Wow this fell off huh? I meant to post weekly at slowest, but I've been caught up in things a bit and also lazy. I'll make up for it with the sheer amount of things that'll happen next.
Following having met Accalia and dealt with the last of the immediately present bandits, the party is given more goals to meet, three options for the party to pursue: Train the local guards to be not useless, kill some pests in the sewers, or figure out why people who go through the mountain roads north of Vahlen keep vanishing.
The party decides fairly quickly that they don't care to train the guards, and they'd rather get some fresh mountain air than wade through sewage, so they head north! I'm not terribly concerned with time scale or distance at this point in my DM career, so...
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