we are enviromental conservasonists

Porting in during the day because it takes a month for the sun to set.

There is magic all around but none of the people have a ton of magic, they use magic to support their lives.
Mostly agriculture and artisans
As it is a rainforest there are plants and animals that are dangerous
Fortified roads with walls and some magic.
The jungle is dangerous
Owain is a knight in training now
Flim Flam is…interesting….
It is raining when we arrive and there is a very rickety bridge to cross the ravine ahead of us
Both the maps FlimFlam and I have the same data, but are very different styles.
Road is very Roman in construction.
There are small towns and quarries. Everything is very alive.
There is a tent that Owain goes up to, which appears to be sort of an inn…
We go in, and Owain announces he is a knight here to protect the caravans, and Thadeus takes some stew.
We are given some stew.
The caravans that vanish go through the hub, not the jungle.
Word has been spread and no one has seen anything. Very few caravans are getting through, no relationship to time or cargo.
There is a caravan that is about to go.
But none really want to go lately.
It is a vegetable stew, many flavors but it is mostly root veggies
We decide to head out with the caravan, and that Owain should hide his sword.
He hides it in Flimflam’s satchel ... .hat ... .which doesn’t want to stay on straight.
We set off at a brisk pace.
We feel that the walls around the roads keep the jungle away through both magic and the structure.
My book says that the walls need to be maintained, so it may be broken in some spaces.
Flesh eating plants, poisonous and venomous things.
Predators as well, but also dangerous
There is a crumbled wall, with a dandelion growing out of it.
The break doesn’t seem natural, it seems as if the wall was hit with a very large fist.
I catalog it back into place. Even the lantern goes back.
There is writing that says keep out, and it appears that it was “run over by a tree”.
The wall tells me it often listens to people’s conversations.
The others don’t seem to have an idea for why the tree could be moving.
We hear the sound of leaves rustling, and breaking branches.
Owain does something with the dandelion in a pot and his abilities
The giant tree seems to be moving closer.
Owain says he can outsmart a tree.
He draws his sword and turns himself to clay.
Vines seem to pull the tree back beyond the wall.
Flimflam says that mother nature is a bitch and I tell him to apologize that she might be listening.
A gust of wind comes by and the dandelion seems to bow.
There is a strangely harmonic noise that sounds good to each of us from beyond the jungle.
Owain goes in, riding on a log being moved by the vines.
Flimflam gets upset because Owain has his hat.
And Thadeus and I decide to follow.
Flimflam scrambles up onto the log, and Owain helps him up.
I climb up.
The caravan people watch us in awe.
They decide to stay on the path.
And after we tell them more trees could come they follow us.
As we travel there is an old car suspended from the vines
There is a body in the tree.
Flimflam thinks he knows the corpse?
He vaults up.
I “fun fact” that the vines prefer corpses so they won’t hurt our friends.
(well…they’re hostile now…ooops)
The man in the car is actually alive and seems fine with being in the tree…..
Flimflam knows him.
Thadeus says he’s hallucinating
And the man steps out of the car.
He lands in a shrub
Says the last thing he remembers is getting out of his car after talking to Flimflam on the way to his vacation.
The map shows that there is a hub island with a bunch of roads leading to the smaller ones.
He suggests that I put my map next to it, and it changes to show an island with a lake on it.
We talk about how maybe the plants are upset about something being changed or damaged since this is new, maybe the forest wants us to fix something. We ask if it wants us to fix something and then if it can show us. The forest seems to respond in affirmative.
We come to a wood clearing/forestry area. They are making planks from felled trees.
One of the workers threatens us with a gun.
We explain to the men that the plants want them to stop.
The woodsmen approach us and Owain threatens them. 4 have guns.
Flimflam does something with the gun. To make it one of those “bang” guns.
I use “fun fact” to say that these types of weapons do not react well to rain, and will likely go off in their hands if they try to shoot them.
They try to get us to follow them over to a meeting house.
Flimflam suggests we follow, and then Owain whispers for us to duck.
I duck behind the log as the guy tries to lead flimflam off, there is smoke after Thadeus drops a smoke bomb and Owain is clearly planning something.
Flimflam hits one of them with a cane.
Owain takes out one with a sword
They all appear to be unconscious now
Owain pokes at the leader.
He isn’t very bright.
We try to talk to him but he won’t do it
The rest of the workers are still doing their thing.
Flimflam walks into the camp and says if they don’t stop working he will kill the supervisor.
“We are elemental conservationists”
We tell them that the plants are not happy with what they are doing and that's why the caravans are being attacked. About ¾ have left.
Half of those that remain are standing around confused, then begin to clear out. Ping Out

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