Session 3

Wake up in the Marshtoe Tavern
 
Dream talk!
Map with a red "X" on it, that Birch identifies as bandit headquarters
 
Tobias gave Birch a letter addressed to "Birch et al." from the magistrate asking to speak with them
 
Selling loot:
• Three suits of leather armor
• Three shortswords
• We receive: 50gp
 
Jesp wants a hand crossbow, can't afford it. Beebop offers his body. Shopkeeper offers -10gp for every pint of blood. Beebop provides 5 pints and is reduced to 2HP.
 
Arcandy
• Run by two pigeons, Willy and Wonky
• It's candy that looks like amulets and magic items
• Birch buys their usual, a ring pop
 
Magistrate's office
• Magistrate: corvum, looks ruffled
• Kenna--went to the caverns for slimes but hasn't returned
○ Researcher from the Avum; Birch knows who she is, but hasn't guided her specifically
• Two paths to caves:
○ Direct (few hours) through the swamp
○ Indirect (full day) safer
 
On the way to the caverns through the swamp
• Jesp has become Beebop's research assistant; he will help with testing things to eat
• Jesp & Beebop see bubbles
○ Birch IDs as a black pudding, it's 80 feet away
 
In the caves
• Stagnant, dank, ick, smells of rot
• Beebop tries the fluorescent mushrooms in the caverns
○ No noticeable effects, except for fluorescent poop
○ *beebop is the radium girls*
• Birch sees a path through the muck; Jesp & Roach stay at the cave entrance because they're mad at Beebop
• Birch is so focused on following this trail, that they slip on the muck and fall into the gross water, but they resist swallowing any
• After 30min we hit a 5ft wide 50ft long tunnel
○ "It's giving bad vibes of collapse"
○ Beebop's antlers cause a partial cave-in & Birch gets injured
• We come into a large cavern
○ 10-30ft ceiling, 60ft radius
○ Stalactites & stalagmites; we hear dripping water
 
Combat
• Two slimes drop from the ceiling & a gelatinous cube appears in front of us
• Beebop is dropped to 0 immediately
• Birch kills gelatinous cube
 
Beebop sprints to the top of the cave to apologize to Jesp & Roach
 
Gelatinous cube loot:
• Nest charm (magic item)--small sphere of intricate metal with branches interwoven to form a next; place it on the ground & speak command word--it unfolds to create a 30ft diameter platform of branches, a magical tree grows below and carries everything on the platform 50ft into the air (Caiomhe)
• 5gp
• Brass magnifying glass (Beebop)
 
Beebop Figgins is schizophrenic
 
Into the cavern further
• Hear a faint groaning, of someone who is injured
• We see (Kenna) corvum; she broke her ankle running from the slimes
 
Trip back to Winnowing Reach is uneventful. We take Kenna to the magistrate, and she's taken off to some healers. 10gp each.
 
Stay the night in Winnowing Reach. Magistrate says to come back tomorrow because he's got another task for us that "pays well".
 
Jesp & Roach may go to the general store tomorrow.