Fenn's Fetid Friends

Adventuring On

2020-09-07

Field Notes

• Boar
• Coco
• Hellish Hound
• Life Root
• Mana Shard
• Miguel
• Mockarina

Retelling

The very next day we trained in survival Our skills we soon felt could easily rival Any of those in the Expeditionary Force And each of us got our very own horse! We set out upon our longest journey yet But not one among us started to fret We had learned much since our first time out And developed some skills that would help us scout Juniper did tracking, Vale helped with stealth We ended the day all still at full health Fenn cast a spell that made our knees gelatin He made a some friends out of a couple of skeletons He told us Coco and Miguel were their names And he dressed them up both exactly the same He gave them both chain mail and shields and spears And told us they'd help to protect the rear Lyrad and Hoj split up the night's guard Allowing the rest of us all to sleep hard In the morning we all seemed to be quite in awe Of the wide open spaces and wilds we saw Rys played a tune on his new instrument That apparently once had belonged to some gent Who went by the moniker Sid the Vicious His Mockarina's notes were simply delicious Rys' rendition of Greensleeves soared through the air And all in the party did stop and stare And marvel as dulcet tones caressed their ears By the end some friends surly had been moved to tears The next day the group felt their distance from home Rys felt concern for the fan-base he'd grown What would they do while he was away? How would they rejoice at the end of the day? If his music wasn't there to help them unwind What kind of peace in their lives could they find? Would they forgive him for leaving them behind? Or, even worse, would he soon fade from their minds? Rys realized that last thought was his silliest yet He was, of course, one bard no fan could forget The rest of the party seemed to get over quick Any lingering feelings of being homesick To help us, Hoj chopped down half of the forest And Lyrad sought tracks of those who came here before us That night Selene and Fenn copied spells galore While Juniper went and talked with a boar The next day we all started feeling quite aloof And wondered if the Expeditionary Forces had goofed On all of dear Rampart in making such claims That beyond Rampart's gates, the world was not tame That night we all rested in Selene's tiny hut While Coco and Miguel showed the flies what was what The next day our party finally arrived At an old settlement that clearly had not survived The place was in ruins and all overgrown The only thing left were some walls made of stone Juniper homed in on a new mana shard It was quickly retrieved by your most humble bard But the darn thing was cracked and it let out a blast Thank goodness Rys got out of the way very fast He gave it to Juniper who wasn't so quick And the flawed mana shard gave her quite the lick Mugs boxed it and threw it in Junipers bag To be done with that thing, we were all feeling glad But then Vale let out a surprised sounding chortle He'd finally detected a nearby planar portal But to his confusion it was just ten feet away And before he could even turn around to say Something about the portal he'd found We all laid eyes on some hellish looking hounds