New adventure

The five dead cultist all had black robes, black leather armor, black dragon masks.  Four were armed with a scimitar and a unique dagger.  Favric has a small coffer containing tribute for the green dragon: three diamonds. He also carries a potion of flying in a stoppered vial around his neck. He carried two daggers instead of a sword. Arafiel still sensing magic can feel something special about the daggers but is not sure what that means.

Akaas sits down on the ground near the dead cultist.  His expression and demeanor have changed. He turns to Droop and says, “I can never be your master like this.  For you to truly develop into the monk you can be, we need to go back to the beginning.  I need to take you to my home.”  Akaas turns to the rest of the group and says, “tell Tyrus and Johnson that I wish them the best.”  At that him and Droop turn and walk off together.

Bring those two daggers back to camp--while resting i can do a ritual to possibly figure out what these things are

ooc: aw man we lost Akaas?

"I wish I could say I was surprised, my friend", Tyrus responds with a laugh and a shake of his head, before suddenly turning grim. "Was there really no way to avoid bloodshed?"

wasnt about to wait to see the results of the ritual they were setting up,  that type of blood magic is generally not a good thing

now for those daggers

Arafiel sites and conducts a ritual for Identify

Unless otherwise stated, the rest of the group is all back together at the tower.

Ian tells Tyrus and Johnson about Reidoth, the map, and squirrel.  He also says, “we could have avoided the cultists but once they found out about the dragon we would have had to deal with them.  If everyone feels healthy enough, we should get going to Cragmaw.”

Thagakh starts loading the items they found in Thundertree to the wagon.

"The fate of those cultist was already set in stone when they tried to attack Thagakh.

Now we must go and rescue boss dwarf since that was our goal in the first place."

He then prepares the horses and takes a good look at the map given by Reidoth for their departure to Cragmaw Castle.

Based upon the map, the castle is 2 full days travel if the group travels along the border of Neverwinter Woods or it would be 3 and a half full days of travel if they travel along the main roads.  Please decide which route you will all travel and your traveling order.

"Thagakh wants to travel the fastest route. It probably is dangerous but boss dwarf is waiting. Also, Thagakh's rations are dwindling and can only last for three days."

The half-orc will drive the wagon if we can bring them. Otherwise, he will march at the front of the group.

“I agree that we need to get there as fast as we can. I will take the lead and keep a lookout for things coming out of the woods.”

Ian searches the woods for mistletoe.

perception 15

"I like that idea as well.  Plus it we travel in the woods,  we might be able to find some wild game and save on rations for a meal of two."   Boghadair says, licking his lips. 

Boghadair keeps an eye out for any suitable animals large enough to feed everybody. 

Perception: 11

OOC:  I'm not sure what happened,  but I'm no longer getting notifications of new posts.  My apologies for not being as active as I usually am. 

OOC:  you are doing fine Boghadair.

Ian is able to find several mistletoe plants.

Boghadair sees several small birds an several squirrels. 

Ian cast the Goodberry spell.  He then offers all characters a berry.  Each berry raises hp by 1 and provides food for a full day.  He puts the remaining berries away for later.  “Feel free to hunt but let’s save our rations until we have to use them.”

perception check for danger 9

ouch

Arafiel keeps toward the middle. 

Tyrus takes up the rearguard.

After the first 2 hours of travel, the group gets a sense that they may be being watched from inside the woods.  Since the group spent several hours of the morning in Thundertree, the day is about 2 hours past midday meal.

Ooc: what if anything did i determine about the daggers?

OOC:  These are homebrew creations that I am awaiting approval for .... should be any day.  They will be called cult daggers of the dragon lords.

This is the information:

These daggers are designed to be welded by worshipers of dragons.  Replacing all other weapons for a dragon cultist, the use of two daggers at the same time produces the maximum benefit.  The curved nature of the blade and hand guard makes the user able to make two strikes per round with each hand.  Standard 1d4 damage plus all applicable bonuses.  The daggers can not be thrown due to their design.  However, each dagger provides a +1 AC bonus when carried by a character with 14 dexterity or higher (possible +2 AC if in both hands).  In order to make the up to 4 attacks per round, attunement and a blood offering to a patron dragon must be made daily.  The act of attunement and offering render the weapons magical for the day.

Proficiency with a dagger allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.