Events+of+Zarantyr+27-Olarune+2,+998+YK

=Events of Zarantyr 27-Olarune 2, 998 YK=

Highlights:

 * Party met Professor Grigg Wunsin, Professor of Antiquities at Morgrave University's Wroat campus. An expert on the Dhakaani Empire and the Daelkyr Wars that devasted the Empire, he told them what he told the first party.
 * The leather satchel the party found among the mad artificer's belongings turned out to be the missing Darguun diplomatic courier pouch, lost when Ambassador Ka'vanau's delegation was ambushed and killed on the Orien Trade Road to Starilaskur. The Ambassador quickly assigned a new Courier to bring the pouch -- carrying the Lhesh Haruuc's acceptance of the Plan put forth by Prince Oargev and endorsed by King Boranel -- to Wroat.
 * Party bought and sold stuff in New Cyre. The market, which should have been saturated with looted Goblin and Hobgoblin equipment, wasn't. Merchants were paying heavy sovereigns (top dollar) for the stuff.
 * Colden Torbald found that the Changeling who had visited him at Frostsilver Hold had gone on to impersonate him, completely immersing into his life and fooling House Orien and his friends in the original party. The Changeling imposter traveled on the caravan to Starilaskur, where "Colden" fought with the party against Gnoll and Human bandits (when the Hobgoblin diplomats was ambushed and killed), and on the Lightning Rail to Wroat and Sharn (where he took charge of train security when the Slayer of Cyre's Children struck again, twice).
 * In exchange for an ancient Hobgoblin battle banner emblazoned with the Dark Hand, the other Mourning Stone, some fo the 7,500-year-old Dhakaani coins they'd found, and other magic items the party couldn't otherwise sell, Professor Wunsin Teleported the party (including Colden, Nina's Wolf, and the female Hobgoblin Courier) to Wroat, and gave them Lightining Rail tickets from Wroat to Sharn.
 * Wroat was a barrel of laughs. Big fight on a ferryboat on the Howling River; and a second big fight (instigated by Alfred?) in the neighborhood called Little Droaam. The King's Citadel enlists the party to gain intelligence on the criminal organization known as Daask.
 * So was Sharn. Big fight in a rented conference room atop a Tower, involving freelance operatives of NZZN. Muraco the Changeling escapes, but is captured after a thrilling chase inside a residential Tower. Fedder the Flesh Golem becomes a reluctant (and somewhat befuddled) ally. The party hears that Faye Dwarfhammeris being held captive by something called The Cult of The Three Below.
 * Party met Draco, but lost Alfred Meldum. who apparently is off shopping and making contact with his fellow Cyrans in High Walls (something Thomas, the Aundairian Wizard, failed to do).