- Near the end of first watch (Renalla staring at Rusty and asking him random questions here and there and Rusty staring at Renalla with Sunny actually doing a good job keeping watch), Sunny hears a soft bang like something fell over near the edge of camp where most people had stacked their gear.
- Sunny quietly tiptoes over to where she heard the noise and one of the bags in the stack has an animal's back half sticking out of it as the animal is scrounging around in their supplies
- They dart in grab the creature and the bag goes flying and it's a scrawny-looking cat thing (dwarf tabaxi, Kip-sized) which then says "Hey, lemmee go! Lemmee go! Reowr!" Sunny starts petting it, but it doesn't stop trying to scrabble its way out of their arms
- Renalla comes over and starts trying to talk to the cat and turns into a cat type skeleton and they have a conversation about how this creature is a scavenger who sells stuff with Sunny scritching it the entire time
- He shows the party his bag full of trash and then says the bug things took his friend Rico.
- He tells them Rico was taken slightly north of west.
- His name is Maxidor.
- Renalla buys a feather (hawk?) off of him which she sticks in her floaty hair.
- Renalla points him in the direction of the caravan they didn't manage to save so he can get some food from it
- Rusty hears in his head in Theophania's voice, "Testing? Rusty can you hear me? You’re possibly in the desert west of the Hopeless Highlands. Raiàn’s people are there. Long journey home on foot."
- He responds, "Am in desert. May recognize mountains. Weird spooky bugs. Have found trustyworthy-ish companions. Some dragonborns. Will ask about Raiàn. Still good so far?"
- First thing in the morning, Rusty answers Renalla's questions rapid fire with no regard to the questions, "Define awake? Sure, if it makes you happy. Yeah. In the morning. I get that a lot."
- Renalla is somewhat confused by this. "What do you mean, if it makes me happy?" Explanations are provided.
- Rusty then immediately asks Renalla about the "whole skeleton thing" and the answer is that she died. She does not know anything about the undead invasion in Mistverge.
- Rusty brings up Raiàn over breakfast. Sunny explains about her cousin.
- They head off into the desert and find a rocky curvy path to follow.
- After about a half a day of walking they find the remains of another caravan. It looks like the stuff was just ripped apart and spread around on the ground. There are cracked open barrels and smashed crates all around.
- Renalla sniffs one of the barrels and determines that it used to hold a really nice wine.
- The remains of the cargo seems like it was maybe slightly nicer than the things the caravan whose attack they witnessed.
- As they are investigating a chittering sound starts in the rocks around them and everyone pulls weapons and then half the people realize that it's words in Infernal, "Yesss, new meat." Then four bug creatures descend upon the group.
RUINED CARAVAN BATTLE
- Sunny speaks to the bugs in Infernal saying that they don't want to have to kill them, but the bug things ignore her. She then moves a little to the west and then breaths lightning on one Trident Bug (TB1) and one Claw Bug (CB1) for 11 (5) lightning dmg and then she throws a dagger at TB1 for 10 (5) piercing dmg. Then she moves forward to TB1 and punches it for 8 bludgeoning dmg then again for 5 bludgeoning dmg.
- TB1 pokes Sunny with its trident for 7 piercing dmg then misses with its claws
- Renalla Druidshapes into a skeletal scorpion (yesm we know they have exoskeletons instead of bones, but deal with it), skitters over to TB2 and CB2, her claws miss TB2 and then she claws and grapples CB2 and stabs it with her stinger
- CB1 skitters on its tripod legs starts running towards the southeast a bit then runs through the middle of Rusty, Lephith, and Kip, but Lephith and Kip dodge the whirling dervish arms. Rusty takes all 15 dmg
- Lephith runs over to help Kip flanking the CB1 with them then summons her corporeal shadow next to Kip then slices into CB1 for 8 slashing and 1 radiant dmg then again for another 8 and 6 radiant slashing dmg
- TB2 misses Renalla scorpion with the trident and then claws her for 14 slashing dmg
- Rusty Rages, runs over to flank TB1 with Sunny and then he misses twice
- CB2 claws Renalla scorpion for 16 slashing dmg and then again for 14 slashing dmg
- Kip casts Sacred Flame on CB1 for 13 radiant dmg
- Sunny punches TB1 four times for a total of XX bludgeoning dmg and then it is Stunned
- TB1 is Stunned and tells Sunny, "F-F-Fuck yyyou."
- Renalla rotates around CB2 moving away from TB2 who tridents her for 7 piercing dmg then she claws CB2 for 10 slashing and 1 cold dmg and its movement is 0 and has DisAdv on Str and Dex checks then misses with her stinger
- CB1 teleports away to the northeast
- Lephith sends her Shadows after TB2 runs towards it herself then Dashes to it and slices into it for 10 slashing and 4 radiant dmg then again for 11 slashing and 4 radiant dmg
- TB2 tridents Lephith for 12 piercing then claws them for 9 slashing dmg
- Rusty slices into TB1 for 32 (16) slashing dmg then again for so much TB1 is cleaved in half then he runs over to CB1 and misses it
- CB2 misses scorpion-Renalla then claws her for 13 slashing dmg and she is just Renalla again.
- Kip casts Catapult (2nd level) hitting TB2 for 27 bludgeoning dmg
- Sunny runs over to flank CB1 and then punches it
- Renalla casts Tidal Wave on CB2 and TB2 for some damage and TB2 is knocked prone
- CB1 misses Rusty then claws him for 8 (4) slashing dmg
- Lephith slices the head off of TB2 and then moves to flank CB2 with Renalla and slices into it for 7 radiant dmg and her sword heals her for 9 dmg
- Rusty slices into CB1 for 10 (5) slashing dmg and then again for 23 (12) slashing dmg and then again for 15 (7) slashing dmg
- CB2 teleports out of flanking to the southwest
- Kip casts Chaos bolt CB1 for 8 psychic dmg then they move a little closer to Renalla and Lephith
- Sunny punches CB1 for 6 bludgeoning dmg and again for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then again for DEATH!
- Renalla runs towards CB2 and then uses Frostbite on it which misses then she casts Grasping Vine and it is pulled 20' towards Lephith
- Lephith and her shadow runs over to CB2 and tackles it then asks Renalla if she wants Lephith to "make it talk"
- Rusty runs and Dashes towards CB2 and his Rage fades
- CB2 teleports to the northwest (Lephith, "Tiamat's Rainbow Tits!")
- Kip Catapults again for 20 bludgeoning dmg
- Sunny punches CB2 twice and then says she will kill it if he doesn't answer their questions and it just says "We will kill all of you" so she punches it twice more and says something about how it has to die then and it just responds "We are strong and all will fall."
- Renalla asks it, "Why do you want to kill us all?" Then she moves towards CB2 and then casts Thorn Whip for 10 piercing dmg and is pulled 10' towards her.
- Lephith moves herself and her shadow towards CB2 then Dashes around to its back and they shout to Rusty, "Metal Man, kill it!"
- Rusty moves in to flank with Lephith then misses ("I'm disappointed in you, Metal Man.) and then he slices into it for 6 (3) slashing dmg
- CB2 screams "Your flesh will build out empire!" then it whirling dervish attacks Lephith, Rusty, and Renalla and they all take 25 slashing dmg but Lephith manages to swing at it for 11 slashing and 5 radiant dmg and she kills it!
END OF BATTLE
- While poking around in the cart remains, Renalla finds a pouch containing 50 GP which proves the bug things didn't give a shit about money, but it does seem like most of the other raw materials have been taken.
- Sunny figures that this ambush was opportunist and not about them specifically.
- Renalla figures that the wreckage happened about a week ago while she's passing 10 GP to each of her companions.
- The group has a brief rest before following the trail farther for a few more hours
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