# session 20 (15-02-2025) ***date is 25th Uktar 1519DR*** - party finishes to buy stuff for the expedition - diamonds - potions - dynamite - holy water - 300 sheet of paper - basic shit - second revivify diamond - on the road - a bit rainy - cart leaves tracks in the mud - air is chilly - Nybarg drives the carriage - city watch is coordinating refugee camps around Waterdeep - Vincent sends a message to the other 2 groups - telling the party is departing for Amphel - 2 ACKs - all 3 parties will keep in touch on their progress - scattered wreckage of carts - Nybarg stops the cart - blood - dead animals - large cleaves on them - area around the wound is decaying faster - maybe 2 weeks old looking - it was run off the road - no sign of a chase - only tracks of this cart and animals - it was travelling too fast for the cart - weird as all signs point to a chase - broken carts - large pools of blood where people would have been sitting - no bodies left - they were most likely impaled - Calcine goes to the pool of blood - places his hand in it - casts crimson bond - there is a tug in the direction of Amphel - party is in the correct direction - Vincent is writing about that event in his papers - Nybarg can't manage to get the horse moving - Vincent convinces them to get moving after promising more carrots - the road continues - no incidents - road is a bit narrower - the crimson bond is stronger now - might be before Amphel itself - Vincent and Nybarg - peptalk - trying to understand what happens with the strong reaction of Jezz about the book - night is falling - thick fog - damp - party pushes for the last 2hs - Nybarg scouts ahead for a camp site - hears weird howling out in the forest - has a bit of a reverb - canine adjacent - finds a easy off the path camp site - 5mins off the road - old abandoned farm - long past decay - still ample enough shelter - goes back to guide the party there - camp - a fire is lit - fog is thicker here off the road - the howlings can still be heard - sound like moving in packs - multiple of them - hard to tell numbers - not in the immediate area - they feel like shadowplane noises - Vincent and Jezz banter - Calcine - is a person heater - some people gets the in the offered blanket - hoping people don't dislike trekking as she plans on getting the party to trek for fun at some point - Jezz doesn't dislike it - Jezz - first watch - moves up in a tree - hides in it - howlings get a bit closer - north east - west - fog is getting disturbed - half skin and half muscle dog - appears around in the fog - blinking to where it wants to go - after a moment it stops having sniffed something - Jezz shines a mirror on Nybarg waking him up - Nybarg joins Jezz in the tree - Nybarg sees a few more of these dogs - they are joining with the first one - even more are joining - Nybarg wakes up the rest of the party - the hounds close in on the party - *fighting script* - first harrow hound - comes out of the bush - shadow steps to Vincent - bites Vincent - Vincent resists getting knocked prone - second harrow hound - shadow steps to Calcine - bites and prones Calcine - third harrow hound runs towards the party - Nybarg - crits down the second harrow hound - climbs up a tree - hides - Jezz - jumps down on the third harrow hound - handaxe and dagger miss - crit punches it - fourth harrow hound - shadow steps to Royston - bites Royston - fifth harrow hound runs to Jezz - sixth harrow hound - shadow steps to Royston - bites Royston - Calcine - gets up - hastes Royston - telekinetic shoves in the fire the first harrow hound - Royston unleashes hastened punches on the fourth harrow hound - seventh harrow hound runs to the party - eighth harrow hound runs to the party - ninth harrow hound runs to the party - Vincent - inspires Calcine - vicious mockery the first harrow hound - resistant to psychic - tenth harrow hound runs to the party - first harrow hound - burns from the fire - misses Calcine - teleports behind a wall - second harrow hound misses Jezz - Nybarg - shoots seventh harrow hound - hides back - Jezz handaxe, dagger and kicks second harrow hound - fourth harrow hound misses Royston - fifth harrow hound - shadow step to Jezz - bites Jezz - sixth harrow hound bites Royston - Calcine - produce flame the first harrow hound - shoves the sixth harrow hound away from Royston - Royston - casts darkness around Jezz and Royston - haste punches the fourth harrow hound - teleports into the darkness - seventh harrow hound - fails to see Nybarg - blinks on top of the wall - hops to the other side - eighth harrow hound - fails to see Nybarg - dashes up to Calcine - ninth harrow hound runs to Nybarg - Vincent - casts hypnotic pattern on the harrow hound around Calcine - Calcine barely saves - tenth harrow hound runs to Vincent - first harrow hound - goes to Vincent - bites Vincent - hypnotic pattern still is here - Nybarg - shoots first harrow hound - hides back - Jezz - pulls out Ebonedge - kills the fifth harrow hound - action surge - attacks the tenth harrow hound - knocking it prone - fourth harrow hound - runs out of the darkness through the campfire - runs to Calcine - misses a bite - harrow hound - goes to Vincent through the fire - misses a bite - Calcine - turn undead the harrow hounds - shoves a harrow hound near Vinent - Royston - moves the darkness atop Calcine and the harrow hounds - cleans up 3 harrow hounds - Vincent - is in the darkness - misses a shillalagh - moves out of the darkness - Nybarg - goes down from the wall - shoots into the darkness missing - Jezz - moves into the darkness - slashes a harrow hound down - moves deeper - punches a harrow hound in the darkness - Calcine sear undead again - Royston finishes the last 2 - a hunting horn bellows - not sure of its meaning - very off in the distance