Geode Fe

We traveled on to a little town. We stopped for supplies and for a rest. It has been an exciting journey so far!

We woke up in the morning to find Bailey's bed cold. He left a note, saying he wasn't cut out for such a journey, and decided to go back home. I can't beleive he would just run away like that. I hope he makes it back ok.

It's amazing how fast I spent up my 10 gold. I talked to the shopkeeper in town, and he is willing to take a few chests for trade. I spent the day fashioning some chests out of the nice, aged wood we found in the abandoned farm. I was able to trade these for some snare wire, and a few other items I will need for our adventure.

Evy is holding something back on us. She somehow had hid the gold to buy a wagon and horses! I am not sure if blowing up one of the shopkeeper's display cases had anything to do with it. She also produced a very expensive silver rose. She pricked both Cal and my hands, and now we each have a rose shaped scar.

We somehow manage to make it out of town without the townspeople chasing us down. I am not sure if I want to stop here again on the way back. It will be difficult to drive this heavy wagon that the smith had built around the town.

4 days out of town, we where ambushed by 5 giant spiders. We had driven out onto a huge web, spun tight against the ground.

I managed to shoot 2 of the spiders, only hitting one of the horses on accident - twice. The horse is ok, that silver rose scar somehow has a magical healing power to hit.

Further down the road, we are attacked by 3 giant scorpians. They attack the wagon and cart, and break tow of the wheels. They also killed one of the horses. It took me much of the day to repair the broken wheels into a wheel, and put on the spare wheel. That wagon is way to heavy for what we are using it for.

We make camp not far down the road, exhausted from the past 2 days ordeals. Short 1 horse, and the rest quite worse for wear.

The next morning as we are breaking camp, I start hualing water from the pond where Cal and Evy are bathing to the water barrels. I am nearly finished when those two start a water fight with each other. Next thing I know, I am pulled into the water. At first I thought they where including me in their fun, but they where on shore, and looked quite as much surprised as I was. I fought and struggled to swim to shore, but the water kept pulling me deeper into the pond. Cal threw a rope and after much kicking and near drowning, he managed to pull me out.

Then the water came out after me. Evy said it was a water elemental. I didn't think they where real! She magiced a fireball at it and I think she killed it, or boiled it, or whatever you do to a water elemental to make it leave you alone.

We hadn't so much as dried off or made it out of site of the pond, and a wizardly looking fellow appears and tells us he would need to take care of us himself. Evy and him seemed to know each other, as they shared words. I don't know who started it, but the next thing we know, we are all fighting for our life.

Somehow, I still can't remember or figure out how, the fight is over, with Cal, Evy and I still standing, and this Alrec fella dead on the ground. I didn't think I would be killing people on this journey. Maybe that is why we are being paid so well.

Evy made a big deal out of cremating the body - getting every single part of him.

This guy had some weird stuff! There is this bag, the size of a gunny sack that on the inside is like the size of a whole smokehouse! I really don't understand this magic stuff. I am dealing with the stuff of leagends - stuff my dad had told me about in the storys. I didn't know it was all real!

We where running low on water. Traveling can be tough this time of year, with water being scarce. I am not familiar with this area, so I don't know where the next stream is. We decided to go to the next farm we found, knowing there would be water there.

We ended up traveling past the farm, before we found the cart trail that lead to it. Backtracking a couple of miles was probably a lot faster than trying to take a cart across country.

When we arrived at the farm, we where quite dismayed to find it abandoned. The thatch roof on the house had fallen in, and the doors on the barn had fallen off. But the worst thing, is there wasn't a well in sight!

We decided to stable there for the night anyhow, as it was too late to travel down the rough path to the main road. I discovered the well in the barn, covered up. Who would put a well in a barn? I guess they where too lazy to haul water for the livestock, and built the barn over the well.

I think we found out why the farm was abandoned. The well was essentially dry. We worked on digging some of the mud out of the well so we could get some water out after we let it settle.

I put the wolf up in the chicken coup for the night. Lets see how he fares in the morning.