Session 105 - February 17, 2022 Report
General Summary
1305 - 3rd Moon of Summer (Renlar) 23nd Day
- After binding its wings and several very high animal handling rolls from Merry and Roth, the griffin is brought back to conciseness, given some meat, then put on a lead/leash with its head covered and walked along behind the cart. Roth talks to the rest of the party about taming it instead of the owl bear, but the decision was to try to trade the griffin to the giants for an owl bear.
- Success thinks that is a wonderful idea and is wondering if they can quick track down the one that got away so that she could also trade for an owl bear. She is now every excited about getting an owl bear as well.
- The party continues on into the afternoon, when Olly in raven form sees the 3 hill giants in the foot hill with large rocks. When the train gets closer, Success calls out to the giants, who then throw rocks at the group and wagons. Roth shoots, Merry casts Eldritch Blast, and Ari casts storm sphere. After the giants trying to attack the storm sphere and being reduced in hit points they leave. Success is hopeful they will send someone "more helpful" tomorrow.
- The party rests with the wagons, talking about ways to make the griffin, named Griffin by Merry, relax and sleep. Alethra know chamomile and some teas have relaxing qualities, with small doses of Foxglove, Poppy or Belladonna being able to drug a creature (hopefully). Alethra does not have any of those items on her, so Merry suggests alcohol soaked meat. Roth is happy to oblige and Griffin falls into a drunken sleep.
- In the mid morning the party sees another hill giant approach, whom Success recognized. She sets a fee to escort the party to the stone giant city's front gate, and calls him Zordan. The party follows him the rest of the day, arriving at a large crack in the side of a large cliffside, with a tall entrance revealing a carved interior of columns and worked stone floor, as well as a small guard both, beyond which are the many glowing lights of the stone giant city.
- Once Zordan gets to the entrance, he agrees to wait until the return trip, and sets up in the hills outside the entrance. With evening starting to fall, Success speaks with Clause, a large blue skinned stone giant about 18 ft tall, who allows the party to camp in the foyer cave, with the understanding that trade talks will start the next day.
- Party and rest of caravan long rest, keeping griffin hooded and a watch out just in case. The patrols of stone giant guards make regular patrols to the entrance of the cave and outside it. The party mostly rests, expect Ari who after her watch turns invisible and flies over the guard tower window and looks inside. One guard is carving a small bowl with flowers and the other is reading a book while looking over the entrance at regular intervals. Ari is disappointed that there is not gambling or games, so she flies back.
- Success and Clause spend most of the morning trading goods and working out deals for the items that Success brought overland and that the giants wants to sell. Many textiles are what Success brought, with many items of metal work and stonework being sent back to the human Dukedom.
- After that business is concluded, Success asks Clause about owl bears for sale. Clause seems surprised, but agrees to send up Tufore in the early evening with any owl bears he is interested in selling and they can negotiate with him. The carts and loaded and unloaded. Success thinks they should spend one more night before heading about to the river boat dock.
- Right before dinner Tufore arrives with 4 fully grown, and apparently fully trained owl bears, with little bandanas in red, green, blue and black. Both the party and Success made animal handling checks, with Success not getting over a 10, and the party averaging 17 on the owlbear with the red bandana.
- Success is able to translate the giant, with Roth wearing the helm so he can understand and respond to the questions of the giant. After Tufors determines that owl bears are not for Sucess and the party best fits with "Pounces on things in the dark with wing" or Pounce for short. The party offers a pet trade, letting Tufore have the Griffin as a challenge to train, as well as the gift of a flower opening clockwork. Tufore is delighted with the trade, giving the party a harness, leash and some familiar rations to aid in the transition. All members of the party learn the 6 commands: Sit, Attack, Return, Rest/Stay, Dance and Hold.
- Everyone takes a long rest and gets ready to head out the next day. During a watch Ari lets the owlbear see the displacer kitten. Owlbear does not react in any meaningful way.
- The party is departing the stone giant city with its new owlbear, who is not very happy about having to be up and about during daytime. So, at lunch the party rearranges the wagons so that Pounce can have space to sleep inside a cart during.
- When the sky is fully visible, there is a large cloud in the air which was not there yesterday. There can be seen the vague shape of buildings within the cloud. Merry see it is within 500 ft, so she casts dimension door.
- Merry lands in a giant orchard, with giant apple trees, large flowers and some very soft grass. Down the way is a small fountain where a giant is tending the plants. Merry flags her down, and the giant asks where Merry came from and if she needs help getting down. Merry plays several songs of the FeyWilde for the giant, in the middle of which Olly lands on her shoulder, making sure Merry is ok. After the performance is down the giant introduces her self as BrennaMawr, keeper of the gardens, and offer Merry an apple. Merry then asks for a shirt, but Brenna cannot give her one, and offers 2 square buttons of silver worked filagree edges. Merry is delighted and casts dimension door again, taking Merry and Olly back to ground level.
- Merry is able to catch up to the group, with Zordan leaving late afternoon as the caravan gets to the edge or what Zordan considers giant-held lands. Success gives him a large chest.
- Overland travel, calm with no issues, and owl bear joins all evening watches.
- At dawn Roth is on watch and sees two tigers stalking around the party, and his solution was to shot one with the fire/explosion arrows, causing each to be down to half health, and the noise and fire making them flee.
- The noise woke Sven, who is pleased the party was able to handle the problem without an issue.
- Later in the afternoon the party spots a group of 8 elephants playing in a small watering hole off to the side of the track the party is following.
- Long rest.
- Mid afternoon Olly from the air sees a group of Orc sneaking behind the party, clearly hoping for an ambush to pick off 1 or 2 carts.
- Alethra is made invisible by Roth, who sneaks behind the party to throw a fireball, killing half the orcs. The rest of the party are able to take down the remaining Orcs with arrows and cantrips.
- The main Orc, clearly a leader of some kind had a ring mail shirt, a shield and 23 gold (which the party collected). No one was injured. Sven notes the 4 from the tribe of tails should get a bonus.
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