The party loads all of its prisoners into a wagon and heads off down
the road for Camrish.  They speak briefly with the Mad Wizard in the
tower, float the wagon of prisoners across the river, and decide to
camp in the Brithan forest.  Wait, that's a bad idea.  They push on
through the night, heavily guarding the wagon.  Tristian invoked Elof
to help the Trolls pulling their wagon in good cadence.

The Brithan follow the party through the night, howling at each other
(noticeably different from the challenge howls last time).  They leave
at the edge of the forest, at dawn.  Halfway out of the forest, one of
the prisoners shouts "Now!" and they make a break for it.  Half try to
distract the party while the other half run for the woods.  The party
beats them up, none make it away.

Near the end of the battle, Thwak shoots a fire arrow up in the air to
try to call for help.  A handful of barefoot guys in pyjamas show up,
ask if the prisoners are Adepts, and on discovering they aren't beat
them about the head to knock them out...

... so Keleios smacks one.  He does the Trinity-hanging-in-the-air
thing, then rapidly kicks her three times in the head.  The party
helps load her into the wagon with the prisoners.  Back at town, Jenna
and Tristian leave the cultists (and 500 silvers, enough to ensure
that they get cared for and aren't just turned into servants) with
the people who were caring for the Mad Mages.

The Trolls party through the morning and collapse around noon.  The
rest of the party goes off to meditate, then falls asleep through the
night.  The next morning:

Jenna, Keleios, and Tristian visit a Nethermancer and ask about the
letters which are hiding in Jenna's brain.  The party takes a day of
meditating stuff up.  Jenna learns the language from that slate:  she
says it's a page of instructions from the Val-Heru to their servants,
instructions for tending Dragon eggs and baby Dragons.  There are some
interesting results regarding how these Val-Heru thought of Elves,
Dwarves, Windlings, T'Skrang, and Humans: they'd never heard of Orks
or Trolls.

The party takes their boat-wagon and floats across the river again.
They drive down to the T'Skrang village, encountering tentacles nearly
a mile out from the shattered kaer.  Tristian carefully stabs one with
a knife.  It flips out and starts trying to grab him; as the party
runs away, they step on four more tentacles, which begin thrashing
around and trying to grab the party.  Thwak and Keleios get grabbed.
The party does really well getting them free: coordination and very
little friendly fire.  They do see it damage shifting mystic damage a
few times.

The chopped-off tentacles turn into sludge which Tristian identifies
as river mud, from the bottom of a river.

The party plans for a while, then Kenisha tries to take a look at them
in Astral space... and they look back, and two hundred and fifty of
them ogg her.  Now she's figured out that they can see in Astral
space.  She wakes up blind.

The party retreats to a safe distance (half a mile) and plans some
more.  They consider a large robotic lawn mower catapult.  [Kenisha]
recovers enough to regain her sight.  The party camps out here for two
days (total elapsed time this run: 16 days, putting the campaign into
fall)

We break here, as [Tristian] considers sharpened steel chocolate
oranges, and [Thwak] starts fooling around with Artillery.

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2 CP:
 1 Here
 1 !Defeated
 1 The party who skipped meditating to go party.
2 LP:
 2 Success (Prisoners Back, Escape Stopped)
 1 Making sure the prisoners were well cared for (those who dealt with that)
 1 Poisoning a Horror: Kenisha
 1 Val-Heru plot starts: Jenna
 AID: Tristian (the flattened-section of the tentacle and good engineer thought)
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Q: Tristian: Cadence every time it was possible, rafts.

"So Tristian, you're building a catapult for razor disks?"
    --Jenna, getting the party's attention really fast.