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Episode 96: Shadows New and Old

After speaking with Keyleth (about the next leg of their ability to aid the coming dangers and the Ruby Vanguard’s plots upon Ruidus), with a thread of information that Ludinus Da’leth seems to be entwined in a place called the Ruins of Aeor to the far northeast in a land called Eiselcross. You were granted (from an ally to the Exandrian Accord here, an individual who has some experience here, a stealth mage who was revealed at some point during an interrogation in the city of Zadash to be a figure really called Essek Thelyss of the Kryn Dynasty) discovering a little bit of information about where Ludinus might be within these ruins after interrogating a member of the Cerberus Assembly here in the city of Zadash within Wildemount, you began to do your preparation for a journey to a very chilly place to the far north.
After doing a little bit of shopping (picking up some new acquisitions, and making some orders for some wardrobe that’ll help you in many ways, but as well some cloaks to stay warm in such a cold area) you went to the Lodge of the Eclipse, watched a show, drank a bit, and all of you went to rest for a night before you went on this odd and dangerous leg of your journey into the unknown.
In the middle of the night while everyone was asleep, Laudna, seeing the very blade that had speared her and many friends on the back of Orym, attempted to take it while he rested. However, he awoke, and a scuffle began to ensue, fighting over control of this blade and arguing amongst what should be done with it. When the rest of the team had awoken and the argument had not resolved, Imogen and Laudna escaped out the window to the rooftop, where it seems there is still quite a bit of tension about what has transpired and what is going on between this group of friends.
Here, as Laudna and Imogen hold each other, trying to understand what is to come, we return.

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There was an unscheduled testing of the live stream before the fireside chat on Tuesday and an impromptu Beyblade tournament was displayed with backdoor gambling, brackets and fights. Just some mad goofin.