Kay is hunting for food for drifter! But, the soup drifter wants comes at a hard bargain: Tell something funny for some food! Kay ends up just throwing shade at Elymas failing without names. Specifically, when kay carried the injured becklin to induce forced conversation. it works, kay gets a sample for Drifter, and the recipe!
Maple goes for an explore and meets the talking cat! by being bapped by it! "Tasty?" "NO!" "Ah. Pigeon." "No! I'm not pigeon i have 6 limbs!" "Mm. More food." "No, i think i'm smaller then a pigeon... Pigeons don't have swords!" And it turns into a play fight. Maple tries to ride the cat, but they cannot control the cat. That's fine, they're having fun anyways.
Mallori goes for an explore before Nimako wakes! she disturbs one of the dwarves at the forge by poking him out his focus, and ruining his smithing. But, her being a traveller means she could maybe do a favor since she ruined his sword.
Part of his clan got sepperated- they're likely alive, but can't move due to the dragon army threat. they were last seen and heard from wormgut. Mallori wants to turn her pearls into jewelry!
Nimako has. a week. she wakes up ill, and lavender says she was on death's door. waiting much longer would be lethal, so they're going to have to go to Lillia Tonight
Maple finds Mallori! Mallori is having fun exploring doing nothing in particular. Maple is credulous regarding The Hole being interesting.
Kay is too concerned about the traps! Erei just wants to go!! Nimako Is too bleck to think right now. But, Erei does actually remember the way, so they begin to actually arrive at LIllia's. There, Lillia mentions her store of diamonds is now... depleted. Mallori does give her mushrooms and pearl to try and repay her!
next up: wormgut
erei and Mallori fall into a spikepit. slowly. bc Kay fastly slowfalls them. but! teh dwarves are safe! we can help clear out the draconians of the cave for them! maybe get diamonds? the worm things we were warned about do attack though. Seven of them, though Nimako convinces one to buzz off for it's own safety.
no others flee, however, so, they are eviscerated. While planning how to approach the draconians below, Nimako taps Kay to share what they see, sneaking ahead. Deepcurent surprises them with an iceball, and the fight begins... with Mallori jumping into the pit and EVISCERATING everything in her path. More of the worms come up too, but that's hardly an issue when the draconians are dead.
Nimako upon sliding down to the final level slips, and gets a flash of where this slip knocks her out... but Deepcurrent acts quickly, and she floats gently, though awkwardly, instead. no matter: she can still shoot from the ground before she gets up. once the space is cleared, with the help of some of the dwarves, we loot the entire cave. most importantly is some boots of levitation that kay gives Nimako, and an insane amount of money.