Chat Log List - 2024 04 05 - Bear Went Over the Mountain - Formatted - Story
Vee Barlett: So Ratbone, why ya still hangin' around?
Vee Barlett: Ain't mean it in a mean way, just curious.
Ratbone Carder: okay okay
Ratbone Carder: i just hate to miss anything but it's time for bedroll
Vee Barlett: Nah, mate. You're on watch with me now.
Ratbone Carder: oh well nevermind then
Ratbone Carder: i'm hangin' around because i am on watch
Vee Barlett: Levi fainted at the thought of monkeys. Dunno where your brother is at so it's us now.
Vee Barlett: Nah, I mean why you still taggin' along?
Vee Barlett: Yer brother gave a lame answer so curious to yours.
Ratbone Carder: well i can't go home, what else am i gonna do?
Vee Barlett: Why not?
Ratbone Carder: you know, with the sheep and the neighbors. it's gonna take a LONG time to live it down
Vee Barlett: They that uptight??
Vee Barlett: It's just walkin' meat. Who cares?
Ratbone Carder: I kinda get it, i mean it's our, their, livelihood
Ratbone Carder: but it's not like you can permanently lose a sheep who knows you.
Ratbone Carder: they say the competition is so fierce becasue the stakes are so small and i believe it
Vee Barlett: That's why I'm confused by their anger. If they ain't know their own animals, maybe they shouldn't have them, yeah?
Vee Barlett: Huh. Or maybe that's why they mad. You showed them somethin' about themselves they on't like?
Ratbone Carder: they do, it's about power or reputation or something
Ratbone Carder: authority! it's about authority, probably
Vee Barlett: Still confusin' to me but I didn't grow up in a small town like that. How many were in yer village?
Vee Barlett: Ahh that I get.
Ratbone Carder: depends on the season, who comes out of the hills and who comes back home from other villages, but i'd guess 50 to 80
Vee Barlett: ....total?
Ratbone Carder: well, it's a village, not a town
Vee Barlett: still confused
Vee Barlett: Guess that's why ya don't get away with nuthin'
Vee Barlett: That sounds.... ugh, ain't pleasant.
Vee Barlett: So everyone knows everyone's business??
Ratbone Carder: oh heck yeah!
Ratbone Carder: everybody LIVES up everybody's business
Ratbone Carder: with OPINIONS and everything
Vee Barlett: Mm, yeah I'll stick with the cities. Sounds like a nightmare.
Vee Barlett: So is it ya can't go home or ya don't wanna?
Ratbone Carder: a little of both, but passions gotta cool before we can show our faces again
Vee Barlett: Are we near there? We can visit if ya want.
Ratbone Carder: we are closer than we have been to date, but we prolly better not
Vee Barlett: nods
Avdotya Mirny: How long do you think you have to wait?
Ratbone Carder: months. several of em
Avdotya Mirny: Lucky
Vee Barlett: Why lucky? Ya do somethin' you can't return home to?
Avdotya Mirny: I can.... eventually
Avdotya Mirny: In 5 years
Vee Barlett: 'Cause of Tom or somethin' else?
Avdotya Mirny: Have to stay away until there are no hard feelings, or no chance of me making a scene
Vee Barlett: nods
Vee Barlett: I'd hate that. I might gotta be careful sometimes goin' back to the city, but my dads always happy to see me.
Avdotya Mirny: Why do they like you?
Vee Barlett: Why wouldn't they?
Avdotya Mirny: I always get questioned
Avdotya Mirny: Examined
Vee Barlett: Really? What are yer parents like?
Avdotya Mirny: My mother is dead
Avdotya Mirny: At least my birth mother
Avdotya Mirny: My father is a merchant and needs to make a living
Vee Barlett: I ain't sure where mine be at so we got that in common maybe.
Avdotya Mirny: Cannot have someone who is not helping feed the family
Vee Barlett: But ya can't have family if ya don't treat 'em like family.
Avdotya Mirny: My father calls everyone who works for him family
Vee Barlett: Who yer father?
Avdotya Mirny: says it makes them feel like they have to support them
Avdotya Mirny: Adolphis Mirny
Vee Barlett: Oh, okay. Just checkin'
Avdotya Mirny: You might have heard of him in western provinces
Avdotya Mirny: He brings things from the mountains down to the lower reaches
Vee Barlett: tries to recall if she has
Vee Barlett: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 5] [d20 = 9]
BOB No Vee's experiences is in the Osterhold District
Vee Barlett: Ain't sure I been that way but good information to keep in mind.
Avdotya Mirny: OH if you want to trade things he is the person to see
Avdotya Mirny: at least that is what he says
Vee Barlett: Above board?
Avdotya Mirny: So I was sent out to work the merchant caravans for 5 years
Looks at Vee questioningly
Vee Barlett: poker face
Vee Barlett: So ya gotta prove yerself for him to wanna keep ya as his daughter or somethin'?
Vee Barlett: changing topics
Avdotya Mirny: To be part of the family
Avdotya Mirny: First six months were rough
Vee Barlett: Hmm, yeah that sounds familar. Ain't apply to me but some of them others, sure.
Avdotya Mirny: wagon broke down, lost two loads of wool
Avdotya Mirny: then this last trip with the landslide
Avdotya Mirny: and just
Avdotya Mirny: sighs
Vee Barlett: So ya got 4.5 years to go?
Vee Barlett: Whatcha doin' once ya get to The Snow Guy?
Avdotya Mirny: But only four years and some months to go, she says brightly
Avdotya Mirny: Oh I hope he says that he has something he wants me to help take somewhere
Ratbone Carder: strumming the lute softly, so as not to wake the others
Vee Barlett: And if he don't?
Avdotya Mirny: I guess I just wait
Vee Barlett: smiles slightly at the strumming
Vee Barlett: You ever met him before?
Avdotya Mirny: No, the Church of the Mists said I should go to him
Avdotya Mirny: They gave me this map
Vee Barlett: You get yer fortune told there?
Avdotya Mirny: Said I should help you
Ratbone Carder: strumming gently a simple tune everybody knows about moonlight
Vee Barlett: quietly to Ratbone, "And this be why I like ya more than yer brother. Good song, good conversation. Feel free to tell 'em."
Ratbone Carder: giggles
Vee Barlett: Well maybe the Snow Dude has some answers. I ain't sure what he is or what to expect when we get there.
Avdotya Mirny: I have heard that he is the King of the Mountains
Vee Barlett: So Ms Mirny wants to impress her pa which is understandable and Ratbone just hangin' out 'cause she realizes we cool. I get that right?
Vee Barlett: He can keep the mountains.
Ratbone Carder: [singing} a little chickadee in the willow tree with me
Ratbone Carder: a little chickadee with downy feathers
Vee Barlett: I mean, maybe I should know them, but I ain't wanna rule over them.
Vee Barlett: Too solid.
Vee Barlett: But that sea? Gorgeous.
Vee Barlett: stares off at it in the distance
Avdotya Mirny: Do you want to rule over the sea?
Vee Barlett: I'm gonna one day, yeah.
Ratbone Carder: the willow tree was waving in the moonlight i was saving
Avdotya Mirny: It seems really big
Ratbone Carder: in my magic pocket full of heathers
Vee Barlett: Mmhmm. And them depths to it. Gonna be more work than ruling over a mountain, but I can do it
Vee Barlett: Just workin' up to it.
Avdotya Mirny: How do you start that?
Avdotya Mirny: Do you start with a pool?
Vee Barlett: Ya start young like with anythin' else.
Vee Barlett: I ain't givin' away my secrets, but pools are okay. Any water is good water, but salt water is best.
Ratbone Carder: strummy strum strum
Avdotya Mirny: I have only seen the ocean from a distance
Vee Barlett: My condolences.
Avdotya Mirny: I have seen the inner sea
Vee Barlett: Inner sea is nice.
Vee Barlett: Ya swim in them?
Avdotya Mirny: Not yet
Vee Barlett: Can ya swim?
Avdotya Mirny: I have just seen it from the road
Avdotya Mirny: Oh no
Avdotya Mirny: that would be dangerous
Ratbone Carder: [singing] the little chickadee set on out to sea
Vee Barlett: Why ya think that?
Ratbone Carder: the little chickadee with downy feathers
Avdotya Mirny: People go into the sea and do not return
Avdotya Mirny: They lose themselves
Avdotya Mirny: or get swallowed up
Avdotya Mirny: I am not sure which it is
Vee Barlett: Lose themselves? Ya meet someone like that?
Avdotya Mirny: I have met people who went to sea and never came back
Ratbone Carder: where a briny clam shouted out here i am
Vee Barlett: nods
Ratbone Carder: and i put them in my pocket full of heathers
Vee Barlett: Could be many reasons without knowin' more.
Vee Barlett: She's a temptress alright, but I still love her.
Avdotya Mirny: I think Ratbone has it easier with sheep
Avdotya Mirny: Are sheep tempting?
Vee Barlett: Maybe ya can go to her village and trade sheep.
Ratbone Carder: they tempt me towards mutton chops
Vee Barlett: laughs
Ratbone Carder: nah, they are sweet
Vee Barlett: Good wool jacket nice for that day or two it gets cold.
Ratbone Carder: if they stir any passions you might be a wolf
Vee Barlett: Sheep skin sometimes make good rugs, but I think that was last season.
Avdotya Mirny: I like wool blankets
Ratbone Carder: i like wool lots of things
Ratbone Carder: i used to have this hat .... oh!
Ratbone Carder: such a sad face
Vee Barlett: Yeah, they cozy. My Dad gave me one when I was little. I refused to part with it until I accidentally wore it to shreds.
Avdotya Mirny: What happened to your hat?
Ratbone Carder: i miss my wooly hat
Avdotya Mirny: Did a wolfe get it?
Ratbone Carder: i ... i can't talk about it. wish i hadn't remembered it, sorry
Ratbone Carder: but i've got a skirt!
Vee Barlett: The one you was wearin' at the church?
Ratbone Carder: like a proper girl and everything
Vee Barlett: 'Cause it's definitely old fashion and niche, but you pulled it off well.
Ratbone Carder: they call that "classic"
Vee Barlett: Ain't the word Dad would use, but I'll let ya believe it.
Ratbone Carder: grins
Ratbone Carder: strummy strum strum
Avdotya Mirny: Does your Dad have a different word for hats Vee?
Vee Barlett: Nah, he has different words for things that ain't fashionable.
Vee Barlett: So I guess it depends on if the hat was fashionable.
Avdotya Mirny: YAWNS
Ratbone Carder: [singing] the little chickadee was perched upon my knee
Avdotya Mirny: Is it ok if I go rest?
Vee Barlett: Yeah, probably time to get next watch up and goin'
Ratbone Carder: the little chickadee with downy feathers
Avdotya Mirny: Ok
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [FAILURE by 6] [d20 = 18]
Vee Barlett: yawns and sees nothing of importance
Vee Barlett: walks over and kicks Levi
Vee Barlett: Get up.
Ratbone Carder: and sang a sweet old song and sang it all day long
Ratbone Carder: i put it in my pocket full of heathers
Vee Barlett: I ain't seen no monkeys so you can take third watch.
Vee Barlett: They ain't gonna getcha so yer gonna be fine.
Claudius : Yawns and rubs his eye that's not swollen
The date is Lad____de, 3rd Lec (Early Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waning Gibbous
Ratbone Carder: yawns
Levi Reed: Ugh, I feel like I just did this waking up thing
Vee Barlett: Ya did. But then ya heard there were monkeys and fainted.
Avdotya Mirny: They told me to wake you up
Vee Barlett: Then started snorin'
Levi Reed: That's called "falling asleep"
Claudius : Ya mate I feel ya... I could have slept the day away I think
Vee Barlett: Was it? Not swoonin'? 'Cause it gets confusin' with you which is what.
Avdotya Mirny: Points at the ghostly monkey on top of the wagon, is that what you are afraid of?
Vee Barlett: Huh?
Levi Reed: Nahh, swooning is when you faint because someone is so good looking you can't take it anymore
Avdotya Mirny: Good night
Levi Reed: And that's not monkeys
Vee Barlett: Good to know so maybe that ain't the one, neither.
Vee Barlett: Have fun with the "ghost monkey"!
Claudius : Wait the what?
Vee Barlett: goes to bed thinking Ms Mirny was making things up.
Levi Reed: Ummmmm
Claudius : Did she say a ghost monkey?
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 12] [d20 = 3]
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 10] [d20 = 5]
BOB Yeap right there on top of the wagon is a faint image of a monkey
Levi Reed: What IS that thing
Claudius : Steps back to get a better look
Levi Reed: Yeah but he has EYES... eye?
Claudius : Man....gargoyles, owl bears, hobs, and now ghost monkeys?? You guys really know how to have fun
Levi Reed: waves at monkey
Levi Reed: Hello?
BOB no movement or reaction seems to be watching you
Levi Reed: takes a step closer
Claudius : Hey there little...ghost monkey...want something to eat?
Claudius : Tosses cracker at it
Levi Reed: Do ghosts eat?
Claudius : Not sure if I can do that if it needs a roll
BOB Weakly tosses it at the wagon and it falls a few feet from his hand
Claudius : Nailed it.
Claudius : Well shit mate I have no clue. Don't have too many ghost monkey experiences to compare it to I guess
Levi Reed: picks up the food and steps closer to the monkey, holding the food out on his palm
Levi Reed: Are you hungry, ghostie monkey?
Claudius : Try making cooing noises
Levi Reed: Monkeys like pigeons?
BOB Levi does not see the monkey anymore
Claudius : Aww you scared it mate
BOB Claudius sees it perched on Levi's shoulder
Claudius : Uhh you got yourself a buddy
Levi Reed: Normally I hate monkeys, but ghost monkeys... that's a different story
Claudius : points to Levi's shoulder
Levi Reed: tries to pet the ghost monkey
Claudius : Now this will be a proper fun story later. The time you fed a ghost monkey.
Claudius : starts to laugh
Claudius : You ever seen a ghost monkey before mate?
Levi Reed: nope
Levi Reed: Normally I just like, chase monkeys away...
Levi Reed: What do monkeys like?
Levi Reed: He liked the food...
Levi Reed: holds out some fruit for the ghost monkey
Levi Reed: heeeere monkey monkey monkey
Claudius : Do you see any other in the trees? My eyes are still a little beat up from earlier...
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Direction Sense [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 13]
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 4] [d20 = 19]
BOB Levi loses track of the ghost monkey again
BOB Claudius sees it on Levi's shoulder again
Levi Reed: Hey monkey, you want to be friends?
Claudius : Well it seems to like food. You got yourself a friend again
Levi Reed: Monkey, you stick with me and I'll feed you as much as you want
Levi Reed: You're almost as good as a cryptid
Claudius : It doesn't see m to be aggressive at all...
e2wolfe (Claudius ): Is it eating the food bob
BOB Hard to tell
BOB Levi offers it up
BOB it seems to slip out of his fingers, like he dropped it
Levi Reed: You got any ghost food man?
Claudius : ahh the little guy can't even eat...
Claudius : Tries to pet it on his shoulder
BOB Claudius' hand caresses Levi's shoulder
Claudius : Plays it off like it was a mistake
Levi Reed: makes noises that he thinks sound like a monkey
Claudius : Well at least we know he can't steal from us...
Levi Reed: I mean... we don't KNOW that
Levi Reed: offers the monkey a copper coin
BOB so Levi takes a coin out, offers it up, fumbles around and then feels it drop
BOB bends down to pick it up and in the dark cannot find it
<font color="#000000">Levi Reed spent 1 CP on donation to the ghost monkey
Claudius : You find your coin?
Levi Reed: Nah, I think Mr. Monkey pocketed it
Claudius : Oh that littlle shit
Claudius : Checks pockets
Levi Reed: smiles
Levi Reed: I like this ghost monkey
BOB Claudius does not have anything so he is not missing anything
Claudius : You may want to check your pockets mate. This thing might be stealing from you...
Levi Reed: Worth it
Levi Reed: checks pockets anyway
Levi Reed: offers monkey some... idk, what else do I have. nuts?
Claudius : You feed it anymore and it will follow you home....
Levi Reed: That's the point man!
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 14] [d20 = 1]
BOB So Levi suddenly looks around like Wait a minute we forgot we were on watch
BOB out of the bushes come three giant frogs
Levi Reed: what the fuck
Levi Reed: Watch out man
BOB Only person on watch who can react
Claudius : Aww hell man...
BOB If you go over to one person and shake them they get a plus four to their Con to wake up
BOB One each round
BOB So round one Claudius goes over to Vee and attempts to wake her
Claudius : Gently shakes Vee and whispers "gonna need your help out here"
BOB Then Vee gets to make a Con check
Vee Barlett: [CHECK] Constitution [+4] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20-4 = 13]
BOB Claudius to Vee, we have a ghost monkey on top of Levi but we have giant frogs attacking Levi
Vee Barlett: Giant frogs? Ugh, fine.
BOB So next up is Levi
BOB Three giant frogs in front of him
BOB OR go for the monkey behind him
BOB Levi is up
[TURN] Levi Reed
Levi Reed: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(17)] [d20 = 14]
Attack [14] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Machete) [at Giant Frog 2] [Hit-AC: 3 vs. 7 ] [AC: 3 ] [HIT]
Levi Reed: [DAMAGE (M)] Machete [TYPE: slashing (1d8=4)] [d8 = 4]
[4] -> [to Giant Frog 2] [STATUS: Moderate]
Levi Reed: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(17)] [d20 = 12]
Attack [12] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Machete) [at Giant Frog 2] [Hit-AC: 5 vs. 7 ] [AC: 5 ] [HIT]
Levi Reed: [DAMAGE (M)] Machete [TYPE: slashing (1d8=7)] [d8 = 7]
[7] -> [to Giant Frog 2] [STATUS: Critical]
[TURN] Avdotya Mirny
[TURN] Giant Frog 3
Giant Frog 3: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(16)] [d20 = 17]
Attack [17] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Attack #1) [at Levi Reed] [Hit-AC: -1 vs. 7 ] [AC: -1 ] [HIT]
Giant Frog 3: [DAMAGE (M)] Attack #1 [TYPE: slashing (1d6=2)] [d6 = 2]
[2] -> [to Levi Reed]
[TURN] Parry the Mule
Parry the Mule: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(20)] [AC: 7 ] [d20 = 13]
Parry the Mule: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(20)] [d20 = 1]
Attack [1] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Attack #1) [at Giant Frog 2] [Hit-AC: 19 vs. 7 ] [AC: 19 ] [MISS-AUTOMATIC]
Parry the Mule: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(20)] [d20 = 4]
Attack [4] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Attack #2) [at Giant Frog 2] [Hit-AC: 16 vs. 7 ] [AC: 16 ] [MISS]
[TURN] Giant Frog 2
BOB Frog 2 tries to flee
BOB Parry and Levi can get at attack of opportunity on it
Parry the Mule: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(20)] [d20 = 15]
Attack [15] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Attack #1) [at Giant Frog 2] [Hit-AC: 5 vs. 7 ] [AC: 5 ] [HIT]
Parry the Mule: [DAMAGE (M)] Attack #1 [TYPE: bludgeoning (1d2=2)] [d2 = 2]
[2] -> [to Giant Frog 2] [DAMAGE EXCEEDS HIT POINTS BY 1] [STATUS: Dying (0)]
Levi Reed: Good job Parry!
[TURN] Giant Frog 1
Giant Frog 1: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(16)] [d20 = 4]
Attack [4] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Attack #1) [at Levi Reed] [Hit-AC: 12 vs. 7 ] [AC: 12 ] [MISS]
[TURN] Temperance
Temperance: blissfully asleep through this whole frog ordeal
[TURN] MeLange
[ROUND 2]
[TURN] Ratbone Carder
[TURN] Vee Barlett
Vee Barlett: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(17)] [ENC: Moderate] [d20+1 = 14]
Attack [14] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Trident) [at Giant Frog 1] [Hit-AC: 3 vs. 7 ] [AC: 3 ] [HIT]
Vee Barlett: [DAMAGE (M)] Trident [TYPE: piercing (1d6+2=5)] [d6+2 = 5]
[5] -> [to Giant Frog 1] [STATUS: Moderate]
[TURN] Thuskar
[TURN] Jericho
[TURN] Claudius
Parry the Mule: Wakes Ratbone
BOB STOMPS on her hand
Ratbone Carder: [CHECK] Constitution (vs. Target 8) [SUCCESS by 5] [d20 = 3]
Ratbone Carder: MOTHER PUS BUCKET!!
BOB So Ratbone is sleepy and happy to stay in their tent and dream
[TURN] Mammal, Small, Monkey 2
[TURN] Mammal, Small, Monkey 1
[TURN] Lirtimya
[TURN] Rothuss Carder
[TURN] Levi Reed
Levi Reed: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(17)] [d20 = 15]
Attack [15] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Machete) [at Giant Frog 1] [Hit-AC: 2 vs. 7 ] [AC: 2 ] [HIT]
Levi Reed: [DAMAGE (M)] Machete [TYPE: slashing (1d8=4)] [d8 = 4]
[4] -> [to Giant Frog 1] [STATUS: Critical]
Levi Reed: [ATTACK (M)] [THACO(17)] [d20 = 16]
Attack [16] ->[ATTACK (M)] (Machete) [at Giant Frog 1] [Hit-AC: 1 vs. 7 ] [AC: 1 ] [HIT]
Levi Reed: [DAMAGE (M)] Machete [TYPE: slashing (1d8=6)] [d8 = 6]
[6] -> [to Giant Frog 1] [DAMAGE EXCEEDS HIT POINTS BY 3] [STATUS: Dying (0)]
[TURN] Avdotya Mirny
[TURN] Giant Frog 3
BOB and Frog 3 flees seeing its buddies crushed
BOB Parry can go after it and try to attack it
BOB If not is go off into the jungle and escapes
Levi Reed: offers Vee a high five
[TURN] Parry the Mule
Levi Reed: looks around the dead frogs and takes things
Vee Barlett: grumbles and heads back to bed
BOB There is one dead one there
BOB you could see if it swallowed anything
Levi Reed: Hey, Claudius, you think we should slice this thing open and see if it ate anything good?
Claudius : Always mate
Levi Reed: If nothing else, frog legs for breakfast?
Levi Reed: attemps to do a good job of butchering up the frog legs for eating, and attemps to slice open the stomach to check for things to steal
BOB Roll percentage dice Levi, 5% or less and you get something valuable other than that just bones, and misc digested things
Levi Reed: [d100 = 32]
BOB and yes the ghost monkey is still there on top of your wagon
Levi Reed: How you doing buddy?
Levi Reed: offers ghost monkey a chunk of frog
Claudius : Thanks for the help Vee... You can crash again.
Vee Barlett: has already crashed
The date is Lad____de, 3rd Lec (Early Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waning Gibbous
The time is 7:08 AM
Claudius : Begins to wake the others
Levi Reed: Rise and shine! Delicious fresh giant frog legs for breakfast!
Temperance: rubs her eyes and stretches
Ratbone Carder: ugh
Levi Reed: And I have a new friend!
Levi Reed: points to ghost monkey
BOB and No no one sees the ghost monkey
Claudius : That damn monnkey is just stealing from you mate. Mark my word. I know a con when I see it. I just can't quite tell how he's pulling this off..
BOB Claudius and Levi saw it but no one else ever did
Ratbone Carder: looks at the others like what is he talking about
BOB No one can see it
Claudius : So why didn't you guys tell us there was a ghost monkey?
Ratbone Carder: what ghost monkey?
Levi Reed: Well... maybe it's gone now. But it was here!
Vee Barlett: You already drunk?
Levi Reed: Maybe it only comes out at night
Levi Reed: I wish, Vee. I wish.
Ratbone Carder: STRUM STRUM STRUM
Claudius : No but maybe I should be... You guys didn't see the little ghost monkey? Levi was feeding the dang thing and I swear it stole a copper off him.
Levi Reed: I GAVE it to him
Ratbone Carder: GHOST monkey! who HAUNTS me!
Vee Barlett: I didn't know you drank, too.
Levi Reed: That's not stealing
Temperance: frowns at the discussion of ghost monkeys
Levi Reed: IF HE COMES BACK TOMORROW, I'LL GIVE HIM ANOTHER
Ratbone Carder: [singing] WHY you gotta gotta STEAL from me?!?!
Claudius : Of course love... Always have a bit of grog or rum on me.
Vee Barlett: laughs
Temperance: blinks with a questioning look on her face.
Vee Barlett: Well might be tainted if ya both hallucinatin' monkeys.
Ratbone Carder: GHOST monkey, who is HAUN. TING. ME!
Vee Barlett: And if Levi is actually tryin' to befriend one.
Temperance: Er... I don't think I have a spell to heal mental faculties...
Vee Barlett: That or he's a Hazelnut Doppleganger.
Levi Reed: Ghosts transcend species
Levi Reed: Oh shit, Vee!
Vee Barlett: I'd ask if ya smell nutty, but yer words tell me enough.
Levi Reed: I didn't even think of that
Ratbone Carder: You're stealing all my coppers away away FROM ME!
Vee Barlett: Mmm, the real Levi would.
Temperance: scribbles in some notes about "Ghost Monkey???"
Ratbone Carder: invents the punk genre
Ratbone Carder: just for the occasion
Levi Reed: You're right, there's somethign wrong with me
Levi Reed: Temperance, can you check and see if I went crazy?
Vee Barlett: Well whatever. Cashew Nut or not, you still got my back so that's fine.
Claudius : Love the tune Ratbone...Really catches the feel of the moment
Temperance: blinks and attempts to look him over
Ratbone Carder: i feel like i need a different instrument for this song
Claudius : I could use a little help over here love if you're done praying
BOB so you can heal for 5 HP for every Orison you cast
Claudius 's health adjusted by +9
Vee Barlett's health adjusted by +1
Claudius : Oh that feels better. You have my thanks.
Temperance: smiles back and nods in return.
Temperance: Not a problem, the least I can do after a full evening of rest.
Vee Barlett's health adjusted by +5
BOB Parry is down by 7
BOB regular healing can help Parry
BOB By spell or sleep
BOB I am adding that to everyone now
BOB sleeping gives 2 more points
Vee Barlett's health adjusted by +2
Jericho's health adjusted by +2
Rothuss Carder's health adjusted by +2
Levi Reed's health adjusted by +2
Parry the Mule's health adjusted by +2
Temperance's health adjusted by +2
MeLange's health adjusted by +2
BOB NOW everyone has the overnight healing and the first three rounds of healing by Temperance
BOB 15 total down other than Parry
BOB Is Levi just leaving his ghost monkey behind?
Levi Reed: holds out some more food "Got breakfast for you Chunky Monkey!"
Levi Reed: Stick with us and there's more where that came from!
BOB You pack up your tents in the wagon, and hitch Parry to the traces
Temperance: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 16) [FAILURE by 3] [d20 = 19]
Temperance: rolls wisdom to check for sanity, but fails
Temperance: scribbles in her notes, "Levi's headspace to check for unaccounted levels of sanity"
BOB I give you the same XP if you kill the frogs or if you manage to avoid doing anything with them
BOB If you are on the road and have a hobgoblin ambush but sneak past I give you the full XP as if you had killed them
Claudius : First time I've ever seen a ghost anything. I've heard stories about ghosts... but I never thought I'd see one...
Claudius : But it was there. The damn thing jumped from the wagon to Levi.
Vee Barlett: So he's possessed.
Temperance: raises an eyebrow and scribbles in her notebook
Temperance: Interesting...
Claudius : Not sure how you all didn't see it earlier. I thought it was a head injury until Levi saw it too.
Claudius : I've seen that stuff you know. Wack a person in the head hard enough and they can see stuff like that..
Levi Reed: Nah, it's a pet
Levi Reed: Look, if it was a live monkey, I would have probably murdered it, or at least chased it away
Claudius : It made a coin disappear, but again I was still a bit woozy last night. So maybe I just imagined it.
Levi Reed: But I'm not giving up the chance to get to know a ghost
Temperance: I'm not sure if the capabilities to observe a supposed apparition of a monkey is considered norm enough to ask why we couldn't see it.
Temperance: If anything, it's rather interesting that you could.
Claudius : Ya can't tell you why but I swear it was there.
Temperance: I suppose things disappearing from palms isn't considered the norm either...
Claudius : Ya'll have more experience exploring this place. Has anyone seen one of these before?
Temperance: looks a bit conflicted as she scribbles in some notes.
Levi Reed: Never been here before, buddy
Temperance: It's all a bit new to me as well.
Levi Reed: Rothuss and Ratbone are probably the only ones who have been anywhere near here before, and they're busy over there doing... whatever they're doing
Levi Reed: pooping probably
Rothuss Carder: stretches as he comes out of the woods.
BOB It is morning and you are mostly healed
BOB and heading uphill
Rothuss Carder: Do NOT go back there!
Vee Barlett: We can smell it from here. Doncha know to cover it?
Rothuss Carder: That *is* covered
Vee Barlett: Then let's get movin' and you can stand in back
Vee Barlett: Hope ya wiped.
Rothuss Carder: Whoever cooked last night, please don't do it again.
Levi Reed: You sure it wasn't the frog legs from this morning?
Rothuss Carder: Somebody slipped me frog legs? No wonder I cramped up like that.
BOB Temperance can consult with the wise Rothuss on the ghost monkey hypothisis
Temperance: Bowel movements and frog legs aside....
Levi Reed: Slipped? They were huge man, there was no "slipping" there
Rothuss Carder: No way would i have knowingly eaten frog, man.
Temperance: Levi and Claudius claim that they are witnessing an apparition of a monkey. Have you seen them before, Rothuss?
BOB Rothuss has no clue on ghost monkies
Rothuss Carder: [TOWER] [SKILL] Local History [MOD:CHA] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 8]
BOB Rothuss has never heard of such a thing
Rothuss Carder: Sounds totally like hallucinations brought on by frog legs.
Claudius : Oh no the monkey was before the frog legs
Temperance: I... see. Shame that Ratbone is indisposed at the moment. I would like her thoughts on this as well.
Rothuss Carder: *gasp* Frog legs so bad they poisoned you in the past?
Claudius : It was hopping fom the wagon to Levi.
Temperance: muffles a chuckle.
Temperance: Sometimes you say the silliest things.
Rothuss Carder: Is the ghost monkey on Levi right now?
Claudius : Maybe it was just the ass kicking I took yesterday
Levi Reed: I think they only come out at night
Levi Reed: That's my working theory
Rothuss Carder: Alright, so, joking aside... seeing ghosts is rarely a good thing. Usually it's an omen of some kind, usually bad.
Vee Barlett: And yet he wants to "befriend" it
Rothuss Carder: Sometimes though, it can be a fetch, trying to bring you somewhere. Either treasure, or a trap.
Rothuss Carder: Or a warning, to stay away from an area.
Temperance: From what they've been telling me, Levi has been feeding it food and giving it copper coins.
Rothuss Carder: Is the monkey doing anything odd in your visions?
Rothuss Carder: Does it have a little red hat and red vest?
Claudius : Just watching and then it takes things when offered was all
Claudius : Or at least it looked like it did. Things fell through its hands...but they were gone before they hit the floor
Rothuss Carder: Interesting...
Rothuss Carder: strikes a thoughtful pose
Claudius : But I was still a little loopy so maybe it did take the items and I just imagined it falling through its hands.
Rothuss Carder: Which way did the monkey come from?
Claudius : It was on the wagon when I took my watch
Claudius : I didn't see it come or go.
Rothuss Carder: How well have we searched the wagon?
Temperance: scribbles the information in her notebook as she walks.
Temperance: Er.. we found some items in the wagon before camping, with the Owlbear, I believe?
Temperance: I'm not sure how thorough of a search we did before the Hobgoblins.
Rothuss Carder: Has anyone looked under where we parked the wagon?
Rothuss Carder: Maybe we parked it on a pirate treasure.
Claudius : I wasn't in any shape to go investigating..
Temperance: During my watch, the only thing I noticed were live monkeys.
Temperance: So I didn't think to search.
Rothuss Carder: Were any of them on the wagon? Or only the ghost monkey?
Vee Barlett: Maybe ghost monkey was the boss of them.
Claudius : Really? We didn't see any live monkeys
Levi Reed: We DID find that alter in there
Temperance: Yes, there were two monkeys settled atop the wagon when I saw them.
Rothuss Carder: walks over and vaults up into the wagon.
Temperance: I tried a throwing stone spell but they leapt off with one of Melange's hand axes before I could aim properly.
Rothuss Carder: Where were all the monkeys, live or ghost?
Temperance: Atop the wagon.
Temperance: At least the live ones were settled on the roof.
Levi Reed: Only one was a ghost
Levi Reed: The rest I think were pretty solidly alive
Rothuss Carder: Front or back?
Rothuss Carder: prowls around the wagon, looking for clues.
Temperance: I can't recall accurately because it was dark and they were rather swift in moving away, but I believe they were in the middle
Temperance: climbs into the wagon and looks around.
Temperance: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 4] [d20 = 9]
Rothuss Carder: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 9) [FAILURE by 7] [d20 = 16]
Temperance: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 10] [d20 = 6]
BOB Temperance does not find anything she did not expect to
BOB Rothuss looks around and does spot where there was a scuffle but cannot tell who fought who
Rothuss Carder: hangs over the side of the wagon with his head upside down and legs stretched out for balance, and looks at the underside of the wagon and the ground beneath.
Temperance: Nothing unusual within the wagon...
Temperance: Do you see anything unusual over there?
Rothuss Carder: bangs on the bottom of the wagon.
Temperance: looks incredulously at Rothuss hanging upside down.
BOB You stop as Rothuss dangles off
BOB then you start again as his head is not in the middle of the wheels
Rothuss Carder: It looks like you'd expect the bottom of a wagon to look.
Rothuss Carder: pulls himself back up into the wagon and drops into a seat.
Temperance: Hm... interesting. Levi said something about the altar earlier. I don't have enough information about this specific one to know whether it can connect to supposed apparitions.
Temperance: scribbles in her notebook.
Temperance: Well, I suppose as long as it doesn't try to harm any one of us, it should be fine?
Claudius : Just keep an eye out for it is all. I don't trust that thing
Temperance: Fair enough, it doesn't bode well to trust too quickly.
Levi Reed: It's just a harmless ghost friend
Rothuss Carder: Hopefully.
Vee Barlett: It's a monkey-shaped one. More reason to distrust it if you want to befriend it.
Temperance: It's rather interesting that you got attached to it so quickly, Levi. From what I've heard, I thought you despised monkeys.
Temperance: Does it look particularly adorable?
The date is Lad____de, 3rd Lec (Early Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waning Gibbous
The time is 9:53 AM
