Berra saw Irillo shimmer over in blackish silver, and the Darkness Rune on the back of her neck froze, rendering her unconscious. She was healed by Tiwr, and the group agreed to go to Wilmskirk as soon as possible to find out more about Eril and try to follow him.

On the road, they had the bad luck (or good luck, from some points of view) of being spotted by Rastip Stormborn, exile of Greyrock Rise, with a hate on for Irillo. He attacked with little preparation, but a set of men used to fighting alongside him, all shielded and with the use of the Leap spell if they needed to get away. Nala and Tiwr managed to do a lot of damage to Rastip, while Berra brought down a bandit and then charged a line of three, alone. She was in the middle of a Sword Trance, and managed to hold her own for a round until help arrived, forcing her enemies to flee. She helped give chase, and with Varanis using Leap and Lightning, managed to pin one down²wound one until he fell over on the ground.

Berra and Varanis made him walk back a prisoner, with Berra still in her Sword Trance – she went off to look for enemies. Meanwhile Irillo offered the prisoner his life in exchange for the truth of where their camp was, and who else was around. The other bandits, already dead, were left dangling from trees after their spirits had been sent away³Note for future GMs: Prepare Corpse failed on Rastip. The party moved on to Wilmskirk, where the Praxians went in and the rest stayed the night outside the walls.

In the morning, Berra took Xenofos to the Temple of Humakt to ask about looking at their records, and after questioning on the purity of her motives, they let Xenofos look at their writings from some years ago, finding that Eril was named as being of the Cinder Fox Clan of the Sambari tribe. Xenofos struggled rather with the vocabulary, but he could read it, meaning that Berra could translate. They went to the library, where Xenofos found out more. Eril was a common name, but there was only one Eril Cinder-Fox who was noble, and he was the second son of the chief of Tamain Cracks-Rock, head of the CInder Fox Clan. He was also, notably, a lay member of the Cult of Lhankor Mhy, and had written the go-to reference to the rights, responsibilities, and limits of power of thrall-holders and their thralls.

Berra settled down to guard Irillo and keep him from harm while he waited for market day, as the next stage in his plan was apparently to buy or hire Praxian thralls. She took one trip to the Humakti Shrine on her own, to worship and give them the sword of Rastip Kin-killer to destroy and hang up in public.

“Berra looks at Irillo, says, ‘What the f-‘, and falls over.” – GM
“Rajar stands up, grips his axe in his left hand and cautiously sips his beer while peering at Irillo and Berra.” – Rajar

“And there’s a vampire…” – Varanis
“D’Val said he couldn’t find evidence of a vampire.” – Berra

“Berra’s happened to that guy there…” – Berra

“Will let Berra string them up” – Nala
“Berra will do that, although she’ll ask Rajar to do the lifting.” – GM