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A karbunqle of nine tales")]),e._v(" "),o("BaseHeader",{attrs:{frontmatter:e.$frontmatter,site:e.$site}}),e._v(" "),o("h2",{attrs:{id:"recap"}},[o("a",{staticClass:"header-anchor",attrs:{href:"#recap"}},[e._v("#")]),e._v(" recap")]),e._v(" "),o("h3",{attrs:{id:"making-camp-breaking-camp"}},[o("a",{staticClass:"header-anchor",attrs:{href:"#making-camp-breaking-camp"}},[e._v("#")]),e._v(" Making camp & breaking camp")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("The adventurers, now numbering seven (Hieronymus, Flick, Fez, Paros, Drav, Carlos, Jean-Luc), and coddling a weakened Jean-Luc suffering from 'the "),o("RouterLink",{attrs:{to:"/diseases/orange_colic.html"}},[e._v("orange colic")]),e._v("' made their way unassailed up to within a half-mile of the [Kashte'a River] The smaller goblinoid folk.] then asked if the recumbent party wouldn't mind removing themselves from the beautiful yellow liefly"),o("sup",{staticClass:"footnote-ref"},[o("a",{attrs:{href:"#fn1",id:"fnref1"}},[e._v("[1]")])]),e._v(" "),o("RouterLink",{attrs:{to:"/items/mafflegold_flowers.html"}},[e._v("mafflegold flowers")]),e._v(" (some leaking [a sanguine sap]) which had been crushed underneath their bedrolls.")],1),e._v(" "),o("h3",{attrs:{id:"getting-acquainted"}},[o("a",{staticClass:"header-anchor",attrs:{href:"#getting-acquainted"}},[e._v("#")]),e._v(" Getting acquainted")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("As Hieronymus proceeded to dig up the entire clearing in search of ptomous"),o("sup",{staticClass:"footnote-ref"},[o("a",{attrs:{href:"#fn2",id:"fnref2"}},[e._v("[2]")])]),e._v(" tubers, Flick engaged Bampot in political discussion, inquiring as to commercial and social relations with the residents in the "),o("RouterLink",{attrs:{to:"/locations/lake_goading.html"}},[e._v("periphery of Lake Goading")]),e._v(". 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Tockletone")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("the dords: should look like sand dunes")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("does Bruss Tarsia sound like a star wars namerecap of session 24?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("fez, turtle, new storm power")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("carlos hammer is sledge hammer wrapped in duct tape and - smells like stale tobaccoDogdo was the chill dude communicating; Aulë was the one a little more uptight. depending on ethical approach to situations, you have better or worse access or one or the other.¨NBSP;")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Drav cast cloud of daggers, Aulë approached Drav and offered to cooperate with her. the daggers are now created by Aule struking celstrial steel on anvil, and it shoots out as daggers that do radiant damage.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("hieronymous tried to bad-pipe, but the roll was so bad that it was good-piping (good bagpiping); but later when Mule kicked him against Jean-Luc and it broke one of the bagpipes.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Killed Hengest, Gegathon started crying, eventually defeated him")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Fez came to with new Storm powers. - aura grants …")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("exuviae did not come back when Flick drowned gegathon")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Jean-Luc acquitted self well")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Hieronymous offered everyone his coins, split evenly. scrobs stoll one (all got 5 gp)")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("daealla wasn't much help in getting back to her, but with Drav, learned about 4 sites of mystical empowerment which had been reactivated when they banished TG 25 years ago.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("hieronymous mandrake root - carlos made an interesting equation between gegathon and mules, because they are both sterile")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H mentioned looking for book necronopticon or nehpilopticaon, and nephil mts probably a good spot to check that out.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Carlos: one of the cultural relativism of the world. ability.eveningthey encamped about half a mile east of the Kashte'a riverget a full night's rest (so it will be day 9)Flick applying poison to arrows")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick comes out of trance ? Or -- is this before going to bed?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick to make poison arrows: (can choose if he's making poison to poison, or poison damage) - survival check1-5 (1d4) + survival skill mod6-10 (1d6)11-15 (1d8)16-20 (1d10)21+ (1d12)")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("planar warrior: arrow gets converted into non-whatever force - paints them with ocre chalkHieronymus butts in and ends up tripping")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("hieronymus asks if flick is doing poisoning. it's one of H's favorite activities. i have 10 darts that could use a bit of poison. - flick puts mistletoe on it to make H think he's poisoning them")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick 8 deception; H insight 11. doesn't think flick putting on same poison. thinks mistletoe is because flick wants a smooth")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v('H: "i can tell when i\'ve been fooled" . (closing eyes tightly and puckering to the fullest extent"')]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: takes small shield on the ground and deflects him by the face away from her")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H: you have such metallic skin!")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: you know what, H, you're alright. if i TURNIP anymore, i will make some for you. - I use this! 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(hrumph)")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("lesser restoration.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Hiero sees truth of things now.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Hero thinks it's the same goblin he was friends with for 40 years as a small elf before he joined the monastery. perhaps he has found me at last. we've been reunited. (saying this out loud, apparently) - [int check 6]: it's definitely that same goblin")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H: Oh, Feekus! finally we've been reunited!")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Bampot: who the fuck is feekus, i'm bampot.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H: i'm afraid my comrades and I shall have to destroy you.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Bampot: why?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Hiero: I don't like goblins like Bampot")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("B: it's pretty common in goblin circles")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Dat'tar and BubHot and Bantob")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H: would you like to break bread with us,")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("B: to partake of Bacakaladj? 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(beautiful yellow flower you've crushed with your sleeping mounts)")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("he and fez argue about what are weeds")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("B: the roots are really what i'm after")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Fez: we used to eat things other considered these. but not these, these are definitely weeds.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Fez: getting a weed in your eye is quite painful")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: Yes, Onfalon said that weeds are just a misunderstood plant. - (looking around for more goblins)two more goblins become noticeablegoblins want to get at flowersFlick: nothing to be scared ofshould have had a performance check against their … insight?other goblins: did he ask you to move off the flowers? we'd share some of the roots with you.flick: are they mandrake roots?goblins: no.flick: if this is where you forage, you have a right to come in and take itgoblins: sometimes it can be a bit difficult with just the three of us.flick: (sarcastically) well we have hiero here, a noted poison expertH: (digging already, but in wrong spot)flick observes them: \"do you find it hard to live this close to a large human population\"goblins trade with humans, and get along with themgoblins: the humans make living off lake, primarily. thubudder is very large and we also are just as comfortable living underground, so we have caves and rock homes. they don't hunt goblins or bear us any ill will. we don't get a whole lot of visitors. we do have a connection wtih one of the restaurants in town -- one of the more experimental / avante guard chefs. we have ways of neutralizing some of the poisonous effects, so we can cut the poisonous glands out, and provide them with the non-poisonous flesh.flick: we're in the area chasing a rumor about a place of power. about druids.information about the druids in seomra crann")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("goblins: main druids in seomra crann -- like a living building. we do actually give them some of the things that we can find and harvest, and they use them more for spells than food, but we do a trade with them.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick: are they friendly?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("goblins: they're … weird.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick: what would you say their aesthetic is?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: oh yeah, i know who you're talking about. they're off the end of the scale. the ones here are just tree huggers. - the village nearby has a temple to "),o("RouterLink",{attrs:{to:"/creatures/axissa.html"}},[e._v("Axissa, the Mother Goddess")]),e._v(". she's the main mother goddess for seomra crann.")],1),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick: does her repertoire or symbols include thongs and … ?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: the upper reaches of the structure is sort of an aviary for birds of all sorts. i'm not sure if they have a magical relationship with them.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("[Ian: the evil mailman (Budduck) who was using polymorphed quicklings. ]")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: the temple is in the hamlet")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Paros (Jake) : in what was is their house alive?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: it's essentially a 100-foot-tall hedge.hieronymus has dug up half the campsite.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("H: no weeds! but i did find this pile of bones and the corpses of six adventurers with tiny goblin daggers plunged into their hearts. -- or corpse of one adventurer.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Carlos: check if they are bones, and if H is still hallucinating.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("[H, your knowledge of goblin daggers is based on interactions with Feekus -- which wasn't even his real name]")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Carlos: 25. H is looking at rock bones, like somebody was literally petrified. or some other chemical event took place. and he's no longer hallucinating. the \"dagger\" is also stone. it looks like a flint-daggers with the scalloped edges. the rock wasn't naturally formed; it's rock now but the rock itself is 20 years old.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: these actually mark where the mafflegold flowers are sometimes, but we don't have any way of telling what it is. we've seen others in other parts of Thubudder. there are people in Skimming who've looked into it. they might have info at the natural history museum or one of the academies.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Carlos Insight:")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("bampot: the museum is made from a gigantic meteorite from the bottom of the lake. first it was a church, and then a city hall, and then a museum.the flowers - unearthed")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v('Tinton and Macpam and Bampot: we need a little bit more room than this. - they dig out the top of a bulb, the main bulb, and they each tie a string around it, and move back to form a triangle. 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I don't know how the word Tinder came into my mind.Flick: way to set up your own joke.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Drav to BP: is there a danger leaving it there?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("BP: if they get too big they release these sacks filled with spores. they are considered delicacies amongst Goblins but they require a great deal of care, so they are dangerous to other animals, and we try to recover them before they explore. it's a balancing act. we should probably have a better system. - this one matured faster than they usually doDrav: can we ask them when they will mature?BP: i'm not sure they have a great sense of chronology.BP repeats carbunkle a million times. and starts drooling. i'm thinking of how delicious the spore sacks are.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("BP: if we get out of here, she'll retreat into the ground soon enough.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Paros: well fez needs to whip it")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Drav: does that sound like a plan: we'll leave you alone if you promise to show Fez how to whip it great.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("K: i won't do technique. 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Oh, no, i'm sorry, i'm not. i hadn't realized i'd put up a defense.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Mandy: pandy, dump that out, it's not what we want. this has been very confusing for us. you do seem an interesting specimen of study. would you consider spending time at the church while we look after you ?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v('Flick to Jean-Luc: "never go with a halfling to a second occupation". he\'s outside pooping this disgusting orange diarrhea into the pristine lake')]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Hiero: i'm afraid i must continue on with my friends. we are on an important quest")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Mandy: oh, has it caused any of you great sorrow?")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: it's been one obscenities after another. - Mandy: that's quite a different reaction")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("flick: shooting. -- Mandy: oh a lady quick to violencegetting directions")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Mandy: we are at your informational service.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: we seek the druid circle.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Mandy: they are just over the next ridge.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Flick: have you had dealings with them? have they polymorphed or subjugated any of your citizens? come up with a bad solution to a pressing problem")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Mandy: our deities tend to avoid one another. the Lady is not … pain, but sadness. we don't like to inflict pain. but the druids their divine views aren't compatible with ours. as a church we are expanding, actually. we have temples in Cressida. and are looking to expand our influence in Yprosht")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Ian: did COLDF run the Parish school? flick erroneously remember they handed out ice cream cones at T-ball matches")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("FLick: thanks for your help; we should probably be getting on.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Pandy: yeah, Mandy, we can let them go. but before you do, you should make sure ot check out Bort's donut cart. - your son is named Bort ?! what are these simpsons?!oh, i remember now, Son of Simp. the Simp Sons.bort's donut cart")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("want some donuts? you don't need a pitch when the donuts are this good.")]),e._v(" "),o("p",[e._v("Drav makes check to see if … what the sugar is. doesn't seem poisonous. not using sugary tears of sadness - flick gives a sniff. not a lot of experience with baked goods. 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