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Clementine, Carmal, Gottlob, Louisa, and Almuth find themselves again in the sheltered forecourt of the Open Lord's official mansion as evening dews gather on waxy leaves of the garden from which afternoon's tepid luminance has fled. The mistress of the house stands framed in the way of a flung-open door, her figure a silhouette as eyes try to adjust to the spill of light that issues from bracketed lamps in the foyer. She rests one hand on her hip and thrusts the other outward in accusation; she grips a fine chain at the end of which a thurible[^thurible] bounces with her gesture. Swirls of stormy reproach and half-mitigated aggression color the Open Lord's expression, and our brave heroes feel a tickle of apprehension creep up the backs of their necks as Laeral delivers a beating, smooth and measured as always.
Lord Silverhand accuses the party members of willful defiance, but more than that, she charges them with reckless endangerment of her people and of all the Sword Coast's inhabitants beyond. Their _failure_ to satisfactorily subdue the extraplanar threats, as she has been specifically paying them to do, is unacceptable. Rankled by their patron's indictments, Almuth takes up his party's defense--- perhaps the beholders aren't _dead_ as tacitly expected, but they are no longer threats to the people of the Sword Coast, and the adventurers' obligations are fulfilled to the letter, if perhaps not in spirit. Tasha and the Goddess Eldath herself recommend the specific course of action that party has followed thus far, and with that justification, it _must_ be said that they have made the right decisions where it matters. The Open Lord is not convinced, but agrees nonetheless to overlook past transgressions in return for reaffirmation of the party's loyalty and a renewed commitment to more conformant behavior in the future. So that she may be sure of their attitudes, Lord Silverhand also demands proof of death for the next beholder vanquished, the Deathrun--- she wants its corpse in a basket.
Lord Silverhand accuses the party members of willful defiance, but more than that, she charges them with reckless endangerment of her people and of all the Sword Coast's inhabitants beyond. Their _failure_ to satisfactorily subdue the extraplanar threats, as she has been specifically paying them to do, is unacceptable. Rankled by their patron's indictments, Almuth takes up his party's defense--- perhaps the beholders aren't _dead_ as tacitly expected, but they are no longer threats to the people of the Sword Coast, and the adventurers' obligations are fulfilled to the letter, if perhaps not in spirit. Tasha and the Goddess Eldath herself recommend the specific course of action the party has followed thus far, and with that justification, it _must_ be said that they have made the right decisions where it matters. The Open Lord is not convinced, but agrees nonetheless to overlook past transgressions in return for reaffirmation of the party's loyalty and a renewed commitment to more conformant behavior in the future. So that she may be sure of their attitudes, Lord Silverhand also demands proof of death for the next beholder vanquished, the Deathrun--- she wants its corpse in a basket.
As she sends the party away, Laeral offers the censer that confines the air elemental, Cogyth's emissary and bearer of well-wishes. Gottlob takes it from her, and party members try to make out words in the whooshes and whispers they hear within, but communication is impossible--- they don't know the language. Still, they are grateful to have possession of the censer and for Laeral's clemency in allowing the elemental--- who committed no transgression, really--- to go free.