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@Vladim thx. Much clearer. No need for a roll.

I agree MAB is an excellent choice as well. I also like the idea of walking the Forest Trail.

We can go right through the heart of the territory this spirit might be associated with.

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2 hours ago, thesloth said:

@Vladim thx. Much clearer. No need for a roll.

I agree MAB is an excellent choice as well. I also like the idea of walking the Forest Trail.

We can go right through the heart of the territory this spirit might be associated with.

Alright, then that's two votes for Mab via the elf-path (Dahr-Ol, Gramtyng) and one vote for staying at the festivities. I think Gram is also happy to stay for the festivities, but depart on the morning of the next day. So basically 2-2 on votes, in a sense.

I'll wait for @Eric @Suzuki Stumpy and @Powderhorn to weigh in with their characters' preferences. I am not sure if Avena knows what she's getting into... perhaps another PC can explain so she can be less passive about it (i.e. not just following along). But that's up to you guys.

50 minutes ago, thesloth said:

As long as we can handwave that Dahr-Ol and Elfwynn showed up at the Inn with another Beorning in tow, we can pick up with Aveena in the castle?

I was thinking to introduce Avena at the opening ceremony of the festival. I'd rather avoid the hand-wavium and a 'poof! Avena was there all along!' because (a) it's immersion-breaking and (b) it's rather unnecessary. For example, even if you decide, as a group, to skip the opening ceremony and set out at once, we can introduce Avena in the next scene anyway. It simply won't be the opening ceremony, but the preparations for the journey.

 

Another option is to split the party, with some staying behind in Dale while others travel to Mab... but this may get messy from a practical point of view. I am not completely against it, though.

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8 minutes ago, thesloth said:

We need to get Aveena in to see King Bard. But we could that do on ceremony day.

Sounds good! Ceremony day *is* present day. But in the evening/night (it's currently morning). It may be hard to get to the king given how busy it will be... but maybe Barin can call some favors.

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From a player's perspective, I'm fine moving on. I don't need a scene for the opening ceremony, unless you think there's something there that will drive the story forward. I know you want to keep the adventure moving and Cecil already had his fun while playing for his hunk of meat.

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11 hours ago, Vladim said:

Sounds good! Ceremony day *is* present day. But in the evening/night (it's currently morning). It may be hard to get to the king given how busy it will be... but maybe Barin can call some favors.

As a player, I don't have any problems with trying to call in some favours. As a Dwarf, Barin might grumble and moan, but I think he'd go along with it all the same as he would see the benefit in having more folks on-side. Plus, you never know what those in high-places might turn up. As for the opening ceremony, if we're still around for the evening's festivities, then I'm cool with that. If, on the other hand, we want to get in to see King Bard then hit the trail, cool with that also.

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54 minutes ago, thesloth said:

I think once Aveena arrives we should not delay. Beorn's message could be important.

I don't think it's a message, it's just a gift for the birth of his son.

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2 minutes ago, thesloth said:

Just tell Beorn it fell into the lake?

Ooooops

Sure, that will go down well (pun not intended).

8 hours ago, Modest_Proposal said:

From a player's perspective, I'm fine moving on. I don't need a scene for the opening ceremony, unless you think there's something there that will drive the story forward. I know you want to keep the adventure moving and Cecil already had his fun while playing for his hunk of meat.

The primary reason is to have Avena join us, so I think I will go ahead with it. You can treat it as a cutscene, if you want-so that if you want to fast-forward past it, that's totally ok.

Since we're taking a more sandbox approach with this, there's no need to have something driving the story forward in a linear adventure style. Events are happening in the background, and will continue to do so; it's up to you guys to decide how and when to get involved in them.

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I think just generally speaking, Avena would like to have the opportunity to bake as much as possible, spread the love, and then have enough for marching. However, I think a full single day of baking, and then a day of farmer's market-esque booth hounding would be adequate to the task, if that makes sense.

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1 hour ago, Powderhorn said:

I think just generally speaking, Avena would like to have the opportunity to bake as much as possible, spread the love, and then have enough for marching. However, I think a full single day of baking, and then a day of farmer's market-esque booth hounding would be adequate to the task, if that makes sense.

That can be arranged, though you guys (aka, the players) will have to discuss on how to proceed.

While this adventure is (perhaps regrettably) not the Great Middle-Earth Bake-off, baking scenes are low-stakes enough that I am happy for anyone who wants to to insert them in the celebrations.

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Since we are facing a winter journey, I think Dahr-Ol and Elfwynn would devote their meager resources to stockpiling food. I have some rather unpleasant memories of our last winter journey and the search for food. Especially if we take the forest trail. We might even want to consider a beast of burden, to ensure we have enough.

If there is an upside to this journey's timing, it's that black spiders should stand out really easily in white snow. Even easier if the Mirkwood loses it's leaves in the winter....

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