While we’re setting up camp, Carolin tells us something of her background. “The Master to whom I was apprenticed gave me a letter that said my – our – parents were missing. So I came to my parent’s house to meet up with Pertherditeis and see what we could do. I ran into a batch of Brigands up the road. And I got this map off of them. I can recognize this hill, and this other hill, and the stream, so I think this mark here is probably a base or something. Anyway, a couple of days ago I made it to where my parents had lived and met up with Pertherditeis. They lived in a stone house, and one section had been burst by the application of a large tree. No parents. Searching, we found supplies, funds, and this mapcase and Pertherditeis’ wolf statuette.”
Carolin holds out the mapcase for display. A hefty steel tube a foot or so in length, and an inch or so in diameter with fine writing of some sort on it. Both ends are capped. Removing the caps, we see that the ends have a squishy gasket and the inner ends of the tube are finely threaded. Carolin says “Only the center piece is magic, and there’s two scrolls and a couple of maps in there already.” I wouldn’t have guessed that. I see parchment in there, but not that much. The construction on the endcaps doesn’t match either. Interesting.
Pertherditeis holds up a two inch high statuette of what looks like a Dire Wolf pup. She incants Apareo Ceruleo Oculo and suddenly there’s a blue swirling vortex in her palm. When it clears, she’s holding a statuette of a patch of smooth stone inside a well-like stone circle… and there’s a wolf growling at me from near her feet! Pertherditeis introduces us all to Blue Eyes, the wolf she carries in her pocket. “When I first picked this up, the statuette was of a grizzled oldster, but Blue Eyes is just so cute!” Watch schedules worked out, we sleep.
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