D&D 5E (IC) Fitz's Folly

[FitzTheRuke]

Myrral translated that the old woman wanted to suggest that Borde and Ukee be bonded by ritual meal-sharing. She waved a stick (something like sugar-cane) and the monkey jumped up and appeared to want to take it.

Myrral did not entirely understand her intent and he wanted to go find the others so he translated vaguely, telling Borde that she said that it would make the animal a better behaved companion and that Borde would not be so lonely as he was.

Then she shooed Myrral away and took Borde and Ukee out to a coner of the village near the jungle. She stood silently, waiting for Borde to commit while Ukee swatted at her arm to get at the sweet stick.

 

[gargoyleking]

Harb looks up as Myrral comes up and asks about cooking the meet. He pulls his kit out and begins setting it up while the tabaxi confer.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Harb looks up as Myrral comes up and asks about cooking the meet. He pulls his kit out and begins setting it up while the tabaxi confer.

OOC: Cool. But do you participate in the ritual?

 

[Ancalagon]

Rodrigo looked at the proceedings with interest. What this some kind of diplomatic marriage - like situation? "we are strangers, let us make bonds to cement our alliance?"

But no, that couldn't be - the monkey came with the Sticks. So what was that Shaman trying to achieve... Rodrigo's eyes widened. She was trying to bind the Sticks to the land! Make us more than visitors. Huh. Well... it couldn't hurt. Chult was a hard land to fight all the time...

 

[KahlessNestor]

Chult
Morning
Round 0

OOC: Imogen doesn’t need to spend a Hit Die. We had a long rest, so she gets all her HP back without spending the die.

Dellrak cooked some more of the meat for breakfast and got some grease in his beard as he ate. One of the tabaxi women sat next to him and watched him curiously. He eyed her suspiciously, but then offered her a piece of the cooked meat. She ate it and gave him a curious look. Then she licked her hands? paws? and started running them through his beard!

“Wot?!” Dellrak didn’t know what was going on. And then she leaned over to lick his beard clean!

“Bloody ‘ell!” The dwarf jumped up with a start. The tabaxi woman blinked at him, surprised and confused.

OOC: 19 points of goodberries available.

Spoiler: Dellrak Actions

Save:
Move:
Free Object Interaction:
Action:
Bonus Action: Planar Warrior
Reaction: Opportunity Attack
Conditions:
Concentration:
Inspiration:

Spoiler: Mini Stats

Dellrak Character Sheet
Initiative: +1
Perception: +4
Speed: 25
AC: 15
HP: 40/40 HD: 4/4d10+2

Bolts: 19
Bolts used: 0
Arrows: 19
Arrows used:

Detect Portal (1/R): Within 1 mile
Planar Warrior: As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage from the attack. When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
Primeval Awareness (action and spell slot): For one minute per level of spell slot, detect within 1 mile (6 in favored terrain) aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.

Spells
1) 3/3 Protection from Evil/Good (Horizon Walker), Jump, Goodberry, Longstrider

Spoiler: Party

Rodrigo Di Castalone - male human fighter
Miss Imogen - female samurai, party member, Zhentarim
Chrysagon - male aasimar paladin, Order of the Gauntlet, Kelemvor
Harb - male human monk
Qawasha (NPC) - Chultan druid
Kupalue (Weed, NPC) - vegepygmy
Wulf Rygor (NPC) - Half-elf scoutmaster, Camp Vengeance
Tarri (NPC) - cartographer, Camp Vengeance
Kasqa (NPC) - Chultan warrior, Camp Vengeance

 

[Neurotic]

He eyed her suspiciously, but then offered her a piece of the cooked meat. She ate it and gave him a curious look. Then she licked her hands? paws? and started running them through his beard!
“Wot?!” Dellrak didn’t know what was going on. And then she leaned over to lick his beard clean!
“Bloody ‘ell!” The dwarf jumped up with a start. The tabaxi woman blinked at him, surprised and confused.

Myrral grinned and said something in Tabaxi language. The female growled and purred in quick succession with the raising tone at the end.
"You, master Dellrak just showed Spring Waterfall here that you do well the work of females, which is preparing food. She was wondering if you are male or female. You LOOK like capable warrior, you smell like a male and she is confused. And yet, she is also intrigued and curious."

He asks something of the girl and receives a negative, but then a longer combination of gestures and spech.
"Her time is still months away. She wants you to know that - if you return at a later time."

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Without fully understanding what he was getting himself into, Harb accepted the old catwoman's offer. She growled some words and waved the edible stick around. Then she handed it to Harb and instructed him to chew on an end. He did. It tasted sweet and bitter at the same time. She put a dot of coloured mud on his forehead. Ukee jumped up for the stick, and the old woman instructed Harb to give it to the monkey, who took it eagerly and chewed on the same end that Harb had. The old woman put a similar dot of coloured mud on the monkey's forehead.

This all seemed unexceptional to Harb until he suddenly became very dizzy. Was the sweet stick poisonous? He stepped back, worried that he had been tricked, and there seemed to be no ground behind him. He fell, and the sky swarmed above him. Ukee jumped on his chest, and she looked at him with her little monkey face scrunched up in concern.

An hour later, Harb awoke, lying on a soft patch of moss with a sleeping winged monkey in his arms. She awoke when he moved and he realised that he could sense her thoughts. He stood up and Ukee climbed up on his shoulder. The old woman was there, smiling with sharp teeth, and she gave him three smaller versions of the sweet sticks, saying, "Ssshee no die ifff you live. Ccchew sstick, ffeeed herrrr, she willl heall frrrrom dead."

For a moment, Harb thought that he might still be poisoned. His vision was all wrong. Then he realised that he was looking at the old woman from the eyes of the monkey on his shoulder, and not from his own eyes. She leapt off and flew into the air, and Harb could see the Tabaxi village from high in the sky. He called her back, in his mind, and she swooped back down to his shoulder. Without thinking about it, he willed his vision to return to his own head.

And it did.

 

[gargoyleking]

Harb stared at the woman for some time. It didn't particularly make sense to him yet, but he nodded his slow understanding. The bringing her back from the dead part seemed alien to him, as he'd spent so long studying the simple act of dying. And the permanence that should entail. But at the same time, he felt the sudden need to protect this bond and knew the usefulness of having such a bond. He took the three sticks and carefully placed them into his pack.

"I.. 'WE'... thank you."

 

[Neurotic]

"I.. 'WE'... thank you."

"WE...are...VENOM!!"

 

[KahlessNestor]

Chult
Morning
Round 0

OOC: Heh. I was thinking more like cats cleaning each other, but this works!

Dellrak blinked with surprise at Myrral’s explanation. “I...tha’...” The dwarf found himself speechless, eying Spring Waterfall. Well, if you liked fur… He supposed it wasn’t much different than some of the righteous beards dwarven women grew. “I mean, I’m flattered. Been oot on me own enough ‘ad t’ learn t’ cook.”

OOC: 19 points of goodberries available.

Spoiler: Dellrak Actions

Save:
Move:
Free Object Interaction:
Action:
Bonus Action: Planar Warrior
Reaction: Opportunity Attack
Conditions:
Concentration:
Inspiration:

Spoiler: Mini Stats

Dellrak Character Sheet
Initiative: +1
Perception: +4
Speed: 25
AC: 15
HP: 40/40 HD: 4/4d10+2

Bolts: 19
Bolts used: 0
Arrows: 19
Arrows used:

Detect Portal (1/R): Within 1 mile
Planar Warrior: As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage from the attack. When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
Primeval Awareness (action and spell slot): For one minute per level of spell slot, detect within 1 mile (6 in favored terrain) aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.

Spells
1) 3/3 Protection from Evil/Good (Horizon Walker), Jump, Goodberry, Longstrider

Spoiler: Party

Rodrigo Di Castalone - male human fighter
Miss Imogen - female samurai, party member, Zhentarim
Chrysagon - male aasimar paladin, Order of the Gauntlet, Kelemvor
Harb - male human monk
Qawasha (NPC) - Chultan druid
Kupalue (Weed, NPC) - vegepygmy
Wulf Rygor (NPC) - Half-elf scoutmaster, Camp Vengeance
Tarri (NPC) - cartographer, Camp Vengeance
Kasqa (NPC) - Chultan warrior, Camp Vengeance