"Anyone know if there's any significance ta those mushrooms? Magic circle, weird naturey things, or if they're edible?" Finley looks around at the others and then to the forest around them, almost expecting them to be jumped by something or other.

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"Anyone know if there's any significance ta those mushrooms? Magic circle, weird naturey things, or if they're edible?" Finley looks around at the others and then to the forest around them, almost expecting them to be jumped by something or other.

Valrieth squats down on the outside of the circle and looks closely at the toadstools.  Does she recognize these mushrooms?  Beneficial or poisonous?  Natural or arcane?

(OOC: assuming nature or arcana, Val has the same proficiency in both: 20) 

Val has not clue in regard to the ring of toadstools. 

ilifir quietly looks at the ring of mushrooms, then kneels next to them, inspecting them closer without touching them as he tries to figure out what they are, he's seen similar before, but as of yet is unsure what they are

(15 history, rolled in game logs)

Ilifir remembers tales of fairy rings similar to this one. Occasionally fairies and fey come to dance around the ring. Indeed, the tales say such rings are magical, but in what way you are not sure. To enter a ring is rather taboo unless you offer a gift of some kind. It is written that once the gift is accepted the ring acts as a Fey crossing.

"dont enter it" ilifir says "its best not to unless you bear a gift and wish to use it which we dont, we should move on" he seems a little bit on edge "magic circle is the closest youve gotten finley, but here most everything is magic"

"Hmm. I've met some friendly mushrooms in my time but heck they looked nothing like this. Also, they had arms and legs."

Otto scratches his head.

"Let's just keep going."

Valrieth avoids getting any closer to the toadstool ring.  She backs straight away from it and then continues on the journey with the others.  

The next time the party takes a break during their hike, Val asks Otto, "What did you mean when you said that you've 'met some friendly mushrooms' with arms and legs?  Like little mushrooms that had mouths and eyes?"

The party pushes onward through the forest. By sundown the party reaches the riverbank. 

Do you push onward into the night or make camp?

“With the night on us, it would be best to set up camp” suggests Lerak. To his knowledge, it would be better to avoid going on a river in the dark.
”we could try to use this resting time to make boat  from the trees around. Does anyone of you know how to create rafts?“

does the rivers seems to flow towards the good direction?

Yes, the river is flowing towards the west.

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“Does anyone of you know how to create rafts?“

does the rivers seems to flow towards the good direction?

Valrieth says, "In Hither, we mostly used boats that we 'borrowed' from the Harengon bandits or the bullywugs.  We do have some oars, but we'd need to find or make a boat.  It's been a long hike already.  I'm fine with camping nearby and waiting for morning if you think that's best."

The party settles for the night by making camp. Does someone have a plan to create something that floats that is big enough for everyone?

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The party settles for the night by making camp. Does someone have a plan to create something that floats that is big enough for everyone?

Valrieth does not. (Even if she still knew shape water, she wouldn't be able to create ice rafts large enough for all of them.)  Val asks whether anyone knows how to make a raft out of logs.  She wouldn't be much help with that, but since Lerak wears an axe, she figures that they'd be able to chop logs to a uniform length.  That's what Gan-Re had suggested doing back in Hither.  

If they cannot figure out how to make a raft, Val could try to locate a boat tomorrow morning, but that would only help them if there is already a raft nearby.

Val prefer to ride on a boat with the others.  She remarks, "I'm not very big, so I wouldn't take up much room."  But she points out that she can transform into a crocodile for a couple of hours if she needs to swim across the river or even swim along with the current.  

If they want to use a spell to try to locate a boat a boat, she could scan a couple of miles along the river by transforming into a warhorse and spending 10 minutes to gallop as fast as she can.

"It is better if we rest, than move too far on, aye? Ah know ah don't have ah lotta time but if we're not in top shape then it would do us no good to get their quickly.. now on th' way back ah'd love ta push us ta return with it." Finley sighs, it's been an exhausting week.

Before they start their long rest, Valrieth will spend 2 spell slots on Goodberry so that they have a store of healing for whatever the next day brings.

If "the boys" want to chop down trees for making a raft, Val suggests that they do that before the party starts their long rest.  That way, she could check to make sure that they don't end up chopping down trees that are under the care of a treant or violating some fey rule of Thither.  Val spends 11 minutes consulting her star charts, arranging her bedroll in a particular orientation to the stars, and preparing her tarot cards (i.e., a ritual casting of augury).  Then she has the party sit down in a semi-circle in front of her while she "does a reading" of the cards, laying out a set of cards and divining whether that's a good course of action.  Their "action" would be chopping down specific trees (as identified by Lerak and Ilifir) and trimming them for making a raft.

Val's tarot cards have colorful and fantastical images on them.  The cards and their meaning are basically inscrutable to the other party members, but Val seems to be confident in her ability to read them and divine the answer to her question. 

"if you can cut some logs i may be able to figure out where to notch them and lash them together, it wont be pretty, and it might fall apart, but hopefully it would work and save time"

he tries to remember what little he knows about water and building things, but struggles to think of anything useful (survival 12)

"we will need a pole as well, for steering" he adds

Survival 10 if needed for chopping trees

Both Ilifar and Lerak have a somewhat fleshed out idea of how to create a raft though it may be crude. 

it takes 4 hours to cut down the trees and shape them into useable logs. 

Now who has the rope to lash them together.