04.23.2021 - Bobin Rood and the Merry Men

The whispers told me that we were late meeting up with Klaub at Mr. Shooshrav's shop, so he went looking for us at Rainbow's. Upon arriving there, he was greeted by the foul smell of "breakfast" being made so he went and had a talk with Mr. Peaky regarding the kind of eggs they were using and how to make a proper breakfast. Then he heard us get back while talking about the very cool book we had just learned about and the adventure we were going to go on. On our way out, the whispers say Klaub left a business proposition for Rainbow; something about theming the new rooms? We had to stop and get our horses so that we could take Warder back to his family because he didn't seem too good and we wanted to make sure he got there safely.

   On the way out of town, we were discussing the picture on the job notice we had and how we were going to fight another dragon. Now, this one should have more legs than the kob-lod dragons did, but that's no problem for us: The Min-asurie of Dragon Slayers! Warder didn't look great so Klaub said some prayers of Shadow Mother over him and he seemed much better because Shadow Mother can heal all. When we got to Warder's farm we rode right up to the door and he ran in where he grabbed us some bread before we heard yelling that sounded like Mrs. Mama Poof Pillow caused us to run away when Warder came back through the door followed by his mother. The whispers said that Klaub had stern words with Mrs. Mama Poof Pillow before following after us down the lane.

   We spent most of the day until we saw a large stick with the top painted blue like Jerome said the page with the picture described. I tried to land on it but it fell over so Jerome picked it up to take with us. I was just flying along when I heard Jerome hit Mario with the pole I got for him. The whispers say a few moments later a gnome dressed all in green jumped down and attacked Marko and told Jerome to be free! By the time I had turned around there were more short dudes in green swinging around on ropes from a trap, so I used some fire to free them while Marko, Jerome, and Klaub dealt with the first one the whispers told me about. (Come to think of it, these were the first super short people, other than me, we had ever seen, according to the whispers at least.) Klaub and the first short person in green, who called himself Bobin Rood, came to an agreement about our situation and Mr. Bobin offered to take us to the camp we wanted to go to. He had to ask if we wanted to go to the Hunter's or the Woodcutter's camp which caused some confusion for just a minute until Jerome reread the paper he had before following Mr. Bobin to our destination.

   Upon arriving at the camp, we saw half a dozen dark colored cat people scattered around a camp of tents. We were approached by the cat person who seemed to be the leader, a dark colored cat person with odd curls in his neck hair, who introduced himself as Himo Bloomenthal and asked what he could do for us. When we told him that we were here to deal with the dragon from the poster, he just laughed and didn't believe that we had killed dragons before. He said he was expecting to find us turned to stone like the other adventurers who had come before us. Mr. Himo said the spider dragon had come up from some ruins under where they used to camp in a place called The Stone Hill Ruins and they thought it was running away something bigger from beneath to build its nest. Also, he said the spider dragon—Himo called it a basilisk but spider dragon seems more accurate—had just looked at the horses and his companions when they were turned to stone around a well and around a trapdoor that led to the underground ruins. Then, Mr. Himo offered to let us stay over the night with him and his men in their camp before leading us to our destination in the morning.

   Jerome started asking questions of Mr. Himo and we started trading some things for other things, like I gave him my manacles so that he would give me a very pretty cracked gem and some purple cloth to keep it in. Jerome also made a trade where he traded a bean he said was magical for a rune covered door knob that Mr. Himo said was the only way to get into a vault in an ancient ruin and there must be tons of shinies and gems that no one else has ever gotten to. Then Jerome and Mr. Himo discussed a gambling game where Jerome would give over more beans for an eyeglass Mr. Himo had, which Klaub said was magical. Klaub had started fixing the shoes of the people who wanted them fixed including a round cat person named Tracky. Tracky got dragged into the game where he had to pick the dice for Jerome and Mr. Himo to roll. It's strange, there was some sudden wind that shifted the position or Marko's die to a higher number! It must have been a blessing from Shadow Mother. Also, the wind went over and set up Sir Bobin Rood's tent for him. Mr. Himo seemed very upset by his loss, and he wandered off as soon as Klaub began some prayers and teaching of Shadow Mother.

   Almost everyone had wandered off by the end of Kalub's teaching, but our new friend Tracky was still there and he mentioned that he had some weasels that he was in charge of training to catch birds for the group. When we asked him to show us, he took us to his tent where there were a few cages each with a weasel. Tracky told us their names were Impeccable, Disciplined, Disease, Nature—and the only good one—Passionate. He then took us and Impeccable to go look for a bird to find. The weasel went up a tree, but when I tried to follow behind I hit a branch and startled everything in the trees around us and fell to the ground. Impeccable came running down and chattered in my face (I didn't know what it said though). Then we returned to the main portion of camp where we rested for the night.

   The next morning we set off for the ruins with everyone following us. I scouted ahead to see where we needed to go to find the spider dragon. We spread out and I got right above the spider dragon and its nest which had three eggs in it. There came a clunking sound from behind me and the spider dragon woke up and began looking around. Jerome and I immediately sprung into action to try to keep it from looking around at our friends. It crashed through a wall, evading our attacks. I had pulled out my mirror to show it that it was not a pretty bird. Together we easily took care of the spider dragon. Jerome had run off but when I mentioned going to the trapdoor to look for more spider dragons he came running back and was covered in familiar smelling goo. The whispers told me that he had taken the eggs, they weren't alive like me, and he had tripped and smashed them all over himself. Klaub ran to block the trap door before we could go in before giving in and letting us go down while he and Marko started to break down the spider dragon for the spikes.

   We went through the trapdoor down a hallway to a room with several tents, a fire, and many books. The doorway leading out of the room was blocked by barrels and stuff. Jerome threw a rock to try to hit a tent to see if anyone was home. At that point, some very old stony skeletons. There were a bunch that came running towards us so I made the loud noise Shadow Mother used to make with the magic which turned most of them to dust. Marko then came running down the hallway towards us because of the loud noise I made. We looked around in the tents where we found weapons and black hoods. The whispers said that Marko found a book for Klaub about how to heal people and it had prayers in it.  Around the blocked doorway I found markings on the barrels that seemed like Tanin and they were filled with snacks and water. Then, coming down the tunnel beyond this doorway, we could hear loud thumping footsteps coming our way.