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Day 5 11/30/2023
Episode 5
Esce
We venture forth, heading toward the west. As we travel, Ari chases mice, Rowan keeps watch, Maruti helps people weighed down by taking some of their load, and Exxriit studies their wand, trying to understand it, and practices with their magic. Ari looks up to see Plores staring at her nearby. She jumps back and pulls out her dagger, but he says he’s there to talk and give her a wand. Ari takes it.
We do continue, but from behind us, we see dust closing in on us. Exxriit sends their snake off to scout. Maruti goes to Sandrano to let him know about this dust cloud, though he’s laying in the wagon, white as a sheet. He sends Artimious to get people moving faster and sits up. Maruti heads back to the rest of us, who had fallen to the back of the group, and tells us it’s not a good thing according to Sandrano. Exxriit gets up on the wagon to get a better view. They see their snake hauling back toward us. It doesn’t look happy, and it arrives back, climbs up on the wagon and points toward the front of the wagon and then taps six times. Exxriit drops into the wagon with the snake and sees Sandrano on one knee, trying to get up. Exxriit asks him to talk to the snake, and he does and the snake says, “Six horsemen wearing armor. Not friends.” Exxriit tells Sandrano to stay in the wagon. He doesn’t want to, but they make him.They help him sit, and tell him it’s time to let other people help. Sandrano slides his sword forward slowly, begrudgingly, and says Rowan might be able to make use of it. Exxriit takes the sword. Exxriit uses their null magic to make their hair look like snakes, and heads back to the group.
Exxriit gives Rowan the sword and we intentionally fall behind the group. Our whole group is in a full run behind us, fleeing as the four of us stay behind. We can just barely start to see the outlines of the horsemen coming toward us. We wait for them to come to us. Exxriit gets a higher vantage point, and Ari randomly finds a piece of tarp. Ari and Rowan flap around the tarp. When they get one hundred feet away, Exxriit prepares to cast a crystal barrier. They are able to capture three of them inside, and the fourth one on top of the crystal barrier. Maruti and Rowan are able to push it in. The other two are outside. Rowan tells them to halt, and the two outside do so. Ari tries a seduction, trying to get them to tell us what’s going on, and the two horsemen outside lower their weapons. One of them says they’re after traitors and asks if a group came by here? Ari says they went a random direction, away from where they actually are, and that we were scared. Exxriit joins in, saying they thought the horsemen were part of their group and that’s why we stopped them. He tries to convince us to come with him to be safe from the traitors, and convinces all but Maruti, who leaps down, grabs hold of a tarp, and gets a soldier wrapped up. We see what Maruti is doing, and realize we shouldn’t go back with them. We attack.
We kill the two outside, and when Ari goes to seduce one of the guys inside, climbing on the wall, she sees one is on the ground, moaning with a horse on top of him. The other three were trying to lift it, but are unable to. Maruti jumps in to help assist. Maruti puts the horse out of their misery. The one soldier has a completely crushed pelvis and Ari offers to heal him if the soldiers leave us alone. They all nod. Ari heals the soldier’s pelvis, letting him get up. Then, she asks after who sent these soldiers and what their intentions are. They were sent by Captain Laynar, and were sent as the advance scouts to go after the traitors. We try to figure out what to do with the soldiers left over.
When Exxriit checks the helmets, they seem not to have spells on their helmets. They would not join us, but Ari wants to know if they would leave us alone and tell their bosses they didn’t find anything. The soldiers look at each other and then say that she did a great service healing their comrade, and after twelve to thirteen hours, they may have lost the trail in the mountains, getting back to camp after a day and half. Rowan believes they are telling the truth. We tell them we are gonna leave them with a meal, but we will leave the barrier up until we feel we are a safe distance away before dropping it, and Maruti also gives them a pitcher of mead. We grab anything from the bodies, and drape the tarps behind us to cover the wheel tracks in an attempt to disturb the trail that we were leaving behind, making it obvious which way the caravan was headed. It is removing the wagon ruts, but it is also leaving an area of a trail of some kind, but it’s a questionable trail, so it would be harder to pinpoint that a large group of people went that direction.
We head off to catch up with the group. An hour later, we are able to do so. They have slowed down to wait for us. We give items to the group to attempt to help them out. Then we catch up to Sandrano. The whole group picks up to a good jog, wanting to get to the mountains before nightfall, and as the sun begins to set, we reach the foothills. We continue a few hours into darkness, using torches to light the way. We find a valley and set up camp for the night.
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