Session 39 - The Road Less Traveled
General Summary
Session continues; 5th of Konelia (Blooming Month) Water Day. (The day of Bathing)
New Characters are birthed into the setting; beginning in HEX - 0813 on the evening of the 4th. Our adventures pause for merriment and rest; it is interrupted by fights between swamp goblins and dogmen escalating from the rocky overhang above. Our journey starts with (2) carts, (7) donkeys and (18) Villagers.
Welcoming new players into the world:
jeffszusz, several people.New Characters are birthed into the setting; beginning in HEX - 0813 on the evening of the 4th. Our adventures pause for merriment and rest; it is interrupted by fights between swamp goblins and dogmen escalating from the rocky overhang above. Our journey starts with (2) carts, (7) donkeys and (18) Villagers.
Rewards Granted
- Experience (3 XP)
Missions/Quests Completed
- Continued Running the Gauntlet
Character(s) interacted with
Created Content
- Discover the anatomy of a swamp goblin, featuring skin and an underbelly that resemble bark with internal muscles made of fibrous wood. A back made of jagged granite stone that provides a shell-like protection when attacked from the rear.
- Common folk are put to sleep by the magic of Osgar Cazyach; this ensures a full night's rest for them.
- Raddel creates a swamp goblin scarecrow to ward off threats.
- A "Gravewyrm Piranha" is found eating the eyes, skull flesh, and brain of one of the mules that had a wound on its hoof.
- These rodent sized creatures burrow into the ground and into the nearby hillock.
- It is uncovered that the hillock is actually a burial mound; the rear of this mound appears like pocked Swiss cheese.
- In the cliff face just behind the party, seen in the morning light, ancient carvings and stained stones tell a tale.
- This hillock is the final resting place of Arcturos, First of the Valiant.
- Pressing on west along the Gauntlet Road, the cold morning brings with it the cracking of trees.
- Lumbering in the distance, a great undead treant stomps through the swamp towards the party.
- A donkey is sacrificed to save the caravan.
- Further west, they uncover baubles and pentacles made of vine and dried swamp goblin.
- A crow is heard, welcoming them to the swamp witch's hut.
- Olwenna Mossveil, the witch of the swamp, makes a deal with the desperate travelers.
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Undead Treant
Report Date
16 Mar 2024
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