As random DM I'll allow it

Duke takes a berry and shoves it into this mouth. "Mmmm, this is really good. Thank you for this! The name is Duke, Duke Ryant, yes yes, I know, you've heard of me and my hip-shaking songs, please contain your excitement. Shall we sit?" He says rambling on about his ego before motioning toward a table.

Taking a seat nearby and looking around to her other friends, "So North this morning right?  Anyone know of what lies ahead?"  

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Duke takes a berry and shoves it into this mouth. "Mmmm, this is really good. Thank you for this! The name is Duke, Duke Ryant, yes yes, I know, you've heard of me and my hip-shaking songs, please contain your excitement. Shall we sit?" He says rambling on about his ego before motioning toward a table.

 I'm going to need you to roll intimidation for that...

(ooc Eerie for resistance or Duke for an effect he may create?)

( ooc Duke because that feels like something that would intimidate someone )

Ertix has joined the other gnomes at this point. "Well, there could be bandits. Probably goblins, orcs, the occasional ochre jelly..." He keeps naming monsters in the forest until he discovers what he is doing and abruptly stops, his cheeks flushed. "Um... yeah, that's what we could encounter." He sits silently, and everyone can tell he looks embarrassed.

Duke intimidation check: 19

( Yep, no-one is intimidated by thy statement )

Eerie looks thoughtful for a moment and says, "I don't think I've ever heard of an Ochre Jelly anything I should know if we run into them?" 

"Ochre jellies are types of oozes that eat creatures, to my knowledge. Very dangerous. Try to slash at one with a sword, and it splits into 2 smaller ones, so it's wise to keep your distance. I almost died to one a couple months ago, before I knew how to fight them. I don't know why they're in the forest, but they're there."

"Where north exactly are we heading?" asks Zakon.  He is once again running a coin through his knuckles, almost absentmindedly.  "And are we likely to run into other . . . jellies . . . on the way?"

"How do you fight a creature that splits to pieces if you cut it?"  Eerie said as she watched the coin roll back and forth in his fingers with amusement.  

"Burn it?" Zakon muses aloud.  "Acid? Holy water? Who knows?" he says.  "Best just to sneak by it if you can," he grins.

"Wise words, Zakon. Most offensive magics work against them, and so do ranged weapons. Like Zakon said, you can sneak past them too. They're pretty dumb. They are rare, and it's unlikely to encounter one. If we did encounter one right now, things could go very badly very fast."

if they only knew...

Duke will jokingly add-in. "The only way to kill a jelly is to sing it a nice song." He'll start humming a nice tune. ((Similar to Rearview Town))

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"Burn it?" Zakon muses aloud.  "Acid? Holy water? Who knows?" he says.  "Best just to sneak by it if you can," he grins.

"Maybe we should be oil or torches with us?  Does anyone have some? I will certainly remember this in my evening prayers. Are we all here?  Should head out soon to keep the daylight."  Eerie checks that her pack and supplies are all together and pulls up her cloak readying to leave. 

(ooc As far as I know we aren't heading anywhere specific, just north to see what's out there.)

That sounds about right

I follow them grumbling the whole while.