Tales from Talaveroth

The drawer opens!  Inside the drawer is a mess of broken glass, the inside of the drawer stained green with the leaked potions.  There are three unbroken bottles marked "Experiment G33XQ-A

Here are the scraps you found left over from the journal:

Front:

Back:

Front:

And back:

Elhanna give up on locking around and let Si’Juul and Twitch keep at it. Instead she keep a lookout for more monsters and the dragon bird. 

perception: 10

After puzzling over the scraps, Twitch notices something odd: "Hey, take a look... the snippet here, it says the exact same thing on the front and the back. Judging by the others, the ...on of the Dragon refers to the Moon of the Dragon. That would fit into the pattern of Moon of the Porpoise. It continues with 

...fine, which is a good thing, although...
...merchant ships. They bypass my little island...
...provisions and safe harborage. The question...
...upon a small monkey I had trapped in...
...effect was regrettable and I found it necessary...
...reanimate animal and the remainder of the sailors...
...begin again...
...Year Eight...
...was a failure, it has given me...
...Perhaps pal...
...than the...

As Twitch reads the fragments, filling in the blanks with likely guesses, she shudders. "Sounds like this wizard was experimenting with necromancy. And oddly enough it is the scrap of paper with the exact same texts and rips on both sides that mentions this.

Eager, she tries to puzzle together the other bits:

...Nineteenth Day of the Moon of the...
The ship has been in the harbor for three ... and the soci...
...crew has been friendly. I am sorry to see them go. I...
The captain has been kind enough to present me with a pair of ...
...creatures, the like of which I have never seen before. In appearance...
... seem a cross between a small bird and a winged d...
...e of the latter and the feathers of the former. The...
...ter is delightful, and almost one might think...
...forumal (should probably read this as formula) is nearly ready to test and if it is...
...of use ...try it on one of those tame flying...

As she pieces together the scraps together, Twitch starts to unfurl a story of this mage, who after an experiment on some tame flying creature created the huge birds that are currently sitting on top of the tower. By all accounts, the wizard seems convinced that the birds managed to get into the stores somehow, with whatever consequences that might hold. Still though, Twitch can't quite figure out why one of the scraps would say the same things on both pages. Was the wizard going mad? But then, the birds were real enough, and it certainly looked as though the last page was stained in blood.

"So some nut tried to use magic and paid the price for it....well, shall we get to smoking them out?"

Elhanna leave her lookout post when she hear Twitch reading the page and walk over to her “Here, let me see that..” and takes the pages and cast mending on it. 

(One says the same on the front and back?  Oops, I must have not flipped it correctly, sorry. Originally made these to hand to my RL group to try to piece together and read.  Of course, they hadn't already flown up to the roof to see what was awaiting them there...

The DM, who never thought they would need to save the original document, fumbles to respond to the Mending spell. )

After casting Mending, you have two full pages of the journal, written on both sides.

It seems that the wizard filled his empty hours trying to develop a new sort of growth potion, experimenting to disastrous effect on the local plants and animals. He eventually had success with his plant experiment, but hesitated to use it on a monkey considering the disaster that had come of his first monkey test.  He decided to try it on some of his pets.  He had a cage full of tiny creatures called Eveswyrms (spelled in several creative variations.) They were tiny creatures with the bodies of dragons and the feathers of birds. They were common in some distant land, where they build nests among the eaves of the houses, and were appreciated for their ferocity in wiping out mice, large insects, and other pests.  A passing ship had brought him a cage full of them as a gift. The experimental potion worked this time, but he did not realize until they were the size of horses that his precious little pets were highly intelligent and evil. (And, in some cases, the potion has...less than standard effects.)  In the end, he tried to cast a spell protecting the island from evil, but was unsure if it would protect him, if the evil was already here.

He seems to have found the answer to that.

Wow I found a place where mending is actually useful! 😂 I love this spell for rp reasons but have never found it useful until now! Stuff is always too big. 😑

”well, then we should not drink this potion I guess.” Elhanna joke.. 

"That seems wise. Also I feel less bad about killing the birds knowing they're murderously evil." Paren looks up at the hatch.

"So we're killing the birds?"

Si'Juul crosses his arms and looks up towards the nest 

"Sounds like they're going to be trouble otherwise. But, if you allow me, I'd like to take the three vials of the enlargening potion with us. They might come in handy, and even if they don't I might be able to analyse them further and might figure out a way to make them work."

OOC: I wasn't sure whether the duplicate was a mistake or not, and assumed for RP reasons that it wasn't. I tried to use my image software to piece the page back together, but could have just waited for the mending to take care of it :P

(Ha, guess what I found?)

Twitch shows off the newly-mended pages. Her mending spell even eliminated the wrinkles and cleaned the paper a bit. But alas, it could do nothing for the faded ink, stains, many misspellings and orthographical errors.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

After reading the repaired but partially illegible notes, Si'Juul shakes his head.

"Tsk tsk tsk..... wherever he his now....he better have learned not to mess with magic.....but at least it was just magic......"

Paren points to the blood on the page. "My guess is he's not anywhere magic will do him much good anymore."

"Exactly my point......now, the dragon birds......we have to eliminate them here, can't have them fleeing to another location......"

"We know that they are smart, and their young might pose a danger too. Looks like we'll have to burn the nest anyway. DO we have some means to keep the birds here though? I'd assume that they just up and leave once any threat approaches, and apart from Si'Juul, do we have much in the ways of anything that can reach them once they're fifteen or twenty feet in the air?"

"Well I don't think they would turn down a meal...... which we are to them....think that might keep them here...."

"Do we have nothing else? I like to have backup options is all..." Twitch wasn't particularly keen on posing as food for these birds just to keep them in range to be shot. If things went poorly, one of them might be snatched up and separated, after all...