The Wake of the Avatar (Inactive)

Game Master Tirq

Dion can't help but chuckle at Xianhue, he turns to Su saying, "You seem a little tense. You nervous about the mission?"

Su just takes another deep breath. "The 'mission', not especially. With this group there shouldn't be any real difficulty. The situation, on the other hand, has me wondering about a number of things, including my own sanity."

Perception:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

Dion turns to her in all seriousness"Sanity? Just keep your feet on the ground!" Then bursts out in a hearty laugh. "I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'll admit I'm quite confused about the situation as well. But the way I see it, why worry? We're already in it."

Xianhue: You see a town to the south. Its not very big, but there appears to be a crowd dispersing.

In General: Man, Page 2 came by quickly.

Dion turns to her in all seriousness"Sanity? Just keep your feet on the ground!" Then bursts out in a hearty laugh. [b]"I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'll admit I'm quite confused about the situation as well. But the way I see it, why worry? We're already in it."[b]

You forgot the backslash before the last b.

Xianhue looks askance at the dispersing crowd, then shrugs and banks in a wide arc to return to the others. "It's not much of a town, but it's also not very far south. There was a big crowd standing around but they're all dispersing already so I don't know what they were doing..." she informs the others as she touches down lightly, snapping her glider staff closed at the same time.

"Hmmm...." Su frowns a bit. "Might just be a run-of-the-mill town meeting, but that would be an odd time of day for it. I think we may wish to hurry."

Didn't you say that it was a days walk to the village, wouldn't that make it more on towards evening?

It is still morning, you guys haven't said you have left yet. About the town, you'd get there by evening, and have to rest for the night. Or, you could just travel all day and all night to the mountain. Up to you really. Remember, Omi did say that someone would reward you for being early.

"Well we'll never find out whats going on by standing around here." Quin starts off down the trail. "We can speculate while we walk."

When Xianhue describes distances and time you need to mentally append "... by air" to her estimates.

Sorry, Internets been down all day. It looks like I haven't missed much however.

"No thank you Dion, I keep a small supply of assorted spices with me for just such an occasion." Quin glances at Su and then back to what he is doing.Edible doesn't imply slow. I take pride in what I prepare.

Breakfast is served and enjoyed. Quin disassembles the tent and the party heads off into the unknown.

Hope you don't mind me just hijacking the party like that but it didn't seem like we were going anywhere ;)

Yea we left already see?

Huh, I missed that part. Thanks for showing me that.

It takes you till evening till you get to the town. No one is in the streets, which is a little odd. The inn has a sign on the door that states "1 gold per room, 2 beds per room, breakfast free for customers"

I'm not one for spending money, but We might want to find out what's going on here yes?"

Su frowns at the empty town. "Yeah. This is wrong. It's not so late that everyone should be asleep."

"Maybe you're not, but if they've got soft beds I want one," Xianhue counters, bouncing lightly on her feet before turning to Su Jiang. "Do you think they'll have hot baths here? Probably not, I guess but we could ask..."

"This is odd, I've never seen a street so empty before..." Quin looks around thoughtfully and then steps into the common room of the inn.

He spots the Inkeeper and casually strikes up a conversation. "Evening, it certainly is quiet tonight isn't it?"

Diplomacy 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
I'm trying to find out why the streets are so empty.

The inn keeper is an old lady wearing a simple green one piece shirt and skirt with an apron on the front. She says to Quin "Evening. It sure is quiet. Ever since the town meeting tonight. Apperently, we're gonna send some people up the mountain to get a cure for the mayor. I don't know who's gonna do it, though. That place is haunted! Peels of thunder out of nowhere, those strange... things... on the top... Do you kids need a room for tonight?"

"They mayor is ill? My companions and I are actually headed for the mountain. Perhaps we could bring this cure back, if you would tell me what it is." Quin pauses a moment and glances back through the door. "And I suppose we will be staying the night, by chance do you have hot baths or is there a bath house nearby?"

"The cure asks for some Juniper Berries. The only place you can get some of those, is on the top of the mountain. It's either that, or a seven day long journey to Jeng Ha. They're park is full of them, beautiful is what it is. We'll discuss this tomorrow, I'll tell Jeb this in a little. It'll be 2 gold for 2 rooms, breakfast is free. The closest thing we got to a bath house is a large tub, a furnace, and the underground lake. We got wells leading to it, though. Jeb and I can get it ready for you in about an hour. It'll fit one of you at a time, and it'll take another hour to be ready again. Oh, and you poor souls are hungry, aren't you? I'll get a stew going while you are bathing."

With that, she takes 2 gold from you, and walks through a door to the back room and out of sight. You here a loud "JEB!!" a little while later.

Did you guys think that you'd get a Hot Springs/Beach episode so quickly? Not yet. :)

One hour later, the woman comes back to you and says "First bath is ready. I'll get to work on that fresh stew." She says the word Stew with a large smile, and heads to another door.

Well seeing as I seem to be the only one here at the moment ;)

Quin heads down to the washroom and scrubs the dirt off himself, then rinses out his clothes. He stokes up the fire in the furnace with some bending and quickly dries out his clothing. After the fact he thinks to himself hmm...I wonder what else this furnace is supplying heat to, ah well

Walking back up through the common room he sniffs at the aroma of cooking.
Perception 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 Stew or 'stew'?
He sits down at a table and begins meditating until his companions show up.

The smell of cabbages hangs in the air as if in a surreal state. With this in mind, you think that its probably Cabbage stew, a traditional meal for the Earthkingdom.

If you want, a knowledge engineering would tell you where the furnace leads.

Eh, I don't really care so much. I was just idly wondering if I may have accidentally burnt the stew heh

Xianhue attacks the stew with obvious relish, then looks at the others. "Does anyone know what Juniper berries look like?" she asks, then looks back at the innkeeper. "Haunted? Ghosts or angry spirits or something else?"

Knowledge (religion)1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

I am a Water Bender, so I do not require bath. I just surround body in large bubble of water, then suddenly, I am dry again.

You don't know if the mountain is haunted or not, but her story might convince you.

"It must be spirits! Quakes from underneath the mountain and peels of thunder on clear days. This must be from evil spirits. But, not all of them are bad, some people who are sick will go up on the mountain and be cured! Its strange, not everyone is cured. Only people who feel weak or can't think strait. Crazy Gao went up there and, well, we couldn't call him crazy anymore."

"Y'know it wouldn't be hard for us to create our own hot tub. I make a rock bowl, Kamiko Fills it, Quin heats it. Done." As an earth bender can't I in theory just bend the dirt off of me?

"Never been one for berries myself, but I'll be happy to help if you can tell us what they look like. Would it be possible to speak with someone who has gone up to the mountain? And if sick people get healed going up there why doesn't the Mayor go up?"

"This isn't the kind of sick the mountain can fix up. Its... different. The mayor can't really be moved right now. He is currently in his house, you can visit him tomorrow, if you want."

"If his condition is so serious then we had better get to the mountain quickly and not waste time. If anyone wants to go speak with the mayor or whatever I'm not going to protest, my character is suprisingly amiable for an earth bender. I think amiable is the right word anyways.

I am ready to go to mountain and find berries. Bird Man said there were bandits too. Maybe they know what berry look like.

Its still night. You haven't rested yet.

I am ready to sleep, and move on. If anyone wants to do anything go right ahead, but otherwise I guess make it known your ready?

So do I get to have my Polar Bear Dog, or did I have to leave him behind at the Northern Water Tribe?

It is time for sleep now, but tomorrow, we set out for scary mountain and berries.

I'm going to say you left him. You never said anything about him other than you had him. If ever you go to your respective tribe you may pick him up. I'll give you a build for it when you do.

Ok.

Hmm...not too sure about spirits.

Heal (to identify the disease from symptoms alone): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Knowledge (Religion)(Trying to recognize spirit influence from same): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

You can tell that the major sickness that requires Juniper Berries is Dragon's Flu. Its kinda like the flu, but lasts a whole lot longer. Older people have problems with the Dragon's Flu because the nervous system gets jacked up and staying sick for too long is really bad. If you don't get that cure to the mayor, he could die. You haven't seen him, but you can guess thats why they need Juniper Berries.

You also can't think of any spirits who do this sort of thing.

Quin spices his 'stew' and only eats a little of it. I bet bilge water would taste better.

To the inkeeper he says "Do you know what juniper berries look like madam? If not we will find someone in the morning as its rather quite late now."

Quin then turns to his companions. "Is that agreeable? It seems we all wish to set out as soon as possible."

With that said quin excuses himself form the table and heads for his room to turn in for the night.

If someone has another plan or just wishes to chat he'll turn around and stay

"I don't off the top of my head, but I have a book you guys can borrow. Or, if you want, you can buy it for a Silver. I don't know why you might want a book about plants, though..."

... except that it would add a +1 modifier to your Survival rolls, +3 if you're in a forest, for gathering food. I can't think of the any reason at all.

I say we buy it :P

Why not?

Su shrugs a bit. "I don't see why not."

Xianhue nods. "That could be useful especially if we wind up travelling through the forest for longer and it's not that expensive," she replies, then pauses to look at Quin. "... Is it?"

"I'm not one to turn down an advantage." Quin hands the coin over to the innkeeper and takes the book from her. He opens it up and thumbs through the pages looking for the entry on Juniper berries. Finding it he places the book down on the table open to the page so everyone can see.

Pointing to the picture he says,"That's what we're looking for, it doesn't look like they will be too difficult to find from what this says. I suggest we all get some rest now so we can head out early in the morning, the mayors condition sounds serious; as for the other thing, I've never put much stock in spirits. More likely its these bandits we were told about that are spooking the locals."

"Bandits? No one is mad enough to go up there. Listen, you kids have a good night, and I'll see you in the morning."

With that, she starts leaving the room. And night comes. I'll give you guys a little bit in case you want to do something at night, such as sleeping or studying the book you just bought. Just remember that something funky is going on up there, and rest might be smart.

Good night friends. See you in the morning I hope.

"And yet, it's where we have to go. And were going anyway." Su says to the innkeeper. "Spirits, you may be right about our sanity."

"We'll be fine," Xianhue cheerfully assures Su Jiang. "Spirits aren't usually bad as long as you treat them with proper respect. Come on, let's get some rest before tomorrow!"