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But We’re Done Right?

Vilthday, the 8th day of Senant ○ After making sure they were safe from the werewolf, the group explored some more of the dungeon. ○ They found a trophy room filled with murals of various gods, as well as a storeroom. ○ In the storeroom, they found some mundane supplies and a giant Gelatinous Cube. ○ The cube almost killed everyone, but Diesa did not give up, and they eventually killed it. ○ Deciding not to explore anymore, they went to sleep. Mooreday, the 9th day of Senant ○ The next morning, they left the cave to find Shevarrah nude out by a tree. ○ Dandell helped clothe her and grabbed her things. ○ The group left for Whitmoor to get some help for to make Dylan. ○ They march for most of the day, until the get to Whitmoor and find the Leering Pegasus and Alexander. ○ Alexander pays everyone and is happy that at least Dylan is okay, and requests the group to seek help at the Shrine of Tymora. ○ The priestess their says she'll take care of him overnight. Hilnsday, the 10th day of Senant ○ The next morning, the group tended to a few errands. ○ They retrieved Dylan from the priestes and had a happy reunion between Dylan and Alexander. ○ Then they visited a blacksmith named Simon and identified the strange ore Dandell found as mithral. ○ The group then split, with Dandell, Shevarrah, and Diesa visited the manor of the Marquis. ○ There they met with Viceroy Panteleon, and discussed the death of Viceroy Anselda, as well as the spectator. ○ He asked for the group to keep Anselda's murder quiet and to let him know if they found out more. ○ As a group, they decided to head for Amberhallow the next morning. ○ Lastly, Diesa and Dandell went to check out The Wandering Rose. ○ There they met Mara, and found out that The Wandering Rose is actually a brothel. ○ Diesa seemed to like this idea, and later that night went back and paid some gold to be with a man dwarf for the first time in 50 years.

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Find the thing, fight the thing, conquer the thing.

Vilthday, the 8rd day of Senant ○ Shevarrah chased the cat for a while, but eventually the cat disappeared. ○ The team explored a few more rooms until they came across a library. ○ Diesa was able to hear the laughing from the next room, but Dandell heard it from a room on a different wall. ○ Coming up with a plan, the group entered both doors at the same time, and found themselves face to face with a Spectator. ○ The spectator spent some time talking to everyone, learning about them. ○ It was then that everyone noticed behind the spectator, was an unconscious Dylan. ○ The spectator then left to room, claiming it was time to get down to business. ○ Someone healed Dylan, but he still looked really bad. ○ An arcane door was found in the back of this room, but upon trying to open it, they were shocked with a bolt of lightning. ○ Deciding that it might be better to leave, everyone crept out the way they came. ○ However, upon reaching the library, they encountered animated suits of armor attacking, and the spectator was right behind them. ○ An epic battle ensues, ending with the spectator being destroyed. ○ Cheers were had all around, but all too soon. ○ Shevarrah started screaming, and quickly growing hair over her body. ○ Shevarrah turned into a werewolf and ran down the hallway and Dandell closed the portcullis behind her.

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Nitlios and Zoltan Are At It Again

Raanday, the 7th day of Senent ○ (The story of Diesa) ○ Diesa followed the feeling of the sword further into the dark woods. ○ Pretty quickly, she found the sword leaning against the tree, already dug up. ○ She ran towards it with laser focus and didn't notice she accidentally stepped through a shadow crossing into Shadowfell. ○ She found herself in a different forest, where all the trees are dead and everything is in black and white. ○ Almost immediately, she felt the sword telling her to get moving. ○ She traveled until she found herself outside of a large chateau. ○ Inside was a small picnic table with a man sitting at one of the chairs surrounded by undead butlers. ○ He explained that Diesa had entered a contract with him when she attuned to his sword, Zoltan, and she was in his service until said contract was completed. ○ He was, however, a bit light on the details. ○ It was then Nitlios noticed the crest of Torm on her helmet, he was confused. ○ Moments later, a flash of light came into the chateau and a Deva appeared. ○ Nitlios told Diesa not leave, and that he would be back. ○ Then he and the deva disappeared. ○ (The story of everyone else) ○ The rest of the group were deciding who should go and who should stay when Bibsy (drunk off his butt) stammered about how she's probably going to the sword where he buried it. ○ They found the sword had been dug up and was missing. ○ A quick investigation of the grounds appeared to show Diesa's footprints disappearing. ○ Wickwocket turned into a wolf to use her keen sense of smell to try and find Diesa, but ended up finding another shadow crossing nearby. ○ Immediately after entering the shadow crossing, they hear a loud pop and the crossing disappeared, followed by a quieter pop some distance away. ○ In Shadowfell, Dendell and Wix find some foot prints and follow them towards the chateau. ○ (Everyone meets up) ○ In the chateau, the group sees Diesa sitting alone with some undead servants. ○ She brings them up to speed, and they consider leaving but then Nitlios and the deva named Maradin return. ○ Maradin says nothing before leaving, but Nitlios tell Diesa that she will be shared by him and Torm until the contract is completed. ○ He then waves them off, telling them to leave before Zoltan moves the crossing any further away. ○ They head back to the forest and Diesa uses the sword to guide the group back to the shadow crossing, the Zoltan is reluctant to help. ○ Upon arriving back, they find their way back to the clearing and take turns keeping watch.

Vilthday, the 8th day of Senent ○ The morning, Wix took some time finding the darkness in forest, got a direction, and lead the group towards a large hill in the distance. ○ A while later, they are approaching the cliff side of the hill, following a trail. ○ Pretty abruptly, the trail ends into nothing, but Shevarrah notices a hidden wall hiding a cave. ○ The party follows the cave for a while until the rocky cave walls smooth out. ○ In the first room, they find two carrion crawlers rummaging through the rotten food of a pantry in a dining room. ○ The second room was some sort of temple, and a small cat wandering around it. ○ Shevarrah is having a strange feeling, the need to chase this cat...

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And Off the Side of the Side Road...

Adventure Log 4/17/17

Raanday, the 7th day of Senent ○ Upon walking downstairs the next morning, the party was surprised to see Bibsy sitting alone at the bar, scarred, a bleeding. ○ A quick drink and healing spell later, Bibsy explained that he had run all night through the Hidewoods and attacked by flying snakes. ○ He had been walking past the House of the Marquis in Anberhallow, when someone accused him of murdering Viceroy Anselda. ○ Afraid of being captured by the guards, he fled. ○ After much discussion, everyone agreed to look into the murder of Anselda after they had taken care of whatever was taking over the Hidewoods. ○ Leaving Alexander behind, they left into the woods, closely following the road until they found the burned down cart. ○ Wix took the lead in following the tracks through the forest. ○ Carefully listening up ahead, Wix and Dandell stop the party before they walked head first into a group of arguing Green Hags. ○ Maneuvering around the 4 hags, and continuing onward, they heard sounds of explosions and such for almost a half hour of travel, coming from the hags. ○ A little while later, Shevarrah spots a buried sword in the ground, and discovers that it is an enchanted long sword. ○ Diesa being the only one who can use a long sword took it, and took a short rest to attune to it. ○ Bibsy was careful to listen for the hags approaching, but luckily their fighting still stayed pretty far off. ○ Upon continuing through the forest, Wickwocket is no longer follow tracks but, following the feeling of the darkness to its heart. ○ However, before reaching it, everyone hears a majestic song being sang throughout the trees. ○ Three of the party fall pray to it, and immediately go running towards it, while Danny and Shevarrah try to find out whats going on. ○ A clearing ahead reveals a pair of harpies singing and charming the heroes and a battle ensues. One harpy almost kills Dandello. ○ Diesa uses her new sword to deal tons of hurt to the other harpy, but in using it, unleashes a huge surge of dark energy from the blade. ○ After the battle, Dandell tries to see whats up with the blade, but Diesa refuses to part with it. ○ A lot of arguing ensues, and eventually Dandell puts Diesa to sleep via magic. ○ Bibsy takes the sword and runs into the forest and buries it by a tree. ○ When Diesa wakes up, she tries to find the sword but the party convinces her that she imagined it all. ○ However, Di can still sense the presence of the sword and goes for a walk around the clearing. ○ Everyone else huddles up and discusses what to do about the sword. ○ -cut back to Diesa- she feels the power of the sword off in the direction Bibsy buried and starts walking that direction, being careful to hug the treeline and not attract attention. ○ -cut back to the discussion of what to do about the sword- "We'll sleep on it and see what happens in the morning." ○ -fades to black- "Wait... where is Di...?" - Wix.

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Wix: “Should I pull my you-know-what and try to hit the you-know-who?”

Dani and Dai: “Ew Wix that’s gross!”

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Over the River and Through the Woods

Adventure Log 3/27/17

Hilnsday, the 5th day of Senent ○ Shevarrah sped away as fast as she could as soon as she knew she was comprimised. ○ Dandell ran after her as he was told and the four huntsmen followed closely behind. ○ After a short chase, and losing one of the goons, Shevarrah is able to hide behind some bushes were no one can see her. ○ Dandell turns around and puts the second goon and Bryce to sleep, but not Ryany. ○ Ryany commences to fight Dandell and Shevarrah, and surprises them when transforms into a werewolf! ○ A very epic battle ensues, and somehow, Dandell and Shevarrah survive with their lives, and are able to question Bryce, but find out nothing of use. ○ They knock them out and leave the forest, heading back to the Horse and Horse.

Shoneday, the 6th day of Senent ○ The next morning, Dandell and Shevarrah share their story, then Wix let's everyone know what she did the day before. ○ She had found an old druid man who claimed their was a dark energy in the north side of the forest, one that would cause him to leave soon if it didn't stop. ○ He offered to show everyone if they met him in the forest today, so the gang decided to see what he had to say. ○ Wix lead everyone to the druid named Kihei's tree, where he popped out and began leading the expidition. ○ Kihei gets to the the hilled area of the forest, he stops abruptly and refused to go further that direction. ○ Over the course of an hour, Kihei shows they group a place where there used to be a couple of Treants, but they had been taken, as well as a place where a whole pack of deer had been slaughtered. ○ He then left Wix with his Ring of Jumping, and vacated the forest. ○ The party then wandered around and found one of the missing carts of supplies, along with the body of Dylan. ○ Further down they found Tom's cart, burnt down, and tracks leading back to the hills of the forest; no Tom. ○ Diesa and Shevarrah pushed the cart back to Whitmoor in the dark, while Wix and Dandell followed. ○ That night they showed their evidence to Alexander, and claimed that first thing in the morning, they would set of to find the source of the darkness.

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**Bibsy flails about drunkenly** 

"I'M DRUNK!" X20

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Werewolves of London

Adventure Log 3/6/17

Hilnsday, the 5th day of Senent ○ Being overwhelmed by being in a larger city again, Wix decided to take a small break and spend some time near the woods and the ocean to reconnect with nature. ○ The rest of the group went into town looking for the sketchiest of sketch taverns, hoping to get some good information. ○ With Shevarrah leading the charge, the find a pretty disgusting inn called The Horse and Horse. ○ Inside, they find a halfling bartender/innkeeper named Ryany, and a monk patron named Bibsy. ○ After some interesting conversation with Ryany and Bibsy, they group left in search of a nicer tavern called The Slaughtered Dwarf, accompanied by Bibsy. ○ Diesa, being afraid to go in to a tavern called "The Slaughtered Dwarf," stayed outside to gather information. ○ Inside the tavern, Dandell talks to some drunks about Tom and Dylan, and no one has seen them in town in a couple of weeks. ○ Shevarrah confirms this with the tavern keeper Imel. ○ From there, the gang left to head to see the Viceroy (at the suggestion of Imel). ○ Viceroy Anselda doesn't seem to care about finding Dylan and Tom, just the supplies. ○ She leaves her assistant Reywn to answer their questions. ○ He informs them that the town butcher has found an alternative source of meat for the town. ○ Also, no one seems to know anything about the human traffickers in the forest. ○ They meet the butcher in his place of work, where he is skinning a dear. ○ Everyone takes turns trying to convince William to tell him where the meat is coming from, but it is Diesa who eventually figures out that rabbit is the way to his heart. ○ After promising to bring him some, William reveals that a carpenter named Byrce, friend of Ryany, brings it every couple of days, and tells William not to tell anyone on pain of death. ○ Not knowing where to find Bryce, they decide to head back to The Horse and Horse to see if they can get any info on him from Ryany. ○ Ryany eventually budges and give the group directions to Bryce's home, under the guise of wanting hunting advice. ○ The group makes their plan, and while Dandell distracted Bryce at the door, Bibsy searched one of his rooms and find a box of animal and human teeth. ○ Meanwhile, Dandell convinces Bryce to show him some hunting and trapping spots in the hidewoods. ○ Shevarrah follows them while Diesa, Bibsy, and Wix get a room at the Horse and Horse. ○ Dandell finds himself feeling very alone in the woods with Bryce, when after about half an hour, they run into Ryany and two other people he didn't recognize. ○ They mention that they are part of a "church" for the god Malar, god of the hunt. ○ Dandell, agrees to join because Ryany implies he will kill Dandell if he doesn't. ○ However, his Ryany tells Dandell that the initiation will begin immediately. ○ Dandell must kill a traveler who has left the path, and one of those just happens to be listening to the conversion from right over there, pointing in the direction of Shevarrah.

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Steppin in the Hide Zone

Adventure Log 2/13/17

Vilthday, the 3rd day of Senent ○ The group set off immediately after killing the goblins, but not exactly back to the road. ○ Wicks preferred to ask some bird for directions and information instead. ○ The birds were not much help, but did mention they had seen a man in the forest recently. ○ However, at the request of pretty much everyone else, Wicks lead the group back to the road and continued to Amberhallow. ○ A couple of hours pass, Wicks spots some pixies off the path and convinces the team to talk to them. ○ The pixies seem a little shady, but tell Wicks that they saw an abandoned wagon through the woods past the Sacred (Silver) Spring ○ They decide to sleep on the decision, and sleep that night, having the best night's sleep and definitely nothing bad was around.

Mooreday, the 4th day of Senent ○ The next morning, the team decides to backtrack to find this Sacred Spring and hopefully the wagon. ○ Hours later, they find the spring and try to decide whether it it worth it to continue. ○ Diesa doesn't really care for this and falls into the spring. ○ A couple minutes later Shevarrah decides that they will continue onward, eventually finding some footprints and start following those instead. ○ Half an hour later, after little change, arrows come out of the thicket of the woods. ○ Arming their weapons, the group treads carefully towards the arrows and quickly find themselves surrounded (again) by a group of bandits. ○ The bandits make it clear they just want the young pretty human girl and everyone else can go free. ○ Wickwocket and Dandello decide that's not okay and use their magic to trick and scare the bandits into leaving them alone. ○ Diesa wanted to confuse some of the bandits, and does confuse some of them with her strange words. ○ The group left in a flash, at first being followed by the head bandit who was charmed into think the team were his friends. ○ However, he quickly gets left behind and the group makes camp for the night in a small cave. ○ Over the night Wicks encounters a large Treant but he does not care to harm them, and ends up leaving.

Hilnsday, the 5th day of Senent ○ The next morning, Diesa had enough with all of the side quests and takes charge, leading everyone first the to road, and then to Amberhallow. ○ Standing outside the walls, they are asked what their business is, and for the second time, Dandello uses his friendship with the Duke Archibald, and gets everyone in.

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Of Mice and Goblins

Adventure Log 2/6/17

Raanday, the 2nd day of Senent ○ Four adventurers head the call of a desperate man in the town of Whitmoor. ○ Early in the morning, a young human girl by the name of Shevarrah approached the innkeeper claiming to be able to solve all of his problems. ○ She was closely followed by a very small gnome woman named Wickwocket. ○ The two hit it off, talking for a while, patiently waiting for Alexander the Innkeeper to be ready to divulge his quest to them. (That sounds gross) ○ About an hour later, a third female (this time a dwarf) entered the inn. ○ Having not been around people in EXACTLY 45 YEARS, Diesa was reluctant at first to be anywhere near the first two adventurers. ○ However, after winning a pushup contest she didn't even know she had entered, Diesa was invited to sit with Shevarrah and Wickwocket at the bar. ○ Three more hours and a few drinks later, a Half-Elf man by the name of Dandello comes busting through the door asking to speak to Alexander immediately. ○ Claiming to be a representative of a Duke from the East, Dandello offers his help as well to Alexander. ○ He was also able to get a far better meal for dinner than was expected. ○ After dinner, Alexander gather's the group of four and explains that there have been some disappearances of shipments from Whitmoor to Amberhallow by way of the Hidewoods. ○ These shipments have been going back and forth for years and they've never had any problem, so long as they stick to the road. ○ Alexander tasks the group to find out what became of the shipments and the two men who were transporting them, and hopefully return with them and the money for the shipments. ○ After accepting, they decided to sleep in the Inn tonight and head out in the morning. ○ Diesa and Shevarrah shared a room while Dandello and Wickwocket had their own rooms.

Vilthday, the 3rd day of Senent ○ In the morning, everyone got ready to go in their own way. ○ before setting off, there was a huge argument about whether or not Wickwocket could get them to Whitmoor faster than if they just took the road. ○ After convincing them to try it for a little bit, they set off. ○ The lush forest was very green this time of year, and they encountered a number of small beasts around, and a few deer. ○ After a couple of hours, they came across an abandoned temple covered in moss to an unknown deity. ○ A few death traps later, Dandello and Shevarrah come across an untouched glass case and retrieve the contents inside: a potion of hill giant strength ○ Upon exiting the temple, they are ambushed by a group of goblins asking for money. ○ Everyone claims they have no money but the goblins just won't have it and a fight ensues. ○ At one point in the fight, Dandello strums his lute and causes a goblin to lose his mind, literally. ○ The fight ends with 3 goblins dead and 1 unconscious. ○ They find some small amounts of money on the goblins, but nothing too spectacular.

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"Well it's been 45 years since I've been around people." - Diesa every 5 minutes.

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Map of Jasburg

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Calendar Information

There are 5 days in a week:

Shoneday

Raanday

Vilthday

Mooreday

Hilsnday (Effectively the weekend)

There are 4 weeks in a month (total of 20 days in a month. There are 15 months in a year:

Previth

Dresith

Cornith

Shament

Senent

Quient

Vibron

Season

Pairnon

Lostidy

Corkidy

Tempidy

Silus

Retrus

Placus

Summer and Winter Equivalent would be about Senent and Tempidy respectively. Moon cycle takes about 15 days.

Known Holidays: (as of 10/10/16)

Midwinter Day - Tempidy 11th (Matemsa)

Midsummer Day - Senent 9th (Matemsa)

Festival of Heroes - Dresith 16th (Bihn Tarir Keep)