Students of Life & Death #15

The Students braced for a fight with the large, tentacled beast rushing toward them in the water, but Gore drew the divine spark from the beast, causing it do lose the life that was in it.

• The creature looked as though it had been cut into and had definitely been brought back to life through necromancy

• Gore now had a small reserve of divine power stored within the Divinaxiom

The group arrived in Cypress and were asked to make port in a special part of the very busy docks district by a Tidal Guard checking ships in within the bay

There they met Renn Krayte, the leader of the Tidal Guard, who explained they were looking for spies arriving from Trine for the Dawn Chasers

• Confident the group were not spies, Krayte explained the Tidal Guard were preparing for war -- the Dawn Chasers were sending a fleet of warships from Trine to ensure they were gives access to the Daughters of Eve, one way or another, and the Tidal Guard's sworn duty was to protect the lives of the people of the Gossamer Sea, so they would not give the children up to death at the hands of the Dawn Chasers

• Krayte asked for the group's help in defending the city and they said they'd consider it

On the voyage across the Gossamer Sea, Val completed repairs on Goldcrest, but upon finishing, his personality seemed to switch

• Val had found the work Igon, Goldcrest's supposed creator, had done was actually a modification to Godcrest's original work, which was from someone unknown

• Val removed the modification and restored Goldcrest's original protocols, which were much more aligned with an assassin than a thief

Upon the departure of Renn Krayte, Goldcrest also left the Tip-Top without even saying goodbye

• When the group followed him, the being known as Goldcrest became angry, telling them the person they had known was a fantasy and it was time for them to forget about him, he didn't want anything to do with the Students of Life and Death ever again

• He claimed his name was not Goldcrest but he didn't respond when Gwenna asked his name

• He claimed he was returning to Hemlock Bastille

With that, Goldcrest left the Students, begrudgingly thanking Val and leaving them in no uncertainty as to how he felt about them