Into the Gray

Session Summary

We continue our journey from New Flavem and Arachne is taken by a bright light. She reappears later, confused and looking for a safe place to rest. We find a small cave and settle in to recover our health. On the road again, we encounter two groups of creatures who ask for food, which turns out to be metal and gems. We give them what we have and they leave us alone. Later, we think we see a figure in the far north before continuing on our journey.

Log

Meta: I am the only one who doesn’t remember the fight with the Umber Hulks. I can see everyone else seems to know what happened, so I pretend I also know.

Arachne reappears in a similar way that she disappeared. She is like, “Wtf happened?” and looks for somewhere safe where we can take a rest. 

She’s able to find a small cave with fresh water. It seems safe.

We settle in and Star asks, “Where were you??”

Arachne doesn’t seem to remember or want to talk about it. We recover our health and Star spends an extra hour to summon his familiar again. Star tries to convince us to travel in stealth but we call him crazy and say no.

We carry on traveling into the evening.

Around 3pm. In the distance. There appears to be a group of five humanoid-ish creature with two legs and four arms, with teeth on the top of their head. Our groups are headed towards each other. Specifically, they look like the other group is tracking something.

We move our path north and they slowly readjust to us. We spot another group of seven coming towards us from the south.

Star starts casting Comprehend Languages to attempt to understand them.

I sprint off to the side to see if it changes the groups’ trajectories. The initial group to the east stops for a moment to evaluate the change, but continues focusing on the original scent. 

I collect brush to create a line of brush to act as a fire wall if the approaching groups become aggressive. I have us collected up on a higher ground behind the potential fire wall. 

They come closer and ask if we have food, Star tosses them a rations portion. They say “Not your food. This is garbage. We want real food.” 

Star asks, “What is food?” and pulls out some money.

They have a back and forth to understand that Star understands them. They establish yes and no.

“It is strange you understand our language, but you don’t know what things are,” they muse.

#encounters/gemeaters

They explain that food is metal and gems. Star offers up 1 of each type of coin. They say any of those would work. They want 100 of each per creature. These are some kind of Gem Eaters.

We try to gather 10 coins per person (3cp, 7sp from me), (6sp, 14gp Arachne), (20gp Twinkletoes), (10cp, Elzara), (19cp, 1sp Star), (8cp, 2gp Elzira). #costs

We hold out daggers and it appears they will be happy to eat those as well. We add 4 daggers to the pile (2 Star, 1 me, 1 Arachne), 1 handaxe (Elzara). #items #costs

We push the pile towards them, the creatures speak amongst themselves and communicate that this is enough for them for now. They thank us for our generosity. #relationships

Star tries to introduce our names to them and they try to repeat the names, but it sounds awful. 

They let us this is enough, and we are free to go and they will not bother us anymore. We carry on.

Star, Elzara, Arachne, and me occasionally when we’re high up, could swear we could see a figure walking in the far north. It’s super far away and fades away after not too long. #clues ^14dc49

After another few hours, it’s 8pm and the sun is fading out.