#garrkle's patch

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Session 2: Onto Indridge

Before departing the party explores the remainder of Garrkle's Patch. Vanti visits Grebbedo, the woodcarver, and speaks to him about protecting their town. He clearly has the skills to make defenses and agrees to experiment more under Vantis patronage.

Kydriel interrupts a nice couple having breakfast, almost steals from them too.

Departing the town they leave Arianna in her state of perpetual pancake eating. They arrive in Indridge a few days later but curiously the last day moving through deforested lands. Arriving at the walled city they are greeted by Jerry! Jerry the guard is welcoming and immediately tells them to go to the castle as they have been having problems recently. A slight detour is taken as Kydriel seeks out some children, asks them about an orphanage, gives them money, and leaves again. Weird. The continue on to the keep in the center of the city though. Greeted by yet more Jerry's you are ushered into an expansive main hall.

A man emerges mumbling forward until his eyes catch Vanti to which he lights up and hugs her. Tengen is the main guard of the keep and he explains how there has been a string of threatening letters and believe that soon an assassination will be coming. The letters he says are dispersed randomly through the city by birds that fly in from the mountains and they demand the stop of the wood industry. The countess Steve Martin has growing concern about the situation as she cannot easily change that large a part of their economy. Fully learning of the situation our party then seeks out Ingress, the sister of Circe, looking for a map that may aid them for tracking the origin of this threat.

Exiting the keep they notice the children from earlier and request help. Guided by these kids and another small offering of money the parties eyes fall upon the woman in question as she is stooped to talk to her visitors. Noticing you and standing to her full height the party is shocked that instead of a gnome dressed as a bird she is instead a Tengu woman. Cooing about Circe she agrees to make them a map and guides them to the inn where she is staying with her father and suggests they also stay the night.

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Circe’s map!

“I’m not great at this yet but here’s what I know! Ari and Vanty couldn’t really tell me where they were from so I just put them off the map but frand Ari is from somewhere grassy so I marked her in the grass lands. Garrkle’s Patch is Home since I live here and this is my map. The castle on the river is where dad has gone to sell our craft and get supplies. It’s called In-da-Ridge since it’s in da ridge of the mountains. Soon I’ll be able to make you guys a bigger map but dad said I would need to grow up more before I can go out into the world.”

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Session 1: Garrkle’s Patch

The party awakens in Garrkle’s Patch showered with pancakes and hostile hospitality from a small gnome. As they come into themselves for the first time Terran, another local gnome, barges in as he has just lost his niece in the woods and requires help.

Our not yet heroes split trying several methods to track down the girl including climbing her roof, running in random directions and blinking sightless in her room. Somehow all managing to come upon a small lean to in the woods at the same moment and just as their eyes befall the crude shelter their feet befall them into a hole as all except Kydriel are caught in a crude trap. Not learning from her mistake Ariadne bolts directly into a second hole while everyone else calmly approaches the birch building.

The younguns climb in to look for Circe but find nothing and instead choose to hide themselves. Eventually coaxed out by the adults Circe comes from a hiding hole underground and befriends everyone except Kydriel whom does not speak kindly nor is spoken kindly about. As Circe has become a cartographer at the ripe age of seven she draws a map for her new friends and they bring her back to town for lunch.

When approaching town though they find that the blood from the woods is from a pair of orcs. The town is silent but for them throwing around the body of Yaboi. Ariadne quickly hides Circe back at the hideout before they engage with the orcs. First is Kydriel setting off combat by throwing a dagger which careening through the air moves past our first orc only drawing attention but not hitting. In the end of it the orcs land two harsh hits, one to Kydriel and another to itself. As both are felled the town yet again becomes lively throwing a small but disturbing feast for their heroes or sculpted meat cooked above the burning corpses.