Lyrander airship, en route to Sharn.

Acquisition: New magic eyes. Designation 6709 is proving extremely helpful.

Tragedy: Karkhanna (the dwarf) fell in combat today. The party was attacked by a pair of dire bears after our shifter companions had ridden ahead. Fortunately we dispatched them before there were further casualties. This one makes no claim to any real level of understanding of organics, but the timing of the shifters' reappearance, and there lack of concern for the dead seem extremely suspicious. Whether her death was accidental or not, Karkhanna will be missed.

Question: Kerowyn mentioned something about sending Karkhanna into “the afterlife” as her body was burning. What is the afterlife? Apparently it contains lots of alcohol.

Discovery: Airship found abandoned except for the captain, who was bound and unconscious in his cabin. Cargo is intact, except for several boxes of light-making devices. This raises several questions:
1.Why destroy the rods and leave everything else alone?
2.Why leave the captain unharmed?
Perhaps we were meant to find this ship, and return just enough of the favors to Evanwroat so that the party would continue. It may be that something with an aversion to light means to intrude upon the event.
3.Why bring the ship out to the Grayscale Mountains?
Continuing the previous line of thought, this may have been an attempt to delay us enough to prevent the delivery of another order of light rods.
4.Where is Ru? It just missed another stimulating discussion, this time on the existence and possible nature of the soul.