A day of rest.
The gang went to the store to spend money.
We left the fire guys in the pyramid. We decide to head back toward Barston to see where Scriggs ended up. We end up taking the cart with the oxen to serve as potential cover for folks like Kiiv to hide. We head toward the lake.
We travel along the road. Nothing interesting happens. We make a tiny hut to sleep in.
We wake up well rested in the tiny hut and begin our travel eastward. Nothing interesting happens. We make yet another tiny hut.
We travel for the day and arrive at the northern part of the lake at the end of the day. Kestyn asks Morro if he wants to fish for dinner -- he agrees. Morro catches a sufficient number of fish for us to enjoy. Whipp calls fish "water meat" and is unfamiliar with normalized eating habits. They ate the scales and bones of the fish yielding many crunchy chewing sounds. We set up a tiny hut to sleep in and the evening was uneventful.
We begin traveling along the lake, occasionally getting stuck in muddy ruts. Fortunately, it didn't slow us down too much. In the evening Morro fishes yet again with Whipp learning proper fish eating etiquette. We set up another tiny hut and sleep.
We wake up and see two (2) huge visitors (Stone Giants) outside of the tiny hut inspecting it cautiously.
Gulden communicates with them using universal languages. He negotiates a trade of stones and fish with the giants in exchange for stones to avoid any violence. Whipp and Kiiv walk out to the stone giants and have stones to present to them. Morro comes out to fish for them. The giants agree to the trade and they let us continue our travels, now with two large 100-pound carved stones.
We continue traveling for the day and Morro fishes for the party -- only getting enough to half of the party.
We agree on another tiny hut but also have watch occur overnight. Whipp is on watch first -- nothing happens. Morro is on watch second and hears nearby rustling. Three (3) large bull-like creatures head toward our oxen.
We enter initiative to protect our oxen from these metal-clad bull-like creatures. Their breath attacks end up being unique in a way that on failed constitution saves start to have those targeted turn to stone.
We battle the metal-clad bulls and eventually take all three down. We set our oxen free during the battle and encouraged them to run away. Kestyn followed and raced to chase the oxen after 9 rounds (essentially one minute) until catching up to them.
We go back to bed and continue sleeping and recovering.
Whipp ends up being able to butcher the bulls for a day's worth of rations for each party member.
We make a normal pace for the entire day nearing the far edge of the lake. Everyone decides to eat the jerky yielded from the bull jerky and have pretty much uniformly determined that we should never eat the jerky yield from those bulls again.
Friday night passes on uneventfully.
Respectfully submitted,
Kiiv
Party Experience Before Session: 185,870XP
Experience Earned:
Party Experience After Session: 194,970XP
Needed For Level 8: 7 * 34,000XP = 238,000XP