We travelled for another day through the forest and came to a hilly area. From a distance we spotted a building. Sending Ara out to scout we discovered it was a small village, only 1 old gnoll was out, cursing a cow and hitting it with a stick.
We quickly approached the old gnoll asking him (in giant) what was going on. He said the damned cow was cursed and asked us to kill it. Not taking the gnoll very serious, we tried to guide the cow away, but as the gnoll got hit by a hard attack.. and died.
We looked around the village, and found a small family, 2 adults and a kid. All covered in the rubble of a collapsed building.. also dead.
Redemption took the bodies and buried them in their garden while the rest of us looked around the village, I was able to find a small sapphire, and we found some seeds, Romero tells me they are important seeds and that we should take some with us. Whatever the farmer says I guess.
Furthermore we were able to find a broken down cart and decided to take the day and try to repair it. We were successful eventually, but it wasn’t easy, because.. the cow. The cow seemed smarter than a normal cow, and quite deviant at that. Sitting and breaking a wheel. Scaring us, getting out of a closed enclosure, and so forth. In the middle of the night a tower collapses.. because the cow was bumping against its foundation. At this point Romero dains to tell us that he had telepathically communicated with the cow. In the safety of the leomunds hut we discovered that the cow had been possessed by some kind of.. fiend? A mind devious mind controller that liked causing mischief, leading to up actually disaster.
Redemption took the gamble and cast protection from evil and good on the cow, the spirit apparently fled the cow, as romero was not able to establish any communication anymore. But not moments after the local bats began shitting.. I shit you not, shitting on leomunds hut, covering it bat guano. This was not as it might sound as it is a good fertilizer, and material component for the fireball spell.
Not to far away we found a statue of a humanoid with two goat heads cracked in the middle. Nearby there was a cage with a skeleton inside. As far as we could guess this was a criminal of some kind, and the statue was to chase away evil spirits. The crack in the middle revealed a small opening, but there was nothing inside of it anymore. The small saphire we found in the nearby gnoll village we inserted in the crack and repaired the statue again. Hopefully, if the statue had any effect, it effect will be restored.
The next morning we left and it turned out the car worked, with a phantasmal horse in front of it we have travelled some great distance the past few days. If this keeps up we might be able to make it in time.. but that is something completely else than actually succeeding