Tournament Aftermath
We return to the tournament grounds to find out most of Lao's people have cleared out. The shops are gone and the magical protection has been lifted. We divide the prizes and Appolonious declares the tournament officially over.
We hang out and chat with folk for a while. Appolonious tells us about a harmonious stone that may be able to cure Lila and Dawa of their horrible madness. It was in the land of the Kimek Turks far to the North East. He also tells us that in Ling Sang they might know about Okba the robot-maker. Bandit upstart Gezzer recently married into the royal family, causing some trouble in the area. Orm fills us in on his findings about Tipidio-Tahuna.
After our friends leave we pack all our stuff, friends, thieves, druidlings and hangers-on into the tower and attempt to rest. It is not to be so, as some crazy shadowy creatures and a disembodied hand come to attack us in the night. Looks like it's those walking/crawling/squirming horrors we may or may not have let loose from the mound of shards. It is a super tough fight but we manage to take them out. We try once more to rest but are interrupted by 'The Theban', who came to investigate the death of the two great shadows. He dillies and dallies, leaves, comes back, says he doesn't like Harald and tries to extort us for some Teeth so Harald chops off his head with a single blow. Take that. We finally manage to rest, raise our dead and fail to remove the terrible curses our night's adventures have left us with.
(to be continued...)