<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a6/Neeral.jpg)<br/>Neeral (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1428855)</div>As they prepared to set off towards Secomber, Neeral made some last-minute rebalancing of her own load and her mule's. With Baradis's permission, she would transfer some large bags of horse feed onto the wagon, to lighten the mule's load and ensure that she could be light on her feet as they walked.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"So there were three gnomes trying to get into this kobold warren and steal their treasure," she recounted to Vannalys, and anyone else who cared to listen, as they trekked down the trail a few days into their journey. "They thought they were very clever gnomes, and were very good at evading kobold traps. The first trap they found was a spiked pit trap that wasn't even covered. They carefully walked around the edge of the pit in single file, and considered themselves very cunning for having evaded the trap. They were then very careful and cunning at getting past the pressure plates that triggered the dart traps in the next room, and the swinging blade trap on the door.<br/><br/>"Finally they came to what looked like a dead end. Of course, they knew there was going to be a secret door, so they looked around for hidden panels. And they found one, very cleverly. They took the panel off the wall, and what do you think was behind it?<br/><br/>"A Symbol of Fear! Great big sigil on the wall behind the secret panel. So of course the gnomes scream and start running out of the warren. And you know what isn't clever or cunning? A gnome that's about to piss itself with fear. They ran straight through the swinging blade trap, which nearly decapitated one of them. They ran straight through the room with the dart traps, and ended up looking like pincushions. But the best part?" At this point, she was grinning like a maniac. "Imagine three panicked, jittery gnomes trying to get around a spiked pit in single file. Nope!" She made hand motions of three things falling. "They all ended up impaled at the bottom of the pit! It was hilarious!" She laughed and slapped her thigh with her hand. "That one never gets old."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>On the day before they arrived in Secomber, Neeral was ranging ahead of the party to scout the path. She came back unexpectedly, with mud clinging to her hands and feet and the tip of her tail, carrying a backpack almost as big as she was. "Look what I found!" she said, hurrying over to the wagon and placing the backpack on a level surface. "It looks like a really good backpack. Too big for me, of course. Anyone want it? And there's some money in here, and a lapis lazuli. We'll put that in the party stash." She looked around at her fellow adventurers. "Who's gonna hang on to our treasure, anyway?"