The World of Telvar

Meanwhile, Faranyn's armor was patched up and I learned the light crossbow.
Aria's magical crossbow was given into my possession and I agreed to use it
at least for the duration of the trip.

We then headed on to the Wild Wood Inn to the south a good distance.
Nothing really happened except when we came upon someone climbing into a
tree. We scared him away and followed his trail. We later learned his name
was Harvey but he escaped unscathed.

He did, however, lead us right into the bandit camp, which we easily
surprised, even with our metal armor and horses. With a few key spells, we
managed to easily acquire the surrender of the 22 bandits. We tied them up
and marched them to the road. There, Pap began having the prisoners sing
cadence as they marched. My particular favorites were when he had them sing
some Dunadorian work-camp songs. Of course, this wore on your nerves very
quickly. They didn't seem to enjoy it either, especially when he yelled at
them for not singing.

A few days later we same upon a cart covered with bones near a bridge.
Faranyn and Cassana investigated and were attacked by giant ticks, who were
killed by them easily. Later, Cassana contracted a disease, we think, and
the cure disease button was used on him. Also, I buried the bones of the
cart-driver, hidden under the cart, the next day.

A couple of days after that, Ludo noticed ogres hiding up ahead, an unusual
thing to notice from the middle ranks of the party. We scared them off.
They threw a boulder at Hawk as he swooped over and Hawk fell. He did not
appear to have been actually hit by the boulder, but a weird scrape was
across his wing. I healed him.

A good distance later we turned in the bandits at Capel Tower. A few days
after that we stayed and relaxed at the Draken Castle Inn. Pap got the
half-day off, even.

A few days later we reached Montinelle. Apparently there was some confusion
at the gate, but we got in and sold the bandits' stuff for a good bit of
money, though time was wasted in the bartering. While in the market, a boy
tried to pickpocket Faranyn but Ludo noticed him somehow and easily grabbed
the boy. The guards were called, who acted obnoxious and acted like none of
the rest of us in the party were trustworthy. Eventually, they extracted 5
g.p. Faranyn was missing from the boy, but could not press charges because
none of the passersby who clearly saw the incident were willing to admit to
having seen it. Faranyn looked pretty steamed that day and insisted that we
leave Montinelle as soon as possible.
They annoyed us again on the way out when we had sold the bandits' horses we
didn't intend to sell, but Faranyn appeared in no mood to argue. We payed
the "double taxes" for our "offense" of selling the horses.

Anyway, we then headed north and bore right towards the Wild Wood. We
encountered another group of adventurers on the road and we were both
spooked and clearly dismayed when Ludo suddenly attacked and hit one in the
scrub nearby. This prompted an attack from us, because Ludo had attacked,
but not really understanding why. We easily took several captive and talked
to Ludo sternly. We determined that Ludo could see some kind of blob shape
with the other party, and he thought it might be evil. It was determined
that Ludo's vision had become more acute and he could see the other party
members even if he wasn't facing them. We determined from the situation
that it was all a misunderstanding and freed the other folks without harming
them. The mage (ludo's 'blob' -- apparently appeared that way to Ludo when
it was invisible) and an archer cautiously withdrew and expressed our
regrets. We then accosted Ludo with what he had done, briefly, and then
moved on.

During that encounter we had seen a camouflaged lizard like creature with
wings hanging on Ludo's belongings, but it flew up and away. Still, Ludo
could see slightly from above the party or nearby any time he cared to. We
could not find the lizard shape again but clearly Hawk was disturbed by it
when I talked to him. He said he looked like a tasty dragonfly but that it
had bitten him back at the ogres when he had tried to eat it. Eli had
hypothesized it might be a little demon "Quasit" but since he hadn't seen it
he didn't know.

Ludo's gear, much to my dismay did not detect as magical, despite the fact
that he clearly still felt its benefits. When transferred to other folks it
was perfectly magical. When I concentrated on the fact that no mortal
creature could possibly deceive Phaulkon, all his gear appeared magical or
normal as it was originally.

This was all very strange, but then Ludo tried to communicate with the
creature. It said its name was Thurmond and that it was the familiar of a
wizard we had recently been eaten by a 'blue lizard as big as a bridge,' the
Behir. It liked Ludo because he was "little."

This got me to wondering whether it might be a member of the Little People
who might have been eaten by the Behir, but we really don't know. We are
too far away from Middle to check, and it doesn't appear to have happened so
we don't know.

Later, we arrived at the Wild Wood Inn.

Alegra