(G216 03/10/2014 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, Mira)

(G216 03/10/2014 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, Mira)


DAY 223 (20th Marpenoth) cont...

Recovering in the Abbey, Cale was finally visited by Mathmoss at 11 o'clock. After some discussion
Mathmoss returned to the inn.

DAY 224 (21th Marpenoth)

Mathmoss indulged in one of his favourite sports - namely - chatting up serving wenches and did
get a bit of conversation out of one called Glenda, but that's all he got.

He took her out to another place called the 'Hardluck Poet' at three in the morning (once she'd
finished her shift at the Boar's Skull Inn. He escorted her home after an hour or so there and
he stole a kiss at her door, but she didn't seem to care for it.

After a sleep, around noon, Mathmoss headed back to Homlett. I wonder if it was just to kill time
as much as anything else as Cale was healing. He arrived at midnight.

DAY 225 (22nd Marpenoth)

Using his Hat of Disguise he entered the village and then the Inn of the Welcoming Wench. There
are no hats of disguise for horses though and as Mathmoss lead in faithful 'Clompy' the head groom
noticed that this was the very same horse that had been owned by 'those ruffians that had attacked
our druid.'
A bribe sorted it out though.

Mathmoss went to his room after that and in the morning hired Elmo Oats, for the price of an axe
and some armour, to be his guide to the moat house. First they headed back to Goldenfields to
pick up Cale.

DAY 226 (23rd Marpenoth)

So, another day passed in Goldenfields, the 'Breadbasket of Waterdeep'. Cale healed at the abbey
and Elmo and Mathmoss drank at the Boar.

Glenda was serving there again but didn't have much to say so Mathmoss left her be. Later a nice
plump girl called Hyacinthe came on shift and he tried his luck with her but got nowhere.

With Mathmoss, the desire was always there, but never the ability, sadly, when it came to women.
If you wanted something stolen or someone killed quietly in the night, he was your man, but when it
came to wooing fair maidens, he was sadly lacking in skill.

DAY 227 (24th Marpenoth)

In the morning Mathmoss asked about the inn, chancing his arm to see if there were any adventuring
clerics about and as luck would have it he met one called Fhu'Shion Dhie'Vise.

This was an older gentleman with a huge black bushy beard and a booming commanding voice. He seemed
happy enough to join them in an adventure to take on evil in the Ardeep Forest.

Later Cale joined them, still rather frail, but well enough to travel, but Elmo recognised him at
once as 'that bounder that attacked our poor old druid!'

Elmo would have been prepared to let by-gones be by-gones if Cale promised to appologise to the
druid when they got back to Homlett but Cale was having none of it, feeling that he was very much
the wronged party.

On hearing this, Fhu got up to leave, being acquainted with Jaroo and Elmo also said goodbye. It
was only after chasing after them and smoothing things over for an half an hour or so that Mathmoss
prevented their adventuring party from falling apart before it even got out the tavern!

And so they gathered their things, took one last swig of ale, and set off. They were only a couple
of hours into their adventures when they were attacked by a bullette. You may remember these
creatures from when Oz and Alduin came to the area, large burrowing beasts, covered in hardened
plates of hide and with endless supplies of appetite and stupidity.

It leapt up out of the ground right there on the path they were following and attacked. It first
went for the horse, but when it came under attack it went for Cale and very badly injured him.
It didn't help that Elmo accidentally shot him with an arrow during the chaotic melee either.

Fhu cast Briar Web though which held off the beast just long enough to heal Cale and get him
out of the way. Mathmoss leapt onto the creatures back and stabbed it. It rolled over and he
jumped off.

The bullette shook itself, growled, and charged at them again.