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Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: The Coach House!!! AGAIN! Action: Dinner Preparations and Prestidigitation Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Cooking was a surprisingly relaxing experience when you were alone without anyone to interrupt or distract you. Kosara of course wasn’t quite as fan of the relaxation as she was of having fun with people she liked and cared about, but she still enjoyed it, knowing that eventually others will return for the evening. A quick cast of Prestidigitation on occasion too to keep the faint musical notes in the background for ambiance and change them every now and then for variety, making dinner turned out a grand experience.

Since stews took time to cook, she made it first and put it on the fire so it’s done by the time it was time to eat. After that she focused on the other things she had planned to make such as the salad… It was a quick preparation once she had the ingredients prepared just cutting up veggies and seasoning with spices, salt which was technically also a spice, some oil and some vinegar. It was supposed to do. Reaching over with a fork she poked a slice of carrot and ate it.” Hmmmm….” The white haired tiefling made a VERY pondering noise as she tasted the thing in her mouth.” It’s great!” Was her inevitable conclusion of her handy work. Yes, dinner was shaping nicely, she concluded, throwing a look to confirm the stew’s gradual progress.

She was just preparing the pie, a bit of improvisation and a bit of adaptation and some following of a recipe and she was reasonably sure it was going to be good. Mind you it might not be traditional pie, but it was going to be sweet and have fruits and honey and bread… In any case she was just about elbow deep in dough when she heard folks returning after a long day made Kosara’s little hearth flutter in joy.” Welcome back! I’m in the kitchen!” She called out when she heard Kathryn’s voice. The tiefling woman was happy. She now wanted a hug, but food first, hugs after!” I wouldn’t m in a bit of a hand with grabbing some ingredients in a bit! There’s also tea on the fire if you two need a hot cup of fruity warmth!” She had put dried fruits inside the kettle along with the tea leaves.

“Was that monsters or somebodys stomachs I heard?” Kosara asked with a smile, leaning by the door to the kitchen, revealing herself in her sleaves pulled up to the shoulders and flour and dough up to the elbows glory. She even had flour on her nose in an almost cliché manner, though admittedly that was from the time she touched her face with her arms.” There’s fresh bread here in a basket and some butter, but it would be even better if you slightly toast it. Kathryn, why don’t you make a few toasts for Lizbet first? We’ve got spices too, so it will be the most glorious buttered spiced toast ever!” She grinned, returning to her dough to finish arranging the pie so she could toss it in the furnace.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: The Coach House!!! AGAIN! Action: Dinner Preparations Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Walking back to the Coachhouse was an affair of familiarity and a weird sense of ‘returning home’ as the happy tiefling stumbled through the outer fence and then entered the ground floor of the building generally and lovingly referred to as the taproom. The scent of fresh loafs of bread was the first thing that hit her senses as she walked in through the door as she took in the surroundings with careful observations. The Vineyard’s staff had been by it seemed, the fireplaces looked restocked and that probably meant the rest of the place has been restocked too. If Kosara was to guess, upstairs, the rooms were also cleaned and prepared for habitation once more. She nodded, content and pleased with the turn of events. She was going to fire the fireplace soon..ish… as to make sure the place was warm for when those who weren’t going to Avonshire returned, but for now she was alone at the place as she took off her coat, set it on a chair nearby along with putting her bag on the table next to said chair.

Afterwards, following the very tasty scent in the air that made her mouth water and sniffing her path to the origin, it wasn’t hard to discover the basket with the goods. Yes, tonight was going to be a good time! She had to make sure they had tasty food to go with the tasty bread! First thing’s first though, she checked the fireplace in the taproom to make sure it was properly set, it was, just needing to be set ablaze… She looked outside, contemplating. Just moments earlier she planned to light it up later, but she didn’t know when the others would return and it was starting to get dark and the cold was going to settle in quickly soon after. In the end she decided to just light the main fireplace first and then headed to the kitchen to start preparing the meal, though she kept the doorway to the kitchen open to keep an eye on the fire and the entryway.

“What to make for a meal though...” Kosara pondered, since the pantry was well stocked, she figured some hearty warm stew would be very well received tonight. That was an idea! A warm filling meal to settle the stomachs!” PERFECT!” She exclaimed and began to gather the various ingredients. She also figured they could do with a salad! Maybe carrots and cabbage, soil oils, some spicing and some vinegar. Would work marvels and finally if she had time she could try her hand at a PIE! Good old apple pie! Mind you she hadn’t made pie before, but she knew the concept and had made similar enough things before… She’d add honey to make sure it’s tasty, but not everywhere since some might not want it to be too sweet? She could make do! So with the plans decided, ingredients gathered and kitchen ready to work, she made sure her braid was tightly secured, sleeves pulled back to not get dirty a quick cantrip for very faint music notes for ambiance and meal preparation was a go! She almost forgot, but recalled in the last moment, halfway reaching to a knife. TEA! Hurriedly she put a kettle to warm up with a bunch of dried fruits tossed in for a nice fruity goodness!” NOW TO DINNER!” She pivoted, finally REALLY ready to begin cooking.

Riv's RP dreams!

~Bump

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: By the River - > headed back Action: N/a Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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“It is so pretty here.” Was Kosara’s very pointedly well placed quip as she stood atop the elevated place at the river side. She blinked, a few times, took deep breath of cool air and began coughing a few times.” Too much cold air, too much cold air!” She gasped a few time to get her breathing back into proper order. She wiped a tear or two off her eyes. Alright, lesson learned, breath normally, too much cold suddenly in your lungs was not good… kinda interesting feeling though. A bit mint.. not really, but very refreshing and mildly hurting.

“Hmmm… This was a nice day so far.” She concluded as she kicked up some snow, pondering if she could just plop down on the ground and snow and sit a bit to enjoy it now, but then recalled that snow is water, water is wet, weather is cold and cold wet pants do not sound like a nice thing on the way back… In the end the white haired tiefling decided that comfort was the better part of valor in this case and wet frosty trousers were not the way to go. If she had something to use to sit, it would have been different, but woe was her bad decisions today, she had left the bedroll at the coach house because she suspect it wasn’t worth lugging it around when she wasn’t going to be camping. Shame, she could have used it to sit on the snow and enjoy the view.

In any case, Kosara spend some time there on the elevation, taking in the sights. It was pretty, calm and very enjoyable, but with it getting towards the later parts of the day, it was best time to get going back, least she stays after dark too much. Admittedly darkness in the snow covered everything wasn’t as scary, mostly because it was surprisingly bright and visible still, but best not tempt fate. So in the end with a rather uplifted heart and recovered energy and motivation, Kosara smiled, turned around a heal and began walking a bit along the elevation. She wasn’t planning to just following it for a long time, but a few dozen meters more, before she turned around and finally began heading back, not perfectly tracing her steps, but going along the same path anyways. She didn’t consider the lack of finding anything substantial to be a demerit. She had enjoyed her outing. It would have been a nice to have a picnic, but solo picnics weren’t as fun. Maybe she’d grab some of the others next time for an outing! She’d show them this place and the scenery!

Invigorated by her new plan for the future, Kosara merrily headed back to her current temporary home. She had decided to be the one to cook dinner too, so she had to walk fast!

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Coachhouse Action: Summon Pact Weapon. Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara lacked interactions with the cleaning staff, but she didn’t push the issue much. She did try to greet them properly, but for whatever reasons the regular people of the vineyard didn’t seem to want to chat or interact with her much if at all! She just couldn’t figure out why that is! Alright that was a lie, she knew somewhat the preconceived notions that people might have towards her and others of the adventuring persuasions… at least it probably was not her teifling origins? Probably… In any case, that was the reason she didn’t push much least she got people overly uncomfortable… for now.

Still, presence of people was nice to have even if fleeting, silent and distant. Well nice to a degree of niceness at the very least. Niceness… that was a true word, right? She blinked, pondering the issue as she stood alone now at the doorway of the coach house with nary a person around her once more. Kosara was truly alone and left to her own devices now. There were no vineyard staff to observe her, none of her friends to have fun or interact with… there wasn’t even an animal to keep company! Well, she figured that she could summon Chauncey for companionship, but then stopped herself. Better to summon the adorable rat when she actually found something of note! That way she could share the excitement rather than waste their time together since Chauncey could only stay for about 2 hours a day! It was very important to not waste that time after all.

With that said she closed the door of the Coach house behind herself and walked to the edge of the fenced area, carefully wrapping herself with her winter clothing and making sure it was well secured with the buttons so she’d stay nice and warm even in the wintery ambiance of the world around. The place immediately around the building and the yard’s entrance was well enough cleared or at least stepped about so walking was easy.

Kosara looked left, then right, then turned around and pondered.” If I was something interesting hidden around the area, where would I be?” she asked herself, closing her eyes for a moment, tilting her head and thinking REALLY hard about it.

“Ohh, I know.” She suddenly exclaimed, snapping her fingers at having realized a marvelous idea on how to solve this problem! She extended a hand and in an impressive fluid flourish swung it around as a golden hued scimitar with horse head pommel formed within her grasp through the motion in a flash of gold. She looked at the weapon in her hand with a huge grin on her face before swinging her arm once more, like a whip’s crack, letting it go mid swing so it flew forward spinning in the air, making swishing noises through the air until it fell on snow covered ground.

Happily stomping over to where it felt, snow and frost crunching underneath her boots, Kosara noted how the weapon fell and where it was aligned at, especially where the blade pointed.” Direction decided!” She grinned to herself, grabbing her weapon and dismissing it as she merrily started skipping and or trudging through the snow in the fate mandated direction. Kosara was happy.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Coachhouse Action: Prestidigitation Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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“That sounds great!” Kosara replied at the mention that there was likely breakfast left over for her. That was good, that was VERY good! It meant she wouldn’t have to prepare anything for morning meal, but given the people who were left behind for tonight, it meant that either Liz or herself were going to have to cook and seeing as yesterday it was Lizbet who prepared last meal, it meant that Kosara had the self appointed duty to prepare tonight’s meals! Well seeing as it was only three of them left behind, it wouldn’t be too bad. She was going to flex her cooking muscles and prepare a minor feast of some semblance.

She waved Berry and company as they went away with the wagon, their beast of burden trotting off through the snowy ground. Waving for a bit more… and a bit more… Finally once they were sufficiently away, she decided it was fair enough and stopped waving, returning to enter back into the coach house and make a bee line for the kitchen to grab some breakfast.” Breakfast get~!” She whistled once the remnants meal Berry mentioned were secured she carried them over to one of the tables in the main room where she lined them up to have her meal while she put her journal, pen and ink on the side so she could also scribble down while she eats, left in solitude and silence…

“This is not going to work...” Kosara finally stated, looking around, making pondering face. She was a child of sound and live. She had grown up around the constant bustle of people and the silence of the empty coachhosue was a bit much, making her practically hear the strange voices/thoughts in her head. 'No strangely familiar to my own voice in my head, we won't be eating more meat. It's a bad thing to eat only meat... especially raw, yes.' A few gestures and a brief incantation later.” Prestidigitation.” Nothing happened for a brief moment of time before faint musical notes from the deserts started filling the silence. This caused Kosara to smile as she returned to her meal and journal. Taking a few bites and switching to write a few sentences before returning her focus to the meal and repeat. She was catching up on her journal writing since she had left it undone for a while or at least partially so. She did threw in a few sentences here and there over the passage of time as ways to remember specifics and to target her memory in specific directions via the notes she had written and it was working! Everything willing, tonight after their meal and before bed, she was going to start writing a letter to her family back home.

After finishing her meal, she had stacked her plates to the side and switched entirely to finish with the parts of the journal she had decided to finish at this point of time. She had plans for the rest of the day too, she was going to go on a walk around the place and see what she can find and stumble upon. It’s been a while since she had done so last after all and she might as well do it now since nobody else is around to keep her company or entertained!

Finally food and writing done, at least for the moment anyways, she was ready to head out with a few applications of prestidigitation to clean the dishes first though.

Riv's RP dreams!

~BumP~

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Urmdrus’ Workshop - > Coachhouse Action: Giving Berry 5 Gold Coins Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara’s eyes glimmered with hopeful sparkles at the confirmation… or that was just the way they teared up from being opened so wide in the cold air. Hard to tell with the excitable tiefling really, her reactions tended to be all over the place.” DEAL! Perfect deal!” Kosara excitedly confirmed, almost jumping in joy and probably to tackle hug the dwarf, but stopped herself reasonably early, so she just gave him a huge sincere smile.” Thank you!” She settled for expressing gratitude instead. Who said that Kosara couldn’t learn proper manners! Well they were somewhat right, she could learn, question is did she want to use them a lot of the time.

The dancer watched as the dwarf led his wagon away with joy! Everything was alright in the world it seemed! Today was going to be a good day and she was going to ‘Brutalize’ anyone who said otherwise…. Wait she wasn’t. Where did that come from! Kosara frowned and made a pondering expression. Hmm, no… she wasn’t going to brutalize anyone who claimed otherwise. She was just going to kick them in the shins. Way better punishment! Where did that thought come from anyways… no, not nice. Punishments were better when the punished didn’t suffer bodily harm of that degree. Just kick them between the legs or in the shins or something is better. Kosara confirmed to herself, still making a thinking expression.

She yawned, scattering any focused thinking she was doing, looking at the rising sun in the far distance. Well whichever the case, this was going to be a fine day for adventure! She also had a cost given for the hidden dagger shiv stiletto spike hairpin idea thing she wanted to gift Kathryn! Whole two gold! Well within her budget! Now she also needed to decide for gifts for the others that she could work while Mr Urmdrus was working on the dagger. Yes, Kosara was looking how this was settling out to be and was pleased with the happenings. So with a grin on her face, energy in her steps and joy in her hearth she proceeded to skip back towards the coach house now that her super secret morning quest was done with. Thinking about things, she realized she could do with a bit more coin… She was going to have to give Berry some gold if she caught them before they departed to buy some more spices from town if there were any on the cheaper. Where to get coin from though? She couldn’t send a letter back home for ask for coin… there weren’t any active adventures going on either… and she had no taverns in the Vineyard to perform for coin either. That was a pickle. Wait… may she could ask Cecily of there was any paid work she could help out with… Now that was an idea.

In any case as she proceeded to merrily sorta skip all the way back through the snow to the Coachhouse, she was just in time to see Berry settling in on the wagon. Day was going so well!” BERRY!” She excitedly shouted at him, waving energetically as she proceed to stop skipping and bolt towards him, leaving a trail in the snow with the grace of excited barbarian.” Glad to catch you before you guys got going!” She grinned, rummaging through her bag and pulling out 5 gold coins.” Here, can you buy me some spices if there are any on the cheap in Avonshire? Not sure how much spices costs around here, so just buy them if they are within the 5 gold coins price range.” She added. For all she knew maybe because of this white snow winter thing prices would have gone up and maybe even 5 gold couldn’t buy you anything.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Urmdrus’ Workshop Action: Having a Nap Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Kosara had stomped her way to the workshop in the early morning through the snow covered sand with all the energy and enthusiasm of a kid that ate one too many cookies before bed. It helped that it was very fun to stump on the snow and hear it crunch underneath her feet. It made her feel very amused. In any case, reaching the workshop, she realized that she hadn’t actually ever came here before. She had seen it from distance, but hadn’t ever gotten this close before. Twas a shack… probably the most marvelous of shacks to ever exit though. Also very homey and craftey if that was a word… well it was now.

Bang, bang, bang, bangbangbang, Kosara knocked on the door a few times in a loosely rhythmic melody from this one song she just seemed to kind of remember, but not really knowing from where or when. In any case, the fact that the knocking happened, did not in fact produce a dwarven fellow to open the door.’ Bugger.’ Kosara quipped in her head, half pouting, half pondering how to proceed as her eyes roamed about, spotting a trail of footprints in the snow.’ PERFECT!’

She had just about turned and made some steps to follow the trail when a voice pulled on her attention and as if summoned upon by the higher powers of coincidence and fate, Urmdrus appeared on a wagon! Great! Kosara grinned widely as she made some stomping motions along to meet him sooner.” Good Morning, Mr. Urmdrus! I know, had hoped to catch you before you head off, so I’m glad I did!” The white haired tiefling replied with a nod, still smiling widely.” I have something in mind that I want to gift Kathryn during the celebrations and was wondering what it would take to craft and how much coin and if it’s possible.” Kosara explained and hurriedly pulled her journal and opened to the last pages where she found a sketch/doodle that she had made.” A stiletto dagger disguised as a hairpin stick. Since it’s a hidden blade, it doesn’t need to be as big as a regular stiletto dagger. She had a few possible sketches done. It’d be great if it could be hidden in a wooden sheath to disguise it’s daggery nature, but even if it’s just metal it should still do. Would it be possible to craft something like this and if so, what costs would be needed?” She asked, hope in her eyes.

Sadly she knew there was a very good chance that it would be out of her price range what with her only having just over 10gold pieces left from her savings. A whole winter without income did that even if food and board were provided. Still if she had at least a price mark, she’d have a thing to plan and strive for one way or another.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

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Kosara Tiefling, Warlock (Celestial), Level 04, Barbarian, Level 01 HP: 33/ 34 Armor Class: 12(15 Mage Armor) Conditions: N/a Location: Coachhouse! Around the place… VIGIL! → to Urmdrus’ Workshop Action: Having a Nap Bonus Action: N/a Reaction: N/a

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Sleep was… sleep. Come morrow Kosara didn’t really remember anything from what she might have dreamed about. If she had even dreamed all things considering. She had woken very early to get her last watch shift and moved to observe the happenings outside with focused intent and occasional slips into mental tangents that both posed questions most probably wouldn’t have asked about and answered things to questions nobody really needed to ask about. Whatever was going on in her somewhat sleepy mind was up to her own deal as she made sure to patrol around and be a quiet vigil over the coach house. If she could, she’d be up on the roof’s edge, crouching and imitating a brooding antihero just for the authenticity of it.

After a little while, she got bored of just thinking about random topics and looking out the windows or on occasion walking around outside in the cold, so she pulled her journal and began catching up on writing she had fallen back on to a degree. Ohh every night she did write a bit, but nowhere near as much and there were whole pages which she had left black so she could go back and write in the rest and now was the perfect time to do so in between looking out and patrolling. So writing down she began and on occasion doing little sketches about things. Like a cartoony adorable looking bird and pig and what V was up to on specific day or a waxing tangents about what a REALLY good friend Kathryn was, but that she still owed her a oil massage or two. It was a nice peaceful time.

It wasn’t until the day finally approached, first notable by the slight discoloration at the edge of the horizon, not even first daylight even when the noises from the room where their guests were happened. Kosara couldn’t exactly hide or hold the very victorious smug little grin.’ HA! Told you the brandy was evil, but you still did it anyways! Hmph!’ Smug Kosara was smug.

“Have fun!” Was the tiefling’s reply when V also appeared early early like an early bird to begin the day.

With everybody else waking up finally, Kosara was freed from her solemn duty of vigil over the inhabitants of the Coachhouse for the evening. Going down, she found Berry who was probably preparing breakfast.” Hey, Berry, Liz, Kathryn!!! I’m going out to mister Urmdrus’s workshop for a bit. Be back in a little while!” She informed him and bolted out, casting some prestidigitaitons on her inner clothes. In difference from yesterday, today Kosara’s hair was also very carefully braided in a long thick braid like she usually wore her hair day to day. She did have a lot of time during her watch after all.

Thus the happy little tiefling was stomping out the door and into the snow heading to the dwarf’s workshop in hopes of catching him up and about. Which he probably was, he seemed like a dedicated early riser to craft early. She had a professional question to ask him.