JM heard sounds of children crying in the morning, he quickly surmised, since it was 3AM, that it wasn't actually children. These two large horse size creatures charged towards us out of the wood, call leucrotta. Odd climbs up the nearby stone wall and remains ready to shoot with his bow. Aleksey walks over to the end of the stone wall and up the incline between the stone wall and the rock cliff. Odd and the others get off shots as the creature approaches. Uttu keeps circling to keep an eye out for further creatures. Odd takes another shot, Aleksey hears another creature coming from the SE and lets Draxon know. Aleksey hits him with guiding bolt, doing severe damage and bathing it in bright light. Burell makes the finishing shot with his longbow.
JM jumps up on the wall to get a good view around. Odd sees the other creature to the east and takes a shot, hindering it with a shot to the rear. It lunges for JM, sinks his teeth in his barkskin, and then hides behind a nearby wagon. Aleksey goes around the wagon and casts sanctuary and Damaran success. JM climbs the wagon, jumps off, and attacks the creature. Draxon joins the fight and we all manage to take it out
Uttu spots two ogres (Bliarg and Tharg) approaching, who apparently were pursuing the leucrotta to hunt. I borrow JM's mask in an attempt to intimidate them. I walk up to them, tell them to leave telepathically, told them the humans are mine, and I extinguish their lantern. They didn't listen, came forward, were shot at. I approach the one, who is injured the most, and tell him telepathically that I am taking their gold as a toll. The injured one takes my advise and decides to leave, with the other following. In their pouch is 95cp, bones, separate paper with ogre runes on it.
Fortunately we are spared another fight this morning. We take a short rest.
Odd finds some kind of winged creature with pockets. Apparently the zentarim use winged snakes to communicate with each other. Odd finds a paper, it talks about them capturing a half-ling, something ten-penny. And was in route to the City of Doonlar, to stand trial for what happened in freedale. At first I didn't realize that Franklin is a Tenpenny! His family member has been captured by the Zentarim! Odd and Franklin head off together, but before they leave I gave them two ball-bearings so that I can help locate them in the future. They will be missed, but I think we will meet again one day.
We continue on our journey. mission to investigate the cult of the dragon and to protect Phlan. Next night we take a much-needed long rest.