Efficient Beurocratic Adventuring Company

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• Offering 141

  Lia:

  My Queen,

  My abject apologies for the delay in this offering to you, I hope the quality of experiences offered shall prove sufficient payment. Offered are recollections of a diaspora, indentured servitude, friends forgotten, companions gained, small victories against insurmountable odds and defeats from callous indifference. Into Your care I place these wanderers when their last step falls.

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• Offering 140

  Lia:

  My Queen,

  My unexpected relocations appear to be more long-term than I had orinally thought but does seem to grant more opportunities than usual to perform your work. The group has found itself in the coerced employ of the Efficient Beurocratic Adventuring Company, sealed by an arcane contract that indicates the owners retain some thing of ours that shall be returned on completion of the terms of the contract. The specific thing held is unclear but I find the chance that it could be my soul problematic to your cause.

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• Offering 139

  Postmark: Bannock
  Lia:

  My Queen,

  The Dretch were reluctant to resume their appropriate position but I believe were suitably persuaded as to the rightfulness of this action. The villager was restored to their prior condition without undue fuss and recounted the transformation of their childhood friend from man to Merrow as an offering to your grace - I trust that the impact of this experience suffices as payment.

  After some investigation the group came to the rather wonderfully outlandish theory that the missing lighthouse, psychoactive slime and odd bitemarks found on a pair of bodies were linked to a colony of Kuo-Toa who had brought forth a protective deity from the lighthouse’s structure and purpose. I believe I was quite pleasantly suprised when this turned out to be the truth; with your blessing I would like to have this experience for just a little bit longer.

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• Offering 138

  Postmark: Bergvorn
  Lia:

  My Queen,

  The secrets of Bergvorn are being revealed; the cleric’s flock encompasses more than just the wretched villagers. In a moment of hubris the cleric has attempted to evict our group from the village with the aid of a sea-witch and numerous abominations rising from the sea - the fight does not seem to bode well for them but I am unsure whether they are worthy of your attentions. A complication has arisen in the form of Mip who has let loose a pair of Dretches on the unprepared villagers, one of whom has succumbed to the experience. I shall seek payment from the villager for my service in due course, once the Dretch have been suitably returned to their proper place. I imagine Mip to be the repository and cause of many of your interests and I forsee many opportunities to collect.

  If my ears do not deceive it sounds like my duties will be required elsewhere in the fight shortly. When this is done I believe I will take some personal satisfaction tending to the cleric.

  Your ever-faithful Collector,
  Lia

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• Offering 137

  Postmark: Bergvorn
  Lia:

  My Queen,

  I must apologise, a lapse in judgement has lead my travelling companions to learn too much - they have seen your face, though I do not think they realise what they beheld. I offer finding love letters of a summer romance that were thought long-since lost.

  One of our number is a most interesting being - they were not born to parents, nor summoned from the Ether, but manufactured and given what appears to be consciousness. I cannot yet comprehend whether they have a soul and, if they do, would this soul be of interest to you? They certainly recall experiences and have learned skills during their existence. I would like to spend time examining the nature of this individual but your will in this will of course be honoured.

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• Offering 136

  Postmark: Bannock
  Lia:

  My Queen,

  We have come across a most troubled group of sea-dwellers whilst investigating a missing lighthouse in Bannock. The unfortunate creatures appear to be afflicted with some creeping malady that robs them of their faculties - it has made extraction of their experience challenging but I shall persevere. Most of them did not survive the encounter but I have performed the ritual preparations on their mortal remains.

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• Offering 135

  Postmark: Bannock
  Lia:

  My Queen,

  I was unable to complete the last rites on the minstrel in Farview, however I was able to transcribe her moment of hopelessness and offer a locket given to her by her Aunt. By Your Grace may her Journey be untroubled.

  I find myself unexpectedly taken to Bannock, a small yet propserous fishing village, and in the company of strangers.

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