Session 13: Blessed Spirits

The Grove 30-31/5/1436

• We get to the top of the ladder to see the Archdruid standing 30ft. away near the centre of the grove. The dude we've rescued is dead but at this point, we don't know that. Niamh asks the Archdruid for help urgently but she's confused. Gek explains. She directs us to lay him on a bed of moss while Arthur explains further. She declines to resurrect him, given that he's already dead.


• We take the time to inspect his armour and see an unusual symbol. It's reminiscent of a labyrinth or a maze, with a spiralling motif. It appears twice, on the side of his helm and on his breast. His armour is plain, functional steel - with the exception of his helm, which is silver-plated. Given his lack of arms, we figure he was probably moved by the pudding.


• Niamh asks the Archdruid about her thorns; she says it's likely a blessing, given that it occurred near Demeter's grave, and that some remnant of Demeter is likely responsible. Niamh decides to tell Vylna (the Archdruid) about the Unseelie Fae, she says, "Oh, is it that time of decade again?" She says she'll pass the news on to Asterias, and that he's been rather stressed recently.


• Vylna buries the dude, and he magically sinks into the ground, a mound forming above him, and beautiful wildflowers quickly grow. Gek picks flowers and gives them to Arthur (a blue one), and Niamh (a green one).

Thordak

• We're filling her in on our problems and when we mention the door to Thordak she teleports us to it. She says that it shouldn't be open and she seals it by collapsing the cavern roof. She also asks us to keep quiet about it, which is good because we haven't fully told anyone. She says that Thordak is still alive, but has been sleeping for a long time. She says he is on Chult, in a microbiome of his own. She was part of a group of people who helped him escape, all that time ago. We share our suspicions that the Green Slaad have been using the door to travel to and from Chult.


• We talk about Thordak, and his betrayal, how the Cretans tore his heart out (literally), We also learn that Vylna doesn't like Crete; it seems that nobody does. Thordak's heart is probably still in create, we hear that he replaced it as a part of a pact with Tolaris Foc, in exchange for a scroll.

Slaadi plans

• We continue to talk; about our plans to deal with the troglodytes and slaadi. She is unwilling to condone the wholesale slaughter of the troglodytes and suggests we focus on the slaadi instead of the troglodytes, given that they are the dangerous ones. She asks us to leave off our genocide-brown mould plan and says that she and Asterias will intensify their cull.


• She is confident that we can deal with the green salad because she senses a powerful magical presence with us, which we discover is Sylak's scale. This is confusing. Sylak's scale contains more power than any pseudodragon should. We wonder what in the ever-living Kentucky-fried-fuck he is.


• Vylna summons a Velociraptor to watch over Thordak's door, and Niamh has a moment; now she can be a feathery boi too


• Vylna and us work out a plan to deal with the troglodytes and slaadi. We go in one of the big entrances and draw them outside where Asterias, Vylna and the Drukharii Ambassador can massacre them.

Back in Grove

• After we're done talking, she teleports us back to the grove. Asterias is there but he's covered in gore so he goes to shower. As soon as we're alone Sylak comes out and berates us for showing Vylna the scale. We question him but he claims to merely be a 146-year old fairy dragon. Arthur cooks some shit food and we go to bed.


• In the morning, Niamh summons Peaches again.


• Asterias and Vylna arrive shortly thereafter. Vylna points out that our plan may involve killing Vermeer and that we probably don't want this. We decide to ask the wizard in the old tower (who we have, until now, completely forgotten about), to finish the runic key.

Travel 31/5/1436

• We're riding back to Rootsreach and we encounter Chwinga. As we were making camp, we encountered some absolutely kawaii Chwinga, they imitated us, then led us to a clearing where we saw a load of rocks. We filled in a hole with a rock and they blessed us; they are very nice.

• Arthur was blessed with a giantsbane weapon so we decided to go kill a cyclops. We went to the mountains and found a child cyclops in a cave. We were ethically uncomfortable with child-murder so we looked for a parent. We climbed above the cave and fortunately discovered daddy cyclops dragging a corpse and two people; the remnants of a family. Shard shot combined with giantsbane was appallingly effective, and we killed it in 3 rounds. Gek and Niamh did a total of 24 damage, and Arthur did 114.


• We extracted its eye, while its child watching on in horror.