Session 4: Monster Hunting season
General Summary
Session 4: 3/20/25: Monster Hunting Season!
- learn the Greyblade we fought in training session was named RUBBLE
- Letter from the Greyblades is basically a Monster Hunters License
- Olimar upgrades now include ‘thieves cant’ 2-weapon fighting, and improved athletics
- Ferns upgrade gives them ‘wild shape’
- Robyns upgrade gives her ‘ring of mindshielding’ and improvement with the Lance
At the gate:
- We investigate the guards
- They’ve put a lot of effort to protect this last civilization safe
- 2 other groups
- Not all the adventurers were low level novices like us
- Not all groups have a greyblade going out with them
- We figure out the Marshall,our greyblade companion, is a Cleric.
- Gate opens to the Jurassic Park Theme song
In the Wilds:
- Fern summons a Vulture
- Faced with 2 possible paths
- Road - eventually goes to evacuated town
- Fields - are too out in the open and we quickly ruled them out
- Forest - will have more creatures
- Crew decides to head for the town via the road
First Encounter:
- We sense movement in bushes ahead so we investigate
- The vulture sees 3 scorpions and another creature that seems to be hunting the scorpions
- The creature looks like a dog with 6 legs and antenna
- Purplish glow in the beasts eyes
- Also see another dog beast on other side of road, scorpions are being herded towards it
- Theres a quick battle that I don’t remember anything about except we won pretty easily
Not a Trap!
- Figure out the dog beast was a Displacer Beast, they can create illusions of itself and it was using the illusion to heard the scorpions to it’s real self for lunch. So, it was a trap but not one intended for us.
- Displacer beast is from the Fae wild, this is not it’s natural habitat, how did it get here?
- Fern talked to a beast or something and they said ‘big things were moving they came from the ground’
- We figure out that ‘big things’ are probably mining or digging machines
- We find a glittery dust, and a shiny gold rock in the displacer beasts paw.
- SCOOBY DOO PLOTLINE. So basically someone is using the monsters to scare everyone off the island so they can mine the gold.
- Marshall reacts with shock, sadness and anger. So he doesn’t know anything about this conspiracy.
