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=== Chapter XXI ===

After a year of tending to private matters, the parties downtime was interrupted by a call for help from Bilcore, a small town on the Zestern shores of Siverow. It's residents had seen signs of trouble brewing in The Forbidden Forest to the Zorth, and has sent several Heroic Tier NPCs to determine what was going on. When no one returned they called for help from Castletown, and the Princess sent her star Guardsmen, the party, who responded swiftly and surely, by hiring a group of Paragon Tier NPCs, who never returned. Eventually they decided to go look for themselves, and discovered a Devil worshiper cult operating out of the Forest. Along the way they discovered the Baby, who had no memory of who or where he was, but since he was a skilled rogue, they invited him to join their group. Also his amnesia presented them with the opportunity to scam him and make him do stuff. After stomping out the Devil Cult threat, the party was once again harassed by the Salvation Armies leader, Brenn Bahamus, who claimed responsibility for killing the cult. The part decided it would be easier to let him lie than argue, and they moved on. Not before Bahamus told them of the mercenaries he had hired to do the job for him, so he wouldn't have to break the vow not to enter Siverow, even if it was with the Princesses blessing. Hoping that a scrap of parchment he found in his pocket was connected to the mercenaries, the Baby asked the party to make a trip to the HQ.

Arriving at the Raven Wood HQ in a dark forest in the middle of the night may have been a bit unsettling for lesser heros, but the party was unshaken. They met with the guilds leader and determined that they were impostors. The supposed guild leader asked them to spend the night, and head out in the morning, and they agreed. With the knowledge that they were in danger, the party brought the fight to them, and discovered that the impostors were yet another Devil Cult. After an interrogation, they discovered that the cults had been contacted by their Devil Lords and ordered to do the things they had done, then wait. Asmodeus was rumored to have a new weapon to fight the Celestials, and they were doing these things to help him test it. After rescueing a few surviving members, the party met Thomas again, and he did nothing but act shady, tell them a few innocuous things, then leave. The party was a little confused, but decided to report back to Bahamus before making any more moves.