A stormy beginning

Magian seems to ponder Elyse's words for a moment before nodding. Taking to the air with the pair of gryphons the tries to harass the creature. Unfortunately the gryphons and flickering lights seem to have little effect on the ponderous moving hill of a creature, if it even notices them.

It continues to plod along in pursuit of the bouncing and rattling wagon as Hazel tries to navigate it through the rough terrain with Judy urging her and Tiny on. Blornvid pulls himself onto the back of the wagon only to see an insectoid , about 3 or 4 feet tall, pop up glancing about with antennae twitching.

Though not in immediate danger the hill elemental is obviously following the wagon though its slow movements give you some time to handle it. But the crash of it's massive feet leave little doubt as to what would happen it it even accidentally stepped on any of you.

Everyone go ahead and give me a test dealing with either observation, lore, nature, or magical monsters
Remember to use your trade or traits to give advantage

With the amount of noise the wagon is making it seems entirely possible it is being tracked by that. The question is how to silence the wagon or distract the creature? Elyse experiments with a couple loud bangs and gets no reaction until she does onr right on the ground. This seems to get the hill elementals attention.

Magian and the griffin begin dropping rocks and combined with your own efforts seem to confuse the hill elemental. Now more alert to the elementals mode of sensing you notice that when it places a foot, witch takes a coupe of seconds, it does not seem to notice anything you do. But when it is shifting between steps it reacts to your thrown rocks but also to you steps. You soon master the art of shifting only right before/during/after it completes a new step while the flyers proceed to drop as large of rocks as they can manage is a location off to one side of the creature from you. Repeating this method the elemental is slowly drawn away from the wagon .

Keeping an eye on the massive form as it moves further from you in pursuit of the griffon you begin to relax and take in the new aquantances...

As you chat Magian continuees to slowly lure the hill elemental away

After several minutes the hill elemental is barely visible and its once thunderous steps and mere thuds in the distance. As you chatBlornvid figures that Hazel was heading toward Paphos. And upon learning of the Manor, which is not too far out of the way, is is decided to head there before deciding whether to continue on or return as both Hazen and Judy are in agreement that the Wilds are not for them.

Blornvid gives general directions and you cross an old track, likely a road from before the Shattering, and as it lead in about the right direction take it. Several minute later Magion is seen overhead and he waves at you before continuing on his way back to the manor house.

The wagon ride back, though swift due to Tiny's new form, takes longer than the flight out and it is near sunset when you follow the rough track and finally see the manner a ways off still through the trees. As you near you hear sounds of water he passes into a thicker part of the forest. The woods you have been passing through are old and look untouched by hands that shape things save the faint traces of the road you follow. Soon the roofline of the building is in sight and yougets a better view of the structure.


The yard shows signs of having been well organized and cared for but had grown wild for years. There are signs of recent attempts to tame the surroundings but there is much work left to be done. There are people moving between the building and they look up with interest at the sound of the wagon. The nearest structure, a short tower, has it's front door thrown open and three youths in ill fitting armor rush out to stand on the road and confront you.