19 July 2019
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The day starts out with the Irregulars at the docks of Gracklestugh, getting themselves ready for the journey to the city of the deep gnomes. Before departure the folding boat needs a christening nd be trained the commands to deploy and fold back up.
Keeping the warning of Errde in mind that the boat will listen to any one we decide that the we will use languages that would be uncommon in the Underdark and use both Bree's halfling and Ezri's druidic. Even with these languages we thought of words uncommon to be spoken in regular conversation.
The command given that will deploy the boat will be "Give us a floater, [boat]!" in halfling. Whilst the collapsing spell is "Pucker up, [boat]! I have to admit that I had to think hard on what that would be in druidic, most of the language is focused on nature and it's doings, however bodily functions are not commonly described. Both Bree and I spend some time to teach the rest the words, albeit phonetically, so they can command the boat as necessary. Except Caius, who has put in a bit too much effort in showing off at the inn last night, as bards do *sigh*, and lost his voice. Bree and I will teach him later.
We deploy our boat and it's presented to us as a small sailboat, I think I recall one of the fishermen in the taverns of Waterdeep to call this a cat boat. It's a little larger than our previous vessel and it actually has a sail. Which will make our travelling a little more comfortable -Not that I mind the workout of rowing, need to keep in shape mind you!- However the winds are not kind to us to day and the sail would be useless, so we head out with Autun at the oars and Shuushar taking his familiar role as guide at the rudder. I take it easy for now, still a little exhausted and even a bit sore after my goodbye with that Drow seamstress.
Meanwhile I see Bree with a book, I believe it's the book of spells we got from that Alchemist's lair. Whilst I see Kais performing some sort of spell. Out of the dark suddenly a bat comes flying towards us. I heare some flapping and see the shadow circle around the boat a couple of times before it settles itself hanging upside down from the boom.
After a couple fo hours it's time to relieve Autun of his rowing duty. I make Caius take one oar, while taking the other myself and start rowing. Rumpadump then grabs Caius's drum and starts drumming somthing that has to be a rithym, juming up and down in order to hit the skin hard enough. Cute as the little guy me be, his sense of timing is off even more than that the of the bard who is silently rowing by my side. Autun helps by clapping and giving both Rumpadump and us some usefull guidance.
The day and night go by uneventfull. It's promising to be another long journey on the dark lake. I'm wondering how big is this Underdark anyway? It's way to big to be a regular cave and this dark lake is more like a dark ocean.
The second day Kais sends out his bat. He explained that the spell he performed yesterday is a ritual called Find Familiar and conjures a spirit that takes the shape of an animal. Which explains the bat lounging on our boom. Kais tells the bat will obey his commands and the will also be able to see through his eyes and hear through his ears. I reckon it's somewhat similar to my wildshaping abilities where I gain all the senses of the animal I turn into. Though Kais just connects telepathically with the bat, his own body will still be his own Elven self. After a little while Kais and his bat tells us that the waters are clear for as far as the bat could fly.
At the back of te boat Bree is starting to look more and more distressed. Suddenly she starts speaking in tongues. Audibly none of the irregulars is able to understand any of what she says, but Bree is panicking more by the second. Through Rumpadump it becomes clear that she is screaming for help and it requires all of Autun's strength to hold her down and calm her. In the process Autun notices that Bree's shoulder that has been burnt by the angry dragon back in Gracklestugh now has scales instead of skin
When Autun finally has calmed Bree down enough that she regains her composure she starts telling us what is going on. Apparently her patron was rather unhappy about us upsetting a dragon eventually resulting in his demise and decided to punish Bree for her part in this. Her patron turned Bree in part halfling part dragonkind sorcerer. I wonder, would that make her a quarterling then?
"I don't need any of this anymore!" shouts Bree as she starts doffing her armour and undressing herself. It shows that nog only her shoulder but about half her body is covered with dragon scales. I also note that she is wearing some pretty underthings that look suspiciously like what Urmedara was wearing during our last night in Gracklestugh (well at least she started the evening wearing those things...).
"Hey, did you steal that from my girlfriend!?" I call her out. Kais intervenes and says that Bree probably bought herself some nice things in the market. Jimjar again is puzzled and mutters something about 'girlfriends doing girlthings'. He clearly has no clue about love and a girl's needs.
Meanwhile Bree has covered up and it's suggested that I put my skills to use making some leather armour for Rumpadump, giving the little Myconid a little more protection from the dangers we're bound to encounter. It'll also give me something to do, Shooshar reckons that it will take us about 3 tendays to get to the city of the Deep Gnomes.
As night falls we set up watches and get ourselves as comfortable as we can for the night. When I wake up I notice that the sail has been deployed. Bree tells that she woke up Shooshar to help with that Earlier in the night, as the wind picked up. I spend some more time fitting Rumpadump his armour while Autun tries his luck at fishing. But the only thing he catches is some seaweeds, or more like lake weeds actually, that Shooshar calls dazbood weeds.
To Be Continued, It's a long write and I like to put in some time and effort...
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