Session 14

Apparently Cato had been poisoned but we helped them out of it? We are going to try and kill Dagamaw in exchange for Cato's knowledge/expertise on plants/medicines.
 
As we journey to find Dagamaw, Dewey identifies the dried tree bark from the warehouse as being from a species of ash tree that is native to Ashreave.
 
When we find Dagamaw, it is staring at a Spirit Tree that grows in its own sort of clearing within a forest. Spirit Trees aren't inherently magical but the sap (when drunk) can connect people to spirits of people who have passed by the tree. Maybe Dagamaw was actually attracted by the Tree instead of scared off by something else? Saffron collects some sap samples from the Spirit Tree, much to the attention of Daggermaw. Saffron notices Daggermaw has some kind of vine/ring marking on one of its tusks that Pukkittt remembers from a funeral. Saffron then tries to feed some of the sap to Daggermaw and Daggermaw's marked tusks get some kind of weird blue glow, and it then bites the base of the tree. Saffron drinks some of the sap which seems to make Saffron angrier (but not Daggermaw). Dewey manages to get close enough to recognize the tusk markings and translate part of it as 'cursethorn'. Saffron feints and slashes at the marked tusks and it sort of flashes and phases before getting angrier and we begin a fight.