Id: 3f445e87-14da-4089-bd02-7dc0e07979ec
SessionDate: 2023-11-19
GameDate:
{
	Day: 19
	Month: Mitu
	Year: 3321
}
Author: Logan
Title: A Silence over the Swamps
Text: "(on the 17th of Mitu) The party consisting of Dheir, Xedran, Cassian, Saxon, and Kit, continued to examine the walls of the Memory Hall in attempts to find out further information, before deciding to retrace their steps in the ruin to look for any additional clues they may have missed. This investigation led them to the large stairwell the encountered on their first visit and found the water had risen. After discussing this occurrence, the party decided to return to the tributary that flows into the main river they sailed up, thinking it's lower waters may be related to the rising ones in the ruins. 

The party went around the city of Beruha to reach the tributary, beginning their journey and not running into any issues to get to it. They do find that the slow moving bayou seemed to have taken on a light red color. worrying some of the party but they pressed on. They came to another river, flowing from the city of Beruha, a much deeper color of red, flowing into the tributary they had found. They attempted to avoid the water, with Cassian using his magic to quicken the growth of plants in the area into a frail bridge, allowing all except for Xedran to cross without issue. Xedran fell through the loose collection of plants, Dheir jumped into action throwing her rope like a lasso in an attempt to pull him out, her first attempt failed as the rope went over Xedran's head and out her hands. Using Cassian's rope, she did manage to lasso him correctly and pull him out, bootlessly. 

Evening was coming so the party spent the rest of the day attempting to find camp, with Saxon in the lead. The find a place they think would be dry and take their long rest, waking up on the 18th of Mitu to a few inches of water from the unpredictable tides that come from 3 moons present in the sky. They dried off the best they could before proceeding, somewhat easier thanks to the casting of :spell,Water Walk: by Cassian (though any gains were likely negligible due to having to pause every hour for him to recast it as a ritual). They continued to follow the tributary bayou to the source, but before they could the party heard the sounds of Sahabi talking. Dheir and Cassian got Xedran to cast Comprehend Languages promptly before making their way to talk to the Sahabi so far from their city. 

The world of Aerethia has no common language, and due to this, the party do not all know the same languages. Luckily enough know the right ones for the conversation with the Sahabi to generally follow this flow:

1. The Sahabi ask a question or make a comment about something to us
2. Xedran, through the power of magic and music (aka Comprehend Languages), understands them
3. Xedran translates through Quindarin to Cassian, Dheir, (and if he were there, Drick)
4. Cassian then translates that further for Saxon through High Elvish.
5. The party (with Saxon being translated to and from by Cassian) discuss their response
6. Xedran and the party attempt to sign (or use Minor Illusion) their response to the Sahabi
7. Return to step 1

Following the flow, the party learned that these Sahabi must be hunters that had not been back to their village (not the city of Beruha) for some time. The party informed them of the disease as best they could, not fully able to get the idea across until the group heard a sound, tracking it to a dead and diseased Sahabi. One of the pair reached into a pouch and pulled out a red bead, dropping it on the dead creature, causing it to dissolve. Now that the pair understood what the party meant, they all rushed to their village, finding the place completely silent as various dead Sahabi lay scattered about, some diseased, others killed by them. The party waited as the pair gathered supplies and applied their red beads to the the dead in the village. 

The party traveled with the pair, who they learned were called Chuka and Belan, to Beruha to find an equally gruesome sight and deafeningly eerie silence, as it appeared that most of the city succumbed to the disease or to the undead that rose from it. The pair proceeded to dissolve as many bodies as they could, before they ran out of the the beads. While they did so, the party assisted in looking for survivors, with the only hint of such being tracks leading away from the palace out of town. The Sahabi pair did not wish to leave any of the dead to have a chance to rise again, so they requested the party wait to follow the tracks. They all spent the night outside on the western side of the city, 

It wasn't until around midday on the 19th of Mitu that the pair were satisfied they may have put to rest the vast majority of the dead in Beruha. Once they were, they joined the party to follow the tracks for potential survivors before they go to brave the ruins to discover the potential source of this deadly disease."