Waterdeep: Camel Heist (2020)

Too right, too right, we should be moving. I’ve no special aptitude for it it but a can drive the cart if needs be. 

If no one else speaks up, Dekhan will climb up to drive the cart. Animal handling 6

Scupper takes things as they are and as best as they can be for now. Least no one appears to be ready to push legal action in town.

He sees Dekhan struggle with the cart and attempts to help out. Animal handling 3

"Back to fighting headwinds with a busted rudder."

That frustration I understand Incantis 'says', turning to Scupper. I've been finding its wandering vexing as of late as well. Incantis has seen a horse maybe once or twice in his life so he contents to sitting in the wagon on alert.

Perception: 23

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Scupper takes things as they are and as best as they can be for now. Least no one appears to be ready to push legal action in town.

He sees Dekhan struggle with the cart and attempts to help out. Animal handling 17

"Back to fighting headwinds with a busted rudder."

After Dario hands Dekhan the potion of healing to revive Sildar even further, he goes to the side and thinks to himself. The last few minutes have a been a whirlwind for the wood elf. From the cave, to the incident with Sildar, Dario cannot wonder what lies ahead for this group. He watches Dekhan and realizes that maybe he has a moral ally in the paladin. He listens to the Incantis tell his tale of how he got taken by the Goblins, nodding along. Hearing the Warlock's voice in his head was strange at first, but Incantis story was interesting. Dario was never one for the stars, and he could imagine someone following such a thing like he himself would track a wild animal. 

As Scupper takes the cart Dario walks up to Dekhan and places a hand on his shoulder and says, "What you did back there... something divine did take place. I felt it too." Dario then gestures to the front of the cart. "I'll take point, just to be sure we don't come across anything else unusual."

Perception: 11

After Dario hands Dekhan the potion of healing to revive Sildar even further, he goes to the side and thinks to himself. The last few minutes have a been a whirlwind for the wood elf.

 Strix plods on, a hacking cough wracking his body momentarily. He stifles it with his arm, the tattered shirt sleeve coming away pink, a fine mist of blood. "S'okay. Sildar fine, that important." he mutters, trying to force a smile. He continues his trudge, leaning a little heavier on his staff, but keeping his eyes on the road. They'll be there soon. He's sure he can see a light up ahead. And look, there - is that.... his vision is blurry, he blinks and blinks but he just can't focus....  is that the little halfling girl from the crossroads? He can almost hear her song - she's calling to him. He tries to quicken his pace, to run to her as she beckons, but his leaden feet can only manage a shuffle. Almost there.... almost home....

By all means, Incantis, now that we've settled the immediate concerns and now that the threat o' death, for the moment, is memory...continue your tale and let this sailor know what the corpse star does besides disobey the laws by which all other stars, save dying ones and falling ones, follow. Why does your star wander while all others wait patiently for the whole of the heavens to move as one?

Incantis pauses for a moment, a sour look subtly etching it's way onto his normally studiously blank face, and you wonder whether you've struck a nerve. "That's the question isn't it..." he croaks, making an attempt to speak more conventionally for the sake of his new companions. "Zhudun is an elder star, one of a few but to be sure the brightest. It is an entity of eldritch power, not bound by the normal parameters of the heavens. I wish I knew why it is over Neverwinter Wood currently; Zhudun has always defied the logic of celestial bodies but ultimate it does observe a pattern build upon patterns. This turn is unprecedented and I wonder what sorts of changes in this area are causing this...I don't supposed any of you have heard or noticed anything?"

I meant not to tease, mage. Tis difficult at times to know what may offend those what work with magiks. Take yon paladin what cherishes nature and light as his god but to me is but dirt and sunshine. Forgive a pirate his hard head and stubborn ways. Make no mistake. I know o' the star that you call Zhudun and what i too know as the corpse star... but only in the sense that a sailor not trust its movements. Elder stars are neither in my tackle just as plants be not alters and a stag but dinner.

Scupper my friend, plants are no more my alter nor dirt and sunshine my god than the ship you use to sail upon the sea is the sea itself. Dekhan says with a smile to the pirate. He pauses to look around at his surroundings. Would that you could see it as I do, perhaps you will in time. He smiles again and goes back to watching the road Some stag for dinner wouldn’t go unappreciated... perception 12

 The wagon moves forward, with Dekhan valiantly attempting to get the horses to move, and Scupper playing his now familiar role as horse whisperer from the driver's seat.  

Dario, you walk to the head of the group, keeping an eye out.  You see hills and then mountains in the distance ahead, but no threats on the trail.  Sildar looks frail and badly in need of a rest, but does not say anything.  When he sees Dario handing Dekhan a potion of healing, he shakes his head.  If that's intended for me, then save the potion for when you've a dire need of it in battle.  I'm in need of some bed rest for a day or two, nothing more.  He winces.  Maybe three or four.  As Incantis sits in the wagon, Sildar regards him and nods, but says nothing.  His eyes return to Asher, who is following at some distance, his knuckles gripping his glaive so tight you can see the whites even from sixty feet.  

After a while and as the conversation progresses, to Incantis he says, I met a madman once who was shouting in the street that Zhudun would crash into the city and destroy it, that very night.  I was a young man then, and rather struck by how certain he seemed.  But everyone ignored him, and of course, it did not come to pass.  I know little more, other than what you have said, that it wanders the sky and that there many who ascribe meaning to its movements.  He turns back to watch Asher. 

Dekhan, you think you see a deer in a clump of trees off to your left, but after a few paces the shadows shift and you can see it's just a trick of the light.   Your stomach rumbles, and you think of the many packs of trail rations stored in the wagon which, now that you think on it, smells faintly of poop.

As the party amble down the road, they pass Soodi munching some grass by the side of the road. Varinth is in a state of magnificent repose on her back, muttering weakly. She falls in step with the wagon as it passes.

 Incantis nods at Sildar's words. "I was told of those whose slivers of atunement to the star's powers drove them mad, I'd believe it."

Walking up ahead Dario feels that no danger lies ahead and that they have traveled far enough from the cavern to be safe. He stops and waits for the cart to reach and calls out to troupe, "I think we have come far enough to take a short break. I know I could use a breather and I am sure Sildar could use a break from all the jostling in the wagon. Is that okay with everyone?"

I wouldn't refuse a short rest, my friend.