Among the Mages

- Sahara Haze - Swamp Cooler v. Redneck AC - The group wakes up refreshed with the Alarm spell untriggered. - They are slightly soggy as there's not much high ground - Acta takes her turn climbing a tree to check the direction of their travel - She sees smoke in the direction they intend to travel - It is a difficult slog to get through the swamp without a path - In the early afternoon, LACS comes to a clearing with shaggy grass and purple flowers - Sariel stops everyone because the plants look weird and out of place compared to the other vegetation in this forest/swamp, she does Detect Magic as a ritual, but doesn't see anything - Luca and Neil notice there is a small pile of bones at one edge of the clearing - Penny sniffs around, but she doesn't notice anything - Acta starts picking flowers - The ground begins to rumble under Sariel's feet and the ground tries to fold her into itself, a thing that looks like a flying carpet made of Earthen Engagement ...

- Level up to 4! - The party has packed their things and have turned north toward the territory of the Angry Fire Tribe. - Thus the day is spent. - Around midday, there is another fork in the path, one side goes NW and the other goes E - Luca climbs a tree and sees the NW path curves around to the N, but so does the E one - The party follows the E trail, and it gradually becomes noticeably less traveled and rougher and the trees become thicker - Around dusk they come to a clearing that has a large mound in the middle - Acta looks around and then slightly climbs the side of the mound where she sees it's a nest, filled with four eggs - She holds a light source behind the egg and sees a large lizard looking creature inside - Sariel notices the forest has gotten very quiet (again) - Luca hears a clicking sound coming from somewhere in the trees - Acta turns around and sees a creature coming directly for her - The creature is a Large lizard-like creature with long forearms,...

- 2017 was a rough year - jump and dump - don't ask if you don't already know - no discounted AC units for us - drunk April is very opinionated - The lizardfolk lead the party passed the giant tree which has a spiral staircase built into the giant trunk and across a rope bridge to another land island in the swamp - The largest hut in the ground village area - Inside the hut, there are four lizardfolk sitting around a campfire. One jumps up and speaks angrily - The biggest, broadest one with a head frill, Chaxlix, stands and introduces himself - He doesn't know what the heck they are talking about when trying to communicate the idea that they are there to make amends for Barkridge's trespass - This tribe is the Green Dragon tribe, and they share borders with Angry Fire and Poison Fist. - Angry Fire sure sounds like a likely tribe to send fire snakes after someone - Neil asks about the tracks they saw after their sleep was disturbed, and they say that we encou...