Chapter 3, Session 10:The Coven, The Hearts, The Wanderer
General Summary
In a misted Grove,
A man loses half,
In a misted Grove,
A shadowed Path.
Drums pick up speed,
A scent is found,
The queen wishes to feed,
A warrior's boots pound.
Gifts are given and taken aplenty,
Books scream... consumed,
Through it all a hunter weeps gently.
And the chase is resumed.
The party resumed session by discussing their plans and, soon after, choosing to run at speed, following The Thin Man's trail to reach the hags and find their way out of the Feywild.
As Persicorum travelled, they discussed their plans for going ahead and worked out that they only needed one heartstone from these hags to open the arch... but they still had no idea what exactly that was meant to be or look like...
Following the trail left by The Thin Man, the party covered alot of ground quickly and soon found themselves facing a sheer side of a mountain with handholds that they would need to ascend to follow the trail left behind, most of the party did this with ease. Kodo used his slippers of spider climb to easily scale the cliff up the side, Amrys, Thordak and Mimsi climbed up the side whilst Fen cast fly on himself.
Olympia... however, decided to create a ribbon skirt to climb up the mountain with 'panache' in the hope it would aid her ascent by performing her way up. She pulled out her disguise kit and got to work, using her tools to knit the fashion project that would take her at least 20 minutes to make.
Soon after, Mimsi moved down to retrieve Olympia, she was taking too long for the party to wait for her any longer. As Mimsi and Fen moved down to help Olympia climb, they began to hear faint drums in the distance, Proto was getting closer to the party, with that, Olympia was assisted in climbing and the party chose speed over stealth as they entered a cave where the hags resided.
After a couple of different discussions about tactics and a failed Enthralling Performance by Olympia, the party rushed into the hag cavern and started combat.
It was a tough fight but the party were slowly winning the upper hand in the battle despite Thordak, Olympia, Kodo and Amrys all being heavily injured in the fight. Persicorum soon started to kill the hags and their aeorian monstrosities. During this time, Mimsi searched through one of the dead hags bags and found within it a beartrap that clasped around her hand and a wet and half calcified, still-beating heart that she identified as a heartstone.
At that moment, Fen heard drums as Proto entered the cavern and began to engage the party, declaring he tracked the scent of Fen and Thordak. As he tried to cast hold person, Fen counterspelled him and he officially joined the fray.
After that point the party started a mad dash to get the fey archway open (with Olympia and her magic being able to activate the heartstone and open the gate with the command word 'heart'), during this time, Proto chose to target The Thin Man with his attacks as Ellena Swarov was released and the party decided to leave as quickly as they possibly could. Kodo stepped through first with Ellena in tow as Proto attempted to threaten and goad the firbolg into a fight with no effect, after Kodo was Mimsi who went to leave but responded violently when Proto implied she was like all other goblins... a coward... as she rushed him, Mimsi struck twice with her pointy stick only to miss twice in a row and be left at the seemingly indestructable warforged's mercy.
Before he could assault, Amrys used his powers from the Thin Man to grasp Mimsi and move away, though not before Proto took a single swipe at Mimsi that nearly tore the goblin in half.
Amrys managed to move far enough to bring him and Mimsi to safety before Fen escaped too (after being pushed through the door by Thordak), this left behind Thordak and Olympia, who had to withstand a round of attacks from Proto if they wanted any hope of escaping alive.
As the warforged approached, Thordak goaded him so that the half orc could take the attacks rather than Olympia and, as he reached the party, Olympia tried to empathise with the warrior, she stated that the two of them are not so different deep down and that they are more alike than anyone would believe... she understood him.
In that moment, Proto hesitated for a second, losing much of his turn, before shaking his head and attacking Thordak, cleaving off one of the Orc's arms and nearly outright killing him. A moment later, Olympia told Proto that she understood he was sad and angry but that THIS was not the way to go about fixing things, at which point Proto declared that if Olympia wanted to fix things she could return his friends to his side. As Olympia moved through the portal, the warforged attempted to strike Thordak's unconscious body but Olympia intercepted half the blow before stumbling through the gate.
On the other side, the party quarrelled about their tactics and the close call before healing and stabilising their members, soon after, Fen established his tower so that they had cover and warmth for the night to rest and recover.
Within the tower, the party expressed their frustration at their weakness and gave eachother group therapy before resting for the night.
The next morning, the party found Ellena Swarov awake but mute and not entirely 'present'. As the party left the cave, they looked in the distance to see an army gathering between Warlington and Freyfrost as well as Edmonton which had since become a crumbled and black ruin.Rewards Granted
- Amrys attuned to She Who Grins as a new longsword option.
- Fen attuned to the Billowing Protector, a cloak of protection mixed with a cloak of billowing.
- Heartstone (currently in the hands of Olympia)
Missions/Quests Completed
- THEY ESCAPED THE FEYWILD!!!!
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03 Apr 2021
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