Chappo is in appearance essentially an upright capybara in fine robes and a delightful hat. He's often seen with a bright smile and friendly demeaner, which matches his personality exactly. Although be careful pushing him around as seen on the edges of your vision while interacting with him is the various animal spirits that have made it their mission to protect this little man, and they are ready to kill.
As for how this came about Chappo was born in a village of similar sentient animal looking people. May have been in the faywild but Chappo has no idea as during his youth Chappo wandered off into the woods to make friends with the non sentient animals and sort of got lost. Very lost. To the point he wandered into multiple dens of predators and powerful spirits, but his affable nature always won out to bring these creature into protecting Chappo. Now he wanders using his incredible(ly terrible) sense of direction, lovable nature and a horde of animal spirits willing to kill when Chappo isn't.
Friends who came with: Kervrae (Prefers Lady Nerym), Solia, Shev, Yashir and me!
When we went: 13 Alturiak, 1502 DR (Febuary 9th 2026)
Where we went: nice little place called longsaddle and then another mountain! I'm noticing a theme...
Why'd we go?:The mayor I think asked us to stop some griffons from causing problems
What happened?:
we went to the nice little town of longsaddle! Was a long trip but we somehow got back on time? Time is weird. Anyhow we arrived and a new friend told us a buncha griffons were causing some trouble. So he wanted us to help out, which was lucky timing because a buncha young ones were causing some nice horses a great deal of trouble. We couldn't save one but the other two were okay! I healed em up and the nice foks takin care of em even gave me some things to drink. A coupla the babies got away but they pointed us in the direction of the nest.
Going up the mountain we met some unfortunate coyotes, seems the griffons bein there displaced some local ecosystems. Always a shame when that happens, do wonder how these griffons ended up here in the first place. I imagine something has displaced the griffon's natural habitat and that pushed em our way. Hu... oh yeah I fed those new coyote friends and they led us to the griffon nest! Such nice fellers.
We found the nest and there were a buncha poor unfortunate dead gnome folks, bashed about and cut up by the griffons. Just goes to show what happens when nature gets disrupted without proper cause. Anyway the griffons were dealt with and we made it home safe. Little sad about all the death but at least some life was saved.
-Chappo
Chappo's Notes!
Friends who came with: Kervrae (Prefers Lady Nerym), Gyaba, Sylthas, Yashir and me!
When we went: 10 Alturiak, 1502 DR (Febuary 9th 2026)
Where we went: ...um, definitely a couple mountains. One was real tall and went up past the clouds and the other was one with a big green wall
Why'd we go?: Someone named Verada Stoor sent a weird letter with a couple riddles with locations and the promise of treasure and some of my friends like that kinda thing! So I came with to help em!
What happened?:
This was a fun adventure! A little more violent than I would have preferred but it happens. First we went to big tall mountain with a bell since the letter said the other might have curses so it just made sense! We met some real big owls. They weren't happy we were there, territorial and all that, so my friends decided to fight em off. I tried talkin to em but they seemed all priesty and not actual animals so I had a hard time there. Then we solved a riddle! Gyaba is real smart and got it in one try. Inside an invisible cave (or was the wall invisible and the cave was visible? I don't remember) that we saw cus of the bell there was a big stone with carvings and old paint! I cast a bit of light so we could see better and some security fire and ice people showed up. They didn't seem to be able to talk like normal people so everyone assured me they were magicy made people. Not proper ones so I'm sure it was fine. Some tablets showed up made of gold so Gyaba got real excited and grabbed em. But then a big giant person arrived and said the cave was important to their people so we agreed to give em the tablets back! ..later.. after some talk. It's fine! Oh yeah and the cave used to be held by dragons but the giant friend said "it's now the time of giants". Wonder what that was about?
The next cave was much less complicated. Just a hidden door, some rat friends who were hungry, and a cursed diamond that made me see stuff that wasn't real. I knew I could trust my friends! Still recovering from all that but turned out all right! My friends got treasure! I'm so happy for them! Oh speakin of Lady Nerym doesn't like being touched and seemed nervous about my healing, so make sure you speak with her about healing before you do it. Consent is important after all!
-From Chappo
Friends who came with: Kervae (Prefers Lady Nerym), Gyaba, Shev, Bri, and me!
When we went: 8 Alturiak, 1502 DR (Febuary 7th 2026)
Where we went: the Seely Goose Farm!
Why'd we go?: some arrow makers in Waterdeep, they were a whole guild!
What happened?:
we were headed to the Seely Goose Farm.... OH! It's a pun! That's fun. Anyway, seemed the owner passed it on to her nephew and he hadn't renewed the contract yet so the fletcher guild wanted us to check on things. Well.. it got a bit weird. We got there and a real mean goose was attackin another goose. poor guy was just yellin for help, so I did! Later we found out he was wizard named Geesus, poor guy had a speech problem so he accidentally turned everyone into Geese. Didn't really bother me but everyone else seemed a bit bothered so we went and got it fixed. Just had ta give the deed to the farm back to miss Reanne Gosling from her nephew Liame Geeson. Bit a ruff guy, didn't really think how his actions would affect others so things got a bit ruff on him. Also goose shenanigans happened, those were fun.
-From Chappo Barat