Sai and Azu set out for the familiar clearing where he killed the tiger.

Make a wisdom (survival) check to see how well you remember the way.

Azu aided her friend by pointing out landmarks she remembered.

Aid another, Survival with advantage Sai

"This way, Azu," says Sai. as he leads her to the location where he killed the tiger. Not much had changed, except a light dusting of snow causing everything to sparkle beautifully in the sunlight.

21:59, Today: Conspirator, on behalf of Sai Nightbreeze, rolled 21 using 2d20+1, dropping the lowest dice only with rolls of 20,12.  Survival Check.

Azu followed and helped as best she could. When they reached the place she looked around. "Now what?"

"Now, we look for clues! According to the journal, the relic should be near the fallen warrior. Let's search for tracks, see if we can retrace the tigers steps," said Sai.

Azu, your time with Sai has brought you to a realization: you're a better tracker than he is! Go ahead and make the survival check, this time, Sai will aid you.

Azu moved as if unsteady on her feet, though it was not true. Her staggering and apparent drunkenness was all part of her personal. She took a little hat out of her bag, one with flaps over the ears and pretended to be perplexed. "I say..." she stage whispered "That means remember this for posterity." She cleared her throat and continued, <yellow>"Dr. Nightbreeze I believe we have found something. The game is afoot."

10:36, Today: Azucondie rolled 19 using 2d20+3, dropping the lowest dice only.  Survival.

Azu spots the tiger tracks, while comically ignoring the much more obvious trail the fleeing necromancer and her party had left in their haste to escape the tiger. She follows them to a clearing, that fits the description from the journal.

Since there's only two of you, I'll let you decide if you each want to make Int (investigation) checks, or if one of you will make it with aid from the other.

Sai smiles, getting into the spirit. "Egads! Lead on, lead on!" As the pair comes to a clearing, Sai glances down and exclaims, "Eureka! This must be it!" He bends down to grasp an ordinary leaf. It's not entirely clear to what degree Sai believes this to be an actual discovery.

Let's each do one. I should actually be good at this, but...

13:21, Today: Sai Nightbreeze rolled 6 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 1.  Investigation Check.

Azu investigated around, looking for clues!

08:21, Today: Azucondie rolled 12 using 1d20+4.  Investigation.

"Did you know Tigers can swim?"

Azu found a trail of blood, partially covered by snow, leading to the dead body of a human male, partially hidden in the undergrowth. He lies face down, with his arms crossed underneath him, and the tiger had torn through his chainmail and eaten the meatier parts of his back.

"I didn't. I can't imagine they'd enjoy it, though," Sai responds as the two follow the trail. As they approach the corpse, Sai takes a closer look to see whether the body has anything identifying or was carrying anything.

Guessing I'll need investigation for this too.

15:29, Today: Sai Nightbreeze rolled 18 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 13.  Investigation Check.

Whatever remains of a backpack was torn to shreds before the tiger had even gotten started on the meat. It looks like there wasn't anything in it, anyway. Sai turns over the frozen corpse to find that the victim was clutching a small brass horn to his chest. He also has a small pouch attached to his belt.

Sai picks up the pouch and glances inside, then picks up the brass horn. He turns it over in his hands carefully before passing it to Azu, apparently forgetting to adopt a dramatic sleuthing voice. "I hadn't considered asking for a description, but it's a horn. You think this might be it? Does it seem magical to you?"

Assuming we need a roll, I can assist Azu.

She grinned and nodded, "Oh yes, very magical." She grinned, obviously she had absolutely no idea.

The pouch contains 15 silver. The horn looks very old, made of tarnished brass, and has some dents and scratches in it, but is in otherwise usable condition. Sai can aid Azu on an Arcana or Religion check if he is proficient in either.

Sai looks skeptically between Azu and the horn, then back again. He is apparently unsure what to think.

Not proficient in either, I'm afraid.

Azu seemed disappointed. "Well that was fun. Should we return with our booty?"

Azu, did you roll?

09:06, Today: Azucondie rolled 7 using 1d20+1.  Religion.

09:06, Today: Azucondie rolled 8 using 1d20+1.  Arcana.

PM

Azu exclaimed, "Magic! for sure." As she said this she wiped the blood off of the place where you put your lips and blew into it. She just knew there would be a funny noise!

Azu didn't quite know how to play this particular instrument, but after a few tries, she did figure out how to make a very loud fart noise.

"Glorious!" Sai exclaims. "Well, we have a horn. Not sure if it's what Darla is looking for, but only one way to find out." he intones as he hoists his pack.

Shall we head back then? As a player, I'm not sure that we got it, but Sai is content

Azu laughed hysterically at the fart horn. "I love this! If they decide they don't want it, can I keep it?" She was ready to trudge back to town with Sai.

"If you keep making sounds like that with it, then I insist!"

If Azu spends the next hour toying with it as you walk, and you travel at half speed, you won't have any stealth, but she'll figure out how to activate any magical abilities, if it has them (or she can take a short rest in town to figure it out, but where's the fun in that?)

As they begin walking, with Azu still playing fart noises on the new treasure, Sai pokes around in his cloak until a slightly disgruntled owl pokes her head out. Sai moves at a leisurely pace while Screech keeps watch from above.

Works for me. My familiar will help make sure we don't get ambushed.

Azu indeed walked and fiddled with her new treasure. "Hehehe..." *FART* "...Hehehe."

After an hour, Azu discovers a specific combination of fart noises that causes 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of water to pour out of the wide end of the horn.

Azu cheered. "Look at that! What a treasure. Enough for a banquet." She grinned, "And it makes the funniest noises!"

Not paying particularly close attention, Sai trips over a conjured loaf of bread. Taking in the large heap, he picks up something resembling a biscuit. "Well, this is certainly... food for thought." He flashes a stupid grin at Azu.

Azu cannot resist, "And water for thought."

Are you picking up the food, stopping and letting it all fall in one place, or leaving a 45 foot long trail of food behind you?

Sai observes the ever-growing pile of snacks. "We should probably take this with us. To avoid baiting the local fauna, if nothing else." He unties a large blanket from his pack and loads the food onto it before gathering it up and slinging it over his shoulder.

We'll leave the water, take the food. I think I should be able to carry it.

Jenouise agreed and began putting food into her backpack.

Between the two of you, there is no problem carrying the food. You return to town, triumphant!

Congratulations! Upon giving the horn to Darla, you will each receive 100 GP, 200 XP, and 1 downtime unit.

Azu is thrilled with the money she received. She poked Sai's arm, "I have enough to buy the super cool bag of animals. Come one, I wanna go buy it right now."

"Glorious! I have my own container of animals to purchase as well. In a sense." Sai glances appreciatively at his reward.

Giggling, Azu will head to Hexia's shop.