The path leading up to the Moonlight Monastery is in desperate need of maintenance and repair. Perhaps a work crew might be dispatched to widen the path and remove the dangerous portions. As we were climbing we encountered a rather bad rockfall that left myself, Khodrin, and Miss Freehand severely bruised. We decided to take a moment to rest and treat our injuries on the next sort of cover we could find further up the path.
We hadn't been resting long before the kobolds appeared, first making themselves known when a slingstone smacked that tiefling in the back of the head. This was the second such stone, actually. The first apparently missed prompting that tiefling to note that he had seen a pebble move. The second one did severe damage, I will admit. Enough so that apparently it rattled his brain somewhat.
Dame TJ and Khodrin stepped forward as that tiefling cast his mage armor. Fortunately, the paladin took most of the attention from the enemy and the slingstones proved to have difficulty getting through her armor. For my own part, I decided to make use of the absolutely wretched state of repair that this path had been left in and launched a stone against the cliffside causing a rockslide that took with it several kobolds.
Unfortunately, the rockslide also nearly hit Dame TJ and may have resulted in the death of the Gitava messenger. This is a regretful turn of events. Among other things, despite the suspicious nature of the half-elf's presence this far north, there was nothing saying that he was an enemy. We had promised to escort him to the monastery and failed in that promise directly due to my own actions, and possibly his own inability to dodge rocks.
Doubly unfortunate, his body was carried off the edge of the cliff, so we can't even inspect the message he was engaged to deliver to the monastery. I still suspect that we may reach the monastery to find that it is held by our enemy as a deliberate attempt to poison the Knights of the Silver Oak. The message he carried might have cast light on that possibility.
Over the course of the rest of the fight I avoided the use of the same tactic after my near injury of Dame TJ, I would learn of the messenger's death later. That tiefling applied his magic as well, melting and bursting the heads of kobolds with thunderous sound. Though it seems that the injury to his head eventually caught up to him as he spent much of the rest of the fight simply standing around and staring in confusion as the rest of us dispatched the remaining kobolds. At last, as the battle came to an end, he tried to walk straight through Miss Freehand who dodged and was surprised to see that tiefling literally walk off the ledge in front of her to fall fifteen feet further down.
We took another bit of rest before pressing on and finding ourselves encountering a man camouflaged and off the main path. After a bit of caution and questioning his presence we took up his invitation to rest in his cave for the night before pressing onward.
That tiefling made something of a scene due to a repeated claim that I had said his name at some point. Clearly this was still the concussion at work though I do have to admit given how severe the symptoms were earlier, that he recovered quite quickly. For that matter, the confusion came at a rather delayed rate since he performed quite admirably for a moment in battle before starting to just stare off into space and walking off of ledges. Perhaps it has something to do with tiefling physiology. I should ask Miss Crest about this.
The man produced a rather tasty stew that contained a sort of stringy white meat that he said was a sort of gecko or mountain lizard. I'd ask for the recipe but neither Hellenae nor myself are exactly good cooks. He also ended up repairing several of our weapons and gear. I provided my dagger, mostly for the sake of being polite, and it has come back exquisitely sharp. Enough so that I must take care in using it to avoid slashing myself deeper than I would normally do.
That tiefling made something of a scene due to a repeated claim that I had said his name at some point. Clearly this was still the concussion at work though I do have to admit given how severe the symptoms were earlier, that he recovered quite quickly. For that matter, the confusion came at a rather delayed rate since he performed quite admirably for a moment in battle before starting to just stare off into space and walking off of ledges. Perhaps it has something to do with tiefling physiology. I should ask Miss Crest about this.
The man produced a rather tasty stew that contained a sort of stringy white meat that he said was a sort of gecko or mountain lizard. I'd ask for the recipe but neither Hellenae nor myself are exactly good cooks. He also ended up repairing several of our weapons and gear. I provided my dagger, mostly for the sake of being polite, and it has come back exquisitely sharp. Enough so that I must take care in using it to avoid slashing myself deeper than I would normally do.
Come to think of it, I believe the kobolds were armed with knives and forks for some reason. I suppose they were a bit hungry themselves. It certainly explains why they were attacking us in broad daylight, I had heard they were nocturnal or subterranean creatures for the most part. Regardless, we should be aware of these lizard-like bandits as we move on further. Apparently we are still about two days out from the monastery.
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