Snake's Demise.

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Jan 23, 2023 11:24 pm
"Sounds like grandpa had a guilty conscience." Tyr just chuckled and left the food knowing the mushroom to only amplify the persons inner most self. He had warned the old hobbit afterall, mindset was everything to a drug that opened the deepest reaches of the mind. "But he will be better for the fear."

Having nothing better to do Tyr left Thorbjorn to graze and carried Fylgja to the inn.
Jan 23, 2023 11:26 pm
"They have been slain, but avenged by mine own hand! Goblins and orcs and a foul thing that should not have existed, all smote by Breaker! We shall drink to them, those that fell. But we shall drink, too, to those that survived the demoness!" To have been killed by goblinfolk was, to Baelrick's mind, a favorable death to being consumed by a demon; a little lie was in order.
Jan 23, 2023 11:29 pm
Tyr did not normally drink but he raised a horn to Baelrick's tale. It was worth saluting the honorable dead. Still temperance won out, and while he finished the horn in three gulps, he was not going to consume more. He had no coin to pay for it and was already in peoples ill graces.

After eating a humble meal Tyr having failed in his mission to secure allies found Thorbjorn and rode off into the darkness seeking another bastion of civilization with which to combat the enemy.
Jan 25, 2023 9:33 am
Daglin shares the drink as well, at the same time proud of having fought with such formidable warriors and sad not to have been able to save enough people from the village. He hopes to be remembered as one of those who helped, in this day, free the region from a horrible demon. He longs for his village in the mountains though, and goes looking for his gear and make the travel back, when the time is right.
Jan 25, 2023 4:37 pm
The people of Alhereth are sad their loved ones did not survive, but are happy the disappearances will stop. They gladly offer you drinks and free boarding for the night. Even Gragor is welcomed. The people of Alhereth hold no grudges, after all his tribes got fooled by a clever Fellgrim, and Gragor tried to be the voice of reason and he almost shared their loved ones fates for this. Plus he helped the party in the end to make things right, and fitch the dwarf merchant is willing to vouch for him.

In the coming few days, a lot happens. First the elves who were looking for Fitch eventually make it to Alhereth and find out from the merchant what was really going on all along. They are a bit hostile spotting Gragor at first, but once again, you all vouch for him. Nobody in Alhereth could decipher the papers the group recovered from old Snake's Demise, so they suggests to perhaps visit the libraries of Menana Mindas in order to have those translated. Still others are troubled by the sights of beastlings and felgrims so far south, especially backed up by tribes of goblinoids and wildlings, and instead insist that nearby Atrhand should be warned. Then there is Fitch, still looking for new carts and retrieving the remaining of his stuff from old Snake,s Demise, who would appreciate if you could escort him to Rith Amdol.

This, is of course, a choice our heroes will make in another story...
Jan 28, 2023 12:02 am
Peli joins the others in the tavern the evening they return, toasting with Baelrick and Daglin, trying to ask Tyr about his animal companions and getting Gragor to taste-test the cherry pies, but after all that the halfling goes back to her usual way: adventuring with no particular goal in mind, happy to just wander the wilds with only Bean for company, until the time her path once again crosses with someone else's. It was an interesting foray into a cursed dungeon indeed, even if she left it slightly worse for wear - but now there are more stories waiting behind the horizon, and Peli Wheatstalk is ready to chase them.

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