Savage Harvest- adventure thread

Luke stands near where Sasha emerged after pulling himself up from the shallow muddy water and offers her a hand up. "Are you ok Sash?" 

Finally coming up with her head above the surface, Sasha looks with surprise at her friends gathered by and in the pond. "Oh my, didn't know you were all so interested in seeing me taking a bath all of a sudden." She says with a smile and a wink. "I thought I'd get dressed now." She says starting to get out of the pond, quickly glancing at the wand she brought up as she does that. "Oh, and I found this wand down there." She says, waving it around a bit as she walks over to her clothes.

Sasha looks at the wand she has found and realizes it is a little bit longer than she first supposed. It is actually more of a rod than a wand. Looking closely at the detailing is seems like it is made of bone, with intricately carved lines that seem like muscle tissue. On bot h ends of the rod an eyeball is carved, being grasped by a skeletal hand of iron.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/11214-rod-of-the-pact-keeper this is the uncommon version of this item.

Luke watches Sasha ignore his question and stroll by his outstretched hand as if nothing had just happened. He looks around at the others as he stands there muddied and cold in his underwear. "Well then....I guess I will go warm up and get dressed...."

Oblivious to this all, William start singing softly.

Isolated from the outside
Clouds have taken all the light

Birds falling down the rooftops
Out of the sky like raindrops

A place without fear with no moonlight
All I need are trees and flowers and some sunlight

Birds falling down the rooftops
Out of the sky like raindrops

That's why
I don't fly

Loran throws his hands up and returns to his sheep. "Atleast she's alright...!?" Returning to his stuff and deciding on distracting himself for now, Loran takes this chance to practice with his swords, picking a random spot away from the others in the field and slashing and stabbing at midair as he sees fit. His motions are uncoordinated as he tries to get a feel for them, trying one handed and 2 handed swings seemingly at random. None of them particularly impressive.

Luke heads back to Brownie, dries off, and gets dressed before heading over to Will "Man I shoulda just sat with you. I am cold and wet and for what....Oh sorry, you're over here relaxing and stuff. That's a good idea. I'll kick back too and try to warm up"

Realizing Luke is standing in his skivvies Sasha's smile widens. "Wait, you weren't here to swim were you? You were coming in to save me Luke? That was really brave and sweet of you." She says and smiles warmly at him, about to give him a hug, but realizing getting dressed first would be a good idea. "Sweet of you too my friends." She says smiling to Gerty and Aaron, then starting to wring the water out of her long dark hair before getting dressed again. "You wouldn't have to worry though, I just swam down to renew my pact with the archfey that granted me my fey wand."

Luke smiles "Yeh we were worried...you disappeared in shallow water....I am just glad you are ok"

"Shallow water, no, I just dove down into the deep part of pond for a while." Sorsha says with a shrug as she is getting dressed again. "It was really deep actually, and there was remnants of some ancient collapsed buildings down there, you should take a look at it, better than the history in any book you'll find Luke." She says with a soft giggle.

"Sasha - we checked for a deep part, there ain't nothing there. Ankle deep all the way through. It's like you went through the ground or something." He shakes his head, in a bit of disbelief. He sits on the shore of the water, breaking parts off a stick and throwing it into the water mindlessly. "These items y'all have gotten have some strange magic around them. Makes me a little uncomfortable, if I'm being honest. I just hope we aren't being played a fool by some greater power, demons or devils or something." 

Luke looks at her weirdly for a moment before hearing Aaron raise the issue of the water and magical items "Ancient ruins, magical wand....wow where did you go? You're right, I need to experience these things first hand...." Luke sits back against a tree and wonders about what exotic places he will stumble upon once this is all over

"Sasha!!  You disappeared in ankle deep water.  Aaron is right, we checked it all.  And do you know how we had time to check it all?  You were gone for FIFTEEN minutes!!  Sh*t Sasha, I thought I had lost you."  Gerty sits down hard on the bank of the pond looking a bit dazed by the whole situation.

"A geater power I'm sure, but nothing as sinister as demon or devil." Sasha says a bit defensively, seeming a bit sad over Aaron's distrust in her. 
"I'm sorry Gerty, it doesn't make sense, I can't have been down there for that long." She says to the dwarf, looking ever sadder now.
"I'm so sorry everyone, I didn't know I would be gone long enough to worry you. I can't explain why you can't find the deep part of the pond, it was just there."

Aaron sits for a moment in silence, looking at the pond. Then says, "Well, if you think you can trust this source then I'll let it be. I don't know a damned thing about it, after all. There's just been a lot of strange things happening lately, but I suppose I need to get over that if we're to be on this adventuring life." He lays back on the ground with his hands behind his head, sighing a bit and looking up the the sky.

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Luke heads back to Brownie, dries off, and gets dressed before heading over to Will "Man I shoulda just sat with you. I am cold and wet and for what....Oh sorry, you're over here relaxing and stuff. That's a good idea. I'll kick back too and try to warm up"

With that the trance breaks and William is back to reality.

Sorry, what? Why are you wet? Let me get you some of that spicy cheese I've been saving. Do you need a change of clothes?

Sasha's sadness turns into tears and then to anger, and she forcefully throws the rod at Aaron's feet. "HAPPY NOW?" She yells at him, furious as a tempest, then turning to march off into the nearby woods, not looking back.

Luke watches Sasha storm away angrily and mutters to Will "Nevermind my wet clothes....I will be fine. I will take the spicy cheese though. I could use a little warmth from the heat." Luke motions to Sasha angrily heading to the woods "Do you think we should uhh check on her? Maybe Gert will.....This trip is exhausting...between bitterboos, bandits, and now this..whewy I need a nap" 

Sure thing!

William gets the cheese from his backpack and gives it to Luke.

Can you cut it yourself? I'll go and find Sasha.

(Does William have to roll to find her?)

"Cut the cheese....." Luke giggles "Of course, you (I MEANT) can go find her"