The group rest surprisingly uneventfully.
Kyrander looked slightly less pale over breakfast as they ate thanks to the
cleric's healing skills and potent spells.
The group decided to ride south back towards where they found the salmon carcass at the shallow river crossing and then turned south east into an area of hills and large rocky
outcrops. Otto and Natalia were taking notes on the landscapes in their kingdom and concluded that whilst building farmland for their kingdom's expansion in the north had been an easy and inexpensive affair, trying to capitalise on the rich land and fertile soil to the east and south-east of their capital would be more difficult and more costly due to the more rugged and varied landscape that they were encountering.
As the group ride across the region exploring and mapping, they begin to hear a female
voice shouting in the wind. After a little searching the group finds an
attractive woman whom appears to be stuck upon an rocky outcrop asking for
assistance due to a nasty fall that has severely injured her.
Kyrander, Otto and Natalia dismount and climb up the rocks whilst Miro and
Vaneer look after the horses (whilst Vaneer would have been best able to assist and heal the wounds of an injured traveller, his climbing ability was utterly appalling and would have been far more likely to result in him breaking his own leg in the attempt). What the three climbers didn’t expect was that their
lady in distress was actually a magical beast which attempted to bite Otto as he
reached the top of his climb.
The leucrotta is an intelligent creature that has stags hooves, a lion's body and a badger's head and uses its mimicry to lure unsuspecting travellers into its clutches.
The leucrotta's bite hits, dealing a massive amount of damage that causes Otto to half fall and half jump off the outcropping, luckily he has a ring of feather falling which prevents further damage when he lands. Vaneer quickly heals the wounded sorcerer as he retaliates with a magic missile spell,
whilst Natalia and Kyrander both shoot at the creature with a volley of shots. The beast charges at Natalia and knocks her into a pile of rocks but further damage from Kyrander and the injured Natalia kills the
creature before it can kill her. Taking the ranger's hand, the druid manages to stand up and they both evaluate a nearby lair that contains some interesting finds.
Once Natalia and Kyrander had finished chucking down the loot atop the rocky crop
and successfully climbed down the outcropping the group came together for some more healing from Vaneer. Amongst the items recovered they identify a magnificently crafted blue dragonhide breastplate and matching blue dragonhide shield which fit Natalia perfectly!
Carrying on southwards, the party found a region of plains which contained numerous little holes and burrows which belonged to large prairie dogs. Travelling several miles south to the edge of their kingdom, the group then started heading west past a series of hills with vines and a waterfall and continue to encounter prairie dogs. The druid and ranger conclude that there must be an enormous system of tiny caverns passages below them belonging to the herbivorous burrowing creatures and that this may one of the largest systems in the world!
Continuing west the group find some empty rotting
wooden buildings, not far from a 't'-junction of rivers which run through gullies some eighty feet deep and forty to sixty feet in width. A small network of sturdy wooden bridges criss-cross where the 't' junction of gullies occur below. Finding no other signs of life, and no signs of danger the group sleep in the old wooden buildings.
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