Chapter 1: Lady Luck's Curtsy

Ada and Aera, please give me survival checks at advantage.

Ada easily strips the hide from one of the two dire wolves. As she begins to expertly butcher the creature, she cleanly slices off slabs of meat. In the end, she winds up with 40 pounds of meat, a pile of bones and viscera, and a fully intact wolf pelt.

Aera is not nearly as skilled in his dressing of the dire wolf. While he manages to get the hide off the beast, Xavena has a fair duty to get the hide repaired before it can be tanned. In terms of meat, you manage to salvage about 30 pounds of various cuts.

The sun is now finishing its trip below the horizon and dusk is starting to creep into the sky. The winds have stayed down, but the rain is still drumming down. Granted, the fall is weaker than it was before, but coming down pretty solidly nonetheless.

For both of you, the meat you now have will spoil in 24 hours if you don't decide to do something to cure and or preserve it. If you don't treat the hides somehow, they will also fester and spoil, but over the course of a week.

You can choose to push on through the night or you can look for a place where you can set up a camp for the night. There are ample tents in the carts, as well as firewood and a few cookpots. The kind baron was aware that your trip would take a few days to make and has seen to it that you at least have basic group accommodations. He did not provide any manner of bedrolls or blankets or firestarters or foodstuffs however. He trusts that experienced adventuring types such as yourselves would have taken care to pack items of that nature.

As Baraq soars over the landscape, fighting through now mild rains, she spies a likely area about 15 minutes ride further along their path, and then south. It looks to be an outcropping of rocks, standing almost 12 feet tall. There is a gully in the middle that looks like it could likely accommodate your entire retinue, so long as the carts stay out of the space.