The guards admit the refugees through Ironvale’s outer gate. The hooded necromancer remains behind in the guarded chamber, while Tomas leads Rowan and the fallen woman toward the docks.
Tomas drags the woman’s bundle through streets narrowed by lean-tos and patched awnings. Beggars and homeless survivors watch from doorways as forge-hammers ring beyond the crowded lanes.
Tomas Vale
There is a healer somewhere in the shanty town. She trades medicine when she can, though desperate people have surrounded every useful supply.
The woman gives a faint groan from the bundle. Tomas pauses beside a rain barrel, searching the shifting crowd while refugees cluster close behind Rowan.
woman
Do not spend everything on me. Find water first, if there is any.
Tomas Vale
Water will not close whatever weakness took you down. We need the healer, and we need her before this crowd notices what we carry.
Ahead, a knot of people blocks the lane around a shuttered stall. Someone raises a voice over the hammering, claiming medicine has arrived, and the crowd surges toward the sound.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure water for the refugees
“"Wait here with her," I tell Tomas. "I'll grab some and be back." I gently set the woman down and start pushing my way through the crowd towards where the medicine is.”
SUCCESS (Superb Strength, rolled +1)
Rowan Silverhand
Wait here with her. I’ll grab some and be back.
Rowan gently lowers the fallen woman beside the rain barrel, arranging the bundle beneath her head. Tomas drops to one knee and steadies her while Rowan turns toward the surging crowd.
Tomas Vale
Go, then. I will keep her covered. Bring whatever the healer offers, even if it is little.
Rowan pushes into the knot of bodies, his bear-hide cloak forcing a narrow passage. Voices protest, but his steady strength carries him to the shuttered stall where a medicine seller guards a small wooden case.
the medicine seller
One dose for the fevered, one for the faint. No more unless you have coin, trade, or a reason worth hearing.
Rowan Silverhand
The woman needs water and medicine before the crowd closes around Tomas.
Rowan reaches the stall and secures a stoppered vial and a packet of dried leaves from the seller's case. Behind him, the crowd shifts and mutters, but the medicine is in his hand, ready to carry back.
+ New Item Acquired
Stoppered vial
+ New Item Acquired
Dried leaves