Materia Book 1: A Survivalist's Guide

“After the incident with the octopus people yesterday I have hopes that today will go better. With more time having passed the tracks are no longer visible but luckily our captives can point us towards their base camp. We stumble upon an abandoned village with nothing worth salvaging inside. There is however a watch tower which we use to check our surroundings before continuing towards the slavers. As we continue forward we hear noises coming from the woods,we slowly advance and find gnomes playing some sort of games with some “tree people”. Adora and Ixith talk to them and we learn that they are forest guardians and they are currently watching over the gnomes. Note to self: do not mess with the trees, will probably die. But as we still need to find the camp we press on when some giant creatures appear out of nowhere and crush myself and Adora or so I’m told. All I know is that I woke up on the ground in a pool of my own blood and that my ribs are broken. Which Gearforged informs me by touching them. With that I decide that I’m done with today and we set up camp. Nothing eventful happens during the first few watches but when myself and Azadeen are set to watch we get pounced upon by dire wolves. Luckily everyone is able to wake up in time and stop anyone from dying but Azadeen is looking a bit worse for wear. I find that while manageable in most circumstances my injury appears to stop me from being able to assist in combat. I would suggest that we go back to town but as we have already been set back several days I decide to persist and see if we can’t make it to the camp. There is a large group of the small giant lizards. Azadeen has decided she wants to make one her friend. So she lassos it, pulls it to the ground, and ties it up. I don’t think that is how you make friends. The party gets into an argument about whether we should be keeping such a creature, I am against it as the lizards here are clearly dangerous and I would rather that we not all die. Amidst the kerfuffle the creature gets away and we carry on towards the camp. We crest a hill and are able to spot the camp but Adora lets us know that our captives are trying to lead us into a trap. We subdue them and decide to set up camp a bit away so that way we can attack the camp the next morning. Unfortunately we are attacked by undead in the night as this world really seems to not like us. However they are able to be dispatched with relative ease. Searching the bodies we find some items of assorted value but more curiously they seem to have some sort of energy emanating from the skulls. We carefully remove them, I wonder what we could do with such items.”