A Night Out In Thur

After arriving in Thur by teleportation through the help of the wizard Sorosh, the party takes in the city of Thur. They arrive at the transportation station, Xarander's Transportations, in the eastern part of the city. Thur day Mycha tells them about interesting locales around the city, when suddenly they are greeted by one of Mycha's former training colleagues, Vocci Bocceli. He catches up a bit with Mycha and then invites them to a drink at the Brelder's, a gnome tavern-island in the north of Thur. On their way, Weneon notices two buildings that pique his interest: one is the Museum of the First Artificer, while the second one is the rundown Opera Mechanus. They arrive at the tavern-island and go, each on their way to have their idea of fun.

Mycha approaches cadets from the Seventower, like the ones he used to teach until a few months back when he left for Oeble. He shows off his skills, and they invite him for a drink. Lorkhan visits a shisha bar "Uusta" and the bartender tries to abduct him, since he realized Lorkhan is a doumir and probably an escaped slave. Lorkhan, however, manages to intimidate him and his accomplices with a fireball spell. Later, Lorkhan finds a bounty in their room for someone named Beatrix. Weneon visits the tavern "Thieves' Malt" and makes the acquaintance of Cherril, a male gnome private investigator down on his luck. He offers Weneon a job to assist him with in finding a client's lost granddaughter. Manasa visits the sports bar "Don't Go Inn" and meets Gjun, a dwarf bartender and Sunbeams enthusiasts. Manasa asks him about sport's betting, to which Gjun offers a partnership in an illegal betting operation they could start together. Kilijan visits a jungle-themed tavern and speaks to Zhaga and Danka, the two employees there. He learns from them more about the opera and how it burned down some ten years ago after the mechanical instrumentalists malfunctioned. He also is informed by Danka that the dwarf probably did it to spite the gnomes. Kilijan then meditates at the shore and realizes the coordinates of the Traxigor and how to get to him. Before meeting back with the rest of the party, Mycha talks to Vocci in the VIP lounge of a serious tavern on the island. Vocci asks questions about why Mycha left and where Tommen might be. Mycha is confused by the questioning. Vocci asks him about the plan they proposed to the city council regarding the pirates, but Mycha does not remember any of it. Vocci believes him. Mycha then tells him how he fell in love and that he now travels with people he dearly trusts. He then asks Vocci about the missing caravan. Vocci promises to see if he can get some intel on that, but in return asks Mycha to keep him in the loop if he hears about Tommen's whereabouts.

On their way to the southern road that leads outside of Thur, the party decides, at Kilijan's request, to visit the Opera Mechanus. Two marut statues in front of the opera building make Kilijan realize that he saw these creatures in his dream. He decides to go in. In the lobby, he sees another statues, a mordon, which also appeared in his dreams. As he touches it with his hands, a magnetic impulse gets a grip on him. Lorkhan rushes towards him, but fails to pull him from away from the statue. The other try as well, but to no avail. Suddenly, Lorkhan remembers to teleport Kilijan to another place in the room and suceeds in getting him free. The huge glass door of the lobby opens, while the front door shuts close. A voice appears and a humanoid construct with a violin comes down the stairs in front of them. He asks them to join his concert in the main hall before leaving. The modron statue, suddenly comes to live and attacks the party. After dealing with it, they continue to investigate the next room, but only find a stray cat running away from them. Mycha approaches the huge windows of the room and breaks them. The party is worried to going out, since they assume that it may be as dangarous in the yard of the opera as it is inside. However, Mycha runs out, and the last of the party follows. Kilijan feels eerie drawn to the opera house, but decides to escape with the rest of them.

After meeting Vocci at the southern gates of Thur, he tells them that the caravan was last seen leaving the main road and turning towards the Thur Valley, a favorite hunting and recreation ground and the place where the Gnome and Dwarf mines of Thur are to be found. They travel for one day and spend the night at the First Southern Inn. In the morning, they travel until late in the afternoon before reaching the path that leads towards the Thur Mountains and the Thur Valley. They make their way through the forest and Mycha remembers spending excursions with cadets here, but never leaving the forest further towards the heart of the valley. After finally leaving the forest, the party comes across a piece of mythral. A voice emerges from the woods, a strange, small female creature claiming the mythral belonged to her and that a squirell stole it from her. The party tries to get some information out of her, to see if she knows where the caravan is. She asks them to give her their names first, and then they can talk. Weneon and Mycha oblige, Lorkhan refuses to give her his name, and Manasa and Kilijan tell her fake names. After this, Weneon and Mycha are forgotten by the rest of the party, as the fey stole their names. Thur valley and Vani She argues that she will give them back their names for a price, or for something else. Weneon and Mycha, not knowing who the rest of the party is, try to protect the fey. Mycha grabs he and runs away with her, but Kilijan stops them with a web spell, while Lorkhan smites them with a fireball, burning the fey to crisp. As the fey is dying, she whispers how Vani will now hunt them down because of this. She dies and the memories of the party are restored. Weneon and Mycha remember their names as everybody else does, but it feels strange to them, as if they realize somewhere in their souls that they will never remember what their real names ever were. The sky turns bleak and a silhouette of a medium size kenku in blood-soaken robes appears out of the forest. A vision of Vani, promising them to hunt them down. The sky turns back into its normal state, as the vision ends. The look towards the valley and see the evening grasslands being colored in a beautiful sunset orange before them.