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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ormazd" data-source="post: 5701738" data-attributes="member: 24334">Now, back to the story:From the journal of Talberon the elf, written by Fi:Fern grabbed the nut after we broke all the mirrors and when we skedaddled from the cavern, our new friends' friend, Merrick, was waiting outside for us. And he's another halfling like me, although he's MUCH smaller! But being around him is pretty exciting because he thinks Jack's a spy (of course it's obvious that I'm not) and there's always a lot of thunder and lightning shooting around. Fern wouldn't let us stick around without Merrick's permission, but I told him that Jack's okay, so now we're traveling together.We warned the next tower and moved on to Gallo's Fend. They were pretty busy there, getting ready for war cuz of the army on the way. I heard that Steppengard and some other nobles' armies were here (clearly that wasn't true) or at least headed here, so we went to go see Duke Gallo. Our new friends are working for him, like Jack and I are working for Simeon, so they had to report their progress: the last tower was taken over, but they handled it and it needs to be remanned. They also showed him a letter about Ragesians thawing the pass and Steppengard letting them through. Gallo told us that Megadon, Namin and Iz have joined Steppengard, and he's leading an army of 10,000. That's not good. he gave our friends a new mission, which is to travel to Dashgoban and Timor and show them the letter to convince them that they need to fight with Gallo NOW and they'd better send troops if they don't want to be taken over by the Ragesians. Jack got him to include us with their group so i guess it's really official now. The best part was that Alain summoned EAGLES TO FLY US AROUND!! It was super cold, but definitely worth it! It seems to cost a lot to do it but eh, who cares about that? From the air, we could see the King's army -- foot soldiers coming up the frozen river and siege engines coming up the road and some flying creatures (no dragons this time) zipping around.Dashgoban turned out to be a dwarf, with a dwarfy castle and we caused a bit of a stir when we landed (uh YEAH, we're riding around on EAGLES). The dwarf didn't want to send his men to war unless he got something out of it (understandable) though Merrick argued heatedly about freedom and fighting to stay out from under the heel of the Ragesians (also understandable). Dashgoban seemed to want a fighting man's opinion though (Merrick is definitely not a blades and brawn kinda guy), and asked Jack what he thought. Good thing Merrick let us stick around, cuz he listened to Jack and agreed to join Gallo. From what we told him, he thinks the King's army will be here in 5 days. He has 3,000 who can leave in the morning, and they'll arrive at Gallo's Fend just ahead of Steppengard. The Army on the road needs to go through the forest. There's a town right by there who has a treaty with the creatures of the Pitchwood (they're called pitchlings, and they're kinda like dryads of trees that produce pitch). We got to fly the eagles some more (which was AWESOME), and talked to a priest of Pelor named Father Albert, as well as their smith and constable. Their entire lot of pitch cost 2,000gp and it turns out that pitchlings like to burn stuff! Fern didn't like the pitch idea cuz then they'd need to harvest more and kill more trees, so we went to talk to the pitchlings about maybe burning up the king’s army themselves. They'd be great against the siege engines and possibly melting the river. Anything to slow them down and give us more time to round up some more troops.We went to talk to the pitchlings, but they only speak elvish -- Talberon would have been great to have with us (another example where elves could be out here doing stuff to help out, btw! You people can’t hide forever.) -- but luckily Alain and Fern could communicate with them. Although they didn't seem to like what they heard, cuz some of them attacked us. We fought pretty hard, but Fern got poisoned so bad that she got petrified! Stupid pitchlings and their poisons. I don't know what we're going to do now. I'm pretty sure there's a way we could soften her up again, but maybe she'd WANT to be like a real tree? stupid pitchlings.</blockquote>

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