Board Thread:Chronology: The Story So Far/@comment-26998039-20151019142736

The party travelled north with Hossander and Aytha to the village of La'phon and found the cult of Ba'a Baha'a displaced from its traditional temple location north of the village near the river. La'phon was delapidated and blighted, but the priesthood of the laughing god had remained diligent in holding prayer within a tented shrine just outside of the village. Having made the journey as a pilgrimage, Hossander insisted the party travel to the abandoned temple to investigate and purge so that he could pray properly in the halls of Ba'a Baha'a. Aytha insisted on tagging along her own intentions of zealous prayer. With a hard push, the journey was made by mid day. Illium's hawk could occasionally be seen circling above and hunting small game.

The temple was quickly found to be inhabbited by Naldrin, Kobu, and Corvin along with a seemlingly mad old sorcerer-qemist conducting mysterious taboo alchemy and human experimentation in the sacred chambers beneath the temple sanctuary. His name was Radigan Jance and after his death it was discovered that he had deep affiliations with an unknown order calling itself "The Order of Athen-Shadow." His journal and a series of letters betrays an appointment to recieve "a partition of the Artemis Elixir" at an event near Tyr during the festival of Selaph so he can "finish his work in the area and re-convene with his brothers for an assigment more worthy of his skills."

Among Radigan's belongings were found some letters, journals, alchemy materials, a large amount of bile milk, a mysterious athen vessel, money, and a curious maniscope that he was using as a weapon. As the dust settled and the last sounds of combat and death echoed throughout the temple, Aytha descends the stairs to see the scene and she begins to weep. Hossander belts out a hymn of laughter in the sanctuary upstairs.  