The Hodag & Velena
General Summary
April 13-19, year 1;
Cherubix, Dezy, and Faraday
Rhaz’m Khar approached the group to help deal with a small problem for one of his guards. Joseph had been patrolling around Greentree when he spotted a pair of red glowing eyes. The eyes belonged to a Hodag, a wolf/lizard hybrid with quills and a love of hunting scared prey.
The group set out, intent on setting a trap using one of them as bait. However, after discussing how it liked to continue hunting a person it already set eyes on, they returned to the city to ask Rhaz if Joseph could join them.
Now with a better piece of bait in the trap, they got into position and waited. The creature came along and was swiftly defeated, the killing blow delivered by Cherubix. Later, when they had returned to the Golden Flagon victorious, the party commissioned the local bard to write a song giving Joseph credit for slaying the foul beast. Faraday and Cherubix also set about telling any pretty lady in the bar about Joe’s success, ending in Joseph enjoying the rest of the evening with a lovely little blonde-haired cooper’s apprentice, Seraphina.
The next day they set out following the strange Kami-stone that was pulling NNE. Along the journey they saw a handsome red fox, who led them off course to a small well kept cottage, inhabited by a huldra and some smaller fey.
The huldra, named Velena, was impressed with the party’s having gained the trust of a group of kamis in the Goodfruit Grove, and asked the party to help her deal with her own problem: a Winter fey who was organizing a large band of gremlins in an old elven chateau near the forest’s southern border.
The party agreed, and after a night’s sleep in the clearing set out to exterminate the fey pests. They dispatched a gang of gremlins in the forest, in the process saving a grig that the gremlins were trying to recapture. After surveying the chateau from the cover of the trees, the party agreed to take the brunt of the gremlins’ attacks in order to allow Velena to take on the Winter fey herself.
The party infiltrated the chateau under cover of silence spells, and surprised a band of gremlins tormenting a brownie in what was once the chateau’s central hall. Combat ensued, with Cherubix providing artillery fire from the roof and Dezy & Faraday keeping the gremlins’ attention on the ground floor. The fight was close - Cherubix briefly went down to well-aimed acid bile shots from two grimples - but the party prevailed, even after more gremlins entered the fray.
As they were mopping up the last of the gremlins on the ground floor, the party heard Velena cry out from above, and the green light of her magic winked out. They rushed up the stairs to aid her, and proceeded to disarm and then slay the Winter satyr who was leading the gremlins.
Velena was grateful for the party’s assistance, and added her own token to the fey stone the party was carrying, effectively giving them her endorsement in any future dealings with other fey. She told the party about a number of other fey inhabitants of the forest, and gave rough estimations of where they might be found. She offered them shelter in and around her cottage in the future, and bid them a fond farewell, as she needed to stay in the chateau for a few days to cleanse it of the Winter Court’s influence.
The party found a magic mace in the possession of a dead vexgit, in addition to the magic panpipes the satyr had been using. Faraday claimed the mace, and selling the pipes gave the rest of the party enough money to purchase their own magic weapons.
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