Sitting Here In Almah's Town, or Who Let The Frogs Out

Coming in from his watch, Billy drags in a giant frog and announces "Look what I caught".  The frog is actually a grippli, and Lars informs Billy that he can't eat it.  When the grippli regains consciousness, Billy apologizes for shooting him.  The grippli introduces himself as Hoppin' Jon, and he was traveling to Katapesh when slavers overtook his caravan.  Jon fled into the wilderness to escape.  Almah, growing more accustom to the variety of non-humans in her crew, invites Jon to stay with her caravan.  Jon is even eager to help strike a blow to the slaving gnolls, and help retake Kelmarane.

The first night in the Old Monastery, around midnight, an impossibly loud yelping howl bellows out from Kelmarane.  A moment later, a faint but similar howl answers in the direction from the distant Pale Mountain.  Dashki tells the party that the howls are a form of long distance communication between gnoll tribles.  In this case, it is the Carrion King the ruler of the Kulldis tribe in Kelmarane and agent of the gnoll monarch in an unknown base on Pale Mountain.

The party sneaks up to the village, traveling by the river.  After observing the patrol patters, and the apparent feeding of two large creatures hidden in town, the party decides to explore a bit. In the first house, Jon scouts out a massive boar that seems to be watching the southern road.  Backing off, the party skirts around the eastern side and enters what appears to be the old slavers market.

Jon finds a big viper inside and draws Billy's attention.  Billy fires a shot to notify the party that there is trouble inside.  Converging inside the party finds two more vipers.  The vipers don't put up too much of a fight, but Jon is bitten and looks a little greener than usual.  There is no treasure in the old slave market, but tracks in the area indicate that the gnolls seem to avoid this building.  This makes it an excellent location for staging missions into Kelmarane.

The party returns to the Monastery so Jon can rest and recover from his bite wound.  Almah listens to the reports of each party member.  But Uncle Tolo has a curious look in his eye...

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Session Members:  Luce, Lars, Kushi, Billy, Jon.
Session XP:  320 XP each.
Session Loot:  one (1) grippli.