Felix getting up from his sleep. Looking at the birds then his party mates. Felix shakes his head and speaks up. 

Felix: "No way, I ain't trying to be some birds lackey! If Kurma said that they are up to something then they must be." 

Looking at the birds Felix will stand up and walk to them putting on anger(mask).

Felix: "So what, your deal! You always talk to random adventures? I don't like playing around if you got business then talk!"

Insight: 19

Jan: " If you don't like it, masked man, then be gone. We can find surely someone else, even better than yourself. We will never share our information about the Soulmonger, that much is sure. "

Felix, too, feels like the birds are just playing with them. They could now call the deal off any minute.

Oniss sees Felix pissing off the birds and whispers to the group,

"I will try to con them and if it doesn't work I say lets go get the treasure.  Once we have it they may be more willing to barter, it is clearly something they want."

Oniss walks up to the trio and places his hand on Felix,

"My apologizes for Felix here, he can be...impulsive.  I spoke to our party here and learned our guide Mushy, the short albino one over there, said that we found that treasure already.  We were able to sneak past some goblins to find a chest.  We still have the chest, I am sad to say it contained nothing more then roots, Ryath Roots I believe some of the locals call them.  Their was some gems but mostly bones and crude crafts of sorts."

//I will roll both deception and persuasion for DM to choice best.//

Deception 11 with guidance 2

Persuasion 9 w/guidance 3

//well those were not as I hoped//

Jin: " What? There is no treasure? May my feathers be damned..." Apparently, Oniss' deception has worked.

At that line, the cranes take off and leave the camp.

The night passes quite nicely, after the meeting with the strange cranes. Weird creatures those, who knows what they might have known.

The sun greets the party as they wake up, for one more hot and humid day. Musharib has slept for all night, not aware of the birds' meeting. He makes the breakfast as always and boils some water for the day ahead. Before leaving, he helps Kurma to keep track of the journey on Syndra's map (Survival check).

Survival 7

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Survival 7

Brunella also takes this time to look for food, and any unusual flora or fauna for the party (outlander skill)

Gertrude gets up in the morning, dutifully puts on her insect repellent and makes sure the others do to.

"Where is that dwarf when you need breakfast! I say, we go and chase us some goblins!" Gertrude fills Musharib in on the nights events. 

 "How far, Musharib, do you think 60 beats of wings might be? Do you think we can go after the treasure and still do a full day's travel?" 

 Gertrude is excited at the idea of finally finding their first treasure - and of course doing some fighting again... she just can't get enough.

OOC: I assume even with the interruption, that we can apply a "long rest" and reset our stats?

Survival 14

ooc : better ;)

Felix does his ritual of burning the expensive rum in the morning and get his share of food and eats quietly. Looking at the river he contemplates his decisions that brought him to this point. He hears Gertrude mention the birds and joins in on the conversations.

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Jin: " What? There is no treasure? May my feathers be damned..." Apparently, Oniss' deception has worked.

At that line, the cranes take off and leave the camp.

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Gertrude gets up in the morning, dutifully puts on her insect repellent and makes sure the others do to.

"Where is that dwarf when you need breakfast! I say, we go and chase us some goblins!" Gertrude fills Musharib in on the nights events. 

 "How far, Musharib, do you think 60 beats of wings might be? Do you think we can go after the treasure and still do a full day's travel?" 

 Gertrude is excited at the idea of finally finding their first treasure - and of course doing some fighting again... she just can't get enough.

OOC: I assume even with the interruption, that we can apply a "long rest" and reset our stats?

Well then that's perfect. It's on our way, we can clear any undead and maybe get some treasure and knowledge on an old civilisation and an  old god... Count me in !!!

"Don't be so tortle-excited. We do not know what it is in there. But we will find out soon enough, I guess."

The morning passes uneventfully. As usual, at noon a nice spot to eat and rest a bit is found.

Kurma takes his time to meditate and purify any food an water the group have, casting Purify Food and Drink

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The night passes quite nicely, after the meeting with the strange cranes. Weird creatures those, who knows what they might have known.

The sun greets the party as they wake up, for one more hot and humid day. Musharib has slept for all night, not aware of the birds' meeting. He makes the breakfast as always and boils some water for the day ahead. Before leaving, he helps Kurma to keep track of the journey on Syndra's map (Survival check).

"Yes, I say two days, unless we are chased by frogs again."

Having lost any inhibitions with the group due to the events from the past few days, Irommek discusses the strange chickens that walked into their camp the night before while he slathers on his day’s ration of insect repellent. 

At lunch, he overhears Gertrude and Musharib discuss the location of Camp Righteous.

“Two days huh?  No telling what we’ll run into in the meantime.”

Turning to Oniss, he offers him a sip of ale from his supply that he purchased from the Thundering Lizard and settles in with his root porridge to be revealed by the sorcerer’s stories. 

Oniss takes a quick swallow of Ironmek's ale. 

"My story..how about the short?  I will say that you are the first group of people to call me by my real name in years it is unsettleing.  I have been living several identities, most recently as a Duke named Gavin Goodwin.  I bounce around a lot and make a some gold and run to the next town.  Lots of scams being run, mostly successful some...not so.  I never knew my birth parents but was raised by a con man named Esher."

Oniss spits at the mention of his name.  

"He raised me to be the con man that I am.  I owe him everything I know, even my magic.  See after a particular run of bad luck, several scams went bad and Esher was in debt a lot of gold.  After 15yrs of being together he sold me to a, well lets just say an unhinged wizard.  I was a prisoner and am experiment for this wizard for years, I lost track of actual time.  He opened me up again and again in what he madly said was attempts to 'fuse me with magic'.  It was torture.  One day after he opened me and closed me up again their was an explosion of greenish/yellow light.  When I came too everything was destroyed and the wizard was dead.  Was it me?  I think so but I don't know what happened.  I do know that I now have some magic abilities and if I attempt too strong of magic, I sometime cant control what happens..." //Wild Magic Surge with Lvl 1 or higher spells. spell table in PHB//

Seeing his story is a downer Oniss cast Disguise Self to look like Kurma then turning back to himself smirking. Wild Magic  roll 19

"...not to say that I am not grateful for the powers I received." 

He stands up and dusts off his clothes and looks to the party,

"So should we go to this camp and steal this mystery treasure from a goblin?  I do speak goblin if needed so.  They were some of my best trade partners over the years.  They make a good fence that bunch."

//OOC - I thought what the chances would be that I would roll a 1!?!  WIld Magic Surge Roll 23 -You are frightened by the nearest creature until the end of your next turn.  DM I will let you decide how to define creature and will edit as needed.