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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3276758" data-attributes="member: 30035">Letter #7Dearest brother;I'm sorry I haven't kept up with my letters. I suppose that won't matter to you as you'll receive them all at once. As I was telling you in my last letter, we'd met Gerris and Feabie after rescuing them from some orcs and gnolls, and they'd joined us for the remainder of the trip to Flameflower. Our little adventuring party seems to draw trouble the way flowers draw bees. I suppose that's just part of being an adventurer.I don't recall now what attracted our attention, but we were drawn off the road again by some distraction and discovered that a unicorn had fallen into a pit trip, presumably one built to catch the oktobear. The unicorn was being looked after by a fey of the sort some people call elflings, though I don't think they are much like our kindred. This elfling took us for hunters and tried to drive us off. It took quite a lot of convincing to persuade him that we wanted to help. Eventually we managed to lift the unicorn out of the pit with ropes, and the elfling and its companion went on their way none the worse for their experience.But it wasn't long before we met them again. The elfling stumbled on another group of travelers and began threatening them, again assuming they were hunting the oktobear. This time the elfling had summoned a band of hybsils to his side and they were menacing the travelers with their bows.It was a good deal more difficult to convince the elfling that these people weren't hunters than it had been to assure him of our good intentions. We had at last managed to allay his suspicions when Gerris exclaimed that there were orcs in the area. A large band of well-armed orcs emerged from among the trees, and I noticed an orog among them. Orcs are bad enough, but those hybrids are an abomination of nature. We had quite a drawn-out fight with them. Ninad was badly wounded, and I suffered more than a few injuries myself. But with some assistance from the hybsils we were victorious.After that experience, getting into Flameflower was relaxing. After saying our farewells to Gerris and Feabie, we rested for a few days, and received a message from Ashleigh that the fey folk had hidden the oktobear away where it would never be found by the hunters. But of course there was no way to let the hunters know this, so Thor and I decided we should continue traveling through the forest and notify every hunting party we met that the hunt was over. We began by heading toward Quaalsten. We'd learned that Gerris and Feabie's final destination wasn't actually Flameflower. Feabie's family lived in Quaalsten. We thought that once we arrived we would look in on her again. And of course I hoped to be reunited with you.On our arrival in Quaalsten we found our way to the home of Feabie's father, Meridus, with the help of a caravan guard named Illtud who'd been working for Meridus. Meridus was delighted to meet us and very appreciative of what we'd done for his daughter. Feabie was also happy to see us again. Her family treated us to a fine meal and Meridus awarded us each a Quaal's feather token.During our meal we learned that Meridus was sending a caravan toward the town of Crossford near the mountain pass to Perenland. He needed guards to accompany the caravan. There were rumors of disease in that area and he was having some difficulty finding anyone to take the trip. Thor, who'd been feeling restless lately, piped up that he'd be willing to go. The twins and I decided we might as well go with him, having nothing pressing to draw us back to Highfolk. Illtud came along too.Meridus agreed to pay us each 2,000 silver pieces for our efforts. I've never had so much money in my life as I have now. I decided investing some of it in a better suit of armor would be wise if I intended to keep traveling. I stopped by the ranger's lodge to look for you, but was told that you'd left a week earlier. I also asked after Gerris, but he wasn't available either. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to see you. I hope you'll find these letter entertaining. I'll write you again soon.Your sister, Lothiriel__________________This is about the point at which I started recording some of the more amusing remarks made by my fellow players.patv: "What are you going to do to prepare for the next leg of the trip?"Zora: "I'm leveling up to 12th level!" (The PCs were about 3rd level at this time)   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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