Session 101 - Dec 16th, 2021 Report
General Summary
1305 - 2nd Moon of Summer (Korvin) 28th Day
- The whole party gets 7 days worth of dried food (per person) from Judith, which goes into the bag of cold-ing that Olly carries as a food smuggler now. He orders 50 lbs of dried meat, and 50 lb of fresh veggies, with cost 65 gold and he will pick up the morning of the 1st before the party leaves town.
- The party relaxes during the day, then has dinner at the Gold Room, a mushroom tasting with specialty dishes and paired beer. Roth sees Vidala in a private room but is not seen and does not seek her out. The 5 course are Button, Black Trumpet, Ink Cap, Eriski, and Hedge Hog. Veronika pays, seeming to want to keep the party on good terms and keep the illusion mirror in her shop.
- Everyone has a wonderful time and then the party calls it a short evening.
- Gregory arrives mid-morning with a ring of spell storing, and he sits and chats with the party until Tristian arrives to cast the spell. Party eats lunch together, then Gregory receives an invite to the winter party Ari is throwing and runs a few errands and will rejoin the party at dinner. Tristian goes into the garden with spell material components and casts the spell Awaken into the ring. It takes 8 hours. Gregory is told of Roth being a Baron, the new house, as well as the possible Feywilde gate nearby. He is interested in exploring it when others are nearby.
- After the spell is done being cast, all 6 have a large dinner together. Tristian takes on the job of fixing the roads and building the cellar, as well as scouting a tree for transport. He is paid the 200 gold for the work and travel. Roth sends a message to Grandmother Wilson and Sybil about the arrival of Tristian. The are able to reply both with mixed success.
- There is a small cake for Gregory's birthday, and Roth presents him with a Hook Horror claw, and Alethra gives him some specially blended tea.
- Tristian is pleased to hear about the Gold Room dinner and suggests a walk with Alethra when they are both at the manor house to scout herbs as well as a possible dinner at the Gold Room when they are both in town.
- Ari is delighted at this process, and is happy dancing when Tristian asks Alethra for a short hug before his departure.
- Gregory spends the night in the guest room and the party long rests.
- Alethra runs some errands like refilling her herbalist kit (5gold) and picking up a once a day sending stone from Korfel (200 gold).
- Roth goes to visit the temple of the Raven queen and has a chat with Katrina about his being gone, sending a cleric out to the Barony and the marriage ceremonies that he performed. She will be happy to send someone out, and will try to send someone with Tristian when he ventures out in the next week or so. Roth mentions possible wards due to the proximity to the gate to the Feywilde, but Katrina is not sure they are needed yet. Hopefully they will never be needed.
- The party sets sail on the Luxurious Lizard with Captain Sarah Crafter. It is 10 gold for the passage, and she is wary of the chaos energy both teiflings are giving off. Weather is mostly sunny and calm waters.
- That night Merry and Roth long rest in the crows nest. On watch 3 Roth hears a small meow of a kitten and sees a small kitten in the ropes on deck. He and Merry climb down to investigate the sound. They find a small black displacer kitten.
- After 3 successful animal handling checks, it climbs up onto Merry's shoulder and she and Roth return to the crows nest. It is named Soot and Merry calls to "you adorable little eldritch horror". Long rest is completed
- The party is shown the kitten the next morning, trying to be quiet from the crew. Ari and Alethra are enchanted with the kitten and are starting to teach it tricks as well as create a small place for it sleep during the day, as it seems nocturnal.
- During the afternoon a pod of dolphins follows the boat for most of the day. It is very pretty, but most are still playing with Soot.
- At night Roth is on kitten duty and tries to get it to teleport by showing how Olly can pop in and out of existence. Soot is getting better at it and having fun chasing Olly. Olly thinks it is her kitten and has a lot of fun.
- Calm waters, good wind, mostly sunny skies.
- Making good time, but a giant crab gets caught on a line in the water and makes its onto the deck, and all the crew are thinking it is time for crab feast that evening.
- Merry thinks this is clearly a message from Scarlett and ties a little ribbon to it before trying to throw it back into the water. Since she is not very strong, she fails to throw it overboard. Merry then casts polymorph, throws the now regular sized crab overboard and then lets it turn back into a giant carb.
- The crew are disappointed with the lack of crab for dinner and the captain is confused about sending messages via crabs. Roth just informs her that is is a tiefling thing, and suggests a small drink.
- The next day is a good wind, but overcast with slight drizzle.
- Roth sees an odd pattern in the water around 3 pm. After using his spyglass and Olly as a scout, he sees a very long tentacle underwater. He then guesses the size of the creature and the captain diverts the boat in the opposite direction.
- The Jr Kraken approaches and finds that Roth speaks Celestial, and he communicates with the party and the kraken, trying to find some way to avoid a fight. It turns out the kraken is bored and hungry, so Roth gives it two very large steaks, which Ari makes taste like turtle, each one a little further away from the ship. He loses 12 lbs of meat, but the kraken leaves the boat alone. The captain will reimburse Roth for the lost stakes. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief when the Kraken swims away.
- Nothing else of interest happens. Alethra makes tiny water crabs for Soot to pounce on. Party long rests.
- The party has a sunny day, nothing much happens.
- Meteor shower at night which Ari casts dimension door and misty step to encourage Soot to teleport with her. Looks like Soot can teleport about 40-50 ft. But Ari is very happy and works on teaching Soot how to teleport up with mixed results.
- Party arrives in port of Water Haven around 10:30 am, and is ready to unload the cargo and the party will go with the cargo to the giant territory with the caravan.
- Roth tells the captain they are taking something off the ship that needs to not be in town, and Cpt Crafter tells a crewman to take Ari shopping in town to get her what she needs. She picks up a wicker cat carrier and dried fish for 6 gold.
- An elderly gray tabaxi in red and orange outfit comes on board to get the cargo transfer paperwork. She introduces herself as "Success" and is pleased to meet the party. She tells them about the set up and then introduces the head of the guard, Sven, who will be in charge of the security.
- Sven, a human in his early 40's is a fighter with many weapons and takes an inventory of the talents of the tribe of tails, then introduces them to the other 6 members of the security detail. 4 humans, Eloise, Joan, Rolf and Gerhart, and 2 dwarfs, Kilvar and Vondal. All are heavily covered in weapons and seem to have seen a few fights.
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