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THE PRIESTESS' MEMORIES

Global: A bright flash and a woman's shrill scream sounds outside the Inn of the Eternal Star.

(A pallid gnomish druidess suffered from amnesia, and had vague memories of ten specific places. Several adventurers from the Inn of the Eternal Star, the Fortress, and the Entropic Gilversplitz struck out to investigate. At each spot, they found a gem flickering with images of memories.

Aurin almost withheld the memories he collected from her, fearing it would bring her pain.

Aurin says 'Your amnesia may be a gift.'

Drissa says to Aurin 'Having been where she was... Give her a choice, at least.'

Drissa says to Aurin 'Don't hold what's hers back, or else it's no choice at all.'

A pallid gnomish druidess says 'I can't start all over. I will always wonder.'

Aurin eventually relents, and all memories are returned to the priestess.)

She invokes the fragments of memory in order:

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A sunlit forest glade appears in your mind's eye. A tiny baby cries in a makeshift crib.
A small, cloaked woman raises the infant to her breast and the crying stops.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: In a shallow cave, a gnomish toddler takes his first, wobbly steps.
His mother, shrouded in earth-colored cloth, gasps and claps. A big grin spreads across the boy's face.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A young gnomish boy cries out in pain and grabs his scraped knee.
His mother, shrouded in earth-colored cloth, kneels beside him and kisses him on the cheek before tending to his wound.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling, tears streaming from her eyes.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A young gnomish boy opens a leather sack, showing off dozens of assorted wild berries.
His mother embraces him and looks through the bag, picking out and discarding a poisonous one.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A gnomish boy scrambles up a tree and whispers to a bird. Remarkably, the bird does not fly away.
His mother, shrouded in earth-colored cloth, grins proudly. Several birds are perched on her shoulders.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A gnomish boy crouches over a wounded deer and touches its broken leg. Emerald light flares beneath his hand.
The deer staggers to its feet and darts off, and the boy and his mother beam.
As the vision fades, the priestess is smiling.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A gnomish boy of the woodlands cautiously approaches a strange travelers' camp.
His mother, shrouded in earth-colored cloth, hides nearby, terrified, signaling for him to stop.
As the vision fades, the priestess is frowning.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A gnomish boy, garbed in earthen robes, smiles and speaks to several men in armor and robes at a camp deep in the forest.
His mother, hidden nearby, prepares for combat in a panic.
As the vision fades, the priestess is distressed.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: At a traveler's camp, a gnomish boy collapses and shudders under the hand of a robed necromancer.
His mother, hidden nearby, screams and several bears and stags erupt from the forest to storm the camp.
As the vision fades, the priestess is panicked.

The pallid gnomish priestess raises the fragment into the air and closes her eyes.
The fragment shatters!
A vision appears in your mind's eye: A gnomish boy moans and murmurs for his mother as blood rushes out of his pores.
His mother, covered in the blood of others, screams and weeps as he takes his last breath.
As the vision fades, the priestess is broken.


Sellisaris says 'Oh no....'

Drissa says to the pallid gnomish druidess 'I hope it brings you peace, eventually, to know how it happened.'

Gilversplitz says to the pallid gnomish priestess 'I'd have killed to have a parent like you.'

Aurin says 'Forgive me.'

A pallid gnomish druidess says 'Thank... you...'

A pallid gnomish druidess wanders off to the north in odd, measured paces, as though she were walking through a dream.

Later: Gasps erupt from travelers at the seaport of Hamsah Mu'tazz as a gnome dives from the Cliffs of Insanity and sinks into the deep sea below.

Special thanks to participants:
Gilversplitz
Aurin
Drissa
Rilaer
Aiya
Tamhas
Gobomoh
Sellisaris
Rassel
Khoulmurum
Mathiaz

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