02: KANG INVENTS THE RAVE


 * Serafina joins the party. 


 * She was outside the inn, and managed to jump back inside before the flash freeze hit. 
 * She bundled up & peeked out, heard Kang, and headed toward the party. She stealthily tries to peek in the leatherworker’s window to see if it is Kang, but slips & falls noisily back first into the snow. She then comes in and asks a bunch of questions which nobody answers. 
 * We discover the woman fleeing from the forest is a ~Princess~ 
 * We knock Tarlenheim unconscious and cut his tumors off with his own knife, then seal it shut with Wabu’s healing powers. (Gross.) 
 * We set out to explore the rest of the town and see how people are faring. Winter is super dark and none of us has a torch, apparently, so Fina casts a pink light  on Kang’s greataxe. Kang is delighted and immediately starts twirling it around outside, inventing the first rave. 
 * Plan is to circle around to Andrich’s mentor’s house, Edam, then up to Andrich’s house. 
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upon entering Edam’s lodging to check the old man is well, Kang mistakes the party’s intention. Intending to keep the fire burning in Edam’s small cottage, Kang breaks a wooden chair and tosses it into the flames. As the party moves Edam to Tarlenheim’s main house, Kang cries silently to himself in shame. 


 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We drop Princess Lily & Edam at Tarlenheim’s place to hang out with servant Leisl. Andrich changes & grabs his gear. 
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Princess Lily shares that she and Jack (“a lad”) were exploring the Tulgeywood –  “I have something amazing to show you!” They see two unicorns in the creek; she approaches these two sacred beasts. One comes over to smell her hand, she touches it, and the instant that happens horrible fae-gerblins swoop down from nowhere and poisons the stallion. They use an ancient, magic knife to cut off its horn and take away its superpowers. The gerblins chase the princess. 
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the knife cuts off the horn, the sky splits and blackness/winter takes over. 
 * <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We visit the local sage/scribe as one of the few literate people in town, Nimrond Ellesar HearthElm. Kang provides a distraction for Fina to steal the alethiometer. Later, the sage visits to talk with Wildfire, discovers some of the true plot, meets the princess, and willingly gives us the book with instructions of how to use the Alethiometer. The sage begs another audience with Wildfire, like a lunch or dinner.