The Ravenous Eye of the Boar (25/8/20)
Aug 28, 2020 22:17:08 GMT
Ghesh, Igrainne (RETIRED), and 2 more like this
Post by Wren Lunaboult on Aug 28, 2020 22:17:08 GMT
Report #019
Objective:
Investigate circumstances surrounding disappearance of scout group from the Daring First. Previous known activity of were-boars in area of group’s disappearance.
Team:
Myself
Laurel
G’Lorth
Faye
Arkadius
Igrainne
Details:
Team recruited by Cordelia Jadefist to investigate group of sol
Sorry, automatically went into report writing there. I don’t want to waste this paper though so I’ll just start again.
Hey Dad,
I know I should have probably written sooner, but you know I’m not great at these and I kinda thought the reports would be enough yah know?
The adventuring is going good, the Watch work too, there’s a lot of interesting adventuring characters out here for sure. Each time I go on one of these adventures, tactics involving team dynamics have to be changed every time, something I never had to do back in the Garrison but I like being kept on my toes.
Some of these adventuring missions are just plain odd though. Like this week I thought we were going to help some soldiers with some were-boars in the woods. But not only was there no soldiers or were-boars (there was a were-rat though), there was a mind boggling star entity or something? It was making a big rock even bigger as it ate gold offerings that it charmed out of people (like how charming can a rock be?). Whatever this thing was it seemed to come from the eye of the Boar constellation we think.
Wait, let me start that again, from the beginning.
We were going to help find these missing soldiers, and supposedly they went missing in an area of forest where a were-boar couple had been causing trouble before. So we all went south out of Daring to get there, and along the way we found this dazed looking merchant who said he thinks he got robbed. He said ‘thinks’ because he put all his money in this stone bowl in the woods but he has no idea why he did in the first place.
Obviously he had been charmed in some way, and we also knew we were getting close to where the soldiers went missing, so it seemed kinda suspicious. We sent him on his way and kept going. Further down we then saw two folks crossing the road to get to the forest, one holding a nice looking box and the other a cow. Again, they were looking a bit dazed and heading into a part of the forest where the soldiers went missing so we ended up following them.
Don’t worry, as soon as I scouted the location of whatever was causing this coercion magics we managed to to snap them out of it and send them home. How did I know I had found the place? Well I found a clearing with a big rock in the middle, surrounded by glowy purple vines and oozing magic vibes. It tried to communicate it’s massive need and hunger for offerings without words. Seemed a very likely candidate for the weird stuff happening.
As a group we approached and this were-rat guy with glowing purple eyes came to greet us (See-more I think his name was). Immediately started wanting to make deals about power and all that, pledge to the Eye of the Boar, his eyes even went black as this Boar spoke through him at one point. Wasn’t even subtle about the cult vibes and everything.
Then G’Lorth goes up to actually make a deal! Something about wanting the power to bend people’s will, which was a big hells no from the rest of us. Everytime I meet G’Lorth he gets more sus. Luckily Igrainne had this special transparent ball thing that she threw onto G’Lorth and See-more to trap them inside.
They both weren’t too happy about it, especially See-more, but there wasn’t much they could do. Faye did get yanked in there with magics but they teleported right back out with their own magics, so whatever.
Okay back to the stone.
As that was all happening a big bong rang out from somewhere and the glowy purple vines on the rock started attacking the rest of us, and then to top it all off the rock started summoning some bigggg purple glowy creature. Arkadius was like nope, snapped his magical fingers, and then it was gone (though not forever apparently). Everyone else took turns shredding up the vines I had set on fire in various ways so that we could get close enough to tip the rock. Laurel kept pointing at the rock a lot, I think they were trying to do some magic, but it didn’t seem to be working. When we finally tipped it, it shattered right down the middle, See-more looked like he was gonna cry from where he was in the ball. At least his eyes were back to normal.
One last weird thing happened when we tipped the rock, suddenly got this vision of zooming into space, the big void of space, and focusing on the eye of the Boar constellation itself. It was this massive glowing purple orb thing? Whatever it was obviously wasn’t too happy, unsurprisingly, with recent events. To me it was a pretty good indication that we had been successful in stopping it.
Finally let G’Lorth and See-more out of the ball, G’Lorth definitely huffy and See-more made a run for it. I was just gonna tackle him, maybe shoot him in the ankle, but Arkadius just flames this guy to literal death. So I didn’t tackle him but I did give him a super quick heals to close his wounds before the gods came to claim his soul.
Got there in time, meant we could ask questions. Turns out all the were-curse stuff and luring people into making offerings was all because of this single massive rock that had fallen from the sky. Though apparently it used to be real small and then started growing cause of the offerings. Odd right? The idea of a rock that grows.
Anyway See-more is in jail in Daring cause he admitted to killing the soldier patrol, so he’s all dealt with.
But yeah, see, it’s bonkers here! Never gonna get bored. And the people are nice, well, most of them.
Say hi to Lily for me, hope the apprenticeship is going well for her (I know she’s probably bossing it either way).
Love you,
Wren
P.S. Can you send me that recipe for the stew you always make at winter time that I love please, the one with rice and stuff. I wanna have a go at making it myself.
P.P.S. I mentioned in my last report to Mum I had a dog called Stripes now. They’re actually a badger that I found, they’re cute and they really like shiny things. Please don’t tell Mum! Especially because I lied to her! I just didn’t want her to think I wasn’t taking this all seriously or anything, you know what she can be like.
Wren neatly folds up the letter and puts it to the side at the table in their slightly leaking room, using a dagger as a paperweight to stop it floating into any damp corners.
Out of the corner of their eye they notice Stripes attempting to make a stealthy approach towards the ring on the bed.
“No you bloody don’t Stripes. Sit.”
Stripes huffs but obeys, eventually plopping their fluffy butt on the floor. Wren walks over and scoops them up in their arms to distract them from the shiny on the bed.
“You definitely cannot have that one. Imagine a cursed badger eh? The fact that I didn’t even notice that alarm bells were ringing out from me just shows you shouldn’t be messing around with all this magic stuff.”
Even with plenty of good head scritches from Wren, Stripes’ attention is still eventually torn back to the shiny ring on the bed.
“I can’t just leave it lying around anywhere else. But how do I stop you trying to get at it Stripes? Your obsession with shiny things is just to-Wait! I’ll just paint it all over with the dullest mattest paint I can find, then you’ll never care about it!”
Stripes just cocks their head slightly in Wren’s direction. A little perplexed by their sudden outburst.
“Hmmm, I agree, it’s a totally fantastic idea.”
Objective:
Investigate circumstances surrounding disappearance of scout group from the Daring First. Previous known activity of were-boars in area of group’s disappearance.
Team:
Myself
Laurel
G’Lorth
Faye
Arkadius
Igrainne
Details:
Team recruited by Cordelia Jadefist to investigate group of sol
Sorry, automatically went into report writing there. I don’t want to waste this paper though so I’ll just start again.
Hey Dad,
I know I should have probably written sooner, but you know I’m not great at these and I kinda thought the reports would be enough yah know?
The adventuring is going good, the Watch work too, there’s a lot of interesting adventuring characters out here for sure. Each time I go on one of these adventures, tactics involving team dynamics have to be changed every time, something I never had to do back in the Garrison but I like being kept on my toes.
Some of these adventuring missions are just plain odd though. Like this week I thought we were going to help some soldiers with some were-boars in the woods. But not only was there no soldiers or were-boars (there was a were-rat though), there was a mind boggling star entity or something? It was making a big rock even bigger as it ate gold offerings that it charmed out of people (like how charming can a rock be?). Whatever this thing was it seemed to come from the eye of the Boar constellation we think.
Wait, let me start that again, from the beginning.
We were going to help find these missing soldiers, and supposedly they went missing in an area of forest where a were-boar couple had been causing trouble before. So we all went south out of Daring to get there, and along the way we found this dazed looking merchant who said he thinks he got robbed. He said ‘thinks’ because he put all his money in this stone bowl in the woods but he has no idea why he did in the first place.
Obviously he had been charmed in some way, and we also knew we were getting close to where the soldiers went missing, so it seemed kinda suspicious. We sent him on his way and kept going. Further down we then saw two folks crossing the road to get to the forest, one holding a nice looking box and the other a cow. Again, they were looking a bit dazed and heading into a part of the forest where the soldiers went missing so we ended up following them.
Don’t worry, as soon as I scouted the location of whatever was causing this coercion magics we managed to to snap them out of it and send them home. How did I know I had found the place? Well I found a clearing with a big rock in the middle, surrounded by glowy purple vines and oozing magic vibes. It tried to communicate it’s massive need and hunger for offerings without words. Seemed a very likely candidate for the weird stuff happening.
As a group we approached and this were-rat guy with glowing purple eyes came to greet us (See-more I think his name was). Immediately started wanting to make deals about power and all that, pledge to the Eye of the Boar, his eyes even went black as this Boar spoke through him at one point. Wasn’t even subtle about the cult vibes and everything.
Then G’Lorth goes up to actually make a deal! Something about wanting the power to bend people’s will, which was a big hells no from the rest of us. Everytime I meet G’Lorth he gets more sus. Luckily Igrainne had this special transparent ball thing that she threw onto G’Lorth and See-more to trap them inside.
They both weren’t too happy about it, especially See-more, but there wasn’t much they could do. Faye did get yanked in there with magics but they teleported right back out with their own magics, so whatever.
Okay back to the stone.
As that was all happening a big bong rang out from somewhere and the glowy purple vines on the rock started attacking the rest of us, and then to top it all off the rock started summoning some bigggg purple glowy creature. Arkadius was like nope, snapped his magical fingers, and then it was gone (though not forever apparently). Everyone else took turns shredding up the vines I had set on fire in various ways so that we could get close enough to tip the rock. Laurel kept pointing at the rock a lot, I think they were trying to do some magic, but it didn’t seem to be working. When we finally tipped it, it shattered right down the middle, See-more looked like he was gonna cry from where he was in the ball. At least his eyes were back to normal.
One last weird thing happened when we tipped the rock, suddenly got this vision of zooming into space, the big void of space, and focusing on the eye of the Boar constellation itself. It was this massive glowing purple orb thing? Whatever it was obviously wasn’t too happy, unsurprisingly, with recent events. To me it was a pretty good indication that we had been successful in stopping it.
Finally let G’Lorth and See-more out of the ball, G’Lorth definitely huffy and See-more made a run for it. I was just gonna tackle him, maybe shoot him in the ankle, but Arkadius just flames this guy to literal death. So I didn’t tackle him but I did give him a super quick heals to close his wounds before the gods came to claim his soul.
Got there in time, meant we could ask questions. Turns out all the were-curse stuff and luring people into making offerings was all because of this single massive rock that had fallen from the sky. Though apparently it used to be real small and then started growing cause of the offerings. Odd right? The idea of a rock that grows.
Anyway See-more is in jail in Daring cause he admitted to killing the soldier patrol, so he’s all dealt with.
But yeah, see, it’s bonkers here! Never gonna get bored. And the people are nice, well, most of them.
Say hi to Lily for me, hope the apprenticeship is going well for her (I know she’s probably bossing it either way).
Love you,
Wren
P.S. Can you send me that recipe for the stew you always make at winter time that I love please, the one with rice and stuff. I wanna have a go at making it myself.
P.P.S. I mentioned in my last report to Mum I had a dog called Stripes now. They’re actually a badger that I found, they’re cute and they really like shiny things. Please don’t tell Mum! Especially because I lied to her! I just didn’t want her to think I wasn’t taking this all seriously or anything, you know what she can be like.
Wren neatly folds up the letter and puts it to the side at the table in their slightly leaking room, using a dagger as a paperweight to stop it floating into any damp corners.
Out of the corner of their eye they notice Stripes attempting to make a stealthy approach towards the ring on the bed.
“No you bloody don’t Stripes. Sit.”
Stripes huffs but obeys, eventually plopping their fluffy butt on the floor. Wren walks over and scoops them up in their arms to distract them from the shiny on the bed.
“You definitely cannot have that one. Imagine a cursed badger eh? The fact that I didn’t even notice that alarm bells were ringing out from me just shows you shouldn’t be messing around with all this magic stuff.”
Even with plenty of good head scritches from Wren, Stripes’ attention is still eventually torn back to the shiny ring on the bed.
“I can’t just leave it lying around anywhere else. But how do I stop you trying to get at it Stripes? Your obsession with shiny things is just to-Wait! I’ll just paint it all over with the dullest mattest paint I can find, then you’ll never care about it!”
Stripes just cocks their head slightly in Wren’s direction. A little perplexed by their sudden outburst.
“Hmmm, I agree, it’s a totally fantastic idea.”