The Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter V

[kirinke]

Teleri grins at Dunstand. "Hay, at least you don't have to worry about being hauled off to the local gaol if you get in a brawl out here with the local wildlife. We probably did this guy a favor. Look at the spider bites." she said more seriously, nodding to the carcase.

"If we hadn't have come along, he'd have died a slow, really unpleasant death." she remarked, taking a rag out of her belt-pouch and cleaning her sword judisciously before sliding StormArmor back into her sheath.



ooc:
yay! StormArmor likes Teleri more now!

 

[Velmont]

"Stop complaining, Dunstand. You are not even wounded. And Calenthang is right. There is many bites on the owlbear. If it wasn't of the job the spiders have done on him first, we could have been in more serious trouble. Let's advance."

On that, Sielwoodan put an arrow ready on his string and start to advance.

 

[Manzanita]

Drogo

Drogo sighs. "If raised carefully, I understand that these creatures can be trained to be efficient and trustworthy guards. If they simply grow in the wild, they are viscious killers. This one does not appear to be a mother, so there seems little point in searching for a nest. No. We should be glad we are clearing this path, for this beast would certainly have encountered others eventually.

"So, Therav, did you expect this much trouble on the way to the fair? I suspect you may have gotten a real bargain when you retained our services!"

 

[Majin]

Therav chuckles but still wears a confident expression. "Why of course Drogo, I am quite pleased with your services thus far, and in fact, if you would believe it, the last trip here was quite similar. Although as I stated, there was a manticore that confronted us, not an owlbear, that much at least, is new to me."

 

[kirinke]

"Manticores? Gods, I heard those things were nasty," she turned to the elf they had rescued. "Is this sort of wildlife activity normal?" she asked mildly. "I mean, do the attacks mainly happen on or near the road or all over?"

She looked thoughtful. "If it's mostly happening on or near the road you could be facing something a little bit more organized than simple banditry,"

 

[Velmont]

"I've heard some tales with Manticore. And if half of what that have been told is true, we are still lucky to fall on a weakened Old Owlbear. Now, let's move, and don't talk except when necessary. We don't want to attarct any more beast or vermin. I'll go back foward."

On that, Sielwoodan take some avance, as he was doing before he met the Owlbear.

 

[Verbatim]

As Sielwoodan prepared to move further into the woods, Ayden spoke up quickly.

"A moment before we venture further along the path Sielwoodan."

Slipping the warhammer back into the loop at his waist, Ayden pulled the slender wand of healing from his belt and called upon the power inside of it to heal both Calenthang and himself.

As the wounds closed over, Ayden looked over to the stone monument and wished he had time to study it further. While he was the first to admit that he was no true scholar, following Finder's calling had given him an appreciation of creations of the past, and Ayden wondered why the marker had been placed out in the middle of the forest.

However, as he knew his companions most likely did not share in his desire to study the monument, Ayden turned back to face the scout and nodded that he was ready to leave as well.

 

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang keeps quiet during the discussion of the forest of his former homeland, not wanting to put any of his companions at ill ease with tales of the many demons that wander the ancient woods. He hesitates to allow Ayden to waste the party's resources to heal him, but in the end thanks him all the same.

 

[Majin]

OoC: Healing both up to full depletes four charges total from the wand.

~

Continuing on, the party travels about a mile past the obelisk when you see a simply dressed woman step out from the woods. She waves a greeting to you. A large hood shades her eyes from what sun passes through the canopy of the trees above. From within it strands of her dark red hair escape in wisps and blow lightly at the occasional wind.

"Greetings, fellow fairgoers. My name is Kayris, apprentice to master smith Shoban. I go to meet him at the fair, and I believe we will be safer and better entertained if we travel together," she says with a smile. She eyes Dunstand and throws a quick wink his way as well.

 

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang smirks at the overly-trusting woman when she winks at Dunstand.
Two peas in a pod, no doubt...