Session Recap
Game Date:
1172-7-27
We return to the hag’s clearing.
As we approach, we see Toothache, who howls and lopes off to the north west. We hear an answering howl. We follow. We keep going forwardntil we see the hag standing on the rock.
She says, so you came back. Did you deal with the bear? Does it live?
Yes.
She asks what we expect her to do . We remind her that she said she would helps cure the kids of their malaise. She seems eager to break her word, but Martin reminds her that is exactly what she said would happen.
She reluctantly givess two vials of clear liquid with amber flecks in it.
We take about a half day to get back to the farm.
The other priestess is not thrilled that we didn’t get the flower. We give her the phials, and she opens them and they smell awful. Martin tries a finger taste of one, and they don’t taste like medicine. He is pretty sure that this won’t help.
Arada thinks that killing the kids would technically fulfil the hag’s bargain.
Eugene casts a ritual augury, ”is it weal or woe to dose the sick children these potions ”. The answer is woe. He also confirms it is non-magical.
Arada pours a little on a bug. The bug dies.
The priestess(who dabbles in alchemy)has nothing to add.
We discuss our options. Threaten the hag or kill the hag seem to be the two
We rest the night.
In the morning, Martin ritually casts detect poison. The potions are poison.
We return to the hag’s clearing.
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We decide to give her the chance to surrender because we are the good guys.
Martin nominates Penelope to be the spokesperson because she is the most intimidating. He casts guidance on Penelope, and bonds Adada, Penelope and himself.
We approach the hag and the wolves. We ‘re sure it will be fine.
Toothache comes runningp, and Arada jumps on top of it.
Turin shoots at Toothache and criticals him. Toothache is very definitely hurt. Turin shoots him again, killing him. So we’ re doing this apparently.
The hag isnimpressed.
The hag turns invisible.
Bonemeal rushesp and attacks Arada and misses. Eugeneses see invisibility to get an eye on the hag. Martin runs forward and casts spirit guardians getting the wolf, and hopefully the hag.
Arada leaps onto the back of Bonemeal to stab it, killing it. Turin tries to shoot the hag, winging her. The hag takes a pathetic amount of spirit guardians damage. She seems to split in two.
Penelope runsp and stabs at one of the hags and the duplicate disappears. It hits, but Penelope becomes afraid of the hag. Eugene hits her with a fire bolt. Arada runsp, but misses.
Turin shoots the hag again, nearly killing her. A second shot finishes her off.
Negotiations were successful?
We search the area. On the hag, we find two small vials of a liquid, hopefully the correct ones this time. Eugene confirms they are curative magic.
Martin finds a hidden door which leads to the hag ‘s lair.
Martin finds a locked box and calls for Arada who easilynlocks it. She finds 120 gold pieces, two potions of greater healing, 1 potion of mind reading, 1 potion of gaseous form, and a wand of wonder(which still needs to be identified).
Martin casts detect poison again, and finds the remains of her potion still. And an assortment of plants and mushrooms. We do find the flower the priestess was looking for . We also take the chest to carry stuff in and head back to the farm.
Eugene identifies the potions are curative. We administer them, and they come out of their stupor. Thomas is relieved. The kids promise to never go near the hag’ s place again.
We go back to Oakridge, and it is late in the day. The townfolk have gathered 35 silver to thanks for opening the mine.
Martin goes to the general store to get something to bring back to Jillie.
Martin casts sending to Lyza “We ‘re done here is, it safe fors to come back to Haven? ” “Yes, it should be, but don’ t rush. ”
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It is the second of Richfest. The mayor has arranged for a barge to takes and the horses and cart downriver. We head off.
We float downriver, with the bargemaster guidings.
Mid - afternoon, we see on the shore a dwarf who looks beaten down, he seess and calls for help. We pull over. Big damn heroes.
He says “I ‘ve been walking all day, we need help. ”
Martin stops him. We’ re not playing the pronoun game today. Who are you and who is we? ”
“Sigh. But I like the pronoun game. My name is Andreas and my buddies and I were doing some mining and we got attacked by a bunch of ogres. There were 8 plus a really big one. It was me and 13 of my friends. Some of them made it into some ruins. ”
We travel for a few hours through scrubland, getting into some foothills. We come towards a cliff with some old, old ruins. The only thing standing are a couple towers.
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Andreas says his buddies are in the tower and the ogres are in a door on the cliff.