quartz/content/Journal/Day193.md

• approach 9 "behir lair"
• stalactites and a pool of water fed from cracks
• pass through behir lair without seeing one

2024-01-19

• head towards cave / orcs in underdark
• climb up rope into a sinkhole
• hear the sounds of grunting and harsh language
• cave looks relatively clean
• large orc is talking with 4 other orcs
• ../Characters/Luka Votsk walks towards them
• calls out
• they are the ../Organizations/White Fist orcs
• they don't like the ../Organizations/Crushed Skull orcs
• wondering what might have followed us up the hole
• humans, including "birds of prey" are bothering them
• crushed skull orcs are part of what used to be the same tribe
• kicked them out
• spilled blood, split blood
• not the same tribe anymore
• leader's brother was killed by one of the crushed skull orcs
• Luka wonders if the orcs would accept anything to end the conflict
• Would need a life from the other tribe
• and another marriage agreement
• O3 is living quarters - about a hundred orc women and children
• O2 has maybe 40 orc soldiers doing drills
• ../People/Kersux is one of the ../Organizations/Crushed Skull
• ../People/Klusko is a bad ogre, casts spells
  • has a pet red dragon
• climb back down sinkhole
• travel to the ../Organizations/Crushed Skull orcs
• ../Characters/Luka Votsk talks to them
• ../People/Gorok's brother Henry defeated by ../People/Kersux in challenge to the death
• ../Characters/Luka Votsk requests audience with ../People/Kersux
• pass 15 orcs in large cave
• ../People/Kersux is asleep
• Wrelen talks to him
  • mentions a drow named ../People/Phren
  • ../People/Kersux orders guard to take us to him
  • guard seems nervous about it
• ../People/Phren takes out a pouch of 12 gems
  • they are not magical gems
• ../People/Larenkar has a magical gem
  • hasn't been seen in years
• ../People/Phren tried to pay ../People/Kersux and ../Organizations/Crushed Skull to fight in a war on the surface
  • after the duel with Henry
  • Phren wanted them to fight his masters
  • Kersux wanted to keep his people safe underground
• ../People/Kersux shows a note
  • I value your friendship, I am sorry for the loss of your brother
  • sent him as an emissary
  • loss hurts us both
  • I hope I can still count on you to join me in whatever may come
  • relay through Phren any requests you may have
  • signed, B
• raid awhile back where surface dwellers came down and stole things
  • killed off clan members and retreated
  • may have been the ../Organizations/Birds of Prey
  • taking care of his people is more important than vengeance
• ../People/Phren says he is bound by magic to not discuss his master
  • Wrelen tries to dispel magic
  • ../People/Phren doesn't think it will work, and is surprised when it does
  • will need to be guaranteed certain things
  • he wants to stay here for protection
  • wants literature or entertainment
  • arcane wards for defense
  • return in a few days' time and he will have a list
  • ../Characters/Bayden doesn't like this, wants to torture him
• we think the while gemstone was stolen by the ../Organizations/Birds of Prey
  • now it's with ../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak's body
• travel to 12 where a stream empties out into a lake
  • nothing in Area C or Area A

2024-02-02

• ../Characters/Daimaan Imhosenef tries to reach through the bag of holding
  • gets very injured
  • pulls out a caltrop
• go see ../People/Phren
  • gives us his requests ../Quests/Phren's Care Package
• try to find a nearby way out of the underdark
  • it's a dead end
• we wander around and come up in ../Places/Bostwick/index
  • it's night
  • look for a spot to camp for the night
  • night passes uneventfully