As our travelers spent the night they noticed small mosquito-like insects bothering the people, including themselves. These small bugs proved to be rather resilient, as even after getting hit they sometimes didn’t get squashed. Speaking with the merchant, they inquired about a bag of holding. They learned that there was a local delivery man at the merchant’s guild they may be able to buy one from.
Once they reached the merchant’s guild they learned there wasn’t too much here at the moment. When they inquired about the delivery man, a small ratfolk showed up. Christmas immediately took offense to dealing with a ratfolk, who in turn took offense dealing with a racist like Christmas. In the end, after some wheeling and dealing, Christmas managed to convince him to sell the bag.
Getting very annoyed by these bugs, the group started to want to get out of town. Inquiring about horses, they learned they were in a stable at the edge of town. They decided to head that way, they learned from the stablehand that the horses were all owned. They also saw some of the horses had died from the bugs. Off in the distance they could see a cloud slowly approaching the village.
Annoyed that the stablehand wouldn’t sell them horses he didn’t own, they tried to steal them, all except for Fang, who learning that many of the horses belonged to the Serenoa Trading Company, so headed over to talk to them. Meanwhile after failing to get the horses to do as they wished, the rest of the group set the stables on fire. The stablehand was terrified of this crazy group and ran off. Christmas and Sion thought taking off was a good idea and ran back to their merchant friend,
Fang, seeing the horses run wild, managed to calm a few of them down, and Zuko attempting to get a horse to do as he wished failed again. An older man saw Fang help out and introduced himself as Benedict, right hand to Serenoa. After talking a bit he brought Fang and Zuko to Serenoa. There Fang bargained with Serenoa, and agreed to take care of the insect problem in exchange for horses and a wagon. When Fang asked for advice on how, he was informed that Serenoa had a friend in Madeira who may have more information. He also had some men looking into it and would let them know if he found anything.
Fang regrouped with Christmas and Sion, and informed them of the agreement. The party ended up deciding to do this as it seemed the best way to get transportation. After waiting a bit Serenoa approached the group and let them know there was a cloud outside of town of the bugs that seemed to be the main source. Our group went to fight them.
FInding the group of insects, Zuko approached ahead of the group, hoping to use a spell to take out as many as possible without harming his allies. He wasn’t fast enough however, as the insects swarmed around him. Along with the insects was a sort of living fungus, which the group managed to recall having learned about as being wizard sponge. Our group struggled to fight these things, especially Christmas, and although bruised and battered managed to come out victorious.