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• Peb Pebbles, Carmen Granau, Elwin Sarberos, and Beck & Bock Hudson took the mission from Martin of Kowiri Music & Tavern to track down the origin of the rats attacking his tavern.
• The Freelancers headed over to the western Trade District, and found some rats.  Carmen and Peb used speak with animals to ask them about the organized rats, but these rats ran away when Peb shaped a dire rat.
• The Freelancers wandered in the direction provided to find an alley behind a bunch of specialty food shops.  In the alley, very orderly rats were raiding the refuse bin of Ye Olde Ice Creame Shoppe.  Peb, still shaping a dire rat, joined their line, trying to get more information.
• The Freelancers, other than Peb, were swarmed by the rats, including two big ones.  Carmen invoked Āhua to charm them, and again cast speak with animals, to learn how they had become organized.
• The rats told Carmen that "rat people" had been teaching them to raid in this fashion, in exchange for their sometimes attacking Kowiri.  He also learned that the "rat people" were sometimes people and sometimes rats.  Expressing the Freelancers desire to meet these "rat people", he procured a promise from the rats to bring a note.
• Peb remained with the orderly rats until they arrived home, to find it's a very nice place: clean, well-stocked, comfortable.  Once there, Peb negotiated with the two big rats, using some cheese they'd been carrying as a rat bribe.  The big rats agreed that Peb could meet the "rat people" but were unaware Peb was with the other Freelancers, and demurred at having everyone meet at once.
• Returned to Freelancers Tavern same day.

• Shimni Ioelena Qinyarus, Ricardo Monroe, Tui Toodles, Nahele Amaru, and Elwin Sarberos accepted the mission from Sinéad Willowsteal, Mayor of Cliffgate, to visit Ophelia and stop the lions that are raiding their cattle.
• The Freelancers travelled to Ophelia without incident, mostly on foot, getting there on the 4th day.  While in Cliffgate, they visited the Mayor, who gave them more info and promised to pay them upon return.

• Upon arrival in Ophelia, the Freelancers spoke to Routh Girikima, a human woman, about the lions.  She offered hospitality and dinner and suggested they go after lions on the morrow.
• The next morning, Embu Girikima told the Freelancers where to find the lions, and following his directions, they found three large lions:  a male and two lionesses.
• The Freelancers fought and slew the lions, but sustained slashes themselves from the lions' claws.
• With assistance from the other Freelancers, Nahele determined there were no other lions, and skinned the ones they slew.
• After another night in Ophelia, the Freelancers headed back to Cliffshadow.  The Mayor of Cliffgate paid their mission fee of 100 eagles each on the way back, as promised.
• Return to Freelancers Tavern Kenostag, 1st prime post-Calm.

• Freelancers Tavern purchased 3 mounts from members detaching to Commerce:
  • Trained courser pegasus, "Nāhōkū", from Manu
  • Trained giant bat, "Robin", from Dominic
  • Trained dire wolf, "Grgnak", from Dominic

• Lorcan Puddingrass Pasternack Tuinstra, Dominic Holyarm, Minji, Murai, Mia Taumata, and Manu are detached from Duquesne Freelancers, to transfer to Commerce Freelancers in Ripa Daneo.
• Mounts and pets also went with them except as noted in subsequent Housekeeping note.

• Elwin Sarberos, Cloud elf scholar, joined Freelancers Guild.

• Ricardo Monroe's pegasus "Legend" is no longer in Freelancers Stable.

• Damakaios, leader of the Ripa Daneo Freelancers, sent Fine Branch, Cathance Lobdhain, Nix Frostshaper, and Quelenna to acquire Death Butterfly wings for House Hadid, having spent some funds to learn the general area of Commerce in which to find such creatures.  Freelancer help had been requested by Gigi Hadid. 
• Informed by Damakaios that they would be able to find the creatures in the southwest part of the skylith, the Freelancers flew south to Tranquil Crossing, then continued on to the southwest and camp.  
• During truedark, 3 cheshires attacked the Freelancers' camp.  They were slain and the Freelancers skinned their valuable hides.
• After sleeping late, the Freelancers began their search for Death Butterflies the next morning.  They soon found a meadow with a couple thousand of them accumulated in 3 swarms, and paused to strategize.
• The Freelancers' attempts to separate the Death Butterfly swarms failed, so they just fought and slew them all.  The gryphons Nutmeg and Hau-kea were very injured from the butterflies' poison.
• After collecting the Death Butterflies, the Freelancers then flew directly back to Ripa Daneo.
• House Hadid paid 1875 eagles for the Death Butterfly wings, and 1200 eagles for two cheshire pelts.
• Returned to Freelancers Tavern Rochtag evening, 3rd prime post-Apastron.  The Freelancer Cut only applied to the fee for the Death Butterfly Wings.

• Minji, Aranel Neras-Dumaren, Ricardo Monroe, Tui Toodles, Sofiya, and Latae accepted the ongoing mission from the wizard Gwidion to clean up altered wildlife along Pirates River.
• The Freelancers doubled-up on flying mounts to travel in 2 days to the Pirates Dream river fork, despite inclement weather.
• The following day, the Freelancers journeyed slowly up Pirates River until they found a meadow with big flowers nestled in a curve of the river.  Ricardo and Tui attempted to pick a big seed from one, to discover the plant was awakened and in the form of a big cat.
• The Freelancers battled three of these big "cat-flowers":  a Tiger lily, a Violet panther, and a Dandy lion.  They slew the latter two but before vanquishing the third, a unicorn appeared unexpectedly.
• The unicorn immediately slew the Tiger lily, and questioned the Freelancers on their relationship to the unnatural plants.  The Freelancers assured the unicorn they were attempting to clean up the unnaturalness of the area, then the unicorn disapparated.
• The Freelancers checked the rest of the meadow for unnatural flowers, then harvested the plant parts and returned to Cliffshadow.
• Upon return to Freelancers Tavern, they informed Arnari Rilynn’sithek about their findings and the unicorn, and she paid them the mission fee of 90 eagles and 1 uncommon potion each: greater healing potion (Aranel), underwater breathing (Tui), oil of slipperiness (Latae), potion of poison (Minji), potion of fire breath (Sofiya), potion of growth (Ricardo).
• Returned to Freelancers Tavern Petraag, 3rd prime post-Apastron.

• 1 trained mountain gryphon added to Freelancers stable, "Nutmeg", looking to Cathance Lobdhain.
• 1 trained peregrine gryphon added to Freelancers stable, "Rangi", looking to Glesni Bōhatei.

• Arnari Rilynn’sithek selected Lorcan Puddingrass Pasternack Tuinstra, Dominic Holyarm, Murai, Sabah Banu, Peb Pebbles, Shimni Ioelena Qinyarus, and Ricardo Monroe to capture or kill the person(s) who interfered with the Demonstration of Prowess.  She had their location and the 8 of them sketched out an initial plan in her office.
• The selected Freelancers headed over to the location they need to be, an apartment over a butcher shop in the western Trade District.  Sabah and Murai checked in with Tobiah and Moulari, who had been keeping watch.
• Murai's dire corgi, Dudley, appropriated wares from the butcher's shop, interfering with any attempt to be incognito.
• Upon learning from Tobiah their target remained in the apartment, the Freelancers took up positions in preparation for him exiting the apartment.  Peb lowered Lorcan on a rope in front of a window, and Lorcan exploded a couple mason jars from Peb's dung collection in the middle of the apartment.
• The person within informed Natali he's been discovered, then exited.  As the Freelancers piled on, he used chess pieces to summon skeletons.  By the end of the altercation, the Freelancers had vanquished the skeletons, and captured their target.
• The Freelancers stripped their detainee of his valuables and magic items, then took those and him to the Mayor of Cliffshadow.  The Mayor took custody, but gave the valuables to the Freelancers.
  • Acquired: 40 stars, 182 eagles, 37 cats, 19 pebbles; 6 50-eagle gemstones (citrine, bloodstone, pearl, chrysoprase, zircon, diamond); Spellwoven Robes; ring of truth telling; boots of the vigilant; bracers of lordly protection; component pouch; and a spellbook.
• Returned to Freelancers Tavern wame day, and Arnari paid them 200 eagles each.
• The spellbook was designated to general use for whoever can copy the spells.
  • 1st level: chromatic orb, detect magic, expeditious retreat, mage armor, magic missile, shield
  • 2nd level: alter self, hold person, knock, misty step, suggestion
  • 3rd level: blink, counterspell, fireball, fly, sending, slow
  • 4th level: greater invisibility, polymorph, stoneskin

5th level: telekinesis, teleportation circle