Take this time to post as much amongst yourselves (or start side rps) as you'd like. When you're ready to continue, have your people readying themselves for the next day's journey (which will come with a nice flash forward as we enter Stage III, the final stage of this quest). 

Just to clarify the rewards at this point...

Rilana - Blessing of Shadaraliax and [i]Diary of Leandra Sealta, Vol. 4[/i]
Alya - Blessing of Shadaraliax and the Note of Ice
Chartrose - Blessing of Shadaraliax and Tricia healed

You can pick where on your character the Blessing appears, but once there, it is permanent until it is activated. Activating is just a mental action, as innate and easy as thinking for your character. The various little bonuses and stuff will reveal themselves over time, but the obvious ones so far are 1) Cold Immunity 2) Can walk over snow without leaving tracks (unless so desired).

As always, I'm available for questions at all times.