When last we left our heroes… Sighting the Njeitbori war fleet, the companions sailed westward for several tense days, seemingly outpacing it (other than possibly being passed by dark shapes in the night) before finally arriving at Koruximei, the harbor town which controlled entry to the Royal Forest. There, they found the harbor bristling with gawkers, as everyone had come out to see the Njeitbori -- not expecting any kind of danger at this juncture, and curious about the return of the Njeitbori after they had been totally absent for more than a year.
The companions tried unsuccessfully to warn people on the pier before deciding to spend twenty minutes or so loading up on as much junk food as possible. It was while they were doing this that they were pulled aside from Thoranrai, now a Scarlet Sister who (like everyone else, it seems) has no memory of them. She had been sent to find them by Norkur the Scribe, but took them first to meet her mistress, the Scarlet Sister and Well Woman Faljanrai (with whom the party had once hijacked a treasury ship). Faljanrai had no memory of the party but was much more knowledgeable than Thoranrai (who was somewhat flustered from Tengelbur’s alternate attempts to flirt with her, neg her, and reveal intimate details about her backstory).
Faljanrai interrogated the companions closely about the Anvil of Lanenomen (the shards of which they are beginning to believe are embedded in their flesh), before agreeing that Thoranrai should take the companions to meet with Norkur the Scribe, the only man (according to Faljanrai) who actually understands anything about what is going on. As the companions attempted to leave the town, the Njeitbori vanguard emerged from the water and began their attack on the city. The companions were cut off at the north gate of the harbor town by a squad of Njeitbori spearmen, whom they managed to successfully bribe by giving away Tengelbur’s silver hand. That done, they galloped up the road towards Sencankarr…
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