Monthly Archives: October 2023

Cabin Feverish Preparations

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For many days, it seems to Gus that everyone is reading books and writing onto parchment and saying to themselves “Hmmm” and “Oh, interesting”. He finds it more and more annoying and spends time each day traveling to the nearby forest looking for materials to make arrows and backup bow strings. Every once in a while Ethelred or Ezrin ask for help in gathering materials from the forest which Gus enjoys quite a bit and it raises his spirits. When he goes to the forest each day, he first asks if anyone needs anything.

The crow seems glued to Gus’s shoulder while in the fort and tent. When in the forest the crow leaves the shoulder and attaches to random nearby tree branches moving to be within 50 feet of Gus. Gus seems to never acknowledge the “bird” except to give it random found nuts or mushrooms from the forest. When the crow caws randomly and annoyingly Gus looks dead eyed at the ground like the mother of an unwanted child.

While in the tent Gus keeps himself busy with the creation of arrows and making backup bow strings. He whittles, cuts, guts, straightens, embeds, washes, curls and knocks. He seems to take longer than normal when going to the bathroom. When not busy he gets annoyed by the smarties sounding like they discovered the Westlands in their books and thoughts. Gus makes fun of them sometimes by repeating the strange words mockingly he hears them say. They usually look up and glare at him which makes Gus look away with a little shame..

After another forest retreat though, Gus seems to be refreshed and less biting towards his team temporarily.

Then There Was Some Kind of Light….

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During a breakfast after a few days of resting in the tent Ethelred addresses Alexis and Ezrin.

“I have been thinking much about new possibilities for manipulating matter. Many times I have seen Alexis bring forth light using a copper coin. From the limited time I have closely observed this happen his mechanism is clearly outside of my abilities. I am interested in the role the copper plays in bringing the light forth.

Ezrin do you have the ability to make light without normal fuel? Clearly creating light with wax, oil or woods is trivial. But I have been looking over the various supplies I have gather and I sense there is a way to bring forth light, but I need some guidance to make it actually happen. Seeing another non God way, as Alexis does, would be very helpful.”

Abra, Abracadabra! I Wanna Reach Out and Grab Ya!!

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Over the course of two weeks, Ezrin rarely leaves his cot. He is engrossed in two books and several scrolls. He occasionally finds a moment to speak with Alexis and to a lesser degree Ethelred about arcane weaves, auras, runes, gestures and invocations.

At some point, Ezrin retrieves an empty vial from his haversack, and removes a thin pair of gloves no one had noticed before, makes the gestures and invocations related to auguration of magical auras, and focuses on these items at length. When he is done he puts the gloves back on, they are barely noticeable, and he writes for a bit in one of his notebooks.

On another day, he raises the topic somnabulatory effects of certain enchantments, incantations and gestures, the impact of sand, crickets, and rose petals upon such.

A conversation regarding the use of transmutative and arcane imbuatative properties powdered silver, or “argentum,” as well as select transmutive incantations and gestures, with Ethelred continues off and on throughout the fortnight.

Ezrin makes frequent use of his crystals, several scrolls, incantations and gestures related to divination, aurgury and literacy of the arcane, and an adjustment of some sort to arcano-aura-auguracity incantations and gestures that seem to make it last longer then usual.

He is heard to mutter about atmospheric transmutations at length and practice several gestures and incantations that seem to related.

He makes frequent notes in one book, and regularly references another. Often mumbling about enchantments, mentalism, and somnabulation, or transmutation, aerotonomy, atmospherics, teleoration and anemonologistics. After ten days or so, he carefully writes three new pages into his “reference” book.

An hour or so after breakfast, a day or two after writing the new pages into the “Reference Book,” he performs incantations that seem to be related to teleoratory atmospheric transmutations, and then speaks “The stargazer climbed to the highest peak of the mountain, eager to gaze upon the night sky. She dreamed of one day traveling to the stars, of exploring new worlds and meeting strange and wonderful creatures.”

About two hours later, right on schedule, squire Perez enters the tent with lunch, looking even more confused than usual, and asks, “Did one of you say something about a stargazer who want to travel to the stars? It sounded like you were right next to me.” Perez looks over his shoulder to just outside the tent.

Ezrin smiles.

Sword Snatching Strategy 2: Dark Hand Boogaloo

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Near the end of the time the group spends resting, studying, and practicing, Ezrin catches the groups attention,

“Now that we know where the Well-Trained Pony is How are we going to get past those Green Shirts, with enough time to deal with The Ruins…

“And are we really going to do it while Pool-issumus Light Foot is watching us?”

After a few minutes of confused looks, Ezrin sighs and clarifies:

“The sword we want, it’s been broken twice, like a well trained Westlander… ‘s pony.”

He looks expectantly at the others, clearly wondering if they are on to his cant or need more explanation.

The Kommandant and Earycka?

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During the time spent studying, practicing and preparing in the tent, Ezrin gets Alexis’s attention and asks,

“Alexis, do you think that Earycka intercepted the Kommandants packet of reports that we helped prepare or had a copy made for herself? Do you know much about their relationship? It seemed like more than that of simply an ally. Or favored vassal…”