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Herein will be the thoughts and opinions of the characters; Ivan a Human Druid, Wheio a Gnome Assassin, Zekial a Human Rogue and Rodri a Dwarven Monk and Torvald a Human Ranger. Game on

Zek

Date: 4th Greenwynd 231 RU

Gotta get out  of Jarrah. Last job just felt Himky. Dont know for sure , nothing went wrong  but  instinct is telling me to  take   a vacation.

Taken a job with the this hastily assembled team  (The  4 Testaments) . Testament  to our courage, strength , tenacity, honour. (or our stupidity) . My fellow Testaments are, a tree hugger, a kungfu mofo , a slippery short arse bastard . We are guarding this Aristo the merchants caravan on a journey to Smorgin. Another group of 6 dont know their names (dont care) are on the front flank. In the lead is one of them greenpeace /ranger type  tosspots Toejam (or something like that).

So just gotta work  out which alliance old king Freyburg has made this month to protect the realm from those damn Hithini elves so we dont hurt our allies (lol). Gonna head up river thru the Greenwood forest to  Smorgin all for 2 korin a day plus 5 per smackdown.

When we get to Smorgin i gotta deliver a note to The Grey Dude from The Captain. I dont know where they get these ridiculous Guild leader names. Might do  a couple of "smalls" just to add to the travelling expenses. Then back to to the Red Brick inn in Jarrah for some of Albar's fine food and booze.

Zek.

Ivern

Date: 5th Greenwynd to  9th  231RU

Our journey continues with the merchant, Aristo, we meet recently with the others he has hired. We travelled from Krau on the island of K'rk to Elmsport on the mainland. Leaving there we were waylaid by bandits, and as it turns out several of his hire-ons were in league with said bandits. Being offered a choice between doing nothing and living or fighting and some die we chose to do nothing and let the bandits ride off with their loot.  The funny thing is the merchant didn't seem to bothered by this. A change in the arrangements, a few of us going back to Elmsport to buy a few horses and we were back on the rod protecting the merchant this time. We made it to Qsaryn before dusk and settled into the Golden Snake , a small tavern/inn.  The village of Osaryn holds about 900 people within its stone and palisade walls. The next day we travel on to Kasselwych. Along the way there is a disturbance in the road. Some 50' in diameter - a spot where all living things were completely dehydrated. Filled with grief, I drop to my knees and pray to the goddess Gaia, asking that she find a way to restore the land. When I opened my eyes, they were wide with amazement-Gaia had answered my prayers and the land had been returned to its original state.

We made our destination and stay at the Butter and Bayley, an even smaller , quaint tavern that offers its floors to travels who wish to stay. I wander around a little and find an altar to Gaia, as I start to worship I am aware of others gathering and joining in. Farmers gather and ask if I will come to their farms to bless them in the oncoming season. I do my rounds with them, blessing the crops and animals, asking that Gaia grants them bountiful crops. I am paid handsomely in food, which I take to the tavern for the keeper to use to feed people for free. As I was returning to the tavern I saw in the distance two groups of men on horseback one group chasing the other. It turns out that the first were a group of a dozen or so bandits and those following were Kingsmen.  Later we found out more from the town crier.

To get to Hitra we have a choice of force marching , and getting a bonus from the merchant or taking a slower pace. We chose the former, unfortunately the merchant's horse throws a shoe which forces us to take the long route.  We enter Hitra and as we wander about we find out strange happens of an area similar to what we found but happening in the city, a roughly 50' diameter area where all inside have been dehydrated to death etc.  At night a cry for help is raised. The group respond - leaving Torvold to guard the merchant, rushing to the scene of a hideous creature made of bone and stretched taut skin, a scorpion tail and large none hook as a weapon as it lifts, disembowels a poor Kingsmen. With the help of two other Kingsmen we are able to take it down. As we walk back to the tavern the four of us wonder if there is some wizard work somewhere causing this destruction?

Ivern

Zek

Date:9th Greenwynd 231 RU

Made it to the Iron Horseshoe tavern in Hitra no thanks to those double crossing guards Aristo hired. They were in league with this scarfaced bandit and his crew and captured the caravan a halfday from Elmsport. lucky everyone kept their cool including that ranger bloke Torvald and a nasty fight was avoided. Found out later on Scarface is worth 10 korin. He has been raiding the south lands a bit. Aristo didnt seem too upset by the loss, so the "distraction/bait" worked. whatever he is transporting he still has. Got to Osaryn and Aristo bumped up the rate to 2 korin a day (which is what it was) but i didnt argue as he is still paying the accomodation and food bill. on the way to Kasslewyck and we came accross a 50ft dehydrated area (looked burnt to me) and another possible ambush site. Torvald proved his worth again scouting a bit so we have asked him to join the Testaments. his skills mite come in handy so long as he dont play that fukn mandolin. I'm sure thats what spoiled my chances with that barmaid. i thawt them druids could talk with plants and shit so we could find out what did the burning, but no such luck. we waited round for and hour while he cried and prayed just to restore some grass. Got to Hitra as I said then shit got weirder. during the night there was this commotion which we investigated. Damn near cost us our lives. An 8ft skeleton thing with a scorpion like tail was laying waste to the Kings Guards. After we defeated it found out there had also been another "burning" attack in town. wizard attacks? possibly the Sar kein. who knows. the sooner we get to Smorgin the better.

Zek

Zek

Date 15/03  Torsday Greenwynd.

 Finally made it to Smorgin. City is covered in short arses. I hadnt heard it was almost a dwarf town. Stone work everywhere and mixed patrols of shortys and humans.

Staying at an inn recommended by Torvald called the Ivy Tower. Flash place. He got himself a private room in this halfling run place. Flash meals, private baths, room service the

whole 9 yards. Treehugger paid for a dorm room for the rest of us for the next 3 days instead of using the group fund. Maybe he it's a druid thing, you know put good out in the world get good back type of bullshit. Aristo part paid us what he owes after we dropped him at admin hill district. A tidy sum as it was not easy getting here particularly for me. For a start that dwarven meade kicks ass. Great stuff but it seems you gotta have that "mind over body" shit going on to get thru the next day. Kungfoo was fine but lets just say that as we floated on the barges I was not at my peak. My suffering  was not helped by that arsehole Toejam and his ukelele. I'm gonna have to do something about that. After fighting that bone man/scorpion thing in Hitra we got back to the Iron Horseshoe to find Torvald had defended an attack on Aristo. (This fucker must be a spy or some shit I recon). Then while i was still suffering this damn big flying lizard/wyvern thing attacks the barge and flys of with banjo boys horse. A day or so later at one of the rapids you have to "portage" round we are attacked by ogres and i get shit kicked outa me. Torvald proved his worth and Rodri even stunned one of those big assholes. Whiro got the gnomish dancing lights thing going and Ivern spelled the bastards too. Anyway we worked good as a team to win a tough fight. Even managed to retrieve my horse after one of the orgres ran off with it. I'm gonna change that horses name from camel to dogfood I think. Aristo has come in and paid up and offered us another job. Package run to a place called Leon.

team will probably take it, but in the meantime ive got a couple of days to deliver the " captains" note to the "greyman". Maybe i can pick up some coin too.

Zek

15/03/231 RU

Delivered the note to the "Captain" just after we arrived in Smorgin (15/03). Unfortunately no chance to make moolah in the city as we have taken the courier job Aristo offered. Leaving the city before Monarchs day when the "company" was putting a few missions into play. Woulda been a good day with all the tourists in town as the fuzz would have been goggle eyed  tryn to watch everything.

Met Aristo at the Dundas gate (18/03) and picked up the package. He warned us there would be some interest in the package so we took precautions to spot pursuit.

Heading to Leon and we are attacked by Death dogs , 2 headed ugly mothers. Ivern has this alarm spell that has come in real handy. I wonder if i could do a bit of treehugging so i can learn that spell?? Would come in handy in my line of work.

Found a place to camp a few days later as we moved along the banks of the Serpentine river. No sign of pursuit so that's good. However It was there we were attacked by 3 cyclops. Managed to defeat them and luckily (skillfully) avoided the pack of 13 mongel men that came scavenging the bodies the next morning. Sorta feel sorry for those frankenstein freaks all cobbled together by magic from various creatures (so Im told).

We decide to track the cyclops back to their lair. Good on ya lute-boy you earning your keep. Tried to creep into the cave where the 4^th cyclops was making two bloke fight it out, a bit like the pit fights back in Jarrah. Unfortunately the bitch spotted me and attacked. The Testaments proved themselves again as a team and we killed the fucker no thanks to those two twats who stood there while i got the shit kicked outa me.

Zek

 21/03   Holyday  Greenwynd

 

So  I storms over to the two prisoners to give them a piece of my mind about not helping fight the bitch. I lost a perfectly good shield and nearly got the shit kicked outa me. They was tied up but i mean to say they coulda taunted it or thrown shit to distract it a bit. Anyway  after releasing Erik Ironson and his mate Sven we search the cave and come up with silver treasures (sceptre ,pendant , horn) and a couple of nice  looking weapons. Probably about 2000 korin for the baubles alone. Left the cave and head south thru the forest trying to avoid the swamp before turning west over the plains towards Leon. As we are traveling along tosspot musta been composing his next banjo balad coz he allowed us to get surprised and strafed with fire by two small (eagle sized) dragons. Ivern saves the day by doing the animal spell tree hugging thing. Calmed the fukers right down so we gapped it. Lucky i didnt catch fire and dogfood didnt get cooked. Although i could probably use a new horse. 

Next day still traveling thru the forest of Menda and coming across the occasional partial stone ruin. Sub -pa workmanship at best Rodri tells me. Probably elvish he rekons. Fucking TOSSPOT drops the ball again and we are surprised, surrounded and bashed by 4 Ettins. I yell to scatter and spur dogfood thru a gap taking a fair bashing from the Ettins as me and Rodders are wodging and deaving thru the trees followed by Erik and Sven on poor old Jerry ( the spare pack horse). Tosser scatters the other way (first thing hes got right today) and dumb and dumber get of the horse to cast spells (Ivern) and do gnomish lights shit. Realising thats a dick move Ivern taunts them about which head gets to eat him and while 3 of them are fighting themselves, yes thats right themselves not each other, they jump back on the horse and didi mau outa there pursued by the 4^th ettin.

Erik and Torvold seeing the pursuit move to aid them. Torvold missed with his arrows but Erik the Viking races past like some demented circus performer and hamstrings the bastard. Im knocked senseless by the tree branches i failed to dodge otherwise we woulda turned back for sure. Rodri has to tie me to dogfood and lead him to the rendezvous point.

Make camp and recover/bandage /heal as best we can, so im told as i was unco at the time. 

23/03  Leeday  Greenwynd 

Some quick thinking by Ivern as we are camped saves us from attack by a group of Nomore. Very vicious attack anything onsite goblin like creatures. After his alarm spell alerts him to the beasts he cast some obscuring mist spell and the pass us by. im seriously thinking of taking up that treehugging game. thats another spell could come in handy in my job.

As we are trying to leave the forest encounter and avoid a weird creature identified as a "flail snail".

26/03  Midsday  Greenwynd.

Finally make Leon. Rich looking place. Gold on the rooftops that kinda shit. Lots of security. im told they conscript you at 15 for training and military service. No wonder the gold is still on the rooftops. Sven left but Erik is gonna stick with us for bit. Those mad horse and axe skills will come in handy specially if Torvald dont pick up his game.

Dropped the package of to some shopkeeper called Lowery got the dosh and he has asked us to come back  tomorrow. Might be another job in the offing. in the meantime a few well earned ales are called for. Last session at the Steeltrap Inn at the weighstation coming into the forest to Leon didnt go too well for Ivern and Rodri. Too much wine and dwarven meade. At least they didnt have to listen to banjo boy while they suffered.

Zek

And the group have been joined by Eric and Tovi

                                          

 Undey   14^th  lightfall

If you are reading these hastily scribbled notes instead of enjoying an ale with me its coz im dead. all down to that grass munching, bush fucking, goat licking druid. we picked up another "Courrier " run from Lowry back on the 4^th of lightfall. Take a packet to Trondheim up on the north east coast. We decided not to RISK the forest route so will get a ship up the coast. So we left Leon and headed south to Doontown. i enjoyed a bit of horizontal refreshment while the "guitar god" plucked his way to 2^nd place in a bard competition (so i heard). i mean who wants to listen to all that caterwauling and soppy love poems to Gaia (tree hugger in case you hadnt guessed). Eric hooked up with some fighter type shiela called Tovi and we took her on board as an extra sword (you can never have enough arrow fodder can you?). Took a barge down the river to Prestor. i did a bit of fishing of the back and caught a  Musher fish. apparently good eating but i dont eat fish so gave it to the barge crew. no further barges available down river so we ride down to Jontheim to catch a ship up the coast thus avoiding the forest. Eriks now talking about getting a "special" spear as wages instead of a cut of the treasure. As me and Rodders are getting first choice of the "special" that sorta crimps things. anyhow we accept his deal so if there is no spear tuff shit ,he will have worked for nix.  Anyway we went looking for a ship and this is where i must be getting soft. Too used to having coin and living the good life (fishing and fucking etc). Ivern disapears while we are looking for a ship. its a huge dock with hundreds of boats. while we are wondering round Erik shows some interest in a ship from some place called Thix. Ivern turns back up he's found a ship called the "Corvair" or something like that. hes  paid for it  cos thats what druids do. i shulda picked up on the signs like in Jarrah. something was "off".  by the time we found out the boats not heading to Trondhiem but gonna drop us off up an estuary at the bottom end of the bloody forest. that filthy lying bastard suckered us just so he can see a forest the rest of us didnt want to RISK.  we rode down the estuary as we couldnt afford a return trip with captain 'ahab' . (Ivern musta been dipping into those church funds hard out). on the 12^th lightfall found shelter at Angus farm. farm my arse. fuck all farming but lots of armour, weapons and tough blokes about. they ask us about allegiances to Varkan and that's when Erik blurts out he's a wanted man in Var. Last thing i need is to be collateral damaged of some bounty hunters looking for him. the 14^th found us still riding down the banks of the river towards the coast when this shit weather storm forces us to take shelter in the forest (maybe that prick caused that too). its the second watch when four stone giants burst into the camp screaming about some stolen/lost baby. we managed to get them calmed down and the only way to prevent bloodshed (particularly  mine ) is to agree to help them find the kid. now Torvalds really gotta earn his coin tracking the kid or those Giants are gonna paste us and tell their king they found the kidnappers but not the kid. course my life wouldn't be hanging in the balance if we weren't in a FUCKING FOREST.

Zek