Among the Mages

- Double-fisting Dysons - - The group wakes up. - After a while, LACS finally finds the other path towards the Angry Fire clan - The path goes - The path goes - The path goes - A day and a half later, they realize they are really hot. Oppressively hot. And sticky. - Not too much after that, there's a steamy mist that is getting thicker and higher - Cornelius, Penny, and Sariel are having trouble dealing with the oppressive heat. They hit Level 1 Exhaustion - Acta thinks she sees a face in the cloud. "The cloud is making faces" - Cornelius hears giggling sounds. - Luca uses Divine Sense, but doesn't sense any celestial or infernal or undead in the area. - Sariel uses Detect Magic and there is magic in the area but the mist is - Everyone hears the giggling. - Sariel suggests the local translator announce that we come in peace. - He does so. - A small, flying creature coalesces in front of them and them blows a big cloud of steam at them. - Everyone ex...

- 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...

- CAKE! - All the beer - Airport stories / big red balls because that's a classic story - Die wall from the software engineer - Dragon dildos are a thing on the internet - Donkey nutrition - "You may lose the small ones but win the big ones." - April's Fortune Cookie - The group found some dry land and made camp for the evening. - Alarm spell from the ranger - Potato pa-redneck - Cornelius has a ping in his head from the spell - He Stealthily pokes his head out of the tent - He doesn't see anything, but he finds it to be unnaturally quiet in this portion of the Kakagula Wilds - He calls to Penny who sniffs around and looks a little bristly - Neil wakes up Sariel - Sariel becomes a Dire Wolf and sniffs around, she smells something unusual in the warded area, but she does not recognize the scent - Neil sneaks into the other tent and gently wake the other party members - Luca uses her Paladin senses and she senses no Celestials, Fiends, or Undead -...

- Frodo is still a nuisance - The wrong Subway - Cookies! - Where's Dan the man? - Happy trail vs. happy super highway - A few days later after the group has been traveling into the forest and just reached the "Kakagula Wilds" - The humidity is oppressive, but it's quite shady. - The ground is getting swampy. -  "He coulna ha' picked a tribe of lizardfolk who lived closer to civilization?" - Acta slapped herself to kill a mosquito and hurt herself. - So many bugs - Marching order: Neil, Luca, Acta, Sariel - Trudge, trudge, trudge - Suddenly there are clouds of insects surrounding Neil and Acta and they get quite bitten Better Buggy Battle - Cornelius - Works on creating a Fuck-Off-Flyswatter out of his netting hat - Acta - Rolls a nature check and discovers that she can't put the bug swarms to Sleep (spell) and that weapons also probably won't work super great in this case, then she attacks the Insect Swarm next to her with Fire...

- Mr. Frodo has no manners yet - Laziness gives sunburns - The group makes a deal with Barkridge that for 500GP plus travel expenses they will deliver a magic item to the lizardfolk shaman to ask him politely to stop trying to kill him. - ACLS start walking to Rodeon to provision themselves for their long journey, discussing needs and desires as they go - Make it to Rodeon before nightfall - Each takes 50 GP of the 250GP and use the last 50GP to set up a group petty cash fund. - Group will buy a donkey and 2 tents from the group fund just created - Luca points the group in the direction of The Rose and Crown inn - Cornelius sneaks Penny into his room for the night - Acta goes snooping around and finds what she thinks might be a fire-worshipping cult, but it's just the kitchen - An uneventful evening passes - Breakfast at the inn - Luca writes a letter to her father telling him the mission she has accepted in the "ask forgiveness not permission" style - Acta n...