Summary
Kythorn 4
The party leaves Phent and heads into the Thesk Mountains. Mirag leads them to a bearfolk village and talks to the locals about the plague. The bearfolk don't have a lot of contact with outsiders and have not had any real issues with the plague. they are happy for the recipe for the cure, just in case. The party leaves and travels south into the Dragonjaw Mountains. They stop at a village and Kiri helps the local priest to cure some people who are infected and pass along the cure recipe.
Kythorn 8
The party moves up into the mountains, searching for the plants needed for the cure. They hear sounds of battle ahead of them and move forward through the hills. They find a mountain meadow with the plants they are looking for, but in the open area are eight bandits examining the bodies of four people that they have apparently ambushed and killed. The bandits spot the party and open fire with short bows, hitting the party with poisoned arrows. The party spreads out and moves in. Thorn engages them with his longbow, Risa charges in to go hand to hand with bandits who draw sabers. Caeli rides through the woods and smashes two archers with Lightning Bolt. Andre and Mirag move up with Risa and engage in a wild melee while Kiri casts Bless and keeps them going with Healing Word while hitting enemies with Toll the Dead. The party's superior strength takes out bandit after bandit until the last has fallen. Caeli checks the original bodies and finds one is still alive and Kiri heals him. The party searches the bandits and discovers they are all yuan-ti! The survivor explains his brother, one of the dead, was the village druid and they came here for the cure ingredients. The party buries the dead, leaves the yuan-ti, taking a finely made saber. They take one of the dead yuan-ti as proof and return to the village. Mirag goes to pray at the dead druid's grove, seeking a sign, but learns nothing.
GM's note- I had another encounter with a larger Yuan-ti force planned, but the players gathered the herbs and skedaddled, so I left it at that without railroading them to stay. But they found the herbs, and that was their goal, so they went home.
Silly Quotes and Smart Remarks
Discussing campaign enemies
Brittany "I feel like there's three groups after us"
Jack "For your mental health, it's best not to count them"
The party had visited Telflamm, where they are exiled from the city proper
Sam "We can be exiled from every town on the map"
Jim "Please do not say 'Challenge Accepted!' "
About Mirag's new tower shield
Jim "He has a big ass shield"
Brittany "Why do you have a shield for your ass?"
Jim got onto a side tangent about baby names, quoting an article that the new trend is aggressive names and someone named their baby 'Arson'
Katya "He has a bright future"
Jack "They named him 'Perjury', but it didn't stick"
Kiri casts Healing Word and Sam rolls a 1
Nick "Could be worse…Actually it couldn't"
Nick "Would you like a pamphlet?"
