ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Last we left off, the Tempests had finally arrived in Völsung, the capital of Zaan’s home country of Rokasing. The city was packed with people, with soldiers from all across Rokasing itching for a fight. Namely, against the Cultists who had been raiding and pillaging their land.
Unfortunately, the Cultists had proven slippery and are taking refuge somewhere within the blizzards to the north of the continent, an area notoriously difficult to traverse without the aid of one of the northern tribes.
But that problem would have to wait, as the Tempests had discovered there were spies operating within the walls of Völsung itself. After hunting one of them down, they learned that the spy had been relaying information to a local Cult leader: an Acolyte named Cedric.
Coming up with a plan to lure Cedric into the open, Moriko impersonated the now-deceased spy and contacted the acolyte using the sending stone they had found on the spy’s person. The bait? Lakin had turned against the Tempests, and the spy wanted to bring him in to be indoctrinated.
Cedric agreed to a face-to-face meeting well outside the city walls. Moriko altered her form to resemble the dead spy and escorted Lakin to the meeting point, where Cedric proved hesitant to believe that Lakin had truly betrayed his companions.
If Lakin wanted to prove himself, Cedric had a simple request: bring him Zaan, bound and beaten.
Only then would he believe the betrayal was genuine.
Lakin seemed all too happy to give Zaan a black eye, and the pair bickered the entire way back to the meeting point, doing their best to sell the idea that there had been growing discontent between them.
Seeing Zaan delivered to him on a silver platter, Cedric informed Lakin that his services were no longer required. Rather than allowing Lakin to turn Zaan in himself, Cedric intended to take the prisoner and claim all the credit.
After Cedric failed to cast a spell on both Lakin and Zaan, however, the trap finally snapped shut.
Lakin opened a door to his pocket dimension, where Pez had been hiding the entire time, and Pez promptly ventilated the Acolyte with a barrage of magical bullets.
We rejoin the Tempests now in the aftermath of a quick but bloody skirmish that left Cedric alone inside Lakin's pocket dimension and the six Cultists lying in wait now lay dead, scattered across the clearing.
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