Weird dogs and tentacle ghosts

Before resting Cheerful seems to be communing with a random bird
After that as previously mentioned it's straight into a restful night's sleep
Then it's time for breakfast and it's still equally not filling X.x
Meanwhile Calry does morning stretches
 
While Calry takes off for some time, it's off to the barbed fields for us!
Surprisingly I guess Mort is our main guide with some help by Cheerful?
And seemingly there's some weird dog things around
Okay after some explanation by Heidan kind of weirdly aggressive wild dogs
Siv doesn't want to fight them, Thazz does though
And they're not even tasty according to Thazz and Heidan.....
In the end it comes down to a vote and we agree on taking the initiative with them
 
Then one of the dogs goes missing
And it's again a fight which ends before I could even react, darn
That was exactly like the frog fight with Heidan back then
 
Siv asks about my book
Seems interested about magical writings
So it Heidan btw.
Also Heidan hails from Nogvurot, that's super close to Rexxentrum
Port Sun/Tzun something for Mortimer
Siv is from north of Rexxentrum, way up north
Thazz comes from near Pride's Call
And Cheerful comes from a small village that was wiped out and grew up in Rosonah
After some day a hawk flies to Cheerful
Seems like there are dogs and two larger things ahead
Also those creatures have someone or something trapped
 
Heidan takes off for an aerial scouting
While we stick to travel by foot... well not like we had much of a choice
After some time Heidan is back
9 dogs, 2 ghosts
Seemingly barking orders in infernal
We immediately start making plans
The one that we settle on is me making a fake dust cloud with a spell and then us using it as cover
Meanwhile Heidan should fly around and cast the sleep spell on the dogs, which then is our turn to attack
Though as soon as we get to the ledge some of the dogs seem to start smelling us
 
The fight starts and our plan goes.... a little awry
The dogs start swarming us from behind which leads to Cheerful and me taking the brunt
Yeaaaah~~~
Meanwhile the ghosts aren't looking all that happy at us clobbering dogs
And it seems they can block divine magic stuff
Also I get to taunt a couple of dogs to protect Cheerful and they happily take the opportunity it seems
Aaaand of course the first spell-like thing I try using in the fight immediately gets negated by the ghost thingie
One gets away, the other one gets killed by us
Can you even talk about killing something with undead?
 
Cheerful tries taming one of the dog things
And gets Siv's net and my rope to tie it up
Meanwhile Heidan calls out that the hunted person can come out and we'll offer sanctuary