Expedition - Fingers: The Kobold Tower - 05 June 2021

[Marullus]

The group siezes the initiative, striking fiercely at the remaining insects. Rhybek cleaves the wounded fly, ending it's suffering. Fingers lashes out with his spear, skewering and slaying another. Neegan's axe wounds the final fly, which tries to come at him but fails to find an opening.

The final fly, now injured, buzzes in terror and tries to escape.

Date: 2:23pm, 08 June 2021
Light: Sun
Distance travelled: None today
Injuries: Ablesforth (dying), Idriss (severe injury), Sprinkles the dog (severe injury)


Rolls:

Initiative: [1d6] = 5 [1d6] = 3
Silent longsword [1d20] = 7 [1d8] = 1 Neegan axe [1d20] = 16 [1d8] = 3
Fly [1d20] = 4 [1d8] = 2
Fly morale [2d6] = 9

[Zhym]

Fingers grabs his bow and fires an arrow at the fleeing fly.

'Silmaril' (THAC0 19): [1d20+3] = 14+3 = 17, [1d8+1] = 2+1 = 3

[Alethan]

Rhybek

Rhybek tries to swat it down when it turns to flee...

Battle Axe [1d20+1] = 11+1 = 12 Damage [1d8+1] = 1+1 = 2

[Dram]

Neegan moves quickly to bind the wounds of the injured stop the bleeding. Come quickly help bind these wounds.

[Dram]

Neegan moves quickly to bind the wounds of the injured stop the bleeding. Come quickly help bind these wounds.

[Spearmint]

Idriss

will move to assist Neegan in binding wounds on the injured, seeing to himself last of all.

[Marullus]

Neegan and Idriss get to Ablesforth and stabilize him, his face pale and breathing shallow as he lies in a pool of his own blood. (-4hp from bloodlines total)

Fingers brings down the final fly with his arrow, the air now still.

Date: 2:25pm, 08 June 2021
Light: Sun
Distance travelled: None today
Injuries: Ablesforth (dying/stable), Idriss (severe injury), Sprinkles the dog (severe injury)

[Zhym]

Fingers drops to a knee and bandages Sprinkles' bite wounds as best he can. "Good dog!" he tells the dog who may have saved his life. "You're a very good dog!" He pulls out a bit of jerky and gives it to the dog as a treat.

When he's sure the Sprinkles will be okay at least for the moment, Fingers looks to recover his arrows.

"Let's find out if those flies had any treasure," he says. "If nothing else, we got ourselves a more protected place to rest."

[Alethan]

Rhybek

Rhybek reloads his crossbow.

"Let's wait a moment and see how many more flies there are..."
He watches the fly lair to see if any more appear. If none appear after a few minutes, he nods at Fingers and cautiously moves towards the entrance.

[Marullus]

Fingers recovers all his arrows.

No more flies emerge at the cave mouth.

[Alethan]

Rhybek

Rhybek slowly moves forward, crossbow trained on the entrance of the fly lair.

[Rusty Tincanne]

How much do you think giant, carnivorous fly larvae will bring us in town? Idriss used to work with a circus. Maybe he can get us a deal?

[Zhym]

Fingers follows along, Sprinkles at his side.

If you hatch a giant fly from larva, maybe a gnome could train it to be a mount?

[Dram]

Neegan - Once the wounded have been treated he will help them get into the cave if needed.

[Spearmint]

Idriss

"The only use I can think of for dead robber flies and their larva is feeding them to giant spiders. Do these flies hoard anything other than dung heals and rotten middens' to feast upon? I hesitate to check out the cave."

[Marullus]

I'll expedite forward through the obvious actions...

The group approaches cautiously, crossbows and bows at the ready. The exhale in relief as they find that the adult flies appear to be slain. The mine shaft descends inward about 200 yards before it is blocked by a collapse. It appears to have been a fly-nest for many years, with the dessicated husks and bones of innumerable animals, kobolds, and goblins being most predominant. They do find three-dozen larvae, which are each about 18 inches long as 12 inches diameter, wiggling and white with a sticky mucous covering and a large toothed maw on one end. You can kill them, try to transport them alive, or leave them in the detritus. If slain, they could be roasted for 20 man-days of pretty gross rations.

The group clears a portion safely inside the mouth of the cave and establishes a camp. Neegan takes charge of transporting Ablesforth in with a makeshift stretcher, careful to move him as little as possible given the fragileness of his present condition. He is made warm and set to rest by the fire. The entrance to the cave is fortified as best as possible, making a suitably safe place for rest.
Damage to Able for unstable movement [1d2] = 1

The flies did nothing to triage or care for valuables. The group spends some time picking through the rotting or dessicated corpses, piles of sticky fly moltings, and other things to revoltingly unidentifiable to name. They find about four small sacks worth of coins on the various humanoids (363 CP, 88 SP, 338 GP), one medium-sized emerald, two ruddy opaque potions, and three scrolls protected in an ancient, dry-rotted leather case.

Having completed this work and rested themselves with some well-deserved sleep overnight once more, they awake in the morning to face their new choices. With overnight rest, Ablesforth can be transported. It is likely several days until he awakens via natural healing.

Date: 7:00am, 07 June 2021
Light: Sun / Campfire
Distance travelled: None today
Injuries: Ablesforth (dying/stable), Idriss (severe injury), Sprinkles the dog (severe injury)

[Zhym]

"I don't think we'd better go anywhere until Able is...um, able," says Fingers. He looks around guiltily. "Look, I'm not trying to make puns, okay? It's just hard to avoid them, you know?"

"Anyway, I think we should hide out here until we're fixed up again. After that—I dunno. Old goblin place? Take this loot back to town?"

He gives the larvae a disgusted look. "Ugh. If anyone wants these for pets, be my guest. Otherwise, let's squash 'em."

[Rusty Tincanne]

Able groans as he attempts to roll over in his unconscious state.


As a 1st level character, Ablesforth is ready to go back to town and level up as soon as he can travel. I think we should have headed due North from the Farrows instead of NW, so heading due West from wherever we are seems the likeliest way to get toward Gaul. And, perhaps, Beith's Watch.

[Alethan]

Able groans as he attempts to roll over in his unconscious state.


As a 1st level character, Ablesforth is ready to go back to town and level up as soon as he can travel. I think we should have headed due North from the Farrows instead of NW, so heading due West from wherever we are seems the likeliest way to get toward Gaul. And, perhaps, Beith's Watch.

??? If we headed NW from Farrow Farm, how is heading West going to get us back to Gaul? I think we need to go SE to get back to where we started...

Also, leveling up assumes we've earned enough XP to do so. I'm not exactly sure we've done enough to earn that XP yet.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Sorry. I meant East! Thanks.

We went SW from Gaul to get to the Farrow Farm. Then we headed NW to get where we are now. That is roughly a Big V toward the West.

That will be Able's rough, low INT/high WIS thinking. But he'll be agreeable to going most anywhere if it involves a nice walk.