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>>/3732/ So from my memory I drew a map on a flat stone in charcoal to get back to the cabin where I grew up. Bear only knew the terrain about half the way of the roughly 20 miles and to avoid encounters we were going to be traveling about 2 miles an hour and counter-tracking. Fording the rivers and tributaries was our first major hurdle, since none of us were encumbered we could use athletics to cross and we all have good dexterity but bear also had proficiency in athletics and gwen has a racial bonus of advantage on athletics, so really I was the worst of the group and it showed. I barely made it for three of the crossings, there are 5, and on the 4th I flubbed it and got swept away. -.- Thankfully I was still close enough to shore for Bear to attempt a rescue and he succeeded. The worst crossing we attempted was DC10, that was the one that took me on a ride. He then crossed it three times, once to carry my stuff across, once back and once to carry me across! That somehow worked without a hitch though the comparable odds were probably worse. By then it was getting dark and Bear's pathetic human eyes couldn't see in the dark, ikr? But we had the advantage of the full moon so he could at least keep watch. He took the middle 4 hour shift. [At night, or if resting and hidden, you roll 1d30 per hour and only get an encounter on 1 as compared to 1d20 if moving slowly and 1d12 for normal movement] So in hour three of my watch we got an encounter. [encounters in the Neverwinter woods range from a racoon to an Owlbear and only an Owlbear if you roll a natural 1 on 1d20] So of course it was an Owlbear. You know, luckily we have high initiative because Owlbears have 12 passive detection and advantage against sight or smell. So hiding was no option, our only hope was to climb and thankfully we could without a roll. So there we were in the trees with a hungry Owlbear pacing. It took him 4 hours to give up. So now it's 10am the next day before we were all done resting for the night. As it was we were lucky enough to stumble upon a ton of berries so we could have double rations and travel past 8 hours, but we were still one river crossing and 2 hours walk to the cabin. We knew we wanted to spend at least a day searching the cabin. So it looks like we'll be there overnight and have to spend another two nights total in the forest. We have enough rations for that but we'll see. If we had faught that Owlbear it was likely we would have been TPK'd and one or more of us eaten. We were one bad decision away from death, it was so exhilarating! Btw Bear's character promised my character sexytime if we made it to Neverwinter. He didn't specify to what degree of detail that would be simulated but he has written romantic novels so it could be as much as full XXX. I'll have to convince him to go that far. Also Gwen. [Gwen] yay! Also he's already had a sex "dream" with his guardian angel SheShe but that was lame PG glossing over all the details. [Gwen] boring Anyway, have to survive these side quests first, so wish us luck!