As a last minute purchase Albrecht stops in a magical book shop and buys a Tome of Understanding to do some reading on the trip out to the south. He prepares to invest the required 48 hours over the course of the 2 week trip. Finding himself ready to go, he dons his significantly lighter pack and lets his pearly white Ioun stone float around his head as he waits for the others atop Krama outside the southern gate.
Out of Character: 55,000 GP spent for the Tome. Now Albrecht is ready and waiting. I'm guessing Ildrahil (Abnninja) is the only one left?
EDIT: Albrecht will also arrange to have the wagon ready to travel with a driver to head south. He will offer 1 GP per day with half up front (7 GP, correct?) and half when they arrive. The driver will just make sure that the wagon stays on course and they will alert us if anybody else seems sketchy around the wagon. Hopefully we can get someone with a little fighting experience so that they can defend themselves reasonably well.
Edited: Alchyrogue on 12th Jul, 2017 - 11:26am
Out of Character: : Okay, Ninja asked me to take over Idrahil while he is away. He said he PM'd you KN. Idrahil needs to purchase some items before leaving. He would like to get both silent moves and shadow enchantments added to his armor. If only one make it move silently. He definitely wants Gloves of Dexterity, +4. Is there a ring to help him fly? If not the mask of flying or something to that effect?
Bastion will pay for the combat capable driver, if only to be able to keep the wagon with them. In the last town, he will seek out more detailed maps, or at least someone with the knowledge to add to the ones they have found. If neither precaution can be taken, he will give up on the idea and move on.
Also in the last town, he will seek information on these gnoll raiders, most prevalently, anything that would help locate them.
Albrecht and Bastion go back and forth on who should pay the driver and the argument settles with Albrecht giving Bastion 21 gold pieces to at least pay for the driver part of the deal and Bastion can pay the extra 42 gold pieces for three weeks of a combat capable driver. With that settled, Albrecht makes sure to study his Tome every night they travel for at least 2 hours and 3 hours on the days he can afford it (In total 48 hours over 3 weeks works out to 2.3 hours a day, roughly). He also asks around the villages they pass for news of the gnolls and anything else going on in the dessert.
Out of Character: Hope you don't mind me hijacking the argument a bit Daishain, just a little fluff I felt like throwing in.
KNtoran, I am making multiple Gather Info checks for the different villages we pass through each week of our journey.
Avan sees an opportunity, first asking around for the kingdom official in charge of cartography and then asking if they require someone to draw some maps. He then asks the party if they'd be interested in doing that rather than culling gnolls without a grander purpose.
Out of Character: What a completely unoriginal idea….
Edited: iCon on 13th Jul, 2017 - 3:40pm
Ildrahil you can get a +5, +10 or +15 added to your armor for both move silently and hide in shadow. The +5 is 5,000 each, the +10 is 18,000 each and the +15 is 38,000 each. As far as flying there is winged boots, a broom of flying, a carpet of flying and wings of flying.