The Child – Episode 5

Enter the gargoyle.

When the smoke clears, there hulked the gargoyle – shaped of scorched stone, wings enveloping, fanged and clawed and slavering with its forked tongue. One beat of the monster’s wings sent it skyward and, with another, it rocketed out the loophole to give chase to the fleeing elven palace guard. As it passed Desdemonia, the succubus flushed, overcome with a carnal need for the hellish brute.
Agnoment soon joined the three of them outside the ghost elm and, in short order, the climbing guard was dispatched – both her arms torn from her body – but not before she could blow a silent whistle, awakening the palace to their presence. Elven archers emerged from loopholes all across the palace and began to fire flurries of arrows at the exposed villains. One by one – by flight and a little jumping – each made their way into the canopy: a lattice-work of interconnected branches and bridges between the five trees.
While Desdemonia sneaked amongst the branches, the Doctor and his wife bounded up the staircase and eventually emerged into the throne room – currently unoccupied. Agnoment simply ascended, firing necrotic arrows at every sentry in range, while the gargoyle tore a bloody path through them, mauling and mangling and throwing enemies to their deaths. Before long, they’d pacified the palace perimeter and were converging in the throne room.
As Erick shed his gargoyle form and disappointed Desdemonia, the villains watched as elves – soldiers, servants and others – went running into the central tree. Once inside, every branch that connected withdrews, isolating the central elm from the other four. What’s more, a host of brambles grew spontaneously from the bark, promising to shred anyone who attempted to climb the wood.

Campaign: All Hail Yog
Game Date: Hemson 51, 894 4A
Starting Point: Vaer Quethrolas
Player Characters:

• Agnoment 
• Desdemonia 
• Dr. Hughbert Hilkington 
• Erick Idylvain 

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