Among the Mages

- Sweater pattern research - The next morning - There is sunlight in the various guest rooms, though it is difficult to see where it is coming from. - Torin has set a table and there are porridge and fruit and fried meat of some kind. - Torin is definitely not coming to the cave. He's going to stay home and go through his old research notes from before Chemendoro was founded. - He does not know what the creep-tures are. - The group decides to keep the Wind Walk spell for a quick escape, so they hike to the cave they found. - They arrive at the cave without seeing any of the creep-tures. - Neil scouts the cave entry area sneakily - He sees a large chamber with some dark shapes against the back wall and two large openings, one leading left and one right. - Neil signals to Acta to come have a look too, and she can see that the dark shapes look like sleeping animals - They regroup with the party to talk about the plan of action - They all move to the cave entrance and Acta sneaks close...

- Butterfinger Crisp Bar! - They fly east and find an area of a high concentration of the Creep-tures after about half an hour. - Zaril flies down low to the ground and finds what seems to be a well-traveled trail - She follows it and the group follows her for about 40 minutes and they find a cave opening with a lot of footprints. - Zaril and Neil take human form to discuss whether or not they will do any more exploring or not. Everybody agrees that they will come back and explore inside the cave tomorrow with the Wind Walk spell - They turn back and get back Torin's, but his house is invisible. Sariel walks carefully up to the area where she remembers the house to be until she bumps into it with her hands. She feels along the wall until she finds the door. She knocks. - There is no response and the door is locked. - Zaril Sends to Torin, "Hey, Torin, we don't have cookies, but you said we'd be able to get back to the house. We're here. Are you okay?" - She ge...

- Review of all the random crap Acta has stolen and stored in the Bag of Holding. There's a lot... - Neil move the gnome's body to a respectful resting place and check to see if he has an identification of any sort on him - He is wearing a silver pendant with a symbol carved - Zaril and Neil then go mess with the creep-tures, but they are now just creepy piles of flesh - Their arms are still weirdly stretchy - No dead bodies in the hut! It's now on the official list. - They move away slightly uphill and overlooking the battle scene and Zaril re-casts Leomund's Tiny Hut and Acta takes first watch - Acta watches another one of those creep-tures arrive on the scene and start scavenging... something - Neil wakes up and keeps an eye on the creature (though he can't see it quite as well as Acta could) - Zaril has an uneventful watch as well, though the sunrise is very pretty. - Sariel watches a pleasant morning unfold and a long rest is achieved. - The gnome is ...