A Wish Upon a Shattered Star

Game Master Dragoncat

This was not made clear to me in-character.

I will assume that Azura gets that clarified.

While the team splits off for their various tasks, Azura heads to the running stream to take care of her daily cleanup routine.

"Need a hand or want me to keep the other occupied?" Ryn whispers as Azura gets ready to head off.

Yes, Ulfr would clarify. Cheekily. :P

"Up to you, love," Azura says before she leans over to give Ryn a smooch, then heads for the stream.

Ryn only considers for a moment before she gets up and follows after Azura. She'd be damned if she left her alone in a vulnerable position in a cave full of strangers...some of whom might have difficulty controlling thier instincts, or might harbor hostility towards warmblooded folk.

Any other reason was just a bonus.

Azura finds the stream and is able to clean up before turning in for the night...
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Starday, 15th of Sarenith, 4714 AR

Lorekeeper Ucutzi approaches the group's camp in the morning.

"Greetings, warmbloods. Where is the one you call 'Saersha'?"

When the lizard-person comes calling in the morning, Azura says, "She was consulting with your warrior Arshak. I haven't seen her this morning?"

Aww crap, she f##+ed him to death and is working for where to hide the body, Zev idly thinks upon waking.

After a pause, Azura says, "We can help you look for them - have any of your people seen Arshak?"

I sent Ryn a PM about the stream-cleaning scene the night before, but can copy anyone who decides to go find out why they're gone for thirty minutes, if requested. I also cc'd the DM in case any lizardfolk show up to find out what the heck the mammals are doing to their stream.

Will respond in a bit

Lorekeeper Ucutzi shakes her head. "No. Usually he is the first to rise in the mornings."

It was about then that Saersha came walking up to the group. She looked none the worse for wear and actually quite happy. She went to Embyr and embraced her as she spoke softly into her ear.

Saersha turned to Ucutzi then and said, "I'm sorry I'm a bit late this morning. I hope I didn't keep you waiting long."

Ucutzi tilts her head at Saersha. "Not too long--"

Something catches her nose, and she starts sniffing. She then looks at Saersha with slightly narrowed eyes. "--ah."

"Is Arthak well?"

Even if he's not he's probably too happy to complain, Zev thinks as his nose falls in line with the Lorekeeper's sniffs.

"Oh, welcome back and good morning, Saersha! You're just in time for breakfast," says Azura, artfully ignoring the reptilian elephant in the room.

Ada wakes up the next morning, and finds a quiet place to commune with her Patrons. Erras looks like her normal healthy self, but looks more like a statue this morning. "Zev would you come with me back to the sick lizard folk? I can help the other two with their affliction this morning." She pauses. "At least one of their afflictions."

Her wandering Patron is stone. Anybody need a pile of rocks dropped on an enemy?

”Sure!” Zev happily replied to the shamaness.

Saersha nodded at Ucutzi and said, "Yes, Arthak is fine," she smiled naughtily, as she stood there and said, "I'm afraid I rather wore him out though."

Saersha smiled at the mention of breakfast. She was famished after her...research on the effects of the mist last night. "Excellent, I'm ravenous."

"C'mon and have a seat. Nothing fancy, but I've mixed up some flour and milk and honey and a little oil to make pancakes, and we have some trail jerky that I'm frying in oil so it's kinda like bacon?" says Azura. She checks the makeshift mess kit to see how the sizzling "fake bacon" is doing.

Ucutzi goes quiet for a moment before curtly nodding. "Mmhm."

She then turns to Ada. "Come, follow me."
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Sick Room

The sick chamber appears to be mostly unchanged since the last time Ada and Zev were here. The guards step aside to let them through to the remaining two patients.

One of them is lying on his back, his scaled body burning with heat. The other is looking over at Zev with more than a little interest in his eyes.

That does not look pleasant, Zev thinks upon seeing the prone Lizardfolk, having enough awareness to not say something like that aloud.

When he spots the other Lizardfolk eyeing him he simply smiles.

Ada kneels next to the prone lizardfolk first. She touches his hand and casts Lesser Restoration. "This should help you feel better."

She stands and moves to her next patient. She reaches out to touch his hand, and gives him a slight smile and shakes her head when she notices he's looking Zev. She casts Lesser Restoration on him, and stands. "There you go. Feel better friend."

"I've done what I can. Zev time for breakfast?" She heads toward the door hoping Zev follows.

Lesser Restoration: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Lesser Restoration: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Sick Room

Ada's spells bring a great deal of vitality back into the afflicted lizardfolk, purging the heat from their bodies and clearing their eyes. They blink their eyes rapidly as their blood cools, fixing the half-orc shaman with looks that could perhaps be construed as grateful.

They both take her hands and make a hiss before getting to their feet and walking out of the cavern.

"They say 'thank you'." Ucutzi translates.

”Always!” Zev happily replies to Ada before waving goodbye to the cured Lizardfolk. ”That’s so cool, your magic is always wonderful to see.”

When Azura spoek about the "fake bacon" Saersha was intrigued. She'd never had such a thing before and was quite curious to try it out. "It sounds delicious," she sniffed the air, "and it smell pretty good too."

Azura diligently finishes frying up some of the jerky - the pan-frying makes it a bit crispier, and with the saltiness of jerky already, it is sorta-kinda bacon-like. At least it's a difference from the usual chewiness of pemmican. The pancakes are somewhat flat and somewhere between "pancake" and "muffin" but still sweeter than hardtack.

"Help yourselves! This was kind of an experiment to see if I could do something different with our usual road rations."

As Ryn brings over a heated travel kettle of coffee, she grins at Searha's triumphant swagger as she returns, noting Azura's intrigued expression as the two whisper an exchange. "Glad everyone's back safe and sound." she says as Zev and Ada rejoin them.

"Oh yeah! Come have some breakfast," says Azura to the returning stragglers. She lets the jerky continue to sizzle as she pauses briefly to give Ryn a sudden but lengthy kiss.

"Any special requests? Do you want more pancakes or fried jerky, sweetie?" she says to Ryn.

"Yeah, Ada helped two more of them!" Zev excitedly answers before getting in line for breakfast.

"Great news! We're definitely making friends here. That should help keep this place safer for us," says Azura.

"With that in mind... what's our next goal? We probably will have to confront this other tribe that they mentioned sooner or later. Or we can try to sneak around and see if we can find an alternative route into the tower."

Wrapping her arms around Azura's waist, Ryn lifts her a couple of inches off the ground, holding her up during their lengthy kiss, and setting her back down with a breathless smile. "Uhm..I think a few more pancakes would be good. Thank you, Love." she answers, unable to shake the silly grin from her face.

Embyr gets in line for pancakes.

She snickers. "Do you two want to get a room? I mean, Mistress was quite happy to find one."

"Did that already," quips Azura. "Besides I think we already established that this group is full of lewd, horny sex fiends who would not complain in the least about my clothes coming off." She wiggles her eyebrows and snickers as she pours some more batter into the pan.

As an afterthought, she adds, "And that's without even considering the aphrodisiac mist outside."

Saersha gave Azura and Ryn a knowing look at Embyr's words and said, "Oh, you found one did you? Would you care to share where it is?"

Lizardfolk do get a CON bonus... and rangers do get Endurance as a 3rd-level bonus feat. :)

"This cave has many spaces," says the bard mysteriously. "Depends on how quick you are. A little side niche is good for a little side fling." She grins at Ryn.

Saersha nodded in understanding and looked at Embyr brifely before she said, "I'll remember that."

Yep, they do, that's why I have ranks in prof (courtesan) and am a lust mage. It means that I win!

Hmm...

Ulfr is sitting nearby waiting for the others to grab some chow before he does. He's gently patting on his portable drum and humming to himself. No. This has to be poetry. No one will believe it otherwise.

Ada smiles and gets in line for breakfast. "I used all the restoration healing I had today. I hope the other tribes don't need restoration too." She puts the food together like a sandwich and enjoys breakfast.

"This cave has many spaces," says the bard mysteriously. "Depends on how quick you are. A little side niche is good for a little side fling." She grins at Ryn.

** spoiler omitted **

Ryn grins back. "Definitely worth the time to find one when you need a little privacy."

Zev tilts his head as he sees Ada turn her breakfast into a sandwich, which turns his interest into a joyful surprise and realization as he proceeds to do the same.

As for all the bedroom talk he just smiles, glad that mostly everyone was having a good time.

As the party is having breakfast, chatting, joking and expounding on the nature of lewdness, the sounds of loud snarling and cries of pain start to echo in the direction of the cave system's entrance!

A lizardfolk warrior rushes to the worship cave's entryway. "Sun-Eaters!" He roars in broken Common. "Attacking!"

He runs back down the tunnel, his claws bared and ready to fight!

"Of course they attack during breakfast," Zev grumbles as he picks up his sword and starts following after the warrior.

Ulfr jumps up and grabs his club. The tale wouldn't be as good otherwise! he declairs and strides to battle!

"Ah! My armor!" shouts Azura as she puts the cooking tin to one side and tries to stamp out the fire. "Quick, just help me slip it over my head!"