The Romance of the River Kingdoms

[Shayuri]

"Wait! I think I understand!" Annika blurts, her eyes widening.

"This looks like the door at the shrine near the river, the one that sent us to the spirit world. To get in that door, didn't we write 'river' on the square thing? Maybe writing 'mountain' will work here!"

She glances at the two girls. "But we might want to come back after we take them to see the Vashti."

 

[Theroc]

"But we might want to come back after we take them to see the Vashti."

"If they won't try to kill us on the way... that is." Shakou mutters, wandering back towards the girls slowly, attempting to hide any grudge she still holds against her attacker.

 

[Walking Dad]

AC 15 (T15, FF13), HP 29/39, F +5,R+3,W+6 (Spells: 0:3/5, 1:3/4, 2:2/3)
Ape Form (AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13)

"Maybe the return will be easier after asking them if they want to come with us. And what then? Should they live with the Vashti?" Ape asks.

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Spells (CL: 3, DC: 13+spell level)
5/Day Level 0: Cure Minor Wounds, Detect Magic, Light, Purify Food and Drink, Read Magic
4/Day Level 1: Produce Lightning, Shillelagh, Summon Nature's Ally I.
3/Day Level 2: Summon Nature's Ally II

Baboon Traits:
AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13
Fort: +6
Refl: +5
Will: +6
Move: 40', cimb 40'
Init: +4
Listen/Spot: +9
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[Neurotic]

"If they live here and these are the door to spirit world, maybe it's 'leaking' somehow into this world which would explain the spiders and the girl. She is affected by spiritual energy of the door. Could it be?"

Mystal asks more knowledgeable members of the party. He is reluctant to return especialy with dangerous and volatile girl.

"Maybe we should go to Vashti first, leaving them here. They won't go away from home."

 

[Blackrat]

She is wise enough to find someone who can take care of them. Three Flowers answers to Ape. That is, if they even want to come.

 

[Dr Simon]

Growling Ape tries once more to communicate with the girls, attempting to persuade them to follow the group but they seem reluctant.

"L-let me try," says Whisper and raises his flute to his lips. A haunting, enticing melody echoes around the canyon and the girls seem momentarily entranced by the music. Then the pale girl makes a sort of derisive huffing sound and scurries away across to the other side of the giant spider corpse. Her sibling follows. Winter takes his flute down and shakes his head. "Her w-will is too strong."

Stymied for the moment, the group returns to Cormondal to seekt he advice of the Vashti. You find her walking through the small walled garden of the narvinda reading a couple of letters. She passes them to Three Flowers when you approach.

"It seems your deeds are becoming well known in town," she says. "How did you fare with the goose-killer?"

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Growling Ape: Wild Empathy check 6+3=9.
Winter tries fascinate ability on white girl, but she makes her Will save. For the moment, the feral sisters aren't leaving the valley.

I omitted any attempts to open the door such as Annika's suggestion of inscribing "mountain". Let me know if you want to try retrospectively.

Also: any opinions on using Winter? No sign of Silveryfox, so I can continue to NPC him or he can drop out now that you're back in Cormondal. As a healer, support and source of knowledge he might be useful to have around but the group will manage without him.
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[Theroc]

"It seems your deeds are becoming well known in town, How did you fare with the goose-killer?"

"I'm still sore..." Shakou complained, having shifted back into her human form and collected her gear from Three Flowers before they returned to Cormondal. "Oh, and the killer isn't wolves... I'm pretty certain we determined the culprit... unfortunately... no one speaks the language we need to confirm..."

 

[Blackrat]

Three Flowers takes the letters and casually scans over them as the others talk.

 

[Shayuri]

"We found out what was going on," Annika replies. "There's these two girls that are living out there, with a lot of spiders. They were taking the geese. We wanted to try to convince them to come back with us, but..."

She shrugged. "I'm not sure they really talk at all. It's like they were raised by the spiders or something. One even has claws."

 

[Theroc]

"I'm not sure they really talk at all. It's like they were raised by the spiders or something. One even has claws."

"And a bad attitude..." Shakou grumbles, shrugging slightly as she stretched. She turned to watch Three Flowers while she waited for something new to happen.

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Simon, how much time passed from leaving the spiwerweb-pit thing? Just wondering if Shakou's recovered any of her strength or not yet... since if she hasn't, she's likely going to end up dumping her pack onto Three Flowers again because she feels too weak to carry it...(I forget how much she lost, but she only has 10 strength in her human form, so... she can basically wear her clothes and that's about it.)[/sblock]