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• We arrive to Vallaki with no problem. It's very decorated for the festival of the Burning Sun.
• We go to the church. The door is locked. Belial uses Knock.
• Milijov is there. He doesn't want us in, except Belial's already opened it, so. He charms Milijov and gets us access.
• Lilly takes a cheeky nap as we all realise she is very very sick.
• We go to the inn so Seir can take a bath. We join in. It's a big sexy time.
• We decide to check out the festival. We see a guy on a stage talking and he's next to a disco ball globe of some sort. Probably a sun.
• Vargasbus notices us and calls us to the stage. Arkan tries to cast Darkness out of impulse but is stopped. And dragged to the stage.
• River uses the Holy Symbol of Ravenhold to use Daylight. He amazes the crowd.
• Belial gives a very awkward and bad speech. He sounds like a kiss-ass.
• Seir and River hear screams of panic. Seir says, "I heard something," and bolts. Arkan is desperate for a reason to flee and follows. Belial lights the sun and follows.
• We run through the crowd and hear people yelling, "Tiger!" Sure enough, there's a sabertoothed tiger cat. Arkan walks up and pets it. It sniffs the air and takes off sprinting. We follow. Belial is flying.
• The tiger pounces on a group and starts tearing into one. Belial judges that it's probably a Vistani. He casts Slow on the tiger and the rest of us catch up.
  • Seir stabs the shit out of the tiger.
  • Arkan burns it up with Scorching Ray and does some massive damage.
  • River heals the Vistani that got clawed up. Thanks River.
  • The tiger gets a strong bite on Seir.
  • Belial restrains the tiger with Earthen Grasp.
  • Ezmeralda runs up and tells us to stop, and that it's Rictavio's. We agree to not kill it, but we're gonna knock it out at least.
  • Seir pets the cat to try and calm it down.
  • Arkan tries to pet the cat and fails.
  • River tries to pet the cat and fails.
  • Lilly is awoken by the screaming and running but just grumbles and curls back up to sleep.
  • The tiger cannot get free.
  • Belial tries to pet the cat and fails.
  • Ezmeralda gets the Vistani fucking out of there.
  • Seir tries to pet the cat and fails.
  • Arkan gives up on diplomacy and goes back to stabbing.
  • River tries to poke the tiger and ends up poking its armor.
  • The tiger manages to break free of the Earthen Grasp. It then tries to bolt. We all attack it, except Seir.
  • Belial restrains it again.
  • Ezmeralda tells us to stop attacking the tiger.
  • Seir moves up to the tiger and throws a handaxe.
  • Arkan manages to knock it out and then bandages it up so it doesn't bleed to death.
• The burgomaster comes up and we explain the racist tiger.
• A guard comes up and shares that it broke free of Rictavio's caravan (aka, it wasn't released on purpose).
• Arkan notices the Watcher sons being shifty near the back of the crowd. He whispers this to the rest. River suggests we talk to them before we judge, and Arkan makes fun of him because we do NOT think before we act.
• The burgomaster wants Rictavio arrested, but Arkan insists that it wasn't his fault and that the locks must've been messed with. We manage to pursuade him into holding an investigation.
• We do some investigating, but it doesn't look like the locks were tampered with at all. Burgomaster calls for Rictavio's arrest and walks off. With the tiger. Belial chases and tries to get them to let the tiger outside. He fails.
• We go to the tavern and get drunk.
• Ezmeralda appears and says she stole the wedding dress from the burgomaster's wife and thanks us for being a distraction. She also scolds us for not escorting Dimitri's wife.
• Milijov rats us to Lucian but Arkan, while very drunk, defends us.
• We spend a couple more hours in the tavern and go back to Lilly. Lucian doesn't know what disease she has, but talks about how she's cursed by Mother Night to have nightmares.
• We go to sleep. In the middle of the night, Lilly starts laughing and we learn she has Cackle Fever. River catches it. Good job, River.
• The next day, we spend it selling a bunch of stuff we have. Belial copies some spells into his book.
• Arkan drinks the Youth potion and looks like a sexy age-ambiguous-but-definitely-young-adult person. It wears off the next day.
• We spend the next couple days dicking around as Lilly and River heal, then prepare to head back to Krezk.