There are a number of child-sized people hanging all over the crawler and cheering each other on. With an unpleasant grinding noise, the crawler lurches into motion ...

Dinner is finished and of course you help tidy up. There is not room in the house to be comfortable, but the barn is warm from the animals and the hay is not too scratchy. You settle in ... ... you wake up to faint sounds of whooping and hollering, and the unmistakable noise of the crawler starting ...

There's enough extra food to make a sparse meal for the three of you (Randar, Hopkirk, and Janks). Your host is the head of a group of four middle-aged people, three women and a man. They are all within about ten years age from each other and have vaguely similar facial features. At a guess, they're...

" You look like nice friendly people," you hear from the window. A moment passes and then the door opens. A wave of good food smells emerges. "Come in." The person speaking is a middle aged woman with her head shaved except for a high grey ponytail.

Barnaby has just finished arbiting a dispute between two jongleurs over turf, when he notices a Ravenfolk approaching a bauble-vendor nearby. Curiosity strikes him.

"Hey, good day to you," he says to Morwen. "Would you happen to know Corbin?"

Barnaby gratefully but warily accepts the Margrave's commission to host the Midsummer Follies. Jongleurs, harpists, illusionists, and acrobats have appeared from varying distances to celebrate the holiday with their arts. He is responsible for scheduling, cajoling, sobering-up, inebriating, and gen...

Happy birthday, tooleychris!

Barnaby keeps busy with training and performing, trying to talk up Ji-Ho and Rolton (and Dramm). He keeps forgetting about Sengrim, who seems to be mostly absent - down some hole with some halflings, probably. Dramm is more dedicated to his training than one might expect. Perhaps he has big dreams? ...

Janks takes the lead and knocks on the door of the farmhouse. You notice there is a wreath of corn stalks above the door. There is a faint sound of bustling movement on the other side of the door, then an anxious voice: " Who's there? " " Traverlers, " Janks answers with his usu...

The sky fades purple to black. Distant stars gleam but give too little light to navigate with any assurance of safety. Nevertheless you arrive after about half an hour at a farmers. Hard to assess it in the darkness but it has a pleasant smell of roast chicken and boiled vegetables and fresh baked b...

Whoever is driving, roll WIT to find out how well you navigate the crawler by starlight. Let me know your expected and better results. Worse is that you drive off the road and get stuck; much worse is that you hit a pothole and damage the track of the crawler. " I got a bad feeling about this,...

Like most of Thaemor, the land is basically flat with scattered groups of trees - sometimes several hundred trees huddle together - among muddy and mostly fallow fields. You can see chimney smoke rising against the backdrop of the Black Riage, probably several miles further along the road. There mos...

The rain dwindles away to cold dry air near twilight. The distant slopes of the Black Riage glow red in the fading sunlight, beneath the eastward-moving clouds. The sky above is brilliant purple. You have passed a few villages on the road but none is nearby now. Do you press on, or try to make camp ...

"Ah well," answers the knight. "Watch out for margr on the road ahead. They are roaming down from the Black Riage! Good day to you!"
Unless you dally further, the knights press on toward Auspar, leaving you to pursue the road toward the Empty Sanctum.

"We are returning to Ledos from the Clock," the big knight answers proudly. His companion sits quietly, keeping their riding lizard in check with twitches of the reins. "What is the news from Auspar?"

Barnaby talks up Rolton's prowess (and Dramm's and Sengrim's accomplishments, as well) while trying to enhance his own skills at defense in melee. Training to 2d level bard costs him weeks of effort, but he has the experience in combat to support that effort. He also spends 500 sp based on Dramm's ...

If my math is correct, here are the cash and XP gotten. The cash only counts the coin and gems! It does not cover magic items or the supplies and tools that were found. scarik , correct me if I'm wrong, but the XP is just for monsters, right? So a share of XP would be 1164 (cash) plus 355 for kills...

That's two votes for crawler, Hopkirk + Janks. here

The first day out from Auspar goes at a crawl. After a promising daybreak (clear and cool) the weather takes a turn colder and wetter. By what you guess is mid-day, according to the ancient digital watch on Janks' wrist anyway, a bitter and stinging rain pelts your bare faces and other exposed skin....

cybersavant wrote:.

shaidar wrote:.

Let's agree whether you're walking or riding a crawler (Janks will pay for it if you'd like - he seems eager to put distance between him and Auspar).