Session 1

Meadowfen start
• Trade wagons gone missing
• Beebop & caiomhe are outside
• Birch, jesp, roach in the Marshtoe tavern
○ Tavernkeeper scrappy meriweather
 
Marshtoe tavern
• Jesp & roach have a fight
 
Smoke in the sky
 
Beebop & caiomhe are looking for the Elder Arwin
 
Jesp & roach run after beebop & caiomhe. Beebop runs back to the tavern, picks up birch, and runs back to the group
 
Old woman is covered in blood and ash, looking for the elder. Beebop picks her up and keeps running in a dead spring. Beebop throws the old woman at the Elder's door. Caiomhe saves the woman.
 
Elder Ardwin: Gallus (chicken)
• Cara (old woman) says she's the last of "the people", from Ashbarrow
• She reports that the fire has escaped the scorched grove & the entire village of ashbarrow is now ash
• The fires are coming
 
General Lore:
• There's no four-legged livestock
• Non-veggie food is bugs, snakes, fish, etc.
• People don't keep chickens, but there are non-sentient birds out in the woods
• Gapache: mapach dish; spicy vine veggie ragu, served over long beans
 
Cara Stormsinger (strig villager, captain) had gone out with 20 of their militia to investigate the smoke
 
Jesp & Roach got matching moth tattoos
 
Elder:
• Caiomhe was sent to find him. He is sending her to alert the birdfolk council that the fires left the scorched grove
 
Caiomhe casts spare the dying on Cara
 
Jesp threateningly tells Birch that they met at the market--clearly does not want to have it known that he was with the bandit
 
Birch agrees that if Jesp & Roach will come, Birch will talk up Jesp to Roach, talk about how cool he is
 
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It's about two days travel to the Alderheart
 
The group sets off after a grocery trip, Birch falls into the lead & scans for danger
 
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On the road:
• Birch & Beebop hear a commotion up ahead, and can barely see two archers up around the bend, standing menacingly
• We see two hooded figures by a wagon, one is stuffing stuff into a sack
• Mouse, bunch of mapachs, fox
• We see a body on the ground, who Birch recognizes as Eliza, someone they've led to the Caverns before
• Fox is chilling, mapachs & mouse are looting
• We hear a whimpered "help me" from Eliza
• Fox is Fray, Birch's old captain, who they had a good relationship with
• Birch bargains with Fray to get free passage for themself, beebop, & caiomhe, because Fray doesn't see Jesp & Roach since they're far behind
• Birch tells Caiomhe & Beebop about Eliza, they all agree to go look for Jesp & Roach and decide what to do
• They're too loud in the woods, scout comes investigating, Beebop steps out of the woods and asks if scout would like to contribute to his book about things that are okay to eat
• Scout called for Fray, roll initiative
 
Battle highlights:
• Beebop one-hit kills the scout
• Birch one-shot kills the archer out of the tree
• Fray shouts "Thief!" at Jesp, and looks Birch in the eye, "You have used up all of your good will"
• Beebop chases Fray into the thick forest
• Beebop kills Fray "YOU CAN'T OUTRUN THE BOP"
○ Fray's Loot: suit of studded leather armor, finely crafted shortsword with rose on the pommel, bandit coalition captain sword (functions as ID card)
 
Birch takes Caiomhe to heal Eliza
 
Other loot:
• Four suits of leather armor
• Four shortswords
• 5 daggers
• Dagger bandolier
• Small coinpurse with 15gp
• Map with a red "X" on it, that Birch identifies as bandit headquarters