Roleplayer of the week:
Player's Choice (30xp): X'Ylo
DM's Choice (15xp): El'Fross, for his pretense of being concerned about S'Rang and little Siroth when he really just wanted to take things easy, and his use of his birthday to "take a week off".
A'Ha - 0 MU, 108 F, 0 T - entered and updated
El'Fross - 12 MU, 19 F, 5 T - entered and updated
Snf'L - 0 MU, 108 F, 0 T - entered and updated
X'Ylo - 17 MU, 17 F, 17 C - entered and updated

28th Wealsun (Continued...)
A'Ha and Snf'L carry their two unconscious comrades back to Mykell's room to rest the night.
1st RichfestX'Ylo regains consciousness and he tends to El'Fross who is soon up and around. They discuss how they desperately need the armor spell and look forward eagerly to the beginning of next month when the deer leather should be done curing.
Mykell, A'Ha and Snf'L go out looking for wood. X'Ylo is busy in the castle and El'Fross insists he take the week off to celebrate both the festival and his birthday, so neither come along. Snf'L finds a piece of wood he thinks will be excellent for X'Ylo's bow, but it is actually rotten inside and would break if it were to be used. The three go fishing and keep a look out for boats. They see no boats but Snf'L catches 2 fish. Mykell manages to catch 5 with his net.
2nd Richfest
Snf'L spends the day building a bow for X'Ylo. Pall is asked if she worries about little Siroth running around the castle. She doesn't seem worried that he is in any danger. The party goes up to Mykell's room during the afternoon. About 3:00PM or so they hear a sound like wind from the lower level of the castle and a scream cut off quite suddenly. They rush down and see that Pall has frozen in their tracks 5 orcs. The party removes them from the castle (with Pall's permission, of course) and takes them down by the lake. They thaw out the bodies and loot them, finding only a few badly-crafted arrows, some short bows and a few silver pieces. Snf'L checks the ground for tracks to follow where the orcs came from, but cannot find any. They tell Pall of the silver, and she insists that she *ONLY* take half.
Snf'L completes X'Ylo's bow and goes to string it. It breaks in half.
3rd Richfest
El'Fross' Birthday. He takes it easy this day (for a change :)). He spends the day chatting with Siroth and Pall. Snf'L goes back out with A'Ha and Mykell, and finds enough wood for 3 bows. The fishing trip yields 9 fish this time.
4th Richfest
The day of Midsummer's Eve. S'Rang arrives back from whatever his trip was all about. He springs his surprise on the young elves: He has gone to get spell ink and is going to let each of them read his magic missile spell and see if they know it. If they do, they can copy it into their own books using the spell ink he now has. El'Fross had tried previously and did not understand the spell, and A'Ha doesn't have a clue as to how to even read it as it is from a school of magic he is not familiar with. After 4 days of trying, only X'Ylo can understand the complicated spell, and so he prepares to scribe it into his spellbook and also into the spellbook of Snf'L. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
1st Reaping
Snf'L is finishing his third bow job while X'Ylo takes the day to scribe the magic missile spell into his spellbook. Snf'L now wants to make some arrows, so he needs some fresh feathers. He and A'Ha head into the woods to find some birds. They manage over the course of the day to shoot a couple, and they now prepare to head home. Suddenly, out from the bushes comes an angry boar, straight at Snf'L! The normally alert elf is taken unawares, and barely manages to avoid the first attack of the wild animal. X'Ylo runs up to help, but before the boar can be dispatched, Snf'L is gored by the boar and goes down. A'Ha climbs a nearby tree with Snf'L's pack and hangs it there, then proceeds to drag Snf'L back to the castle. What would have been a half an hour's walk normally, takes A'Ha six hours with his burden.
X'Ylo cures Snf'L when they arrive at the castle. The four elves go as quickly as they can into the darkening twilight to follow the trail blazed by A'Ha and to recover Snf'L's backpack. X'Ylo is very tired from his day of spell copying, and A'Ha is quite fatigued by his dragging of Snf'L throught the wilderness, buyt X'Ylo casts a dispel fatigue on A'Ha and they are able to carry on. They are successful in retrieving Snf'L's things.

That night, as the party is resting in Mykell's room, they are attacked by a group of orcs, coming up from the level where Pall is. There are 5 males and a female. They attack with vigor until one of them spots Mykell. That one flees while another is charmed by X'Ylo. The rest fight on and A'Ha goes down. S'Rang watches in amusement as the female is wounded in the crotch area by X'Ylo. The charmed orc flees after the Giant turns one of its comrades into orc paste. Mykell bashes the female into paste as well. Little Siroth shows up with a frozen orc hand in his mouth, telling the party, "My mommy gottem". They figure the fleeing orcs did not get far. The party then gathers up the equipment of the orcs and checks it out. There are 100 gp and 45 sp. There is also a backpack containg a week's dry rations, flint and steel, a grappling hook, 6 torches, a wineskin, a large shield with an odd symbol upon it, 5 spears, 1 bastard sword, and 2 longswords. All are orc quality, which is not that good. The party then goes down to talk to Pall to see if she is all right. They find that she has only froze one orc (where did the other one go?).
2nd Reaping
Batch of leather from deer ready. Snf'L does the final step and finds that the leather is all right, but it is not good enough quality for the armor spell. X'Ylo is preparing to spend the day copying magic Missile into Snf'L's book. A'Ha casts comprehend languages and read magic to finally read S'Roth's Scroll.