Session 62 - May 28, 2020 Report
General Summary
1305 - 1st Moon of Spring (Duael) 7th Day
- Ari goes to asks Korfel about getting a rapier that has lightning damage as well as normal weapon damage. It will take 3 week, and cost 400 gold. Ari pays a down payment of 200 GP
- Merry goes to the temple of Oghma and donates a couple of gold for Baehra’s battle against the dragon.
- Roth goest to see Korfel, but learns that the item he wants is at a more general store. He buys a cold stone and 2 wks worth of meats for 25 gp. The cold stone goes into Olly's bag of smuggling/snacks.
- Roth researches at the university, learning some fundamentals of illusion magic.
- Merry goes to see Korfel, buys 4 healing potions and gets the discount for mass buying. (185 gold)
- Scarlett goes to see Korfel, buys a mini bag of holding (200 gold) scarlet color. She asks about what she made need for the journey, and already cleansing stone. So Korfel shows her a cloak that transforms color and style, she buys it for 80 gold.
- Roth/Ari head to see Magrmabrew after lunch, as they were both studying in the library, Ari on Dwarven, Roth on illusion magic. Magmabrew mentioned looking for another escort since Baeshra is unavailable, the Trip to Blazenthrone will take 24 - 66 days, she will cover food and shelter on the road, otherwise the boat fare will cover that. She suggests lunch if you are so inclined, as she can not provide that. She is willing to help both Ari and Roth learning/practicing dwarvish along the way. She will pay 1000 gold a person, more if there are additional hazards.
- Ari and Roth meet the owner of the The Opal Moon - Jewlery Store, veronica, who invites them to have dinner to learn dwarven feasting hall etiquette on the following evening (Ari says Merry/Scarlet will join).
- Merry goes to the fae wild, learns that a weeping willow nearby in the Feywilde appears to be a portal as well to the mortal plane. They are not sure where on the mortal plane the willow tree leads, and they do not know of any other portals, especially those outside the Spring area of the Feywilds.
- Merry is disappointing to learn she missed the emissaries of the other courts, returns 1 hour after she departs.
- Party rests for the evening
- Roth does more research at the university about the illusion magic and attaching it permanently.
- Ari meets with Annette, who sent them a request about a job and learns about the job, distance to travel, pay, etc. There is a lumber crew who is getting attacked and light on fire by tress. The merchant guild will pay 300 g a person with a 100 g a person bonus if it is resolved quickly.
- Ari mentions going with Mage Magmabrew to the dwarven city, Annette mentions getting together a list of monster parts underground that she been trying to source.
- Ari confirms dinner plans with Veronika, informs party of dress and cost. It will be a low key dinner with beer tasting for 3 g each, plus the cost of Veronika's dinner at The Gold Room. Ari then goes to learn Dwarvish while drinking.
- Merry gets a book of dwarven songs from Dizzy Monkey Music Shop and learns one, while wearing her glasses, since she is unable to read Dwarven
- Party has dinner at the Gold Room, pays for Veronika's dinner. They learn that Magmabrew is a famous beer, named after a famous clan of brewers, the party assumes that the Mage they are escorting is related to this clan. There are a lot mushrooms in Dwarven cuisine.
- Roth attempts to see Vidalia at the Crocked Quill, she is not available, so he leaves a note.
- Breakfast at the house, discussions about travel and the job that the party took.
- Party heads to University library, speaks with asst. librarian Alva about plants, creatures that could cause the issues in the woods. She mentions possible fungus/moss that may cause hallucination if touched or consumed. There are also similar effects from some mushrooms. She also mentions dryads, which are shy and do not often interact with people, except the occasional romantic interest.
- Party hops on Gertrude, rides all day to get to the lumber camp
- They arrive at the camp, 2-3 am which is all up in arms prepared to defend the camp against whatever huge creature was about to attack.
- Meet Mr Nordin, the camp supervisor and show him the papers from the guild. He suggests that everyone rest and they meet in the morning to come up with a plan. He offers a tent to the party.
- Talk with Nordin the next morning, get food from the mess tent, talk with 'Aaron the Lumberjack' who was attacked by a tree and thinks it may have been a slightly rotting tree he marked (2 ax strokes in a X pattern) to have removed. He was not attacked with fire, that was someone else. Aaron thinks the woods are cursed.
- Ari mentions beautiful women in the tress, who may be interested in the lumber workers, and Aaron seems very interested in this possibility.
- Merry intimidates the lumberjacks into avoiding dryads with a very high roll.
- Roth studies the maps, trying to determine where the tree that attacked was, and sends his familiars up to see the forest from the "map view"
- Ari pulls a goat & owl out of her bag to try and aid in the navigation. Along the way she searches for mushrooms unsuccessfully
- The party finds a sickly tree with a single axe mark, unlike most of the marked tress, which have two marks.
- Ari calls out to a sickly tree with an axe mark, in common, trying to speak to the tree, which the party assumes is where Aaron was attacked.
- A woman steps out of the tree, tall, with bark-like skin in a deep brown, flowing green hair and green eyes. She charms Scarlet and Merry and ordering them to leave in Sylvan and motioning them away.
- Roth speaks with the dryad in Sylvan, and the dryad says she first attacked and she only defending herself from the mortal. Roth tries to explain that the tree looked unhealthy and that the mortal marked it to be taken down and for healthy growth. The dryad was very upset at this, and her eyes started glowing red.
- Ari attempts to cast suggestion on the lady in common (no success).
- Roth converses with the dryad in Sylvan, offers a libation as an apology - and pours out an entire vial of cactus juice around the base of the tree (3 doses). He then leaves the area and hides behind a tree to watch.
- Ari chases after Merry/Scarlett. Ari casts Dispel Magic on Merry, while trying to pursued both of them to stop and see what is going on.
Rewards Granted
4 healing potions
cold stone
cloak of many fashions
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