Emma and I headed up to the Jarl's court the next morning. Lurking around throughout the day's bustling business and social events, we surveilled the court and settled on a likely suspect: a mysterious dark-eyed "foreign advisor." Sure enough, Emma searched his room and found damning evidence - a coded note with orders from Harkkon! We confided in the Jarl and he authorized us to solve the problem... we ambushed and slew the vile creature in the dinner hall. A glorious moment for the Vigil, in full public view.
After a day of R&R, it was time to start thinking about helping Serena. She needed a Moth Priest, so Giathianniaoles and I headed to Dragonbridge where one was rumored to be. We made our way northeast through the snowy foothills, putting down a frost troll in a strange ruin where we then stopped to camp. The next day we continued our frigid soujourn, and finally reached Morthal the following evening. There, we decided to stay a couple days to thaw our bones, and recuperate from the fright of our troll encounter. We met some of the locals, and learned of a ghost girl who's family perished in a fire, and of another possible vampire menace... this one ancient and not necessarily connected to Harkkon nor Ienarath.
Investigating the haunted house that evening, I bumped into a fellow Vigilant of Stendarr, Thrayn! He was investigating the ghost too. Together we canvassed the town, determined how to find the little girl's ghost, and found here. In dealing with her, we discovered that a lower vampire was behind the arson, tracked her and put her down, and solved the case! Jarl Idgrod was pleased.
While walking through town the next day we covertly noticed that we were being stalked by another low vampire, but we boldly confronted him. He attacked, we fought him, and the town guard arrived to help slay him. Evidently there were crosshairs on our backs now! It was time to strike before any more assassins came after us.
With the jarl's blessing, we gathered up a small angry mob, and at their head we tracked down Movarth, battered our way into his lair at noon, and butchered him and his brood and thralls! Idgrod was so happy, she awarded our order a property in town. We had now expanded to a second priory, known as Whitehowl Retreat. Our rebuilding after the Hall incident was starting to pick up stream.
I left Thrayn and Gia to set up the new priory, and Serena and I continued over the next few days to Dragonbridge. We got there, and a little kid confirmed seeing someone who matched the description of a Moth Priest just south of the bridge. We tracked him but just found a broken wagon, a dead guard, and a dead vampire... clues suggested the priest had been abducted by Serana's father's men. We went to the cave we thought they had retreated to, and slew a vampire guarding the priest! He was possessed by some fell power, but we slapped him out of it and he agreed to to to Ft. Dawnguard with us and read Serana's Scroll. So we hiked back to Dragonbridge, took a carriage to Riften, and made our way back to Isran to confer.
The Dawnguard blacksmith lady wanted us to go recruiting again, this time for an eccentric priest of Arkay. I convinced Isran this was a good idea, as the Moth Priest read the Scroll. He concluded that we needed more scrolls, as this one just talks of Auriel's bow. But then Serena asks for help visiting her mom in the Soul Cairn, so she and I and Keeper Carcette headed to Serana's family home, she snuck us into the castle, we found her mom's secret lab, traveled to the Soul Cairn, got her mom to help us and give us the next scroll, defeated an undead dragon, and returned. All in a day's work!
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