Category:Week 7

Housekeeping
As the party was last left off a humanoid figure was approaching the party, who Ritch recognizes as his late wife.

Three people in the party leveled.

Rolls:

 * Riley (L3) rolls 8/d10 (=17HP)
 * Ritch (L3) rolls 5/d10 (=18HP)
 * Cobblepot (L3) rolls 7/d10 (=20HP)

Floor 2
As she gets close to the party and everyone can see she is a human female. Ritch runs over to her, sword in hand, Ricardo shouting out to him that it is not what it seems. Ritch ignores him and keeps running, looking at her he sees that she's not walking properly, but is almost in a attack stance of some kind as she walks forward. Cobblepot shout's forward to Ritch and asks what was your wife's name, Ritch ignoring Cobblepot as well. Ricardo shouting if he doesn't answer Cobblepot he will crush his wife with a Fist of Stone. Ritch ignoring says Kat inquisitively to this human female. In response she tills her head and makes a huh noise, at this Ritch swings his sword, but misses her, as she jumps back giving him an even more puzzled look as she makes these inaudible grunts at Ritch.

Riley runs up to Ritch to try and tackle him, but doesn't manage to stop him just grab onto him. Ritch says that she's not human and they should kill her, but Riley says she is human you idiot. Cobblepot then swings a her missing, as she jumps back again, making these inaudible grunt as if she's trying to communicate. Ricardo tries to communicate back by making these noises, she responses by making these noises again and as Ricardo looks at her face, he can see no emotion when she is making these noises. Ricardo then attempts to communicate with her with sign language, with a heart shape. She tries to recreate the shape, but is unable to and simply smashes her hands together.

Riley tries to tackle Ritch again, but is somehow unable to tackle him to the ground. Ricardo says that she seems harmless, but Ritch is insistent that she is not real and that she must be put down immediately. Ricardo says that they should put some of the water over her, Ritch saying it my wife, my job, to which Riley and Ricardo say that she is not his property. Ritch after hearing this kicks Ricardo in the balls. She continues staring at the party making these noises, Ritch still wanting to kill her strikes her cutting off her right arm. She starts freaking out completely distraught, trying to take care of her arm as blood is guessing out, screaming at the top of her lungs.

Riley then disarms Ritch, as Ricardo goes up and pours holy water on the girl, making her even more distraught and by now is screaming to a fever pitch as she is quickly losing her mind at this point, as a few seconds ago what was a cut of limp is now whole again. Ricardo takes her head and puts it against his, telling her that it's okay, while Ritch is still insistent that the gods told them that they were not real and they must destroy this abomination. As Ricardo does this even though she is franticly freaking out at the beginning, she slowly starts to calm down. Ricardo then starts hugging, patting her on the back like a baby. Ritch now saying to Ricardo to listen to the gods, but Ricardo telling him that it was Death that said that and you never know she might not be evil. Ritch then calls him a fool.

Cobblepot continues watching from the side, seeing Ricardo hugging someone who looks like Ritch's wife and Riley disarmed Ritch of his sword and in the procces of going for his hand axes, decideds to just sit there not getting involved. Riley on one side of Ritch tries to grab his over hand, but doesn't grab it before Ritch manages to chuck one of his magical hand axes, which Ricardo sees fly past him out of the corner of his eye. Ricardo pushes Ritch's "wife" away and ask what the hell he did that for, Ritch responding that that beast needs to be destroyed, Ricardo says but she's gorgeous. Ritch goes on saying that no animal would be alive it it had no arm, so it is a monstrosity and it must be destroyed, Ricardo then saying that they poured holy water on it though.

Riley grabs Ritch's other hand and pins him to the ground as he shouts destroy it. Ricardo then goes to hug Ritch's wife again, but reacting to the axe being thrown at her starts running away from the party. Ricardo shouts after her, but she gives no response and is just bolting away. Cobblepot suggests that they should just leave her alone, Ritch still insistant that she must be destroyed, Copplepot at this point tells Ritch to chill out. Ritch says to Cobblepot you chill out midget, Ricardo in response to this say her tiger, your like the dumbest person here and Ritch says that Ricardo is the ugliest, Ricardo resents that and asks if it is because he is brown calling him racist and also sexist. Ritch says oh really, stuttering then says he hates everyone in the party. Riley saying no he doesn't, in which Ritch tells her to let him go, Riley telling him she wont. At this point Ritch stops resisting and just keeps asking for Riley to let him go, to which she says she won't until he takes back what he said about hating everyone in the party, Ritch saying that he doesn't hate them all, she asks not even Cobblepot to which he replies, not even Cobblepot, but he glares at Ricardo.

At this point the girl is 15-20 ft away from the party and as Ricardo starts running after her, he notices that she just stops dead in her track and then he notices blood slowly pouring out from her back, as if she had just been stabbed by a sword. At this she slumps to the ground and a figure appears in front of Ricardo dicapitates her right in front of him, looking up after cleaning his sword, looks up at him for a few seconds, then just vanishes into thin air. After this turn of events Ricardo turns around, pretty scared at what just happened tells the party that they should get out of here. By now Riley has let go of Ritch, Ritch collect's his gear and then carefully start's heading over to the body of his dead "wife's" body, with Ricardo in tow.

Cobblepot walks up to them and says we have accomplished what he have set out to do and I think we should go back. As Cobblepot says this Ritch hears a voice in his head saying the gnome is correct go back to the gods, Ritch hearing this looks around and asks who are you?, are you the one who killed everyone here?, but he gets no response. Ritch goes over lifting up his leg, rolls the body over takes out his sword and stabs the body. He notices that his sword makes a bigger gash, concluding that whatever weapon killed he, had a slimmer width of blade. Ritch then says to get out of here, Riley then says she wants to find the person that just talked to them, but Ritch says he doesn't want to find an invisible creature that can just chop their heads off.

Ricardo then asks the invisible creature what he thinks they should do, to which he replies that he has already told them to go back to the gods. He asks if he is a friend of the gods, but gets no response. Ritch then says that even if the haven't done what they set out to do, they have enough information to run with. Riley then asks him if he is going to write a book, but Ritch tell her he can not read or write, Riley saying that's right you can not, which causes Ritch to say he thinks Riley is frustrating sometimes. Cobblepot the suggests that whatever this creature is he seems to be ethereal in nature and that he can speak to them on any floor, so they can just talk to him later.

Ricardo says that he is either a friend of the gods or an enemy and if he is the latter then they could stay to try to kill him. Cobblepot says that he can probably hear him, so it is a good idea not to say that, Ricardo then says he'll kill him again, Cobblepot apologizing for the foolishness of the last brown elf. Ricardo's hears someone say no you won't. The party decide to go back, but realising that everything now looks different they decide to go back to the well, to see if they can figure out where to go from there. Cobblepot walking up to the well, uses his good sense of direction and guides the party back to where he thinks they came from, but because the world looks so different has a little bit of a hard time traversing this new landscape, but having paid attention when he was running know's exactly how to get to this elevator.

The party arrive in the spot where the elevator was, but it doesn't seem to be there. Ricardo asks if he sure that this is the spot, to which Cobblepot says he is sure this is the place as he is very intelligent and remembers things like this, Ricardo says he must be wrong as it is not here. Copplepot then goes over to the spot and starts to dig to check of any signs of the elevator but doesn't notice anything. As Cobblepot is digging, Ritch notices that the dirt is hitting something that almost resembles a wall, which is completely translucent. Ritch at seeing this puts his hands out striking a wall, saying to the party that there's something here. Ritch investigating this object more, circles around it and eventually the elevator door opens at which he turns around to Ricardo saying now who's stupid, to which Ricardo says you are. The party then press the T button and head up, to speak with the gods.

Returning to The Temple of the Gods
As the doors open, Ritch and Ricardo notice a person brush past them and as they look out the elevator they see a humanoid figure form walking toward the temple, of who they recognize to be the man in the black cloak with bandages wrapped around him. Ricardo shouts at the top of his voice gods their someone else here, but nothing happens. The party then see Ricardo bolt past this figure and run into the temple, the rest slowly walking after Ricardo. The party arrive in the room with the giant stone chairs and the see the man walk into an alleyway towards the left. They are now standing before these stone chairs, but the gods aren't here with no portal's or anything of that nature. They decide to follow the guy down the alley, following him until he reaches a room opening the door, which the party hear voices coming from.

The party walk into the room, to see a feast in front of them and Lavos in his dwarf form, Narwal in his form when he stood before them. They see Mechanus as a small gnome, which slightly freaks out Cobblepot as he only knows him in his golem form. They see a small halfling on the other side of the room. As the party enter, they all turn to the party welcoming them back asking them how it went. Ricardo ask what up guy's, Ritch glares at Ricardo then says excuse me my lords we do not wish to interrupt, but we have just come back from out quest. They say perfect, perfect now would you like to join use for dinner pointing to four chairs on the opposite side of the table, Ritch replies that they are unworthy, but they would be honoured to join them for dinner. Turning then to Ricardo and glaring at him some more. Riley asks if they know the man in the corner, to which the halfling answers that he works for him. The halfling is known as Moe, tells the party he sent him just in case the party failed in their mission.

Ricardo, Ritch and Cobblepot joined them at the table, but Riley doesn't and stands beside Argo as she is angry about something. The gods noticing this say they have some food for Argo and point towards the troth, filled with the best food the horse could ever want, Riley sighing walks over to the table. As Riley sits down an elf walks into the room and sits at the last chair, the gods slowly looking at one another then look over to the party and asks them what happened. Ritch tells them about how the poured the water in the pool and all the zombies disappeared, that life had returned to the world, admit that they are still confused about something's that happened, like the monsters that were running around that took a lot of blows to bring down. The dwarf speaks up sighing, saying that what happened there was because of what they did, not meaning for things to go so badly, but things happen.

Cobblepot speaks up and asks what was in that vial that made everything spring up, bringing things to life. The elf speaks up saying that it is a special concoction of theirs and they wouldn't like to share it, also telling them pointing to the figure in the corner that the water they took from the pool isn't in their pouches any more. Ritch says you accidently killed everyone in a world, which Moe makes a light hearted chuckle at saying yeah that one got away from use, sorry about that. Ricardo shocked at the fact he thinks it's funny and Ritch felling the same way. Riley asks them more importantly are you going to pay use, the elf says that they will get to that soon insisting that they eat.

Ricardo, Riley and Cobblepot start eating, but Ritch excusing himself walks out of the room and walks towards the elevator to wait there. The gods watch Ritch as he leaves, Moe snapping his finger and the figure in the corner starts to walk out of the room. Ritch notices that this figure is following him where ever he goes. As Ritch sits in front of the elevator, the figure stands in a nearby corner with his arms crossed, staring at him. Ricardo tells them that he thinks Ritch is a little bit upset because they showed him his wife again and their guy decapitated her, asking what was up with that. Moe answers him saying that when they reset a world that way they need a subject zero and it just so happened they she came up from death and that's who they decided to use, apologizing saying they did not mean for that to happen, but you no stuff happens. Ricardo asks him if she was really Ritch's wife, to which Moe starts eating again and the elf picks up saying that even though she resemble the woman that Ritch married in Ehbon, she knew nothing unable to read, write, comprehend and that their minds are as barren as the one that just left the room, the other gods laugh at this, Ricardo joining in the laughter as he thinks Ritch is a douchbag.

Ricardo inquires if she was created from the bile of the world expanding, the elf speaking again saying their not exactly created, but that Death provides them bodies and  bodies are chosen then reanimated. He explains they try not to interfere with them too much, which was the reason why they had to kill the one the party encountered as so she would have known way too much and that world would have expanded way too quickly. Cobblepot asks what happens to these people after they die in these failed worlds, they explain that they only have a finite amount of souls to use, so they try to make sure that a soul is always in use. Riley then asks how many times her soul has been used, to find her soul has been used four times.

Ricardo then asks, that they were given souls, but by who, are you not the god's. He reply's by saying they are the gods, but there are more powerful gods than them. Ricardo then asks them who created them gods, the elf looking at him and saying that he is asking a question he cannot comprehend. Reaching out across the table with his hand, he says come here and ill show you what I mean. When he touches Ricardo's hand a flood of information comes into his head of armies raising and falling, of the destruction of towns and images of gods that he has never heard of. When the elf removes his hand, Ricardo feels blood trickling down his nose and he has a massive headache. He then says that was the only way I could make you understand. The gods then go back to eating.

They finish their meals after having several conversations, but nothing too interesting and one of them speaks up and asks again where did Ritch wander of too. Ricardo says he is not sure, but he is sure he hasn't wandered too far. About 20 minutes after Ritch sits in front of the elevator, the figure that watching him sits down next to him putting his head down and says sorry about that, Ritch saying about what, the figure asks him that you must know that was not your wife. Ritch say he already knew that it wasn't, the figure saying he glad he was just making sure. Ritch then says he didn't the gods where so cruel and uncaring, he sighs saying that when he was first brought on from one of these worlds he had the same feelings, at the end of the day they control your life it's best not to anger them and than to do something if your not ready to handle the consequences. He stands up patting Ritch on the back and back to standing in the corner.

After the gods clean themselves off, the elf speaks up saying for your next task we will contact you, but for now you should return to Ehbon. Ricardo asks if they could return to floor 4, but the elf says unfortunately not as too much information was shared and they will need to work on that world without there help. The discuss some more about the wizards, the gods telling them that they will get their due, telling Ricardo that they have a way of contacting them and Bre will be giving them their payment in front of the elevator before they leave. The gods all exit through the opposite hallway, with flashes of light coming from the end as they exit. Riley says she's scared now as she really doesn't want to go back to Darth. They then walk towards the elevator and as they approach see Ritch with his back towards them, who hears them coming looks up and greets them. Ricardo asks Ritch if he feeling okay, Ritch replies he's fine he just thinks the gods are cruel and he doesn't want to be anywhere near them.

They all get into the elevator and they see Bre there with a small pouch in his hand. Ricardo picks it up looks inside, to see a bag full of coins. Cobblepot looking at him says I really like your name, I don't know why, but I really like your name, Bre looks at him and he says Gnomes have the stupidest name and then walks off. After a few minutes of thumbing through the bag, Ricardo estimates there to be about 500 gold, splitting it evenly between the party. The party get into the elevator and return to Ehbon.

Ehbon
As the elevator door opens, they notice the world of Ehbon which they had left doesn't resemble the Ehbon they see now. The forest that was here before seems to have grown out further than since they left and the sky in no longer filled with ash, with the sky being a off grey colour and a full on sun shining in the sky. Riley confused about this goes back into the elevator to see if they got off on the right floor and the 5 button is light up showing that they didn't. Ricardo looks around for Captain O'Riley, but he is nowhere to be found. The party the discuss, the task for Darth, but it being so long ago most of them don't remember what they were supposed to do, Ritch reminding them it was to simply walk into the elevator. Cobblepot suggests that the party go find some sort of civilization to find out what's going on, Riley theorizing that a lot of time has passed since they've been in Ehbon and later asks Cobblepot with his good perception of time if he can tell how long it's been. Cobblepot goes over to a tree, examining it figures out that the tree has been there a long time, saying he thinks Riley is on to something and that a lot more time has passed than the feel has passed.

The party together start searching through the forest for a sign of civilisation, when Riley decides to climb a tree to get a better viewpoint. As Riley ascends this tree Ritch and Cobblepot notice by a tree a creature approaching them, that resembles a bear. Ritch tells the other two that there is a bear and that they should just climb a tree and let it past. Cobblepot says that he wants to befriend the bear, Ricardo replying that if he wants to do that, if the bear attacks him he'll put it to sleep. Ritch says they should just leave it alone, saying it maybe a difficult concept but just walk away from the bear. Cobblepot looking in his pouch notices the food he took from the god's table before he left is missing. The bear at this point is 3-4 ft away from Cobblepot at this point.

While Riley was up in the tree she saw that the world that was once covered in ash is no more and there are tree's for as far as the eye can see. Cobblepot tosses a tasty insect hitting the bear on the nose, who looks at it for a second, then roars at Cobblepot and starts charging towards him. Ricardo sees this and climbs the nearest tree, a battle ensues, but is quickly finished as Riley jumps from the tree hitting with her fore-hand and double critting with her off-hand, killing the bear instantly. Cobblepot gets a dagger off Ricardo and skin's the bear so he can make a cloak out of it, but as it is the first time Cobblepot has skinned an animal it came out okay, but not good.

Ritch who was starting to run at the bear, is now strolling to rest of the party and Riley is reclimbing the same tree again. As the party are getting on there tasks, Ritch notices the bushes rustling around them, but is unsure if it is the wind blowing or some kind of animal approaching them. Ritch ignores the sound and keeps relaxing while watching the party. Suddenly from the direction of the noise three worgs jump out of the bushes and go to attack Ritch, Ricardo and Cobblepot. A battle ensues in which, Ricardo gets knocked unconscious again, Riley crits a wolf with both of her attacks cutting the worg into three pieces.

After the battle Cobblepot goes over and heals Ricardo by giving him a ball tap, Ricardo felling a strange sensation below his waist, he wakes up. Cobblepot suggests they find some sort of civilisation as Ricardo is seriously hurt and the rest of them could also use some rest as well. Ritch then suggests they build a fire near the elevator which will generate a lot of smoke and wait for someone to come get them. Cobblepot says that they could try the idea for a day, but if no one finds them then they should find their own way. Ritch then starts walking around getting twigs and leaves, and soon has a small fire going adding to it so gets bigger and bigger. Riley takes Argo over to the fire and sits down, Ricardo sitting next to her. Riley asks if it would be safer sleeping in the elevator, Ritch says she can sleep in that cramped place, but he prefers the open space and it would only fit around two people if they snuggled, so if she wants she and Ricardo can sleep in there. Riley says yeah it might be uncomfortable for Argo to sleep there.

The party go to sleep, apart from Ritch who stays up all night. Through the night no one comes to the smoke, no airship or anything else for that matter. The party sleep through the night, waking up and as they wake up the party experience the first sunrise they have ever seen before and is not something that happens in this world, weirding them out. Cobblepot wakes up and heals Ricardo, then heals himself. The party decided to head in the direction of Narsh, a North westerly direction to see if they can find civilisation.

The party travel till nightfall, but before they went to sleep Cobblepot heals Ritch back up to full. Cobblepot then starts casting a spell not telling the others what it is, Riley says to keep it away from her and Ricardo asks him what he's casting. Ricardo then casts Wall of Fog and then goes to sleep. Ritch goes to sleep as well, but Riley unable to sleep stays up because Cobblepot is casting a spell. Cobblepot casts the spell, but as it is his first time casting it nothing happens. Riley goes up to Cobblepot and says unless your healing me keep you magic away from me. He starts saying but don't you want my magic to protect, she interrupts him and repeats keep your magic away from me. He asks if she trusts him, she shakes her head and walks back to Argo. Cobblepot then goes to sleep and Riley stays up the entire night just staring a Cobblepot.

The party keep traveling towards the north-west, journeying throughout the second day they see, simple flowers, rolling hill and a pool of running water as if life has returned to this desolate land, but they find no towns of any sort. Cobblepot on the journey taps on Ricardo's side gesturing him back asks him, if he trusts him as a party member, Ricardo saying of course he does but thinks he's full of crap sometimes. He does the same to Ritch asking him the same question, Ricardo and Riley notice this as they are at the front. Ritch says that overall he trusts him and if their opinions diverged, he doesn't think he wouldn't stab him in the back, but he doesn't think he is the most combat effective. Cobblepot holds up his wrench with the blood on it saying he thinks he disagree's, but thanks him for saying that. Ritch gives him advice saying that he should clean off his weapon so it doesn't rust, Cobblepot says he likes to keep stuff like that for intimidation purposes, Ritch says he unsure if that would intimidate a bear, which Cobblepot says a skin of his dead friend on my back might.

Riley noticing this goes up to Cobblepot and asks why he is sectioning the party off, to which he replies he's not sectioning anybody off and is just having conversations. Riley asks him if he going to have a conversation with her, to which he says that she kindly made it clear that she wanted him to stay away from her, she says is it validating that, to which he replies that his magic is an extension of him and that if she wants him to keep him magic away from her, he will keep his distance to respect her wishes. Riley says she thinks he's taking it a little to personally, but Cobblepot he thinks she just paranoid. She point's out that Cobblepot was talking to the others, but he says he just wanted their opinion. Riley says that's fair but I still don't like your magic, Cobblepot says that it is the magic of life I don't know what your afraid of. Riley says that not all of it is though, he then says like I said I was casting a spell to protect the party and if I can stop something invading the camp that helps as well. He says to be honest I don't think that Wall of Fog does to much, Riley admitting that she doesn't like that magic either.

The party continue on throughout the day, finding no sign of any town and make camp, Cobblepot heals himself and Ricardo casts Wall of Fog once again. As the rest of the party are asleep, Ricardo casts another Wall of Fog. As the party wake up they see what looks to be a small town. The party start walking towards the town and as the party get within 30 minutes of the town, Cobblepot says he needs to take a leak, but Ricardo is instantly suspicious of this and thinks he is going to cast a spell. He goes behind a tree and pretends to use the restroom, but casts a spell instead. He then comes back and rejoins the party, Ritch says to him that was a long pee dude, have you got gnome problems, did you see a pretty lady gnome and pay for something on the side, I hear that burns. Cobblepot to this says his pipe works just fine, But Ritch still offers to take him to a licensed Cleric if that's what he needs.

As the party walks towards this town the party see the gates open and two riders are now heading out towards them or what seems like horse's, but they can not tell what's riding them. Riley seeing them asks if Ricardo has any more Wall of Fog's, to which he say's of course I have Wall of Fog's available. Cobblepot suggest not trying to run, as they can not outrun people on horseback so they should greet these people in peace and find out what they want. The party agree with this as it would be less suspicious. As these riders get closer they see that it is not a humans riding a horse, but two centaurs riding towards the party. The party are shocked by these creature's having never seen them before, only Cobblepot having heard stories of such creatures.

Riley and Ritch grab their swords saying what are these monstrosities. Cobblepot says that these are naturally occurring creatures, the fact that you haven't seen one before doesn't mean their monstrosities. Ritch shocked saying how can something half-man, half beast be naturally occurring. Riley has a go at him about the fact he called horse's beasts, he then tells her that he didn't mean it in a derogatory way, but as in demi-human and ask's why she has to be so defensive all the time, telling her to relax. As the party fight among themselves the centaurs get closer, Ritch sheaths his sword and waves to them, but Riley stays ready to attack them and is motioning to Argo to get back.

These centaurs as they approach shout from a distance why have you come to this town?, Ritch answers saying they are travellers, that want a place to rest and some food would be nice. The centaur then asks them where they came from, Ritch replies again saying they came from a land down under. He asks him where exactly, Ritch tells him that he used to live up north, but now lives in the middle and that they are travelling. asking them what business is it of theirs. He looks at Ritch and says I am the one asking questions here, then looks at Cobblepot and asks him are you with these travellers, do you call these friends. Cobblepot says he is in a party with them, the centaur repeating his question and asks if he calls them friends, to which he says he does.

The guard the says they will be entering the town, but only under the guidance of the gnome. Ricardo then asks the guard if he can ride him, Ritch immediately apologizing for his words as he says he is the most tasteless person he as ever met. The guard then warns him if there are any more comments like that he won't be entering the town, they say follow use into town turning round they head towards the town. As the party walk into town they see the centaur who greeted them by the side of the gate, a few mud huts and also that the town is completely full of centaurs, with no humanoid races in sight.

The party walk into town and Ritch looks around asking one of the people if theirs a local tavern, the centaur looking down sees he's talking to him, gallops away in shock. Riley goes up and asks a random centaur if they sleep in stables, the centaur looks at her confused blinking his eyes profusely. Ritch goes over and apologises saying she was raised by elves and elves are weird. The centaur now looking even more confused turns towards the guard towards the gate and start's clicking his hooves together, which takes five minutes or so. After awhile the people who seem to be the guards walk up to the party and say it would be best you not talk to the towns people, as many have not seen humans or elves in a very very long time however the gnome is welcome wherever he may please.

Ritch pulls up the hood of his cloak, saying he will try to hide his presence the best he can and asks them if they could point them to a tavern. The centaur points to a building on the edge of town and says they'll let you in, tell them the guards said it was all right. Ritch with his hood up gesture's to Riley and Ricardo to put their hoods up as well. Cobblepot asks why he gets preferential treatment, to which the centaur says they rarely see elves or humans anymore, but gnomes still come from the mountain in the south. Cobblepot says that it must be a really rare sight, as there is not only an elf, but the last brown elf. The centaur responds saying we only see race not colour. Cobblepot says that is very progressive, the centaur thinking this comment is meant to mock him, but Cobblepot says he was being sensire. The centaur then turns around abruptly and goes back to the gate.

Riley runs after him and asks him how long he has been here, as she used to live around here and now everything is totally different. He responds saying do you take me as a fool, human you have not lived here for several years that is a complete lie and I will not hear any of it. She then asks has there always been grass here, to find out that as far he know there has. Ritch defending the centaur as he has lived in the east and raised sheep, to which the centaur said congratulations, causing Ritch to call him a jackass. Both the centaurs are looking at them now and they talk to Cobblepot saying gnome are these friends of yours, as they are being kicked out of this town. Cobblepot pleads with them, to give them one last chance as they are not used to being round people in this world. At this the centaur says no more questions, no more bothersome tasks go to the inn and be out of our site. Riley apologizing and walks away with the rest of the party walking behind.

The party make it over to this hut and as they go in they see that it is a tavern, but everything is too high for anyone to reach. Riley gets up on her horse, to sit at the table normally. Ritch and Riley have a hard time, but cobblepot has no idea what he is going to do. As they walk in, the bartender greets Riley as she is the only one he can plainly see and ask her how she got in here, she tells them that the guards let them in. Cobblepot jumps up and manages to get a pretty good jump, the bartender seeing this hand bends over the bar asking Riley if he's her friend, which he accepts. He then asks what he can do for them, Riley saying that they need rooms, the centaur says they have two rooms but they haven't been used in a long time, Riley then says she'll take the rooms, the centaur says they don't have to worry about payment, as they haven't been used in ages.

Riley the asks if they can get some food, the bartender saying they've got some grass they can have. Ritch shocked ask you eat grass, but your half human. The bartender says they eat mainly grass, but do have meat on occasion when the hunters are successful. Ritch says he would love some meat and some goat chese if they have any. The bartender says they do not have any of this goat chese he speaks of, but he does have some meat but won't give it to them for free. Ritch says that's fine, pulls some gold coins out of his pouch hops up and puts them on the counter. Riley asks if they have any horse chese, the bartender then looks at her saying what shaking his head. Ritch looking Riley says horse chese really Riley, really.

Riley sees him start preparing the meal, which just looks to be some simple meat he is cooking on an open flame. Riley asks what animal the meat came from, the bartender answering that it came from a boar that the hunters brought in. He passes the four plates to Riley, apologizing as he doesn't know how to serve her friends. Riley passes down the meals to the rest of the party, the other three eating the meal standing up. The bartender notices that Riley's not eating and offers her some grass, Ritch taking the oppurtunity to take her food, but Riley says she doesn't think she would digest it very well. Riley asks if the have any oats or wheat, but the bartender says that they only had meat and grass. He then walks in the back, leaving the party to feast on their meat.

Ricardo suggests getting out of thhis town as he doesn't like the horses, which shocks Riley. Cobblepot suggests they find out some information about the surronding towns, as this maybe the only civilisation for a long while. Ricardo agrees that it is a good idea, but remembering what happened earlier asks Cobblepot if he can talk to the centaurs, Cobblepot agrees and goes to find a centaur. Ritch goes up to his room to sleep Riley following him, Ritch goes to sleep on the floor and Riley sleeps in the bed. Cobblepot exiting the tavern see's a couple of centaurs walking around, going up to one asks about the surronding villages. The centaur says what are you getting at gnome, are you just looking for the towns around here, as up far north there's Narsh but around here there's a settlement of elves, a town which we knew about but don't go there very often. Cobblepot then asks how far the nearest town is, the centaur saying it is about 1-2 days travel, buts says he doesn't know much as centaurs are a simple people and don't leave the area except for hunting and gathering. Cobblepot then heads back to the tavern.

As he enters the tavern, Cobblepot sees Ricardo waiting for him. Ricardo asks him what he found out, Cobblepot telling him that he found out that there are some towns close by and if they wanted to leave they could, but the centaurs seem to be solitary so didn't give much information about what would be in these towns except the races and he wouldn't know if they were hostile or not. Ricardo says they should head out tommorow, saying again that he doesn't like the horses to much, but Cobblepot says their like this because they rarely see humans and elves. Ricardo asks Cobblepot to follow him and both of them go into the other room and plot.