Session 103 - Jan 20th, 2022 Report
General Summary
1305 - 3rd Moon of Summer (Ruanes) 14th Day
- After the battle was complete and the frogs were being taken to the kitchen, Sven joins the party on the top deck. He checks to make sure they were all not too severely injured after the battle and let them know how impressed he was with their skill. He then went over the rough battle plan for guarding the wagons and how they target creatures and try to keep them at a distance.
- When Sven is done speaking with the party, he leaves and the group decide to bring in Success on the real reason they are on this mission, getting an owlbear.
- When Success comes up the party to congratulate them, and saying how excited they are for frog legs for dinner. Roth and Ari lead the conversation about how they heard of a person called "The Tamer" and they should "speak to the Cloud" in giant territory. Success is confused, as she has not heard of the tamer, and the only giant she knows with a similar sounding name is Clause. She is not very interested in getting her own trained owl bear, and is very excited about a new trade option. She is unsure of how to go about finding this tamer, but she is willing to go with the party to find out, or possibly try to get up the cloud giant city to find one. She really wants to go to the cloud giant city. Roth rolled insight and she seemed to be truthful.
- The first day starts very early with a load out of the boats starting around 4 am, and the carts being ready to go around 9 am. The party journeys without a path through tall grassland for the entire day. The wagons are circled and the draft horses are left to graze/eat in the middle. The group sleep in small groups of 4 at the 4 cardinal directions of the ring of carts. Those on patrol walk around the circle to guard against trouble. Overall a quiet night.
- The party is underway and in the 1st hour on the road, Roth and Ari see three specks on the horizon flying towards the 6 carts and their guards.
- After conferring with Sven and Olly, Roth looks through the spyglass and confirms 3 chimera, who have 3 heads each. They are flying in. The guards stay two at the back and 5 in front with the party, all having their heavy crossbows at the ready. Roth is in a bubble of darkness and Merry casts her mini fire meteors.
- The shots taken by the crossbows do not have great luck, but Ari is able to dimension door to them, taking Alethra with her, who immediately hits two of them in a fireball. Since they are both being held up by Ari's flying boots, there is some attempt to ride the Chimera and after a few more shots from Roth and attacks from Ari/Alethra, two flee. The one Ari/Alethra are riding does try to knock the two off her back, 1st Ari and then a round later Alethra. That chimera dies from a round of attacks. Roth is then tracking a 2nd chimera he has filled full of arrows he wants returned. They let the 3rd chimera, who looks very injured, escape.
- The party then takes two hours to butcher the two fallen chimeras for meat and parts. Roth take 3 heads and 4 paws for the bag of colding, as well as 150 lbs of meat for consumption later on the trail.
- Sven is very impressed with the skill they showed, he also is impressed with the storage capacity of the party. He makes sure no one is too injured and the carts and escorts continue on their way.
- The party made the way, about 2 pm Ari and Roth feel the ground start to slightly tremble, with Olly seeing big horned creatures. Sven thinks it is either elephants or rhinos, and they are heading from the west towards the party.
- Ari casts programmed illusion so that when the rhinos get close all they see is a big rock where the carts are, and hopefully they will go around. Ari then turns Vondal, one of the dwarf guards into a woolly mammoth. After a volley of arrows from the guards and the party, 1 rhino is dead, 1 is heavy wounded and the other 3 see a charging Woolly Mammoth, and quickly change course away from the carts.
- The Wolly Mammoth is then convinced to forge a path through the high grasses for an hour until Vondal returns to dwarf form. The experience was quite fun for him, and he is not opposed to try it again.
- Make camp and long rest with no issues.
- 5 calm days as the carts and escorts continue across the grassland. Roth re-summoned Olly as imp/raven, works on Infernal for 5 days. For 1 hour Ari was a rainbow Woolly Mammoth, Alethra works on giant with Success and Milla for those 5 days, Merry made friends with the dwarves and learned some dwarven drinking songs.
- Very early in the morning, in the light of dawn during last watch Roth hears something in the grasses, likely several somethings. He has Olly investigate while he wakes up Sven and uses mage hand to wake up Ari, Alethra and Merry. Olly and Ari (who flies up) sees 4 Manticores in the tall grasses slowly stalking towards where camp was made.
- Ari casts a steel wind strike spell, and Alethra uses the staff of fireball, while Merry uses Eldritch Blast and Roth shoots an arrow. 1 Manticore is killed and the other 3 quickly flee. Sven takes on shot it the most injured one as they 3 flee, but it is not taken down. Success them wanders over and checks on the noise. She does not seem worried, as she has "wonderful security guards." She does take two tail spikes but no meat. Since the 3 were injured and left, she does not want to go after them, saying they will stay away now that they know the carts are not to be a problem anymore.
- Breakfast is had and the carts head out for the day.
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