Bulldust seeks out Two-fer-one to get the new armour he wants, and gives Moffa his cloak for magicking too.  He gives the goblin girls a bunch of black candles with Continual Flame that he and Moffa found in the Necromancer's Spire down in the Underdark.

Minmorc will head back to the temple and alternate between loafing around and eating and breaking pews into firewood with his bare hands (like how a cat keeps its claws sharp but louder.) When team Ardanuff has reassembled he'll tell them what he remembers from talking with the queen, that the city is fairly secure but needs food, that team Ardanuff could help by going to a nearby forest and killing its guardian elves so that Gornas hunters can forage there.

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OOC: it either says ELFS! or jumble-of-letters depending what device you're reading on :-)

"Oo Oo!  If deres elfs den we gottta kill dem all!  Tell da queen i'll do em fer free!"   Bulldust spends the rest of his time in Gorna practising elf slaying ... its a lot of swinging the chainflail at tombstones and hopping across the roofs of mausoleums ... but its joyful and anyone can join in.

"Moffa, if we gets yer some drinks an sum snacks would you likes ter work on der cloaks while we goes hunting? Or you wants us ter wait til yer dun?"

"Furyuz sez wese 'av ter kilt dose uvver elvses too," Dregz recalls.  "Dis'll be gud practises !  Dose elves will appreci ... aperk ... be pleasededs tah knows dat dey're bein' kilt properly !"

Moffdust frowns at Minmorc. "Why should youse has all de funs while I has ter stays in der camps an does de mendings? Anyways, I's bought new pants ter wears, so I's comin!" She stamps her foot. "An i'll have dose snacks an drinks ter go!"

"Is it dere in yer book, Dregzie, about properly killin da elfs?"  Bulldust cranes his neck to peek.  "Is dis a holy mishun?"

Raven squawks angrily when Bully says he'll kill the elves for free.

"Don't yous tells the queen anything like that! If she offered to pays us, we gotta let her and say thank you, your mage-isty. If yous don't wants it, the rest of us will be happy to shares it between us instead," she tells Bully.

"Did she actually say she'd pay us to kill those elves?" she asks Minmorc.

Bulldust ducks his head contritely and nods profusely at Raven.  "Yer right, Birdie Girl, I wanna kill all da elfs and get paid too!"

Bully does pose some interesting spiritual dilemmas.

"Der elfses iz menshuned," the priest allows, "an' der elfses iz consideredses immoral, but ..."

Bargrivyek exhorts his followers to devote themselves to uniting the goblinoid tribes and is remarkably silent on the exact subject of any specific methods for slaying the hated elves, though there are a couple of garishly festive looking pages in his Holy Book, which gives Dregz cause to believe ...

"I fink dat id iz in factses a holly mission !"

Minmorc Will grin at Moffa "Ya, ya sister if yer gots travellin pants yer gots ter travel. I was finking der blokes coulds do all der walkin an when we finds dem Dregz could use der uber stick ter pick yer up. We gotta go walk fer a bit cross der flats an den walk fer a bit in der forrests an when der elves starts shootin us we founds dem."

Birdy girl makes a lot of sense and when she starts talking Minmorc stops cold. "Err... wells I gave der queen a present an we talked about Nuffle and der plans ter have a big Nuffle game an I asked if I could help her wid anyfing an she said dese Elves wazza problems... she didn't say about payin us... hmmm... errr... I fink I paid her fer me ter go kill elves..."

"Woohoo!  A holy mishun!  We're da paluduns ov Bargriefyuk on a quest!"

He redoubles his training with religious fervour, building wood elves from broken pews, high elves on rooftops, grave elves from stray ghouls and dark elves with his eyes shut ... anyone loafing around the church will be 'invited' to train.

Moffdust screws up her face in contemplation then replies to Min "Well I tinks makin magic cloakses is more funs den walkin, but I's not plannin on walkins anyways. I'll stays here wid my animals while youse finds de elves, den Dregzies comes an gets us." She looks at Dregz and shrugs. "Dese travel plans okays wid youse Dregzies?"

OOC: it will take her 3 days to make each item: her new pants, her amulet, Bully's amulet, Dregz's cloak, Jurz's cloak, Min's cloak (in the order they were paid). 18 days to make everything. Items complete at the time of the elf battle will be given to their owners.

Minmorc screws his eyes up in concentration "I jus membered der Queen said if we killed elves der reward would be great. I'm hopin dese elves is der same as Forya's elves, dat would be two elves wid one spear. If not we gets ter spread out der elf killin over lotsa trips which is good too. I dunt wanna be a palidunce, when we played orks an palidunces I always made der little orks be der palidunces. I fink right now I'm der Queens nite or Nuffles Ref."

All the same Minmorc will happily help Bully make wood elves and smash them until everyone's ready to head out.

"I fink evrywun in Gorna iz gonna bese ver' 'ungry ifs dey're waitin' ayteen," an unfathomably large number to a goblin, "days ter go 'untin' an' ged fedses," Dregz laments.

"Wese can find der elves, mebee in free days, mebee in  ... too timeses free days," den ged Furyuz ter bring uz all backses, den takes Moffa backses wiv uz wen she 'as finishedses up on sumfin' an' before she does startses on der next !"

The priest seems happy with this arrangement, as it wouldn't be fair for Moffa to miss out on killin' Elves, and he's certain that if any of the tribe stayed to help her it'd take twice as long !

"A paladindin iz a holly nite," he adds thoughtfully.

Bulldust is really focussed now that Dregz has agreed to the travel plan and he only has a few nights to train.  He's stoked when Min joins in and learns all he can from the veteran orc.  He doesn't mind that the orc doesn't want to be a paladindin "Le's jus be pals makin a din!"

Minmorc will happily make a din with Bully then have a nap. He is keen to set out around dusk so that they can travel by night. He will follow the Queens instructions, 5 miles north east and then straight into the forest until they hit elves.

OOC: the distance involved might be substanially less than Dregz had come to believe when making his plans !  :P

"Dats in da Oyt woods."  Bulldust says happily.  "Dems good elfs fer killin, lived dere too long.  Anyfing else lives in dere Jurzie?" he wonders looking towards the druid.

OOC:  Sorry.  I missed the direct question, then got distracted by holidays  :P

Jurz wracks his small brain for an answer to Bully's question.

OOC:  11:06, Today: Jurz rolled 17 using 1d20.  Know stuff.

Knowledge Nature + 15
Gather Info +1

Not sure anything else is of value, except perhaps ...

+2 circumstance bonus for any knowledge (local) or knowledge (nature) checks
 in the foothills/forest fringe around the edge of the Hornwood adjacent to
the Crystalmist Mountains, Barrier Peaks or Stark Mounds.

My player Knowledge of the area is very limited  :)

OOC: Welcome back!!  Hope you had a good holiday :-)

OOC.  Thank you.  The last six weeks has seen ...  A weekend training on cannons, an English Civil War re-enactment weekend, a weekend away at the seaside, a trip to Naples (inc Pompeii and Herculaneum), and I am just back from a weekend fighting pirates!  I have a weekend at home, then a forest camping trip.  BUT, that finishes my trips away for a few weeks.

Not quite ... still to come is a weekend stalking elfs in da woods :-)

With Minmorc as noisy bait. His idea of stalking elves would be to walk straight into the woods and yell "come out, come out, I want ter kill you."

I must admit, I had sort of assumed that would be the plan  :)