Session1

Lysday, 5th of Harvestide 3034
We have been on the road with the caravan of Jerak Stonehand after arranging to travel with him from Iron Watch to Hilltown for three days now, leaving the caravanasi the morning of 3 Harvesttide 3034.
 
Two of the warriors of the caravan, Grakka, a dragonborn with green scales, and Lyra Swiftfoot, a human woman, return to camp with a diseased wild dog, that they call a hyena that Lyra shot. The dog is clearly not pure enough to eat, so the decision is made to dispose of it. I try to convince Lyra to perform the ceremony of Release for the dogs spirit, but she does not follow the Great Spirit and refuses, so I bring the dog away from the camp and release its spirit back to the Council Fire of the Great Spirit.
 
Later that night, I decide to speak with Lyra, as she reminds me of my stolen sister, Songbird that Sings at Dusk, to find out why she has not yet been Bride-stolen and bred as she is a good hunter, and is fit and healthy, as well as having a talent for carving. She thinks I am trying to judge if she is worthy of being Bride-stolen by me, and while I think she is worthy, I can not spend my time stealing a bride when my sister has been taken by the strangers.
 
Belsday, 6th of Harvestide 3034
We wake to an overcast sky. The rain from yesterday has stopped and we continue on our journey. It was requested by the cook, Milo Hearthwick that I Big Little Man, Volu and Zodak go out hunting to bring in some food for the caravan. I ask them if they are skilled hunters and they all say they are, but after a short time in the woods it is clear they are like children chasing fireflies. We started hunting in a small stand of wood and soon Zodak spotted a piece of cloth in some brush. Zodak thought the cloth looked similar to thge clothing I wear and called me over to examine it. I immediately recognized the cloth as being stitched by Songbird that Sings at Night for I knew my sister’s stitching pattern. I called and end to the hunt and said we needed to get back to the caravan and immediately continue my pursuit of my sister's captures, but before we could leave the stand of woods, a pack of hyenas attacked. During the battle Zodak was bitten by a diseased dog on his shield arm and while he was able to stop the bleeding, the evil spirit of the dog had infected his arm. Big Little Man tried to take a fang from one of the hyenas, but I recognized that the evil spirits of the hyenas infected everything and prevented him from taking it. Little Big Man did not like that, but he accepted it.
 
We made it back to camp and I urgently asked the caravan leader, Jerek, to pick up the pace in order to catch up with my sister's captures. He was worried that the horses would tire. I told him that if the caravan could not pick up pace, that I would leave it in the morning to pursue his sister‘s abductor on his own. The caravan leader agreed to think about it and give a decision in the morning.
 
That evening, as we were finishing our meal, I spoke again with Lyra, to reassure her that I do not have time for Bride-stealing right now. Later that night, as we went off to sleep, Kael Stonefist, one of the caravan guards approached me and asked me to stop speaking with Lyra. I couldn’t understand why Kael would have any say over who he or Lyra spoke with and so I was very confused. Kael walked away saying that if I knew what was best I would stop talking to her that confused me even more, but Zodak told me he was being a bully, which was a word that I am not sure I know. These people are all strange to me.
 
After sleeping for a while I was woken up by the thrashing of Zodak in his bedroll. I immediately recognized that the evil spirit of the hyena had infected Zodak. I was concerned that the evil spirit would win in this wrestling match he had with Zodak's spirit and he was prepared to help Zodak's spirit rejoin the Great Spirit in the sky, least the evil spirit win and condemn Zodak to pain and misery. As I was holding Zodak down, prepared to set his Spirit free if needed, Big little Man threw a bucket of water on us, but that did not seem to stir Zodak out of his struggles. Creek asked Big Little Man to bring some fire to see if the evil spirit could be burned out of Zodak, but before the fire could be applied Zodak woke up and assured me that the evil spirit had not yet won, but it was clear of the evil spirit was consuming him and something needed to be done. Volu said that he had received a message from his spirit guide that the evil spirit needed to be cut out of Zodak so Big Little Man pulled his sword and was prepared to hack off the arm, insisting that he knew surgery and could do surgery, but when we spoke to him and said he should use a knife rather than a sword, he said it was just a test to make sure we were paying attention and then he pulled out a knife and began to cut away the evil spirit that had infected Zodak's arm. Thankfully that seems to have worked, although Zodak will carry a scar for life and will need to nurse his arm for some time.
 
Not long after that the outriders returned, saying that a band of gnolls was quickly approaching, and they had found evidence that they had sacked a caravan down the road from us. Creek was immediately concerned that it was the caravan that his sister was in, but realizing that he could not do anything to help that caravan at this point, he decided to stay and defend this caravan.
 
The gnolls attacked rushing forward with spears, and firing arrows at our encircled wagons. Both Big Little Man and Zodak went down under the gnolls attack. Volu used his magic with great effect and I shot several with my bow, before drawing the elven blades my father had given me and standing next to Kael to finish off the last two of the gnolls.
 
Thankfully, no one else was harmed seriously, and both Zodak and Big Little Man will recover.
 
Creek is encouraged that assigned from his sister has been found as he has not seen anything or heard anything in three days since leaving the town now he has all the more urgency to get to the side of the other Noel attack on the caravan and see if you can find any further sign of a sister he knows she still must live. He feels it in his heart in his spirit the Noel attack if it was the caravan that kidnapped Songbird as a silver lining, as it would’ve slowed them down and on foot now we can catch them!