Taking the Wolf-Boy Back to Krezk
General Summary
Excerpt from Seir’s Little Black Book (Session 2/11/20): Penned in Borokin’s hand, via dictation
Letho, Khaylen, and Thoradin continued chasing after the wolves. Thoradin had a spell cast on one of the fleeing wolves, making it easier for him to track one of the members of the pack. Thoradin was pretty easily able to track the wolves, and Khaylen cast some cantrips to make it easier for the group to find their way back to the path. The child began thrashing on the path, having a seizure of some sorts. Nobody with me knew anything about medicine, so I knelt down to keep him from knocking his head on the cobblestones and cast a healing spell on him. He slowed in his movements, but he still didn’t seem quite well. He still had werewolf features, however. Back to the other party. They encountered a wolf, hobbled by slashed tendons. It was the one Thoradin could track. Apparently the leader split off from his party to use them as a smokescreen. Khaylen killed it with a quick spell and let the other two go on to track the leader. However, they lose the trail. All they know is that the werewolf fled north. The group somewhat wants to continue the hunt, but they decide to rejoin us at the river to avoid being out after nightfall. They walk by along the shore of the river, seeing the tower of the failed lich and the surrounding lake Baratok. At the base of the tower was a small cart, or perhaps a small wagon. Thoradin and Khaylen try to explain to Letho how far away the tower is- they both tried to shoot it with arrows, but it was too far away to hit. O and I brought the kid to the cart and tied him to it, lightly such that if he started seizing he wouldn’t fling himself off of the cart and injure himself. We talked about what to do- I said that I wanted to take the kid back to Kresk, and have his father figure out what to do with him. We agreed to go to Kresk to take the kid in. We cut everybody with a knife to check to make sure nobody caught anything problematic and started to go back. Letho kept on talking about how we should kill the child, but I honestly didn’t want to- it’s not really my place to make that decision, and I’m not really one to murder kids. Khaylen stood at the gates and called for the baron or his wife. The guards seemed quite tense, and wouldn’t stop pointing their spears at her. They got the baroness, and Khaylen implied to her what was happening. She ran out of the city and approached us. She told us that the baron had also ran off, to look for her son. We told her about what had happened, and she was freaked out. She ran up and stroked her son, and told us that this was the first time he had transformed. She sliced the boy on the shoulder- apparently he didn’t have any sort of metal immunity yet (apparently, it takes some time- oh boy, that might mean something may happen to us…). The baroness (Anna) used a charm to make her son (Ilya) resemble a normal human, and fed him some wolfsbane. She told us that the condition tends to last over the next full phase of the moon. It apparently spreads via bites, though also via curses. I regretted heavily letting the same knife cut my hand that cut everyone else’s hand. The wolfsbane checking: It sizzled on Khaylen? With everyone else, they just kind of winced. Everything seemed fine with me? Anna brought her son downstairs to shackle him up, and Thoradin, O, I, and you joined. We discussed that we needed a wedding dress, and asked Anna if she could get us a wedding dress. O said she needed it because she was marrying you. I’ll keep this segment pretty short, as it’s clear that writing about it distresses you. I understand you made some vows and whatnot, but I guess it would look pretty terrible if we said she was marrying, say, one of the men in the party who easily are double her age. Don’t worry, we weren’t singling you out or anything. Anna asked us if we wanted a Kreskovian dress, or a normal wedding dress. Apparently, the Kresk wedding dresses are just sacks- it still smelled of potatoes. Anna said she wasn’t offended, but she still offered us the dress. “Maybe we can put it in the woods and it’ll attract your husband.” -Khaylen Anna says that an old friend of hers was a talented seamstress, and that she has a shop in Villacki. Anna gave us a note for us to give to her. She’s in the town square. We decided to stay overnight. We had a meal of farmer’s cheese, rustic bread, and stew at a villageperson’s house. We had an uneventful night in Kresk, with a little bit of snowfall. Then, we headed out. As far as I could tell, the baron had yet to come back to Kresk. By the bridge, the bodies of the wolves we had slayed yesterday were still there. They seemed to have been pulled off to the side of the road a bit, but didn’t seem to have been scavenged. They had been stood up, with their eyes open and lips pulled into a snarl. We passed the way to the winery (deciding that, since we had Anna’s note, we could probably get some sort of discount on the dress). At the gates of Villacki, the sign of the sun near the gate had been painted over. The wolf’s heads outside the town were being taken down and replaced with lanterns on posts. We recalled collectively that the festival is happening soon, and we would all have to help, with great sadness and irritation. We all got our individual passes. The guards told us that we could help out with the festival by just walking in, smiling, and nodding. A rotund man with monkeys on his shoulder was setting up mannequins in various strange dancing poses. The orphans at the orphanage were being led around to different areas of the town. There were various stalls set up, one selling supplies, one with fresh goat cheese, one with hand painted toys. #TODO: Meet seamstress #TODO: Go to the blue water inn, check up on the winery family and ask about what’s going on #TODO: Festival???
Report Date
08 Nov 2022
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