Gathering Blink Dog Fur

Continued from Battling the Dread Hound

With the dread hound defeated, Yuri gathered up some pieces of the hound, assuming that Quincy, back in Inez Borin may be interested in it.

We made our way back to Swillden. Once there, Yuri offered a place in our group to Rowan, who accepted and began traveling with us.

Over the next day or so, I took some time and chatted with Analla about the Fey Wild, absorbing what I could about it.

To reward us for taking care of the dread hound, Annalla implanted the knowledge of where we can find blink dogs in Roshani Folkor's head.

Preparing for the encounter, Roshani Folkor built several smelly stones and we set off to find them.

We set up three piles of potential food for the dogs, as Roshani Folkor wanted to determine what type of food they preferred... And then Nocana make a pile of candy. We all set ourselves up near the piles, kind of hiding to see if we could lure them in. Over time, we were able to lure in several blink dogs and gathered 4 tufts of fur.

Heading back to the village, Roshani Folkor set about building the candle & box set from the fur.

I took some time to speak with the spirits around the village and, finding a cobbler, decided to help Yuri build some shoes for Rowan. Nocana did some wood working, carving some semblances of the blink dogs. The next day I sat and found the spirit of a chef (Palagrin, a goliath chef) and cooked some breakfast pizza before we set out back to Inez Borin.

Before leaving Swillden, I sent a message using the candle to Marius asking him to meet me at the Sun Temple in Inez Borin in 4 days.

We set off on our journey back to town, after an uneventful day on the road, we set up camp.

Around the campfire we chatted a bit... I posed the question to Yuri: What's his best memory from growing up, this resulted in us going around the circle and everyone chiming in.

• Yuri: Birthday parties. In the village that he grew up in everyone would celebrate birthdays with presents and food. They didn't actually know his birthday, since he was a foundling, so they celebrated the day that he was found, which was the 14th of October (just around the corner!). He gave us some more insight into life with the Dwarves and how he's pretty grateful for all that they did for them, even though he was the one that they then 'volunteered' to join the army when the time came for that.
  
• Nocana: Mentioned the celebrations that happen when a member of their grove crosses certain year thresholds, centuries or so.
  
• Roshani Folkor: Talked about when her father would come home from his map-making expeditions, he would run scavenger hunts for her and her sister. They would follow the clues and receive the souvenir that he got for them at the end.
• Me: I told about the time that I spent hanging out with the children in a commune back in Bardford, teaching them how to run different games and learning how to take care of themselves on the streets. Nocana asked why I left all of that, and I mentioned that I basically had to leave when I refused to complete a job that I had taken. Roshani Folkor asked if I still had family there, so I mentioned that my parents and sisters still lived there.
  

After a restful night, we scuttled camp and continued on our way, finally hitting the main road leading back to Inez Borin.

After a bit of travel we came across a couple of guys moving a tree out of the road. They tried to convince us that they were just trying to clear the tree because the lumberjack cut it the wrong way and if fell into the road. Nocana definitely didn't believe them though, and as we continued on mentioned to the rest of us that something fishy was happening and laid out the evidence: The tree appeared to have been moved into and out of the road several times, and there seemed to be the smell of cooking meat.

Heading back, Yuri asked if we could have some of the food they're cooking, to which they responded it was for the funeral of a village elder and they couldn't really spare any.

We let them know that we were aware of what they were doing and things escalated. The elf tried to run away and we engaged in battle.  We quickly dispatched them and investigated the village that they had taken over. It looked like a group of baddies were there, we decided to just let the authorities at Inez Borin know about it when we get there.

We continued on for a bit and Rowan found us a good place to camp for the night.

The following day we got back on the road. After a bit of travel we were met by the carriage of Marta Kincaid. She had tracked us down and was curious why we had just left town (guess we should have mentioned something before leaving...) We explained the situation and that we were on our way back into Inez Borin.

We asked her if there were any events coming up in Inez Borin that would afford us the opportunity to make a fool of Matthias Kincaid. She mentioned that there was an Illusionist's show at the arena on Tuesday evening and Marta mentioned that we could pick up tickets for the show from Greta.

I also inquired as to how the relationship between him and Pelius ended, apparently she couldn't deal with his habits, so she called it off.

Marta Kincaid gave us a ride a bit farther to Inez Borin and then dropped us off before we got close enough that anyone might see her with us.

Back in town Yuri took the dread hound parts to Quincy mentioning that we'll figure out the deal when he can determine what sort of price he can get for them.

Continued in Bopping about Inez Borin