This is the Campaign Journal of Coralee Starscryer in the Rise of the Kobold King PbP currently being run by that stalwart pillar of the PbP Community; Radavel.
Sunday, 9 Sarenith, 4707 AR
I arrived in the town of Falcon's Hollow late in the evening as part of a Merchant Caravan from Korvosa on it's way to Absalom. We set up our stuff and most of us headed towards an inn in town called The Sitting Duck. I went in and asked the portly barkeep for a room and some Thistlewine and he was really rude to me and suggested that because they were full that I should try the brothel across town. I can only think that he said such a thing because I am so good looking, but still it wasn't very nice of him. Anyway, he said I had to buy 2 drinks to stay in the common room, so I found a seat and tried to drink what I can only say "passes" for a tasty liquid beverage. After a while I noticed a bit of a commotion when a man was carried out of the bar and a lot of people were coughing and hacking. I asked the barmaid if there was any kind of disease in town and she said no, not that she was aware of but that I should go and see Laurel in the Roots and Remedies down the street. So I did, but when I got there Laurel had been attacked! I burst into the front room of the shop to find Laurel slumped over the counter with a dagger sticking out of her back. I quickly pulled the knife out and called upon the Blessing of Desna to heal her wounds. Thankfully she hadn't passed over and she groggily came around. I managed to give her some more healing and she asked me to go and check on an old man in the next room. So I went and it was horrible! Someone had taken to the old man with a knife (it was probably the same one in Laurel's back now that I come to think of it) and he was all mutilated. So I rushed back in to tell Laurel and she told me to go and find someone called Jurin Kreed. She said that he would know how to get in contact with someone called Quince Darkivy and that I should bring this Quince Darkivy back to see her. So I went and found Jurin (he was only a boy and I woke up his father who wasn't very happy and I feel a bit sorry for Jurin now, he might get in trouble) and so Quince was actually staying there with him. Quince also had some friends with him and one of them is a Kobold can you imagine that! So there is Quince (he's pretty cute) and Fjyndel (he's another Gnome like me, well not really like me 'cause he's a bit too "rustic" for my tastes) and Stoney the grumpy Dwarf and Drint the Kobold (he's not too bad for a Kobold, if a little on the sour side) and then there's Quirk the cute little Pixie. So we all headed back to Laurel's and she tells us that the town is afflicted by something called the Blackscour Taint. She can heal it but she has run out of ingredients and would like us to go into Darkmoon Vale and find them for her. Of course we all agreed (even the Kobold) and so we spent the night at Laurel's.
Moonday, 10 Sarenith, 4707 AR
So we woke up this morning and after my morning Prayers to Desna we all headed out to the shops to get supplies for our trip. I bought this Journal so I could keep a record of our journey to go with the other Journal of my trip with the Caravan. I also bought some other stuff and it was good because Laurel let us spend up to 50 gold on stuff! I didn't quite spend that much though, so Laurel can still have some of mine left. Anyway I went and told the Caravan Master where I was going and suggested that he take the crew over to see Laurel and get them checked out and if they were all alright then they should continue on to Abaslom without me. After that I met back up with the others and after lunch we got underway. Laurel told us that we should be back within a fortnight or there might not be a Falcon's Hollow to return to. Quirk knows the Vale, so he told us where we could find everything we needed. So we decided to head towards the nearest of the three places first, somewhere called The Elder Tree located to the North of Falcon's Hollow. This meant we had to travel through Darkmoon Vale and around towards the mountains. The next spot he said we had to go is the hut of the Witch Ulizmilla and that should be a day's march to the West of The Elder Tree. The old dwarven ruins is a day's march from the Witch's hut and towards the Northwest. I don't like the sound of that Witch's hut personally, but hopefully she's a good Witch. Anyway, we're getting back underway now after a short break, so I'll write some more tonight. Quirk says it's gonna be a good 2 days or so before we get to the tree, so I'm sure there's gonna be some exciting stuff to write about on the way there, some of the caravan guards said that the Darkmoon vale is supposed to be a bit creepy. I think they were just trying to scare me, but maybe they were telling the truth. Uh Oh, Quince is telling me to hurry up so I better leave it there. He still looks cute, even when he's trying to look cross.
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