Cam:
feels bad about her stopping valon but also might have actually protected him from himself a bit?
thank you dillup for the help. must heal paws!!
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Used 1 bead of cure wounds
paws gets some healing off on herself.
Valon is taking out all of his emotions on these plants.
Use 1 bead of cure wounds on paws +Distant
Paws doesn't need it as much but Kas is determined to help still.
we murder all the plants! searos doesn't see to mind!
paws looking for body parts
searos says carnivorous plant not native to here and unfed for a while now.
Paws theorizes that this is whta the people we saw where carrying.
Valon finds a signet ring on 1 dead person. pockets it stealthy.
Harvey immediately returns to the stablemaster since he only was "on a walk".
Paws explains more what we say on the bridge.
Paws almost tries to eat some plants and then remembers the plants posineed her.
searos and paws put all the bodies in a pile and searos ignites them and they burn incredibly fast due to the starvation.
I super back away from this fire. as I do, i notice a very very faint pulse of light that shows through the bottom of the doorway. candle and then pulses again. Kas wants to find that celestial.
door is not open. ASks paws if celestials flicker.
explain the light and asks valon to kick down the door.
we all stand there watching. shoudl we get harvey? yes, lockpicking.
valon isn't convinced about entering someones place. But kas wants a elestial. Valon uses divine sense and DOES sense a light presence.
Valon says we need harvey to go quietly. Kas is fine with that. wants to stay by door.
She touches door and recites some of the prayer book from long ago in celestial.
Kas feels something trying to connnect and speak. a thought in the back of my mind trying to manifest. faint, weak. can't form a word or a thought. then it fades away. and another pulse.
"I don't think it's doing okay. can we get harvey?" -Kas
Valon sends Ori!
Harvey gets to the stables. no stablemaster anymore. cup on the table. everything left the same. Harvey checks on krik and krak to make sure they are okay. They 'look fine'.
Ori flies in again. 'Bright light, kas worried. Door locked. hurry before stupid'
Harvey literally just sat down. SIghs. drinks his potion of healing.
Harvey and Ori make it back over.
valon looks at healing up.
Paws looks around the building. scoping it out. formant and unfinished. process of renovation. oddly unused all like the rest of the village. remnants of activity around it however.
Harvey gets an explanation. pats Kas on the shoulder and gets to lock picking. Kas tries to offer a unlit torch and harvey looks at her, hands full.
She is ready to cast darkness.
Harvey does it. and shows Kas. Kas is thankful to harvey and ready to go in.
Harvey gets the new torch now.
Kas opens teh door slightly. englufs everyone in darkness and opens the door fully. doesn't see anything, drops darkness and walks in.
Kas, paws and valon very close. lots of boxes, container, some partitiions divding up sections.
valon walks in a little more.
we see some doors. two sets.
Valon turns to Harvey and tries to be silent. harvey gets it and holds up lockpick.
harvey goes to the closest door and sees a faint white light pulsing. Kas feels the tingling feel again.
two keyholes seperated by about 6 inches. harvey starts working.
Harvey thinks there is a sequence involved. one after another or both at the same time.
harvey tries the left one first. paws sorts through her bag of limbs.
Paws asks valon if he found keys on his search. nope.
Kas tells them that whather they are is there.
Harvey feels the mechanims through the door and is met with a hard lock and tries to unlock both at the same time.
Has named his lockpicks and puts them both in. uses his advantage.
Kas is in awe of Harvey as he opens both together at once.
Harvey puts his tools away. grabs the torch from valon and backs up.
Kas looks at Valon to see if he will let her open the door. He does. he supports me. everyone is ready.
small unlit closed.
small little elphant creature.
shallow breathing. feint. illuniates faintly.
Valon and Kas walk it and heal it. neither of ours really work..
exhausted.
can i pick it up and hold it? I super do! It's too weak to speak but I feel it in the back of my mind with relief and it melts into my arms. and whisper a prayer?
valon goes to paws and says that we need to go now! we need to get mallory and go.
Anything else we should grab on our way out?
Paws looks around and finds a barred door. she puts ear on it and listens in.
SOOOOOO quiet on the other side.
Paws warns that she is openning the door and and removes the bar and opens the door.
Paws opens the doors. to two rows of identical figures, eyes open staring forward. they don't seem to react to everything.
Paws just closes the door again but valon stops. what if they are being held against their will? But what if they're dangerous!!!
dwarven humonoid. Valon gets a marble ready and wants to check in with them. Paws prepares herself on the door to close it fast if neded.
paws gets a pebble out.
Harvey is near Kas but paying attention to what paws and valon says.
Paws tries to convince him to look away and run away. they shut the door.
We should book it.
We need to get the mules!!!
how hard will getting them be? Weird stablemaster. unsure.
Valon thinks we shoudl make a big distraction. Harvey: NO
only if we need to!
No crime, big boom
Leave warehouse. put lock back. nothing happneed. go back, sleep, no problem.
Searos does not want to leave the dwarvish women in the room without undesrtanding why.
Harvey wants to return to the mules. he puts the lock on a box. but at the doorware is a lady blocking the way. She doesn't seem like she wants to let us leave.
She recounts our adventures. she has been watching us.. shoot.
she is mad about us taking her cargo.
facilitates business.
she reveals valon's relationship to the family, he blasts her (tries but misses.)
not sure if it connects in Kas's mind. elephant priorities.
Kas hears the noises and darknesses. can't let them have elephant.
FIght!!!
trading living things is digusting to paws and she is angry. What is she talking about Valon?
I was looking for my family. Lots to explain. These people are bad, trust me. -valon
i don't know if I want to. -paws
that's okay, but they are bad! -valon
you are teh example yourself. we all work for these people for different reasons, why would you assume anything else? -Lady
Let's just walk away -Valon "waht are you getting out of this"
it's complicated -lady
information is trading. I don't believe what say said which means the deal is off. I don't think there is truth here -Valon
She grabs a quiver arrow and lightning crqackes.
Im more aware than you that they will use any method to keep you theirs. -lady
What do you want -valon
Her eyes brighten and the corner of her mouth twitches every so slightly. 'Quiet exit'
WE can arrange that. we do need to collect some mules but we have a boat that's ready to go and we can leave right away. Quiet or distraction? come with us. and then you can walk away and we don't know your name so it's all good.
certainly good at creating distractions. this isn't the way. not in this city. no more loud noises. no more flares. she looks outside at the fire elemental. no more fires.
I will meet you at the boat at the docks. get there quickly, get there qeuitly.
Leave sonner than later and maybe leave the mules behind. and she leaves the room.
Harvey is booking it to the mules.
Paws wanted to follow the lady but she vanished too fast.
no talking to anyone. No one here is trustworthy. says valon. anyone talks to you, kill them and run. no one here is good. i made a mistake.
including me - Valon.
drops darkness when I see paws. must protecc elephant. go to boat.
Kas is worried about the mules and harvey but she needs to get the elephant safe.
Paws is trying to be stealthy
we are not stealthy great.
Harvey gets a marble ready on an arrow.
Valon gives ori a marble to drop if needed for a distraction.
Harvey gets tot the stables. no one is there still. cup is still there. creeps to teh mules with arrow knocked. Reaches teh stall and makes sure the mules are okay.. they answer. hook their reins together and leads them out of the stables quietly. mules are kinda 'whatever'
prickling in the back of the neck feathers. turns around and the short figure of the dwarf stablemaster just watching. "goodnight" says harvey.
Valon gets to the boat and wakes up mallory.
knows the bascis of the basics to help prep the boat for moving.
we have to go NOW
She is confused but also knows that we are kinda trouble now.
New member joining soon. whatever, leads the way in getting ready.
Paws sees harvey coming up with krik and krak and sees the dark elf just materilizes behind the shadows. and strides ahead and gives harvey a salute wave and steps onto the boat.
harvey and paws insight check the lady. dark elf. not to be trusted??
they saw the turning point in the warehouse where she accepted our deal and seems determined to follow this path.
paws sees in the distance in the figure as harvey
the stablemaster moves forward standing in the middle of the road and soon the street fills with people silently moving forward.
all the stablemaster. the lady in the warehouse all the same person. moving forward.
we need to go now.
go gogogogogogogo
dark elf just slips into the flow of manning a ship as if she was born to it and maloray accepts and we departs off of loudwater.
we see lining the riverbank, lining the riverbank
Valon sees the cobblershop window with the light on and Hadden watching him as we run away.
what the fuck was that -mallory
will I ever get a good night's sleep?
who the fuck is this?
we all need a drink and a chat.
we all like th gnomes better.
river at night is dangerous!!!
Kas offers to look out while holding her elephant.
Malory loves the adorable elephant. and kinda hits on the dark elf a bit but mentions she has a wife.
paws asks about the werird people. 'the help' they created the city overnight. under hadden.
she helped traffic (trapper/tracker) for the family. she does feel guilty about the elephant.
the demands of the family have been escalating and she is not happy about this.
Nin introduces herself. I know you sorta by reputation. but the rest of you? do you have ties tot he family?
Kas responds "this is my family".
no touch kirk, no touch krak- harvey. no touch elephant.- kas
My name is paws but please don't talk to me.
Nin magra
Kas does want to know more about the elephant. Him. Kas introduces herself and asks to know more about the little one.
hollyphaunt. doesn't know it's name. Took a Very long time to catch.
looks at it boasting but also regretful.
don't know who or why it was wanted. they have inante magical miralculous power. Raise the dead even.
I thakn you for the info, get a blanket for the munchkin and sit at the front of the boat watching.
Searos asks what the little one needs and it seems it's really rest right now. safe continous rest. a whole week!!! (4 levels of exhaustion)
Valon gets some wine, brings out his list and tries to talk to paws about what is going on and family. stretched and pulled in different directions.
valon's adoptive parents found him in the rubble of mt ... they found him and raised him. they were harpers and he thinks they did good. but suddnely his sister and parents and brother disappeared. they went to do something and he couldn't find them anymore. the harpers didn't know where they went and he started looking but was shut down everywhere he went but then he found us!. but eventually he started seeking answers again and found another family but much less likeable (the people zenthirm). it was a mistake but i've been greasing the wheels with the zenthirm to get info but Hadden said that my parents did unspeakable things and are dead and I just can't believe it. I've made a descion to be done then and there.
Paws put a hand on his shoulder. I know what it's like to look for a lost parents.. as long as you didn't do the smuggling or hurt anyone, I'm happy to forgive you. but she does glare at nin unsure.
stepped on a hornets nest. this is bad. -valon
'when there are several people there, everyone takes a few stings.' -paws
awww
valon asks to harvey and beer worms. offers one to nin.
she looks at them and says perhaps another time.
forgive me, it's just i'm not ready to celebrate yet.
you don't leave the family quite that easily.
raining on a parade. sob stories like a badge of pride.
bottle it in and explode.
we are not strangers and we were not talking to you.
Nin steps back and disapperas. valon invisibilties.but pops back up.
Kas does not like that we are going to stop and camp!! we should get far away!!!!
she looks around to see what is around. are we being followe?
east on the river. the left= woods, forrest.
the high moors are far out of sight.
north side forest between us.
Mallory explains we coudl sail half the night and then the river forks. we would go east.
we could get to the fork in a few hours.
behind me from loudwater. no movement. no sign of being followed. look south and fret, nin seems to materialize next to me and says: they won't be coming. things that we saw are just the help. not good over long distanced. hadden was running the show.
I ask her to help protect the elephant. "I do not wish the harm the little one'
Kas feels trsuting of this and accepts camping and has not issues with nin. Doesn't see a reason to worry about her. She seemed trustfull.
we fins a little shallow spot to beach the boat. North side. grassy slope that leads tot eh star mountains/unicorn run. (Hi Khashana!)
empty of humanoid habitations. just wilderness.
Valon hands searos a playing card with the dragon symbol and a rolled up note and asks him to help him burn them. searos looks curiously and says sure. like REALLY burn them. searos is a little confuzzled but does. nin watches the ashes fly away into the distance.
Kas will not sleep. will stay watching the area the whole night with elephant in blanket on lap. but she can rest still.
everyone else will also take a shift in case.
1st watch: harvey and Kas. all good.
2nd watch: paws an kas. wolf howls, all good.
3rd:Valon and kas: peacefully.
4th:Searos and kas: peacfully.
in the morning, only kas sees nin just fade into the dim early morning towards the star mountains. She turns around and waves at me gently. I gently wave back. She sees and dissappears.