Editing Drake's Company (section)

===Rivergarde Keep===
When they group finally arrived back in Drakkengarde, Ru Bae Ya announced that she wished to throw a party in a week's time to celebrate her birthday. She also suggested hiring some ronin samurai from her homeland of [[Yung Shai]] to aid them in a renewed assault against the fire cultists. During the week they spent in the city, Drake learned of a group of mercenaries that had recently begun operating out of the ruined [[Rivergarde Keep]] to the north. While ostensibly being paid to fight the raiders harassing ships traveling the [[Belsimar Strait]], it was becoming apparent that they were actually in league with the raiders themselves. 

Ya threw a magnificent party, explaining that she was a noble from Yung Shai and that this day marked the one year anniversary of her leaving home to travel by herself, starting a new life and choosing that date as her new birthday. The following day, they departed north with six new samurai companions to deal with Rivergarde Keep before continuing back to Scarlet Moon Hall. Lafiel declined to join them on their journey, as she would need to stay in Drakkengarde an extra few days to complete the rites to advance in [[Del'Braeth]]'s priesthood. However, she promised to join them as soon as she could.

Five days later, the band arrived at Rivergarde Keep. They told the guard they were sent to discuss the mercenaries' contract, and were escorted inside to meet their leader, [[Jolliver Grimjaw]]. Grimjaw had little patience for them, and once he realized they were aware of the elemental cults' activities and suspected that they were in fact the very raiders they were being paid to fight, he ordered his men - now revealed to be members of the [[Cult of the Crushing Wave]] - to attack. During the fight Grimjaw transformed into a wereboar and gored Drake, but was slain in return. The battle soon spilled out of the great hall and into the courtyard, then the chapel that the water priests had repurposed for their own worship. In the end, the keep was cleared of cultists and Drake's Company had a prisoner and their own boat. Lafiel arrived up the strait the next morning, and they all sailed back down to Drakkengarde together to turn their prisoner over to the Mercantile Alliance. Lafiel couldn't help but notice, though, that Drake was grumpier than usual.