Session Six: The Return of the Old Ones...?
[2024/09/30 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, before we start, Dina, we rewrote your sheet a bit... anything you want to share before we jump right in?
[2024/09/30 15:50] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): not sure what in specific to share but happy to share and answer any questions. New sheet is much more in line with fae lore and leans heavily on being non combative in nature and seeing things from a small beings perspective.
[2024/09/30 15:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ooooh
[2024/09/30 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: Up to you what you share and what you leave to be discovered :)
[2024/09/30 15:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: any drops we should be aware of?
[2024/09/30 15:57] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): oh did not understand the question , apologies
[2024/09/30 15:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: anything that got dropped from the new character sheet that'll affect our plans going forwards?
[2024/09/30 15:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: like the sleep dust trick
[2024/09/30 16:00] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): if it was meant to say did anything major change, even more non existant combat ability but that is still in many ways the same as before. Abilities like using pixie dust have expanded a bit but yes sleep is still an effect that can be used :)
[2024/09/30 16:01] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Good, Leesha will need to talk to you about that sleep spell at the next camp :)\
[2024/09/30 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me gets notecards ready
[2024/09/30 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: At about this time I say GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRREEEEEEEETTTTINNGS, Adventurers! Other players get epic games of derring do... you get games that warp your minds and leave you idiotic drooling wrecks
[2024/09/30 16:03] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Really? I'd have expected debben to go mad with power
[2024/09/30 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: As I recall it, you'd come to a junction of trails, and there your found.... you all made sanity checks successfully, so, you are not badly shocked at least... you find several bodies dangling from a branch of a tree.
[2024/09/30 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2024/09/30 16:06] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Dangling in the style that someone has hung a bunch of people, possibly for the crime of banditry?
[2024/09/30 16:06] Mecha (alicia.frakture): I'm going to approach and check the bodies, see if there is anything beyond just being hanged
[2024/09/30 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Taking a close look, you see the bodies hang from the branch, they're fairly youthful but very dead. Hands securely tied behind them, with placards pinned to them: "Sheep Thieves"
[2024/09/30 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dina?
[2024/09/30 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "This... seems a harsh punishment indeed... is this usual?"
[2024/09/30 16:08] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies around looking at the trails, paying no attention to the big people hanging , she seemed more interested in making sure nothing was lurking near the wagon or behind any trees near.
[2024/09/30 16:08] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "For stealing livestock? That's peoples livelyhoods." she shrugs. "Does seem like rather a lot of people on the same tree for sheep stealing though."
[2024/09/30 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20 from Dahlia
[2024/09/30 16:09] Mecha (alicia.frakture): There have been tales of this happening to horse thieves in some lands. I think we should leve them here. Obviously a warning to possible thieves"
[2024/09/30 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia only sees evidence that a group came to the junction, then left. Nothing else is noticeable.
[2024/09/30 16:10] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me with a relieved sigh, would fly over to where the party was standing
[2024/09/30 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "This seems excessive in the extreme... and... their necks aren't broken."
[2024/09/30 16:10] Mecha (alicia.frakture): That means it wasn't fast. That seems more extreme.
[2024/09/30 16:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "you can tell that from down here?"
[2024/09/30 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Aye... this smacks of evil... these wretches suffered."
[2024/09/30 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Aye. There's two ways to hang someone; long drop, the fall breaks the neck and is instant. Short drop, and... it's longer. You can tell the necks aren't broken."
[2024/09/30 16:13] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Okay, note to everyone do not steal sheep. we might want to keep going. I do not want to have to camp by the bodies.
[2024/09/30 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana looks to Valyra suddenly. Valyra is just looking out at the fields nearby, unconcernedly
[2024/09/30 16:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Yeah, still going. Those are not going to be pleasant to be next too for very long." How recent do the bodies smell?
[2024/09/30 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hard to say. They're recent; probably a day or so.
[2024/09/30 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Whoever did this did it recently. The beetles haven't found them yet."
[2024/09/30 16:17] Mecha (alicia.frakture): They will, as well as other things.
[2024/09/30 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: (muttering about evil): stamps back to the cart and pays attention to the horse intensely (combing the name, petting the neck, feeding a carrot)
[2024/09/30 16:17] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha is going back to the cart as well
[2024/09/30 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "We should bury them."
[2024/09/30 16:19] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "And mess with the terretory signs of an armed mob? That'll just get them pissed at us."
[2024/09/30 16:19] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Not a fan of disagreeing with you but this time I have to. We don't know the locations rules on this and if we take down what looks like a warning to others the locals might be measuring rope for us next."
[2024/09/30 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: If you've seen Rainman you might have a fair idea of Katanas' actions. On the one hand, she's convinced it's the right thing to bury them and that's her duty. On the other hand... she abhors evil, and right now, she's in what she considers an evil place.
[2024/09/30 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia?
[2024/09/30 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: (mutters): "h'ra vlaakith..."
[2024/09/30 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Loose translation: "dead animals")
[2024/09/30 16:22] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me after listening to the big people talk about the bodies in the tree she doing her best not to look at with a look of confusion on her face, she spoke, "Some big people put them up there for some reason, but i dont think the tree likes it very much."
[2024/09/30 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, awarding 50XP right there for that :)
[2024/09/30 16:24] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "All the extra weight or something?" Debben is not usually one to worry about the health of trees.
[2024/09/30 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Debben is more likely to worry about rocks than trees)
[2024/09/30 16:26] Mecha (alicia.frakture): okay, if we bury them, we need to make sure we mark graves as sheep thieves.
[2024/09/30 16:27] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: So how many bodies are there?
[2024/09/30 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana grabs a shovel and finds a spot to one side of the tree and starts digging.
[2024/09/30 16:27] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I still say we leave them be and keep moving before someone points more pitchforks and scythes at us."
[2024/09/30 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's three bodies.
[2024/09/30 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana stops and curses under her breath in agitation.
[2024/09/30 16:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra just walks away a few paces, shaking her head.
[2024/09/30 16:29] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben waits a moment to see if she's about to get outvoted before she starts moving the wagon onwards.
[2024/09/30 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana (turns to the bodies): "Miscreants - you have been punished harshly and now you don't move. May Gordelphus have mercy on your souls and may you move with Gordelphus in the afterlife." Scowling, she hurries back to the cart.
[2024/09/30 16:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: settles on the cart with an air of disinterest
[2024/09/30 16:30] Mecha (alicia.frakture): I follow behind
[2024/09/30 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: I guess we'll travel a bit and then make camp?
[2024/09/30 16:31] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me finds a comfy spot on the wagon and makes sure its hidden one too while peeking out to see where the huge wheeled wood thing would take them next
[2024/09/30 16:32] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben gets the wagon going down their planned path, keeping an eye out for a reasonable place to camp overnight.
[2024/09/30 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: After a few miles: A reasonable place appears to be a small clearing by the side of the trail. It's clearly been used recently.
[2024/09/30 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: What time of day is it?
[2024/09/30 16:35] Mecha (alicia.frakture): "Looks like a good spot. You all get set up I'll start a fire and get dinner started."
[2024/09/30 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Getting late. You probably don't want to travel much further before it's dark
[2024/09/30 16:38] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Yeah, let's set up here." Debben directs the wagon off the road, and then starts putting chocks on it's wheels so it doesn't roll too much, before unhooking the draft beast.
[2024/09/30 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "If you don't mind, I feel I must meditate." Finds a tree and settles under it, closes eyes
[2024/09/30 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: stays sitting on the cart.
[2024/09/30 16:40] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha gets started on dinner
[2024/09/30 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tiger: stretches out, very occasionally glancing to see what Leesha is doing
[2024/09/30 16:41] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Of course, Katana. been a rough day for all of us."
[2024/09/30 16:42] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha makes sure some raw meat is set aside for tiger as she cooks."I think we should be a bit extra vigilant while camping tonight."
[2024/09/30 16:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia?
[2024/09/30 16:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: Porphorin lays out two prayer mats, careful to find a spot with no stones, and dusts them off
[2024/09/30 16:44] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me settles in nicely on the wagon for now, fiddling with whatever shiny things she could find playfully exploring the little spot and enjoying it while others rested
[2024/09/30 16:45] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Once finished."Grab it and Growl." She says before bringing the meat to Tiger, and then a small bowl with bread and honey for Dahlia.
[2024/09/30 16:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: Tiger springs up and starts chewing. Katana appears to have turned to stone for all the motion she makes.
[2024/09/30 16:46] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me sits up hiding the shiny things she had collected behind her and smiled innocently as she took the bowl and bread, "Thank you , honey is always so sweet "
[2024/09/30 16:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben, once camp is set up, will also move to meditate in as motionless and stony a manner as a proper dwarf can manage, not to be outdone.
[2024/09/30 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra eyes what Leesha is cooking. A disdainful "...ilith..." is her sole comment.
[2024/09/30 16:48] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha smiles at Dahlia. "I will make sure we have honey for you as well as.. Oh I have something special for tomorrow." Before bringing a dish of food for Valyra."No Idea what ilith is but here, if your hungry..
[2024/09/30 16:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra takes the bowl, with no small degree of suspicion and takes some. At least she's wincing less this time.
[2024/09/30 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Forgot. Rough translation: "...meat."
[2024/09/30 16:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me flings up the missing )
[2024/09/30 16:51] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha then sets some aside to eat for herself, rising the pan further above the heat to keep it warm."There are seconds if you want. Gonna eat and then meditate."
[2024/09/30 16:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra just shrugs slightly and puts the (empty) bowl aside. She looks a little uncomfy, and uninclined for more.
[2024/09/30 16:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: Who's taking which watch?
[2024/09/30 16:54] Mecha (alicia.frakture): First watch for Leesha
[2024/09/30 16:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben can take second.
[2024/09/30 16:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana will take first as well
[2024/09/30 16:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Porphorin, as meditations start: "Focus on snake, snake strike fast..."
[2024/09/30 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia?
[2024/09/30 16:57] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me pops up and flies high after finishing the food with a smile, the jingling sounds of the shinies she left behind were the only sounds made as she began flying about looking at things big people never worry about....she was looking for any bad aligned little thing around before considering to rest in this dangerous place
[2024/09/30 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Looks safe enough, as far as you can tell. Even the tiger is stretched out by the fire and snoozing and the events of the day seem rather far away now.
[2024/09/30 17:01] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha does that, focusing on the snake and the speed therein
[2024/09/30 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Results of meditation for tomorrow: +1 to initiative)
[2024/09/30 17:01] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me lands in a tree and rests there, speaking up before she did, "good night everyone, lets hope the forest stays quiet for a night"
[2024/09/30 17:02] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Agreed," she rumbles, before preparing for her sleep part of the watch cycle.
[2024/09/30 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: finally rises and stands, under a tree, looking every bit like a statue, only the dull red glow of her eyes show she's awake and paying attention.
[2024/09/30 17:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: stretches out to sleep on the cart
[2024/09/30 17:04] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Cleans the dishes while on watch. Not to be THAT half orc, but this trip has been seriously messed up so far."
[2024/09/30 17:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Half way through the watch, Katana says to Leesha: "Leesha... is it wise that we travel with an evil companion...?"
[2024/09/30 17:07] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Honestly Katana, I cant begin to know what counts as wise anymore. You sense evil from her. Is it her personality or an aura? Right now she hasn't done anything against us. Hell she even wants to distance from us so we don't get in a fight with more of her people. So, I'm not sure anymore."
[2024/09/30 17:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: (after a long, thoughtful pause): "....aye."
[2024/09/30 17:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: (It's a good question about the nature of the detected evil, however no specification is made; a radiation of evil is a radiation of evil, no matter the exact nature of the evilness)
[2024/09/30 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time passes. Katana: "Second watch, swap with Debben, I shall stay awake with her."
[2024/09/30 17:13] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha nods as she moves to wake up Debben for the switch."Do we have a third watch?"
[2024/09/30 17:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "It'll be light in a few hours. So, no."
[2024/09/30 17:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: (Everyone has max HP / spell points I think)
[2024/09/30 17:14] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha nods and lays down for some sleep
[2024/09/30 17:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: Time passes.... not much happens when dawn breaks. A new day starts.
[2024/09/30 17:15] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "No, two watches with double people," she affirms.
[2024/09/30 17:16] Mecha (alicia.frakture): oatmeal with dried fruits for breakfast
[2024/09/30 17:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana tends to the horse.
[2024/09/30 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20s all round :)
[2024/09/30 17:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ( Since when? I thought d20s were meant to be edged! ))
[2024/09/30 17:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben, Leesha, Dahlia all -just- catch, carried on the wind, a faint drawn-out -roar-. Even the tiger lifts his head and twitches his tail. No one else seems to have noticed.
[2024/09/30 17:21] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha makes sure the oatmeal wont scorch and looks around."Anyone else hear that?"
[2024/09/30 17:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Hear what...?"
[2024/09/30 17:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: looks up: "I hear nothing."
[2024/09/30 17:22] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me waves her hands around "I heard it !"
[2024/09/30 17:22] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Yeah. It was like... a tunnel devourer, but the wrong pitch. Not beedly enough." Debben frowns, double checking her musket. "And quite far away."
[2024/09/30 17:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20, minus 2 penalty, Debben
[2024/09/30 17:24] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Sounded like a roart in the distance
[2024/09/30 17:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben: That sound? It's familiar. It's like the roar of a dragon.
[2024/09/30 17:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: And on that note... what a cliffhanger for next time :D
[2024/09/30 17:26] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Nice cliffhanger
[2024/09/30 17:26] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): that was fun
[2024/09/30 17:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait until next time... you'll nee... noooooo you'll have to see, no spoilers :)
[2024/09/30 17:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: noooooo
[2024/09/30 17:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: ;D
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