The Safeguards

As the party fights the white dragon, they realize that the allies they have on their side are doing all they can to give them enough room to finish the nemesis. Manasa calls upon Valryss and rams him into White Fang. Greg finishes the job delivering the final blow to the White dragon, turning him back to Anti-Greg.

Anti-Greg and Greg have a talk. Anti-G tells him that he is a bit mad at him and Frul for forgetting about him. He tells him that he came to give him a present, and hands Greg a package for his birthday. We learn that Anti-G is the proprietor of Fort Knucklebone. He just cam to the Feywild to visit Greg and Frul and invites them to join him at the Fort he is running. Weneon has a talk with Arel, who informs him that they have to pay for the damage done to the arena. The costs is 55.000 gp. Weneon tries to talk his way out of it, but it does not work on Arel, who insists they pay in the next 4 days. Sagiatto, Kilijan and Manasa have a talk with Max about how they handled the fight. Sagiatto seeks out Tamil, who is furious that Sagiatto abandoned their mission of keeping a low profile. After a few words exchanged, the Party retrieves to the Mala Kapija Tavern.

At the tavern, Sagiatto talks to Tamil and they make up a bit. Tamil explains that orders are all he has and that Sagiatto's improvisational style is not vibing with him. Sagiatto explains to him that sometimes situations require the wisdom to abandon orders. Tamil ponders upon that. The rest of the party meet up with Taylor in the city. They talk for a while about what happened. Taylor suggests to go to the tavern as well and discuss further safeguards they have to put into place as not to endanger their mission. At the tavern, Sagiatto and Tamil join them disguised as women. Taylor explains that the Arena will be rebuild in the next 3-4 days and that the tournament will be on hold. Out of their conversation, three possibilities arise: Abandoning Gossamer and the tournament and going to Elminster's Tower to deal with the harengon batalions there. Use the teleportation sequence on the back of the Gossamer Shield to teleport to Moroz's Workshop. Investigate the refugees at the Gossamer Manor After a lengthy discussion, they decide to go to the workshop in the morning. Tamil, frustrated at himself for abandoning the mission tied to the refugees. Manasa teases him some more with his comments, and Tamil senses resentment from him because of him saving Tamil over Melcior in Almenarch. Tamil leaves and tells the party that he will be looking into the refugees himself. He then leaves. Taylor tells the party to stay put and stick to their plan and in the morning go to the workshop. Taylor then leaves to look after Tamil.

Kilijan and Weneon go out of the tavern and Kilijan asks Weneon that they go and see after the refugees themselves. Weneon refuses and Kilijan decides to go alone. In the meantime, Ismmeth approached Manasa, Greg and Sagiatto and revealed to them that he was listening in to their conversation through a bug. He tells them that a contact of his can help them regarding the refugee manor. He will set up a meeting for tomorrow evening for them. Ismmeth then tells Sgiatto that he wanted to help him with Antja, but was confused why Sagiatto refused to take him up on it.

Kilijan goes to the manor alone. Weneon follows him without Kilijan noticing him. At half the way, Kilijan stops at the forest where Sagiatto and Tamil were attacked. A rickshaw approaches from down the path that leads to the manor. A hooded male woman and two children get off. The children are shy and pick some blue flowers while Kilijan watches them. The Woman speaks up: "We didn't mean to intrude. We just need some herbs for our evening tea." Kilijan is a bit weirded out, since Sagiatto mentioned earlier Delirium and the thoughts of the Yeti encounter form a year or so ago still haunted him. Kilijan cuts the conversation short and leaves for the city. Weneon, who has been listening to the whole ordeal from the bushes while knocking out a harengon spy, continues listening and overhears the woman adress the children: "We have enough now, Lena. Please check on your brother." The girl Lena touches her brother's face, who is already sleeping: "Janus, wake up."