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Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Coach House Action: Excited Cooking! & Lesser Restoration Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara’s idea was mostly boiling down to throwing some cover over the barrels rather than carrying them back inside the room, but on a second thought, maybe that was for the best. She still didn’t help with the barrels though, mostly cause they were too heavy for her and she was going to be more in the way than helping if she tried. Best leave the half giant woman to her own strengths without hindering her. She did however trip on the last moment with the last barrel. The barrel didn’t spill, but still… ouch.

Still when the big warrior woman left the room, Kosara hopped out after her and VERY carefully looked around as if waiting for something to jump out. Once nothing jumped out for a few dozen seconds by the point of which a heavy thunk sounded from the doorway into the coachhouse itself… It seemed Kathryn’s head met the door frame. Kosara closed the door tightly and hurried after her very good friend and inside the warm confines of their temporary home. In any case, the pale tiefling was staring flatly at Kathryn who first snacked hard on some biscuits and then moved to dried meat and alcohol. Kosara did take the offered tea however.” THANK YOU!” She called gratefully and took a sip from the fancy pretty cup.

“...” She stared HARD at the big woman until she began asking ‘funny brigates’ about the time V left to go presumably deal with the loot body barrel. Kosara very well remembered the last time Kathryn got a bit too 'funny'.” LESSER RESTORATION!” Kosara stated hotly as she placed a hand on Kathryn’s shoulder to remove whatever drunken thoughts were starting to accumulate into the warrior woman’s big and handsome head.” No drinking to get drunk in the mornings!” She barked, pointing a finger at Kathryn’s nose.” I will go prepare some breakfast, Kathryn’s right, we need some food. It’s been a long night.” She added and headed for the kitchen, taking off her coat and tossing it on a chair in passing. She halted her step just as she reached the doorway and turned around eyeing the trio left in the room.” Don’t let Kathryn over drink again while I’m in the kitchen! She’s a clumsy silly drunk!”

And with that Kosara vanished into the kitchen, focusing on preparing a breakfast meal for the group who apparently went by the moniker of ‘The Ones Who Answered’ or something along those lines. A fact she had already forgotten about. Her merry band of friends needed sustenance and she was going to provide it!

Like a storm she swept through the kitchen, finding ingredients and putting more wood into the stove. She took some preserved vegetables, meats, eggs and even located some druid fruits. A frying pan was placed and soon after there were ankheg meat, some other salted meat and veggies stir frying. The sound of sizzling filling the air. She in the meantime was also putting the preparations for some dough for flatbread and scrambling eggs to fry too. A kettle was placed on the fire with a bunch of dried fruits to boil for a fresh fruity tea. Kosara was surprisingly in her element at the kitchen. Though her knife handling and stirring techniques could be generously called interesting and more realistically the brainchild of a lunatic. She did have to use… FLOURISH! It was fun… So she was humming a song her sisters used to back home about the golden sands.

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Preparing the food took some time as it turned out. The Stir Fry and the eggs got ready quick, but the flat breads took a bit more time. Which was good cause the dried fruits needed a bit more time to boil properly. Dried fruits made remarkably good tea even she from the desert knew it. At some point Kosara heard the front door and following that V’s voice. It was time to serve the food!

“Hey, V! Food’s ready!” Kosara called out as she opened the door, carrying two platters in this case the stir fry and the eggs.” Bread and freshly brewed fruit tea is in the kitchen. Could somebody help with carrying all the plates?” She asked as she walked over to one of the tables and put the food down, heading back to the kitchen for the rest.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Coach House Action: N/a Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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“Sounded a lot like a crystal shattering if anything… I mean ice is kinda like a crystal so maybe a magic deep froze them and then shattered them?” Kosara gave out a vague suggestion to her possible solution to the puzzle they had found themselves with. That and there were so many itsy bits of bodies… well at least it was deep frozen bits so it was more like pebbles than body parts. That would have been a rather unpleasant alternative. Very gross. ” I mean, I seem to recall V doing something shatteringly loud when we were fighting the goblins and she exploded a tree and a goblin? I think…” She made a thinking sound recalling bits of that encounter and the bard’s liberal use of magic that was very effective on the tree at her memory.



“Well… not… much…” She didn’t sound completely convinced in her own words as she was making a pondering face trying to reach some unsaid metal conclusion. What it amounted to in the end was that she was starting to rummage through the bits for anything that wasn’t frozen body.



The decision making was interrupted when a certain birdly bardly companion appeared making a fascinating approximation of V’s voice that demanded them to STOP burning the stuff. Kosara just looked at the bird, at the barrel and then at Kathryn. ” I mean… I was thinking if we should see if they carry anything of note underneath the silks now that they are in pieces. Anything like coins, jewelry or other things that might signify their origin… and the silks… I suppose…” Yes Kosara was very much in favor for that plan of action. That said however through the base observation of just moving things around and trying to get them in the barrels and ruffling through the clothes carefully as to not get hurt or damage something on jagged pieces of frozen body a thing was getting obvious. Unwrapping them properly to inspect the bodies and anything they might be carrying would be messy on the courtyard… And Kosara did want to see all the sparkly things they were carrying if for none other reason but to see if they were carrying clues… and also cause she liked shiny things. Also the silks were pretty nice and V agreed they should be keeping those if possible it seemed.



“Alright… I guess we could go for tea now and deal with them later!” And with that Kosara’s focused moved to a hot drink to warm her chilly body right now. ” Maybe we should make sure they are secure even as bits before heading inside. Maybe drag them back into the room as to not let the locals see them… much?” She asked Kathryn. ” Or we check to see if the servants’ room has any blankets or coverings we could use. Maybe a tarp to cover it with? Though I suppose leaving them is also an option, but so far it seems people around here are weary of things like this, so it’s probably going to be for the best to not leave them visible like this.”

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Coach House Action: Summon and dismissing Pack Weapon Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara did in fact NOT find a window to peek inside the room they had put the probably undead in. Magic thought them undead, but they weren’t all living hungry either so it was weird. In any case after a quick walk around the room and no openings found she walked back to Kathryn while the woman was opening the door again.” Sure will!” She replied and hopped a few steps backwards, her scimitar appearing in her arm in a flash of golden motes of light so she wasn’t going to be unarmed. Not that she was going to use much melee most of the time. Kosara was very much a Celestial Blast kind of warlock when she could get away with it…

She waited patiently until the door was opened and Kathryn poked her head inside. Hearing the exclamation, Kosara let her weapon vanish in a similar scatter of golden motes as she sneakily walked over to the huge woman.” Oh?” She made a questioning sound and squeezed her way next to the warrior to look into the room and the remains of the remains of the occupants.” Ohhhhh! Yeah, they exploded alright!” She agreed with a theatrical nod.” Never seen a body explode? Well… me neither like this I guess, but I’ve seen other things and I’ve heard stranger tales from traveling adventurers growing up. Well they more like simply shattered rather than exploded… I don’t see scorch marks.” Kosara finally commented and moved a bit further in, looking at the weirdly still kind of coherent? Like something was keeping most of the chunks loosely together.

“I’m pretty certain they shouldn’t have just shattered like glass. Its not cause of the frost, they should have otherwise exploded while we were transporting them around or unloading them, not when we closed the door.” The tiefling stated with certainty.” There’s magic at work, but honestly I have no idea what exactly...” The white haired woman commented and looked around with narrowed eyes.” Alright, we cannot leave them like this here. Kathryn, grab a big barrel or two, some brooms and a spade! They are more portable this way! Then I can just set the barrel aflame in the yard and problem will be solved!”

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Mummy Hill - > Coach House Action: Prestidigitation Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Luckily for Kosara her good friends and teammates for the most part had the whole situation handled even as the tiefling went to hide behind the bard to break visual contact and try to save herself from the rather uncomfortable feeling. Seems the bard had caught up on said fact or at least to a degree as she moved away and proceeded to more or less cover the undead’s eye holes with it’s own head… coverings… gear… cloth? Whatever it precisely was. This left Kosara a bit undefended though so she just stayed on guard, ready to bolt away like a cat. Then the purple clad bard proceeded to nick herself a piece of cloth and walk off like a most elegant and noble lady. Quite impressive and pretty and Kosara was indeed very impressed and feeling a bit better about the whole thing.

Sadly she wasn’t going to grab a piece of the clothes on the undead...things, because as far as her education went, she couldn’t just randomly graverob people… be they dead people. Her grandfather was very specific on the topic when she once asked him why adventurers were able to take loot off crypts to sell to town and why she wasn’t allowed to do the same from the cemetery when she was younger. She had been very precisely explained that what adventurers did was considered adventuring and those were spoils of war and if she just randomly took a grave to rob it was a crime… So this left her in this situation where the undead weren’t actually even acting out and she couldn’t kill them and claim right of conquest! But… but… V did it? She was very much in quite the mental struggle. At least until she realized V had mentioned these things were puppets. Then Kosara’s hands moved faster than one can probably say ‘gold’ as she snatched that shawl that the bard had pointed out earlier and quickly did a quick round of Prestidigitation on it similar to the bard.” Thank you.” She mumbled quickly and fled backwards.

“Actually that probably makes a lot of sense if you think about it…? These things in the distillery were probably just not moving cause they had no orders? Or if they were moving it was too slow to realize.” She muttered, eyeing the bodies.

“I… yes. I just felt really uncomfortable all of a sudden while trying to maintain eye contact with that one.” Kosara replied to Kathryn, now much more in control of herself.” It was this very unsettling sensation like there were a bunch of ice cold ants running down my spine and moving about and… yeah. Unsettling.” She stated flatly. She didn’t help much with loading the bodies onto the cart, they had Kathryn for that, but she did keep a watchful eye on them from a polite distance of about 10 steps behind the cart just to be sure.

Back at the couch house with the fellas loaded into the storage room, all was going well until there was a sound of glass shattering from the now barricaded room which caused Kosara to stare flatly at the boarded up door.” Well that’s not a good sign. Kathryn… you might need to start unbarricading the door now.” Kosara quipped, still holding her new fancy shawl, before making a thinking face.” Do these rooms have any kind of windows even small barred ones?” She mused aloud and went to do a circle around the building, looking for windows to see if they could look into the room that way.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Mummy Hill Action: Failing at a staring contested with a mummy wanabe Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Welp at least one mystery was solved! DRACONIC! Well Kosara could proudly say that she didn’t expect the dragons to be involved in this situation. The dancer rather curious, but then again maybe it was the necromantic empire national language. She couldn’t quite remember off the top of her head if that was the case… or maybe it was an undead dragon leading them… undead dragon lich? Or just regular dragon and his magical schananigans, but that said, she had no idea on the way the undead operated in the area. Those guys in the burrow were way too weird and no way they were just regular corpses. These guys here were for certain not just regular bodies either.

“Well, maybe they teleported in?” Kosara surmised to Berry’s realization they had just appeared in the area.” Or… they were dropped in via flight. During the hectic last night something could have flown over and we probably would have missed it as long as it didn’t get too close.” She added.

“That they are, not often you see silks that quality out and about either.” Kosara agreed with V. She didn’t know it, but on this topic both her and the bard were in fact indeed eyeing potential loot from the bodies. Kosara wouldn’t mind grabbing that shawl yes.. among a few other things.” It would, yes.” She also agreed on that too, eyeing the undead. Of course she wasn’t just going to start grabbing things unless it went down to a fight. If it was loot after a fight, then it was theirs by right of adventure and conquest… probably. The rogue who taught her how loot etiquette worked as a child was never allowed to teach her stuff again afterwards for some reason.

“Maybe their creator or master or leader uses ancient draconic as their main language?” The tiefling chimmed in to Kathryn’s question before eyeing the woman. She did develop selective hearing on the comment about looting and fighting the probable undead though.” Nobody said anything about fighting them unless they give us a reason, Kathryn. That would be rude.” Kosara in the end reminded the bigger woman.

Suddenly she spotted movement as the lead guy smiled and then locked eyes with her… She tried to stare back at the obvious staring contest challenge… SHE REALLY DID! It wasn’t even the fact they were dead bodies or cracking from the frost on their dead flesh that did it… Goosebumps ran down her spine, before she let out a startled yelp and dashed behind the closest source of cover. Kosara lost the staring contest something hard, it wasn’t fear really. No it was the unsettling feeling that she couldn’t quite place from that dead gaze.” YOU WIN!” She stated and dashed behind her bardly friend. Now it had to be mentioned Kosara was still taller than V. Did that make Kosara reconsider using her as a barrier between her and the undead with the unsettlingly intent gaze? NO! What the white tiefling did was dash behind V, put the bard between herself and the undead, grab the corner of the bard’s overcoat and crouch behind her, hiding herself like she was a child.

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Rose River Vineyard (Fields Near Estate House) - > Mummy Hill Action: (WORKING HARD! & LOTS OF PRESTIDIGITATION!!) Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara stomed forward through the crunchy snow towards the hill with the unexplained, unwanted and uninvited suspicious looking figures looming from the distance and the closer she got the more her gut feeling told her that yes this was the prelude to the adventure and no it wasn’t going to be about sunshine and flowers. Sadly as she found herself at the base of the hill, trudging through the white snow, feeling a bit tired and sore from the evening of heavy activities, Kosara realized that her gut feeling was correct. How did she realize that? Easy, up above her, looming like some monuments of death were bodies standing in a vaguely ritualistic fashion, not magic ritualistic, but more the cultural adherence kind. Like how some people bowed, others shook hands and so on. One grand undead somewhat mummy-esque looking figure, taller and 4 submissive ones. Kosara’s nose scrunched up, not from any scents, but more so of thinking. She made a cute little thinking expression before her feet moved once more with certainty.

Step by step, one foot in front of the other she climbed the hill, steady in her movement as she took the figures ever closer, studying what she could see. Garments looked of fine quality silks… the type that costs good gold. Fashions and styles were also familiar. Empire of Alhazred… the empire led by the Lich Emperor and his council of evil guys who did evil guys thing and presumably kicked of the Necromantic Wars cause they wanted more something or other. As far as Kosara could figure out, everything looked period accurate… which coupled with the fact these were dead bodies that may or may not be undead… she was getting flashes back to the bodies in the old distillery. Connection maybe? She couldn’t exactly figure out if these were proper undead or something else. Had no idea if they were actually going to move normally. More flashbacks to the bodies they found last time… On that note she reminded herself that Sacred Flames torched them good, even if it would be shame to ruin silks in that pristine of condition.

Up close, she saw everything in even better detail, confirming her opinion on the origins of these fellas. Which by itself raised questions since they shouldn’t be here. Bodies that preserved with garments that preserved meant well… efforts put into it. How did these bodies appear here when their origin should be much further south? Unless of course there was a conspiracy and hidden hideout somewhere around here. Her eyes moved to the hand holding the rolled up… letter? Scroll? Whatever it was, it had a long black ribbon and Kosara’s curiosity was growing. The bodies weren’t taking any aggressive movements. She narrowed her eyes, thinking, but in the end nodded to herself and walked over to the one standing and holding the… she decided it was probably a letter. It had the hallmark of delivering a missive by somebody in power… Better not be an undead lich emperor making a bid for power and domination again, she hoped.

“Thank you.” She said simply as she reached to take the thing. No need to be rude after all. She made a light frown and tilted her head as she pulled the letter and couldn’t figure out if the hand loosened a bit to let it go easier. Very much flashbacks to the bodies from that hole in the ground. She undid the ribbon, opened the scroll/letter and looked at what was written inside with an utmost serious expression as she scrolled the words and letters.” I see.” She simply mumbled, before tilting her head.” I’ve got no idea what this reads… Will need to see if the others can understand it.” She mused to herself as she took a few steps back from what she suspected were undead of some variety and waited for the others to join her while she moved her eyes between the undead and the letter… and the ribbon of course. It was a pretty black ribbon. Even if black wasn’t her usual color, she liked it. Might keep it as a souvenir... if it wasn't all evil and magical of course.

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: Exhaustion(1) Location: Rose River Vineyard (Fields Near Estate House) Action: (WORKING HARD! & LOTS OF PRESTIDIGITATION!!) Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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The work was surprisingly grueling and even Kosara’s hyperactive tendencies and seemingly boundless energy at time was being affected by the circumstances of their current situation, for one the biting cold was seeping through clothing and chilling her down even as they moved around braziers and fires. It was not like playing out during the day in the snow. Admittedly there were cases where she had felt colder and more freezing over the passing weeks, but those were usually remedied by hanging by fireplaces inside and changing clothes. Here out in the darkness where the temperatures were dropping so low and the constant chill? Yeah it was certainly different and more severe.

Work only got harder once the Unseen Servants vanished. After her magical helpers vanished, work certainly did slow down with her some, but nothing could be done. Kosara couldn’t take a break just to recover the magical energies properly. So she just worked as hard as she could despite that. At least her glowing clothing remained along with her ability to set the braziers alight instantly. That was certainly a skill that was proving quite effective! Prestidigitation was a very useful general toll! In any case since she could maintain a number of effects at one, her glowing clothing didn’t dim for a moment.

Eventually as the night progressed, their dwarven craftsman friend joined them along with hot tea! Glorious! What was even more glorious was the addition of people who arrived to help. From there the work continued ever so hard and tiring throughout the night, all the way to the point the first rays of sunlight showed across the horizon and the skies started getting colored in the varying hues as the light was replacing the darkness of the night. They had more or less done it and Kosara couldn’t help, but let out a happy sigh as she stretched a bit, feeling the popping. She felt like taking a nap, if she was to be honest… that or getting into a barrel with hot water to get the cold out of her body. That might have been a better thing to do…. A barrel or a bathtub really. Either worked, ideally without a wild Lizbeth this time around. Let it be said that Kosara could indeed learn.

She was about to start making good on V’s suggestions of rest and sleep by heading back now that the work was done finally, when Berry raised a rather curious point as he had pointed out something in the hills in the distance. Well there was certainly something there… people… maybe? Or was it something else? Quite unmoving there and there was something weird going on with their arrangement.” I don’t think so?” Kosara replied with a frown as she stared in the distance. The paranoid side of her mind that had kept quite for a little while now reared it’s pretty white head to suggest something was up and this time Kosara did agree that this begged for investigation.” I will go check it out.” She said and began moving in the direction of the hill with the figures there, keeping careful attention on them in case there would be any developments while she was approaching.

“I really hope this isn’t another wererat situation… or tree goblins...” She mumbled as she stomped her way through the snowy fields in the direction of the hill. What was with the weird situations and their inability to pick better times to arise? Seriosuly, couldn’t this have waited until after they were well rested? Then again, adventure waited for no one, she surmised. Then by that logic this was a proper adventure happening. With that brief train of thought to make herself happy, she did a 180 mental gymnastic and concluded this was possibly a good thing and regained some energy in her gait. If this wasn’t anything bad, then great! It meant nothing bad was going on, if it was something bad? Then also great! Why would it be great? Simple, it meant they found out now and weren’t completely off guard!

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Rose River Vineyard (Fields Near Estate House) Action: Unseen Sevant x2, Perstidigitations(a lot) Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara did not show if she was affected or sad or anything of Cecily’s lack of understanding or inability to give out pointers where her skills might be of use. No Kosara wasn’t really angry, sad or any of that. She just nodded to the woman.” I will figure something out!” She stated with a smile back and closed her eyes focusing. She had a few ideas in mind. There was jobs to be done and there wasn’t too much time to do em.

The tieflign took a deep breath, closed her eyes for a moment, focusing her mind. She made a few gestured with her hands and pulled a few things from the component pouch.” Serve me.” She whispered out as the magic gathered up and formed an invisible presence next to her, becoming an Unseen Servant that could do her bidding. She then gestured next to the first one and repeated the same motions and actions as a second Unseen Servant formed up. The thiefling grinned widely.” Alright, ready to help out! Unseen Servants, after meeeeeee!” She ordered the Unseen Servants as they floated behind her and she headed off to help with whatever she could find. Be it unloading, loading or lighting up fires. She was effectively working with 3 sets of hands so that should be counting for something even if it was going to be going for only 1 hour before they vanished. She’d have to take a breather for a bit at some point and hopefully some short rest would allow her magic to recover and cast them again afterwards, but for now… WORK!

It wasn’t long before the wagons began arriving… wagons and a giant Kathryn who could do with glowing. In any case there was even more work to be done and quickly! The Pale Dancer Squad( as Kosara to herself decided to call the Unseen Servants), were working hard. It was going to be tiring, tiring work. It didn’t seem to be ending, but hey they were here at the grace of the L’Roses, so they had to help them. To the side of where she and her extra hands were working she spotted Berry having issues with Old Boy the mule. Kosara blinked and quickly directed the Unseen Servant to go aid with those schenigans.

Throughout the entire thing, Kosara kept moving and placing braziers with her extra unseen hands and her own hands of course. Every placed brazier, the shining tiefling would quickly cast a Prestidigitation, causing the braziers to ignite instantly. It was helping! At some she heard a singing voice. It was Berry! Then other people started joining up with the singing. Sadly Kosara really didn’t know the lyrics of this specific song. So instead she just hummed along with the song, trying to catch the lyrics and then joining up as she got to hear repeats. Yep! All was good in the world, especially since more people had been arriving from what she assumed was the surrounding villages! Everybody was up to help! People helping each other and working together! IT WAS GLORIOUS AND GRANDPA WAS GOING TO BE SO HAPPY when she tells him later! She was a happy little glowing tiefling that had seen the good in people! Only problem in the near future would be her Unseen Servants vanishing when the hour was over, but nothing to be done about it. She’d work until she gets a chance for a breather to get a quick rest to regain her energy to hopefully recover enough magical energies.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Rose River Vineyard (Fields Near Estate House) Action: Let There Be LIGHT!( Cantrip Light) Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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As it happened to turn out… Kosara’s initial assumption that these might be tree or coffin goblins out to raid the farms or alternatively dastardly bandit raiders taking advantage of the weather to do their nefarious deeds with visions of plunder and booty( which according to some travelers she had met years ago also meat treasure). The reality of what had transpired to see the wide fields of grapes into their current fiery situation was… COLD. Alright, listening to Cecily, Kosara wasn’t quite understanding on what the difference between freezing and deep freezing was. Which all things considering might not be surprising when one realized that Kosara’s only exposure to the concept of cold and freezing were the occasional spell like prestidigitation that chills things or the weeks spend now playing in the snow, not hiding in any way the fact she was having as fun time as a child would.

Berry was the one who seemed to have some semblance of a plan. Cecily’s desperation could well be sensed in her voice and the tense atmosphere around wasn’t something that one could just miss. People’s frantic attempts to do as much possible as fast as possible were quite easy to recognize. It felt a bit like rush hour at the oasis, but only multiplied by a frankly ridiculously big number. She was thinking, wondering if hitting the earth would help, pondering if shouting really loudly would help… gramps usually handled issues with chaos and workflow by shouting at everybody back home in the oasis… Then she had a quick literal moment of illuminating revelation as if a oil lamp went off inside her pretty white haired head.” LIGHT!” She proclaimed as she pulled something from the pouch she had on her belt. Magical energies surged, twisted and reformed into a spell that settled onto her coat which began shining brightly, illuminating the area… If nothing else Kosara was going to be easy to spot and the area around her would be easy to work in.

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As it had turned, Kosara had forgotten to buy something during the start of her travels. More like forgot to bring her own… reagents pouch. Some spells having requirements to cast was not something she wasn’t aware off. She just kind of forgot the one she used back home when she began traveling and after that… well it wasn’t like she used all those spells all the time. She could easily make do with spells that didn’t require that a lot of the time. Luck however had been on her side as V of all people happened to have a pouch of spell components that she wasn’t using and she had graciously allowed Kosara to make use of. An act of friendship and kindness that had seen the tiefling proclaiming their great friendship and dispensing brief hugs as was proper.

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Kathryn was already rushing off to do her part of helping so Kosara figured she could tell some of what she could so so they could arrange their efforts better.” Alright, I can start up fires, one of the spells I know -Prestidigitation, allows me to light up small campfires in an instant. In addition I’m able to use the spell Unseen Servants. Two at them for up to an hour. They aren’t the strongest or able to carry much, but can be used to help pile up firewood into fires as long as it’s to too heavy. Each can carry up to 30lbs(13,6kg) so those should help with loading or unloading?” She offered, looking eagerly to start helping and waiting to hear if her abilities would be of use before she bolts in some direction or another where she’d be of best use.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 34/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Coach House Action: N/a Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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“Hmm they should be and if not, well we can rush to their aid in case of need.” Kosara replied with a happy quip. Then she turned back to Berry who expressed a desire to join into dancing!” GREAT! Just repeat after me, I will do it slowly and we will do a simpler dance not one of the ones I do for performances!” She cheerfully spoke as she began showing him a variety of slow moves of southern dances. She calmly and happily guided her blue companion into the motions. Hey, she was joyful somebody joined!

There was merry to be made and had. Night was going fine… everything was just as it should have been and nothing could ruin it… that was wrong and she knew it. Many things could ruin it and sadly as if to prove said cosmic point of a man called Murphy, a man so unknown to these realms, the ringing bells of alarm were eventually heard that led to Kosara rushing outside to check what was going on with Lizbeth only to see fire.” Well that I didn’t expect.” She commented, seeing the fires stretch the way they were. Which was admittedly weird on itself.

Now Kosara might not have been an expert on the topic of the north and snow, but with her extensive research over their stay here on the snow while playing around in it, she knew two very important things. First snow was cold, which was the opposite of fire and more importantly than the first one… SNOW WAS WET! Taking these two very specific facts into account… FIRE SHOULDN’T BE SPREADING OVER SNOW LIKE THIS WITHOUT REASON!” I saw! No way these are normal! Fire and snow shouldn’t mix!” The white tiefling exclaimed, back to Berry and suddenly bailed out into the darkness moments later after grabbing her coat. She chased after the others, concerned for the situation and Lizbeth. Apparently there WAS a conspiration here after all! What was important was that she had her coat, her whip and the dagger she usually carried. Should the need arose she could also summon her pact weapon.

Chasing into the darkness she briefly considered that mayhaps they would need a bit of light that wasn’t a bunch of burning bushes or other plants? What had even caused them to catch on fire anyways, she refused to believe it happened naturally. Maybe it was a magical attack? Or was it people using torches to torch and pillage? Was this an attack of raiders of some kind? Bandits?! Maybe it was the forest Goblins!? She highly doubted this happening at night was a coincidence, with the darkness and the chaos, it was a perfect opening to an attack!