#irenar

So we’re in the town, we went back after the monster guy got magicked away. Next day we decide “This river has been out of water for awhile we should go solve that” and we start following the river. I, having read many warrior cats, make a joke “This is where we fight the beavers for the lake water” and then there’s ACTUALLY beavers with a giant dam.

These beavers are special though. They’re the size of horses (Big enough to decapitate Kobold if he got bit fun fact, the dm actually told me they counted on me being in stealth because I’ve yet to fail a stealth roll). So Irenar decides to use magic missile on them. Their player thinks magic missile will blow up the dam. But it’s a missile in the “thrown projectile” way instead of the “exploding rocket” way and so it doesn’t destroy the dam, and just upsets the beavers.

The beavers are, of course, not happy about being attacked and charge us. So we start fighting them, and Kobold panics a bit and defaults back to the first spell he learned, color spray. Which as you can imagine is not the best spell for firing into a group of beavers and your party. Luckily, instead of color spray, he casts guiding bolt. He doesn’t actually KNOW that spell, which is worrying, but he’s kinda in the middle of something so he can’t think too hard about that. He hides.

There’s some more fighting, Leona summons some weird tentacle magic, Val discovers the insides of the beavers are rotting by killing one, irenar keeps having wild magic surges, which cause one of the beavers to heal to full health twice, and ALMOST caused all the cloth in the area (So the clothes Val was wearing and possibly Irenar I don’t actually know what her armor is like) to turn invisible, but it was one off the magic table, instead all our coins teleport on top of one beaver. The beavers do this weird thing where they blur and then you get bit without them seeming to have moved and their bites are poisonous when that happens, I don’t remember the fight too well I’m sorry. And the fight is very abruptly ended when Kobold sprints to the dam, and destroys it with shatter. Luckily, the only ones who fail their dex save to not get swept away are the two living beavers. Also luckily we got our money back on the way back to town (We used the river to get there).

At that point, we run into Marcel, who invited us to some fancy party earlier. (His whole deal SEEMS to be that he got a bunch of money off artificial silver (Which has a lot of magic uses) and now he invites poor people to parties, buys stuff from them, hires local musicians, argues with other nobles about that stuff) and he’s like “I was informed you guys were travelers and might not have fancy clothes, so I’ve brought tailors to help” so we all get fancy dresses (Yes even Kobold, he’s fine with this. He doesn’t really know anything about fancy clothing and what kinds are for what, and even if he DID he’d be like “Gender roles kinda cringe” and done it anyways) and then we go to the party, it’s all fancy, there’s lots of food, Kobold knows what none of it is, Irenar dances for four hours, Leona eats an entire baby pig (It was cooked, not a live one dw), Kobold learns that Guiding bolt is a cleric spell, which is weird because he’s not a cleric, and then we all black out for… unknown reasons… and that’s where the session ended

Kobold of course finds the sudden lack of movement a bit concerning, but exits the house quite easily as a result. He reunites with the rest of the party, who took this time to buy and eat pastries for three hours. Val convinces Leona to buy her one, not mentioning that Val got 3 platinum during a point where the party was split and thus probably has more money than the entire rest of the party put together currently does.

Kobold points out that Leona is probably going to be the prime suspect for the murder, considering she made clear she wanted Howard dead, and Howard turns up dead right after that, so all in all, not a super good day for Leona.

The party goes to talk to some farmers about their monster problem, and get sent to a different farmer, who’s all like “I told him not to get into trouble” and stuff like that, which is worrying for the party because this monster is a bit cryptid like, stands around ominously staring at houses, wanders around for seemingly no reason, opens gates to let farm animals out, eats overripe food, only ever showing up at night, all sorts of not for sure evil things, but also probably not the friendliest of actions. Turns out she has a cat named Monster who gets out at night and digs up people’s gardens, and she thought we meant him. Said cat instantly attaches itself to Kobold. Monster is REALLY REALLY big for a house cat, roughly the same size and weight as Kobold is. Kobold is 2 foot three inches ( 68.58 cm ) and 25 pounds (roughly 11 kg) btw. Big cat. So they hang around helping the farmer with her various tasks until night fall, where they find the cryptid staring at the house. Kobold says hello to it, and it looks at him, where he notices it looks very much like a half dead version of the constructs he saw in Howards house, except with half a face instead of no face. So he starts asking it various yes or no questions since it can’t speak.

The party finds out that this thing A. Can’t really move correctly, it’s limbs kinda just flop around, hence why it was opening gates, it was accidentally hitting them open, B. is unrelated to Howard, and C. was originally the farmer ladies son, who had gone missing 10 years prior, apparently turned into this. They also learn there’s something that seems to have control of it, forcing it backwards… somewhere… at high speeds