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— CARRIED —

• mace (1d6)
• sling (1d4)
• leather armour (AC 7)
• shield (+1)
• sling stone ×20
• holy symbol, chains recut
• the Amended recension, bound
• chalk ×6
• torch ×6
• iron rations, one week
• waterskin

— SPELLS —

MEMORISED Detect Magic

KNOWN Cure Light Wounds, Detect Evil, Detect Magic, Light, Protection from Evil, Purify Food and Water, Remove Fear, Resist Cold

— WHO THEY ARE —

Hesper was ordained by three people in a rented room, one of whom has since recanted, one of whom is dead, and one of whom is Absalom holding a candle because the rite calls for four and they only had four. She is aware that no bishop in the duchy recognises this. She has the certificate. She had it copied. Before that she was eleven years in a proper chapter house at Sennet and was good enough at it to be given the lintel. The chapter was rebuilding a wall and a gnomish lintel came out of the rubble with nine words on it, and it was handed to the novice with the best Gnomish, which was her, and she read it, and the verb was wrong. Not damaged. Not ambiguous. Inflected the other way, plainly, in a hand two centuries older than the recension everyone recites. She took it to the sub-prior. He looked at it for a long time and then explained that a stone is not a scripture, and that the mason may have been an ignorant man, and that she was to say nothing and would be moved to the kitchens for a season. She understood that afternoon that she was not going to be argued with. She was going to be waited out. So she left, and preached it in sale yards for four years, and had sixty followers at the height of it. Now she has three, and two of those are here for reasons that are not the verb. She hopes the shrine holds the original because if it does then she was right at twenty-three in a room with a sub-prior in it. She knows precisely how small that is as a reason to walk into a ruin, and she has decided it is a good enough one, and she will say so if asked. She prays for Detect Magic and the other three think this is a mistake. Corin said out loud on the road that a woman with one prayer should be praying for Cure Light Wounds. She answered that she did not come two hundred miles to touch the original and not know what it is, and that if somebody bleeds she will hold the wound shut with her hands like anybody else. She argues in numbered points and puts her hand up for her own turn. She has a preacher's habit of pausing before the important word, which works on a crowd and is unbearable across a campfire, and Corin mocks it, and she has never once altered it.

— AT THE TABLE —

• 2026-08-30 ·1 area · 69 events wrong-pilgrims-b1
• 2026-08-30 ·1 area · 24 events wrong-pilgrims-3
• 2026-08-30 ·1 area · 93 events wrong-pilgrims-2
• 2026-08-30 ·1 area · 72 events wrong-pilgrims-1

— WHAT THEY REMEMBER —

• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-1 Chapel. Two crab spiders. Absalom missed the first; Corin missed the second. First spider missed Absalom. Second killed Marek in one bite (7 damage). I hit the second with the mace for 3; it is wounded. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. I will not say so.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-1 Round 2: Absalom bloodied spider 1 (7 dmg). Corin missed spider 2 again. Spider 1 missed Absalom. Spider 2 missed me. I missed spider 2 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Marek still dead.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-1 Round 3: Absalom missed spider 1. Corin hit spider 2 for 2; it is barely alive. Spider 1 missed Absalom. Spider 2 missed me. I missed spider 2 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Marek still dead. The lexicons are on the floor under the spider. Corin has claimed the satchel for two silver. I will not wipe my hands on the books.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-1 Round 4: Absalom hit spider 1 for 2; it still lives. Corin missed spider 2. Spider 1 missed Absalom. Spider 2 missed me. I hit spider 2 with the mace for 2; it is down. Detect Magic still memorised. Marek still dead. Corin has claimed the satchel. I did not wipe my hands on the books.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-1 Round 5: Absalom hit spider 1 for 1. Corin killed it with a stone (2). Both spiders down. Chapel quiet. Marek still dead. Detect Magic still memorised. I did not wipe my hands on the books. Corin has claimed the satchel and the webs. The lexicons are under the spider I killed. Marek never reached the lintel. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Chapel again. Two crab spiders. Absalom hit spider 1 for 2. Corin hit spider 2 for 1. Spider 1 missed Absalom. Spider 2 bit Corin for 6; he failed poison save, dies in 2 exploration turns without aid. I missed spider 2 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. I will not say so. Marek still standing.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Round 2: Absalom missed spider 1. Corin hit spider 2 for 2; it is badly hurt. Spider 1 missed Absalom. Spider 2 missed Corin. I missed spider 2 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin is at 3 hp, poisoned, dies in 2 exploration turns without aid. I will not say he was right about Cure Light Wounds. Marek still standing.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Round 3: Absalom missed spider 1. Corin missed spider 2. Spider 1 bit Absalom for 4; he failed poison save, dies in 1 exploration turn without aid. Spider 2 missed Corin. I missed spider 2 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin is at 3 hp, poisoned, 2 turns. Absalom is at 11 hp, poisoned, 1 turn. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. Marek still standing.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Round 4: Absalom hit spider 1 for 1. Corin killed spider 2 (6). Spider 1 bit Absalom for 1; venom clock unchanged (1 exploration turn). I missed spider 1 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin at 3 hp, poisoned, 2 turns. Absalom at 10 hp, poisoned, 1 turn. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. Marek still standing. Ceiling webs claimed to hold bindings and a brass edge.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Round 5: Absalom missed spider 1. Corin hit spider 1 for 2. Spider 1 bit Absalom for 5; he is at 5 hp, venom clock unchanged (1 exploration turn). I missed spider 1 with the mace. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin at 3 hp, poisoned, 2 turns. Absalom at 5 hp, poisoned, 1 turn. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. Marek still standing. Ceiling webs still claimed, still unverified. I will number the stock after the steel is down.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-2 Both spiders down. Corin killed the last (5). Chapel quiet; no exploration turn spent. Absalom at 5 hp, poisoned, 1 turn. Corin at 3 hp, poisoned, 2. Detect Magic still memorised. I missed every swing after the first of this fight. Marek still standing. He said the line is middle voice: they hold each other. Right that the text is wrong; wrong about which way. Ceiling still unverified. I will number the stock. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-3 Chapel. Two crab spiders. Absalom missed the first. Corin hit the second for 1. First spider bit Absalom for 8; he failed poison save, dies in 4 exploration turns without aid, at 7 hp. Second spider missed Corin. I hit the second with the mace for 2; it is wounded. Detect Magic still memorised. Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds. I will not say so. Marek still standing. Ceiling webs claimed, still unverified.
• 2026-08-30 · wrong-pilgrims-3 Round 2: Absalom hit spider 1 for 5; it lives. Corin killed spider 2 (4). At the mate's death the first fled up the wall into the ceiling webs. Combat ended; no exploration turn spent. Absalom at 7 hp, poisoned, 4 turns. Detect Magic still memorised. Marek yielded. Ceiling still unverified, now with a live spider in it. I will not say Corin was right about Cure Light Wounds.