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No, I do not. So here's the update, as best as I recall.
The party decided that the best place to find answers about Ahnrik's family would be in the city's castle, where they learned on the streets is where records about slaves are kept. As they arrived, they say a group of Kathelians entering. Thalia snuck in with them, and eavesdropped on their conversation, where she learned that the Cult of Kathelia knows that they're here, and are determined to kill them. In Drodrugh, however, the cult is rather weak.
Everyone else, meanwhile, also got in to look for records. I don't remember how, but I believe it involved bribing the guard.
They found their way to the slave records and asked about information on Saurian slaves, Ahnrik acting as the group's slave, and translating for them. The record keeper was quite suspicious of them, and Ahnrik was sure that he knew who he was, so after looking through the records and learning that all the Saurians had been sold to the temple of Traia, the party kidnapped him.
Using a spell to shrink the keeper, the party got outside and interrogated the record keeper, who it turned out knew nothing, but was just suspicious.
Thalia met back up with everyone, and they went to infiltrate the temple.
They entered through a ventilation grate, that let them in on a blood canal. They searched the place as well as they could, and after a bit of wandering, the Eye of Issald began to grant Anira an ongoing Reveal Arcana effect, which allowed her to see all sources of power within the temple. This allowed them to avoid unwanted confrontations, and they soon found a group of slaves with a fair number of saurians. A fight with the priests of Traia guarding the slaves turned out to be a challenge, as it turned out that the slavers had a puppetry spell on them, forcing the slaves to fight the party as well. In the end, the slavers were killed and the slaves freed. During the fight, Amisha's token cried out at the deaths of all the other Priests of Mocaeis, its lights going out until only hers remained. They informed the group that Ahnrik's family had been taken up to the Hearkener's room, near the top of the temple.
Before any investigations could take place, Anira saw the aura of Mocaeis come in, surrounded by auras linked to Traia. The party decided that this needed to take priority over Ahnrik's family for now, and followed the god's aura down to the base of the temple, where the head priests and even the Hearkener of Traia were gathered, preparing to sacrifice Mocaeis to bring Traia fully into the world. The party intervened, with the help of the slaves, and took out the priesthood before they could accomplish anything.
They then went up to the top of the tower to rescue Ahnrik's family. They found them trapped in an earthen room, encased in small stubby trees. Thalia poisoned the trees using her bone-blade poison, and the trees withered enough to get the family members out. Ahnrik's mother indicated that the preisthood of Traia was after Ahnrik specifically to prevent him from doing something, saying that their family had been the keepers of the lost temple of the Saurian God, the god of life, and that Ahnrik would be able to do something important there.
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