Session 13: It's So Stimulating for my BRAIN

Prompt: On the Road

What is something your character likes and dislikes about being on the road?

· Kas writes to Droop about how much she likes to learn about all the new people she encounters on the road, but she’s not sure how she can retain it all. Casting disguise self constantly and not knowing what kind of reception she’ll receive is exhausting.

· Searos enjoys traveling with a group and finds that he’ll try things that he normally wouldn’t on his own. The downside is, this gets him into dangerous situations.

· Harvey writes a letter to Droop, telling him about how much he enjoys reading his friends’ correspondence, and reflects that he should probably burn this letter if he wants to maintain his covert. He does not like dragons who mind control entire towns.

· Paws writes to her friends at the monastery. She loves traveling—being outdoors, new friends, new sounds, new people, even a dragon. It’s the towns that she finds boring, with the same people day in and day out. There isn’t a thing she doesn’t enjoy about being on the road.

· Valon writes a letter to no one. He enjoys being on the road because you can be a different person with all the different people you meet. Each day is like a new start. However, if you’re traveling with a group, they tend to call you on your bullshit very quickly. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but probably a good thing in the long run.

The Journey So Far…

· The party settles into the village of Llorkh and ingratiates themselves to the small handful of locals that still call the town home. The story of the town’s history comes mostly from a conversation between Paws and Hatchath, a second generation tabaxi immigrant from Kara-Tur, and master silversmith. She feels great shame over the events she bore witness to in her younger years and carries with her the trauma of a destroyed home for which she feels complicit.

· Llorkh was once immensely prosperous, home to a seemingly limitless silver mine. To maintain economic growth, the townsfolk long ago made a deal: they were given sophisticated mining equipment in exchange for the best the Llorkish silversmiths had to offer by way of silvered weapons. The townsfolk tired of the deal and backed out. Soon after, the mining equipment suffered severe malfunctions, turning on the miners and killing many. The townsfolk acted quickly, sealing the miners in with the malfunctioning machine.

· Paws reviews The Deep and Creeping Darkness, reading of how another mining town in the Graypeaks suffered disaster after disaster. Following a collapse killing or trapping much of the town, strange disappearances rendered the small mining operation a ghost town.

· Seeing the destitution of the town, Valon provides linen and wheat from their cargo. Searos revitalizes Llorkh’s gardens and green spaces. With the first immediate crop, Valon and the Poached Weasel’s cook whip up a vat of Valon’s famous chili as Kas feeds the recovering Tomithy vegetable scraps. Harvey forages for herbs and creates a healing salve, with dubious results.

· The party sets out in the morning, detouring to the mine entrance. After several earth-shattering attempts at breaking the mine open, an old man they met at the Weasel the night before posts up in front of the mine to stop their progress. He explains that his son was one of the miners who was sealed in. That sacrifice was for a reason, though he doesn’t elaborate why as he collects the shattered remains of the meagre memorial shrine at the mine’s entrance.

· Leaving the man to his remembered grief, Kas notices undulations in the ground a few miles up the road. As they travel, the ground grows soft beneath their feet. The little-used road caves in, and while Valon, Searos, Harvey, and the mules dodge out of the way in time, Paws, Tomithy and Kas fall within.

· As Harvey ties off a rope and prepares to rescue the trio below, a huge clockwork automaton, spider-shaped with spade-like front legs, emerges from the darkness, rushing towards Paws and Kas as Harvey’s rope drops to the mine floor.

What is one thing your character loves about being on the road and/or hates being on the road. Dear Droop

lots to learn. weird people. tired of casting disguise self. doesn't wanna cause issues for the party. doesn't understand all the weird things people

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this place is rough. we get there in the day. looks like more buildings than villagers.

THe poached weasel, tavern. Town hall across from it.

We make up most of the crowd

human, dwarf,. halfing, elvish ancestry

polite cuiriousity that warms with alchol. Malory here too, recruiting.

Everyone wants to know: You folks are not from here. what brings you here? little tiny village at the end of the vale.

bringing happiness and friendship.

supposed to visit an abondoned village nearby and help fix it up.

Very old balding man. "no one resettles vermallon, no gonna happen"

it's not a challenge, a warning.

That place was cursed when he was a little one.

people would always be running away from there and not all of them made it out safetly.

die, dissappear. all this after the mine collapsed. killed 1/3 of the town, then people get vanishing.

smart ones fled and didn't look back.

Valon pours more drinks.

Kas Bravely goes up to the bartender and orders food.

pot of everything soup. barley, potatoes, tough meat.

Try to feed Tomithy. he rejects it COMPLETELY.

Kas gives the soup to paws sadly. :(

gotta feed tomithy.

paws likes it.

Late 80s dwarf comes up clinking. bangles everywhere. silver jewelry.

wants trades since they never get any. griseled man doesn't help much with the trading.

she is a silver makers

unrolls a hodgepogdge od silver materials

once upon a time was known for silver smiths

do you have a werewolf problem? -Paws

The town gets SILENT.

no full moon for a bit.

WE trade goods. they talk about how expensive items that they have are. (we can easily handle that. it's cheap)

The nice swords were made by a tabaxi. Paws gets SOOO excited and just heads off.

Two tabaxis in the building.

1 very very old tabaxi. black with some whiteish tips.

fully white tabxi, some ears show the youthful orange that she once was.

useed to be quite a few around here.

Hatchath.

Paws has a nice chat with the tabaxi and explains that we are going to vermallion.

paws asks about werewolves.

Tabaxci looks at the tavern, then the town hall with the bell.

"it's good that you came here for this conversation. not everyone likes to talk about the woes of our town. but it's important to keep your past with you to know how to handle the future"\

thye will tell you that 'the mine collaspsed"

been here for two generations. at the height of the town, we attracted attention. She seems sad and agitated about this story fo the past.

We made a bargain that we thought was a fair and even deal for the silver.

we met with representation of power organaziation. AMAZING equipement that could mine a single vein in a quarter of time.

turned out to be a less than optimal arrangement in the long run and we backed out. wasn't recieved kindly. the equipement went haywire and killed many people. we sealed it off with a good number of friends and family. the silver is still there resting along side the bones of our neighbors, friends, sons, daughters and the machinery.

Some people with sharper ears than mine think they can still hear the thumping on cold and quiet nights.

we sold everything thinking we would find silver again but that never happened.

New troubles come.

WE stay together, we survive and we get by

Paws offers our services.

lost 60 of friends and family. strongest and heartiest. Wouldn't ask our party to do things.

paws is determeined.

Kas is desperatley trying to find more flowers for tomithy. it's november in the middle of nowhere.

get some prickly weeds..... might try to scrap it off a bit.

Valon feels generous to this poor town and wants to help offload some of our goods. esp this is the end of our journey.

offers wheat and linen

Searos works on enriching the land for the people. 1 year improved the land.

initial burst of growth then over the course of the night.

everyone is in shocked and happy.

all the goats and chickens that have been so skinny are so happy.

Valon grabs some newly grown items and brings it to the barkeep to make food.

Valon wants to make his award winning beans.

he will trade the recipe.

Kas gets excited, grabs a bag and picks up all the scraps. Valon sees this and gets a full carrot ready.

Kas is very happy in this kitchen.

Valon drops a few things on the group on prupose to see is kas will sweep.

Kas does sweep lightly into her bag for tomithy. not a full sweep.

hard to sweep with an elephant on your chest hahah

Tomithy is doing fantastic!! i have a whole baggie of scraps and he is loving it!

He opens his eyes and all happy and active. still a bit sleepy but good!

Friendship with this town.

we say goodbye to malory.

we will solve tupper's situatuion.

the vilalge tells us how to get to the next town. But we want to visit the mines.

Paws wants to head off intot he cave asap.

Searos yells 'wait!" it might not be safe.

WEll duh, we've can do this, we fought trolls!

Valon and paws ready.

Harvey watchful

we get to the cave. Kas says we should toss a marble and backs up.

paws gets ready to toss it.

Kas gets excited to try and shatter the rocks instead of smoosh the rocks.

we fail miserably!

as we are trying to smash into the cave, the old man comes running and yelling to tell us stop!!

no opening!!

he sorts through the broken altar that we damaged and find his figurine and plants his self in front of the save entrance saying that he lost his son. No matter how much power you have, there is no way you are going into that cave.

Valon walks over to the shrine. detect magic on the shrine.\

Old man flinches.

Paws is going along the path to the next town.

Valon and Kas want to find a way into the mine.

I already caused a death. Ive seen the sad face of people. How can I help.

As we are walking, I see depressions in the ground.

the extent of this mine.

paws suggested the other mine and maybe the two will connect.

Valon goes back and apologizes to the old man.

the road goes up but the ground itself dips up and down slightly. about 2-3 miles up the road.

I go stand on one and call out to the group to ask why this is like this.

1hour 1/2 outside of town.

Kas is middle ish. by facorite krik

the ground feel softer and spongeier.

the ground starts to give way beneath their feet.

I was petting krik and would have protected it but tomithy!!!!

mage armor tomithy

Kas falls beneath the earth. 8 damage. Tomithy is okay.

everyone else makes it except paws and Kas

Kas lying there flat on her back holding tomithy in her arms.

Paws sees that we are in a mine.

Paws yells, we found a way in and her voice echos throughout the whole mine and out again.

Harvey finds a stable tree near the trial and has climbing gear.

the cave is 20 ft deep. the rope reaches. ( or will)

Paws and kas hear thump thump like the stories from the old cat lady of what some villagers hear at night.

giant clockwork spider like creature.

initiative. rolled 19

By Kasiana

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