Session 112 - May 19th 2022 Report
General Summary
1306 - 1st Moon of Spring - Lafali (1st Day)
- Korfel arrives at breakfast, having received a note in the mail from a peer who works field of potions making, Otto (the cousin who Ari sent a message to). He is concerned about why the group and/or Ari is looking for a love potion. After explaining why he was not at the party and the potions that were added to people's drinks, Korfel will speak to the potion teacher at the university, but not much beyond that.
- Roth, Ari, and Alethra each pay for 3 months of housekeeping (Spring, Summer and Fall all paid).
- Roth presents Judith with a present for New Years. She has a platter that will magically make her 1 meal a day, with 20 choices. She is beyond delighted, and hugs everyone. She is in a tizzy, unable to sit still, and dances about the dining room and back into the kitchen.
- Roth explains to the group that he needs a week to complete the mini-mansion with Magmabrew before the party goes out on any exploration and adventures.
- The group then has a chat about possibly going to visit the sphinx with the second platter that Roth made, as well as taking a moment to think about going to visit the group of owls they found on the way to the dwarven city.
- Alethra spends the week in the townhome waiting for the mini-mansion to be finished and she works most of the time on the puzzle book, and thinking about she can talk to the sphinx and if she would like to try the trivial which is offered with a magical reward.
- Ari spends the week in the library researching familiars and options for what the owls in the grove could possibly be. She finds notes on a druid grove, as well as the very low chances of having two familiars, much less 30 or so. There is no way 1 person has all these familiars. They may also be a magical construct of some kind, but those are not very common.
- Ari starts thinking about how to get the access to the magical circle in the Elvish capital, and how much of a donation it would take.
- Roth spends the week working overtime with Magmabrew to finish the mansion. It costs 13,000 gold for the final payment and it is done on the 6th.
- On the 6th, Magmabrew is invited over for dinner to celebrate the completion of the mini-mansion. There is beer from Roth's brewery and a tour of the new home, which Judith also takes part in. Everyone is impressed with the hot spring baths and the giant bed for Beartrum.
- The party gets ready to go out to the Barony to pick up Beartrum and Soot, then go explore a bit around the owls.
- Ari stops by the adventures guild and checks for any jobs in the area near where they are going to be heading. The only job which seems to be in that general area is a quest to pick up 10 full bloom pure white hellebore flowers. Ari knows the flowers are in from this area and tend to grow in areas of higher elevation.
- After a 3 hours flight on boots and brooms, the party arrives in the Barony, chat a bit with Sybil about animal management and teach Beartrum the best creatures to hunt. The party then go to wake up the nocturnal creatures. Soot then teleports to Ari for scritches (Roth provides via mage hand), and Beartrum get tummy rubs from Alethrea before learning of the journey, and packing the dark black and green cloaks, as well as his fancy hat of disguise in Alethra's bag of holding.
- The party goes outside and takes 10 mins while Roth casts Rary's Telepathic bond, connecting Roth, Ari, Alethra, Beartrum, Olly, Soot, and Branwen.
- While casting Ari tells Alethra about the quest to find the flowers. Alethra knows they grow at a fairly high elevation and are commonly white, pink, blue, or yellow, and some other variants in different shades.
- After the spell is cast, the party enjoys communicating with Olly and Beartrum, and is very happy that Soot is now about to reach out, even if most of her communication is images and feelings. The spell does not seem to work on Branwen, who comes out of the cloak to say hello, then hops back in. Soot is able to tell the party her feelings and preference for salmon, and Beartrum is delighted he can now "chat" with his den-mate.
- Olly is also very excited to be able to chat with everyone at the same time, and Alethra tests out her ability to communicate to everyone while speaking any language. Roth then explains travel via teleport to Olly, Soot, and Beatru, and Ari casts teleport.
- The 1st teleport is a failure (18 points force damage) and the entire group lands in a clearing. Olly goes poof and poor Soot is unconscious. Ari heals Soot and then she and Alethra take a look around the clearing. Roth then takes an hour and 10 mins to resummon Olly and recast Rary's Telepathic Bond.
- While Roth is casting, Ari flies up to take a review of where they are, as she is pretty sure they are not in the correct place. She determines they are in the Wood Elf part of the Elvish kingdom, and unlikely to meet anyone, as this region is not very densely populated, but the elves do often travel around, so still a small chance. The party is about 60 days by foot from where they had hoped to be.
- Ari finds a small stone from this clearing which she picks up. Beartrum is on guard with Roth until Olly is resummoned. Roth engraves the name of the clearing on the stone. Alethra then takes a wander around, and finds some very interesting moss samples, but nothing of any herbal note.
- Roth and Beartrum take a walk around and try to find something to eat or see. Roth with a 38 sees a small rabbit with tiny little antlers like a deer. With a chill touch, he kills it and puts it into the bag of holding.
- Back at camp, Ari recognizes it as a very rare creature, a jackalope. She has only every heard of them. Beartrum wonders if it tastes like normal rabbit. Ari and Roth message Judith to learn what she can about cooking this very rare creature. She will research and get back to the party. Roth suggests getting it stuffed and keeping it at the Barony.
- The party spends the night in the house on a long rest.
- The next morning, Olly goes to pet-space and Soot goes in the back of holding for a short time while Ari casts the teleport spell. After 2 mishaps, 20 and then 18 force damage. Ari rolls a 100 and the whole group arrives safely in the correct clearing. Soot is taken from the odd place of no-weight and darkness, and Olly returns.
- Olly goes to scout, finding the clearing with the owls, but not getting too close. She waits for the party, invisible, about 100 ft from the clearing. The party then sneaks up to that area, with Beartrum being very good at being quiet in the woods.
- Ari flies up to look at 1 of the owls, noticing that the clearing is very quiet, and there do not seem to be any bugs or small creatures. Ari touches an owl, whose faces turns towards her. She learns this is a magical construct and it is used as a divination/scrying point, where someone watching can see through the owls eyes into the clearing, and likely hear as well.
- Soot then sends an image of hunting owls in the woods in the dark to the group, so Roth distracts with mage hand tickles. Olly is still a little creeped out, so she stays with Roth.
- Ari thinks it may be a druid grove, or some magical research facility for unicorn viewing. She cannot find any hoof prints, and is still unsure, but thinks a call to Tristin and Arannis are in order now.
- Alethra sends to Tristian, who thinks it is odd, but cannot rule out a druid grove of some kind, advises that it is weird, but not does not seem dangerous.
- Roth contacts Arannis, who is unsure, but would be happy to investigate with the party. Roth and Ari both pick up items from around the area so that a teleport spell is less dangerous the next time.
- Since it is only mid-morning, the party has Beartrum put on a hat and look like a horse before casting the teleport circle spell and heading back home.
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