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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PieAndDragon" data-source="post: 2675992" data-attributes="member: 18108">As written in the journal of Magga, the female goblin with the partyVoidday, 20th of Eighthmonth, 1532 ERHeaded off early down to Whistlesprings and then followed the Old Blackblade Road, camping just outside Highkeep Forest. Lumumba and Kwaku still aren't with it and Lysander can just manage to stay on his horse. Sure hope there's nothing nasty out there.Airday, 21st of Eighthmonth, 1532 ERPut on our tabards and tried to pretend to be Highkeep guards. 2 siv, 2 salamanders, 2 goblins, a human and half a human. Anyone would believe it! Entered Highkeep Forest and had no problems yet. Road is all overgrown but we can still follow it. Just having lunch at mo.Late AfternoonDay got more interesting after lunch. We met some strange goblin-kin on the road. Lots of facial hair and even dirtier than most of my kind, with yellowish skin. They were all carrying chains like Lumumba's and seemed quite stealthy. Told us thier lady wished to speak with us, a fey creature. So we followed them for a half-hour. Seemed to be waiting for us. Strange.Got to a pretty waterfall, where kenku and these goblin-kin waited on a veiled lady. Spoke to us in Night Tongue while we all sat on rocks and ate some weird food. Said she had sworn an oath on some sword connected to the Blackblade family, and now wouldn't bring harm to Highkeep retainers. Warned us not to go to the ruins of Blackblade, as some powerful night fey there would do us harm. Instead we did a deal, offering a gold brooch and getting a kenku guide to the Monkey God shrine. Seemed good for a night fey. Unusual.Our kenku guide lead us away from the lady, saying nothing all the way. Fireday, 22nd of Eighthmonth, 1532 EROur guide was waiting for us in the morning when we broke camp. Lumumba and Lysander still ill, so keeping them out of trouble. Kwaku seems well again, but just treats his friend and ignores us. Fine by me.Not lucky later today. Deng got attacked by a vine, and while he and Sharanna hacked it up, an owlbear (so Garrett said) tried attacking us. Brought it down between dogs, goblins and the halfling. Found some gold and bits and pieces under the vine. Garrett mentioned that owlbears often live in groups and have cubs, which are worth alot on the market. Decided to track them down and find any cubs. So its the halflings own faut, what happened to him next.Both the siv seemed well enough for a fight, so we got Lukkar's dog to track down the owlbears a short way away. Two came out and we all piled in, though Lumumba took a little time casting a few spells. Garrett was in the thick of the fighting for some reason. He seemed to have some strange technique, jumping all around them. One of the owlbears caught him and ripped his head off, and that'll be the last time he sings for us. We helped slay them both and looked at the halfling's body. Found three cubs inside the lair, which Lukkar knocked out and we put in sacks. Took Garrett's body with us and headed on with our kenku guide, a bit quieter than normal.Earthday, 23rd of Eighthmonth, 1532 ERLead a ceremony for Garrett Underbough, and made a cairn for him. Lukkar said that was how halflings used to bury their kin before the Last Banishing. Couldn't say if he way lying or not. Our kenku guide left us just before we go to the Monkey God shrine. Said it's first words to us. Don't like kenku now, too sneaky for their own good. Saw a couple of apes with greenish arms and backs. Didn't go near them obviously.The Shrine of the Monkey God had a couple of acolytes, including a siv, a human and a 9 ft tall cycuri. Strange race, the cycuri. blessed by Lord Moon, often live under the water and a bad reputation, for good reason probably. This one had large horns and spoke about monkeys. Seemed to welcome Lumumba for his Monkey connections.Couple of us had conversations with the Jamba, the talking ape. Followed the Monkey God and had green arms just like the other apes, 'cept this one talked. Tried to convert me to the Monkey God, but I've got more faith in Danjas and Dainor than that. There was a tense talk between the two siv. Might have involved the talk with Jamba, could have been about some swamp-stuff, no way of knowing.Also a group of humans, Monkey Beastclansmen from the Northlands. They had a shaman among them, Corentyn, son of Breage, who seemed quite with it. Didn't know much about the Seer of the Apes we'd found out about a while back, but knew about Metabus' curse. A rod crafted by the human who ascended as Monkey [different to the Monkey God apparently], with powers to turn others into apes or turn humans bestial. Would be useful to have. Apparently belongs to the Monkey Beastclan and can be used to reverse the curse. Either that or some expensive healing spell. Spent the late afternoon and evening with these people. Picked up bits about the Monkey Mage. Something about the Monkey God in the Forest of the Apes, brought the monkeys, baboons and apes to the forest and some towers built by his acolytes to free him. Doesn't sound like my kind of thing.Waterday, 24th of Eighthmonth, 1532 ERThe cycuri talked to us as we were leaving, away from all the others. Told us about a contest in the Forest of the Apes, to find the next acolyte of the Monkey God. Said to talk to the night fey if we wanted to find out more. No one seemed that interested, can't blame them.Lukkar lead us off northwest, heading towards Highkeep again. Had no problems. Seems my fellow goblin knows the wilds quite well.Endday, 25th of Eighthmonth, 1532 ERAnother bad night so far. Really bad. A night fey, looked like a graceful human or pale reaver, tried to hunt us with big black fey hounds and a bull-man. Really nasty archer and a fight which nearly got us all. Lost the most valued party member anyway. Heard the hounds from way away and all woke up, with Lumumba enchanting himself with battle magics. Lysander was still too unwell to fight, so we hid him with the horse.We didn't run when we told us to flee before his hunt, and he laughed when we said we were under Highkeep protection. Wounded both the salamanders with arrows so they hid on the floor behind Sharanna's tent. Lukkar snuck off and did some flanking action while four Lumumbas charged head long into the pack of hounds. Their howls were unsettling, but we all fought on. Sharanna, Deng, me and Albak moved in to fight alongside the siv, and it all went wrong. Sharanna went down, Kwaku was taken down by another hound, Lukkar had his dog shot from under him and fell to a hound chasing him. Lumumba lost his duplicates and poor Albak, my only real friend, was torn apart by the bull-man, who gored him to pieces. Lumumba was the rock that held us tonight, with me and Deng working as a team. The cowardly archer ran when we took down all but one of his hounds, and the bull-man ran after it's master. One day I'll find them both. And they will pay in blood. NightThe others are all okay, just deciding who to use some healing scrolls on. Got to wait out the rest of the night now. Long way to dawn...End of Session Three</blockquote>

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