Falabella finds that each has a pouch, one hold 700 gold, and then other holding 800 gold.
First searching the nearest bandit before walking over to the sack, Tokara walked over and talked loud enough any one could hear him. "he told me it would lead me to his boss who could give me any information I want, I had asked him if he had my armor. But the card is blank he said I need to do something to reveal the location to talk to his boss. But the odd thing is he wanted to know where I got my sword. He wanted to know that information for the card." As he said this voice trailed off like it made him wonder what was so important about the sword. Putting the cards in to his bottoms bag he rummaged though the sack. Then In a tone that sounded like regret he spoke. "Quite honestly I think that guy was stronger than any of the other bandits. He probably could have easily killed all of us single handily." That coming from tokara meant something.
The first pouch had 300 gold coins, the second however had a note on it. 'This ought to at LEAST cover the information fee from my boss. Hopefully one of you saps can read this, otherwise you'll be up a creek. That card reveals itself to magic opposite that which I use.' How the "bandit" managed to right that so quickly and then disappear was anyone's guess. Inside of the pouch there were 10,000 gold coins!
Sidney was excited to have gotten as much as he had. He then looks at the group. "We should probably set up camp soon. It would be good, to rest and recover. We shouldn't set up here though. We were ambushed here once, and it would be a good place to be ambushed again, only this time in our sleep." Sidney then went quiet and began to think inward again. He was deeply disturbed about what had happened earlier.
Avril puts the money and capsule in her pouch. She then nods in agreement with Sidney. "Once we set up camp I can heal some of your wounds. I don't know how well I'll be able to do, but I will try my hardest." says Avril. She had not told anyone other than Falabella that she could heal so those words might have been a little surprising to Sidney and Tokara. "She we set up camp ahead of here or back where that meteor was?"
Camp sounded like a great idea, they were all running low on Energy, especially Tokara. Putting her newly found money in her coinpouch, Falabella decides to use all her time wisely; you never know when the next attack will be. She takes out the two reeds and begins making her Fife as they prepare to move out, it's not like she can't walk and work at the same time. She keeps an eye out and continues listening to the others.
She fits the smaller reed inside the larger reed, it is a tight fit, but movable. The inner reed is an inch longer than the outer and the extra inch is placed at the mouth end, making it so when it is out, she can play her instrument, but push it in and it blocks the finger and mouth holes creating a blowgun. As a blowgun, the end farthest from the mouth will stick out an inch, making it easy to push back in to be an instrument again.
Falabella takes one of her Damaging needles and starts marking where her finger holes would be, lightly scratching the reeds. Testing that the hole's shapes would fit her fingers and spacing properly, she puts the Fife to her mouth. Everything felt good to her, so she starts cutting out the holes. It takes a bit of effort and manual dexterity to cut through both reeds without them moving or cutting herself on her blade, but she gets the hang of it halfway through, and the process speeds up.
Finally all the holes are cut, she keeps the pieces that were removed to make the cork, but for now she puts one hand over the open end, and uses the other to hold the Fife inplace as she lightly blows over her mouth hole, checking the sound. She blows a few notes, using her one hand to check the holes that she could reach. It sounded good, but she could test it more later when it was finished.
Hearing every one talk about setting up camp made tokara start walking away, leading the way to look for a place to camp. "I hope we find a cave it would be better to sleep in a cave then on the ground." He heard avril say she can heal made him wonder how well she could heal. Most healers didn't go in to the front lines. He began to pounder what they was going to have for dinner. Then he looked back to see Sidney in deep thought but he didn't want to ask tell he was eating. Then his sister started to play some kind of racket on a thing made of reeds. But none the less taking the lead he started to look for a good spot to camp.
Sidney followed Tokara while still deep in thought. He is so deep in thought that he could have walked right off from a cliff without first realizing it was there. He then stops dwelling on it as he realizes that they all are following Tokara. He starts wondering himself what they are going to do. If he needed, Sidney could just eat the trail mix he had gotten at the old whack job's store in Mendefera before they had left on the quest.
Avril follows Tokara. She was a little concerned about staying in a cave, she had never even stayed outdoors before. She worries about being attacked in the night and hopes that Tokara, Falabella, or Sidney knew how to secure camp well. She would need to figure out what to do with her arrows when they all were set up for camp. She figured that until she could get more arrows she would have to fall back and act as healer during battle.
Holding her mostly finished Fife in her mouth, she digs through her pack again. Finding the leftover leather from her chaps, she cuts a small piece out with her Damaging Needle, a 2 by 3 inch rectangle. Falabella then takes a few of her cut-out finger holes and placed them tightly on the leather, working them like small puzzle pieces. Overlapping some, she manages to make a tiny wall of reed. Folding the excess leather over her makeshift cork, she wraps it around tightly, it could be sewn later, but for now it'll work to cork the end until she needed it.
Falabella puts her leather back in her pack and weaves her Damaging Needle back into her corset. Fully finished with her Fife, she corks the mouth end and puts it to her mouth at the new mouth-hole on the upside of her reeds ((Fife is like a flute)). She softly blows a few notes, she isn't that skilled with it, but she likes the individual sounds each note makes. When she learns more, she will be able to make nice music. It makes a slightly high pitched sound, causing a cluster of bats to scatter out of their resting place.
*Bats huh...* "Hey, should we check out that area? Those bats must have been sleeping somewhere..."
They all would have been walking for miles as tokara then stopped and found a little over hanging. The stream was by it might have some fish in it. Tokara would scout the area around the overhang. The land was carved from the waters of old making the overhang solid rock. Feeling the ground in his hand he feels it is dry enough to start a fire in. "let's set up here, there's water and probably food near. I will cook tonight if we get set up. Sidney hope you don't mind scouting the area real quick. Same with you falabella go scout but be back soon. If its clear then we can rest here." finding a spot to sit tokara sits and looks at his wounds on his arm. "ehh its not that bad is it?? "he looked at it smiling moving the torn flesh. Tokara was still very tired from the one swing he broke the sword from the ice from his back and set it next to him.
Sidney nods to Tokara and then walks out inspecting the area and hoping that he does not find anything while separating from the rest of the team. As he makes his round he does not see anything out of the ordinary. He believes the camp to be safe, unless Falabella found something contradicting his report in the other direction. He is trying to make as little noise as possible as he travels through the woods. He starts to head back now to report that it looks clear.
Avril goes near where Tokara is and holds 1 hand out in front of her a bit. The tips of her middle and forefinger glow with a white light and she then traces her three wounds with it. As they are not too big of wounds they heal over relatively well. She then turns to Tokara. "Do you want me to heal that wound some? I should be able to heal it mostly. It may not fully close it, but it should do well."
*Yay! He gave me a job!* Feeling proud to be trused, she smiles at Tokara. "OK" She walks away away from the camp site, watching Sidney go the other way. She creapt through the brush, slowly, trying not to rustle them and alert anything to her location. There wasn't anything making noise except for the usual sound of birds and insects.
Hearing a rustle to her left she stops her movement, and watches silently for whatever it was to show itself. It was in the underbrush so it couldn't be something too large, and it was headed in her direction, about 10 feet away. Suddenly an adult Porcupine emerged from a bush, sniffing the ground, apparently looking for food. There were no babies with it, so Falabella decided to take advantage. She had eaten Porcupine once, and it was barely worth the effort of taking the quills out, but she had a use for those... they were her main target at the moment.
Quietly, she grabbed her old shirt and remaining leather out of her Bottom's Backpack. Putting the Leather over the Cloth, she lightly tossed it over the unaware porcupine. Quickly grabbing 4 Damaging Needles, she threw them, pinning the edges down at four corners. The startled porcupine was not very happy, releasing its quills into her fabric in his fight for escape. She quickly gathered up the four corners, scooping it underneath the legs. Looking around again, not seeing or hearing anything out of the ordinary, she heads back to camp... keeping the bundled animal as far from her body as she could.