Post by Mittens Mckittens on Nov 22, 2022 23:17:48 GMT
“So after Miss Jenna-who really is part dragon-finished explaining about the strange things happenin’round da Fort, oranges going rotten, a big’old fire in the alchemy lab and even someone taking all the towels from the spa-”
“Oh my, the villain!”
“I know right! I would have suspected my Dad for that one if we’d been a bit closer to home. But anyway, Carla-the clever drow with the glasses. Well she asked if any strangers had been hanging about, to which Jenna went a bit funny and said something like-‘Nobody that aren’t strangers now!’
I thought she on about the old thing me Ma says about how ‘a stranger is a friend haven’t met yet', but everyone pulled a funny face at that.
“Hehe-ahem! Yes well, it may just not be a saying they’ve heard round here is all. So, you were saying?”
“Oh-right! Um so we all split up!-It-it was fine we were in the Fort, lots of other adventurers’ bout so we weren’t gonna get pounced on or nothing!
My a-ra..aarakocra-Yes thats it!-Aarakocra friend Flutter and Carla went to the kitchen’s whilst the pretty bard lady, Raine went to the spa with me! We didn’t find much, except a half-orc woman named Peggy soaking in a tub-She had her bathers on!!-Ahem!
And um-Oh yes, I noticed it seems someone had ‘physically taken the towels from the towel cupboard, they weren’t magicked away!”
“Hmm, the plot thickens!”
“Right! So then Flutter and me when to check out the bunk house next whilst the others looked around the observatory, not that they could see much-someone had been smearing up the windows!
Well Flutter and me discovered a bunk that had ‘mysteriously’ got broken’ and I ‘interrogated a suspicious gnome fella-who turned out to be a salty sea dog, just like me uncle Boris, who used to take me fishing every-
“Ahem, Mittens! The mystery?”
“Oh right-Sorry! Well just as Flutter noticed someone had taken a bunch of wood from the bed and was suspecting that perhaps their were building their own better rival Fort-Fort Orange…
We heard a strange laugh..from an empty corner of the room!
“OOoOoo.”
“We tried to sneak up on it!-But the blighter was too quick! It hightailed it outta there, with us in pursuit!”
We chased it up onto the roof, and whilst the others tried and failed to catch it I managed to stop it escaping by magic-roaring at it really loud, which spooked it!
Oh, then Carla blasted it off the wall into one of the moats, then Raine put it to sleep!
“But you helped by slowing it down, so it was a team effort!”
“Flutter did a lot of swearing at it too when she slipped-Me mum would strip me tail if I’d say any half of what she came out with! Anyway. Once the others had fished it out of the moat and tied it up, we realised it
was a..a...Well, it looked like a very large angry newt, but with big pointy fangs! Kept going on about how some adventurers from the fort had taken down his master-Wock the Necromancer.”
“Hm, never heard of him.”
“That’s what a lot of the others said. Miss Jenna mentioned something about undead sharks and octopusses-had real a thing for tea parties apparently.
Well, I made it clear he wasn’t to be causing anymore trouble around the Fort, else he’d have us to answer to see. Oh and Miss Jenna made the point pretty clear too.”
“Hm, well I’m glad she was there to look after you, brave as you are Mitts. You’ve had one too many close calls of late to be getting caught up in necromatics.”
“Ah, yeah guess you’re right. But Jenna was really pleased with our help, she gave us some gold and-I got this really cool magical sword!”
“So I see. Well, always good to have something on hand should you wear yourself out! Speaking of which how’s your snoozy little friend today?”
“Ah Libby? She’s grand! Carla came up with her name, didn’t she Libby?
“Buzz Buzz!”
“Heh, well it’s nice you’ve met some people more your own age, and magic users too. I’m glad. The apprentice life can be a lonely one sometimes, I want to make sure you have time to make friends and just remember to just be a kid!
Now, how about we go grab some ice cream then we'll start talking about the new spells I’ll be teaching you next?”
“Alright Miss Kennari!! Come on Libby, I bet they’ve got a honey or vanilla one for ya!”
“Buzzzzz buzz!”
New folk:
Raine-Pretty halfling lass with a violin. Pity she had to rush off in such a hurry after the mission it’d of be great to hear her play!
Carla-(Oh wait no)...Calla-(Ah bugger!) A blue elfie like girl-a Drow she said. Seemed really into her books as she was making notes the whole time and therefore didn’t see that shot coming till it hit her! Luckily she wasn’t too badly hurt! Off to learn at the academy too!-I wonder what the teachers are like!
Flutter-Such a talker, and with that pink bow and pretty dress it kinda felt like what it’d be like to have a sister hanging around with her. Seriously those were some impressive swears-I wonder where she’s learnt half of them from?
New Spell to learn:
Sleep: I wonder if I could cast that on myself? So hard to fall back to sleep after nipping to the lavy.