"Merrick?" DK asks, "he's probably somewhere he wasn't invited... Your pantry." 

"Our pantry!?" Sir Garamon rushes into the building while shouting, "No! My casks of exotic noodles must go untouched!!!"

Once inside, Sir Garamon finds Merrick sitting at the table in the waiting area. 

"Oh good," Sir Garamon checks the other room for a moment, "my noodles are safe."

(Merrick will follow the party quietly until player returns. Or I will have him go to his Nana's home when you all leave this area.)

"Eh, it's neither good or bad. It just is." Urich holds out the gem to Vivi. "What'dya think? Any thoughts on why this thing glows like it still has a soul? Its user is as still as a statue these days."

Vivi hastily takes it from Urich. Her eyes twinkle as she observes the stone. 

Without hesitation, Vivi swallows the gem whole.

"Uhhh-" Urich's eye twitches, but before he can say anything the room flashes with a white light. 

Once the flash settles, Vivi's eyes seem to be glowing green for just a moment.

"Uuu- It's hot," Vivi complains looking from Urich to Luthok. "I'm hungry."

Merrick's eyes light up when he sees Garamon. "Oh hi! How did it go with my friends? Did they play any music?"

"Say I found a funny doll over at that table. Look! What do you think?"

Before the flash of the light Luthoks face has the same dirty brown colour with a tint of grey, after the flash however Luthok too has changed. To a deep red colour, that is. "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!?!?!? YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT GEM HAS BEEN?!??! WHAT ARE YOU??!?! 3 BLOODY YEARS OLD OR ARE YOU JUST STUPID!?!??!?! I THOUGHT SO MUCH BETTER OF YOU V, YOU WERE NOT LIKE THESE DUMBASSES OUT FIGHTING THE GOLDEN **** OUT IN THE GARDEN!!!....... Luthok looks like he is feeling dizzy and slumps down by a nearby wall.. "Did your eyes just glow?.." 

"The king of heroes is a mighty fighter. I'm just glad I still have my head for daring to show him my dull blade!" Sir Garamon says in a happy voice. He tilts his head at Merrick's next statement. "Oh, so you've seen that red creature? Their not unlike that girl you brought with you. What's her name? Bebe? Anyway, they used to move around a lot and talk. It was really annoying. Even more annoying than Urich and his obsession with leaving his dirty socks everywhere!

"Why don't we go and see how Bebe is doing, gentlemen! I am sure after being touched by my 'friend' she will need much consoling. After all, he smells like a garbage dump."

Vivi pouts at Luthok and makes a fishy sort of face. She half whispers, "It looked yummy.

"Uuu, did my eyes glow?" Vivi rubs her eyes with her hands. "Are they still glowing? I feel a little different. I feel... really hot."

"I swear on my research that I didn't know she'd eat it," Urich stuffs his hands in his pockets. "I thought she'd just look at it. Maybe I'd let her keep it since I think it belonged to someone she knew. Stars, I didn't think she'd freakin' eat it pal."

"Urich! How is Bebe doing-" Sir Garamon leads the rest of the party into Urich's study. "That doesn't look good."

A white aura surrounds Vivi's body as she starts to float up. Her eyes glow green once again as you all see her veins on all parts of her exposed skin become visible as they pulsate red. She seems to be looking at all of you, but its hard to tell given her glowy eyes. 

"Power." Vivi states simply. Something about how she says it reminds you of how she was back when you fought her, but you don't sense the same killing intention. "Gem grant power to Vivi."

After that, Vivi promptly faints.

"Well, that's interesting." Urich mutters under his voice. He gives Vivi a rudimentary check (probably Luthok jumps in first), and together with the shroomy dwarf, they conclude, "Welp. She's fine. Seems like eating that gem just tired her out. Is she like 8 or something? Who eats random rocks strangers gives you?"

Luthok rushes over to Vivi as the girl falls to the ground and does a quick check-up on her with the smelly gnome. "I know right? I thought better of her. Eating bloody gems..." Luthok turns to the rest of the party. "So... The lass ate a phylactery, and this quack over here removed her tracker, or at least he claims he did." The wizard gets the stink-eye.

Urich raises his hands, "Hey, I certainly did. Guess ya won't be able to tell though. Even a spell of 'detect magic' will still pick up her own phylactery let alone the one she just ate.

"She seems okay aside from the whole fainting thing. I can't say for sure, but, she said she got power from the gem. Maybe it's a good thing. Who knows?" Urich shrugs. "I just hope you guys can find it in your hearts to still retrieve my gog."

Luthok grunts and sits down on the ground two or three feet from Vivi. "I am not going gog-catching before she wakes up again. It's been a long day already."

"I am certain that you can leave Bebe in our care," Sir Garamon stands by Urich. He towers over him so that Urich seems somehow much smaller. "I will tell her my many tales of bravery as she dreams. When she awakens with this great power she inherited from the annoying red one's gem she will become a worthy hero such as I! At least if that's alright with you. Unless you'd like to take her and go."

Medicine Check to see when she might wake up!
10 or less

11+

Natural 20

"We were told the reds are incredibly dangerous." Dyoken says, "Were you allied with her? You don't seem to upset at the loss..."

"Allied is a bit of a strong word," Sir Garamon strokes his helm's chin. "Truthfully, I don't think they are gone or anything. I think they are just taking a nap."

"Sir Garamon, that's..." Urich scratches the back of his head a bit awkwardly. "We don't know if Hel will ever move again."

"Bah! You weren't there, Urich. They said, 'It's time for a long rest, I'm sleepy!' and went to bed."

"They went to bed standing upright and stopped moving."

"Exactly! They said it would be a long rest, and a long rest it sure has been." Sir Garamon places his hands on his hips. "So you see no reason to be sad or depressed. Hel isn't dead. They just aren't moving anymore!"

Vivi just blinks. "... One? One was the only red I knew."

"Hmm? Never called themselves 'One,'" Urich shrugs. 

Muireach absorbs everything that just happened. He’ll do a medicine check on the girl, 7. He nods slowly, “She’ll be awake in 4 hours. Trust me, I’ve had my share of dealing with fainting women.”

"Alright, well leave her with these guys and come back in the evening." Luthok pushes himself to his feet with his staff and after a quick glance at the unconscious Vivi he looks to the party. "Now what?"

“That seems like a fair assessment. I trust Garamon to defend the honor of a young maiden,” Muireach raises an eyebrow at the skeleton, as if to say ‘isn’t that right,’ “In any case, I think we should speak with Ivsaar about his expedition. This ‘Moonshadow’ is of particular interest to me, plus we can get in good with the society.”

Merrick has a happy idea and leads everyone down to where he found the masked doll/statue/person. Urich seems only a little annoyed that Merrick went snooping around his home, while Sir Garamon was estatic that Merrick might fix Hel.

Merrick tried tapping on the forehead of the mask. Nothing. Then he commented on the jug being broken, to which Urich replied, "What's your favorite drink? Mine's milk."

Merrick listed so many drinks, but the jug filled up with only the first named - dandelion ale! He was so happy he drank some and thought, 'Maybe I will feed this to Hel.' So he did, much to Sir Garamon's chagrin.

While Garamon cries at Hel's feet over spilled ale, Muireach says, "What about the lantern?"

"Hmm...? Lantern?" Urich isn't sure what anyone is doing or talking about at this point.

Merrick is running out of ideas. He notices Garamon sobbing on the floor, and hops down. "It's okay, we'll wake her up," says Merrick sympathetically. "We'll get her back for you."

"Thank y-you," Garamon somehow blows his nose on Hel's cloak. "M-Maybe she'll clean up this mess!"

"Mmm, so we go by the Archaeological society first and sign up for our next job, then we'll head to the park and find gog. Then we'll go get the lantern, and we'll be back here in time for supper," says Dyoken.

“Sounds like a plan.” Muireach agrees.

"Supper? WAIT A MINUTE WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS IT?" Merrick asks in full panic

"Vivi should be up by then, she'll help you with the cooking." - DK

"Is it Sunday?" - Merrick

“I don’t know. Time’s weird here...” - Muireach

"It's Tuesday." - Urich

"Oh thank god!" sighs Merrick with relief. I thought I was late for Nana's supper again. The kithkin shudders.

"Off we go then." Luthok walks over towards the door. Right before he exits he turns towards Urich. "I respect yer work wizard, but you touch a hair on the head of that lass and i'll make ye fertilizer for my shrooms." He taps his staff once in the ground, turns on the heel and starts the journey back into town. 

“And I won’t be as kind as him. That being said,” Muireach gives a courteous, albeit rigid, bow to the both of them, “Nice meeting you both... see you in a little while.”

"I'm sure we'll wake her up. We'll just get the pegasus to the skyboat, and then things will be just great," says Merrick happily, consoling the undead knight. He then walks out to follow the others, sipping dandelion ale from the jug.

Dyoken refrains follows the others out watching the strange pair Suspuciously as he moves for the door.

Once the party has secured there next gig, he starts trying to secure their gog.

Dyoken heads for the south end of the park where he last saw fog, and starts trying to track him down. (Survival: 18) "Trail's cold..." 

The trail is indeed cold. Even faded tracks of this dog don't seem to be present anywhere in the park.

Insight Check 8 or better for DK to think...

DK and Luthok notice those druids from before. Everyone can see them standing at the center of the park. They seem to be creating the base of a large fountain by molding a stone with their hands. The stone is worked by their hands as though it were clay. They seem pretty concentrated on this project.