Rode wagon up hill and saw a Chiwanga nature spirit living in a tree that grew both apples and oranges.
Lindal interacted and got a blessing of animal speech in return for the featured her from his cap. Upon eating he could hear the horse complaining about the heat and fed the horse the rest of the pair and found that then the horse learned to speak human as well. Which was hillarious because th eparty kept pretending not to hear the horse and the poor private driving the wagon thought he was going mad from the heat.
Up at keep met Gruta the Castillan and were quickly ushered into the presence of Commander Liana Portyr. Liana greeted DeVeers, grilled him on his mission here and then relayed a few quests that were off in the direction the party might be heading with rewards ranging from a bounty on Ghouls to a magic item from the vault. Party hatched a plan to get Liana out of her room and lindal invisibly in but almost were foiled by a tougher than normal lock and Eddie getting euphoric on dancing monkey fruit. Still the mission was a success the party collected a message as follows.
...And across the bay she blow
No ships are missing as of three days ago in the morning.
The beast has been ranging far from its lair though so that is true.
Perhaps freelancers or outsiders are responsible?
Was some recent dissension in the ranks of one of our allies.
Will check further before next rotation.
The drop will be in usual shipment.
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They did a bit more research around the keep to figure out who else might be involved. They ruled out the cook who was the longest serving member. They also ruled out Gruta but the money from the corruption also kept the fort functional so rather than confront Liana in her own fort they decided to go after the group from the pirate end.
Lindal managed to sell off his stolen jewelry. Kylorin met the priestess of the Wardens a rather down to earth universalist.
Party also met "Shuga" and warned him to take an extra long patrol due to the threats from the city. he said he had a mission that day and he would attempt to draw it out if possible.
Inspiration
None added
Defeated
Evidence recovered 50/each
Chwinga 10
The party earned 260 xp with 1 ally (52 each => 1351 cumulative)
Treasure
25 gp (lindal)
Companions (not present):
Captain and Crew of the Brazen pegasus
Captain Ortimay
First Mate Grigg
Bonnie "Sky Turtle" Skytle
Seraph - a Psuedodragon traveling companion and his horde of 3 gp and 3 sp
Undril Silvertusk - A Lightbringer and member of the Order of the Gauntlet bringing relief supplies to Camp Righteousness.
Derrick - former pirate now sworn to Kasisi as temple guardian
Lenny - imp with a troubled history with the party
Azoka Stormfang - aggressive Chultan guide with a fierce relation with Celadon. Party promised to leave with her in seven days.
Hew Hackenstone - tough as the legend would have you believe.