The Valley of Ends

"Where I come from,  I wouldn't have survived for long without my friends. I hope they're doing alright..."

Salus shrugged, “I met her same time you did, though she did kinda run off on her own during the start of that fight the other night. I think if she’d wanted help, she’d have asked for it.“

"We cannot hold her hand all the time." Gotch says with a shake of his bald head.  "She has the right to choose her own way, and it seems that is not the same way as us."  He moves to the table and sits down, ordering some food from the serving person.  "Anyone need any help with any of their work?" He asks as he looks to the group around him.  "I haven't had any luck finding even pets in this town for sale.  Can you imagine it, a town that doesn't sell mounts or pets?"  He shrugs.  "Seems most people travel here, then never leave, and never have issues with mounts on the way and need to purchase another here."  He shrugs, as if brushing off a fly.  "I seem to have some free time, as I have no new spells to learn, and have my own spells studied sufficiently."

Salys speaks up, ”Perhaps you could help thise craftsmen I hired on that necklace while I work with Onyx here on the quiver. Speed both projects along so we can go look for your mount. Though, perhaps one day I could show you how to make one like mine.”

"If you think I could aid them in that work..." Gotch says with a frown.  'I am not overly good at crafting things you see, more in researching them, and conjuring..."

(Gotch has no tool profs...)

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"If you think I could aid them in that work..." Gotch says with a frown.  'I am not overly good at crafting things you see, more in researching them, and conjuring..."

 

(Gotch has no tool profs...)

 

 (I assumed proficiency in arcana would help with the enchanting process. Could be wrong.)

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"If you think I could aid them in that work..." Gotch says with a frown.  'I am not overly good at crafting things you see, more in researching them, and conjuring..."

 

(Gotch has no tool profs...)

 

 (I assumed proficiency in arcana would help with the enchanting process. Could be wrong.)

 (Might be, if so Gotch will definitely give a hand if it is allowed...)

Fingolin orders some food, too. "I'm free until the evening when I'll try to hold another show. I was thinking about going around the city to see what kind of damage the attack has done. I don't know if the city higher-ups will help everyone with their repairs... there might be poor people who need extra pairs of arms."

Leather working proficiency needed to assist Onyx. The jeweler will refuse outside assistance for a commissioned job. 

Fingolin spends his day helping out the rebuilding and nights putting shows on. He finds surprisingly the reconstruct seems to be going pretty quick. The poor houses seems to shaped out of stone and as seen before, the city seem to employ quite a few stone shapers. Asking around, Fingolin will many praising their city's leader prepared nature through in same breath, speaks of how much of a tyrant he is.

DM SUggestion: Gotch could create some spell scrolls, can post how to if needed  

"Salys, maybe you know a spell or two that Gotch doesn't and that he would like to learn? He could expend his spellbook while we wait." 

Salys can't directly teach spells to Gotch. Artifcers don't use spellbooks so best he can do is inscribe his spells that a wizard could learn onto spell scrolls which Gotch can use to incrsible to his book. 

Resfaen reads the note from Elyria, shakes her head in disappointment, then thinks about going after her, as there is always safety in numbers. But then she would be breaking her word with the rest of the group about offering them her protection and help. She lets out sigh of despair and then whispers a short prayer for her safe travels and return.

Seeing the rest of the group sitting down at a table she signals for some food and drink to be brought over and joins in on the conversation. "I agree that we should stay in town for a bit to get the items we have commissioned done. I will offer what skills I have," then she chuckles, "which unfortunately I am not that great with my hands, unless it is wielding a weapon. However I will lend any magic you may need for the construction of the items. I also plan on going to the barracks and talking with the ones who run the standing army here and offer my services and see what I can do to help plan there defenses. I was intrigued by those Dark Clerks and will seek them out to see if they can offer any assistance in my training and dealing with the undead abominations."

 I also use wild shape to turn into the CR 1/2 Warhorse... doubling my walking speed for 2 hours.

Resfaen find sthe barracks and ask about and tries to offer advice on defenses but find most of it it, they will nodd mention they'll pass it but she can see they're mostly humoring her. Resfaen comes across dark clerks or rather she asked around and they found her. After a short discussion, Resfaen finds only a bit of crossover in skills and magics. They're mix of cleric, rogues and wizards. 

The city itself seems to more than able to fix itself and while finds the assistance useful, it's not as needed as one may think but it's up to party to figure out.

Possible Downtime Activities: (can devote 10 days to next. if can't decide just bank it)

Picking up the necklace from the artisan who had it enchanted into a magic item form with a full 9 charges. (total cost was 350, 200 for base materials beside monster part, 60 for jewler work and 90 for spell work) Stone of Good Luck is on sale at the shop for 600g.

Blackboard

The remaining party sees no sign of Elyria and i guess depart toward the Legion controlled Eastcliffe city. The trek takes 7 days across the planes of Cardinals, hills and first signs of the Seat of Forest which the players walks along until they come to the city of Eastclifee, which doesn't actually sit anywhere near a cliff.

For older members, the city is similar to Caelfalls through this seems to have Lathander as it's major goddess. There are temples to other gods in the city but the large temple is deciated to Lathander. Following directions for the contract, they're send to the town's hall to talk to the minister of defence.

A halfing opens the door to the office and usher everyone into seats before hopping onto the desk's seat.

"You're here about our ghost problems I hear. I'll be quick and to the point, something's attracting these spirits or ghosts to the part of the Sea of Forest near us. After what happened to Cardinal, we're worried it may be a prologue to an attack so we have upped the reward for swifter response which I dont think you got and I dont like to cheat people. The reward has been upped to 400gp and as well as the gemstones," She reaches into a drawer and pulls out what looks like a local map and points where the tree line starts, "This is most common area for spirit sightings. Look for the Rock Spike," She points to a rock formation on the map near by.

"We spent some guards out to investigate with less than great results. We lost the bodies, if you can find and return them or at least their bodies, there's a bonus for you,"

Salys picks up the necklace and thanks the craftsmen, paying the balance of the fee. Upon rejoining the others, he'll seek out Fingolin, "I noticed in the last fight that you didn't seem to have very much in the way of offensive capabilities, perhaps this will help with that." And he'll hand over the necklace.

When they arrive at their destination and hear the information, "Do you know if the guards sent were headed to the Rock Spike or had reached there and moved on? Also, anything you can tell us about the spirits or ghosts themselves? Do they appear to be ghosts of locals, people that are recognized or foreigners, gnomes or dwarves or humans, anything you can tell us could help."

"Rock Spike is a landmark of sorts outside the forest we uses to navigate while in the forest, where compasses may not work,"

"The Spirits are too vague in appearance to find if they were locals or something else. From reports, the spirits are faint in appearance and non communicative but hostile. Some look almost humanoid, some looks like something else but it's hard to tell as they seem more wispy than solid,"

Fingolin spends his downtime performing at different locales in the city, trying to become better known as a performer. He's aiming for at least two shows a day, with a short rest in between to make sure he's giving it his best. He spices them up with his fey magic of course (Enthralling Performance), to make sure some of those who look like they can afford it tip well and spread the word.

((let me know if I should roll anything))

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Salys picks up the necklace and thanks the craftsmen, paying the balance of the fee. Upon rejoining the others, he'll seek out Fingolin, "I noticed in the last fight that you didn't seem to have very much in the way of offensive capabilities, perhaps this will help with that." And he'll hand over the necklace.

 Fingolin is taken by surprise. He says wide-eyed: "I thought you were having this made for yourself. It's true I don't contribute much in the offence, but I'm used to filling a support role, to enable the rest of you to fight at your best. I'm not sure I would know when to use this... I'd love to try it, of course, but isn't Gotch more suited for this?"

Before departing, Fingolin buys the Stone of Good Luck from the Ratman.

Fingolin give me 2 Performance check to determine average of your preformance for the 10 odd days