Session 51: She's a Polyamorous Bi-Sexual, Something Like That
General Summary
The session began on DeepFrost 10, 2597 midday just south of the Widening V in the forest. Rodan Spice was marioneting the decapitated head of one of the drow henchmen while the party was interrogating the other. From their interrogation they were able to gather that it served the drow matron who had escaped, that they came from the underdark when Miz had brought the matron here via magical means, that they were trying to kill and spread, and that the matron had returned to the underdark for now. With this information, Tork broke one of the henchman's legs, sending him into unconsciousness (that quickly led to death).
The party then went to release and talk with the bound dwarf Talid Turunk. He told the party how Miz had slaughtered the half-dozen other lumberjacks they had been traveling with, summoned the drow matron, and then fled on foot in a direction he couldn't make out. Despite Rodan Spice's natural distrust of Talid Turunk due to his height and race, he was released and healed. He further told the party how the matron had killed the other parties who came looking for them and kept interrogating him about the camp's defenses and numbers.
When rummaging through the dead henchman's belongings, two small vials of live spiders were discovered. They appeared to be frequently opened and then closed as well as have spit around their rim. Further examination showed them likely to be a non-consumable component for spell casting. After some experimentation, Atticus tried eating one but it crawled back up his throat. Wren tried talking with them but they were not real animals evidently. Talid Turunk then chimed in that the two henchman had consumed the spiders and turned into giant spiders immediately. With this revelation, the bodies of the henchman and the spider vials were thrown into the acid pool. Talid Turunk then headed out while the party rested up, Atticus gave his robe of eyes to Alena Birch), and Wren was able to gain that Miz had headed Southwest.
As they were about to leave to pursue, Talid Turunk returned and informed them that when going by the name Kaserod in the camp, Miz had divulged that she was searching for druids, heading South-West towards Bloomhaven (hometown of Wren) though he wasn't sure what she was hoping to find there. Talid Turunk said he came back to tell them because he was a bit afraid of Ambassador Rodan Spice which led Rodan Spice to quote an old brothel magazine he had read (Absurd Rumors and Dumb Facts) about the intelligence of dwarves. Wren shared some with the party about her home in Bloomhaven and how it was mostly abandoned because of the blight and disappearance of druids and animals. Knowing they needed to head there even if Miz had likely arrived over 3 weeks ago, Joint Operations LLC chose to return to Foun via a new spell Kale had learned to get a rest and then transport via Wren's version of the same spell directly to Bloomhaven.
Before heading to Bloomhaven, Tork asked Zirk if he wants to meet Tork's Family. After some discussion about who should have permission from whom for their marriage, it was revealed that Zirk's dad is in prison for strangling a guy to death, his mom is dead, two of his siblings are dead, and his sister is working in the nine-hell mines (deal gone bad with a devil situation). It was suggested the party should rescue Zirk's sister sometime but it was put on the back burner. Wren scryed on the Great Tree in Bloomhaven which looked over a seemingly empty city which was infested wth a black blight. Atticus then went ahead and discussed some possible strategy with the group for future fights to increase their offensive and defensive capabilities. With this all accomplished, they found a tree and everyone headed to Bloomhaven (minus Zirk and Jandar who were still working on construction of walls and doors in the demi-plane).
Arriving through the Great Tree in Bloomhaven, the city center and religious gathering place to worship Silvanus, black blight was seen crawling up and crumbling buildings as well as up the tree itself which has sickly yellow leaves. Rodan Spice shouted "Hello" and no reply was heard. Wren directed them to the unmarked home of the Leader, Zygma which appeared abandoned, save for Kale's eagle eyes seeing footprints leading to a bedroom. Within they discovered torn out and burnt journal pages as well as one which was still intact within a drawer. It read in a hand Wren could identify as belonging to Leader Zygma:
Giving Away the Flower
Might As Well Have Two Men With Big Dicks
Joint Shower
Currently Holding a Head
Speak to Dead with Just the Head
As Long as the Mouth is Intact
Enhanced Interrogation
Squeeze with Tork's Thighs
The Matron
Walks with Shadow
You Should Talk Man
Tork Likes to Spread
Make You My Camel's Wife
Maybe Cameel is a Lesbian...
Probably Put Him Down: Like a Horse?
A Horse Breaks a Leg? Break More Leg!
A Dwarf With Two Unbroken Legs
We Can Fix That Too
That Dark Woman
Kaserod is Miz
I Don't Have Times for Your Pleasantries, Show Me Your Weiner
Don't Try to Run Dwarf: Look at Your Legs
Good Authority She's a Psychobitch
Shot a Girl in the Head Twice
Psychotic Bitches
Rodan Is a Chauvinist
Rodan Hates Women
Trees Have
A Mage, Bind His Hands
No Leads (Leaves)
Pouches of Junk
Spiders in the Tube
Talk to Spiders or a Tree
Talk at Spiders or Trees
Eat a Spider
Oh Hell 'Nah!
Can't Seem to Eat It
Crush it Up & Snort It Maybe
An Abomination Against Some God
Watered With Iron
Nightmares Will Take a While to Go Away
10GP to Help Make the Nightmares Go Aawy
They Never Will
Pass On Word About Who Saved You Here
Dwarves Can't Remember More Than An Hour
Back of a Magazine in a Brothel
"Absurd Rumors and Dumb Facts"
Tork Wipes Well
Tork Shits Himself
Kale Hasn't Shit for Months
I Haven't Shit, Pissed, or Eaten Forever
Pres when you Shit
I Kill Everytime I Pee
I'm Not Even Mad
Longer Than a Shorter Rest
Transport Via Pants
Rodan Going to Pee and Not
Hit Article on Rodan
More Violent Than I Expected, I Like This Spell
Who Needs a Wizard?
Your Dad is In Jail Too
My Dad is in Jail for a White Collar Crime
Nine Hells Not Great This Time of Year
I Lie I'm Not Girthy
What a Fart
I've Grown to Be Very Endeared to You All!
Strategy with Atticus
Does "T" Stand for Tork?
I Don't Know What Kale Can Do?
Atticus Hates Women Too
Kale: Do Whatever the Fuck You Want
It Was a Town
All Druids Abandon Their Towns
All Drows Father Leave
Getting Splinters?
Interstellar Tree Travel
Feel It In My Soul
Anything is Hammer If You Try Hard Enough
Maul Out for Harambe
This Is Not Right
Tork Would Like Suits
Were Thousands of People Here
Rough Streets of Bloomhaven
Laughing or Dying
Bunnyhop or Footsteps
Marco Squatters
Zygma Balls
Dick In Your Mouth
Anything Smaller Than a Dogwood Isn't a Tree
The Tree is Drugged
Anything Underneath Us
Rodan is Wearing Half-Crescent Moon Glasses
Pumping That Guidance
We're Nocturnal
I Smack Tork Again
It's Part of the Spell
Dead Tree Creatures
Do You Speak Common?
Trees Are Rat Bastards
I Knew We Shouldn't Cross the Border Illegally
10 Trees Moving Towards You
The party then went to release and talk with the bound dwarf Talid Turunk. He told the party how Miz had slaughtered the half-dozen other lumberjacks they had been traveling with, summoned the drow matron, and then fled on foot in a direction he couldn't make out. Despite Rodan Spice's natural distrust of Talid Turunk due to his height and race, he was released and healed. He further told the party how the matron had killed the other parties who came looking for them and kept interrogating him about the camp's defenses and numbers.
When rummaging through the dead henchman's belongings, two small vials of live spiders were discovered. They appeared to be frequently opened and then closed as well as have spit around their rim. Further examination showed them likely to be a non-consumable component for spell casting. After some experimentation, Atticus tried eating one but it crawled back up his throat. Wren tried talking with them but they were not real animals evidently. Talid Turunk then chimed in that the two henchman had consumed the spiders and turned into giant spiders immediately. With this revelation, the bodies of the henchman and the spider vials were thrown into the acid pool. Talid Turunk then headed out while the party rested up, Atticus gave his robe of eyes to Alena Birch), and Wren was able to gain that Miz had headed Southwest.
As they were about to leave to pursue, Talid Turunk returned and informed them that when going by the name Kaserod in the camp, Miz had divulged that she was searching for druids, heading South-West towards Bloomhaven (hometown of Wren) though he wasn't sure what she was hoping to find there. Talid Turunk said he came back to tell them because he was a bit afraid of Ambassador Rodan Spice which led Rodan Spice to quote an old brothel magazine he had read (Absurd Rumors and Dumb Facts) about the intelligence of dwarves. Wren shared some with the party about her home in Bloomhaven and how it was mostly abandoned because of the blight and disappearance of druids and animals. Knowing they needed to head there even if Miz had likely arrived over 3 weeks ago, Joint Operations LLC chose to return to Foun via a new spell Kale had learned to get a rest and then transport via Wren's version of the same spell directly to Bloomhaven.
Before heading to Bloomhaven, Tork asked Zirk if he wants to meet Tork's Family. After some discussion about who should have permission from whom for their marriage, it was revealed that Zirk's dad is in prison for strangling a guy to death, his mom is dead, two of his siblings are dead, and his sister is working in the nine-hell mines (deal gone bad with a devil situation). It was suggested the party should rescue Zirk's sister sometime but it was put on the back burner. Wren scryed on the Great Tree in Bloomhaven which looked over a seemingly empty city which was infested wth a black blight. Atticus then went ahead and discussed some possible strategy with the group for future fights to increase their offensive and defensive capabilities. With this all accomplished, they found a tree and everyone headed to Bloomhaven (minus Zirk and Jandar who were still working on construction of walls and doors in the demi-plane).
Arriving through the Great Tree in Bloomhaven, the city center and religious gathering place to worship Silvanus, black blight was seen crawling up and crumbling buildings as well as up the tree itself which has sickly yellow leaves. Rodan Spice shouted "Hello" and no reply was heard. Wren directed them to the unmarked home of the Leader, Zygma which appeared abandoned, save for Kale's eagle eyes seeing footprints leading to a bedroom. Within they discovered torn out and burnt journal pages as well as one which was still intact within a drawer. It read in a hand Wren could identify as belonging to Leader Zygma:
"...suspicions appear to have some validity. We will head there tomorrow, hopefully six of us will be enough to deal with whatever find. The seal was indeed broken."With this they returned to the city center and the Great Tree where Wren attempted to commune with Silvanus. Unfortunately the blight seemed to be blocking her. She next tried talking directly with the Great Tree but it appeared almost as if drugged by the blight. Its speech was slurred and it was very confused. All the useful information she could extract from it was that it knew of many seals at one point but was confused as to which she was asking about. Following this, a distraught Wren rememebred how her past travels before joining Joint Operations LLC had landed her seeing the blight grow worse as she headed south. With this information, Atticus helped reason that if a seal was broken, things would be worse closer to the rupture, so they should head south towards the worse blight. Over the next two nights and days the party traveled (by night mainly) and slept by day (late morning until dusk). They crossed the border into the Rodanis Consortium and crossed an East-West road that was deserted. Eventually the found themselves in an area of the forest where all the trees and vegitation were dead and every surface was covered with the blight. In a clearing, trees began moving around them and towards them, the dead blighted trees, nearly 10. This was where the session ended on Deepfrost 12, 2597 around mid-morning in a blighted forest in the Rodanis Consortium.
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Report Date
01 Feb 2024
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