Featherwish's Wish

9th of Rimefall.
Twenty-one days away from the Rite of Passage.
 
I see that Roland Featherwish, the local teacher, has posted for someone to help him with a class experiment on the help-wanted board. Of course, I want to help him with the children's education, so I head on over to the school-house. There I meet some lovely new friends!
 
Cass, who comes off as somewhat of an enigma, talks little, but seems to have a big heart.
Silas, an older gentleman, seems to like teeth a whole lot.
Jack Morning, a local shopowner and leatherworker, who has a family here in town he seems to love more than anything.
 
We walk into the schoolhouse and meet Featherwish. He is a firbolg with bad eyesight. He asks us to gather some Kulin eggs, some sort of small dinosaur, to run an experiment on. Raising them, seeing how they grow.
We agree, and we all walk south, chatting about this and that. Cass shows off her survival skills, spotting the Kulin's footprints faster than a cat on a mouse. She also has a way with animals like I ain't ever seen before. All things said and done, we don't hurt any Kulins and we gather five eggs.
 
That is, of course, until I hear something ring out and am blinded with pain as a bullet hits my shoulder. We were ambushed!
We fight them off, me using Star!Piercer!!! (So glad I finally got to pull her out, even if it was in such a bad situation!)
After the fight, we learn these men were out here on some strange, handwritten bounty order. We sure couldn't make heads or tails of it, at least I couldn't. We brought them back to the Sheriff, and he told us he'd be questioning them the next day. I offered my assistance, if he needed it, and we went on our way back to Featherwish. We had a lovely conversation, learned about fire elementals (Cass knows quite a bit!), ate, drank the night away, and of course, met Morning's lovely wife, Amanduh. (I think that's how you'd spell it. He said it with quite the pronounced "duh" at the end.) She's mute, so I had the pleasant surprise of being able to practice my hand speech with her, Featherwish, and Morning. Quite the eventful and lovely day, I must say!
 
Signing off