Session 12

This morning is kind of grand to enjoy. I have a new good friend here at Greenwood Outpost. I help him get everyone’s breakfast and such done while his dad goes to help look through and see what is left by the bandits. According to everyone else there were 9 packed carts and 5 horses. The merchants each got 2 horses and 2 carts. We got a horse with cart of spices that I am certain will be worth some money if we sell. I got a pound of cotton and a spindle so I can try to turn it into yarn or thread to make some things. There are also 20 books in Jezik but I can’t read it at all maybe someone else can. I’m certain Jena can do it she knows lots of languages and how to read well since being an old priestess. Henry as well is willing to build us a place to stay here for when we come back through. I had to ask him if I can have a private bedroom and kitchen area I do not think how I prefer to live is how the rest do from seeing them. In the process since I was not a major combatant person in the fight I agreed I would help build part of the housing thing as needed.
 
Before heading out we came to check on Jena and N’seal but they seemed to have come down with this Reborn sickness. While there we heard some loud arguments in the inn. So we all tried to go in and not be noticed. The problem was that the rude Lucius, it seems weird to be willing to write his name here, was quiet but did not drop down far enough below the tables so everyone could see him, he also was not that quiet when he moved. Cynica was hard to see but he hit his toe or something and so fell onto Lucius almost making a loud noise. We then learned it was Henry arguing with one of his sons. Henry never heard or saw me along with everyone else. I did see and hear him asking for me. So after he is pointed to where everyone last saw me I head out and go around the inn to meet him. We have a short discussion about the argument and come to an answer on how to help make it better. This means I agreed to next time we are in town start to teach Louis how to heal with magic and how to get away from things. I am certain this will work well for us as we have become friends. Afterwards I agree to talk to Louis about this agreement between his father and me.
 
So, we go exploring around north of town and find absolutely nothing the first day. People having to walk through mountain passes is slow. I so wish they could all fly and glide to speed up the process. That night Cynica finally invokes his efreet protection circle around the camp. While sleeping he hears something and wakes me up as we see a large small giant thing. It comes running to our campsite and I first try to speak and offer some of our meat for him, but instead he decided to attack us. The circle actually burned the person and I was able to get within his guard and space to make it harder for him to deal with others. Then Cynica cast another efreet spell and burns a hole in its abdomen killing it. As it dies it releases this nasty liquid and smell so I go on and use magic to bury the creature person. Then as others are freaking out I just pray that whom ever is over its soul is nice to it. I am certain the death is due to bad communication. For a short instant there is a weird incorporeal goblin with a cudgel staff that touches the grave and it instantly settles the dirt and the troll is gone.
 
The next morning Cynica and Lucius send John to try and follow the tracks back to its home while we get a weird feeling, Yondali wanting to speak with us. I don’t feel like talking as I would rather be back in Greenwood working with trying to get to know Louis better and teaching him like I said I would. Also, I realize that John is alone so I head off instead of talking.
 
I catch up to John and see his is safe but not in the best location. We both followed the tracks back to a cave and can assume it is the troll’s cave. Together we agree it best to walk back to the group and avoid it. Once with the group Lucius tells me according to Yondali that the brothers I asked to show up at the festival and my priest friend will be there too. So Is Yondali spying on the Vombin men? I know they said they would show and so did Servius already. So why tell me unless to prove she is spying to make certain I know she is always watching me and who I talk with so there are no secrets or too good of hopes since her liege enjoys killing any good life before it happens. I think she is jealous of Ea’s world and how nice it is compared to hers.
 
We then travel for 2 more days of nothing but hills, I am getting tired of this slow travel. I do wish Jana was awake and more chatty. John is hard to understand and talk to even if I practice talking to him in Bhasa and Sprache. But thankfully on the 5th day of travel we come across a weird glade of big trees. The place feels weird and so using magic I notice that it has a weird magical feel to it and there is a spirit like presence there and the place is sentient. I decide to call the place Treehenge due to how it is formed. I give a proper ritual to thank the place for letting me enter and I leave a message in the dirt outside the area that we are not to make fires inside the place. The place has a nice feeling to it, even if most of the time the energy in place makes the back of your hair stand on end.
 
That night there is a whispering in the trees and Cynica wakes me to see if I know what it is. I know it is something like a spirit thing and our shaman person is asleep. So as a way to help communicate, I know that is what Jana would want us to do, I try to craft a ceremonial ritual to allow that to happen. I do make certain to use protection markers and a circle to centralize my power and safety while I lay a transferring agency of water on both sides of the circle without breaking it. When I do finish to drink the spirits of the elder trees speak through me but do not possess me. We have a nice polite conversation between the group and them, but at the same time I get to have a private one and get to hear some of their stories and history while also getting information. They also will gift us with a seed to grow and have it become one as well. While talking they agree over 3 days to teach us about plants and their language as well. I spend most of the time as a medium for the group and forming this ritual repeatedly. I do wish I could lose some of myself in them and not hate being a servant of death like Jana was able to do with that spirit. I bet it felt nice for her while it happened. After that time we decide to head more towards the hills to the east and back towards Duran’s Outpost for the festival.
 
I do hope this festival goes well. I do hope I have covered enough of the cost. Though I do like Ignaci’s idea of doing a specialist trade between the 2 places. Because of that I mentioned with Henry if he can come across a spell to allow teleportation between the 2 outposts that would be amazingly useful and I will pay him back over time for it. Also, if there is a way to get a book that lets you know an aeromancy version of the spell homing circle then can cheaply move between locations. This way we can build better specialist trading, secure the trade routes more and also lets me work with the group and also get back often to help teach and become closer friends with Louis.