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![]() "Burning the building down is a foolish idea. We need to rescue the Guide, without whom we cannot hope to cross the Crown. If he dies, then we will surely perish in our trek. Which I understand you do not care about because that lays outside your purview." says Shalelu. Then she says, "Why are you working for us then instead of House Thrune. Or more importantly, why doesn't House Morthar make a run at the throne." she says in a sardonic tone and then laughs at this. ![]()
![]() "As I recall it was I and my bow who have saved your tale more times than I can remember, I just saw you for the first time in years about two hours ago when Vermundr grabbed me from the caravan. House Thrune...peh, as I remember House Thrune is completely inept, were they as skilled as you claim they would never have lost Varisia, or Sargava for that matter. By allying themselves with such an idiotic deity as Asmodeus, they have pledged themselves against all that one should consider progress..." says Shalelu. I was very careful about the meeting of your character with Shalelu, from IRL standpoint you are a PC but are you a permanent member of the group, I figured it would make more sense to let you earn your spot. Hope you don't mind both that and the banter. ![]()
![]() Shalelu laughs, "My job on this trek is to range, I scout alone. You can also scout but it defeats the purpose to do it as a team, make too much noise cannot bring down the best game." The day after the rhinos, Sandru gets the caravan moving at daybreak to make up for lost time GM Rolls
Perception DC 18 Spoiler:
One of the ubiquitous ravens following the caravan is much bigger than normal 1d100 ⇒ 67
At about noon on the first day the caravan still on the trade route enter the Grungir Forest following it northward toward Losthome. Grungir FOrest Knowledge Geography/Local DC 15 Spoiler:
Grungir Forest is the primordial heart of the
Linnorm Kingdoms’ wilderness. While fey, wild animals, monsters, and linnorms reside everywhere humans do not, in Grungir Forest, they rule. The forest is home to Fafnheir, said to be the oldest and most powerful of the linnorms, as well as to numerous enclaves of strange and powerful fey creatures. Portals to the legendary First World flicker within the woodlands’ tangled depths, and in places the very trees themselves move and speak in thunderous tones. Grungir Forest spreads across the central southlands in a nearly unbroken mass, with only the Thundering River and a few roads providing a break in the eastern reaches. While humans engage in logging and trapping around the forest’s eastern outskirts, particularly in the vicinity of Losthome, they are careful not to harvest too deeply into the woods—even for rare and valuable hardwoods, it’s generally not considered worth the risk to travel far enough in that you can’t see the forest’s edge. This same reluctance to explore does not apply to the numerous adventurers from across the Inner Sea region who have been drawn to Grungir Forest, eager to plumb its depths in the hunt for unique creatures or secret places of power. Yet despite the number of explorers, Grungir Forest has always proved more than their equal, and to date, it has kept the majority of its secrets quite well. By the second day the caravan reaches the Thundering River and is able to see more and more Ulfen settlements along the river where mostly loggers live. Sandru is sure to sell some of his wares to the locals and make a steady profit. On the third day you by nightfall you reach the bridge to Losthome. ![]()
![]() Shalelu continues after getting her drink, "Zheni, I know you are excited to go traveling. Well, there wasn't enough room in that inky dinky paper on the pigeon's foot to tell ya that we're going to Brinewall for an exploration cuz my girl Ameiko's family's gots a secret in that place. I am pretty stoked, and it should be an enormous time..." With that Shalelu tosses back her whisky in one large pull, sloshing the contents in her mouth and then swallowing it. Shalelu then buys a bottle of the whisky and pours glasses for everyone there "To Zhenzhen and Ameiko!!!! ![]()
![]() She looks at Kali intensely deep in though and then says: Fair enough. She then turns toward the rest of the group and says,
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