Session 48: On our way to Lupine

Salfa is actually Sally Fairtress. She's here because Pirate Pete was like "yeah, it's such a great world" and she's like I'd like to have it, but Adenazeal needs to be there, so she brought everything here.
 
How do the Salfanites have paladin powers when they worship a devil?
 
There was a prophecy that we would meet Pete again and it would mean the end of the world
 
Pirate Pete wants Joe's finger to consider working with us. He kind of wants to kill us because JOe drowned him when we were kids. Then he's like, let's play a game. If Joe can light a lighter 10 times in a row, Pete will help us at no cost. Otherwise Joe will lose a finger.
 
It's Ravenqueensea 28th 8:30pm
 
Elias raises his dagger to chop off Joe's pinky. For a moment Elias thinks to throw the hatchet at Pete. They turn into really high level devils, and Elias decides to chop of Joe's finger.
 
We take the finger, and Pete and his devil gang think to attack us, but were like fuck you buddy. If you don't let us have the finger we tell EVERYONE what you are, so they back off. Also, Pete is some kind of Deva....not a devil.
 
We all decide to work together to defeat the Magnuses. We're like they fuck haven't you defeated them. You guys are fucking powerful, and they are like The magnuses are in the mountains. There are werewolves, demons, beasts, and drow working for the Magnuses. Once you get to the manor, there is a mote. The bridge is drawn and only those permitted are allowed in. The roof is guarded by gargoyles. The only way to sneak in is through the mote. There is an underground dungeon below, but it's filled with monsters...failed experiments cutting through all those monsters would definitely notify them of our presence.
 
There is also a bunch of vampire spawn at the Magnuses disposal. We're like, you couldn't possibly formulate a better plan??? Like this doesn't make sense.
 
They had tried to infiltrate before, and when they failed, the magnuses sent out their minions and killed 1 out of 10 people in their village.
 
Anyway, if we can get the drawbridge down, they can get men in through the front gate and take care of the vampire spawn.
 
Serafins here are tasked with defeating the magnuses. Once they do, they will be able to join the fold of Adenazeal. I guess Salfanites are from Adenazeal. The others are known as Sarafins?
 
Pete wants us to try and gather some forces for him there are werewolves in the north who hate the magnuses. their leader is named Baron Reginald Greytress. Oh wait...that's the enemy werewolf leader.. The good werewolf leader is Greytress's son...also known as Greytress. Greg Greytress. I guess they are at odds with each other.
 
We question heavily their failure in this area, and Elias asks for a good faith information in why/how the Sarafins/Salphanites are able to cast Paladin magic.
 
Pete's like yeah...that's a secret. Light chimes in and asks Pete what he wants. Further calls him out on how things just don't make sense. They've infiltrated to try and get information. Light thinks that Pete is here for some kind of information. WE figure out that they are likely after the demonomicon and maybe information about a shard. We don't share this though. Light thinks that Pete will have us killed if we are successful in helping him.
 
We figure out that Pete wans the demonomicon for sure. Elias is like, absolutely not. I'm not giving it to you. Panfyr offers a game of chance at the end for the book.
 
A contract is drafted. Heres what is says:
 
It will be a game of Pete's choosing, but the odds will be 50/50.
 
Mid contract write out, we're like fuck this shit....We aren't getting anything from Pete there is no reason for a contract at all. We convince him letting us go will only help him, because we are likely to do some damage to the Magnuses. He agrees.
 
We go to the tavern and get some drinks. We give Joe some poppy for her finger pain. Joe gives Ash her pinky.
 
Elias and Panfyr meet a young lady from this area. She tells us the soldiers here have promised to rid the Magnuses out of this land.
 
She says the Salfanites have promised them land/jobs once the Magnuses are gone. The Magnuses have taken everything from them and forbidden trade of any kind. Galvania used to provide food, but something happened and that stopped years ago.
 
The locals are in huge support of the soldiers here.
 
We decide to try and get the werewolves to the north to join our forces and not even bother with Pete at all.
 
We go to George, the blacksmith and bill Pete for some silvered weapons.
 
Franz makes a silvered grill for his fangs.
 
It's roughly 2pm Ravenqueensea 29th
 
We get on our horses and head up the coast. We pass a village called Dorian village, but decide not to stop.
 
We get to a forest where a group of people are walking out. There are signs with symbols of Lathander warning folks away from here.
 
The group of people were doing their monthly search. There are a large amount of people that go into this forest and never come back. They fall into some kind of despair and die...a suicide kind of die....The forest perpetuates the sadness.
 
We tell them we are heading to Lupine forest, and they are like, you guys are crazy...that's freaking dangerous. They don't know of any shortcuts and tell us it's a bad choice to go.
 
We try to go around the forest along the coastline, BUT can't because of a cliff or something, so we go into the forest.
 
Panfyr sends her wild companion into the Forest to check things out.
 
We notice that any animals in the forest are dead. We determine that there a blight roses there, and those feed off of meat, and are feeding off the carcasses.
 
As we are walking a number of us start to get incredibly depressed and want to stop walking. We do lose some horses which Franz promptly eats. Elias, Hydr, and Ash all have no desire to move forward. The rest of the group puts them on the living horses and forces them to go. Later...more of the horses start to fall to this curse again.
 
Ultimately we realize that mushrooms are causing this. Joe is able to heal everyone. We only lose 2 horses. Thanks goodness.
 
We get out of the forest and get to a river.
 
WE decide to take a rest. Hadyr took some of the mushrooms out of the forest. While he's examining them, he sees an old lady picking flowers. We try to ignore her, but she ends up seeing us. She's harvesting nightshade at night. something about the oil only secreting at night is why she's harvesting so late.
 
Her name is Moldovia. Franz detects her thoughts and learns she's very concerned with Pete and the Magnuses. Whether or not either of them need her. She's thinking about what they could possibly want or need.
 
Franz learns that she thinks the Magnuses are VERY powerful, and this actually excites her. She may want to try and make some kind of deal with them. If she controls them, then she controls everything they control.
 
He detects that she thinks she's much more cleverer and mentally more powerful than the magnuses. We learn she lives all the way on the eastern side of the island (we are on the western side)
 
As we end the questioning, Panfyr is hiding, and she thinks that this woman is really bad and decies to stand up and shoot her. As she sees Panfyr appear with her bow, Moldovia says "sisters" and this is where we end.
 
It's roughly 12AM Ravenqueensea 30th