As the fake heroes left, Nitsuka snuck off to assume her regular human form once more. Fang rejoined his companions as the guards also approached, weapons out and pointed towards BK. King Leos, the real one this time approached the group, and inquired as to what happened. After getting a quick explanation he told the guards to stand down while he spoke with Sparky and Fang alone. He inquired about whether or not BK, being a skeleton. They said he seemed to be so far, and took responsibility for him in the event he caused trouble. Leos was satisfied and told them to have BK come find him.
The guards were then told to allow BK to be free. When Sparky told BK to go see Leos, BK left the town. Fang and Sparky followed him, where BK refused to comply. He turned invisible although Sparky was still able to tell his location. Sparky and Fang decided that Sparky would go see the king instead. Upon explaining the situation to Leos, he sighed and gave him a hat of disguise, for BK to use while in town. Sparky returned to BK who refused to take the hand, but was now willing to return to town.
During this time, Nitsuka was looking around town, hoping to find another Kitsune. She thought she found one who was naught but a child. He was the only one she could find, he kept messing with her, playing fox and hunter with his friends, bumping into Nitsuka as she tried to keep an eye on him. In the end she decided to leave and hope to find him later.
When evening came and Nitsuka went out looking, she was fortunate enough to find the young child, who brought Nitsuka with him before revealing his true form, where she found out he was actually a short old man. He agreed to teach Nitsuka how to turn into a fox form.
Our heroes then left to go to Magia, making sure to bring their merchant Bob with them. Along the way Nitsuka showed her kitsune form to her companions. While the heroes were a bit shocked, they accepted their companion for what she was. On their way to Magia they stopped in the resort town Metades. In the middle of the town was a lovely fountain with the loveliest purest waters our heroes had ever seen. The fountain had one large mermaid statue in the center and 4 others in the corners. The resorts were very expensive, but Sparky decided to stay at the inn regardless of price. The rest of our heroes stayed outside, in their wagon.
The next day they looked through the town a bit and noticed that there was a temple here dedicated to Gozreh, god of wind and waves. They took a quick look and noticed there jewels and gems in some locations of the temple, but our heroes decided to not turn to a life of theft and did not steal them, although some members were tempted to.
Our heroes then continued their journey to Magia. Once they mentioned they were emissaries of Reino they were brought to the circle of nine, the leaders of the kingdom of Magia. The building they entered seemed to be a library at first glance, but as our heroes went further in they were brought to a circular floor which then moved upwards. Our heroes were then led to another room where there were 9 elevated seats around them.
As our heroes waited, the first one to enter was wearing a full suit of armor. He walked past our heroes to take his seat. Our heroes couldn’t see anyone within the armor, whom our heroes learned had forgotten his name and simply referred to as The First. The others that came through were a male human named Toshiyuki, a male goblin named Rove, a cloaked female gnome named Zanizyre Truecloak, a female halfling named Maeyola Cloudsong who was singing and playing her harp, a female human named Velachamon, a male dog like humanoid known as a shoony named Darwar Ungrin, who smacked Nitsuka on the butt when he came in, a male human Lorhen Dakes, and lastly, a female Tengu in dark robes with a purple book named Mitsui.
The council agreed to speak with our heroes where they would learn about what they were doing here. Nitsuka spoke up first, but wasn’t sure what to say and caused some ire amongst the council. Sparky and Fang however made a bit more of a positive impact. BK got thrown out of the council. A few of the members showed interest in seeing this nexus of power and asked our heroes to take them to the tree. Sparky agreed, and our heroes also learned that the nexus of power was involved in sealing a demon invasion millenia ago.
Our heroes were dismissed, however Darwar asked to speak with Fang, and Velachamon to speak with Sparky. Darwar talked with Fang a bit about the nexus of power but the conversation didn’t go very far. In the end Darwar left and Mitsui took the opportunity to sit down with Fang. Mitsui did not communicate very well with Fang, but Fang did tell her to speak with Sparky.
As Sparky spoke with Velachamon, a fellow druid, she had a lot of interest in the tree and the forest. She was happy to learn of the information Sparky provided, and was willing to help Sparky get a way to get back to the tree. After Velachamon left Sparky, Mitsui sat down and started asking questions. The two talked quite a bit, and Mitsui provided him quite a bit of information on the circle of nine. Thanking him for the information, Mitsui then headed off.