Scarecrows by De Stem | World Anvil
Sat 18th Jan 2020 05:45

Scarecrows

by De Stem

We were walking through a forest searching for the Gnolls when we encountered a hag walking in the forest. I talked to her for a bit and she wanted us to go to her house. I told her that that was our plan but that I would go back to our party and go with all of us.
 
After a bit more walking, we saw a open field planted with a communal garden with some scarecrows in it. We decided to check it out and as we suspected some magic, I casted detect magic and walked around the fields for a bit. I detected a slight hint of conjuration magic around the scarecrows but nothing that scared me that much. However, when Anlanya told me to go to the pumpkin field and check that out I got a little bit to annoyed and decided to show her that there was nothing scary about them and poked one of them only to get hit right in the face by the scarecrow and all other scarecrows came running towards us.
I was quickly surrounded by four scarecrows and they all dropped swarms of centipedes everything together took me down.
When I woke up, I was being dragged off by 10 giant centipedes so I turned invisible and walked to safety. Then I created a bonfire around one of the scarecrows killing him so I did it again on another scarecrow, it ran away but I cast it again killing him as well.
 
We had a short rest after that and continued to the road to the hags house. After a while, we come to a clearing where we see a hill with a house on top of it using three trees as corners. Around the hill is a hedge that was being cut by little people in wearing red caps. I recognize those as Dwarves so I suggest that Helja tries to talk to them. She is a bit insulted as it turned out that the creature was not actually a dwarf. She did however try and talk to them but they just murmured and didn't try to communicate.
 
We decided to go into the cave in the side of the hill but as we crossed the hedge vines came out and grappled some of us. I managed to stay free by tearing myself loose from the vines and I also pulled Helja out of the grapple of the hedge. By the time I was done doing that, the two humans from the Katla delegation that travel with us where already down because of some tiny blue creatures that where almost to fast to see. I could heal one of those so I decided to heal the paladin. But Helja apparently didn't think I healed enough as she decided to also heal the paladin instead of the fighter that was also down.
After helping everyone out of the hedge and healing Helja whom went down trying to fight off one of the redcaps. I shot an eldritch blast to the tiny blue creature I've targeted with my hex spell.
After killing the creatures I decide we should go and enter the caves. I hand out a couple of healing potions to the ones in need and we continue to the cave.
We enter the cave and immediately stumble upon 5 normal Gnolls, 4 Skeleten Gnolls and two angry looking Gnolls. Grimm whom went first through the entrance tanked them like a boss while I moved my hex to one of the angry Gnolls and hit him with an Eldritch blast. It went down and I targeted the only other angry Gnoll that was still standing by than and hit that one with another Eldritch blast. They all went down with relative ease and we decided to leave and get a good nights rest.

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