Tough As Dirt #17

Tough as Dirt arrived in the tower city of Ology, having left the Gateway Clipper in the River Still outside Galdarion Forest with Babbit and Yella aboard.

They found outside the entrance to Ology, a small community of bodyguards, militants, and other martial types had sprung up in a makeshift town. These people had come to Ology alongside nobles, merchants, and royalty looking to study, but had helped thwart a Dawn Chaser incursion some time ago. They now remained as a sort of defense of the city, or at least the beginning of one.

Tough As Dirt rode a lift up to Ology's main gate in the company of a woman garbed in black. She identified herself as Chalice, and gave advice on navigating Galdarion Forest when asked. She claimed she was in Ology to make a pickup.

Before the group could ask further, they arrived at the main atrium to find a Lizardfolk woman being tossed from Ology by a Warforged security named Gus. The woman, named Lillium, cried out for help as she was being removed, claiming they were stealing her research, and she had found a way to "heal everyone in the world."

The group followed up with the man responsible for ordering Lillium's removal, Master Thornton, whom they convinced to allow them to see Lillium's research in order to validate his claim that she created an artifact capable of great evil and destruction.

On their way to the vault where it was kept, Brother Moore heard a voice whisper to him to take a look at a room they were passing, a room Thornton claimed had been one of the earlier additions to Ology long ago.

Within the room they found instrument strewn around, and a woman sitting in its epicenter, wild eyed and feral looking

• She introduced herself eventually as Tambor and spoke randomly about seemingly incoherent topics such as "finding the song," and how she had a "second life" she was meant to use to find this song, and how "it wasn't in Meridian."

  • Brother Moore recited the song Uola's mother had sung in the Arrowhead Isles, and Tambor claimed she knew it, calling it "Tsh'Ah's song," and that she'd helped Tsh'Ah write it for her children.

• It wasn't until the group mentioned something about being proud of the that which we create than Tambor seemed to gain a sense of herself. She claimed she needed to go but told Brother Moore that she could see why "she chose him," referring to some unknown person.

Tambor left and Master Thornton informed the group he'd never seen that woman in Ology before in his entire life.