denied magical analysis, Kromal socialised with the crew of the ship, together with Meicoril and Arthur, and Alruna mostly kept to her own devices.

When they got to Ael’Tas the group almost immediately split up, deciding to come together in the evening at Valyrian Manor.

Alruna immediately went to see her father, whereas Tara went to get a drink with Sina, bringing him up to speed in what was happening. Sina had noted during soe forrays that it seems as though the information on the giants and the war has been deliberately suppressed.

Meicoril went to visit her brothers but found that only one was there, the other one was at sea. When inquiring further the brother became very evasive, worrying the half-elf further.

Arthur got a note from the servants, addressed to him, and, in kind was secretive trying to shake of Kromal, who then started to stealthily follow him from a distance. They also both crashed into Meicoril, leading to a situation where both Meicoril and Kromal were following Arthur independently and with varying degrees of success.

Coming there it became clear the there was a blackmailer. The decoder had found darkness lingering in the Valyrian family. Giving Arthur an ultimatum (he wanted One Million Gold Pieces), Arthur left with the proof of his families misdeeds.

Returning home Tara was excited. As she knew, Meicoril had reached the capacity to cast Greater Restoration, and as such, cure insanities. For some weird reason though, both Meicoril and Arthur seemed apprehensive of the idea, and they convinced Tara to wait a little, so that they could go shopping first.

That evening Arthur had an agonising discussion with his mother. The morning after Tara, Meicoril and Alruna went shopping together. Picking up a red dress to prepare for an audience with the King to finally inform him of the threat the war poses to the Dragonlands.

First though, even before  they could heal the Galahad Valyrian, however when they returned Arthur had a revelation for the group:

His father had ordered the assasination on the parents of Meicoril, Arcos en Valentia Listrith, together with the sealing of a basement in the estate of Meicorils parents.

With the only person capable of answering questions being Arthur's father, Meicoril and Tara went ahead with attempting to cure Lord Valyrian to get some answers (even with some minor opposition from guards afraid that Meicoril might hurt Lord Valyrian.)

Unfortunately, even Greater Restoration proved insufficient to gain anything more than a few moments of lucidity  to those cursed under the yellow sign.

Without really thinking then Arthur grabbed 2 horses for himself and Meicoril to go to the estate of her parents, far off north, the rest hastily gathered their stuff, and reunited with Troc and their cart, marching on the north gates before leaving Ael’Tas, not a day after they arrived.