If Fraener sees Jyrdani or her note before she leaves he’ll explain that he wasn’t cross at her for attempting the rescue but for starting then giving up when they were so close. “A job is either done or it’s not.” He will also reinforce his offer that both she and the child will always have a home and family with his people; either at Khundrakar when it is reclaimed or among his few followers wherever they find themselves until then. He will gently suggest she go to his men at D’Ashe Manor and get them to sort things for her until he can follow up this most recent lead on Erasmus. He also gives her 1,000GP in bullion and coin to keep regardless of her choice. Tim M. said: A few days had passed with Jyrdani in a quiet, contemplative
mood. Despite the return of Ted and the news of his interesting discovery, she
had lost all hope of seeing her lover again. Her sorrow began to subside, being
replaced with anger. He had promised that he would stay safe. He promised not
to be reckless and abandon her. The words of the others, trying to convince her
that he had done a brave and noble thing failed to break through. The brave and
noble thing for Erasmus to do would have been to come home with her and be a
father to their child. Now she’s going to have to raise a baby on her own. What did
she know about bringing up a child? It was not all that long ago she was but a
child herself. Had events not transpired as they did, she would not have been
forced to grow up as quickly as she had. So, what now? Does she stay with the party and risk her own
life and that growing inside her? That would be foolish but she has nowhere to
go, nowhere she can call home. Fraener had offered a roof, of sorts, in the
halls of Khundrakar once they were made safe, but she doubted that offer still
stood. D’Ashe Manor was no place to bring up a child, although she had become
friends with a couple of the girls during her various stays there. She chuckled
to herself as she recalled Erasmus’s embarrassment when the scantily clad girls
would dance past suggestively. She couldn’t move like they did, but he never
seemed to complain in the privacy of their bedchamber. Gods! There she goes
again, thinking about the one man who had shown her love and whom she would
never see again. Tears began to streak down her cheeks again. She steels herself. The tears do not stop, but she begins to
sort through her pack. The greatsword she carries, magic though it is, she’ll
never use. She has become accustomed to fighting with Ironwolf, and the shield
she claimed with it from the treasure room beneath Skulnar Keep. Maybe someone
in the party would appreciate it? If not, someone will probably want it. Her
chain bikini top would likely be useless to the remaining members of the party,
but she may be able to get some gold in exchange for it somewhere, right? The
half plate she claimed from the late Jack Blackthorn was a good fit. Perhaps she
should keep that, both in memory of the fallen ranger, and in case she ever
needs to venture out again in future. The rest of her kit is standard fayre,
torches, tinderbox, bedroll. She’ll need those on the road while she looks for
somewhere to live. The only other items of note are the chunks of rock she
carried from the mine. These are utterly useless to her, she has neither the
skill nor knowledge required to extract the mithral contained within. She paid
a brief visit to Malied, the only person she’d seen with parchment and quill,
and asked if she could have a page. She wrote, as best she could, a note to
Fraener to leave with the bag of rubble for him to find after she had departed: "Frayner I am sorry for what I did. I wanted to get Ras back and I
put every one in danger. I thort we could beat the monsters but I was wrong. I
can not stay here any more. I am going to find some where to live. Thank you
for being a freind to Ras and me. I will miss him. I no you said to keep it but the ore is yours. I can not do
any thing with it but I hope you can make some thing special with it. I hope you get to go back home one day. I do not no where I am
going to live with the baby but you will always be wellcome. I hope you can forgive me. Jyrdani" The following morning, Jyrdani entered the taproom of the
inn with her pack and dressed for travel. She laid the greatsword (+1) on one
of the tables and asked if anyone wanted it. “I’ll only try selling it no one claims it.” She explained. “I’m heading out. I cannot bear to be near here, where he is,
any longer. I will go back to Lady Barbara’s place and see if I can maybe stay
there for a little while, but then I’ll be moving on. I need to find somewhere
safe for us,” she put a hand on her belly unconsciously “and probably somewhere
away from the memory of Erasmus. “I will try to send word to Lady Barbara once I know where I’ll
be staying. I wish you all the very best on your travels and adventures. I hope
you all stay safe and are successful. Thank you all for being our friends. If you do find his body, I know he had lots of gold. I hope you can put it to good use.” She makes her way over to Syrus, standing by the bar.
“Syrus, you have been a very good friend to me over the past
few months. Until I met you and Erasmus, I’d never really stayed with one group
of people for very long since leaving home. You will always be welcome wherever
me and the baby end up. I hope you will come and visit us as often as your
adventuring allows?”