Later Afternoon Of Martius 8th The party made quick work of the displacer beast however it almost killed the father of the little boy. The father extremely grateful is still going to take the snake bits and now the displacer beast back to Misty Vail for the party to get processed. They put it in the name of Solstice and Wincen. They also put the training grounds details on it just in case. The party then continued as quickly as they could to catch up with the now horse back ridding murderer and companion. They ended up getting to section of the road that showed horse tracks going in the foliage of 2 horses but only one coming back. The party made a quick decision to follow the tracks inward. Here they found a horse tied to a tree with a rat perched on a branch. Allen walked up to the horse and rat after casting speak with animals. He startled the horse and the horse said not to do that. The rat just said well isn't this great did Elluna send you? I guess i can kill her daughter instead. The party then attacked the assassin which turned out to be a wearrat. They didn't kill the assassin as justice will be served. With night approaching the party decided to keep going onward to catch the companion of the wearrat.
Martius 8th Morning to Afternoon After the harsh word lashing from Solstices mother the party set out and started off again for the Mayor's murderer. They however got distracted again by wanting to investigate the abandoned Magic Shop. They arrived as Luna was unlocking the door. She asked the party how they where doing and they said we were just checking to see if the Magic Shop could help. Luna knowing the party let them enter to explore the Magic Shop with her. The party found this extremely well crafted cobalt anvil. Upon the anvil in "Dwarven Script" stated place items of a familial bond to you on anvil. All the party members placed something on the anvil that meant a lot to them. Whether it was a weapon or a trinket. These items all started to glow a strange yet wondrous cobalt blue in special spots of their weapon/trinket. The party also found a recipe scroll for a bag of holding. After the Magic shop the party then preceded to pick up some meat solstices mother had for pick up. Upon reaching the meat shop the butcher just handed Solstice a note. "The Note stated they have failed to stay on task, remember you are not welcome back until quest is finished. The party immediately set out and started back up on their hunt. However they heard some strange noises and a little boy yelling for help. The party attends to the boy just as a giant constrictor snake wraps up Wincen. The party takes care of the snake and Solstice and Vera take the boy home. At home the mother and father where so grateful they offered to help with healing potions and transportation for the snake meat. As the girls got back to the snake and the rest of the party a Displacer Beast started to attack.
Evening of Martius 7th ended session morning of Martius 8th While at the campsite of bad stew our adventures looked up into the trees and noticed some wild baboons. These baboons where a bit agitated and very curious of who our adventures are. While snooping on the adventures one of the wild baboons encroached to close to a mama bears den and the bear started to charge. Vera noticed this bear stepped aside and with her long bow took a shot and hit the bear. The bear winded from its charge stopped just short of Vera with anger in its eyes. The baboons quickly started to surround the bear and started attacking it. Other baboons started to defend the pack from other invaders. The baboons didn't know how to treat our adventures. So the baboons where very unaligned in the battle attacking the adventures and the bear. Allen rushed to aid in attacking the bear with Vera but the bear made quick work of him by almost killing Allen in 1 blow. The rest of the party saw their new friend fall in battle so they quickly tried to dispatch the bear. Vera being close tried to stabilize her Comrade Allen but was overwhelmed by the bears presence. Solstice came in just in time to stabilize Allen. Shortly after Allen was stabilized Wincen had the killing blow on the bear. While this was happening a few baboons decided to playfully attack Sullivan. One of the Baboons was jumping up and down on Sullivan's shoulders and defecated on poor Sullivan. Once the bear was down Solstice noticed that this was indeed a mama bear and she took off looking for cubs. Vera joined her after a bit and together they found 2 baby cubs. Wincen and Sullivan started to make proper hunting use out of the bear. Together they cleaned the hide which at its raw state was worth 2gp. Next they processed the meat and was able to gather about 32 lbs of bear meat. Lastly they attempted to harvest the claws and unfortunately it didn't turn out the best. However the party should still get about 2sp out of the claws. After the harvest the baboon friend of Sullivan jumped back on his shoulders for a ride into Vail. The party ended up heading back to the training grounds and Solstice faced the disappointed look of a father after curfew. The party put the bear cubs and baboon in the barn. Vera stayed in the barn with the animals. The rest of the party had to sneak into the house to not wake any of the orphans however Solstice nailed one of her wounds on something as a tiefling girl came out of the bedroom and went to the privy. Solstice hurried back to the super fancy special guest room where Allen fell face first into the bed taking up the full center of a king size bed. Sullivan, Solstice, and Wincen didn't care they just laid down in different spots not to disturb anyone to much. In the morning Vera woke up to wonderful animal cuddles. The rest woke up to the smell of fresh baked bread and bear bacon. At breakfast the party was provided a word lashing from Soltices mother about how they let the murder get away. On top of returning after cerfew. However she did praise her daughter of learning the valuable lesson of making sure your friends are safe. As a gift to the party Solstices mother and father provided them with 5 minor healing potions, 1 chest and processed their bear meat into 10 ration packs for each party member. The raw bear hide was also sent to the Haggelton sisters leather works for tanning and/or further processing.
Mid Day Martius 7th aka noon and end at 3pm ish(edited) [2:36 PM] After finding the mayor DOA, some of the recent winners brought guards to help with the murder. The guards turned out to be Kingdom rather than region and lightly forced the party to help discover the murder. Once they arrive on the scene, Solstice sees Wincen creeping down by the other rooms with his weapon drawn. Solstice tries to signal to Vera to check on that situation and causes a scene to distract the guards. It only works briefly. Wincen does find a potential criminal. Solstice jumped out a window to try to find guards she's more familiar with since the Kingdom guards seemed untrustworthy and was missing part of a purple sleeve, found at the murder site. Allen followed Solstice. Wincen, Sullivan, and Vera stay and review the scene and follow up other leads. Kriv a white dragonborn shows up and says he's also staying here. He points out already discovered evidence and denies all fault. Luna steps up as mayor and orders the guards to free everyone. The party continues to track the killer freely now. We find a blood trail and track it into the woods. Someone repurposed the 'bad stew campsite'. We continue tracking and hoping for a lead to the murderer.
Martius 6th, 2560 Last day of Thorns Shadow Our story, this time, starts in a small town in Malgos, called Misty Vail. The town seems to be in a hustle due to an archery tournament being ran by some curious albino dwarves, and hosted by the local archery range. As two people, an elf girl named Vera'lyth and a human-looking man named Wincen enter town, they soon hear the yells from a human-looking woman, named Solstice, to sign up for the tournament . They enter the tavern, which is full at this time of day. They take a seat by a half-elf man, Sullivan, who pays them no mind, instead keeping his attention on reading his book. Shortly, an elf man, Allen, rushes into the tavern, only to be pushed aside by a strong human man with a woman behind him. The human announces himself as The Dragon, and the woman as The Dragon Queen. The Dragon insists that people sign up for the archery tournament, for he is going to enter and win every category. Suddenly, something takes a hold of the group. After The Dragon and The Dragon Queen leave, the group finds they have signed up for the tournament, in any category they have the equipment for. Wincen tries to mark out his name, but by magical means, is unable to do so. The adventurers accept their fate to participate and begin to think about where to stay for the night. On their way out, Vera and Wincen ran into an albino dwarf, who explained in Dwarven that the tournament was being held so they could have some fun and find new friends, while Vera translated for him. Sullivan had already been staying at Luna's, while everyone else followed Solstice to stay at the training grounds/orphanage.
In the early morning of Martius the 11th the party attempted to enter the town. But the albino dwarves prevented them from just rushing in to do as they wished. The dwarves surrounded the party with chants of friend or enemy being said in Dwarvish. The party then said they where friends and the albino dwarves opened a path to the mayor’s house. At the mayor’s house the party ended up waking up Kriv who brought the party in to see Luna. While the Sullivan, Solstice and Vera went to go get Luna, Wincen and Allan where outside and watched as the hundreds of dwarves turned into 4 dwarves with Blue tattoos instead of the red that was seen on the others. After some time talking to the mayor the party found out they should take the assassin to Solstices mother. Her father saw them coming and quickly went and got Eluna and they ended up beheading the assassin and asked solstice and wincen to take care of the body at Dr. Niganze’s location. After cleaning up the party had breakfast at the training grounds and upon leaving the training grounds they ran back into Luna and where gifted with a house that has a magic shop attached to it. Upon heading back to the now house they went back to that Anvil that caused their magic items to light up. We left the party with only Vera and Allen left to place their items on the anvil. July 24, 2020
Midnight Martius 9th, The party set off to catch the 2nd suspect. While traveling the party kept a more watchful eye on the wearrat assassin and try to rest themselves. Anytime that the assassin would stir or wake Solstice was there to knock him back unconscious. It started to rain worried that they would lose the 2nd suspect in the rain they pushed on. As the rain was letting up the party spotted a tarp. They collected the tarp and kept going. They then noticed that a horse was tied off to the side of the road. The party got off the cart and started to stealthily investigate the area. That’s when they noticed a bag of chalk and the signs of a teleportation circle. Sullivan was able to determine that it was indeed a magical spell for transporting someone to another location. Not having a parchment or anything to draw on the party ended up etching the symbol into the side of the cart. Upon looking around they found that no one was around. Quickly the realization set in that this was evidence that the 2nd suspect got away. Wincen, Solstice and Vera had a realization of potential failure. Wincen to Solstice: Did we Fail? Solstice: No, I don't think so? Solstice to Vera: Is this failing Vera? Vera: ......no? The party ended up gathering up the chalk and gathered the 3rd horse. The party now started to travel back into Vail. They now possess a cart that is now tarped and 3 horses. When the party started for lunch Wincen checked on the assassin and found out he was pretend sleeping and either Solstice or Wincen knocked him out again. The party ate some quick rations and Wincen wanted to get some food from foraging. Wincen found an apple tree and a cherry tree. Wincen had a hard time getting some cherries so he tried to cut down the branch but his axe kept getting stuck. Finally he just ripped the branch off the tree and left a nice scar in the tree. When Wincen got back to the camp for lunch he was questioned about the branch and he then preceded to show the party where he saw the apples and cherries. Upon arriving at the trees. Solstice to Wincen: Is this the tree you had trouble with? Wincen: No, it was a different one? (Deception 3) Solstice: (Insight 6) Well if it isn't your tree why the gash? Where is your tree? Wincen: No Solstice this is the tree. Sorry no good at sarcasm. Solstice: I knew you were lying and yes you do need to work on your sarcasm Wincen: (Rolls Eyes) Solstice: Well you did almost get me so not so much more work maybe Wincen: Was trying to make it obvious The party was able to get some more apples and cherries equivalent of 1 basket of each 1 basket = 1 unit. The party loaded up the cart and set off. They came up to their wonderful smuggler friends and told them to join the cart ride (this wasn’t an option for them to not join). They where told by Wincen if they try to cause problems Solstice will do what she is doing to the assassin to them. And to please keep their mouths shut. So, the party now has 3 criminals being brought to justice. They headed off again to Vail. Upon arriving Vail at the equivalent of about 5am on Martius the 11th they noticed the albino dwarves where still in Vail but there appears to be hundreds of them now wandering the city.
Dusk of Martius 8th The party chases the unknown horsemen.
Martius 7th [11:19 PM] Solstice brought Allen, Wincen, and Vera to the training grounds/orphanage. This was a interesting sight for those not used to mass chaos. The party arrived right at dinner. Solstice warned the party that grab what you want, because if you don't you wont get the chance. This meal was devoured in a organized chaos manner amount all of Solstices "Pack" family. Durring dinner the party noticed that this orphanage tended to orphaned monster races and the typical human/elves. One of the children was even a Luxadon. After dinner all the siblings assisted with cleaning off the table. Solstice asked her mother where the guest would stay and she gave permission to use the Special Guest room that is normally used for distinguished guests. The others finally felt safe and let their guard down and ended up sleeping in the room together. Allen, Wincen and Solstice had a "cuddle puddle" in the big king bed. Vera trances and was observant enough of Allen leaving the room and coming back. The party woke up the next morning and had breakfast and went to compete in the tournament.(edited) [11:19 PM] The tournament was a wonderful competition of all types of people. The party was also reintroduced to Sullivan. Even the albino dwarves came and demonstrated their abilities on the range. These albino dwarves approached the party as 4 individual dwarves however they started to shift into 16. This was really unique even to the time they threw their axes 4 would go up and then 1 axe would be thrown. It was a strange sight. The other contender that was interesting was Rewill Pyer "The Dragon" he entered into every category however after the hand crossbow section he and his lady friend got chased arround Vail by the Malgos Kingdom Guards of House Drekker. Once the tournament was over many of the party members ended up winning some of their sections and was rewarded in a meet and greet with the Mayor of Malgos. The party of Solstice, Allen, Wincen, Vera, and Sullivan amoung other winners where escorted by Luna Tangra the Mayors Daughter to the Mayors House. Upon entering the mansion Luna screamed and started to cry. The party rushed in to find the body of Ambros Tangra the Mayor lying dead on the floor.