In the kitchen, Kocino casts Unseen Servant as a ritual. He calls out, “No assistance necessary, Kristoph. I will make you a deal, however. You keep our cups filled and I’ll write out my recipe for you. Might earn you some extra coin on occasion when you make it.”
Kocino furiously chops and sautés. The pan sizzles over the fire. His Mage Hand bring his drink to his mouth so as to avoid stopping his work. Meanwhile, Kocino repeatedly asks the Unseen Servant to bring him utensils and ingredients. Frustration grows on his face as the force repeatedly bring him the wrong items, but the frustration is tempered by the love of his art.
Gilded gets 4 of the 'free' beers that Kristoph is throwing around and takes one to Robin , Vex, Amon and himself. He sits with the group, tiredness obviously on his features, he has used up all that he had this day. It was a very good day, and a very productive day.
He raises his glass in a toast. "To friends, new and newer" He clinks his glass with Vex as he says new, and Robin as he says newer. he does not clink with Amon. "Sorry little dude, I think I may like you, but I am not sure I can call you friend, you are a thief and as these others can tell you, I think you will need to start to make up for your actions before I can truly trust you or call you friend." he takes a drink of his beer. "We can drink together and see where that leads tho."
He smells the aroma coming from the kitchen.."Wow, didn't know Kocino had such talents. Can't wait to eat and sleep." he looks at Amon again. "What do I do with you while I sleep? You know him Robin, any ideas? I could keep this sword on me as collateral that you do not run off in the night, but is that enough to keep you honest?"
"Wow, Jess, you've got a spell up your sleeve for every occasion don't you?" Drez smiles, nodding in appreciation at the large draft that used to be Jess.
"Would she have offered if it wasn't?" he says to Gwen. "Here, I can help you up." After throwing the boar over Jess's back and securing it with whatever rope he has left, he positions himself on Jess's left side and threads his fingers together to create a makeshift stirrup for Gwen. "You've ridden bareback before right?" he asks.
He'll jog alongside Jess all the way back as long as she doesn't break into a gallop. Depending on Gwen's answer to his question, he might pay more attention to her then the boar tied over Jess's withers. If Gwen seems fine bareback, he'll keep a hand on the boar to make sure it doesn't slide off.
When they reach the tavern, he'll offer to help Gwen down again before untying the boar and getting it off of Jess's back. "I'll carry it the rest of the way, I think you've carried it long enough." He laughs, throwing the carcass over his shoulders the way a shepherd would carry a sheep (unless it's to big for that lol). He waits for Jess to revert to her genasi form before heading towards the tavern entrance. He holds the door open for both Jess and Gwen.
After they enter the tavern, he'll head straight to the kitchen since that is undoubtably where they will find Kocino. "Hey Kocino! Look at this fine specimen. Jess is quite the hunter, you should have seen it!" Unless Jess comes to join in retelling the hunt, Drez will relay the experience to Kocino doing his best to stay out of the cook's way. "Well, at least I know that I still have some skill with a crossbow." He laughs.
After he finishes talking to Kocino, he will join Gilded, Vex, Robin, and Amon at their table. If Jess and Gwen haven't joined them already, he will wave them over hoping that they will join as well. If there aren't enough chairs for them, he'll pull some over.
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Robin slowly clinks a glass with Gilded before smiling more comfortable.
"To friends new and newer."
Robin had begun to drink through one before trying to grab a second to catch up with Gilded
"So about that drinking contest?"
Robin looks to Gilded as he ask about Amon.
"The sword looks unique to be sure, I'd say hold onto it for now Could help keep him around."
Meanwhile Gwen looks to Drezmir and blushes when he uses the phrase "bareback."
"I-I've ridden horses bareback yes but.. This is a bit new to me."
Gwen didn't know how she felt about "riding Jess." It felt odd and even with permission it felt a bit disrespectful to her. But she had trusted in Jess and Drezmir's words. Taking his hand she rides on the back behind him holding onto him. Her gauntlets and stern hands wrapped around his stomach. Robin raises a drink to Drezmir,Jess,Gwen as they all come in. A few of the townspeople cheer. Robin was now drinking his 4th glass to keep up with Gilded!
"Hear hear!"
Gwen smiles as Drezmir fervently shares the tale of the hunt.
"It was a good thing she got the boar while they were shallow in the lost forest."
The crowd looks impressed that Jess had killed the boar in the shallow ends of the lost forest. As Drezmir moves to hand the boar to Kocino he could feel a small rumbling. A bit of a shake so to speak. The boar seemed cold and gutted and yet.. Had it's leg twitched? It wasn't long before it started squealing and kicking and fighting while still bled out and gutted all over. It had begun to try and bite Drezmir! Drezmir make an acrobatic check! Or take
5
All that is holy!
Gwen drew her blade striking at the boar!
20
To hit
Damage
14
OOC Kocino roll performance + you're proficiency bonus since you have cooking utensils learned.
And with use of unseen servant and mage hand to aid roll with advantage ^^
Also for the drinking contest the first 3 beers are no con check.
4th beer DC con check (Not saving throw)
5th: DC 12
6th DC 13
7th DC 15
8th DC16
9th DC 18
10th DC 20
And every one after ten is just a DC 20.
That is for this particular brew
Robin's first con check of DC 10 (Since he drank 4)
After four measly beers Robin was already feeling a bit drunk, perhaps he was lightheaded from the fighting. He'd look over to see how drunk Gilded was feeling (Con check DC10.) However Gwen slashing through the night of the living boar had spooked Robin a bit. Kristoph had crossed his arms with a sigh.
"I've no idea what in the hells just transpired. If you still wanna use the boar you can but if not I have some game in the back, Kocino's cooking can't go to waste. Take my prized game he's chilled in the kitchen. Freezing crystal Simon lent me forever ago. Well.. Let's not let this sour the mood come on back to drinking you louts!"
Gwen had managed to cut the boar down.. Now for the second time. Huffing a bit as she took a deep breath she looked to Drezmir and Jess.
"Y-You any idea why that happened? It looked fine on the fields.."
“Obviously something to do with the forest. We saw the dead come back to some semblance of life just this morning when we entered the manor. It must be some kind of area effect. We could run an experiment tomorrow, possibly dangerous and possibly disrespectful to the dead… With commander’s permission, we could take one of his slain guards and place them in the forest and monitor for a reaction. It would be interesting to observe the mental state, too, of the soldier if he revives.”
To tack on to Drez’s story of the hunt, Jess would clarify to all listening that it was actually Drez who shot the boar down with good aim.
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Gilded con check on 4th beer. 6
"I wonder if being there would bring it back to life, seems it may have to die there, seeing as the boar died there, came back here. just saying.. burp" he looks around... "Hey, where is that thief?"
Drez pulls his hand back, frowning, "Oops... uh wait a second... I'm pretty sure that wasn't me." He glances from Gwen to Jess, before reminding himself that that the beast had died in the forest. "Hmm, perhaps it is a slow acting curse..." He nods at Jess's explanation, but gives her an odd look when she suggests an experiment. ...in all honesty it wasn't a bad idea. Some might think it disrespectful...but, well he'd had to perform similar experiments with his own abilities in the past so he could hardly judge.
Looking back at the Boar, he searches the corps for any tells concerning how the necromancy took hold.
Arcana:11
"You're probably right," he says to Gilded. "You alright? Or are you going to keep drinking?"
He looks back at the boar, "I'm not sure we want to eat this... not if its been contaminated. What a shame. It was a good boar too. Maybe... hey Gilded do you think you could use your paladin senses to tell us whether or not this is safe to eat?"
“Yes, we can expand the experiment. If we capture a small animal, keep it in a cage, kill it in the forest, then bring it out, we can observe to see if it reanimates.”
“Another consideration is if the creatures spend much time alive in the forest. Perhaps the boar originated from there, and it wasn’t the dying in the forest that triggered its return, but the fact that it had dwelt there? We could get a creature from the plains, away from the forest, and other from inside the forest, and see if it makes a difference.”
"About all I can do is check for good and evil or tell you if it is undead. Haha.. Im not eating it either way." Cast Divine sense in the Inn.
As an action, you can detect good and evil. Until the end of your next turn, you can sense anything affected by the hallow spell or know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 ft.
Robin and now Gilded were beginning to grow a bit drunk from the taverns drinks. Boar appeared to be bleeding from the boars bite! (5 damage leaving him at 2HP.) Gwen had came over looking at his wound as she began to dress it with some bandages.
Jeez, you may have to skip out on that party.. You look terrible!
Gwen sighs a bit worried about the soul of the body but nods to Drez and Jess's idea.
"So you'll be researching the Lost Forest before leaving than?"
Though Drezmir's search for Arcana wasn't as sharp as it could be his familiarity with undead curses aided him here. There was indeed some necromancy going on here and it was a curse. However Drezmir couldn't figure much more out than this. Gilded had cast divine sense in the room seeing an aura of undead around the boar. He could also see a bit of that aura on Drezmir's shoulder where the boar had bit him! It appeared to be some kind of disease. Kristoph nods allowing Kocino to use his finest game instead. Though there was some sour notes to dampen the celebration Kocino's meal had came out gloriously! Smoking hot meat, juicy with plenty of tantalizing sides to add. This may be Kocino's finest meal yet! He could hear his patron through his pot as it shifted into a knife.
"You've done it lad! Glorious! Marvelous if I may say so myself!"
OOC Everyone who breaks bread with Kocino roll a D6 and add those as temp HP points ^^ Keep those points until you are attacked and lose those points.
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Drez, not feeling at his finest, smiles and waves a hand, "I'll be alright... I've...been through worse... thank's for patching me up though." He frowns at his new wound, then at the boar. "Thats a real shame. It would have made a fine meal, but I suppose we should get rid of it. Ah well, it isn't like Kocino needed it to make something fit for royalty! There's no way I'm going to crash before we celebrate."
He sits deeply into his seat, stubbornly staying awake in spite of his injuries.
(OOC: I'll roll my D6, but wait on applying it until we actually partake in some food. :) )
Gwen sits down beside Drezmir a bit worried, she didn't seem interested in the food. She seemed more focused on his wound instead.
"If you say so Drez.. After dinner do you think we could talk a bit? It's nothing bad I just.. Wanted to check up on you I guess. But first let's try to enjoy the dinner!"
Gwen did her best to move her mind away from Drez's fresh wound but he seemed pretty tough. They all did for that matter, Gwen knew not to worry and yet.. Worry she did.
(OOC: lol, now he's got two curses to deal with... Would he have been able to guess that this was a possibility based on his knowledge of undead? Or was his arcana check to low for that. It doesn't really matter, since Gilded will likely say something...unless he's to drunk for that lol. I just thought I'd ask.)
"Sure," Drezmir replies. "We've got to go see your brother too, so we could talk on the way if you want."
Yes she reverted to her normal form to field dress the boar.
She will shape change into a large horse to help carry back the meat, and Gwen could ride her if she likes.
Jess manages to dress the boar rather expertly. Gwen looks in awe and chuckles a bit awkwardly when Jess offers them both a ride.
OOC
Dang she still had a lot of wild shapes saved haha nice roll!
In the kitchen, Kocino casts Unseen Servant as a ritual. He calls out, “No assistance necessary, Kristoph. I will make you a deal, however. You keep our cups filled and I’ll write out my recipe for you. Might earn you some extra coin on occasion when you make it.”
Kocino furiously chops and sautés. The pan sizzles over the fire. His Mage Hand bring his drink to his mouth so as to avoid stopping his work. Meanwhile, Kocino repeatedly asks the Unseen Servant to bring him utensils and ingredients. Frustration grows on his face as the force repeatedly bring him the wrong items, but the frustration is tempered by the love of his art.
Gilded gets 4 of the 'free' beers that Kristoph is throwing around and takes one to Robin , Vex, Amon and himself. He sits with the group, tiredness obviously on his features, he has used up all that he had this day. It was a very good day, and a very productive day.
He raises his glass in a toast. "To friends, new and newer" He clinks his glass with Vex as he says new, and Robin as he says newer. he does not clink with Amon. "Sorry little dude, I think I may like you, but I am not sure I can call you friend, you are a thief and as these others can tell you, I think you will need to start to make up for your actions before I can truly trust you or call you friend." he takes a drink of his beer. "We can drink together and see where that leads tho."
He smells the aroma coming from the kitchen.."Wow, didn't know Kocino had such talents. Can't wait to eat and sleep." he looks at Amon again. "What do I do with you while I sleep? You know him Robin, any ideas? I could keep this sword on me as collateral that you do not run off in the night, but is that enough to keep you honest?"
"Wow, Jess, you've got a spell up your sleeve for every occasion don't you?" Drez smiles, nodding in appreciation at the large draft that used to be Jess.
"Would she have offered if it wasn't?" he says to Gwen. "Here, I can help you up." After throwing the boar over Jess's back and securing it with whatever rope he has left, he positions himself on Jess's left side and threads his fingers together to create a makeshift stirrup for Gwen. "You've ridden bareback before right?" he asks.
He'll jog alongside Jess all the way back as long as she doesn't break into a gallop. Depending on Gwen's answer to his question, he might pay more attention to her then the boar tied over Jess's withers. If Gwen seems fine bareback, he'll keep a hand on the boar to make sure it doesn't slide off.
When they reach the tavern, he'll offer to help Gwen down again before untying the boar and getting it off of Jess's back. "I'll carry it the rest of the way, I think you've carried it long enough." He laughs, throwing the carcass over his shoulders the way a shepherd would carry a sheep (unless it's to big for that lol). He waits for Jess to revert to her genasi form before heading towards the tavern entrance. He holds the door open for both Jess and Gwen.
After they enter the tavern, he'll head straight to the kitchen since that is undoubtably where they will find Kocino. "Hey Kocino! Look at this fine specimen. Jess is quite the hunter, you should have seen it!" Unless Jess comes to join in retelling the hunt, Drez will relay the experience to Kocino doing his best to stay out of the cook's way. "Well, at least I know that I still have some skill with a crossbow." He laughs.
After he finishes talking to Kocino, he will join Gilded, Vex, Robin, and Amon at their table. If Jess and Gwen haven't joined them already, he will wave them over hoping that they will join as well. If there aren't enough chairs for them, he'll pull some over.
Robin slowly clinks a glass with Gilded before smiling more comfortable.
"To friends new and newer."
Robin had begun to drink through one before trying to grab a second to catch up with Gilded
"So about that drinking contest?"
Robin looks to Gilded as he ask about Amon.
"The sword looks unique to be sure, I'd say hold onto it for now Could help keep him around."
Meanwhile Gwen looks to Drezmir and blushes when he uses the phrase "bareback."
"I-I've ridden horses bareback yes but.. This is a bit new to me."
Gwen didn't know how she felt about "riding Jess." It felt odd and even with permission it felt a bit disrespectful to her. But she had trusted in Jess and Drezmir's words. Taking his hand she rides on the back behind him holding onto him. Her gauntlets and stern hands wrapped around his stomach. Robin raises a drink to Drezmir,Jess,Gwen as they all come in. A few of the townspeople cheer. Robin was now drinking his 4th glass to keep up with Gilded!
"Hear hear!"
Gwen smiles as Drezmir fervently shares the tale of the hunt.
"It was a good thing she got the boar while they were shallow in the lost forest."
The crowd looks impressed that Jess had killed the boar in the shallow ends of the lost forest. As Drezmir moves to hand the boar to Kocino he could feel a small rumbling. A bit of a shake so to speak. The boar seemed cold and gutted and yet.. Had it's leg twitched? It wasn't long before it started squealing and kicking and fighting while still bled out and gutted all over. It had begun to try and bite Drezmir! Drezmir make an acrobatic check! Or take
5
All that is holy!
Gwen drew her blade striking at the boar!
20
To hit
Damage
14
OOC
Kocino roll performance + you're proficiency bonus since you have cooking utensils learned.
And with use of unseen servant and mage hand to aid roll with advantage ^^
Also for the drinking contest the first 3 beers are no con check.
4th beer DC con check (Not saving throw)
5th: DC 12
6th DC 13
7th DC 15
8th DC16
9th DC 18
10th DC 20
And every one after ten is just a DC 20.
That is for this particular brew
Robin's first con check of DC 10 (Since he drank 4)
23
After four measly beers Robin was already feeling a bit drunk, perhaps he was lightheaded from the fighting. He'd look over to see how drunk Gilded was feeling (Con check DC10.) However Gwen slashing through the night of the living boar had spooked Robin a bit. Kristoph had crossed his arms with a sigh.
"I've no idea what in the hells just transpired. If you still wanna use the boar you can but if not I have some game in the back, Kocino's cooking can't go to waste. Take my prized game he's chilled in the kitchen. Freezing crystal Simon lent me forever ago. Well.. Let's not let this sour the mood come on back to drinking you louts!"
Gwen had managed to cut the boar down.. Now for the second time. Huffing a bit as she took a deep breath she looked to Drezmir and Jess.
"Y-You any idea why that happened? It looked fine on the fields.."
Jess surmised,
“Obviously something to do with the forest. We saw the dead come back to some semblance of life just this morning when we entered the manor. It must be some kind of area effect. We could run an experiment tomorrow, possibly dangerous and possibly disrespectful to the dead… With commander’s permission, we could take one of his slain guards and place them in the forest and monitor for a reaction. It would be interesting to observe the mental state, too, of the soldier if he revives.”
To tack on to Drez’s story of the hunt, Jess would clarify to all listening that it was actually Drez who shot the boar down with good aim.
Gilded con check on 4th beer. 6
"I wonder if being there would bring it back to life, seems it may have to die there, seeing as the boar died there, came back here. just saying.. burp" he looks around... "Hey, where is that thief?"
Acrobatics check: 10
Drez pulls his hand back, frowning, "Oops... uh wait a second... I'm pretty sure that wasn't me." He glances from Gwen to Jess, before reminding himself that that the beast had died in the forest. "Hmm, perhaps it is a slow acting curse..." He nods at Jess's explanation, but gives her an odd look when she suggests an experiment. ...in all honesty it wasn't a bad idea. Some might think it disrespectful...but, well he'd had to perform similar experiments with his own abilities in the past so he could hardly judge.
Looking back at the Boar, he searches the corps for any tells concerning how the necromancy took hold.
Arcana:11
"You're probably right," he says to Gilded. "You alright? Or are you going to keep drinking?"
He looks back at the boar, "I'm not sure we want to eat this... not if its been contaminated. What a shame. It was a good boar too. Maybe... hey Gilded do you think you could use your paladin senses to tell us whether or not this is safe to eat?"
Jess nods along with what the others are saying.
“Yes, we can expand the experiment. If we capture a small animal, keep it in a cage, kill it in the forest, then bring it out, we can observe to see if it reanimates.”
“Another consideration is if the creatures spend much time alive in the forest. Perhaps the boar originated from there, and it wasn’t the dying in the forest that triggered its return, but the fact that it had dwelt there? We could get a creature from the plains, away from the forest, and other from inside the forest, and see if it makes a difference.”
"About all I can do is check for good and evil or tell you if it is undead. Haha.. Im not eating it either way." Cast Divine sense in the Inn.
As an action, you can detect good and evil. Until the end of your next turn, you can sense anything affected by the hallow spell or know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 ft.
Watching the dead, butchered boar try to fight. ”Sorry Kristoph, but it looks like we’ll be using meat.”
Performance + cooking: 19
Robin and now Gilded were beginning to grow a bit drunk from the taverns drinks. Boar appeared to be bleeding from the boars bite! (5 damage leaving him at 2HP.) Gwen had came over looking at his wound as she began to dress it with some bandages.
Jeez, you may have to skip out on that party.. You look terrible!
Gwen sighs a bit worried about the soul of the body but nods to Drez and Jess's idea.
"So you'll be researching the Lost Forest before leaving than?"
Though Drezmir's search for Arcana wasn't as sharp as it could be his familiarity with undead curses aided him here. There was indeed some necromancy going on here and it was a curse. However Drezmir couldn't figure much more out than this. Gilded had cast divine sense in the room seeing an aura of undead around the boar. He could also see a bit of that aura on Drezmir's shoulder where the boar had bit him! It appeared to be some kind of disease. Kristoph nods allowing Kocino to use his finest game instead. Though there was some sour notes to dampen the celebration Kocino's meal had came out gloriously! Smoking hot meat, juicy with plenty of tantalizing sides to add. This may be Kocino's finest meal yet! He could hear his patron through his pot as it shifted into a knife.
"You've done it lad! Glorious! Marvelous if I may say so myself!"
OOC
Everyone who breaks bread with Kocino roll a D6 and add those as temp HP points ^^
Keep those points until you are attacked and lose those points.
Drez, not feeling at his finest, smiles and waves a hand, "I'll be alright... I've...been through worse... thank's for patching me up though." He frowns at his new wound, then at the boar. "Thats a real shame. It would have made a fine meal, but I suppose we should get rid of it. Ah well, it isn't like Kocino needed it to make something fit for royalty! There's no way I'm going to crash before we celebrate."
He sits deeply into his seat, stubbornly staying awake in spite of his injuries.
(OOC: I'll roll my D6, but wait on applying it until we actually partake in some food. :) )
D6: 6
Gwen sits down beside Drezmir a bit worried, she didn't seem interested in the food. She seemed more focused on his wound instead.
"If you say so Drez.. After dinner do you think we could talk a bit? It's nothing bad I just.. Wanted to check up on you I guess. But first let's try to enjoy the dinner!"
Gwen did her best to move her mind away from Drez's fresh wound but he seemed pretty tough. They all did for that matter, Gwen knew not to worry and yet.. Worry she did.
(OOC: lol, now he's got two curses to deal with... Would he have been able to guess that this was a possibility based on his knowledge of undead? Or was his arcana check to low for that. It doesn't really matter, since Gilded will likely say something...unless he's to drunk for that lol. I just thought I'd ask.)
"Sure," Drezmir replies. "We've got to go see your brother too, so we could talk on the way if you want."
That sounds like a splendid idea Drez
OOC
The Arcana was low but with his known knowledge he is able to tell it's an undead curse.
Also if anyone wants to timeskip the celebration/downtime I understand that too ^^
(Oooo boy, i just caught up reading the thread! Corvus sure is missing all the excitement!)