5th of Mirtul, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

After lunch (because of all the excitement early this morning!), we head to Captain Darren's office. We see Boris in the main office. He shoves us into the captain's office.

He hasn't had a chance to really interrogate the prisoners, but they were close-mouthed on the way to jail. He asks us to join him in an attempt to get some information.

We head down to the cells. Everyone looks angry. Captain Darren says that they were just like this last night. He asks a bunch of questions and it's like talking to a wall. 

We suggest talking to the oil covered guy. He mentions that he can't say her name, though he would like our protection. We hear a huge *CRACK* while talking about how he needs out. It's in the other room. I stay with the prisoner, while everyone runs off.

The wall in the cell I'm in vanishes. I rush in between the oily fellow and the missing wall. Through it I can see Captain Darren and Vondal. There's a stone elemental being controlled by a lady in a red cloak. The elemental goes to attack Vandederp. We beat the elemental and the lady runs off and jumps in the sewer. Vandederp jumps down but he can't tell where she went. He comes back up. We head back to Captain Darren and he mentions that there have been reports of a person with a red cloak - in the market, in the warehouse district, just all over. 

We say we're going to try the sewers. Captain Darren wishes us well, and beware.

We go into the sewers and Vorest leads, but we get lost and then are attacked by gross looking people. 

We exit the sewers and head back to the inn, defeated.

 

19th of Ches, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

Overnight we were attacked by giant wasps. This is not quite the fauna I was expecting coming up on a bigger city. We beat them, and rest a bit before we continue walking. We start seeing farmland, we must be getting close, it's hard to keep track of how far we have come with the distractions. We also found the road Boris mentioned. As we were walking down the road we heard shouting for help. We head over, and find a couple of farmers (Jereth and William, we found out later) facing a couple of the bugs from the ground. We fought them off, though we could not save their cow. We met a couple more patrols after the fight, Orrig and Sylvia, and they told us to talk to their captain, Captain Darren. Jereth offers us dinner with his wife Anita. It was lovely, and after they mentioned we could sleep in their barn. Vorest was excited to sleep with the cows.

18th of Ches, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

The hills turn to grasslands. It's a nice walk when it becomes quiet, and a giant bug erupts out of the land, grabs me and bites. I react by setting it on fire. I think someone else also hit it, killing it. A pretty terrible morning if I do say so myself. As we walk along, we see a cloud of dust, which turns out to be a patrol out of Kelethoen. They challenge us, and we explain that we would like to research at their library - and they do not believe us. We also mention the giant bug, and I guess that makes us good guys and that he approves of our work. Said to say Boris approves our entrance.