Session 10: A New Arrival Report

General Summary

The party quickly engages with the hive of dire rats, and after a brief combat, with Eleanor throwing her greataxe cassandra into the water below, and Ayame taking a bite to her hear, and Ragia one to the hand, the party vanquishes the ankle biters with little fanfare.
Naomi passes around and heals everyones wounds, but overall, everyone looks fine, save for Ayame.
The party chatters idly back and forth about the merits of using healing when the party is, on the majority, doing fine. They notice that the majority of the rodents fell in the water below, and decide to make their way down to collect their prize from the mayor.
Upon reaching the ground, the party finds at the bottom an unusual face, tying off their horses to the building on the ground.
The face belongs to that of a warrior, wearing silverly breastplate adorned with jagged swirls and sharp spikes. Her skills with a rope are obvious as she skillfully wraps it around the post for the building with little more than a yawn and a sharp pull. She lazilly kicks a bucket of feed to her animals and pulls out her flask, taking a swig before realizing that its empty. Her horse is a light fare chestnut brown with a normal saddle, attached to a chariot with red and gold trim that grossly clashes with her armor.
Naomi approahces the newcomer. "Uh, pardon us but have you seen any DEAD RATS falling from the sky lately? We're looking for their bodies."
With the sudden approaching party, the stranger, whols short, curly ginger hair bounces as she drops her flask and reaches her hands to her sides, she quickly eyes the party while grasping onto a beatifully crafted chain of spiked steel, and her left has a light war pick. "Ahh... You are... not who I was expecting." She says before steeling a glance at her Chariot warilly.
Ayame nods, smiling to the newcomer. "No need for your weapons, we are simply here to chase after some things we dropped from the tree."
Naomi takes a step away from the sudden aggressiveness of the newcomer, muttering, "Shees misss, I was just askin' a question is all."
Eleanor, distracted the entire way down the tree shakes her head free of her distracting thoughts, looking at the new distracting person before her. "Oh, not an elf... You haven't seen a few rat carcasses rain down here have ya?"
"Oh, yes. They seem to be all around. I'm sure that my friend is somewhere around, munching on one." she says with a nod.
Naomi walks up to the newcomer to talk to her better. "Uhm, Miss...What's your name by the way?"
During this time, Ragia flies up and floats down, trying to land on the newcomers shoulders. "Do you need help with something? I'm sure we can help you so you can help us. Did you say you had a friend munching on those rats?"
The newcomer whips her head around, glaring into Ragia's eyes, waving her pick to try and frighten off the flying kobold, to no effect as she lands on her shoulders.
"Eh, most people don't like it when you float around their heads Ragia." Ayame says with a sigh.
"Uh, Miss?" Naomi prods to the newcomer again.
"You all need to back OFF!" she shouts, clearly unhappy with how quickly people are grouping around her, trying to pry Ragia off of her.
Seeing the situation is spiraling out of control, Naomi casts Enthrall, and the newcomers demeanor changes very quickly at recognizing a friend among them. "Woah woah Miss. Calm down, we met earlier today...Remember?"
"Whoah... I Uh..." the newcomer says, scratching her head lightly with her pick. "Sorry.. I Just finished my flaask.. It's really been a tough day."
"Uh, hey how do you spell your name again? In full? Asking for no reason." Naomi says, choosing her words carefully to not agitate the newcomer again.
"In common or sign?"
"Im a dumb dumb, I can't speak sign."
Ignoring Naomi's comment, the newcomer starts signing her name to the cleric. "My full name?" she says questioningly to Naomi.
Naomi just sees her doing wierd stuff with her hands but gulps. "Y-yknow, Id like to hear your name, how about that?"
"Don't worry, you can just call me Lacy. Full names are for people who cling onto past" Lacy says with a smile, beore noticing that the rat corpses have washed ashore, but her gaze quickly turns to the rest of the party with a squint, distrustful of Naomi's allies.
Eleanor tilts her head, "wh-...friendly now?" she says squinting at lacy and pointing up and down, "What was that thing you did with your hands?" she mutters.
"Lacy, I have something to tell you...I havent been a good friend." Naomi says with a sigh. "I casted a spell on you to get you to calm down...I'm sorry..." she goes and grabs Lacy's two hands and pleads to her "Please dont get mad, I just wanted to talk."
"I... Thought I felt different." Lacy says, her gaze darting back to Naomi as her hands are grabbed.
"I'm sorry Miss Lacy, you just looked like you were about ready to slam my Kobold friend into the dirt..." Naomi says with a sigh and the shake of her head.
Lacy is only hesitantly holding Naomi's hands, but she chuckles slightly. "Still am. I'm all ears."
HEaring this, Ragia takes a cautious step away from Lacy.
Naomi eeps and lets go of Lacy's hands. "U-uh, I think we started off on the wrong foot. I'm Nahemah Dai'Gishkin. That's Ayame, Eleanor and Ragia. We need to gather up the rat corpses that we just killed. They were harming the tree in which these Elves live."
Eleanor lifts her hand up in a sort of wave like gesture, heading towards the ocean, "Well on that... strage note, im going fishing for rats and Cassandr-" she pauses, looking into her cloak, "Okay just going fishing for rats."
"Right... well, I'll help you out. Keep your friends away from me and my cart though" Lacy says, immediately heading for the chariot and pulling out a net. Her tarantula scutters off her masters bracer, down the cart and into the grass while she closes it back up.
"E-Eh? A pet spider?" Naomi says, looking to the creature.
"My Friend." Lacy grunts, not looking to Violet, but she tosses the net towards Eleanor.
Eleanor catches it, "Bel'lados." she half mindedly says in response. "Though I don't think the critters are swimmin anymore"
"Either way I expect it folded when you give it back to me." Lacy says with a smile.
Naomi smiles, and sweetly sing songs to Lacy, "Thanks for helping~"
"I see," says Eleanor, setting down the net, deciding she doesn't want to use it. She does spot the pile of rats sitting on the shoreline, all ten of them, and looks back to the group. "We wanted the teeth right?"
Ayame nods to Eleanor, "Yup! All of them!"
Lacy chuckles to Naomi. "Its no problem, I was just heading down the coast to catch my next mark... Glad to bump into you."
"Mark? Are you a bounty hunter?~" Ayame asks, her tail swishing in curiosity.
Eleanor starts grabbing teeth from the rats, with Ragia getting those that were still out in the water back to shore. Meanwhile, Lacy teases Ayame by having Twine, her tarantula climb up her without her noticing. before both Ayame and Naomi freaks out, Ayame panicking by jumping into the water, Naomi running to the other side of the tree.
After some more general conversation, the teeth are all collected, with Eleanor holding up the bag. There, we're all good for payday"
Naomi smiles. "Mmm... Let's get going, it's getting smelly now with the corpses."
At that point, the party is approached by one of the elves in dirty garments, their hood covering their head, even in the warmer weather today. "Excuse me." he says to the party in a loud whisper. Ayame looks to the man, nearly singing "Yes?" as a response. The man approaches Ayame, and converses in the robed ones whispering tone. "The wardens have a proposition for you, but also wishes to thank you for the scroll this morning." he says, nodding to Naomi.
Naomi smiles back to the man while he continues his conversation. "Usually, the darkness of the world congregates around those who are not native to Vitium, and we would like to ask that you leave this city before midnight tonight."
Ayame pouts at the request, "And in return?"
"Uhh... well..." he scratches at the front of his robe before looking to Lacy. "We... we can offer you t...ten gold a head to leave our hamlet today. If... if you drive them of course."
"I'm not exactly sure what this guy means..." Lacy says to Naomi.
Eleanor holds up the bag of teeth, "Can I take this to the mayor first? He hired us for a job. I don't got no other reason to stick around here anyways, pretty sure we were headin out as soon as we got rest." she says looking back to the group.
"I uhh... Uhhh.. I mean, we don't have any easy transport out of town, and we could use help getting them out, so we can offer ahh... well.." The elf says, while doing a quick count of the party in attendence. "We... Don't quite have enough to ask all six of you to go on there, but we have fifty gold."
"Wait..." says Naomi. "Are you paying us to leave town?"
"I don't know." says Lacy, "that doesn't seem like enough."
Ayame groans loudly, looking to Naomi. "Ohmygods yes he is, he is offering to pay our new friend here to drive us out of town on her carriage thingy."
"Its all we have, I swear. The tree is at such a critical junction at its life tomorrow that we can't afford any risk to its protection, especially with the small party tomorrow, Wolle says that you are more likely to cause harm than good by being here."
"What's the matter? There's miles between towns here. You want me to Move my chariot through Hills in the dark?" Lacy says in a condesending manner to the elf, who looks flustered by the notion.
"I... umm... I'm sorry. Ill... Ill leave you alone." he says, moving away from the party and towards the roots of the tree.
Ayame groans, rubbing her forehead in frustration.
"Gonna give up on your town so easily?!" Lacy calls after the elf. "COWARD!" She calls after him.
"Best we clear this up with the mayor, he'll probably have a better way with words to explain." Ragia says, fluttering in the air.
Eleanor scratches her head. "That was... a weird interaction..." she says looking back to her group, "Right?"
After a small back and forth about the strangeness of the request, the party decides to turn in the teeth to the mayor, and head north.

Rewards Granted

10 Dire Rat teeth collected.

Character(s) interacted with

@lacy

Notes

Ayame Shiori now has a scar on her ear from a dire rat bite.
Ragia Raflesia now has a scar in the palm of her right hand from a dire rat bite.