Among the Mages

- Eve online - Next time at the new house!! - Don't fuck with a Solar - Luca leads the group up the trail until she sees a secluded clearing off to the side where they have a Short Rest - Luca then leads the group back to the path and travel as fast as Rhody can travel away from the area - Eventually, Acta, Cornelius, and Penny eventually lose their Paralysis. - Sariel transforms back into a person, and the group agrees to continue up the path for a bit, then Sariel casts Pass Without Trace and they head into the swamp-forest in the general direction they need to go rather than off in the wrong direction until they find a defensible place to set up camp - The group oversleeps the Alarm spell, waking in the late morning. - They decide to head back towards the fork in the path and try the one that heads east rather than north. - While they walk, Sariel points out that the lizardfolk would be much less nimble not riding their spiders, and also they didn't seem that brig...

- Death by snu-snu - Hot apple cider - Chocolate chip cookies! - Warhorse discussion and decision - Coordinated Attack discussion and decision - Roll initiative - Acta moves to the Spider Mounted Lizard1 and stabs it with her xiphos for 4 piercing dmg - SML1 attacks Acta with his sword, but she throws up a magic shield, however, he manages to surprise her for 9 slashing dmg and 2 poison dmg, then the spider's mandibles bounce off her shield - Cornelius shoots SML3 with his bow for 12 piercing dmg - Penny moves to flank SML1 with Acta and bites it for 10 piercing dmg - SML2 moves to Luca and hits her for 4 slashing and 8 poison dmg, then the spider misses biting her - SML3 backs up and then charges Neil dealing 8 slashing and 4 poison dmg then again for 3 slashing and 2 poison dmg then the spider misses biting Neil - Sariel transforms into a Dire Wolf, busting out of the webs, then bites SML2 for 10 piercing dmg - Luca casts Bane on the three lizards (not their spider ...

- Ribbons! We're only three levels late on the first one. - The Illiad as a DnD campaign. Lots of crits at both ends of the spectrum. - Cornelius accidentally uses Silence (new) on Acta - Luca summons her magic steed for the first time and names her Alexandra - Sariel is trying to convince everyone to go northeast to find the Witch, but everyone else seems to want to head back west. She eventually convinces Neil and Luca. - Neil trades his chain armor to a lizardman for studded leather - Rhogni approaches them the next morning and says she has something for Sariel. It is Hide armor that Resists fire - The warhorse (named Alexandra) sniffs Penny and Penny does the jump back and puff up thing that cats do. - The party is met by a large lizardman named Bhisk who is the guide who will take them to the edge of the Land of Fire in the direction of the Bright Wolf clan. - As they are walking with their warhorse and donkey (Rhody), Neil asks Bhisk for his dirtiest joke, "Wha...

- Pour nozzles! - Common core math - Nightvale NRA bumper stickers - The group sets up a camp in the designated area - Later that day an elderly lizardfolk approaches their space - She is wearing robes and walking with a staff that it clearly needs. - She says she might be able to help us. She studies each of the party in turn, then she talks to Sariel tell her that if she becomes cleansed by fire, she may be able to speak with the Great Fire Spirits - The rest follow as well. - The elder's name Rhogni. - Rhogni places Sariel in a circle, tells her to focus on the earth and the nature spirits, then chants (in a combination of Druidic and Draconic) and throw small bits of herbs and droplets of oils at her while Sariel is meditating and connecting with the Nature - this takes several hours - Eventually, Sariel feels warmth, then she starts to be able to sense heat and heat levels in her vicinity - Then Rhognis guides her to the bonfire and tells her that after this f...

- Kitchen dancing - Drunk Dan is funny. - Much talking about aging booze in barrels - We trip down an embankment as we run away from the Steam Elementals. We land in a heap and Neil hits his head getting knocked unconscious. - Those party members still conscious look up to see that they are surrounded by lizard people who have spears and spiky shields with a line of fire down the middle. - Sariel gently reaches over and casts Cure Wounds at Lvl 2 on Neil. - Neil, now conscious, says, "We come in peace. Forgive my ineloquence. I was recently unconscious." - They order us to follow them after confiscating our weapons. - The lizardfolk miss one of Acta's daggers. - They also tie their hands together in front of them. - Acta manages to get the knot of her rope untied so that she is only pretend bound. - After walking all day, we are locked in cages. Two and two. - Neil and Acta are in one cage. - Luca and Sariel are in the other. - Penny is not captured. - Cor...

- 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 ...