Chat Log List - 2024 05 03 - Bear Went Over the Mountain - Formatted - Story
Zecane Brightdoom: Walks out of the woods and finds your group on the bank of the stream doing healing
Zecane Brightdoom: Hello there strangers
Temperance: glances up at the voice approaching.
Zecane Brightdoom: What brings you to our side of the mountain
Temperance: Hello, I believe the original goal was to explore, but... well
Zecane Brightdoom: Exploring is a good thing
Zecane Brightdoom: Don't stay in one place or you grow roots
Vee Barlett: Some trainin' for the bards, some relaxin' for us. Or attempts except you got some monsters livin' up this way.
Temperance: That sounds like something Vee would say.
Zecane Brightdoom: Who is Vee?
Zecane Brightdoom: I am Zecane by the way
Vee Barlett: lifts hand
Temperance: Ah, she's the one who mentioned the monsters "livin' up this way"
Temperance: motions to Vee.
nods
Temperance: Call me Temperance. It's a pleasure.
Zecane Brightdoom: Its a Pleasure.... did your parents run a .... special house?
Temperance: tilts head in confusion.
Temperance: What house?
Vee Barlett: Nah, she a priest. A very naive one.
Zecane Brightdoom: Temperance Its a Pleasure, sounds like your parents were in the buisness of ...
Zecane Brightdoom: Ahhh
Zecane Brightdoom: That sort of pleasure
Temperance: still looks a bit lost, but smiles uncertainly nonetheless.
Temperance: Lots of things for me to learn, I suppose...
Vee Barlett: You frequent such places or just where yer mind goes?
Zecane Brightdoom: It is where my mind goes when thinking of large towns. It seems you must be from someplace like that. When ever I see too many people get together into one place they seem to have organized into houses for various things
Zecane Brightdoom: Which is why I like being here on the mountain
Vee Barlett: Too dry up here.
Zecane Brightdoom: People can be who they want, when they want
Vee Barlett: You can do that easier in the city.
Zecane Brightdoom: Too many people telling you how to do it
Zecane Brightdoom: Lightly laughs
Zecane Brightdoom: I do not begrudge those that want that, look at bees, they live all bound up tight together
Zecane Brightdoom: But I am glad to have your company here, in small doses. he says with a wink
Temperance: I think the industriousness of the larger cities make you less noticeable. Everybody's occupied with their own thoughts and purpose and things to do.
Temperance: But I suppose in the mountains, there's not too many to tell you what to do.
Vee Barlett: Whatcha do up here, Zecane?
Zecane Brightdoom: I wander the woods, I swim in the streams, I do my best to look after the flowers
Vee Barlett: Are the flowers people eatin' monsters, too?
Zecane Brightdoom: There are some that you have to be careful not to loose a finger to
Zecane Brightdoom: Or a small monkey
Temperance: raises an eyebrow in curiosity.
Temperance: Interesting...
Lirtimya: You sound like you lead a fairly nomadic life, do you see a lot of the same, or do you see a lot of different things?
Vee Barlett: Monkey took my pal's knife.
Vee Barlett: Know anything about a ghost monkey?
Temperance: shuffles around for ink and parchment to take notes on.
Zecane Brightdoom: I see lots of changes.... looks over a ghost monkey?
Zecane Brightdoom: You young lady, I have a hunch you are looking for more things to document (to Lirt)
Lirtimya: I do, it is an interest of mine to document the things I see
Zecane Brightdoom: That is a good habit to be in
Zecane Brightdoom: Looks back at Vee, Tell me about this Ghost Monkey story please
Vee Barlett: shrugs
Vee Barlett: Levi be the one claimin' to see it.
Levi Reed: MeL saw it too!
Vee Barlett: Tell 'em, Levi.
Vee Barlett: Ah, Mel back from the shits! He can tell you, too.
Levi Reed: Yeah the inland diet REALLY does not agree with that man
Levi Reed: I mean Claudius
Levi Reed: Anyway it's like a ghost monkey. It was eating food from me, but other than that I got nothing
Zecane Brightdoom: How can you see it? Do you see it only at certain people?
Vee Barlett: It mighta been tryin' to talk to us. Apparently it was near us when we were near the otter, but my eyes too dry to see anything recently. Couldn't even see this cabin from across the way...
Levi Reed: I saw it once at night
Vee Barlett: I think it be judgin' us.
Zecane Brightdoom: I can appreciate that feeling
Zecane Brightdoom: That will take some thought, I have not seen any ghost monkies
Zecane Brightdoom: Have you seen any interesting flowers?
Vee Barlett: Yeah, well, least of our worries. All bent out about those stupid otters who attacked us. All we wanted to do was go downriver. Now I'm too mad to wanna contemplate it.
Vee Barlett: Tempe and Levi the botanist.
Temperance: I'm not too keen on flowers, but the plant life that we could lose fingers to might be something good to know.
Levi Reed: Haven't looked much, we've kind of been in a rush
Zecane Brightdoom: You should learn to take your time and go slower
Levi Reed: Yeah, easier said than done when you got Vee around
Temperance: Perhaps. Sometimes when we're all focused on one thing there's not much that comes into sight.
Temperance: laughs lightly at Levi's comment.
Temperance: I suppose that too.
Vee Barlett: Yeah, well, sometimes I gots the feeling of some deadline and ain't all match up. Like, we plan to get going then suddenly gotta go NOW. Like some higher power tellin' us to go.
Zecane Brightdoom: Well do not let me hold you up
Levi Reed: I think we all know by now that higher power can't be trusted
Temperance: raises an eyebrow at Vee.
Temperance: It surprises me that you mention higher powers. Thought you might avoid them at all costs.
Zecane Brightdoom: There are always higher powers that we do not quite understand
Zecane Brightdoom: Does anyone really know why a flower blooms exactly where and when? Is there a plan (TM) or is it just chance?
Vee Barlett: Yeah, well, spit on 'em, yeah? Why I ain't part of the church.
Levi Reed: Philosophy isn't my strong suit
Vee Barlett: Probably some combination of the right sunlight and temperatures and such.
Vee Barlett: Pretty sure there's a science to it.
Zecane Brightdoom: Winks at Vee, but who sends the right rain?
Zecane Brightdoom: I am just happy to see when it happens
Vee Barlett: rolls eyes
Zecane Brightdoom: It was nice meeting you all, are you searching for anything in particular?
Zecane Brightdoom: Besides otters
Temperance: It was nice meeting you as well. We did have some questions about downstream and the lake beyond.
Vee Barlett: You know anythin' about giant pearls or pirate treasure?
Temperance: Or any places around here that we should... do well to avoid?
Zecane Brightdoom: Oh pearls are down in the lake
Temperance: Besides the... carnivorous plants that make you lose fingers.
Zecane Brightdoom: I would say that if you smell a sweet perfume stay away
Levi Reed: Wait, really? I missed that part! We should look for those!
Zecane Brightdoom: The largest of the dangerous plants emit that to lure food in
Temperance: jots down her notes and grins crookedly.
Temperance: I was a bit curious about those, but... I thought it'd be wise not to follow curiosity blindly.
Lirtimya: What do they look and smell like? So we may avoid them
Vee Barlett: Nothin' about the rumors of the ship crash?
Zecane Brightdoom: I do not know of any pirate treasure, I tend to stay away from those types
Vee Barlett: Yeah, probably smart to.
Levi Reed: We won't be blind, we'll look for them very carefully
Zecane Brightdoom: For the very large flowers that can manage to swallow a small monkey, they have a sweet flower perfume, if you breathe it too deeply then you might be drawn in
Zecane Brightdoom: I am not aware of any pirate ship crash, do you have any idea where it might be?
Levi Reed: Like with magic? Like sirens use but with smell? Or just people who are stupid?
Temperance: continues to take note on the parchment.
Zecane Brightdoom: That is a nice comparison young man
Vee Barlett: There any sirens or selkies up this way?
Zecane Brightdoom: Both in the deeper waters
Zecane Brightdoom: I do not know of any seals that live in the lake so if you see any you know they are not
Vee Barlett: Oh good, so lake selkies like sea ones.
Temperance: You've seen ones in the sea before, Vee?
Temperance: Interesting...
Zecane Brightdoom: I thought that all selkies were seals?
Zecane Brightdoom: So you say that the otters are down stream a bit?
Vee Barlett: The ones in the sea are, yeah.
Zecane Brightdoom: I will avoid that path then
Vee Barlett: Stupid otters, yeah. Decided we had to fight for some reason.
Zecane Brightdoom: It is breeding season maybe they saw you as a rival
Temperance: It was tricky to try and communicate with them, for certain.
Vee Barlett: Dunno. Tempe the one who talked to them.
Levi Reed: So... we can go by land or?
Zecane Brightdoom: I almost always travel by land
Temperance: Is there a way to reach downstream by land?
Zecane Brightdoom: I am heading towards the waterfalls
Zecane Brightdoom: The mountain goes up, the mountain goes down
Levi Reed: That's the last time I let Vee bully me into using a boat for no reason
Zecane Brightdoom: you can roll down hill to the lake
Temperance: Roll... downhill....
Zecane Brightdoom: Just don't hit too many trees, he says with a chuckle
Temperance: imagines everyone cartwheeling down the pathway.
Zecane Brightdoom: Gives a wave,
Zecane Brightdoom: Safe travels
Temperance: nods back with a slight bow.
Temperance: Safe travels to you as well. Thank you.
BOB And he goes off into the woods heading northish
Lirtimya: Good luck on your journey
BOB You plan (in theroy) is to find something valuable to bring back to the Orphange and use in exchange for more training
BOB you know the Urchins often contain pearls or other things
BOB and also yes trying to find a pirate ship that crashed
BOB none of it has to be done tonight, next week, but it is your chance to explore the other side (this side) of the mountains
BOB So far carniverous plants, and giant otters are new things
Levi Reed: Ok, everyone stuff your nose with something, let's go look for those plants
Violette Snipes: Do we want to stuff our nose so soon?
MeLange: what should we stuff our noses with?
Violette Snipes: How will we smell it when we get tehre
Lirtimya: As he said, it's only dangerous to us if we breath it in too deeply, so if we smell it just plug your nose
Levi Reed: Ah, ok, that then
Levi Reed: Everyone listen to the smart one!
MeLange: ok
MeLange: so don't breath in too deep, done
MeLange: takes short breaths
Lirtimya: Don't do that all the way, you'll become lightheaded and too tired, just be cautious around really large plants
MeLange: whoa yea
MeLange: slightly stumbles
MeLange: i'm ok
MeLange straightens with palms down
Lirtimya: That's good, just make sure to takeful breaths
MeLange: right, in n out through the mouth
MeLange: like a real human
Temperance: He did say that they were very large flowers, so as long as we're cautious around them we should be alright.
Levi Reed: I... are you... not?
Levi Reed: I mean, it's fine, but like... I thought you'd trust me with something like that
MeLange: Oh I'm human, but I never took a test or anything
MeLange: you never know
MeLange: like a real human
Temperance: What were those doppelganger things you guys were talking about before?
Temperance: Perhaps it'd be wise to invent a test, if those doppelgangers are so tricky.
Violette Snipes: What is a doppleganger?
MeLange: good idea
MeLange: could make some coin with an idea like that
Lirtimya: Having a good test would be good
MeLange: Yea Temp what is a doppleganger anyway?
Levi Reed: Oooh, ok, yes, if we think the other person is a doppleganger, we say a number to them, and they have to give us a number that makes the two numbers add up to nine. Like if I say 4, you say 5.
MeLange: sounds like a lot of math though
Levi Reed: Exactly. Dopplegangers are TERRIBLE at math
Temperance: From what I've been hearing, a doppelganger is supposed to be a creature that becomes your exact replica. I don't know how accurately they replicate you.
MeLange: So if I'm terrible at math I must be a doppleganger?
Levi Reed: I mean, even you can count to nine
Levi Reed: Nah, I like people to keep their distance
Temperance: We all have ten fingers, we should be alright counting to nine.
Violette Snipes: But if you only have 9 fingers then would your doppleganger have 9? or 10?
BOB You are all walking through the woods at this point, heading downhill
BOB avoiding the otters to get back towards the stream
Levi Reed: Doesn't matter, they won't know the code
Temperance: I've never witnessed one myself, so I'm too certain about how exactly they'd replicate you, but that's an interesting question.
Temperance: But yes, good to have a code.
MeLange: I actually prefer uphill walking to downhill walking
MeLange: easier on the knees
Violette Snipes: You could walk backwards?
MeLange: hmm interesting idea
MeLange: tries walking backwards
Temperance: Careful there. If something jumps out at you it might be best to see them first.
Violette Snipes: So Levi
Violette Snipes: You complained about moving rocks the last place you stayed
MeLange: Sounds like Levi
Levi Reed: Yeah, wasn't my favorite
Violette Snipes: Do you like rocks?
Levi Reed: I don't have strong feelings aobut rocks either way
Levi Reed: Unless I am being asked to transport them
Violette Snipes: Then why did you spend so much time with them?
Levi Reed: Favor for the church
Violette Snipes: Didn't you have anyone help you?
Levi Reed: Because isn't it always
Violette Snipes: OH it was one of those TASKS
Violette Snipes: the challenges of the Gods?
Levi Reed: Oh sure there were a few people. But there were way more rocks than people
Levi Reed: Nah, just a landslide, but it sure felt like a challege from the gods
Violette Snipes: So what other tasks do you do that you like/
Levi Reed: Drinking, hunting, cuddling... caves
Levi Reed: botany
Levi Reed: anything that calls for machete use
Violette Snipes: So you got along with Zercane then
Levi Reed: Who?
Violette Snipes: The guy you were talking to about flowers?
Levi Reed: Oh, yeah, he seemed ok
Violette Snipes: I thought you knew each other? I was out of it for a bit
Levi Reed: Look, I'm going to be honest with you, I'm pretty self absorbed. It's definitely possible that I met him before and I don't remember
Violette Snipes: WOW
Violette Snipes: Is that something a doppleganger would say?
Levi Reed: Nah, dopplegangers don't admit to faults
Violette Snipes: Or are you saying you never met someone you really liked?
Levi Reed: I'm just saying I'm bad at remembering people unless I'm around them a lot
MeLange clears throat
Levi Reed: Don't worry baby, I'd never forget you
MeLange smiles
Violette Snipes: I never heard of dopplegangers before,
Violette Snipes: But if you have seen them then they must be real
Violette Snipes: unlike a chupacabra
Levi Reed: I mean, I haven't seen one YET
Violette Snipes: That is something the small people believe in on the other side of the mountain
Levi Reed: But I also had never seen a Violette before you so
Levi Reed: Nah, chupacabras are real
Violette Snipes: I have not seen another Violette either
Violette Snipes: Are you sure? I have always heard it was a scary story to tell your kids at night
Levi Reed: You got sirens and selkies, what makes a chupacabra any less likely than those?
Violette Snipes: Well they are real
Levi Reed: There's enough scary monsters out there that we don't need to invent more
Violette Snipes: Like the mountain men
Levi Reed: Who's a mountain man?
Violette Snipes: The strange short men with beards so long they trip on them, they live in holes in the mountains, they are another story to tell kids
Levi Reed: Nah, we met one of those
Levi Reed: In a cave
Temperance: nods in agreement.
Violette Snipes: Did it have a long beard?
Levi Reed: yep
Violette Snipes: How could it move with it all wrapped around them
Temperance: Though I don't remember it being long enough that he was tripping over it.
Levi Reed: I'm sure the stories get exaggerated
Levi Reed: It was long, but not quite THAT long
Violette Snipes: OH look here, see that flower up there in the tree?
Violette Snipes: The seeds from that are wonderful
Violette Snipes: long black pods to boil and concentrate
Temperance: glances up at the tree, squinting to see it.
Temperance: What do the pods do if you boil and concentrate them?
Violette Snipes: The rangers find them and then sell them to the craftspeople
MeLange: interesting
Violette Snipes: they turn them into perfumes, into oils, some people use it in cooking
Violette Snipes: I have heard that the islands farther south have bigger more fragrent ones
Temperance: There seems to be vines on this tree, but I can't quite see the flower.
Temperance: Too high up.
Violette Snipes: So what sort of other mythical creatures have you found?
Violette Snipes: Dopplegangers, Chupacabra, Mountain Men
Levi Reed: Does a dolphin attack force count?
Violette Snipes: Dolphins are just big fish
Levi Reed: Vee you gonna let her talk about dolphins like that?
Vee Barlett: Huh? What? Did someone call my name?
Temperance: I don't know too much about dolphins, but they seem pretty different from fish.
Vee Barlett: Dolphins super smart.
MeLange: Yea well so is the devil
Temperance: What's that?
Violette Snipes: Dolphins are the devil?
Vee Barlett: Lots of devils and some of them dumb from what I heard. But dolphins? They're somethin' else.
MeLange: Yes Dolphins, they're smart, but if you ever atually watch em they're the jerks of sea
MeLange: think they're better than the other fish
MeLange: arrogance that is
Violette Snipes: I will never go to sea
Vee Barlett: *gasp*
Vee Barlett: Why not???
Violette Snipes: No one would want me there
Violette Snipes: and it sounds so strange on the other side of the mountain
Vee Barlett: Why not???
Temperance: I've been told once that someone saw a pod of dolphins messing about with pufferfish. But I wasn't there to witness it.
Vee Barlett: Sea don't care who visits. Why you think no one want you there? Ain't a wanted criminal or nothin' yeah?
Violette Snipes: I think you need to learn a lot about things like Lirt or Vee to be welcome on the sea
Violette Snipes: Does the sea like Levi?
Vee Barlett: It don't hate him.
Levi Reed: Not that the sea cares about that
Vee Barlett: He survived. That sayin' somethin'.
Violette Snipes: Maybe if I spend more time with you I could see it
Vee Barlett: I'm gettin' back on it soon as I can. Not sure why we still in these mountains...
Vee Barlett: Only gonnna be this one thing, then it was another, then it was another.
Levi Reed: Honestly, I think it might be more friendly to wanted criminals
Vee Barlett: Least I can blame the church for it all.
Vee Barlett: What more friendly to criminals? Mountain or sea?
Levi Reed: Sea
Vee Barlett: As long as you treat her right.
Levi Reed: The sea wants everyone. If it doesn't want you on it, it wants you in it
Violette Snipes: I would think that the sea would like criminals more, easier to hide
Levi Reed: To be clear, I mean it wants you dead
Violette Snipes: OH
Violette Snipes: That sounds dangerous, I did not know you were that dangersous Vee
Vee Barlett: Not cause you a criminal. It just won't help those who disrespect it, and if that mean you drown, you drown.
Squeezes Vee's arm
Vee Barlett: Nah, I'm just me.
Levi Reed: Yeah it's got its own set of laws and couldn't care less about ours
Violette Snipes: Like breathing?
Vee Barlett: One day I'll breath underwater....
Violette Snipes: That would be amazing,
Violette Snipes: Like how long I can hold my breath?
Winks at Vee
Temperance: It'd be nice to have a machine or something that could help with that.
Vee Barlett: smiles
Temperance: Breathing underwater, I mean.
Vee Barlett: Nah, just need good magic or gills.
Violette Snipes: Can't Priestesses do that?
Levi Reed: I wonder if them quiet pipes could be used in reverse
Temperance: I'll have to study spells more studiously, I suppose.
Levi Reed: Tempe, if you study any harder, you'll forget to breathe
Violette Snipes: I know some of the divers in the big lake use pipes to hold their breath, they breathe into a bag and suck it thourgh a pipe
Vee Barlett: If ya turn a canoe over and weigh it down, ya get an air bubble to stay underwater, but ya can't really explore far doin' that.
Levi Reed: There ya go Vee. You can suck a pipe
MeLange chuckles
Violette Snipes: I know of a cave you can swim underwater to, you go down hold your breath and then go through the cave and come back up and there is air
Vee Barlett: Rather just get me that magic ring I want.
Vee Barlett: Or find a way to be a mermaid. That'd be nice. Like that old tale, Thirteenth Year? Yeah, I loved hearin' that one.
Violette Snipes: But then you would not be a woman
Violette Snipes: you would loose your .... legs
Vee Barlett: I hear some of 'em can walk on land so there's gotta be a way to live in both worlds, yeah?
Violette Snipes: To be part of their world
Vee Barlett: Exactly.
Vee Barlett: I wanna be where the mermaids are. And the people. Gotta still visit my family time to time.
Violette Snipes: My family is not really the visiting kind
Vee Barlett: Who are they? You at least see yer dad?
Violette Snipes: I wonder what it is like out there
Violette Snipes: Oh sure, my mom, and my dad are there, and my brothers
Violette Snipes: at least sometimes
Vee Barlett: They just gonna stay up here?
Violette Snipes: My brothers go all over
Violette Snipes: My dad has a travelling wagon he goes all around the Bowl
Vee Barlett: And they left you here?
Violette Snipes: Mom is here
Violette Snipes: well I got her to go up to the Orphanage for a couple of days
Violette Snipes: she comes home soon
Violette Snipes: Told her to see if they had someone who would work around the house for her
Violette Snipes: then maybe she will forget me and I can go on my own adventures like you do
Vee Barlett: She can't expect ya to stay here all yer life.
MeLange: see, people wanna be like us
Shrugs She did
Violette Snipes: It is a big trip for her to go up to the top of the mountain and see the Church spend some time there
Violette Snipes: Not have to wait for someone to visit
Violette Snipes: Our friar is nice but he is strange
Vee Barlett: They all strange up there.
Levi Reed: Why do you stay here then? Why not live somewhere else?
Temperance: [CHECK] Wisdom [-4] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20+4 = 13]
-> Temperance: Temperance knows that Friar is not a term in the Keldorian church, that is a Norse thing
Temperance: Hm... Friar. I haven't heard that term before. It must be a Norse thing.
Violette Snipes: I would go if I could
Vee Barlett: What stoppin' you?
Violette Snipes: I don't know
Vee Barlett: We could always just... keep goin' down river to the big city. Although I did say I'd bring the second canoe back....
Violette Snipes: We left it there, we can just not take it
MeLange: big city could be fun
Violette Snipes: But there are lots of waterfalls
Violette Snipes: It would be exciting
Vee Barlett: I can make one or at least a raft if we need.
Violette Snipes: Smiles at Vee
Temperance: Cities are always so fast-paced, everyday there's something new happening.
Temperance: Might be nice to see.
Vee Barlett: Pretty sure it Osterhold. Ya already been there, Tempe. Well, kinda. You was newbie to the ship.
Violette Snipes: I have been to places with lots of people like a hundred or more
Temperance: I was more focused on the shipwork back then. If I return there again I might be able to look around a bit more.
Levi Reed: Yeah, she didn't really get to explore, you wouldn't even let her meet your dads
Vee Barlett: Er, definitely more than a hundred there...
Vee Barlett: She ain't prove herself to meet them at the time.
Temperance: It's alright, they sounded interesting enough from what I overheard.
Temperance: smiles lightly.
The time is 10:53 PM
The date is Be____se, 23rd Ze (Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Waning Gibbous
Old Moon's phase is First Quarter
Vee Barlett: It was only Pa anyways. Much more fun when it both of them home.
MeLange: we setting up camp?
Violette Snipes: We are almost home
Temperance: Did we ever get those glowing mushrooms back to them?
MeLange: ohh i like home
Violette Snipes: You can have my brothers room
Vee Barlett: Nah, too busy tryin' to survive to get them mushrooms for Dad.
Temperance: Ah, right. Cave encounters and such.
BOB So back in the hamlet, only five houses here, along the bank of the stream,
BOB Violette sets up Levi, Mel, (roth) into her brothers room
BOB Gives her room to Temp and Lirt (rat)
BOB and take her parent's room for her and Vee
Levi Reed: Why's it gotta be boys and girls separated like that?
Vee Barlett: 'Cause you might be cuddlin' Melange and that might make everyone uncomfortable. Except Roth.
MeLange: you know you love to watch Vee
Vee Barlett: Ew.
Levi Reed: Yeah, that's fair
Vee Barlett: I mean, happy for y'all and such but... ew.
MeLange: no appreciation for art anymore
Temperance: furrows her brows for a moment, but shrugs.
Vee Barlett: Whatever Levi doin' it ain't art.
Vee Barlett: Good poetry is.
Vee Barlett: His be drunkin' ramblin'
Temperance: Oh. Perhaps I need to read more poems.
MeLange: so just because it's bad it isn't art?
Levi Reed: Sometimes it's great!
Levi Reed: You just aren't drunk enough
Temperance: I thought they were alright.
Temperance: But I guess what is and isn't art is subjective to define in its own right.
Vee Barlett: Never drunk enough to deal with you.
Temperance: "Eyes of the beholder" and all that, as the books say.
MeLange: hmm
Levi Reed: Wouldn't know about books saying anything, but everything else sounds right
Levi Reed: The words I understood anyway
MeLange: yea books say lots of things
Temperance: It would be nice to see a book tell you the words instead of you having to read it. Easier on the eyes.
Temperance: But I suppose you'd have to be able to control its volume. It'd hurt to have it screaming at you.
The time is 6:53 AM
Temperance: Poetry isn't art?
The date is Pen____se, 24th Ze (Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waxing Gibbous
GM: [d100 = 79]
BOB OOOO so close but no Mom did not come home early to surprise you
BOB But it is a bright new shining morning in the Bowl
BOB Everyone excpet Violette is fully healed over night
Vee Barlett: We should heal ya up a bit before we head out, Violette.
Temperance: rubs her eyes and stretches.
Lirtimya: 'morning Temperance
Temperance: Good morning, Lirtimya. How did you sleep?
Lirtimya: I slept fairly well, did you?
Temperance: Slept alright as well.
Lirtimya: That's good, should we go check on the others? As well one of us should probably start a breakfast of some sort
Temperance: That sounds like a good idea. Though... I hope the others aren't too bothered by waking up in the morning. I remember Vee isn't too fond of being woken up.
Lirtimya: Oh, don't wake Vee up, but the others should be awake
MeLange nods
Temperance: Fair enough. It'd be good to let her sleep. Good morning, Melange.
MeLange: oh morning
Lirtimya: Well, let's go check on the others and wake them up, we should probably ask before making breakfast in someone's house
Temperance: nods in agreement.
Temperance: It'd be polite to ask for permission to use the cooking implements.
Lirtimya: goes to wake people up, and ask Violette if she can begin making everyone breakfast
Violette Snipes: I can make breakfast for people if you need
Temperance: If it wouldn't trouble you too terribly, then we'd appreciate it.
Violette Snipes: There is bread from yesterday
Violette Snipes: and there should be eggs
Vee Barlett: Mmm, no, stay here for a few more minutes.
Violette Snipes: and
Vee Barlett: sleepily
Violette Snipes: well you know how to make those right Lirt?
Lirtimya: I do
Violette Snipes: Snuggles back in with Vee
Temperance: Perhaps I can help before meditating? Two pairs of hands make work go faster.
Levi Reed: NOOOOPE
Vee Barlett: sighs and falls back asleep
Lirtimya: Help would be appreciated
Levi Reed: IF I DON'T GET EXTRA SNUGGLE TIME, NEITHER DO YOU
Levi Reed: kicks vee
Vee Barlett: Martial Arts: Glancing blow [d20 = 10]
Vee Barlett: [DAMAGE (M)] Punch Result:1 [TYPE: bludgeoning (1d0=1)] [d0 = 1]
Vee Barlett: KNOCK OUT ROLL [TARGET:3] Knockout roll fail! [d100 = 82]
Vee Barlett: reactionary punch at Levi
Lirtimya: Promptly leaves
Temperance: glances back in mild concern before following Lirt out the door.
Vee Barlett: Fuck off, dude.
Levi Reed: accepts reactionary punch
Levi Reed: Nope
MeLange: oh my
Vee Barlett: No one said you couldn't cuddle with Melange more. Is he even awake.
Vee Barlett: Go away.
MeLange: I'm awake now
Levi Reed: You're the one who wanted to get to the lake, up and at em sunshine
Vee Barlett: Soon as you leave, jackass!
Temperance: So... eggs and bread?
MeLange: I dreamed of polar bears on a full moon
MeLange: Oh yea please Temp, that sounds lovely
Lirtimya: Yes, let us begin
Levi Reed: Come on Violette, looks like you have help
Vee Barlett: mutters, "It's like he ain't ever made breakfast with his lover before. Ain't sure why he don't take advantage of that."
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Cooking [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 13] [d20 = 3]
Temperance: I'll follow your lead, Lirtimya.
Temperance: Tell me how I can help, and I'll do as you instruct.
Temperance: smiles lightly.
Lirtimya: Thank you for helping
Vee Barlett: Smells good... she can stay for another minute.
Lirtimya: begins cooking with Temp
Temperance: I'd rather be helping here rather than deal with... well. The temperamentals over in that room.
Temperance: Perhaps they are hungry.
Temperance: begins to help with cooking.
Levi Reed: I'd rather not see what happens if her mom comes home and the two of your are in bed and strangers are cooking in her house
BOB Lirt turns out a masterpiece of a breakfast for everyone, with a dollop of that frangrant oil Violette mentioned before, a touch of butter and a fresh warm hearty breakfast for all
MeLange: that was amazing!
Vee Barlett: gets out of bed at the smell of food, yawns and stretches.
MeLange: Oh Man Vee you missing out, THIS was a breakfast of champions
Levi Reed: finally leaves the room
MeLange: Great job Lirt! I tip my hat to you
Vee Barlett: Nah, Matey would never not save me food.
MeLange: oh we saved you some, it's just not as fresh anymore
Vee Barlett: Yeah, well, sometimes mornin' kisses better first.
Vee Barlett: Hope Levi didn't leave ya without any to come yell at me instead. Bet he did.
Lirtimya: It should still be very good, I hope you enjoy as well, I think Temperance and I did very well
Vee Barlett: Ya always do well, matey.
Rothuss Carder: yawns.
Levi Reed: It would be worth it, but no
Temperance: It was mostly Lirtimya, and it was definitely very enjoyable. Always nice to have something warm to eat in the morning.
MeLange: I think he likes yelling at you over all other things Vee
Levi Reed: holds up his plate of food
Vee Barlett: Sorry I'm still his priority, Melange. Maybe one day he'll appreciate you properly.
MeLange: A man can dream
MeLange: takes final bite of breakfast
Rothuss Carder: Food?
Vee Barlett: Ya.
Rothuss Carder: staggers over to a table.
Temperance: passes a plate over to Rothuss.
Rothuss Carder: smells it appreciatively.
Temperance: Lirtimya made some warm toast and eggs. I'd recommend eating it while it's still warm.
Temperance: What was the name of the pods that we used? The sweet ones?
Rothuss Carder: mumbles his thanks while sorting out holding a fork and balancing food on it.
Violette Snipes: This is the vanilla plant, well pieces of it I suppose
Vee Barlett: Love that smell.
Lirtimya: It has a very nice taste, by chance could one survive and grow on a ship?
Levi Reed: Is this what those carnivorous plants smell like?
Temperance: perks up at the talk of carnivorous plants.
Violette Snipes: I don't know, I hear that it grows more in the islands south
Vee Barlett: Maybe if we put it in a pot in a sunny port?
Violette Snipes: here it grows in the Bowl a bit
Levi Reed: Seems unlikely, Lirt, but maybe we could talk Gloria into raising a few. Could come in useful for the pub
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 5]
BOB Vanilla planifolia grows as an evergreen vine, either on the ground or on trees.[6] It will sometimes grow as an epiphyte without rooting in the soil. When rooted in the soil its terrestrial roots are branched and develop fine root hairs associated with mycorrhizal fungus.[7] In the wild it easily grows to 15 meters in length,[8] and may grow to as much as 30 meters.[2] When growing in full shade the vine will very seldom branch, but when in sunlight it will develop multiple branches.
Lirtimya: If it can stand the humidity it would still be nice to have
Vee Barlett: One way to find out, yeah? Get some seeds or cuttin' or whatever y'all need from it.
Temperance: If it could, then we'd have to make sure to support the vines. I saw some on that tree earlier.
Levi Reed: That's what the ground is for
Temperance: Oh, I thought we were talking about growing it on the ship. If it's on solid ground, then yes.
Rothuss Carder: I heard of a pirate ship that had orange trees growing on the back deck.
Lirtimya: Well, it was a nice thought at least, it would definitely be nice for on a ship, but it probably wouldn't be able to grow
Vee Barlett: Huh?
Levi Reed: And you guys think I make crazy stuff up
Levi Reed: I bet we could bottle it or dry it or something, make it good for a journey
Temperance: My, that ship must've smelled all citrus-y
MeLange: I could think of worse smells
Lirtimya: Yeah, probably
Temperance: It wouldn't hurt to take some with us, I suppose. Could come in handy.
Rothuss Carder: I think it was called the Going Merry
Temperance: Citrus fruits are always nice. The more sour they are the better.
Vee Barlett: Who captain of it?
Lirtimya: chuckles "If we got our hands on one of those flying ships we could tie it to ours and use it as a giant growbed"
Rothuss Carder: .... Monkey?
Rothuss Carder: Somthing Monkey, I think
Levi Reed: rolls eyes
Levi Reed: Sure Roth
Vee Barlett: ....Going Monkey? What kinda name is that? Definitely makin' up stories now.
Rothuss Carder: shrugs.
Violette Snipes: Is that a mythical thing like the Doppleganger and chupacabra?
Temperance: If we could have that as a giant growbed then we wouldn't have to depend on dried rations as much when we sail.
Violette Snipes: I am ready to go
Lirtimya: Fresh food on long trips sounds nice
Levi Reed: Where we heading?
Violette Snipes: Down to the lake I thought?
Temperance: Down to the lake, then? By land or by water?
Violette Snipes: Did we want to go by the otters again?
Vee Barlett: No.
Vee Barlett: We can carry the canoes by them.
Rothuss Carder: Which one has less monster otters?
Temperance: I don't think the five days are up yet.
Temperance: So by land, then by water?
Violette Snipes: We can go on the north bank and follow that down to the lake
Rothuss Carder: One if by land?
BOB You can go over land on the north side of the streams/rivers there
BOB the first fork is where you had your canoe, then slightly downstream was otters
Rothuss Carder: Rothuss was so tired this morning because he was up in the middle of the night finding something grease or lard-like and slathering up all the handles of Otter Defenderman's tools.
Violette Snipes: Isn't it pretty
BOB I take it that everyone can see the map now?
BOB and only Levi can see the ghost monkey
Vee Barlett: Beautiful!
Temperance: hums in agreement
Violette Snipes: So we just have to get down over those waterfalls
Violette Snipes: and then we can get back to a more steady portion of the stream
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [FAILURE by 3] [d20 = 15]
Temperance: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 10] [d20 = 3]
Rothuss Carder: Canoe right over it?
Vee Barlett: Hmm, if only I could see some ladder...
Vee Barlett: Or somethin' for rope.
Temperance: glances around
Violette Snipes: Smiles at Vee, I go under there on a hot summer afternoon
Violette Snipes: and just let the water flow over me
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 6] [d20 = 10]
Lirtimya: tries to find how far across the water is
Vee Barlett: Sounds lovely.
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Distance Sense [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 7] [d20 = 7]
Vee Barlett: Wonder how the canoe might hold goin' over?
Violette Snipes: I have never been in one to try
Rothuss Carder: It's a boat. They float, right?
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Boating [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 9] [d20 = 6]
Temperance: Hopefully it will holding the three to four people.
BOB Vee thinks she can make it over the falls in the canoe easily but it not sure the others can if they cannot swim
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 14] [d20 = 1]
Vee Barlett: Y'all can swim right?
BOB Levi spots the faint image of a ghost monkey on an island in the middle of the stream
Levi Reed: THERE IT IS!
Levi Reed: HEY BUDDY, YOU HUNGRY!
Temperance: blinks and tilts her head.
Temperance: What's there?
Vee Barlett: FOCUS CAN Y'ALL SWIM?
Levi Reed: holds out a little french toast he packed away juuust in case
Temperance: Maybe?
Levi Reed: yeah yeah yeah, I can swim
Levi Reed: But there's the ghost monkey
Rothuss Carder: Of course!
Vee Barlett: It's a yes or no question.
Lirtimya: Of course I can
MeLange: I can swim!
Temperance: The waters look pretty fast moving.
Vee Barlett: looks at Tempe
Vee Barlett: Yes. Or No.
Temperance: Yes
Levi Reed: HEEEEERE MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY
Vee Barlett: Ok then we can take the canoe over. If ya don't think you can handle the flow, hold someone tight.
MeLange: Levi... You ok man?
Vee Barlett: Levi, ya dumb shit. Yer gonna scare it away.
Rothuss Carder: It was just a story, Levi. I don't think the pirate ship is really here.
Levi Reed: It's right there man!
Levi Reed: points to the monkey
Vee Barlett: rolls eyes and gets canoe ready
MeLange: [SKILL] Animal Lore [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 12] [d20 = 1]
Levi Reed: I gotta give this monkey a name
Levi Reed: MONKEY, DO YOU HAVE A NAME!?
Vee Barlett: Stop scarin' all the fish away.
Vee Barlett: Ya hurtin' my ears.
Levi Reed: We don't need fish right now
Vee Barlett: We don't need otters findin' us from all yer yellin'
Vee Barlett: I thought you knew jungles. Don't be makin' yerself a mark.
Levi Reed: How do you think he got over to that island?
Levi Reed: I've never seen monster otters in the jungle before, Vee.
Levi Reed: That's your territory
Vee Barlett: He a ghost, I thought. Or spirit. Or whatever all y'all claim.
Levi Reed: I don't know what he is, but all the more reason to befriend him and find out
Vee Barlett: If he wanted to be yer friend by now, he would be.
BOB So who is in the first trip with Vee over the waterfall?
BOB and does anyone want to swim over it instead?
Levi Reed: Why else would he be hanging around?
Vee Barlett: Now let's go.
Vee Barlett: 'Cause he's judgin us like the other monkeys. Just cause
Levi Reed: He clearly DOES want to be friends
Levi Reed: And yes, fine, let's go, he's closer to that side anyway
Vee Barlett: Nah. Just 'cause he's a ghost don't mean he's different from a regular monkey, dweeb.
MeLange: heh
Rothuss Carder: I'll go, if no one else wants to be first.
MeLange: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:STR] (vs. Target 18) [SUCCESS by 0] [d20 = 18]
BOB Vee makes a Boating check at a plus 2 based on her earlier roll
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Boating [MOD:WIS] [+2] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 7] [d20-2 = 8]
Levi Reed: I swear if she ruins that guy's canoe
Temperance: I think the one she's riding is Violette's.
Temperance: We gave the canoe back to... er. Falk?
Levi Reed: You mean Violette.
Levi Reed: And yes, we all know she's riding Violette.
Levi Reed: No need to be crass
Temperance: blinks and tilts her head.
Levi Reed: Is it swimmable, you think?
Temperance: Why would she be riding Violette? Wouldn't it be hard to row?
Levi Reed: I mean, not at this exact moment, but at least last night
Temperance: But... Violette isn't a horse...
Temperance: looks even more confused.
Levi Reed: I agree, Tempe. I agree
Levi Reed: I wonder if I could swim over to the monkey...
Levi Reed: Vee's not here to yell at me this time
Temperance: laughs lightly.
Temperance: Who knows, she might yell loud enough over the waterfalls.
Levi Reed: Nah, even her big mouth can't make it this far
Vee Barlett: yells from the other side, "HURRY UP!"
Levi Reed: Well, let me see if I can get across to this tiny little island, then I'll give it a shot to the big one
MeLange: we waiting for them then?
Vee Barlett: Tempted to leave him behind.
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:STR] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 17]
BOB You did jump it was only 3-4 feet
BOB but now trying to swim over to the ghost monkey
Rothuss Carder: That was fun!
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:STR] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 17]
Rothuss Carder: How are you going to get the boat back up there?
Temperance: How's the distance from here to the...
Temperance: Oh.
Levi Reed: THESE CURRENTS ARE CRAZYYYYY
Levi Reed: SAVE ME GHOST MONKEY
BOB Con check for Levi
Levi Reed: [CHECK] Constitution (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 13] [d20 = 3]
Vee Barlett: looks at Melange
Vee Barlett: If he needs savin' that's on you. He's an idiot.
BOB He tumbles and turns as he goes over the water fall, and then surfaces coughing and then goes under again
BOB He did get a full breath but failed his swimming check so is going down
Vee Barlett: MELANGE. WAKE UP.
MeLange: whoa!
MeLange: dives in after Levi
MeLange: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:STR] (vs. Target 18) [SUCCESS by 17] [d20 = 1]
Temperance: glances at Lirtimya.
Temperance: Shall we try to traverse these waters?
Vee Barlett: You. Are. An. Idiot.
Vee Barlett: Now forget the fuckin' monkey already.
Levi Reed: You said to hurry up!
MeLange: time we take some swimming lesson Levi?
Levi Reed: And now I'm here!
Levi Reed: Settle down
Rothuss Carder: Should we have the other two do that and we just catch them?
Rothuss Carder: It worked for Levi
Vee Barlett: And you left the squishes by themself to get here?
Lirtimya: This is a horrible idea, I may not be strong enough to go against these currents, but we can't just sit around here
Vee Barlett: Because you wanted to chase somethin' that don't care about you.
Temperance: Indeed. You can hold onto me if you'd like, but I'm not sure how I'll hold against these currents either.
Vee Barlett: Y'ALL OKAY UP THERE? WE'LL CATCH YOU IF YOU NEED!
Temperance: They carried Levi away...
MeLange: I can dive back in if one of em don't make it all the way across
Vee Barlett: Thanks, Melange.
Temperance: clears her throat.
Temperance: We're alright! Just trying to figure things out!
Levi Reed: Monkey, I'm going to name you Bubbles. If you agree, come eat this delicious food!
Levi Reed: holds out more food
Levi Reed: totally ignoring whatever else is going on around him
Lirtimya: I'll stick close to you and try to grab on if I need to
Rothuss Carder: He's gone completely loopy, hasn't he?
Vee Barlett: Yep.
Rothuss Carder: Did he hit his head or eat something funny?
Temperance: Alright, then. Let's stick close.
Vee Barlett: You'd think someone who knows animals would realize his approach is 100% stupid.
Temperance: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:CON] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 7]
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Swimming [MOD:STR] (vs. Target 9) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 7]
Vee Barlett: Crew is here, let's keep goin'
Levi Reed: Come on Bubbles!
Vee Barlett: He just keeps insulting it over and over....
Temperance: Who's Bubbles?
Lirtimya: Thank you Temperance for the assistance
Temperance: No worries at all! Always happy to help. Besides, Vee would shank me if we lost you.
Temperance: grins lightly.
Lirtimya: smiles
Levi Reed: tries to throw some food over to the monkey
Levi Reed: Hey buddy!
Levi Reed: Where... what
Levi Reed: No!
BOB Sitting on Vee's shoulder
Levi Reed: Don't go by her, she's a witch!
Levi Reed: She doesn't even like you!
Vee Barlett: Says who?
Vee Barlett: I respect its autonomy.
Vee Barlett: Or hers. Or his.
Levi Reed: Well that's a bit more respectable
Vee Barlett: Yer just full of jealousy Levi. Ain't a good look on you. But it is a hilarious one.
Temperance: walks over to join the others.
Levi Reed: Nah, I just don't like to see you happy is all
Vee Barlett: Jealousy.
MeLange: I sure wish you guys got along better
Vee Barlett: Now we movin' on? Unless spirit friend talks.
Levi Reed: What are you talking about, she's my best friend
MeLange: oh well alright then
Vee Barlett: I'd let him drown. But I'd feel bad about it eventually.
Levi Reed: Ok, Bubbles is clearly along for this journey, so where we going?
Vee Barlett: I ain't callin' anything Bubbles. Unless it's a stripper.
Rothuss Carder: Did you hit your head on a rock going over the falls?
Levi Reed: Maybe he is, who knows
Vee Barlett: rolls eyes
Vee Barlett: Come on then.
Levi Reed: Probably, but I was like this long before that
BOB So heading down the north shore of the stream as it gets stronger and more into a river
BOB You are a couple of miles downhill now the terrain is much more gentle
Levi Reed: Hey Tempe
Temperance: Yes?
Levi Reed: Can you do seances?
Temperance: Er... I've never tried one before.
Temperance: I wouldn't be too sure.
Levi Reed: But do you have a spell in that fancy book of yours for talking to the dead?
Temperance: Hm... Maybe I can double-check. I don't think I have one that specifically communicates with the dead.
Image: Jungle Hut
Rothuss Carder: That's an odd hut.
MeLange: Hmm, looks like a hut
Rothuss Carder: Kinda looks like a giant worm.
Levi Reed: It DOES look like it wants to eat someone
Rothuss Carder: Dibs on not being first one into the carnivorous hut!
Temperance: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 9] [d20 = 4]
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 12] [d20 = 3]
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 8] [d20 = 5]
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 12] [d20 = 3]
Temperance: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20 = 10]
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 16) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 18]
MeLange: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 10) [FAILURE by 1] [d20 = 11]
MeLange: [SKILL] Animal Lore [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 1] [d20 = 12]
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [SUCCESS by 4] [d20 = 8]
BOB It looks like a hut, there is a slight odor but nothing horrible
Vee Barlett: Whatcha think, Violette? Seen anything like this up here before?
Violette Snipes: Lots of things live in the jungles here
Temperance: No dice on the communicating with the dead spells, I'm afraid.
Temperance: closes her notebook again.
Vee Barlett: But huts like this normal?
Temperance: I'll have to study a bit more.
Vee Barlett: you can't do speak with animals and communicate with dead if that's what you were thinking
GRaaggla [Lizardmen]: [Translation] What are you here for
Vee Barlett: Uhhh, hello?
Temperance: furrows her brows
GRaaggla [Lizardmen]: [Translation] Do you speak a respectable language?
MeLange: whoa
Temperance: Where's that noise coming from?
Levi Reed: Hello?
GRaaggla: Grumbles, COUGHS
GRaaggla: Hello
Vee Barlett: Hi?
Vee Barlett: Who you?
GRaaggla: I am GRaaggla
GRaaggla: Who are you
Vee Barlett: Vee.
GRaaggla: Why are you here in my home
Vee Barlett: We just passin' by and saw it.
Rothuss Carder: This is where the path led?
GRaaggla: Then you are lost or need a spell
Vee Barlett: We're tryin' to get to the lake.
Levi Reed: Maybe a bit of both
Levi Reed: Can you talk to ghost monkeys?
Levi Reed: Oh, my name's Levi
Vee Barlett: He hit his head, you can ignore 'em.
BOB anyone who wants to try to see the ghost lizard can make an observation roll
Levi Reed: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 4] [d20 = 19]
Vee Barlett: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [FAILURE by 4] [d20 = 16]
Lirtimya: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 16) [SUCCESS by 4] [d20 = 12]
MeLange: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 10) [SUCCESS by 9] [d20 = 1]
Temperance: [SKILL] Bureaucracy (2) [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 11]
Temperance: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 0] [d20 = 13]
BOB So Mel spots a ghostly image of a small lizard, about 2 feet long, that is curled up around a bowl with bones in it
MeLange: huh, cool image
Rothuss Carder: I've heard of haunted houses, but haunted jungles?
MeLange: wonder who those bones belong to eh?
Vee Barlett: What kinda spells you do up here?
GRaaggla: I work the magic of the land
Levi Reed: Ghostly magic?
Vee Barlett: What's that mean? I'm of the sea.
GRaaggla: So your magic will not work here
Vee Barlett: Well couldn't talk to them otters so apparently not.
Levi Reed: Don't listen to her, she doesn't have any magic
Levi Reed: So about that ghost monkey
Temperance: looks around at the plants around the hut.
Temperance: Maybe it's botanical magic?
Levi Reed: Look, let me be upfront with you. If you can talk to ghost monkeys, I'm willing to pay or trade to have that done
GRaaggla: What sort of magic are you looking for? a love potion? that seems odd from a young healthy fertile group like you
GRaaggla: Speaking with Ghosts is not hard
Vee Barlett: Guessin' you ain't got any water breathin' spells?
Levi Reed: Gods no, we have more love than we need.
GRaaggla: What do you need to know?
Levi Reed: glares at Vee and Rothuss and Violette
GRaaggla: Breathing water? or breathing air underwater?
Vee Barlett: Breathin' water seems easiest, but I supposin' either.
GRaaggla: Do you normally breathe water?
Levi Reed: So there's this monkey that keeps following us, yeah? I'm calling him Bubbles for now because I felt bad calling him "monkey". I'm just wondering like, what he's doing, if he's going to stick around, if there's anything I can do for him... just normal ghost questions
Vee Barlett: It ain't worked since I last tried. Maybe when I turn 18, but I ain't yet so...no.
GRaaggla [Lizardmen]: [Translation] Normal ghost questions
GRaaggla [Lizardmen]: [Translation] Is there a monkey here that wants to talk to this young man?
Vee Barlett : [Translation] Sorry I only speak this.
GRaaggla: I did not hear any response for you
GRaaggla: There is no ghost monkey here
Levi Reed: Oh, maybe he didn't follow us
Vee Barlett: Response from who?
Levi Reed: That's disappoinging
Vee Barlett: I responded to you. Kinda.
Levi Reed: Any tips on what I should do if I see him again?
GRaaggla: I heard your burbling, I do not spend time with those folk enough to need their language
Vee Barlett: What kinda folk are you?
GRaaggla: Looks back and forth between Vee and Levi
Rothuss Carder: mutters to Temperance, "Maybe he can find a ghost banana?"
Levi Reed: That's my last question, then you can focus on this storm (points to Vee)
Temperance: muffles a chuckle and whispers back, "Perhaps?"
GRaaggla: If you have a ghost following you around then you have something of his perhaps
Vee Barlett: I wanna know what kinda folk GRaaggla is. More important than your ghost.
Levi Reed: Ohhh, interesting. Ok, thank you for your time. What do I owe you?
GRaaggla: You can leave an offering in the bowl
Levi Reed: Do you have use for money or do you want food or? I don't want to give you something you can't use
GRaaggla: Food is nice, if you have something to offer
Levi Reed: puts food in the bowl
GRaaggla: Looks over to Vee, now to your question on breathing water
Vee Barlett: Well question was actually what kinda folk you were first.
GRaaggla: Lizardfolk have been here for centuries
Vee Barlett: Interestin'
Vee Barlett: Ok so water breathin'?
Rothuss Carder: Lizard ... 'people'?
GRaaggla: You want to breath water?
Vee Barlett: ...maybe. But everythin' got a cost.
Vee Barlett: But I also wanna breath air.
GRaaggla: All magic has a cost
GRaaggla: You want to breathe air under water?
Vee Barlett: Exactly so makin' sure I ain't agreein' to nothing.
Vee Barlett: I wanna know what you can do.
Vee Barlett: I wanna breath air above water, and water below water.
GRaaggla: I can give you a potion that you can drink to be able to breathe air underwater
Lirtimya: So you make potions?
MeLange: that's pretty cool
Vee Barlett: Hmm... I mean breathin' any way is important. How it different from breathin' water potions?
Item: Potion, Water Breathing
GRaaggla: Fancy mages make a bubble of air around you to breathe, I believe in cleaner easier of just being able to breathe when you are in a place you normally cannot
Vee Barlett: Yeah I agree with that.
GRaaggla: I can help a fish breath in air, or I can help you breath in water
Rothuss Carder: Sounds like fun.
Temperance: Useful too.
Vee Barlett: So what kinda exchange would you want for somethin' like that potion?
GRaaggla: Something valuable to you
BOB base price is 100 gp
Vee Barlett: Do you take people? 'Cause temptin' to give away Levi...
GRaaggla: If I can help you live a dream you should feel generous
Vee Barlett: He gettin' on my last nerve pretty early today.
GRaaggla: Does he taste good
Vee Barlett: laughs
Vee Barlett: Well we got some coins. Do you like coins?
Vee Barlett: Or clothin'? Some nice cloaks we picked up and soft boots.
GRaaggla: I can utilize coins with others
GRaaggla: A good leather cloak to keep me damp would be nice
Vee Barlett: Hmm, lemme see....
Vee Barlett: digs around for the cloaks they found in the cave and holds it out
Vee Barlett: This any good use for ya?
Vee Barlett: Coins, too, but not sure if this'll be worth some of the haggle.
GRaaggla: That is a nice gift but it looks like any common cloak
Vee Barlett: Maybe, but someone else might find it useful so worth askin' if you would.
Vee Barlett: How 'about 95 coins?
BOB a high quality cloak is 1/2 a gp
BOB nods, just coming up with alternatives for you
BOB If you have 100 gp consider it done
BOB Or gems plus gold depending on what you want to do
Rothuss Carder: I can pitch in a bit if you need.
Vee Barlett: hands over the coin
GRaaggla: Takes the coins and slowly fingers them
GRaaggla: Nodding
GRaaggla: Taking the coins into her hut
GRaaggla: and then bringing out a moment later a small leather pouch
GRaaggla: It is fashioned like a flask, with a stopper at the top
Levi Reed: Well this meeting was suspiciously fortuitious
Rothuss Carder: Don't look a gift potion maker in the mouth.
GRaaggla: You came to me
Vee Barlett spent 100 GP on on water breathing potion from party pack
Levi Reed: Yeah, accidentally. We didn't know you were here
Levi Reed: I'm not trying to say YOU'RE suspicious
Vee Barlett: Much appreciated. This'll come in handy, I'm sure.
Levi Reed: You seem like a wonderful person
Levi Reed: Just making an observation to the powers that move the world
GRaaggla: If you do see your ghost again see if you have something it wants
Vee Barlett: We around water plenty. Whether we use it soon or later, we'll use it sooner OR later.
Rothuss Carder: A hatchet, maybe?
Rothuss Carder: Didn't it steal one from you already?
Levi Reed: Nah, that was a regular monkey
Rothuss Carder: Oh, maybe ghost monkeys want ghost hatchets?
GRaaggla [Lizardmen]: [Translation] Have safe travels
Levi Reed: It started following us after that owlbear den. Maybe something we found in there?
Rothuss Carder: What else did you find there besides the cloaks?
BOB She goes back into her hut
Levi Reed: Thank you GRaaggla!
The date is Pen____se, 24th Ze (Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waxing Gibbous
The date is Pen____se, 24th Ze (Summer), 587 SGR
Young Moon's phase is Last Quarter
Old Moon's phase is Waxing Gibbous
The time is 9:33 AM
Vee Barlett: [d100 = 54]
BOB so 2 does in the flask for her
BOB and you can head down hill more next week
