.. _mothers-bastion-to-nesme: ========================= Mother's Bastion to Nesmé ========================= .. topic:: Companions - :ref:`teleri-amber` **Start**: :ref:`mothers-bastion` **End**: :ref:`nesme` **Duration**: 6 Days Journal ------- Day 1 ^^^^^ Travel down to :ref:`mornbryns-shield` with some carts from :ref:`mothers-bastion` going on a supplies run. Mia is in charge of the carts and guards. Arrive at the town just after dark and park up in the caravan field. Sleep with a rope tied between :ref:`gramdoul` and :ref:`teleri-amber`'s feet in case she decides to go for a wander. Day 2 ^^^^^ Ask Mia about where to find horses and :ref:`flaming-troll` is suggested. Head into town without :ref:`teleri-amber` who is sleeping like a log. Arrive in the tavern and ask barkeep who points me at the group of mercenaries at the main table. Speak to mercenaries, find out their leader is :ref:`oboth`. They've come to :ref:`mornbryns-shield` to look for Mornbryn's Tomb, the final resting place of Mornbryn and supposedly his riches too. :ref:`oboth` offers :ref:`gramdoul` a horse for 100GP. They haggle but get nowhere. :ref:`gramdoul` sits at the bar for a drink and asks about horses but is given a cryptic answer with a suggestion they chat behind the inn. Out back he tells :ref:`gramdoul` :ref:`oboth` is obsessed with Mornbryn's Tomb and seesm to be absorbing control of :ref:`mornbryns-shield`. Asks if :ref:`gramdoul` is a member of the :ref:`order-of-the-gauntlet`, wants them to swing by and kick :ref:`oboth` out. :ref:`gramdoul` leaves the agreed cash (10GP?) under a denoted bucket and collects :ref:`teleri-amber` from Mia. The horses are at the prearranged meeting place East of the town. Day 6 ^^^^^ Eight figures are gathered on the road ahead. We pretend to be looking for Mornbryn's Tomb. The leader of the figures, :ref:`landrana` is having none of it and a fight breaks out. :ref:`teleri-amber` shows herself to be a very accomplished Rogue. We kill everyone but :ref:`landrana`, interrogate her: - What are you doing at Nesme?: Told to keep people out, don't know what they're doing up there. - Who told you?: :ref:`fylo`, told them to stop people coming North - Who is :ref:`fylo`?: Just a thug, a leader of sorts. Leading the group up here. - Who is the group up here?: just mercenaries - Does your company have a name?: :ref:`black-mercenaries` - How long has your company been here?: The company? I don't know but I've been here a couple of weeks. - Have you been into the city at all?: I've only been out here. - Has anyone else tried to get into the city?: You're the first thing stupid enough to come this far North. - Have you stopped anyone trying to leave?: No - Has anyone come up here who's supposed to be here and isn't a member of your company?: No. Send :ref:`landrana` (with 4HP!) on her way. While looting the corpses we find: - 87GP - An Electrum Signet Ring, with a winged black snake symbol on it which looks like the one :ref:`kellah` had.