Downtime in Daring

Discovery, Exploration

Exploration time

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After hearing the news, that the plague that was cursing Daring Heights was finally cured, and the quarantine lifted.   I decided to travel back there (from Port Ffirst), to investigate how much damage the city had taken. I take my horse and do a fast travel through the forest so I can arrive faster there.   On the arrival, I gaze with my eyes, all the pain that was brought to this city...   Even if I try to be compassion, my mind instead pull me to reflect, that even if this is a good opportunity for Port Ffirst to flourish, these can be a double edge sword, since it will bring more eyes to target Port Ffirst.   I should investigate, what happened to Stone Leaf, since those resources could be useful in the future, to create some defences in Port Ffirst.   After strolling around the city, I notice that there isn't much to do, maybe I should try to look for Heret, since he looks like he has eyes for business opportunities around here.  

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Part 1: Underdark   When I was going to approach Heret, I notice that as well both Zig (the crazy pirate cleric?!) and Pieni (a bird like druid creature) are there. After some discussions, Heret offers to everyone, to go with him to a mission to explore a bit more areas that he didn't had a chance to map (looks like he has some skills for cartography, this could be a valuable source of knowledge on the future).   So from what I understood, looks like there is another entrance to the underdark, that is interesting so many questions are raised:

• Are those 2 entrances connected?
• How big is the underdark?
• What resources can be found there?
• How common is Drows down there?
• What monstrosities can be found there, that no overground beings had faced?

  These will be a good opportunity to found more about Kantas...   So when we arrive at the hole, we found a farmer trying to charge us, to go down by using his ladder, but looks like Heret was prepared with a ladder of his own, we go down the hole.   Looks like our party is in a bit blind down there, I'm the only one that can see in the dark...   After some navigation through the underdark, we found some weirds Crystals, Heret doesn't look interested, but even so maybe I should collect these materials, they may be useful as a weapon, maybe an crystal arrow? I should try to thinker with it later...   After travelling for a while, we meet some weird monsters, they look like some mushroom like biped creature, but they don't look aggressive to us, and the rest of the party looks like they recognise them.   They approach us, and they release some spores in the air and then they started communicate with us telepathically. What I can grasp, is that the rest of the party help these creatures to fight against other creatures like themselves. Since I don't have much to participate I start adding them as a new entry on my Monster Slayer journal.   After listening careful of the interaction of the rest of the party and those creatures I found, that they are called Myconid, and even if they interact with them really chill, I personally think that they have another side that they aren't showing...  

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Entry added to the Journal: Species: Myconid Appearance: Mushroom like bipid monster (maybe plant like?), they can communicate telepathically Friend or Foe: Can be both, and even the "friends" one, they should be dealt with caution

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  Then we continue our journey thought the underdark, after a while, and due by previous bad experience with a Drow, I continue cautiously, and then all of us, we notice a small spider thread, after some investigation, we notice it's connected to a bell, and after the trap, the tunnel takes a turn...   So then me and Piet, we stealthily avoid the trap, and move closer to investigate what lies afterwards, we peak around the corner and...   We notice some kinda of underwater lake, a small both and on the other side on top the rocks, we see a black wood forest, and some kinda Drow's lumber mill operation, since they are 50 of them, we decide to go back and let Heret to know what we saw.   Heret decide to go there and see with his own eyes, I don't know what he saw, but after seeing that is too dangerous to approach we decide to go back to Daring Heights.   Since the mission was done, I decide to craft something with those crystal, and looks like I'm lucky, I managed to craft 8 arrows from the crystals that I collect. I don't know how effective they are, but I don't think I can reuse them.  

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Part 2: Travel to StoneLeaf   (I will edit this later)