Players Present:  Seraphina, Kilgore, Elgard, Nor, Kanye, and Galliard

Players Missing:  Zyldi, Rahn, amd Kulu

Day 5 Traveling through the Jungles of Chult

Wet and bedraggled, the party listen to the shrieking of the two pterafolk that escaped in the battle. They know that will not bode well for them in the future. Taking a short rest, they being to make their way through the jungle once more, but taking no more than a few steps, they hear a gnashing and snarling coming their way.

Encounter Highlights – 4 Ghouls who are then joined by 4 pterafolks

• Galliard blinds ghouls with fireworks
• Elgard does not want to be distracted from his reading and misses badly with a fireball
• At a later time, Elgard blows away 3 ghouls out of annoyance.  He then steps into the fray, still reading.
• Kilgore is grabbed by a pterafolk and brought 20ft into the air.
• Nor throws a grappling hook at the pterafolk and it grabs onto to the creature just below the wing
• Kanye jumps up and grabs the foot of Kilgore so that they are all now floating in the air.  Kilgore is not torn in half.
• Galliard throws holy water killing the last ghoul.  “Bad undead are bad. But there are good undead.” – Galliard
• 3 pterafolk run away
• Kilgore does not let the pterafolk that grabbed him flee.  He has Kanye launch him onto the creature and stabs it in the eye, killing it.  Vengeance was had.

The crew debates how they will travel through this jungle with the pterafolk continuing to decend.  This is when Q’washa decides to reveal that he is able to stealth them for 3 hrs a day with the spell Without a Trace.

They travel safely until evening.  While they are at camp, they are visited by a Chwinga.  This little creature takes interest in Elgard’s book, climbs in his lap, and reads with him.  Galliard and Nor are jealous. Seraphina tries to get a Chwinga’s attention with her pendant.  None are successful. The Chwinga blesses Elgard with 3 Dark Vision spells.

Day 6

The next morning, the group is able to see a tall stone spire with fire shooting from the top – Firefinger Spire. They also awake to learn they have a new companion in the group.

During the night, Galliard completed his new clockwork skeleton.  After extensive questioning, the group votes on the companion staying.  The skeleton is voted into the group – 3 votes yes, Kilgore votes no, Seraphina abstains.  Dragle is the new companion of the team.

The day of traveling is safe.

That night, the party plans an attack on Firefinger.  They will approach the tower at night as a group, and make their way up the ladder in pairs.  Azaka will come with, but Q’washa will stay behind with the dinos.

Before the party goes to sleep, they question Azaka more about her mask.  She reveals that it is important to her as it belonged to her mother.  The mask was stolen from Azaka by the pterafolk when she let her guard down one evening.  The mask allows the one who wears it to befriend animals.

Day 7

They approach the tower at night.  Kanye carries Kilgore up the ladder with him to allow Kilgore to attack with spells if needed.  They make it safely up, but they break several rungs of the ladder along the way. Ropes are needed for the subsequent climbs.  All of the party make their way up to the first level of the spire safely.

In the middle of this cavernous first level is a pit.  Within the pit, they encounter 4 spiders. They dispatch the spiders quickly…but with quite a literal boom.  In trying to be helpful, Galliard cast Thunderwave into the pit with the spiders.  However, this sends a 300ft boom out into the night, and shakes the whole tower. The party can only hope this does not alert the pterafolk.  It is slightly drizzling outside, and Galliard also casts Prestidigitation to create thunder like noise away from the spire in hopes to make it seem like it is simply a storm.  Success of this endeavor is still unknown.

They climb to the second level of the spire.

The below is written from the notes of the esteemed DM.

Day 3

As the day begins, the sound of a T-Rex roar can be heard far in the distance to the south (foreshadowing?).  They travel through the jungle without too much difficulty that day, but that evening brings yet another undead encounter.

ENCOUNTER – 3 zombies and an Ogre zombie

• Zyldi entangles 2 zombies
• Seraphina does some good smiting
• Kulu hits the ogre in the brain with her rapier
• Kanye is able to finally kill the Ogre Zombie by breaking it in half with his warhammer
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Day 4

The party encounters a blue mist. They identify it as Mad Monkey Mist, which will give you Mad Monkey Fever if you enter it. They wait for the mist to roll by, and use some magic wind to ensure it stay away.  A horde of curious baboons surrounds the party from the treetops. Kanye takes a full 10 minutes to cast his “Speak with animals” spell while the rest of the party pacifies the baboons with food.

Kanye speaks to them and learns that they want food. Like a ton of food.  He convinces the baboons that there is a whole lot of food back further down the trail. They run toward Kanye’s lies.

Day 5

The party comes to the river crossing that Azaka had mentioned.  The river is 75ft across and the water is 4ft deep and very swift.  However, there is another crossing that is 40ft across, narrower, more shallow, and not as fast.  They choose this crossing. After all, no one wants throat leeches.

Elgard Alters Self and gives himself gills and fins. He swims easily across the river, bringing some rope with him to tie onto a tree on the opposite bank. Party now has a rope to hold onto as they cross.

Zyldi and Kulu cross without incident.  As Galliard, Kanye, and Qawasha are crossing, 5 Pterafolk come over the treetops and begin an assault from the air.

ENCOUNTER – 5 Pterafolk

• Galliard creates a smokescreen over their group to make them harder to hit
• Azaka is a badass and starts shooting with her longbow. Unfortunately, DM rolls much better for enemies than he does for friendly NPCs
• Group is able to kill one of them before they do much damage
• Azaka gets hit squarely with a Pterafolk Javelin but doesn’t seem to be hurt by it
• Seraphina glows brightly, sprouts wings, and leaps into the air to do aerial battle with them. It is majestic
• Galliard creates a Leopluridon with Phantasmal Force and grabs one of them
• Seraphina fells another pterafolk
• The remaining Pterafolk escape the magical leopluridon and flee over the treetops

The remainder of the party make it to the other side of the river.  There they rest to recover from the battle.

The party has successfully defeated the undead who made their way into the Chult city proper.  Upon examination, they see that there are upside-down blue triangles on their foreheads – this is the mark of Ras Nsi’s evil undead army.  Ras Nsi was a paladin who betrayed his oath and used a skeleton army to destroy the land. Super great guy.

The next day, they prepare to head into the jungle.  Azaka is able to lead them to Firefinger with perfect precision.  She offers the party a choice.

1) week to Firefinger via the river OR 2) 16 days around the river through Grung territory (pesky, poisonous, evil frog men)

After expressing an extreme amount of dissatifaction at Azaka for even assuming that they would choose option 2, they decide on the 1 week route.

Day 1 through the jungles of Chult — Uneventful

Day 2

The party gathers fruit as they travel.  Maracuya is a fruit native to the jungles of Chult (Fun fact: Maracuya is an alternate name for Passion Fruit).  If it is wrinkly, it is safe to eat. If it is not wrinkly, it is deadly.  The juice can be used as poison.

They happen upon a herd of brontosaurus.  Kanye is able to have a very pleasant conversation with one of the grazing dinos.  They helpfully tell him that there are monsters in the jungle. Speaking of monsters…

ENCOUNTER – 20 zombies approach

• Honestly, took very few notes on this battle.  Suffice to say, everything was killed.

After dispatching the zombies, the journey through the jungle is uneventful for the rest of the day.  They find a cave and rest for a night. In this cave, they find the body of a dead Tabaxi and rhino. Out of respect for the dead the party bury the body.

Around the campfire, there are some rather heated discussions surrounding whether or not Bill and Clarice should be allowed to sleep in the cave.  Is Clarice really tame? Bill farts a lot…etc.

During this discussions, Galliard has dug up the Tabaxi corpse, reanimated it, and disguised it to look like Elgard.  He proudly shows it to the group.

It is disgusting.  And everyone hates it.  No one hates it more than Elgard, who, without much delay, casts a Level 2 Chromatic Orb spell and blasts that Tabaxi body into ash.  So much for respect for the dead.

This causes a much needed discussion about voting companions in the group.  A vote is held immediately.

• Bill the Triceratops AYE
• Clarice the Raptor AYE
• Zombie Companion NAY

Also, Kilgore’s name is Allison…but no one cares because she figures out that GALLIARD WAS DISGUISED AS ELGARD FOR THEIR ENTIRE BOAT JOURNEY. WHAT. THE. HECK.