02.06.22 - Which Way to Go

The lightning hit Jerome and he started glowing a funny color and a woman appeared in the trees. She yelled something about adventurers being the worst because they cause slavery and for some other people to attack. Klaub even got attacked by a bear! Jerome tried to tell the scary lady that we were part of The Resistance but she thought that The Revolution was better than The Resistance. I flew up on the tent so that nobody could get to me, but then it started smoking. (The whispers told me that Jerome had set it on fire to try to get the people to go away.) From where I was I could see Peyson Virith running away from the camp back the way we had come while the slaves began to run off in the opposite direction. We took care of the attackers and only Marko and Kalub had to be ducked. While we searched their pockets we found all kinds of goodies like a new wooden necklace with runes, a scroll of rules, and a delicious egg. But, none of the ‘Saurens we were with lived, so we looked through their stuff too. They left behind a lot of shinnies and some books. Kalub even said he could make some of Peyson Virith’s clothes fit us! Then we went and slept in the tent full of furs until morning.

   The whispers told me that Peyson Virith came back in the middle of the night and disturbed Klaub. In the morning, we confronted Peyson Virith about some changes we found in the books he had and the ones we had about Shadow Mother. He did not seem to want to tell us the answer so Marko used the hammer we found with the bear to hit him but he did not get up again. Klaub wrote a note I needed to take back to town while they hid the body, but on the way back I saw some of the ‘Saurans from before the accident with the caravan coming back. But, when I stopped to give them the letter they misunderstood me and thought we had killed Peyson Virith and not the bandits like the letter Kalub wrote had said, so I went back to the family and told them we had to go or else the mean ‘Saurans would come fight with us.

   While I was gone, the whispers told me that Marko, Jerome, and Klaub had looked at one of the books from Peyson Virith’s tent and the peylgrimage we were on seemed to be unusual. Also, it seemed like it had been very discouraged by other peyson people.

   On the road, running away from the mean ‘Saurans, we traveled for the whole day past the big rocks with the three graves by them to the place where we first met Warder. We decided to go a little further to the place where we were left when Shadow Mother left us. Jerome suggested we write a note for Shadow Mother to find if they ever came back here to look for us, so we all took turns saying words to make up our message which we left under the wagon for The Shadows to find. At bedtime, Klaub told us a story about how there were some scary chairs that tried to eat people. The whispers told me that he saw the fires of the ‘Saurans who were pursuing us while he was taking his watch.

   In the morning, we decided we would ask Shadow Mother to tell us where to go: Purrgatory or The Temple of Awakening, so I pulled out one of my new pocket frogs to determine which way to go. It was tossed about while Shadow Mother considered for a minute before landing on the road towards the temple. We started out and along the road there were all kinds of broken pillars and statues of ‘Saurans. The higher up we went the weirder the bushes got until some of them tried to eat us while we were going towards an old market place. Those bushes were very dangerous because they almost ate all of us! In the market place we found a pool with a cool statue in the middle that looked like Palo from Peyson Virith’s stories of Shadow Mother. In the pool, there was mostly rusty stuff, but I found a shiny mace. It told me it’s name was Trumdall Gloryseeker so I thought it might be perfect for Klaub to have.

   After our battle with the bad bushes, we looked closer to find a shiny plaque to tell us that the statue was Palo! Kalub thought the dates were wrong between the true story and the written story because then Palo would have been really old. (Even older than Kalub!) We went looking at the dead bushes and we found there were some newer tabaxi bodies that had some symbols I recognized from the Shadow With One Arm.

   Just then the statue started smoking with that blue smoke and then Rajeet and the other dude were there at the statue with us. They told us we should come back this way later, after we find Shadow Mother because we were not strong enough yet. But, they also told us we did not have to continue looking for the past heroes if we didn’t want and we could go make a name for ourselves instead. They told us the choice is ours but there are certain places they can’t protect us if we go there. So, for now we are going to Purrgatory so that we can keep looking for the Shadows and we can keep going on adventures.