Putting aside the plans and hopes for the future, what stood in front of us was the present and present problems required present problem solving.
So, while we travelled all through the first day and camped out at night, I took the opportunity of everyone's slumber to pray to Lotar. The damned Wolf owes me some explanation on several fronts.
Most pressing would be the fact that the system was somehow bypassed and I was left fully vulnerable to the illusionary attacks of Serue. Even now I shiver when I think about what would have happened had he had enough mana to keep me down for even half a minute longer.
It's annoying that it is only the Deities that can answer these questions for me, and though Lotar has never bothered mention anything about the System, I know the Wolf knows far more than it lets on.