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Robwin blinks a couple of times taken aback, but smiles broadly, caught up in this guy’s infectious enthusiasm!…

”You know what…”, says Robwin, clapping Silenus on the shoulder, “Knock yourself out…”.

He takes the bowl of food, and casts fly on his new acquaintance…

”Just… when you feel it fading… get yourself down! You hear?!…”.

((Silenus suddenly feels like he could push off from the floor, if he would like)).

Yian approaches seeing the spell being cast, she leaves Ydri to his haunch of meat he's snacking on

"Well it seems you have met Silenus, I am Yian, Yian Do'Garon" she says extending a hand to Robwin

"I believe we'll be helping you in there" She says tilting her head in the direction of the keep "But for now I thought I'd help raise some spirits in the camp with some hot and fresh food!"

She smiles and sits at a table somewhere sipping on some water in a mug "An army marches on it's belly they say!"

Robwin can see that Yian has a pack attached to her drake on that is currently strapped her bow and quiver, on her back strapped in horizontally is ostensibly a large and long knife with a hooked point, designed for skinning (a shortsword) but it is quickly within reach if it is needed otherwise

"That" She says nodding at the Drake "Is Ydri, he's a good friend and companion"

Silenus looks down at Robwin's hand on his shoulder for a couple of moments, puzzled at first by what the 'young' wizard is doing but then as he feels the energy in his own body change he lets out a whoop and kicks off into the sky as fast as he can.

"Yeah," Silenus shouts, flying over the camp and diving low over Yian, reaching out and tapping her drake as he goes by.

He flies up the front of Axeholm, looking at any doorways, windows, arrow slits or any other entrances he can find in hopes of seeing a ghoul or the something worse Robwin mentioned.

Silenus pushes away from the stronghold and looks for Valinda. If he spots the elf, Silenus flies down low, close enough to brush Valinda's hair, laughing as he does so.

Finally, he returns to ground, not quite getting the timing right and running out of flying magic while he was still 10' off the ground. He tumbles and crashes into some bushes.

"Oh wow," Silenus says as he makes his way back to Robwin. "I thought I was going to totally chunder but I kept it all down. I owe you one, dude. That was awesome."

(( As noted, the northwest main floor and mezzanine levels are now occupied by the Axeholm encampment which stretches out through the gauntlet past the portcullis and outside. There is an active apothecary's alchemy lab Sudryl had mentioned to Robwin and TT.

Shanyrria is managing a clean infirmary, now moved into the keep. The cooking pit is still outside as are tents now better protecting the gear. Supplies are largely moved to the northwest mezzanine rooms. 

The guard is spread out at barriers within the keep and around the encampment. 

Some of the gauntlet mounted crossbows have been moved to fire on arachnid or ghoul should it come down the mountain exterior or the unguarded area of the keep. ))

Eline and TT do not continue out to the forward encampment.

TT seeks out the infirmary to lend her aid. She finds Shanyrria as she returns to her duties. 

Eline seeking out the apothecary is joined by Sudryl and Valindra who had also left the light festivities after getting a bit to eat.

(( Meta: Silenus is a Satyr of the Feywilde and Yian is of unknown parentage. They each share the Reverie (trance) trait with Rinn and Robwin. You need four hours for a long rest and have advantage against being surprised. You can have four hours in an eight hour rest or two hours in six for preparation(s). )) 

(( Silenus - While you are stunned by Robwin’s youth, clearly only out of his first century and quite skilled, you are dumbfounded when you see Rinn. He is a high-elf like Robwin, but you can tell he is not two decades old.  Yet he carries himself more like one well into his third century. )) 

(( How do you, Robwin, Rinn, Silenus, Yian, each prepare for Reverie before you join the company in guard or hunt?

Where do you settle? ))

Yian definitely meditates either outside, or right at the door.

Regardless of where she has Ydri curled up in her lap also getting some rest

Just before Silenus takes off, when Yian introduces herself, Robwin apologises, “Sorry I’m Robwin Windrobe, Aprentice Abjutation wizard from the College of Neverwinter”.

He can’t help but watch as Silenus pushes off from the ground and takes an aerial tour of the encampment. Then he settles into his meal and chatting with Yian.

”We are grateful for your help”. He gets a distant look.

“We were almost overrun before… Spiders on one side, ghouls on the other… I had to set some of the upper levels ablaze…”.

”Are you sure you’re up for it?…”. He smiles, already knowing her answer.

When Silenus returns and they have finished their meal, Robwin excuses himself, saying he’s setting up watch on the front line inside. The point he picked out earlier. “If you want to join, that will be most appreciated but there is something I need to set up first”. He jogs off towards the building, but anyone is free to follow.

Near the front line of the indoor encampment. In view of all the routes in and around the place, Robwin clears a small space for himself around 20ft across. He takes off his orange robe and his vest and wrist bindings, folding everything into a neat pile. He kneels by them for a while, facing deeper into the building and takes a few calming breaths…

He stands, topless, before tying his orange robe around his waist as a sash. If any one sees him like this, he is slim. Not muscular, but athletic. He jogs from foot to foot warming up. He turns and stretches.

He has a nightmarish web of scars on his chest radiating out from his heart, some fresh, most old, even decades old. Hundreds and hundreds of scars… slashes, punctures, burns. Scars of every kind. In places the skin is red raw, in others, it’s almost silvery. It would be almost beautiful if it didn’t imply many years of torturous pain…

He limbers up, before taking a deep and low stance in the space he made.

He starts to move his arms slowly and the shimmer around him intensified. He’s mage armour flares… a protective shell appears around him, like the shield spell some may have seen before. It flickers and is gone. He moves as if practicing tai chi. Slow deliberate gestures… and the shield returns. Flickers out… then returns stronger. It seems stable… then he forces the shield outwards with a visible effort. Over the course of about 10 minutes, his movements force the translucent shield, like a bubble of light, a bubble of pure magic into a bigger and bigger shape until it forms a dome around him.

At last his movements slow and stop. He stands in the centre of the dome, breathing heavily and drenched in sweat…

((Ritial casting of tiny hut))

He kneels in the centre of the dome, catching his breath… 

Robwin eventually stands again and turns. Maybe he sees some of the party. If he does, he invites them inside the dome. Aside from that, he uses prestidigitation to clean himself down, and once he’s recovered from the effort and cooled down a bit he dresses, and takes a few moments before thinking about preparing for his trance.

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In the pouch, Rinn finds nine pieces of silver and a small green gem. 

 Once back in camp, Rinn will ask one of the dwarves what the gem is.

Rinn greets the newcomers with a smile as he gets a bowl of food and finds a seat among all the dwarves. "You know, I came across this a while back and never thought I'd have a chance to enjoy it." He unstraps a cask of old dwarven brandy, grabs a mug and breaks the seal on the cask. He looks at the dwarves, beaten and battered, all about, "Should we find out if it's terrible hogwash or a king's drink?" he says with a cheeky grin, inviting whoever would wish a drink to come and grab one before the cask empties.

After eating, Rinn will find a perch up in one of the ruined buildings to rest and keep watch from.

Yian definitely takes you up on that! She comes over with her mask already unclipped and an empty mug.


"Always down for a new drink... If it's new."

Back in his robes, Robwin will kneel in the centre of his dome on the front lines. He half closes his eyes and begins his meditations. He is surrounded by a 10ft radius dome of force (‘tiny hut’).

When Silenus rejoins the group he claps Rinn on the shoulder when he offers to share the brandy.

"Hogwash or king's drink?" Silenus asks with a laugh, "we'll totally need to drain the barrel to make sure."

While he shares a drink with the others, he eyes Rinn a moment longer.

"Are you sure you're an elf, dude?" Silenus asks in Elvish. "You look like you should still be back with your mum if you're an elf? You can't be any older than me."

When it comes time to settle in for a 'rest', baring any miners, guards, or other camp folk who would enjoy some nocturnal time with a satyr, Silenus just finds a spot where he can see the stars, lies back and watches them while he slows his breathing and runs through everything new he did that day; touched a drake, flew, met a toddler elf.

"*****in good day," Silenus says to himself. Then he lifts his head up and shouts out at the camp in general. "I'm Silenus Underwood and I'm truly stoked to be here.'

And even though it's a trance, snoring can still be heard coming from the satyr.

"You are an interesting one Silenus, but a young looking elf is not exactly uncommon" Yian says with a laugh

"I'm sure he has his reasons for being here just as we all do!"

Rinn, You strike up a conversation with Electice in Elven.
She's a Dwarf-Elf, "Belive me, mother and father were just as surprised."
"That's an uncut emerald. You might get between fifty and a hundred marks for it. Find someone who can cut it right and you could split up to a thousand marks with them. I don't know of anyone near here. Not in Leilon or Helm's Hold at least. Well maybe Neverwinter; Waterdeep definitely. "

Rinn,
Splitting the brandy into shots you have enough for sixty.
An older dwarf sips it slowly.
It is an exceptional dwarven brandy they tell you. 

(( As you each enter Reverie roll a d4 Rinn, Robwin, Yian, Silenus ))