Cup happily takes all the gifts trying her hardest to be on her behavior as she puts on the cloak, ring, and circlet. “We’re ready as well, let’s show these hags were ready for whatever they bring.”
If we're waiting for others, Del would definitely want to trade trade secrets with Althaea Good to see you all engarbed and equipped, Ladyfey. A player again, not a refugee..."Del would talk about bardcraft etc, telling about the music the party responds to. We can't trade instruments without psychic damage, but we can introduce and admire, and talk about songs and arrangements. We could have a band. And anyone want to make requests or comments about the soundtrack, feel free.
((don't hold up anything, just posting to pass the time))
"Why thank you, honestly I'm glad I'm not rustier than that," Althaea laughs, "I grew up learning our villages folk songs honestly. I did get an invitation from the College of Glamour when I was older... though I was still young enough at the time I was a bit too nervous to leave my brother behind. He was a little scardy-cat when we were still children. I did eventually join with the College of Creation though, and they've taught me a good many things about music."
Mindartis isn't sure if he should laugh at how Flitterbug put on the ring or not, but eventually says, "Don't worry, I'll make sure whatever comes at you falls before it has a chance to think about attacking the both of you." He finally turns to his sister, "Forgive me sister, but I'm the scardy-cat? I distinctly remember you being scared to claim your adult-name until after I had already approached our parents and telling them about mine."
Del laughs with the two of them I have seen no fear from Mindy at all - sometimes I almost wish I would see a bit of caution. A college as something to join? I have thought it more metaphorical, but then my education was at best informal - there were no bards at the Abbey where I served. The music master had no magic, but could feel and impart the power of music. The Sister Assistant knew no music, but could explain what the weave feels like. Between them and the library Del makes the skidush gesture I figured it out
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Flitterbug is as usual on M's shoulder, and is a bit annoyed at Del and Alta Mindartis is not afraid because he is the best and strongest and brave She checks her gear like a real adventurer, and checks with her mirror if the ring looks good as a crown (if it did not shrink to fit) quietly saying I will make sure that whatever-thing falls too
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
The ring was a bit awkward as a belt, bit fits nicely as a circlet. (On her finger, it seemed to try to shrink down, but did not get tiny enough to even make it as a bracelet.)
The adventurers step through the Yonpinagel ring and find themselves underground, back by the Hag's house, where they startle what seems like a campsite full of gnome scholars. The gnomes skitter away to take shelter in the ruins, and a pack of snarling beasts comes charging out of the root room--panthers, giant scorpions, even a couple of dinosaurs. Once everyone realizes you are not hag and villainss, but the actual heroes who saved the Pixie tree, the druids turn back into elves and gnomes and welcome you enthusiastically. Beyond the doorway, you can see that the tattered roots of the Pixie tree show new growth, thick greenish-white tendrils like stalactites hanging down from the hacked-up mess that you last saw here. The power of the druid ritual above hums through the earth.
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Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) WoodElf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2 Last Tree StandingTabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1 Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
Well that is disappointing. I figured we'd return to the material plane to here, but we'd go off elsewhere first. We coulda just walked. Shall we try what happens departing from here?Absent objections, Del will try having us all pass through again
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Stepping through the hoop once more, you find yourself in a large, ragged tent. What look like supply crates and sacks are stacked around in a disorderly way, and there are some heaps of crude weapons. The whole place stinks of gnoll, and you can hear growly gnoll voices from outside. You seem to be in the supply tent of a gnoll army camp...
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Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) WoodElf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2 Last Tree StandingTabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1 Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
"Should I look around, or do we go back through the ring?" Raven asks, glancing to the tent flap.
Ethen grips his magical bow, glancing to Cup and then the tent flap. "Are we wanting to take on an entire army just now?" He asks, glancing to the others.
I think we should find out where we are - what plane at least Del quickly casts Pass without Trace so all have a +10 on stealth while nodding to Raven. If the army is between us and a goal, why not?
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Raven ghosts her way out of the tent. It's a large encampment, on a rocky hill. She would guess it's in the gnoll homelands in the material plain, south of the Fens. Though the camp is large, it does not seem as populated as it should be...it's clear that many of the tents have been empty and abandoned for some time. Some have shredded and fallen and been left where they are. But there still seems to be a couple of hundred gnolls around, training, maintaining weapons and talking in their growling voices in Abyssal.
Peeking out of the other side of the tent, Flitterbug sees a wooden wall with several dead and nearly-dead gnolls nailed to it. Words in abyssal have been painted on the wall below them with their blood.
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Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) WoodElf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2 Last Tree StandingTabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1 Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
Flitterbug successfully suppresses an "eek", then flits back up to M's shoulder and whispers It's me, still invisible. There's dead and dying gnolls nailed to the wall that way
On hearing the reports Del Messages around Well that is a bust - head back to regroup? and if agreed, re hoop to regroup
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Quentin quietly instructs Cup on the most basic of defensive spells, the mages armor while they were plane hopping, her nodding as she gets it, the two of them armoring up. ”Lets regroup but we need to find a direction soon.”
((sorry, to be clear, the same hoop, hopefully back to under the Pixie tree - we know that is safe. And if it goes to yet another site instead, see what happens there.
I thought I had been proposing - we just want to find where all these hoops go - and not unlikely some will be dangerous - until we find a way to get the Feywild folks home. It is worth fighting if we end up in the Feywild, but no call for fighting gnolls in the fens. Probably there is some interesting mystery about the gnoll crucifixion, but not in our priority list right now. Since we have no way to get any hints, we just jump and look. Happy to have another plan but no one has suggested anything different))
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Raven returns to the tent and nods. "As much as I would like to do some damage here, I don't think we can take that chance right now." She goes through the hoop once it is ready again.
Ethen frowns in the direction of the nailed-up gnolls, wondering why they would be turning on their own. "Do you think there is a chance some do not wish to join with the hags?" He asks the question, but he is also heading towards the hoop as well. "Again, not something we can check into here and now, but a thought to keep in mind."
Del comments as they come out the other end Or punishment for failing to defeat us at Zanderfell's tree, or in the warehouse. Or some necromantic intervention to create gnoll-monsters. Or maybe gnolls being gnolls.
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Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & -Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
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Dragons will be coming with, so probably in the tapestry.
"I have what I need." Ethen says when offered something. He nods to Dell, indicating he is ready to go when the othres are.
Cup happily takes all the gifts trying her hardest to be on her behavior as she puts on the cloak, ring, and circlet. “We’re ready as well, let’s show these hags were ready for whatever they bring.”
If we're waiting for others, Del would definitely want to trade trade secrets with Althaea Good to see you all engarbed and equipped, Ladyfey. A player again, not a refugee..."Del would talk about bardcraft etc, telling about the music the party responds to. We can't trade instruments without psychic damage, but we can introduce and admire, and talk about songs and arrangements. We could have a band. And anyone want to make requests or comments about the soundtrack, feel free.
((don't hold up anything, just posting to pass the time))
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
"Why thank you, honestly I'm glad I'm not rustier than that," Althaea laughs, "I grew up learning our villages folk songs honestly. I did get an invitation from the College of Glamour when I was older... though I was still young enough at the time I was a bit too nervous to leave my brother behind. He was a little scardy-cat when we were still children. I did eventually join with the College of Creation though, and they've taught me a good many things about music."
Mindartis isn't sure if he should laugh at how Flitterbug put on the ring or not, but eventually says, "Don't worry, I'll make sure whatever comes at you falls before it has a chance to think about attacking the both of you." He finally turns to his sister, "Forgive me sister, but I'm the scardy-cat? I distinctly remember you being scared to claim your adult-name until after I had already approached our parents and telling them about mine."
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
Del laughs with the two of them I have seen no fear from Mindy at all - sometimes I almost wish I would see a bit of caution. A college as something to join? I have thought it more metaphorical, but then my education was at best informal - there were no bards at the Abbey where I served. The music master had no magic, but could feel and impart the power of music. The Sister Assistant knew no music, but could explain what the weave feels like. Between them and the library Del makes the skidush gesture I figured it out
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Flitterbug is as usual on M's shoulder, and is a bit annoyed at Del and Alta Mindartis is not afraid because he is the best and strongest and brave She checks her gear like a real adventurer, and checks with her mirror if the ring looks good as a crown (if it did not shrink to fit) quietly saying I will make sure that whatever-thing falls too
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
The ring was a bit awkward as a belt, bit fits nicely as a circlet. (On her finger, it seemed to try to shrink down, but did not get tiny enough to even make it as a bracelet.)
The adventurers step through the Yonpinagel ring and find themselves underground, back by the Hag's house, where they startle what seems like a campsite full of gnome scholars. The gnomes skitter away to take shelter in the ruins, and a pack of snarling beasts comes charging out of the root room--panthers, giant scorpions, even a couple of dinosaurs. Once everyone realizes you are not hag and villainss, but the actual heroes who saved the Pixie tree, the druids turn back into elves and gnomes and welcome you enthusiastically. Beyond the doorway, you can see that the tattered roots of the Pixie tree show new growth, thick greenish-white tendrils like stalactites hanging down from the hacked-up mess that you last saw here. The power of the druid ritual above hums through the earth.
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
Well that is disappointing. I figured we'd return to the material plane to here, but we'd go off elsewhere first. We coulda just walked. Shall we try what happens departing from here? Absent objections, Del will try having us all pass through again
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Stepping through the hoop once more, you find yourself in a large, ragged tent. What look like supply crates and sacks are stacked around in a disorderly way, and there are some heaps of crude weapons. The whole place stinks of gnoll, and you can hear growly gnoll voices from outside. You seem to be in the supply tent of a gnoll army camp...
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
"Should I look around, or do we go back through the ring?" Raven asks, glancing to the tent flap.
Ethen grips his magical bow, glancing to Cup and then the tent flap. "Are we wanting to take on an entire army just now?" He asks, glancing to the others.
I think we should find out where we are - what plane at least Del quickly casts Pass without Trace so all have a +10 on stealth while nodding to Raven. If the army is between us and a goal, why not?
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Raven nods and, using her new armor, casts invisibility on herself. She then steps to the tent flap and looks around outside.
Stealth: 35 Perception: 17
Seeing Raven disappear, FB turns Invisible in the superior way, whispering to M I'll be safe. The scary girl is pretty cool too
She flies down peeks just under the bottom gap of the tent, opposite side from Raven
Perception 14
Stealth 22
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Raven ghosts her way out of the tent. It's a large encampment, on a rocky hill. She would guess it's in the gnoll homelands in the material plain, south of the Fens. Though the camp is large, it does not seem as populated as it should be...it's clear that many of the tents have been empty and abandoned for some time. Some have shredded and fallen and been left where they are. But there still seems to be a couple of hundred gnolls around, training, maintaining weapons and talking in their growling voices in Abyssal.
Peeking out of the other side of the tent, Flitterbug sees a wooden wall with several dead and nearly-dead gnolls nailed to it. Words in abyssal have been painted on the wall below them with their blood.
Edeleth Treesong (Aldalire) Wood Elf Druid lvl 8 Talaveroth Sub 2
Last Tree Standing Tabaxi Ranger, Chef and Hoardsperson lvl 5, Company of the Dragon Team 1
Choir Kenku Cleric, Tempest Domain, lvl 11, Descent Into Avernus Test Drive
Poinki Goblin Paladin, Redemption, lvl 5, Tales from Talaveroth
Lyrika Nyx Satyr Bard lvl 1, The Six Kingdoms of Talia
Flitterbug successfully suppresses an "eek", then flits back up to M's shoulder and whispers It's me, still invisible. There's dead and dying gnolls nailed to the wall that way
On hearing the reports Del Messages around Well that is a bust - head back to regroup? and if agreed, re hoop to regroup
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Quentin quietly instructs Cup on the most basic of defensive spells, the mages armor while they were plane hopping, her nodding as she gets it, the two of them armoring up. ”Lets regroup but we need to find a direction soon.”
"We're better off regrouping not by gnolls," Mindartis says.
Althaea nods in agreement, "Perhaps if the next one shows us to a safer location we stay there and figure out a proper game plan."
Elra Skylash - Human Cleric | Vanzaren Tanidoni - Half Elf Wizard
Mindartis Liadon - Eladrin Barbarian | Naivara Siannodel - Half Elf Ranger
Arrila Evenwood - Half Elf Paladin | Callaphe of Setessa - Human Rogue
Katernin Nemetsk - Aasimar Cleric | Melody - Tiefling Bard
((sorry, to be clear, the same hoop, hopefully back to under the Pixie tree - we know that is safe. And if it goes to yet another site instead, see what happens there.
I thought I had been proposing - we just want to find where all these hoops go - and not unlikely some will be dangerous - until we find a way to get the Feywild folks home. It is worth fighting if we end up in the Feywild, but no call for fighting gnolls in the fens. Probably there is some interesting mystery about the gnoll crucifixion, but not in our priority list right now. Since we have no way to get any hints, we just jump and look. Happy to have another plan but no one has suggested anything different))
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky
Raven returns to the tent and nods. "As much as I would like to do some damage here, I don't think we can take that chance right now." She goes through the hoop once it is ready again.
Ethen frowns in the direction of the nailed-up gnolls, wondering why they would be turning on their own. "Do you think there is a chance some do not wish to join with the hags?" He asks the question, but he is also heading towards the hoop as well. "Again, not something we can check into here and now, but a thought to keep in mind."
Del comments as they come out the other end Or punishment for failing to defeat us at Zanderfell's tree, or in the warehouse. Or some necromantic intervention to create gnoll-monsters. Or maybe gnolls being gnolls.
Galanodel Deacon Tosh - Less-than-Half-Elf Bard - & - Flitterbug - Pixie Sorceress : Meanwhile in the Westwoods
Amadow 'Tug' Rioux - Human Psionic Palooka : Revenge Heist - - - Gofer Bayut - Bugbear Paladin Messenger : Shrouded Sky