Jeth carefully looks close at this blacky oily fur skin thing.
As Jeth thinks on what this is, it shifts and a canine face turns to him.
the hound's mouth opens as a ball of fire starts to form.
Jeth casts Banishment
Jeth runs back to Ivy. it's a dog. another dog. I banished it. I hope it doesn't come back. regroup.
AS Jeth and ivy get back to the group, dorbin is snapping off pieces of the stirge and gathering stirge blood for experiments.
Smig smooshs more stirge and then realizes it's a slipping hazard and cleans his feet.
Khashana is so tired. doesn't move. wants to go to sleep.
ASks smig for food. Smig looks at stirges, at khashana, at stirges. shrugs.
smig offers me catnip. Kahsana will go to sleep and bring safira in the morning.
Magra offers to keep watch for the rest of the night so we can rest.
Jeth is nervous about the possibly of other creatures. wants to continue.
Worried about khashana's health. ivy says she looks horrible. Well maybe i won't look terrified in wolf form?
Jeth's casts greater restoration.
level 2 exhaustion
Khashana agrees to continue and worst case, i have great resto too.
Ivy hears a distant howl. very distant.
Khashana cave bears and looks around camp. more comfortable moving in this form.
doesn't sense anything. tells Jeth.
Jeth asks Smig what he thinks we should do?
Smig is shifty. says he of course isn't why the hounds are here, why would we ask. we should run. and then RUNS
Khashana picks up the kid.
midron wakes up in dead sleep to him being picked up by a cave bear. he starts screaming, terrified. Khashana yells at him in his head. grumpy. the kids shuts up, terrified.
we follow smig sorta.
Smig stops every once in a while to smell for hell hounds
Khashana doesn't look well for perception.
the child is sneezy and it's annoying her.
maja says if we continue/pick up the pace, we could get rooms at the inn.
the walk is farther then they all thought.
dorbin offers drugs for a quick catnap.
jeth, smig and dorbin take it.
Kahashan is annyoyed. watches over everyone. growls a bit.
we make it to leaf's end.
big storm blowing in.
damp hail/snow clumping.
want rooms asap.
Maja looks at us and says main room, down, a little left. crown hearth inn and tavern./ good place. hopefully room.
jenkin friend the owner.
try to get us one room.
khashana gets bored and talks to the kid.
what's your uncles's name? vorne.
are you scared to go back? I didn't go into the woods myself. don't know why we had to leave.
what's fun to do in leafend? no more friends
missing haven't seen them in ages.
went to work with their parents.
don't go in the forest. it's bad.
1/2 of the convo is heard by thye party.
what does your uncle do? baker
FEEED ME
I'll show you safira.
khashana walks into town as a bear with midron's sleeping bag in her mouth and midron's head poking out.
townsfolk giving us a wide berth. giant stone golem also following.
Go tell the weird one where your uncle is. Midron does!!!
smig tells me i can't fit in the doors. i unshapeshift and lean on my cane.
we should rbing midron to his uncle.
I offer that we split. jeth, ivy, dorbin to inn.
midron, kashaha and smig chaos crew. to uncle.
midron says uncle is sleeping. but we can go in back and get bread and honey.
khashana doesn't have an interest in this child. but also feels the need to protect and help him.
the door is a barrier. kashaha is tired. smig save me. he doesn't. goes through my bag in hopes! knock rock!!
Midron runs in, yelling for his uncle. his uncle is worried.
smig asks for food. khashana is hungry.
midron explains. uncle is sad.
uncle gives us bread and honey and offers us a seat.
ladles stew!!! IT"S AMAZING. khashana devours it all.
vorne asks us some questions.
smig gets his ring back. tells midron to go play with the ring while we talk to the uncle.
smig explains to vorne what happened to midron's parents while khashana stuffs her face with food.,
smig explains more.
too many children missing. you know you should just convert the town more to fields and trees. and keep the children out of the forest. good for the animals, good for the children. good for the town.
do you know anything about the missing children? not really.
real mayor went missing too.
smig asks if we can sleep here. uncle says they need a family talk.
I find midron, tells him to not go in the forest. I will not find him again.
Gives him my rhodochrosite and pats him on the head before leaving.
i think we did a great job.
khashana is softening to children. not adults.
Jeth, dorbin, Ivy. sees that the town is kinda like leilion. some richer. some poorer. the inn is the place to be.
music inside.
saloon kinda.
older more refined looking gentleman. pouring ale.
lots of people, lots of alcohol. crude singing in dwarvish.
Ivy pops up trying to get us rooms.
the halfing sees her but has to take orders from some elves and dragonborn first. really diverse. adventuerers.
ivy name drops maja.
he doesn't believe her!! but takes us "new" to town and accepts us. friends and family discount.
so doubtful.
how many beds?
jeth thinks khashana always sleeps in a tree.
maja, dorbin, jeth, ivy = bed. smig can sleep on the ground maybe.
the room has 4 beds.
they offer to order food esp in advance for khashana. asks for owlbear. none but stew!! get kahsahna a double portion.
need to elbow in. it's crowded. several parties came back from the branches.
ebb and flow on how busy this place is. several groups came back and luck yot survive so celebrwate.
off season for adventuerign.
regular groups but some new. NEW: dragonborns . elves group.
rough tunic perosn.
strange noises at night. and so do the things that makes the noises -Ivy
opening a tab. dorbin gets a giant tankard.
as they walk to a table, the drunk half elves are also trying to get the table. Ivy slids in as the elf tries to sit. Jeth pushes a chair out of the elf hands with telekensis.
the elves think it's another human near and shove
BAR FIGHT.
Smig and khshana walk in as this fight happens. jeth and ivy just sitting calmly.
ivy says there isn't enough beds. I'll find a tree tonight.
gotta make a bed for smokey
jenkin comes over with pitchers and food. Maja walks in and pulls up a chair and joins us.
"just a regular day at the proudhut"
Jenkins calls us "green",. kashana thanks him. and is proud.
jenkins calms the bar down.
Jeth is feeling more comfortable with people and those who can protect themselves.
i update the party on midron.
affirmations. delusions.
mama bear khasana.
maja is starting to like us and smig
It's like 5pm and we are going to sleep early. so tired.
I think I have level 3 exhaustion.
you are what you eat convo.
Jeth has lost it.
we've all lost it. exhuasted.
Maja calls for more beer.
Jenkins tells jeth to jump onto the piano.
offers jeth a private chamber if he does it.
Jeth haggles room service too.
Jeth stands up immeditley. smig mentions his lyre. I smack him with mine.
khashana takes someone's drink and chugs it.
Jeth is fietsy when drunk.
jeth makes us join.
Smig cast light on the piano.
smig wants khashana and him to play the piano like a lyre.
I take out my squigly fork.
3 piece band.
Jeth is singing. smig and I are going to play the piano like lyre with my squigly fork.
jeth casts mirror image for more drunk harmonizing.
smig throws open the piano. starts playing badly.
kahsahna gets her fork out and manages to reign smig in and it's decent.
Jeth belts out a crazy hit.
the room gets quieter and quieter and the room is paying attention.
garth, the dwarf is cheering us on.
jeth gets his private room.
jenkins offers delivery to jeth's room. soaking tub, bottles of wine. this room is FANCY!!
there are only 4 beds.Now that we are in a town, I will go sleep back with my dragons. drunk, hungry khashana goes home. khashana grabs
an audience member and chugs the drink.
thank god that jeth and smig save the performance this time because she did NOT.
lolo a drunk, hungry, exhausted khashana will go spend the night tonight at my dragons.