Hoard Of The Dragon Queen

Kissa rolls onto her back with her legs in the air, sure that if she's needed her new friends will wake her......though she still hasn't worked out what all the skulking and ' Cult' stuff is really about.

(sorry for my absence)

Fargen how far away do you get to cast this? 

Up to 1 mile

Yanda and Nobody, get out of the way just in time, as the water flies, Fargen places his spell effect in the middle of the cultist camp.

He can see the cultist dousing the fire with buckets, and a man in red robes. moving closer to the flames, raising his hands, as if casting a spell.

Curious as was suspicious, Nobody squinted from his new hiding place and tried to see if he recognized the potential spell, or at least the nature of it.

Arcana: 23. 

But regardless of whether he discerns anything of value(or only minor concern), he decides to stick around until things calm down again or it appeared the cultist might broaden their search for the culprit. In the later case, Nobody has Yanda linger in the area to continue spying while he beat a retreat at least hundred feet away to continue spying through Yanda's eyes until his spell neared its end by a minute. Mostly just to watch the red robe figure and commit both their appearance and abilities to memory. After which point the flying monkey was to zip back to camp with Nobody not far behind him. 

Nobody you believe its the cantrip control flames as of course the flames remaining after the bucket brigade instantly go out. 

The man asks loudly "Who's, the idiot that knocked that over!" the other cultist shrug and cower away from him.

Although tempted to try and pen down some information least something slip his mind, Nobody knew it not to be safe. Not yet, at least. And upon weighing a few more pros and cons over the next few seconds, even lingering the area left him ill with concern of greater magics being employed given how paranoid and high alert the cultist seemed to be. So he took only a bit more time to try and commit the man's face and head symbol to memory before changing plans for what felt like the third time looking for Fargen. Then update the dwarf on his findings at a whisper. 

"If it's all the same with you m-my friend. I say we call it an evening here, and pick things up tomorrow. As I-I fear the hornets will be quite upset for a while." He adds just as quietly after double checking and making sure noone else was in earshot at the time. At least noone that wasn't a party member at least. 

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Although tempted to try and pen down some information least something slip his mind, Nobody knew it not to be safe. Not yet, at least. And upon weighing a few more pros and cons over the next few seconds, even lingering the area left him ill with concern of greater magics being employed given how paranoid and high alert the cultist seemed to be. So he took only a bit more time to try and commit the man's face and head symbol to memory before changing plans for what felt like the third time looking for Fargen. Then update the dwarf on his findings at a whisper. 

"If it's all the same with you m-my friend. I say we call it an evening here, and pick things up tomorrow. As I-I fear the hornets will be quite upset for a while." He adds just as quietly after double checking and making sure noone else was in earshot at the time. At least noone that wasn't a party member at least. 

 Nobody makes it back with no problem.

As Fargen concentrate's on his spell he see's the man dressed in red head back to his tent, after the fire was out. A glow of a lamp illuminates the tent, no sound comes from it.

Around the camp the chaos settles down, Fargen notices a wagon, with a chest, partially uncovered. Meanwhile Nobody shows up at your camp.    

(OOC: Gotta love it learning days later a post you dropped never actually went through..)

Upon seeing the parties new Tabaxi friend already taking advantage of a long overdue rest, Nobody looked a bit guilty, and ultimately... 18... couldn't quite bring himself to wake her back up. But if Thufir was at least still up, the tiefling hurried to the dragonborn's side and says once Thufir is alone, "I'm back. And Fargen shouldn't be too far behind.. o-or so imagine.. *ahem*.. A-anyhow. Can't say I did much more than rile them up a bit, so they might be in a bit on edge come the morrow. But I did get sights on their leader at least." Nobody glances over to Kissa. "U-uhm... I could hold off for the morning for all this, or at least to Fargen is back. I-If you think its a better idea." 

(OOC: As a note as well, if not mentioned previously, Nobody made a point on the way back to find a spot out of direct sight of people to drop his invisibility spell on both himself and Yanda before arriving back at camp.)

“Giving them a bit to worry ‘bout is well done,” Thufir says with a smile. “As long as they don’t know who to watch after, a little stress might make ‘em make mistakes. But they’ll be on alert now, so let’s get Fargen back and just try to watch.”

*light snoring*

"Mn. H-honestly I had half-expected for him to have gotten back before me." Nobody said with a soft chuckle to his voice. He then again looks to the Tabaxi, and after a few seconds of hesitation, mentally bid his flying monkey companion Yanda to flutter over and try shaking the Tabaxi awake at the shoulders. Yanda goes the extra step though of hooting practically in her ears to boot, before retreating to the tiefling's side. "Mind staying up for just a bit and k-k-keep'n watch here? W-we're gonna go make sure Fargen didn't r-run into any trouble on his w-walk." The tiefling requested while fidgeting with his tail. 

"I'll keep my eyes open." Thufir says, happy to have any small talk while they wait for Fargen.

Kissa hisses awake fur bristling as he claws slam down on the ground, once she uncurls herself and blinks she relaxes...still scanning for whoever disturbed her...

" Oh, you mob are here.  Any news about your religious friends?"

Fargen uses the remaining minutes of the censor to look at the contents of the chest if possible.  As the spell fades, he heads back to camp and join the others.

"Saw a robed figure, likely someone of more importance among our 'friends' we're following.  There was also a chest.  Suppose our orders are to wait and watch, until we meet our next contact, eh?  Now that I've found someone of more importance, I'll be 'looking in' from time to time to see what more I can learn."

Fargen pulls out the pearl of power and uses it to regain the 3rd level spell slot. 

"W-what? No, I-" Nobody started to say in reply to Thufir before being distracted by Kissa's hissing. "Eheh.. Sorry for the, uhm.. bit rude awakening there. But, u-uhm, no. N-not yet, at least. We sorta got, uh.. I-I'm going out now to try and find'em, actually. But was hoping -- i-if you didn't mind it -- you keeping Thufir company for a bit? J-just in case there's any surprise while I go seek out our missing dwarf." He asks Kissa. 

Once he had her assurances, Nobody spends another minute or two mentally communicating something to Yanda. But by the time he truly readies to depart, he probably doesn't get too far before seeing Fargen approach the camp. At which point it is with a relieved smile that he gathers back around the fire with the others to listen to the report. "I-I saw him as well, and now I'm kinda glad that little f-fire accident occurred. I was also able to confirm that he has at least some spell weaving capabilities. But I.. daren't push my luck. For just as there are spells to cloak one in shadows or render others blind to your presence, so too are there abjurations and divination magics for overcoming such." He explains in a hushed tone, if only just in case his less arcane devoted fellows were up to speed while avoiding drawing the ear of their hopefully by then sleeping clients. "But tomorrow night, I'll... I-I'll  may try again as well. Or perhaps... leave that to you, Kissa? If'n you think you might be up for a little snoop'n? W-with m-my magical assistance, of course."

" Sure....I can be plenty sneaky when I put my mind to it."

So, what is the group doing?

Camping for the night, I assume.  How far are we away from our destination when we’ll get further instructions?