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One of the villagers sighs. "These are Jo-no trees. They rarely grow outside of caves." One of the villagers gets some seeds from the virtually gone tree. "These need good condition survive. The villager hands Amorith 3 seeds. These take time grow." 3X Jo-no Tree seed - harvests 1 potion, mead ,and Nostrum each quest.

QM Note: You're killing me man! You cut into the tree to see if there is anything that could be used. You find a gooey substance inside which can be used for Nostrum. From the core of the plant you collect 1 Elixir! You collect: 2X Nostrum - Causes the lucky-effect, allowing the target to roll the battle die twice and get the better result of the two for the duration of one battle. 1X Elixir – Restores 50 health and 10 ether to the target and removes all negative effects from the target during a battle. The plant is virtually gone and before you can do anything to the other plants like this, the villagers stop you. QM Note: Phew, I was getting scared there for a moment...

You try to contain more sap, but find that you cannot. You try to find other useful thing about the tree-ish plant and find a syrupy goo on parts of the branches. You find you can collect 3 vials of remedy! 3X Remedy – Removes all negative effects from the target during a battle. The map of the village for reference:

Note: It's one plant. It is a strange combination between a mushroom and a tree.

As Amorith digs under the tree, some villagers give him a strange look, then go back to their work. Amorith finds the roots of the plant, which are a yellowish brown color. He put some of the root in a vial to make a mead! Mead - Causes the encouraged-effect, doubling the target's attack power for the duration of one battle.

Thanks!

Amorith Marvelo heads to the Fields. There he finds a strange combination of a mushroom and a tree. It seemed to have a soft glow. Amorith sees some villagers working the crops.

Shots round 0: Contestant A Level 7 (you got lucky...) Drunkenness points: 0/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 0/13 Shots round 1: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- none Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 0/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 0/13 Shots round 2: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- none Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 1/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 0/13 Shots round 3: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 1/13 Shots round 4: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- none Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 1/13 Shots round 5: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- none Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 1/13 Shots round 6: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- -1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 1/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 7: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 1/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 3/13 Shots round 8: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 1/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 3/13 Shots round 9: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 4/13 Shots round 10: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 11: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 12: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 13: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 11: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 3/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 3/13 Shots round 12: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 2/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Shots round 13: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 3/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 3/13 Shots round 14: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- none Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 4/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 3/13 Shots round 15: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 5/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 1/13 Shots round 16: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- -1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 6/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 0/13 Shots round 10: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- none Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 6/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 1/13 Shots round 17: Lord Lawrence Boomingham- +1 Contestant A- +1 Contestant A Level 7 Drunkenness points: 7/7 Gambling: 10 coins Lord Lawrence Boomingham Level 13 Gambling: 10 coins Drunkenness points: 2/13 Contestant A falls backwards in their chair. Lord Lawrence Boomingham collects the 10 gold from his opponent. Lord Lawrence Boomingham (Played by Zepher) *Party Leader* Level 13 Knight Power: 22 Health: 22/22 Gold: 20 (20 Gold Debt to Sylph) Inventory: King of the Desert (WP: 9, Fire) equipped, Shaduex Shield (SP: 5), 2 Potions, Bedroll, 5 Bones, 3 Meads QM Note: Sorry I posted this and edited it. I kept going back and forth to roll the die and such and accidentally posted it before it was done.

Villager C draws a description of the "Snowy person":

Villager B: "No. Most of did not even see them." Villager C: "I've seen them. I go out and collect firewood. they go run around outside. I don't think anyone has seen one in close to close combat though."

A villager looks over at him. "Well what do you mean by "A growling sound"? Do you mean like a bunch of noise or a noise from some sort of beast like a dragon or such?" Another villager at the table joins the discussion. "There's always lots of noise at the mining area. They're always mining for gems and such."

Your fellow quest-mates would probably give you some of their money seeing as how you are the most likely to win, but your quest-mates must approve.

:laugh: He's from Avatar right?

Most of the gambling here is Shots Shots In shots, the hero bets money equal to the opponents. The point of the game is to get your opponent drunk before you. Each round, you either lose, gain, or keep your drunkenness points. You start out with 0 drunkenness points. Your max Drunkenness points is equal to your level rounded down. Each round, the dice is rolled for both contestants. If you roll a 1,2,or 3 you gain one Drunkenness point. If you roll a 4,or 5 you keep the number of Drunkenness points. If you roll a 6 you lose one Drunkenness point. The first to reach their max Drunkenness points loses and must forfeit their gambled money. The party looks around and finds some contestants: Contestant A Level 7-11 Gambling: Up to 15 gold Contestant B Level 6-12 Gambling: Up to 23 gold Contestant A Level 5-13 Gambling: Up to 38 gold

No, Finnegan is a blue spirit, this one is red. Just put it in there for fun.

Group 1 travels to the tavern. QM Note: There are more NPCs here then are shown. Would group 1 want to try to gamble or talk to villagers?

Alf will attack Criminal Swashbuckler A from the Front row! "Nur, you should attack meanie whip man. You seem more lucky!"

Zike looks down and shakes his head. "Please don't call me that." He looks up and points to the Maw-Hax house. Boomingham heads over to the mine. He can hear banging and crushing of rock from inside the tunnel. The tunnel is rarely lit, but he can make it out. What will Boomingham do? What will the rest of the party do?

Lord Lawrence Boomingham walks over to the warehouse. Ahead of him looms a wall built into the cave. After entering, Boomingham realizes it is too hard to see. There is only one candle attached to the wall. He can make out some crates and barrels around him. Boomingham leaves and returns to the party.

Should I make a Democratic Party leader? As in it will be majority rules? After all, I would like to get this quest done before I get back to a busy schedule. You are already in the market.

The party is temporarily excused from the meeting (You can go back if you want) and heads over to Zike's market. Zike leave the meeting also and heads to his shop. The party enters the shop and looks at the wares. Wares: Venom – Use on a weapon to make it cause a poisoned-effect on any enemy it hits for the duration of one battle. A poisoned enemy loses 1 health each turn. Costs 7 gold. Phoenix Essence – Revives a fallen ally with full health during a battle. Costs 65 gold. Potion – Restores 10 health to the target. Costs 7 gold. Remedy – Removes all negative effects from the target during a battle. Costs 15 gold. Tonic – Restores 5 ether to the target. Costs 20 gold. Elixir – Restores 50 health and 10 ether to the target and removes all negative effects from the target during a battle. Costs 50 gold. Bedroll – Allows the hero to rest and regain health in a safe place. Costs 3 gold. Fire Amulet - Adds good effects of a ruby to each attack. Costs 100 gold. Note: The party may be able to gain more money in other areas of the village.

The group travels to the Maw-Hax house and settles there. Once the group is settled, the meeting begins. "We have had some problems this winter. We had three crates of gems from that mine over yonder. We were gonna be sending them over Eubric just about now but about 3 weeks ago we had some problems." "We had some reports of, to quote some villagers, "snowy people". About an hour later we started hearing moaning noises. We disbanded from the command post outside the village." "First thing that happened when we returned was the crates were gone. Second, Johonns did not show." Jeff take out a map of the outside area that has the checked areas from each scout. Shash checked the south-west trail, Johonns checked the unknown trail, Heinike checked the north-west trail, and Jeff checked the north-est trail. "Any questions?" What will the party do now?

The party waits until they draw near to the ports of Draida bay. By now, the water is partly frozen. The party docks the ship and gets out. After following Heinike for some time, they finally meet the mouth of a cave. After Heininke calls for the meeting, the scouts and Heinike's family walk out of the cave. The NPCs: -Chief Gut (Elven)- Leader of village -Zike (Elven)- Son of Chief Gut, Owner of Zike's Market (shop) -Heinike (Elven)- Son of Chief Gut, Leader Scout, Messenger to Heroica Hall -Jeff (Human)- 2nd in command -Shash (Elven)- Scout -Johonns (Elven)- scout (lost) -Kellie (Elven)- Daughter of Chief Gut The map of the cave village: Will the party participate in the meeting first, or explore the village?

Does the party wish to arrive at the ports near Draida Bay?

Alf takes the mead and sneers at thanks Nur. Note: My health should have already been full, the Barbarian trait (after avery battle, the hero gains health equal to their level) so Ellaria Arbour should not have needed to use ether on me. Therefore, she should have 1 more ether. I wanted to point this out here, so that it would not get pushes aside in the Discussion forum.