I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore, Toto.

[Below is a summarized accounting of the 19-Oct gaming session.]

1) The Sea Tiger arrives in Kroel upon Arnur Culri to pick up the party.
-- In the middle of the night aboard the ship, Y'lora awakes to see a man standing in her quarters. He jumps toward the porthole, transforms into a fish, and is gone.
-- the party's copper is gone; Vyn looks sheepish.
-- via their daily telepathic call, Y'lora tells Moorlun of their travel through the Sidhe towers; he is very interested

2) The party arrives in Falduin.
-- reward posters on the dock for Bannin Stredak (signed by Dyderick)
-- Alexis casts an illusion disguise on Vyn.
-- Siglan meets with Ghevard Rennes (high ranking member of HOLY) and briefs him of recent events
-- Ghevard tells Siglan that a man by the name of Woltjer will meet with him in Espydur.
-- Siglan gracefully trips while leaving Ghevard's office, dumping his books on the floor.
-- Siglan offers papers/books found in The Master's tower concerning the Sidhe to Ghevard, who has them transcribed.
-- Vyn's headaches continue to increase in intensity. Taking off the gauntlets alleviates the headaches.
-- Johan is called away to the Bailwick of Morong. The war with the kobolds is increasing in intensity. The Crystal Dawn has called him to aid in healing the wounded.
-- Negotiations between the Ramfandir Holdings and the Dwarven Kingdom in the Derzaunen Mtns. are getting heated. HOLY has requested by the Bretwalda to send an earth mage to the talks. They send Bruno.
-- Bruno, desiring to know what his ring is/does, figures that Moorlun (being steeped in magical research) may be able to find out. He gives the ring to Alexis to give to Moorlun, given that she apparently knows him and is able (at some level) to garner favors from him.

3) The party travels via horse and cart to Espydur.
-- Siglan comes across a letter that was accidentally leafed into his slave trade ledger. The letter is written to Ghevard from Renloc (another member of HOLY), stating that "Y'lora appears to be in good care and that Siglan's insight is serving the party well; it is working out as well as they had planned."
-- Vyn teaches Y'lora how to handle a team of horses.
-- Alexis teaches Arimas a few spells.

4) The party arrives in Espydur.
-- The party meets with High King Helkenbraugh and relate the events on the Isle of Souls; the High King, hearing that the immediate threat is gone, decides to send a detachment to the Isle of Souls when resources become available, to check on the current inhabitants of the Master's complex.
-- Y'lora requests (and receives) a writ from the King to gain an audience with the Lord of Cloie.
-- Arimas and Vyn visit with Fremont again (dwarven brewer). Fremont is elated to see them again. He works with Arimas to make a batch of ale; Vyn drinks for free.
-- Per the agreement, Moorlun put a word in to the High King for Alexis to have him grant her an audience. Alexis meets with the court, beseeching that he help in bringing her brother to justice. He agrees to detain him when possible, but it is up to her to present evidence against him.
-- Siglan meets with his Order; there was some confusion as to where Woltjer was supposed to meet Siglan; Woltjer is heading to Falduin.

5) The party travels to Cloie to search for information concerning Y'lora's parents.
-- White roses are growing fairly abundantly in the area.
-- The Lord of Cloie meets with Y'lora. He says that the merchant named in the slave trade ledgers passed away 10 years prior. His eldest son now owns the estate just outside of town.
-- The inn's offering of ale doesn't meet Arimas' standards; he provides trade tips to the innkeeper as they begin to make a new batch; Vyn drinks for free again.
-- Vyn overhears patrons of the inn mention Alexis' brother being out and about.
-- Alexis investigates the store that was owned by the man who had purchased Y'lora's parents; there are no elves currently working in the store.
-- Y'lora scouts out the estate now owned by the merchant's son. She passes a graveyard on the way, gets a funny feeling, and finds two tombstones with her parents' names. The graves appear to be tended. "Lost but not forgotten" is inscribed on the tombstones.
-- In the morning, Alexis, Thain, Verinda, and Frederick awake. The rest of the party is not to be found.
-- Thain enters the rooms of the others; they all appear to be dead in bed with no visible signs of injury.
-- Alexis notes that a small group of men on horseback is entering town bearing her brother's heraldry.
-- Bruno's ring begins to glow brightly.
-- Alexis puts on the ring and is whisked away, ending up on the top of a Sidhe Tower similar to the others, except this one has a sixth portal which appears to exist in thin air. The rune on the center of the top floor of the tower is "12".
-- Alexis steps through the sixth portal and finds herself back in Cloie, alongside Vyn, Arimas, Y'lora, and Siglan. It is morning, as she remembers, but it is overcast now (it was sunny when she had put the ring on). The ring is now ice cold, to the point of being painful, and is no longer glowing. She takes the ring off.
-- Siglan realizes that he can see.
-- Cries for help, in Elvish, come from a nearby building.
-- Arimas hears muffled talk from behind the building... low enough that he "shouldn't" be able to hear it. The language is one that he's never heard before, but realizes he can understand it... is "sounds" like Sidhe.