Session 143 - November 10, 2023 Report
General Summary
Feywild Day 45 - Travel Day 24 - Fall 9
- After the shambling mounds, Beartrum was quite hurt and he look an hour to rest and roll some hit dice, the rest of the party was fine. The rest of the day, nothing happens.
- Long rest.
- Mid afternoon Roth notices that a trail of daffodils is following behind the party, in a small path. The flowers seem to be blooming from wherever Beartrums steps. Roth first thinks Merry is playing a prank or this a new Alethra Druid power, but after watching Beartrum, Roth brings it to the attention of the party.
- Beartrum is convinced that he now has druid powers, and runs around making many rows and lines of flowers on the path. Olly also wants magical flower powers, but sadly it does not seem to work for her.
- After an hour, Beartrum is no longer growing flowers, and seems sad, but will talk to Fen about his druid "powers" when they get back to the manor house.
- Long rest.
- The sky is clear and the weather is beautiful, nothing happens.
- Mid-morning Roth spot a very tall tree with dark red leaves strolling down the path towards the party, and Roth is confused, uses the spyglass and then asks Merry what to do about it. Merry asks Oakly about walking trees, and Oakly is interested to see the "tree guardian" that walks the forest in the Fall Feywilde.
- Oakly then asks to get out of the box and have a treant conversation with this new tree. Aurora and Rolen assure the group that these creatures are friendly if we are not harming the forest, and should be able to communicate with it, should there be any need.
- The tree is happy to see Oakly and speaks to it in Druidic, and is confused about how a spring tree is up and walking, in fall, and at such a young age to be gifted the range of movement. Oakly is star struck and very happy to have a chat once Alethra translates and the group speaks a bit in Common and Sylvan.
- The treant asks for any updates or issues that they have seen along the route, with Roth mentioning the statue creature, which the Treant is confused about, but will let the trees under his watch know about the odd creature, and wishes the party well.
- Alethra then aske Merry if she created a Treant with Oakly, and the response is unsure, but Olly wants to know if Oakly will get that tall, and, again, Merry is unsure.
- Oakly then walks the rest of the day and enjoys some time in the Fall Feywilde.
- Long rest.
- Oakly goes back into the box in the morning, as it is still a little chilly for them.
- Mid afternoon, a lake, shimmering, is seen in the distance.
- The lake is a good size and comes very close to the road. This is a good thing for Aurora and Rolen, who say that the court is 4-5 days away from this point.
- Olly goes to circle around, but only sees a frog on a lily pad, and Roth then decides to do a little arrow fishing, getting a large rainbow trout, which Olly retrieves and he shares with Beartrum for dinner that night.
- The party wakes to a world of heavy mist and fog, with very low visibility. This lasts most of the day, and causes the travel to be a bit slower. Late in the afternoon, Roth sees that one small area of mist seems to be moving in a very odd manner.
- Roth, being Roth, shoots it first. The mist flies over Roth and Beartrum, causing them both to be unable to breath or speak. Alethra casts toll the dead, and Merry tries a firebolt, but it misses. Roth attacks with his shadow blade, but the mist then goes after Bearturm. Alethra misses with fire bolt and Merry summons Bigby's hand, causing the silence spell to be cast on the group.
- The hand was unable to hold the mist creature, which then invaded Roth's nose in an effort to hide inside of someone and survive.
- Roth teleports and then snorts Holy Water in an effort to get the creature to leave him, but sadly neither action seems to have any effect on the mist monster. The party waits and preps spells to attack the creature when it wants to leave.
- As soon as it leaves, it tries to flee, but both Alethra and Merry have spells prepared, so it is hit, and is destroyed by a combination of destroy water and freezing sphere.
- The small frozen pieces, which Olly tries to pick up and combine into a tiny snow animal, but instead all pieces are place in the bag of colding for further study at a later date.
- Both Fall Fey are confused and terrified of this creature, never seeing or hearing of anything like it. They are both shaken and want to move on as quickly as possible.
- By the start of travel the next day, the fog has cleared.
- Mid-morning, there is a chanting sound on the wind, in Primordial. Since Alethra speaks the language, she is able to understand it is not a word, but a sound, like a mantra, used in ritual meditation. The question seems to be who or what is making the noise. Since Roth rolled a 30+, he senses the direction it came from and sends out Olly to scout, who does not see anything.
- There are thoughts on if rock can mediate and how that is accomplished. There will be later discussion on the subject. The party moves on, with nothing else happening that day.
- The sky is clear and the weather is beautiful, nothing happens.
- Aurora and Rolen are excited, as the party is getting close to the Fall Court, and should arrive the next day, assuming the weather does not turn. Roth sees two shadows in the foliage on the path, seeing to be ready to ambush and starts by firing off an arrow. He hits one of the two displacer beasts which was waiting.
- Alethra casts shatter, and Beartrum charges in, then realizes that these may be related to Soot, and is conflicted about attacking, but does attack. Merry also casts a shatter spell, and after fire bolt and arrow, Beartrum finishes off one of the displacer beasts, only for two more to jump out from the other side of the path.
- Merry tries to cantrip the beasts, and Alethra casts fireball. Since 2 of the 3 beasts which are still up are so hurt, Roth and Beartrum each take one last attack before the 3 run off into the woods. The group lets the creatures go, with Beartrum concerned for how big Soot will get and how much this will make it hard for Soot to ride on Beartrum's back.
- Since there is one creature that was left, and since they are know for being so hard to hit, Roth and Alethra take the hide of the creature for use in later magical gear.
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