NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1127081" data-attributes="member: 4441">*As you roll deeper into the swamp in the early afternoon, the smell finally stops growing worse... or perhaps your noses are becoming numb.  Hisk seems torn between enjoying the swamp atmosphere and being nervously afraid.  However, as the day goes on, he seems to be wincing, and as night starts to fall, he's clenching his jaw tightly with every bump of the cart.**You must stop for the night, at a place marked on the map.  There is a relatively dry and firm road through the swamp, as well as some bits of dry land used for campsites.  Finding firewood is a trial, and those searching will get muddy (and if not using insect repellant, bitten, except for Gaoi, who seems to have a small tornado of insects whipping around him).**If asked about his seeming discomfort, Hisk will reply, "It isss the curssse that keepsss me from the ssswamp.  It alwaysss comesss in pain and nightmaresss, but it ssseemsss lessss than it wasss before.  Your presence mussst be helping."  He will also offer to take the middle watch.**[OOC:  Semi-arbitrarily assigning watches, hopefully to not interfere with any spellcaster's sleep/rest/meditation schedule.]  Eleixia and Syrrian have the first watch, Rokelsh, Noddy, and Hisk have the second, and Gaoi and Damien have the third.  During the wee hours of the morning (during third watch) both the wizard and the priest hear something splashing off to the side of the camp.  Thusly they are not surpised as a strange creature runs into camp and tries to swipe at Damien's legs, missing terribly.**It is very small, knee high to Damien's knee, and seems to be a very slimy, somewhat humanoid-shaped plant, with a bunch of green leaves where the head should be.  However, it is obviously quite aggresive.  Gaoi is startled as another one that neither had heard tries to swipe at him, also missing.  Gaoi recognizes the creature as [spoiler]a mandragora, a mobile carnivorous plant with a fondness for humanoid, and particularly human flesh.  They can burrow very quickly, and their slimy covering protects them from all but the hottest fires.[/spoiler]*[OOC:  Terrible attack rolls for the monsters!  A 2 and a 5...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Ok, and only Gaoi can highlight the words after "Gaoi recognizes the creature as...".  I'm using the spoiler tags, and Gaoi is the only one awake with Knowledge (monsters) who made his roll.  If you don't have it, you only know what Gaoi tells you.]</blockquote>

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