Session 12: The Chase

General Summary

The party start chasing the familiar man
They are able to recognise him as a cultist
They follow him to an abandoned building. They end up fighting a number of cultists
They successfully capture one of them to interrogate
They return to Oldden, where they interrogate the cultist
unfortunately he is very vague and after only a couple questions he dies. He does say that he wants to feed the party to 'the beast' or 'a dead god'
The party locate a golden band on his arm, which Adran identifies as having had Power Word Kill imbued into it
When getting into bed the party realise someone had snuck in and left gifts: they quickly realise it was Lucan
The next morning Achievement was in contact with the party, asking for their immediate help
They head over to Prith, seeing Lila on the way
Ander offers to train Prick - Lila wouldn't have the money to pay but Ander offered to do it for free
In Prith, Achievement informs the party that there have been reports of babies going missing. She wants the party to find out what is happening
They speak to a man, David, who had been out with a friend of his. That friend had recently been widowed. He heard the wife call out to him and followed her voice into the woods. David hadn't seen him again
There were also reports of goblins running around. Maybe it was them?
Ander recalls folklore about changelings eating babies so calls for Lei's help
She scolds him on his incorrect notions
The party head east into the forest, the direction that Buddy (David's friend) went
As they travelled it got darker and darker, and more disturbing
The party were attacked by wolves
The party come across hag coven. They offer trades to the party but are quickly rejected
The hags point out the the marks are destructive, and the mark of the beast
Dimitri shot his homing bolt at the hags, who used hold person on the party before quickly engaging combat
The fight was tough. Dimitri went down before any of the hags did. Ander went down with one hag remaining
Realistically Pothos would've only had one hit left in her when she dealt the killing blow to the final hag. She was out of spell slots so the party had a long rest in the hag's hut before returning to Achievement the next day