Soon after the morning gathering of the team...they split up. The plan called for two of them - Volkhard and the Hangman - to go ahead north towards Connlaoth, while Sano, Nashya, and Rena headed west, into Falial Providence. Not too terribly far from a town called Zefras lay an entrance to the Meeting Place, where they would meet with Keefe. Sano remembered that this town they were heading for was, in fact, Rena's town of residence. She was essentially taking them home before they headed out for the Meeting Place. The three of them were carriage-bound, not far from the town now.
"You said the cave was right up against the mountain, Rena. North or South?"
"South, sorry. I know I'm taking you out of your way, but it beats going back home for this part of the lure."
"Yeah, it does."
They had a plan to use Keefe's assassin suit and some shadow work to make a target that their target - the vampire warlord - would not be able to resist. Hopefully, she had come through on this...
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Along the way, just as an amusing point of reference...there were two figures concealed in one of the forests they had passed through, one of them a masked goblin and the other a giant spider. You might find this a trifle hard to conceal, but when you're rolling with Gary Blight, you learn a few methods. You also learn who to rob and who NOT to rob. In this case, when the spider looked to the masked goblin and made an inquiring noise...
"No, we will not be robbing them, actually. There's a twisted shadowy aura all over the place, and that indicates great dark magic, the likes of which I may not be able to repel. We will find some other bountiful targets."
Gary Blight could see Nashya's magic aura clear as day and that it extended from the carriage she rode in. He would not be testing his luck on that. No, thank you.