Session 011 - The Knight and the Paladin
General Summary
On the shores of the Wayward Pool, Gahr Reigh finds something stuck in a stone that has a note attached from someone with the initials of MR. When Gahr pulls the item out, he finds it is a greatsword. Kiara identifies it as magical but decides not to tell the human fighter due to his aversion to magic. The sword is named Michael or ‘Micky’ for short.
It is at this point that the polymorph potion finally wears off Lilygrove and she turns back to her normal form. She spits out Zarak’s hand and Gahr takes it putting the hand in his bag. Lilygrove then shapes shifts to a mini size and falls asleep, and Gahr carries her. The party begin their journey back to Little Oak where to come across another oak tree, this one a plant not a treant where they see three goats beside the base of the tree and eight houses in the branches with squirrels running around. Tarin questions out aloud why there are goats, and three pixies appear and inform the party that the goats are redcaps that attacked their home and consequently are now under a polymorph spell.
Gahr muses about the nutritional value of goat milk when one of the goats takes offence and headbutts him, resulting in a skirmish to occur. Tarin, Kiara and Gahr pick up the sickles and attack. Lilygrove wakes up from her nap and struggles to touch a squirrel when she sees them, falling down Gahr’s back. She shapeshifts back into her normal size as a goat attempts to attack her, with Gahr grabbing that goat by its scruff.
At this point all the goats turn back into their redcap form, and Lily tries to cast fear magic by bopping a redcap on its nose. The battle slows down as the redcaps throw a tantrum about wanting their sickles back, and then they turn to disengage to leave. Lilygrove continues to try to attack them resulting in her breaking her hand. Tarin stops a redcap, breaks his sickle and then throws the handle at his head when he runs away. The battle ends with Talia yelling “and stay away!”.
The pixies are grateful, and curiously asks about Lilygrove’s tendency to touch things in the face. This conversation ends with Lilygrove turning into a squirrel, Gahr picks her up, and then Talia takes LilySquirrel for cuddles. The pixies inform the party that Granny Nightshade grows the Redcaps in a fallen tree, and helpfully informs Gahr that his sword is magical, luckily Gahr cannot speak Sylvan so he is still blissfully unaware.
The party leave the pixies and resume their journey back to Little Oak, with Lilygrove turning back to normal a few moments later, giggling slightly madly. On their return to the Getaway Gang, Sloane makes fun of Lilygrove and the changeling threatens the child telepathically. With that out of the way, the party and the Getaway Gang works on the plan to infiltrate Loomlurch. Much discussion was made about sweets, Granny Nightshade loving Worthers, and that the players will need to purchase sweets at the marketplace in Loomlurch for the plan to work. There is a discussion about using Lilygrove’s shapeshifting ability to turn into Will as bait when they arrive at Loomlurch. With the plan agreed upon, and another night of rest, the party and Getaway Gang head off to Loomlurch.
On the way to Loomlurch, the party come across a trapped Owlbear. The party rescued the owlbear Juniper and adopted the beast. As the party arrive at Loomlurch the Getaway Gang leaves the group to get into his designated place, and Lilygrove shapeshifts into Will acting as if she is a prisoner. Entering the marketplace the party learns that is manned by goblins, and each of the party swap trinkets for sweets. Each of these sweets had an effect, such as Talia’s footfalls making a musical sound, Lilygrove frothing at the mouth unable to talk, Tarin’s head swells immensely, Gahr is shrunk, Wirth being turned into a butterfly and Kiara leaving marks on everything she touches. Talia caught Wirth in a jar and Kiara shakes it reversing the spell and allowing Wirth to return to normal.
They meet Chucklehead the Goblin Boss and learn that he has a maggot in his head, and that he will die in 30 days unless he is magically cured. Chucklehead leads the party to the parlour where Skabatha is located. On entering the room Kiara turns invisible and Gahr starts playing with a jack in the box. Skabatha Nightshade enters the room, extremely happy that “Will” has been captured. She provides items to each of the characters, the worse being Kiara getting a silver ring that encases her in silver. As Skabatha is leaving the parlour with Lilygrove disguised as Will, Lilygrove shapeshifts back to her normal body and goes to attack the hag.
Skabatha withdraws all the gifts that she had given the party and petrifies Lilygrove. After some persuading of the party, Skabatha agrees to restore Lily and Kiara if the party travels onto Yon and messes things for Endelyn Moongrave, her sister. Gahr offers himself as a replacement for Kiara and the two swap places with Gahr now encased in stone, and then Skabatha leaves.
The party quickly put Lily inside of Gahr’s Bag of Holding and then try freeing Gahr with sweets however nothing works. As the current party sans Lilygrove and Gahr go to explore Loomlurch, two knights walk into the room together. Aldyth a sun elf Eldritch Knight and Bahr Reigh, an aasimar paladin who happens to be Gahr’s brother. The party warm to Aldyth but find Bahr loud, and obnoxious. Talia gives Bahr a cupcake to try to quiet him but all that happens is the paladin getting a halo of fireflies. There are some swipes and punches from Kiara and Tarin respectively to Bahr but they miss. Once things have calmed down the party enter Skabatha’s workshop where they meet three children. The boy Naal has an impression of Skabatha’s key which Kiara trades for a magnifying glass and then uses a smelting pot in the corner of the room to make a copy.
The party are then engaged into battle by three boggles which the party easily defeats. From the defeated boggles Tarin is able to obtain oil for Squirt. The halfling child runs back into the room in tears, and due to thinking the party was here to hurt her she got the attention of a contingent of tin soldiers. The party quickly defeats the tin soldiers and reassure the children that they are here to free the children. It is at this point the Chucklehead rejoins the party and offers a way back to the Witchlight Carnival. It is decided for Tarin to take the oil back to Squirt, and then travel onto the Witchlight Carnival to return Star to its parent.
Report Date
30 Sep 2023
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