Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga

We are standing in a vibrant beautiful colorful place. There are birds chirping and frogs croaking. It's the most beautiful forest we've ever seen. They are more vibrant and beautiful than the forests we are used to. Joe offers some acorns to a squirriel, and all the wild life starts to horde around her for food. They fly away when they realize she is out of food.
 
We see a small village in the distance. We see Lupal trees, and some Lupals fall on a patch of flowers which seemed to kill some of them loudly as they have faces and were screaming. Joe used druid craft to regrow some of them.
 
Also the animals can speak common and druids can speak common in their wild shape form.
 
We meet a human in the village who seems to recognize everyone and feel bad that we didn't listen to our elders. He says he hasn't seen us since he was 10. His name is Ventor, and apparently we met him when we were 10. He was a kid who disappeared years ago.
 
We learn he's been here 33 years. He's 43 now. we deduce that time works differently here. It's only been 10 years for us. We tell him about a mushroom circle we found, and he gets excited, because we could leave through it. However, we cannot find it.
 
We mention the name Avalora and it starts to storm. We use the name Isoldae, and it turns to sleet. We learn that Tatiana, the summer queen must laugh to clear the sky.
 
We learn we are in a pocket and cannot leave. The storm eventually clears up. We learn Tatiana visited here once and would not release them, probably because she thought that this was a better place for them.
 
We learn there is a group of dwarves who may know about Isoldae are here. He is a blacksmith that lives in town.
 
we go see them, and Joe notices they are hitting cold iron, which is strange. We learn they got here when they had a shared dream and they woke up here. They've been here for about 200 years. Their name is Rinsein and Ripete. They were from the Black Mountain. This is a mountain in the Fae Wild. the dwarves from there are now dead. His people found the black diamond. They went to take it to Tatiana one day, but she was swimming, so they gave it to her sister, and now nobody really remembers what happens. When they went back, the whole mountain had exploded and they had the dream after that.
 
They make us drinks with some Hello Faries. Angst steals a faerie from them and hides it in his pocket. He and Elias head out in an attempt to follow this faerie and be lead to a mushroom circle.
 
Meanwhile, Joe peaks under a tarp and sees a piece of very raw iron. They are making cold forged iron. It's super effective agains Fae so they don't reincarnate. They must keep is secret, because if fae around here knew, it and they would most certainly destroy it and them.
 
Meanwhile, Angst and Elias try follow the faerie they stole, but quickly lose site of it in a tree.
 
Ash decides to fly up as a butterfly into the sky to see what happens, but she hits a cloud which fatigues her wings. She decides to fly back down.
 
Talking to the dwarves we find that around once per year an Archfey named Visfil appears and causes a bit of havoc before she leaves.
 
Ash has an idea that she could try to channel the summer court in the same way that she channels it for some of her healing magic. In an attempt to try and draw the attention of Titania, the Summer Queen.
 
We need pinecones, lilacs, sunflowers, green leaves from an oak tree on branches, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger for this ritual.
 
As Joe and Dermish are searching for oak tree branches. They come across some kind of dryad creature. She says she will allow Joe to take some branches in exchange for a single Dermish. Joe protests, but the dryad charms Dermish with her wily ways. Her name is Reeta.
 
She's been with this tree for Eons. Dermish decides to use his charms on Reeta asking for some limbs with leaves, but he has to send Joe away so they can be together. Joe goes to find the flowers for the spell and gets the limb of leaves.
 
While gathering lilacs she sees a Satyr named Nap sitting on a stump playing a flute. He convinces her to have drinks with him to see who wins. The wine is Bacchus wine from Ysgard. Nap says he can get us out of here if Ash's plan fails.
 
Angst, Franz, and Elias gather the sunflowers as they scream out in horrible pain as they do so. They all get lost in the field of sunflowers. Angst threatens to murder the rest of the sunflower families unless it helps lead him out of the field. However, the flower doesn't know the way as he's never not been in the field. The sunflower begs for its life. It turns out they needed to walk backwards to get out. The sunflower helps them figure this out and they are able to finally escape the field.
 
As they leave, it starts to snow, as they find pine needles. They are able to find pine cones, but they are lined up in a strange way. Franz starts picking them up and ends up behind a tree where he finds a dismembered humanoid. He hears a creepy high pitched laugh. Elias finds a gold and black striped needle on the person of the dismembered humanoid. Elias observes the footprints leading away from the dead fellow and can tell it's a very large humanoid. They think it may be a FaeDark creature trying to lure them away.
 
Meanwhile, Joe goes to collect Dermish from the dryad as she completes her drink fest with Nap. However, Dermish has agreed to protect the tree forever. He really loves her. As Joe is trying to gather Dermish. Franz, Angst, and Elias approach. Reeta tells them that she and Dermish are getting married. Franz gives him a good slap across the face.
 
The argument that wins him over is, Joe lies and says Ash has a huge crush on Dermish and that if he doesn't come back, Ashe may come back and raise hell and fire and kill her. He has to leave her to protect her.
 
However, Dermish still doesn't leave and the group has to knock him out to get him out. As Elias knocks out Dermish, Reeta tries to charm him instead. However, it doesn't work. The group barely escape in tact.
 
They get back to Ashe. The dwarves and Ventor provide the ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The group lets them know we are trying to leave, and they gather up the village. Dermish thinks that Ash has a crush on him now, and so now he's being flirtatiously nice? lol
 
As Ash casts the ritual, it starts to work. As she looks toward the sun, she disappears. Anyone else that looks at the sun is able to disappear as well. It works. we appear in a place of gigantic trees the size of sequoia trees.
 
WE are then surrounded by elves with arrows pointing arrows at us. Ash convinces them to let us see the summer queen, Titania.
 
They take us up to where there is a stage. a fellow named Ticklemead offers us delicous honey mead and asks if we are thespians. We say we are not, but will tell wonderful jokes as we promised. A young girl approaches and dances with Elias. Joe joins in on the dance.
 
We learn that Titania is the little girl. We regale her with tales and jokes good and bad. Ash gives her the necklace she made of Sarah's finger.
 
We tell her we are from Luralarue. Titania asks how Larue is. We say Milikea is looking for her. We learn she is trapped. She was trapped long ago by Titania's sister who is now known as the Queen of Air and Darkness. Franz tells Titania that he accidentally freed her a while back. She is the ruler of the gloaming fae and Titania has no idea what might happen now.
 
The black diamond went to the Queen of Air and Darkness and it corrupted her.
 
Larue and another fae (can't remember the name),
the Queen of Air and Darkness threw the diamond down causing the land to split in two. It was split into 6 pieces. All 6 pieces of this shard are in the material plane. There are 6 beams of light holding Larue into place. If we somehow find these shards, we may be able to find Larue and free her. We know that this is on our side of the rift. They are east of the rift.
 
Titania says if we need to get back, Valera the fae will help us go back. WE take a nap and when we wake up, we wake up in the circle. We now can no longer see red and only see greens and blues.
 
Ventor's wife is there and we learn there is a fae that is waiting for us. She's about 10 ft tall floating. She is covered in leaves and stuff. She seems to be looking under rocks and in tree branches as if she is looking for something.
 
Elias asks if she has lost something. We ask her what she's looking for, and she's looking for the color red. Apparently it's hiding. We end here while looking for red.