Season One, Episode Three: Silver Hells
General Summary
Team at a ski town together for the holidays (Silferton)
Lagen Lake nearby, frozen over
Old silver town, now a holiday town straight out of a Hallmark movie
Now have a Hanukkah exhibit and lights!
Natural hot springs
Twin Pines B&B is where we are staying (owned by Natalia Gunnerson), very relaxing
Free midnight sleigh ride on Christmas Eve!
Everyone is hanging out before the sleigh ride
-Bo and Virgil and in the hot springs
-Take is making snow angels
-Elmer is snooping around, asking questions and trying to figure out what is REALLY going on at the local bar (Dottie’s)
-Iggy goes shopping and buys souvenir magnets for everyone, plus 3 ornaments to mail to his dad and grandpa in Miami and mom in New York (he puts a lot of care into wrapping and protecting the gifts before mailing them), then he joins Bo and Virgil at the hot springs
-Lane sneaks out of the B&B and gets an extra large hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows at a local coffee shop, then sits outside on a park bench and watches people go by in the snow, then walk through the streets and look at the lights
At midnight in the town square there is a huge tree where the mayor (Sammy Liska, mayor for 10 years) does a dramatic tree-lighting
We go on our sleigh ride with a large group of other people, which is very nice
As we get further from town, it gets darker, and soon the driver gets concerned and slows down, then suddenly stops
Elmer looks into the darkness
-He notices that the driver stopped the cart is because a lantern has been knocked over and there’s a spray of blood on the lantern and across the trail, the the snow is packed down around where we are; there’s a beat up old blue backpack to the right of the trail sitting in the snow
Iggy looks at the backpack and investigates
-The bag is ripped to shreds and has blood on it
-He finds some tracks on a path leading away; they appear to be animal tracks from a very large cat
-The tracks appear to be heading back to the city
-This is not a child’s backpack; it is old and worn, with a YMCA ID inside for Vern Isringhousen (no picture or useful identifying info)
-There is also a ripped up pair of pants and other worn items packed in the bag; rough living
Elmer wants to know how to protect the other people in the sleigh
-Heading back to town the way we came would make the most sense
Iggy flashes his wallet (like a badge) and tells the sleigh driver to head back to town while we “investigate the broken lights”)
Take vanishes for some reason
Bo and Lane go on the cart back to town to make sure it gets there safely
Lane gets a detailed vision of something bad yet to happen (+1 forward to prevent it, XP if stop it)
-In a house in town there’s a small shoe; a hand appears and pulls a potato out of the shoe; the potato goes flying and smashes into a shed; going back to the house, it seems like there’s a tussle as they are jumped from behind, and then blackness
Virgil sees what he needs to do; it is going to be bad
-He sees a pattern in the blood as he investigates
-A name appears in a pool of blood: Dottie’s, which bursts into flame and then disappears
Elmer determines that we should determine who Vern is; Dottie’s is a great place to start
-Iggy knows Jimbo at Dottie’s from back in the day when he got stranded on his way to Miami and ran out of money
Bo and Lane get back to town on the sleigh without incident
-Bo falls asleep on Lane’s shoulder
-the other people don’t seem to realize what happened and have had a good time
-Lane sends a sleeping Bo back to the B&B and tries to figure out what is going on with the vision
Vision seeking
-Pots and pans are missing from the local diner
-Lane investigates his vision and see a blue sill on an off-white background of a house
-They walk through the residential streets and see a kid start to throw the potato; jinx him, and instead of hitting the shed, he throws the potato through a window making a loud sound, and he runs (instead of walking around the back)
-Lane walks to the back of the house to see what’s there…
Back to Virgil/Elmer/Iggy/Take, who take the backpack back to town following the tracks
-They make their way to Dottie’s
-Jimbo is there in his Indiana U cap and parka
-Iggy shows Vern’s ID to Jimbo; Jimbo seems to know who Vern is
-Vern does odd jobs in town and is a wanderer
-He was out on the trail setting up lights
Iggy investigates to see what Jimbo isn’t telling him about Vern
-Vern is barely able to find work, as nice as he is; he is homeless, and the bag held everything he owns
-Elmer realizes Vern was just in the wrong place at the wrong time; given that there were no remains and not a long trail of blood, this appears to be a monster attack, not a wild animal, and it’s coming to town
-Why didn’t the monster attack us in the sleigh? It wants to feed and will target the weak/alone
Take appears by Lane;they look around the backyard, and all we find are size 18 shoe footprints…
-Take appears back to Dottie’s, but Lane isn’t there!
-Lane appears behind a random house in a neighborhood, where they hear a young voice yelp out behind them; Lane sees a big hand (attached to an 8-foot troll/ogre) shove the kid in a bag (where other voices are coming from), and then looks at Lane
-The troll has huge horns and 13 tails and appears to be female(?), huge nose with warts
-Lane puts up a huge wall of ice to block the troll, causing a jagged piece of ice to snag the bag, causing it to rip
-The troll seems surprised by all this and takes a step towards Lane, ripping the bag, and a small child pops out of the bag and runs away
-The troll grabs the rest of the bag and runs off
Back at Dottie’s, everyone is confused by Lane not being there
-Take bamfs to find Bo at the B&B, where they are asleep on a couch in the lobby
-We finally make our way back to Dottie’s all together
At Dottie’s…
-Lane tells the others about the troll
-Virgil is going to track it
There are two monsters tonight! A cat and a troll. Yikes!
-Natalia Gunnerson tells us the story of the Icelandic Yule Cat, which devours those that don’t get new clothes for Christmas as a gift
Jimbo may be in danger!
-Natalia is a knitter and has some things she’s made through the year; she is happy to donate what she has to protect others
Wait, the town was founded by Icelandic immigrants?
The troll is Gryla, who snatches up bad kids and eats them
-Her boys run around and cause mischief, but leave chocolates to good kids and leave potatoes for bad kids in their shoes
Iggy investigates:
-How to protect against the cat? It ignores you if you have a new piece of clothing as a gift. It is likely that anyone who wouldn’t have new clothes would be at Dottie’s tonight.
-How to protect against Gryla? She cooks the kids she takes in a big pot, and she goes into houses to take kids. When her bag is full, she goes back and starts cooking.
-How to get to Gryla’s lair? Natalia has old Icelandic children’s books. In the book, she comes down off the mountains to eat; the Yule lads come first to cause problems, but she’s from the mountains (there is one mountain in town).
Elmer knows that the next place Gryla would be is in her lair to cook and eat the kids (she needs to be back by daybreak).
-She is a troll, so sunlight is bad for her
-Elmer uses magic to check all of Natalia’s books in a few moments; he finds that the ward ogres, we need hot spring water, a prism, and a sunflower crushed in the hot spring water. This is an aversion, but will hold for some time.
Iggy takes the knit clothes the Dottie’s to hand out to those who need it
-Oh no, Virgil blows up Dottie’s and it is on fire!
-Iggy goes to save those who are trapped inside (generally 5-7 people who are always there)
-3 are already outside when Iggy gets there
-Jimbo is trying to help Dottie; Iggy takes her other arm and they go to drag her out, but the Jaegermeister tap is pouring out towards an open fire, catches, and Iggy takes 2 harm as flaming Jaeger sets him alight
-Everyone appears to be out and safe! Iggy hands out knit clothes to everyone who is there.
-The firetrucks begin coming to put the fire out
-Iggy has ensured that no one else will be attacked by the big cat this year! It has been thwarted, but not defeated.
Take bamfs to get a sunflower; Land and Elmer break into a new age gift store to steal a prism, and then get some water from a hot spring in Elmer’s thermos.
We borrow the sleigh, Take driving, as Elmer and Lane get the components ready for the ritual
Lane begins the ritual while Take and Elmer slow down Gryla
-Take confronts Gryla on the path, while Elmer goes into the cave to steal her cauldron
-Elmer uses magic to easily lift the cauldron up and push it down the hill, but…
-Gryla runs at Take, who takes his true form (samurai armor, wings, magic whip, etc. grabs a huge tree branch, cracks it off, and runs at Take with her new club
The battle of Take vs Gryla
-Take attacks Gryla with the whip, causing her to drop the bag; Gryla counterattacks
-Elmer is at the top of the hill with the cauldron and pushes it down the hill at Gryla (and Take Elmer trips and tumbles down the hill after it
-Take attempts to negotiate Gryla as a fellow supernatural creature, but does not succeed
-Gryla dents Take’s armor, the first time that has ever happened, but is moved away from the dropped bag
-Take defends the bag of kids; he bamfs in front of her, causing her to hesitate for a moment; he does it again, grabbing her belt and causing her to trip
-Elmer comes to a stop, seeing the cauldron smash on the rocks below; she takes a step towards Elmer, then runs for the cave entrance
-Elmer takes a shot at Gryla with his gun, and hits her
Lane finishes the warding, but realizes one small piece was missed and has to quickly complete it while Gryla is running at them
-Lane is popped into a bag, but the warding works and Gryla can’t get in!
-Take confronts Gryla; Gryla throws the bag at Take with Lane inside, hitting Take
-Gryla hammers on the ward as the sun comes over the horizon; she screams as the sun hits her, turning her to stone
The evil Icelandic magic cat is thwarted for the year, and Gryla is defeated!
We rescue the kids and take the cauldron with us!
Iggy and Virgil have a tense moment where Iggy notices Virgil’s burned arm
Iggy has a contact in town, and we may need to come back to deal with the Icelandic magic cat again next year…
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