Editing Interlude – Death and Stitches

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'''Interlude – Death and Stitches''' is the 28th chapter of [[Volume 9]].

== tl;dr ==

* [[Nerrhavia]] goes to a drake city to lay down some secret plans

== Synopsis ==
As the second day of the party ended, [[Nerrhavia]] had her own plans to put into place. Having previously failed to participate in the chess tournament due to [[Saliss Oliwing|Saliss]] destroying her proxies, she had been making preparations to go to a nearby drake city for an unknown purpose. Nerrhavia made molds of Erin's fingers and brought them with her to the drake city along with [[Toren]], [[Maviola (Undead)|Maviola]], and all of [[Az’kerash]]'s [[chosen]].  She used a drake puppet to travel to the city and on the way she had some of the others help her make a bird that stored a pre-recorded message for [[Silvenia Ettertree|Silvenia]] asking her for the favor of launching high-level spells at the bird itself.

On [[Rhir]], Silvenia had been having difficulty getting past the 5th wall since the [[Blighted Kingdom]] had set up anti-magic fields covering the 5th and 4th walls entirely. This frustration and Nerrhavia's conniving manner of asking for the favor led Silvenia to attack the bird with multiple spells which it absorbed and took away. Back on [[Izril]], Nerrhavia arrived at the drake city for a stop at an antique store. There, she hid the finger molds from earlier in a few specific antiques and left. On the way out, she found a group of drakes attacking Venitra, Bea, and a newly made Oom, and she punished the drakes for this. The group left as once more the perspective changed.

The final stop came in the kingdom of Nerrhavia's Fallen where [[Yisame Beziin|Yisame]], members of the Council of Steel, and two named-rank adventurers had been told that there was a change in Nerrhavia's tomb. The group therefore headed down towards that secret tomb and found that Nerrhavia had used the bird to make a <Contract>. The contents of the contract weren't entirely revealed as they had faded too quickly, but they used the bird's stored spells from earlier to threaten [[Kasigna]] only to be cancelled before it was finished.

== Characters ==
( * = First Appearance)

* [[Erin Solstice]]
* [[Nerrhavia (Queen)|Nerrhavia]]
* [[Az’kerash]]
* [[Calidus Reinhart]] (''Scry Projection'')
* [[Bea]]
* [[Toren]]
* [[Healing Slime]]
* [[Maviola (Undead)|Maviola]]
* [[Ijvani]]
* [[Wesixa]]
* [[Venitra]]
* [[Oom II]] *
* [[Devail]]
* [[Kerash]] (''Mentioned'')
* [[Antal Fekete]] (''Mentioned'')
* ? - Male Earther that accidentally dead (''First Time Mentioned'')
*[[Hayvon Operland]]
* Nerrain (''First Time Mentioned'')
*[[Richard Davenport]] (''Mentioned'')
* [[Silvenia Ettertree]] (''Surname Revealed'')
* [[Czautha’qshe]]
* [[Doren| ? - Male Human shopkeeper]] *
* ? - Joerss' son *
* Joerss *
* ? - Hemp [Crypt Guardian] *
* [[Yisame Beziin]]
* Council of Steel
** [[Thelican]]
** ? - Ministers of Defense *
* [[Etrikah]]
* ? - [Mage] from the Hundred Thousand Tomes' Academy *
* ? - Captain of the Royal Guard *
* Named-rank adventurers (x2)
* [[Kasigna]] (''Mantioned'')
* [[Cauwine]] (''Mantioned'')
* [[Norechl]] (''Mantioned'')
* [[Tamaroth]] (''Mantioned'')

== Locations ==

* [[Izril]]
** Az’kerash's Castle
** ??? - Drake city bordering the forest near the High Passes
***''Cormeng’s Grand Emporium of Antiques and Pawnshop''
* [[Rhir]]
** [[Blighted Kingdom]]
*** [[Paranfer]]
*** 5th Wall
*** 4th Wall
* [[Chandrar]]
** [[Nerrhavia's Fallen|Nerrhavia’s Fallen]]
*** Tyrant’s Rest - Capital City
**** Resturgium - Royal Palace
***** Nerrhavia’s grave

== Undead ==

* Skeletal horses
* Undead bird

== Creatures ==

* [[Crelers]]
** Adult Crelers (x3)
** Larvae-Stage
* Metal insects

== Items ==

* Nerrhavia’s Drake undead puppet
* Ethereal thread
* Erin's hair strand (''Burned'')
* Dream Candle
* Living Wax
** Erin's fingers mold (x3)

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