11/19/2025
The Students of Life and Death took their newfound Wavebender Oar and traveled west toward Heron's Harbor.
Along the way, they ran into Balastra who, having recently gotten the oar off of the Wild Bunch and Gaping Maw of Sound, came to gather the Students' oar for the Western Highcroft Rebellion
The group didn't trust that Balastra's organization would use the oars they said they would, so chose not to give theirs, but instead perhaps make a replica for her, or travel with her to put the oar in its place and ensure it is not misused.
Around this time, Balatra realized the other two oars were missing, and was at a complete loss as to who could have taken them. She decided to travel to Heron's Harbor with the group in an effort to find the oars along the way, forgetting about the Students' oar until she found the previous two.
Arriving in Heron's Harbor, the group looked for a boat, but instead learned from Doba the dockmaster, who was overloaded with new arrivals, that there was a small raccoon kindred child hocking what she believed to be stolen wares near Tal'tal Aah's lighthouse.
The group went to check him out, curious if he had anything good for sale, and found him working with a fox kindred named Kiz Yuna to sell things they'd stolen from merchants. His name was Poppins, and he asked the group to check out his house because a scary man had taken up residence there.
The group soon discovered that Kiz had given the scary man Poppins's house to hole up in, and when they investigated the house with Kiz, they found the scary man to be none other than Thrax, the god of death, who was building a bone chariot in the alley behind the home.