Mushroom Madness

Omar, myself and our noble friend Aurnel Hartcaster woke up at Sylvar's family estate feeling fresh as a daisy; the rest of our companions did not have the greatest of wakings... Half our group at least are suffering from some kind of withdrawals from a mushroom they encountered in the cave we were recently in. As far as we could tell they are all experiencing things very differently. Regardless at least we are in a very comfy....castle? l'hotel? palace? It's hard to say as it is intertwined between massive ancient trees; it's very different than other royal homes that we have visited before and far different from the monastery where I'm from.
 
"I'm strolling around in a breakfast dress" ~ Omar
 
On a lighter note, literally, the sun has finally come out after over a week of darkness. Sylvar also dawns a breakfast robe. Unfortunately the culminating of several people dealing with substance issues in toxic ways boil over into a 4 way argument, infighting and calling out each others family/lack-there-of. Omar leaves realizing our friend Hrm had left the room with a pitcher of water. I end up watching Caldera trying to trip Sylver while I keep eating strawberries.
 
"I'm too fancy to have any fucking feelings about mushrooms!" ~Caldera mimiccing
 
Sylvar was being a bore so and I made a comment to him and his sibling that without our help they wouldn't have their children back. I believe Sylvar took that comment personally.
 
As Caldera and I were in the bathhouse when a guard entered demanding that I be escorted out of the estate. Obviously aware of this situation he is in decides to emerge out of the pool. Naked. Refusing to dawn clothes I march my way down to my cart escorted by several guards and being trailed by Caldera. Omar must have figured out something was wrong and used a sending spell to contact me. I respond as follows:
 
"Hey Omar, it's Fitz. I am being held captive, do not believe the naked body double outside, send help."
 
I love Omar as a dear friend but I needed to have a little more fun with the ruling body of Sylvar's estate before we make haste and flee. The party gathers together but Sylvar and I continue our argument which boils over. Sylvar draws his rapier on me, he kept speaking at me but I just smiled; Sylvar was still going through withdrawls and I delighted in pressing his buttons. Honestly I'm sure I did insult his family's honour but I honestly couldn't justify their answer for their inability to track down their missing children. Something just seemed off. Nevertheless goading Sylvar was probably a step too far in his condition. Once our friend Ethar was collected by Aurnel we set back off on the road to Barrem.
 
Feeling less than pleased with myself my conscience really gets to me; I've obviously wronged a few of my companions and lashing out hasn't helped. Realizing my friend Caldera doesn't have anyone to room with at the inn we reside at over night I offer to pay their night and reside with them. Caldera kept looking at Aurnel for some reason, he looked really distracted by him which was odd, and rejected my offer. I just thought Caldera wasn't ready for my forgiveness yet but seemed to insist that it wasn't the case and accepted my apology but did not want to reside with me. So instead I offered to reside with Aurnel instead to apologize to him for being upset about the cart incident and make amends; he accepted the offer and hopefully we can break the ice and get to know each other better. Caldera looked beside himself but I'm not sure why. Aurnel and I set up our room and he litterally gets me to unpack my emotions but I didn't necessarily intend to. This noble kid is really calming for some reason but I'm clearly not ready to deal with some of the information that I've been bombarded with over the past month; it's been a complete exotic experience for me leaving the guarded culture of the monetary so even stepping foot in townships across the continent would have been an experience unto itself. Fearing that I would break down in front of this poor kid I decide to grab some wine and food and continue with a walk around the area.
 
Oh gods, Caldera and Sylvar are off to find a mushroom cave. On their own. They had a very absurd conversation about hearing each others words and rubbing of horns but the point being they are off to find a cave full of the same hallucinogenic mushrooms that has caused their addiction in the first place. I wanted to help them, I did, I wanted to tell them that what they were going to do was wild and stupid, but I know they wouldn't listen to me. Realizing that reasoning with them would be futile I go to Omar and Hrm to let them know what's happening and plan out what to do next.