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 They proceed on towards the river and scout out a group of flux 'memory poachers' one of whom promptly recovers Booker's knife.  They are quickly put to the sword and Booker stabs himself with the blade, recovering all the memories that the Traitor judged vital.  The rest of the party is forced to dash across the stones of the river rapids, grabbing up memory crystals as the fight off the alchemical spirits produced by the waters.  Thanks to Mar's creation of a golem to wade directly through the dissolving waters, they are able to recover almost all their major memories and fighting through the pain of their past are mostly able to reintegrate them.  Booker feels no need to absorb his 'inessential' memories and Howard, having restablished his identity chooses not to integrate the crystals belonging to his past life, Leaf.
-WORK IN PROGRESS
+Wandering upriver in the hopes of tracking down their remaining memories the party encounters a group of crimson skinned people gathering clay from the riverbank.  They speak of the party as being 'trueborn' and ask for donations of flesh that they might combine it with the clay to create new children from by the miracles of the Mother Crimson.  Howard cuts off a finger and as the priest shapes the clay into life he drops in Leaf's memories.  This causes considerable consternation but the miracle is done and a squalling crimson babe lies on the earth.  Eventually persuaded to leave the child with a loving set of parents the party moves on, coming across a none-too-bright band of rebels who are conspiring to overcome the tyranny of the Citadel and use the contents of the vault to dominate the world above.  The party are dismissive of their potential to pose a threat to anyone but support their efforts to overthrow the regime that maintains the great river and forces a tithe of memories upon their people.  The rebels promise to call up other like minded bands and head for citadel.\\
+After dealing with some troublesome lionlizards on a pit-trap strewn savannah, the group encounters another band of revolutionaries, these composed of exiles from the citadel banned for advocating radical changes in the Rule.  They explain how the tithe system has forced their society into stagnation and decline, and how the memories are used to power a Weaver that somehow obscures the existence of this land both from the bordering dragons and the outside world.  Colin exchanges a message tome with one of the mages, and they too promise to secure the assistance of other exiles in effecting an overthrow of the authorities sending a guide along with the party to 'hand them over' to the enforcers of citadel. \\
+Moving on the party encounters a young man wandering lost and frightened through the wilderness, apparently incapable of incoherent speech.  Their guide identifies the boy as soulless, a condition that apparently occurs when some incompatibility arises between the artificial bodies and reincarnated souls of the Skirans.  The party take him back to the nearest where the distraught locals explain that they just can't afford to look after the animalistic youth anymore.  Howard, Booker and Colin take the boy aside and grant him a new will and the blessing of the Traitor.  Colin pretends to unify Booker's old memories with the boy whilst discretely pocketing them for later.  Howard gives the youth the name Hugh and claims him as a son, asking him to join the party on their travels.  Hugh agrees and they head on.  They soon are met by the Serradic party who have also managed to regain most of their memories; after some quick negotiation it is agreed that there is nothing to be gained by fighting in this strange land.  At this point Fabi, the priest of Zosimos the Curious admits that their drop into this realm was due to his use of a miracle in the dig site to get the ancient structure to show him what it did.  Meanwhile Branch submits to having his own face removed by the man he has assumed was his priest, as the devotee thought it still possible he might be the Jubilant Mask beneath another guise.
+WORK IN PROGRESS
 Having emerged from the Vault the adventures find that Colin has regressed to an animalistic state that they recognise as a sign of the Soulless.  As Mar and Gidner hold the frightened man still, the Splintered Man reaches out to the consensus and draws forth a new Will to inhabit the body of their former comrade.  As the new will settles into place it brushes against the dissolving remnants of Colin's thoughts and declares "I am Nobody."  They try to comfort and reassure this new person, and Howard claims himself as his father, giving him the name Blake.  'Blake' agrees to come with them and the group head to the river with their guard of Sentinels, watching from the bank as the ancient ghosts plunge themselves into the waters and vanish into a twinkling cloud of memory crystals.

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