04.10.2020 - Thunder - Turbo Tigers
General Summary
- Coty sees wide/large paw tracks with the wagon tracks
- We choose to follow the tracks
- We come to a rise, with smoke coming up behind it
- T hears someone practicing/tuning a string instrument
- Then a roar
- She informs the others
- The others start discussing becoming a circus
- T crits her stealth check, and goes ahead to check it out
- She finds a camp, with 5 wagons and several tigers (larger than normal)
- A few are chained, but most are roaming free
- The bard? starts playing a romantic? song on their violin
- Maybe 15 people
- The others insist on approaching them as if we're a circus
- The people at the campfire welcome us to join them by the fire
- S introduces us as Silas' Sacred Soothers(?)
- He rolls two 6's (when he has disadvantage)
- We others tries to be convincing, bl.a. by A casting fireball(bolt)
- The other group is clothed in flamboyant clothes with saturated colours, and the tigers have different scarves
- The main performer comments on our use of magic
- He doesn't seem malicious about it though
- "We are Vistani"
- He is Tristan the Bloody, Tristan Twoorb etc.
- "The jungle is filled with settlements. It is not as empty as people think"
- They insist we sit and talk. They might have a way to hurry our journey along.
- Tristan says one of the reasons he is called Tristan the Bloody is because he can't resist murder
- One of the albino tigers walk over to C (now as Coyote the dire wolf)
- It has a red scarf
- Tristan offers us some tigers, for a price
- The tigers also need to be fed with blood
- Want 150 gp per tiger
- We can sit two on each tiger (if the people are light/small enough)
- S offers a magical mace he has forged
- He crits his deception to make it appear valuable
- Tristan gets S to touch the tigers teeth, S fails his dex save
- It nimbly grabs his hand, and gently licks it
- The tigers requires a steady hand, firm handling and fresh meat
- They don't like being tethered, don't like saddles unless trained or convinced
- Faster than horses, and can climb
- Recommends one handler per tiger
- We ask to purchase some meat as well
- S wants to make Coyote (C in Dire wolf form) the alpha of our tigers
- She crit fails her animal handling check
- Her and the albino tiger start circling each other
- She eventually run off to catch game to prove herself instead.
- We decide to wait for her, and she return with a giant peacock
- T recognizes the tail feathers as similar to the Truth Feather she has.
- The tiger introductions begin (A casts Enhance ability on us)
- Sylword: A female tiger with a scar by her neck (discoloured fur there).
- Calls her Peach
- Good roll, makes himself the boss
- Thunder: Younger male tiger. Dark orange. Some of the stripes are barely visible. White tuft at the tip of the tail. Green scarf.
- Names him Ghost
- Super playful
- Good roll, acts as a friend and equal
- Arnini: older male tiger. Bit smaller, muscular, faded fur, prominent stripes. Part of its tail is missing. Lots of scars, but healthy animal. Very intelligent. Red scarf
- CRITS!
- The tiger seems to understand him, and agrees to the pact: Meat for service
- Names him Cherry
- Tristan says that Cherry is very intelligent, and that A might even tell him stories and he might understand.
- Use logic and intelligence, and don't break the pact
- We get saddles for them
- S bargains with Peach to give her meat if she wears the saddle
- T makes wearing a saddle into a game, so it's more fun for him to wear it, and he gets a good experience with it.
- A makes a deal, to give meat to wear the saddle. Void helps him put the saddle on.
- Tristan seems sad that we are taking away some of his pack, but bids us farewell
- Void asks Tristan for a scarf for Coyote. He asks for a story in return
- We continue on our tigers
- The tigers are faster than Coyote, so T offers C to turn back and ride with her.
- We eventually reach a place with stairs on the trees, leading up to bridges between them, connecting houses in the canopy
- Coty want to check it out, but we keep going as we are on a time sensitive mission. T says we can come back here after we're done
- We have to cross a river to get there, 50m across, slow moving water
- In the middle of it is a boat (ca. 3m) with a small light.
- A yuan ti pureblood
- He offers to ferry us across, if we answer his riddles.
- Can go one tiger at a time
- We walk to another part of the river so C can cast Water Walking on us.
- The yuan ti tries to cast something on C to make her use magic, but she resists
- We pass two large towns on the way
- We reach the outskirts of Hugo-Sha
- T manages to get them past the gate
- We find an inn, with a big, very clean stable
- The tigers gets their own pens (bigger than a horse stall)
- T pays for rooms (Coty asks to share w/T, so she doesn't feel too bad that T is paying)
- The rooms are lavish and big, w/our own room
- T & C's room has a green and yellow parrot that can repeat what it hears
Report Date
06 Aug 2025
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