Lunette & The Blight (Date 2/2/25)

Lunette awoke with startled innocence, thinking Euwyn was Narlock and wondering why so many strange men were in her bedroom. They calmed her down, showed her how her dress functioned, and used her to bypass the archon guarding the top floor. Only Ilyana seemed capable of communicating with her like a person. They gave the floor a thorough search, but other than opening the lab to Edgar for use building magic items, the effort seemed a waste. A waste, to all but Lunette, of course, who seemed quite happy to be alive. Some of her comments raised the idea that perhaps Tiaco was actually the same cat who had served as Narlock’s familiar.

Wanting nothing to do with the situation, Marty slipped off to go to church once Lunette proved to be more of a distraction than a font of knowledge. While he was working there, Kenny Ismort burst into the chapel carrying a wounded man whose body seemed to be fighting with a fast-moving contagion. Marty and Mjelde stopped disease, only to discover that it had come from an encounter with a giant boar in the forest. Kenny claimed that while they were fighting the beast, he had heard it call out Ilyana’s name. Leaving the wounded guards in Mjelde’s care, Marty and Kenny gathered the group and headed to the woods. They found the scene of the fight, but no tracks. Ilyana realized that only a druid could slip through the woods so subtly. Upon returning Malwan, the party found several infected beasts attacking the town. They fought them off, and as the boar fell, it called out Ilyana’s name one last time and transformed back into Brog, her fellow druid and former stalker.