Caravan Log
Gozran 6th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishki, Fortune teller – Koya Mvashti
Current Stores : Almost 2 tons of food stores and 7 barrels of fresh water for drinking.
Location- Unknown stinking Swamp roughly 50 miles south of Rodric’s Cove.
Weather – Overcast
We are currently pulling away from a horrible little town called Ravengrove.. or something like that. Although they make these delicious blood sausages, I have been told that I do not want to know how they are made. All of the horses will have to be checked for parasites and blood-fly bites, as well as the wagons will need to be cleaned at the next river to remove any bugs, snakes or other passengers from that horrible swamp. We still have two boxes of the blood sausage which should fetch a handsome price, as they are going to be the last sausages to come out of that town for a while. Apparently Xikander, Hatsune, Genet, Koya, and Templeton discovered that the town was actually being run by a dread cult to Gloander! I tried to warn Koya and beg her not to go, but she was insistent. I think she is feeling Nishka’s shade watching over this journey. They are huge shoes to fill, but I have every confidence in her ability..without Koya risking her life. Hopefully she has gotten it out of her system. Fortunately she was protected by the others and came back from dealing with the cult.
Gozran 8th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishki, Fortune Teller – Koya Mvashti
Current Stores – 17 crates of Food and 6 and a half barrels of fresh water for drinking
Location- Rodric’s Cove
Weather – Cloudy, with morning Mist
One of the mares in the front team has developed a sore leg and so I had Koya mix up a poultice. Fortunately we just entered Rodric’s Cove today and so we will have a little time to rest the mare before we need to walk her and hook her replacement up to the wagon. After setting up camp outside the town, most of the others went into town, while the brothers and I looked to replenish our stores of food and fresh water. It seems that everyone had a good time in Rodric’s cove, and most of the others came back with arms full of goods bought with the hard won gold from the cult. They met a colorful guide named “Keelhaul Bill” undoubtably a local confidence man, but he seemed to know enough people so he helped direct everyone to the places where they wanted to go. Genet spent a great deal of time with one of his countrymen while Xikander and the rest visited many shops before returning to the camp and settling down for the night. This evening, Koya surprised everyone with a reading of the Harrow. It was.. alarming and disturbing in its message. Apparently she has given a prophecy that we will not return to Sandpoint, and that something very dark, dangerous and important awaits us in Brinewall castle. She also said that.. we were not alone, and were being followed by the “Bright eyes”.. Apparently the others met a creature in Haugen’s employ.. an insane Derro named Gillok the Doll Maker. When they freed his prisoners and forced him to flee.. he swore revenge.. and now, Koya has forseen his return.
I’ll have to double the watches from now on.
Gozran 9th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishke, Fortune Teller – Koya Mvashti
Weather – Mostly Sunny
GREMLINS!! .. we left Rodric’s cove for barely half a day before one of the Axles snapped! Upon closer look, the Axle had been sawed and chipped through as if by a tiny saw. We looked at the others, and saw the 3 other Axles had been similarly damaged and were about to give way. So we had to stop and use some of our precious wood and metal to repair the wagons. After the others had put together what happened, we searched everything and discovered a small wooden box that had been glued to the underside of a wagon and placed with an alchemical timer that would unlock hours after it had been set off. Once again, Momma Koya’s vision was dead right. The others searched the wagons and they were able to corner the gremlins and summon a toad to sniff them out. When they saw the toad all of the Gremlins scattered and were quickly killed. An entire day has been lost to those evil creatures.
Gozran 11th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishke, Fortune Teller- Koya Mvashti
Weather, – Morning Drizzle but cleared by afternoon
A lot happened today.. We had been on the road for two days after the gremlins, and it seemed like all was quiet, until we reached the bank of one of the many rivers between here and Brinewall. As the caravan approached one of the wooden bridges over the river.. it blew up! It had been rigged with black powder charges and a strange voice called out to the others. At that point, Goblin archers.. a lot meaner looking then the Lick toad came out from the forest on the other side and started firing their bows. Arrows and bolts flew either way as a horn sounded.. and a group of goblin wolf riders charged to the side, led by some goblin beast known as “Chief Naggletooth.” The fighting was terrible.. everyone bore horrible wounds, Templeton got hit in the neck with an arrow, and only after a terrible fight, were they able to bring down Naggletooth and slaughter his wolf Guard. Fortunately, they had no interest in the caravan, only in the Hero’s who had defeated “Gillok”.. who I assume must be the voice which taunted them before fleeing deeper into the forest. The Wolf Guard had revealed a nearby Ford in the river, which is fortunate.. so while we lost an hour or so.. the blowing up of the bridge did not greatly hinder our ability to advance towards Brinewall.
Gozran 12th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishke, Fortune Teller- Koya Mvashti
Weather – Cold Rain
As we travel further north, the trees are becoming more hardy for cold weather and the nights are getting colder. I am going to start the Brothers rubbing down the animals and making sure blankets are passed out to everyone. Momma Koya has many poultices, but there is no sense using those unless we have to.
Gozran 13th
Caravan Master – Sandru Vishke, Fortune Teller- Koya Mvashti
the Caravan came across a strange sight today. An expedition of the Absolom Society of Flora and Fauna, led by Koriandris Babbington had been attacked and destroyed by Lizardfolk. He was busy trying to clean up with his two remaining porters as the Hero’s rode up to take a look. Apparently he had collected several Griffon eggs.. at least, one of his men had collected the eggs somehow. And then his camp had been attacked by Lizard folk, and they had stolen all of his samples and specimens. The hero’s followed the trail back to the cave with the Lizard folk, and it appeared that they were going to try to infuse them with some kind of spirit. The others talked the lizard folk into giving up the eggs as long as they were returned to the “thunderbirds”.. Genet was not comfortable leaving a tribe of lizard folk behind that had attacked another expedition, but the only option in that case was to slaughter them all… When they talked to Koriandris, the hero’s realized that the scholar planned to dissect the unborn Griffons! When this was realized, the hero’s decided to return the eggs to the nest of the Griffon mother, who was very grateful for the return of her offspring. She shivered as she left and a pile of precious griffon feathers remained.
This is surely a good omen.
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