Fantasy Cursed Island

[Darkling0096]

"Oh, nice!", Jerry took a look at the cards, and then frowned, "This is two sets, did you find the- Oh, there they are." The deckboxes had gotten squished amongst the cards, "I'm not sure if that's a bad thing."

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle shrugged. "I just grabbed them all and took them with me." With how carelessly she handled them, it was very likely a few were still in her satchel. "Oh, I also found some berries. I only ate one because it made me full."

 

[Darkling0096]

"I'll go through these later," Jerry maneuvered the cards into the correct orientation and put them in one of her pouches, deciding to take a look at them later with the caster. "What do you mean- they had goodberries?", that was what that sounded like, at least.

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle nodded. "They were pretty good, yeah." She looked around before pointed at the hut she'd found them in. "In that one."

 

[Darkling0096]

"Oh, that one," Jerry didn't seem too keen on going back into that hut. "Describe the berries."

 

[Fangs9090]

"Um... red. And growing on a bush. Oh, and the pot might be magic."

 

[Darkling0096]

"Wait," jerry grabbed Shuffle by the shoulders to look her in the eyes and make sure she heard that right. "They have a Goodberry Bush?" Those were incredibly rare, for the simple reason that the spell that made Goodberries, the berries couldn't be planted, vanishing in an hour if not eaten. "How do they have a Goodberry Bush?" She didn't expect Shuffle to actually have an answer for that. "That's worth ten times its weight in gold!"

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle blinked as Jerry grabbed her. "...gold? So it's shiny?"

 

[Darkling0096]

Jerry shook her head, "It's not shiny, it's the best food source that exists. But they're ridiculously rare, that's why I had bread and cheese when we met, not a bag of Goodberries." She turned to Emil, "Can you go make sure that plant's actually there, and bring it here?"

 

[Fangs9090]

Emil gave a nod and flew off to the hut.

Shuffle tilted her head. "It's not meat though..." Speaking of meat, she remembered her fish and reached back to retrieve it from her hair.

 

[Darkling0096]

"Don't eat that, you've been swimming in that mess,", Jerry all but smacked the fish out of Shuffle's hands. "We don't know what's in this water, Shuffle!"

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After regurgitating just about everything he'd eaten since coming to this place, probably, Adran gave a groan, chugged some liquid courage to make his stomach stop working, and threw the bottle into the water, adding to the mess in the water Jerry was worried about Shuffle eating. Once he was back inside, the jar of elf ears joined it. "I'm gonna kill him. I don't care how badly we need him, I am going to feed him to the hellhounds."

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle defensively held her fish away from Jerry. "But it's mine! I've been waiting for it!"

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Niudisa glanced over. "I'd agree, but he'd probably give the hellhounds indigestion or worse, and I don't want to see that."

 

[Darkling0096]

"And I'll get you another fish, I promise," jerry replied, "Just not one with its head ripped off and dunked in tarrasque poop and Adran's vomit. I don't want you to get sick, Shuffle."

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"I don't care who or what his patron is," Adran was basically just raving now, "There is no justification for... gods, the ears?" he put a hand over his ears, "And he nibbled on them?"

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle stayed where she was for a moment. "...promise?"

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Niudisa looked over. "I mean, have you tried them?" She was joking, of course, but she couldn't pass the chance to tease him.

 

[Darkling0096]

"I promise," Jerry held out her scaled pinkie, "Pinky promise."

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Adran's eyelid twitched. "Are you serious? You're gonna stand there a fey and ask me if I've tried other fey's ears?"

"Break it up!", Emfa and Joanne called from under Lyak's workhut. They'd chosen not to try the climb, figuring that between Emfa being too massive to fit through the trapdoor and Joanne's armor they'd probably collapse the structure.

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle wasn't sure what that meant, but it seemed more sincere than a normal promise. "Mm... alright." She looked at her fish again. She couldn't bear to throw it away herself, so she handed it to Jerry.

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Niudisa snickered. "I'm messing you. Even I wouldn't do that."

 

[Darkling0096]

Jerry didn't even pretend throwing the fish away was as big as it was to Shuffle, turning and throwing it as far away as she could. It bounced off a tree before some kind of bird feeder snatched it out of the air and soared off into the distance. "Now, tell me what you know about your kobold friend."
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Adran did not find that reassuring. "You're sick, you know that?"

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle watched the fish go before looking at Jerry. "Her name's probably Raine, and she's stuck in a cage."

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Niudisa smiled. "I know."

 

[Darkling0096]

Jerry was reminded that Shuffle's thought process was fairly simple. "Was she with anything when you found her? Any loot? Potions? Was she the only one in a wood cage?" Raine did happen to be the only one in a wooden cage.

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Adran pulled a Jerry and flipped Niudisa the finger, continuing to put stuff in the bag.

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle tilted her head. "Um...there were some other things locked up. A blight hound and a saurian."

 

[Darkling0096]

"That's good," Jerry gestured for Shuffle to continue with any details she could think of.

 

[Fangs9090]

"Um..." Shuffle tilted her head, really thinking hard to come up with something else. "...oh! Her cage was the only one made of wood."

 

[Darkling0096]

"That's good." Jerry nodded. "Stay here, don't eat anything," she stressed the 'don't eat anything', "I'm gonna go see what's holding Emil up and see if Lyak knows how to open this cage." Jerry turned and went to go bother the goblins and find Emil.

 

[Fangs9090]

Shuffle nodded and sat down by the cage. Raine had yet to approach that side of the cage again.


Over in the hut with the berries, Emil was leaning heavily against the table as he hunched over a puddle of vomit.

 

[Darkling0096]

The sound that came out of Jerry's mouth was somewhere between a harsh growl and a part of her sanity dying. Every time Jerry turned around, half the time it felt like the group had one brain to go around and Jerry had it. She didn't even bother with a "Gods-dammit, Emil," even though this was the first time Emil had done anything stupid. She just picked up the bat, sat him in a chair, and wiped off his face. "You had one job."