13A:Play/16 We Asked For It

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Starring: 📜Elistheren, 🌲 Qistis, 📚 Annalana
Guest Starring: Ocimum
Challenge: All the drow
Location: Dark Wood
Date Played: 2017 July 25

Chaos in the Drow Village

📚 Annalana: Drow sword maiden has armor that is magically spotless. Cook’s (Alium) faction.

A bunch of drow charge our tent. Elis casts a blessing of Winsay on Annalana’s spear, which she puts to good use. Elis goes outside the tent to get some relief from combat and is jumped by more drow. Annalana hears him in danger, disengages from the drow spider-mage and rushes out of the tent. She leap into the air, killing several drow and inspiring Elis. Elis then does something with unguents that causes the tent to explode.

Meanwhile, the high elf sides on his/her high horse, watching the carnage.

Battle is winding down

📚 Annalana: There are a lot of causalities and dying around the battlefield. Klorafighting (spider faction) is talking to the Exora high elf.

Annalana whispers “Pineapple is the code word” and sneaks off, poorly. She pulls the cloak over her head, transforming into a drow. Noticing that she is being noticed, she just starts to loot the bodies of our attackers, taking the nice, magical armor done in the dwarves style, offering her studded leather to Qistis.

A drow that no one noticed that was around whispers to Qistis, “Now is your time. You should leave before things get even worse.” Shadow magic obscures the figure. As we leave, we hear that “Klorafightem will be the representative …”

Traveling through the woods.

📚 Annalana: We make our way through the woods, with Kaelon leading the way as best as we can.

Getting some rest

📚 Annalana: We rest for the night, where Annalana takes a long first watch. During Kaelon’s watch, a high elf approaches the camp with his hands up. “You are going to need a guide out of the woods to help you before your companions starve.” “I’ve been tracking you for the last few hours, and news of some outsiders has spread. The Queen’s soldiers would kill you on sight.”

His name is Ocimum and he offers his services to guide us out. Kaelon talks with him, then Qistis does on her watch, followed by Elis.

In the morning, Annalana awakens and skims her journal. She says good morning to Ocimum, mistaking him for Qistis. Annalana then threatens the real Qistis with violence. Eventually things get sorted out.

Traveling

📚 Annalana: It turns out that we’re a long way from home. Ocimum gets us safely out of the woods and tells us to go west to Concord. Ocimum was assigned the role to help those who are lost in the woods.

Ocimum takes Kaelon aside and talks with him. The high elf is obviously not a high elf. He suggests that Kaelon investigate his sister, who is apparently Qistis.

Annalana agrees to get a tattoo on her wrist “Read Journal First” and Elis offers to teach her Dwarven shorthand for better journaling.