Desperate Measures: Episode 02

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==Recap==
===12th January, 1512===
It is a new day and a boat from Mistrya arrives in Tassel. Stepping off the boat is a miner named Vaughn, looking for his brother Callum. Vaughn spots the cleric Ebnur and goes to meet with his party of Latrineian Scavengers. The party inform Vaughn about the death of his brother at the hands of bugbears.
Ebnur speaks with someone else who came in today on the ship and tells the party he has something to do. He leaves the party to their own devices for a week or so. No one in the party speaks Eridonian but Ebnur, so the party's plan to exchange gold for silver coins is put on hold while Ebnur is away. The party go to their contact Garrett for another job to do. Garrett tells the party of a strange mysterious cabin in the bogwood while he had been looting Iron in the bog near Peatsburg.
The party set out for Peatsburg, following the edge of the Albatros Canal. Along the way the party forrage for food to save on costs. Along the way, Jebediah spots a big horn sheep. Jeb hits the sheep twice with his arrow and the sheep flees. Jeb follows the bloodtrail and finishes the sheep off. The sheep is butchered for it's meat and dragged behind the party.
In the evening the party camp out in their goblin tent at the edge of the bogwood. The party cook up the sheep meat into a meal and into jerky. During Joka's watch, he fails to spot something in the woods.
===13th January, 1512===
The new day arrives; the party break camp and continue towards Peatsburg. It is slow progress through the bog.
===14th January, 1512===
In the late afternoon the party arrive in the ruins of Peatsburg. Some stone strucutures still stand, like the jailhouse, but the rest of the town is in ruins. The party search the town and find a ruined table in the temple. There is a single yellow gemstone, as well as some papers on the table.
As evening falls, the party make camp in the Guardman's Office above the jailhouse, cooking their food in the fireplace. Then, an orc thows a javelin from outside at Jebediah that misses. The party see 3 orcs outside the jailhouse charging towards them. A fight breaks out. After one of the orcs is killed, the orcs withdraw to outside the building. Joka sneaks out of the building and kills an orc waiting outside the jailhouse. The last orc retreats.
The party look for a new place to stay overnight and rest.
===15th January, 1512===
The party finish resting for the night and return to searching the town for valuables and find nothing else of value.
The party leave Peatsburg to search for the building that Garrett described north of the town.
Towards evening, the party see a wavering light out in the swamp to the north-east. The party head in that direction into the wet bog. As they travel, Vaughn finds a giant leech on his leg and the group moves quickly out of the water onto dryland. Jeb ties to stab the leech on Vaughn's leg, but it doesn't work. Joka then burns the leech with pitch.
As the party rest, they are greeted by an elderly woman, Hagatha. She asks what brings people to her neck of the woods. The old woman licks Joka's leech wound with her unnaturally long tongune and then bandages it up. The elderly woman warns the group that some of the leeches are venonmous and can infect people. The old woman offers the party a rest in her cabin with some Cheery Pie.The party decline, afraid of the wood's witch. Hagatha claims to own these woods. She warns the party of Crete the Mad Minotaur who is nearby. She tells them that he has created a maze where he hunts people down.
The party retreat to a nearby hill to make camp. They observe that Hagatha spoke their language, Mistryan, despite the fact that she lives in the middle of nowhere in Eridon.
===16th January, 1512===
The party head north and have no encounters at all. By the end of the day, they make camp in the plains.
===17th January, 1512===
The party hunt for food as they travel. They spot a wild dog. Jeb slowly approaches the dog. As Jeb gets close, the dog notices him, charges him and bites hard. The party slay the dog, eat it and move on
The party camp on the road of Cauldron. Vaughn notices someone with a lantern in the woods to the north during his watch. He does nothing and the light moves on.
===18th January, 1512===
The party arrive in Cauldron, named for the gigantic gyser that is the start of a river. The town looks looted. The party bathe in a hotspring down river.
Then the party head back towards Tassel. On the road the party spot a herd of elephants. The party keep moving, knowing they have no capacity to kill any of the elephants.
===19th January, 1512===
As the party get close to Tassel, they get out of the way of a panicky rider who shouted out in Mistryan for people to make way.
The party walk into town and talk with Fizzip. Fizzip explains that the messenger they saw came into town in a panic. The messenger had seen a Headless Horseman with a sword near Stromheim. Fizzip also has no knowledge of Hagatha.
The party talk with the messenger. He saw the Headless Horseman halfway between Cauldron and Stromheim.
The party report in to Garrett to sell him the yellow gem they found for 100 gold, which will pay for their home village for a whole month. They also tell Garrett about Hagatha and the Mad Minotaur.
With the rent paid for the month, the party wait in town for Ebnur. Jeb spend the time hunting animals and making leather armor. Jeb sells a fox pelt to Garrett for 200 copper.
Joka and Vaughn restore a building to live in within Tassel. They go into the woods to cut down a tree for materials. Vaughn gets attacked by a giant trapdoor spider that bites him. Joka and Vaughn fight the spider and kill it. Jeb joins the others after hearing the noise. The party investigate the spider's lair and find many dead humanoids inside, but no treasure.
The party haul the entire spider back to the camp in Tassel back to Fizzip. Fizzip is glad they brought the giant spider and cuts out it's venom sac. Fizzip offers to trade 2 minor spells.1 major spell or 800 copper for the venom sac. The party decide to trade for a future spell. He gives the party 20 copper for the spider fangs.
==Experience==
633 exp each
Category:Desperate Measures Episodes