Session 12: Let's count goats

General Summary

A Nice relaxing eveningin The Cup and Toad
Overnight Valen Moonshadow and Poppy Quickfoothad more vivid dreams
Poppy now has a deaper connection to her staff and is embracing nature.
In morning Whistlestick rushes to his cloak and pulls out a trolls hand mounted on a three foot rod.
It will grasp objects, or make a fist. commands, grabit, leggo, fist
Downstairs speak to Athel the innkeeper who poinnts out the Tavern notice board which has three interesting posts.
Clear the Goblin Lair
Deliver goods to Berwick's Farm
Circus/Carnival in the Whispeing Woods for a week
Boley is going to go scout out the mountain pass to the mines and try to find a way through to where her sister is being enslaved.
if she is not back in two days, something has happened.
The Order of the Freehearts decide to go deliver to the farm after learning it is owned by the father of the farmer they helped on their journey to Atwoodgraben
Athel the innkeeper escorted the group to the general store where the gnomish owner got scared but allowed the group to take his cart and deliver to the farm.
along the road to the farm from a distance what looks like a tree radiating a bright and fiery energy along the ground.
On closer inspection by Valen someone has taken the fallen leaves of the forest and arranged them around the base of a massive walnut tree so that the yellow ones are nearest to the trunk, then orange, then red, radiating out in a pattern to create the effect.
Continue to farm where the group meet Berick Dreeston Snr the old farmer and his dog.
He is struggling with a leg injury, but is warm and welcoming, even more so when he hears of the groups encounter with his son.
Berwick has a favour to ask, he is strugglling to round up his goats and wants to make sure he has them back in the stable and safe.
The group go and find the goats
Goat 1, trapped under an old cart arround back of stable
Goat 2, behind a rock in the paddock
whistlesticks shows of his keen athletical abilities and leaps through the air scooping up the goat.
Goat 3, bottom of a cliff, Valen manages to wrangle him and tie him up with some of poppys rope
Goat 4, top of clliff, Finn dives off scooping up the goat as he goes and finally ties him to the rope too
Goat 5, comes running down the hill out of the trees chased by an enourmous "dog" and an old man in some equally old armour
Jonah is a veteren of at least 140 years of age
doesnt trust the group
exchanges bolt shots between the legs
Poppy Quickfootis particularly rubbed up the wrong way by this guy
come to an understanding where Jonah takes the goats back to his friends farm and lets The Order of the Freeheart continue the hunt up the hill to find the last goat
on an outcrop, see a cave
covered in arrow
blood smeared on the floor
sneak up to the entrance
when they try to investigate further Goat 6 bolts out
Followed by an Owlbear
The group have a torrid battle with the beast
Poppy discovers she can turn into animal form and does so as a Dire Wolf
the transformation is missed by the party as it has happened in the bshes
the group kite the owlbear around the rocks
Owlbear damages Poppy so much she returns to her human form
Valen is rendered unconcious after a bassive blow from the OwlBears claws
Finn takes a running leap off of some rocks and weilding his great axe with all his might decapatetes the wreched animal.
Stabalise Valen
take the head and an arrow and head back to the farm.