A New Beginning

[Yuthirin]

King's throne room.

[Anastasia]

A teleport gets you back to the palace. You find Dana's Father there, drinking a glass of wine and lost in thought, the room empty save for two guards hovering nearby him.

Go ahead.

[Yuthirin]

"Hi!" Calleigh says.

[Anastasia]

A long sip of his wine, sitting back comfortably. "I see my wayward daughter is absent," he observes. "What trouble is she up to now?"

[Yuthirin]

"She met Benyen! They're off beating up bad guys! Also I think he's her boyfriend now. But! We were looking and we found a cult in Dawnfall and there were cultists and they were kidnapping travelers and cutting out their HEARTS so we captured them all and STOLE THEIR MEMORIES and Dana beat them up and put them in jail and then we went to uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsomethingabouttheoceanorbeachesorbirdsorseaGULL'S REACH! Yeah! We fought a big red dragon that was a succubus and not really a dragon and we met Benyen and Dana's off with him and they're looking for an ultroloth named Shademaster or something but we're currently looking for more dudes working for Imix because he wants to burn your entire kingdom down and there's this elemental named Eye who is trying to do it and he's some sort of prophet or something but whatever and we're gonna stop 'em but we're having trouble using divination to find them because everyone's a stupid-head and they're all warded all the time which is really unrealistically expensive for spellcasters innit and we found out that there's some guy named the Prince of Coin who is in the Buried Palace and he operates beneath your notice or whatever that means and he's got LIVING FLAMES which are probably just fire elementals I mean really whatever either way we gotta go get him cuz he works for Imix and he's a bad hombre and needs to be put down!" Calleigh says all in one breath. 

[Anastasia]

A long sip of wine after that, "The Buried Palace is the derisive name given to Alanmorn of Langersun's personal abode. He's a merchant is known as the Prince of Merchants locally. Why, his so called palace is near the castle." Another sip and another, "Do something about that, without damaging the rest of the city."

[Yuthirin]

"Blow up his house without blowing up the rest of the city. Right. Gotcha." Calleigh gives a sloppy salute. "Let's go!"

[Anastasia]

Next move then? More particularly, how are you going about this?

[Yuthirin]

Correspond first.

'Hey Dana, wanna come raid an evil guy's house in your home town, steal his stuff, and blow it up? Some guy named Alanmorn, the Prince of Merchants. Was this one of the guys your dad wanted you to marry?'

[Anastasia]

'Alamorn, that asshole? No, he's not a noble. Rich, though. Busy with Benyen, try again later.'

[Yuthirin]

"Dana's not interested. Let's head out. We're walking!" Calleigh shouts.

[Anastasia]

After a brief interlude for Ebony to request directions, the three of you head out into the snow. Few people but the occasional guard is out, and soon enough you see it. It's a large manor in the city, surrounded by a lawn blanketed in snow. It's one to four stories, varying about, made of stone, brick and even wood in places. Different parts matched together - a room here, an annex there, like a tree slowly sprouting different leaves.

[Yuthirin]

The team heads right through the gates and up to the door!

[Anastasia]

The gates are closed, perhaps against the storm or perhaps for some other reason.

[Yuthirin]

Fortunately, everyone can fly!