Session 7

THE FOREST OF DREAMS 3

15th Meadowlark

About eight days

Characters:

Robert the Swift, Fighter 1 (Steve)

Suba-Jin, Cleric 1 (John)

Gorr, Barbarian 2 (Chris)

Lothos the Undesirable, Elf 2 (Mike)

Eric Withakay, Cleric 3 (Justin)

Meep, Dwarf 2 (Spencer)

*****

Return to the Inn

While the group rested up in the Forgotten Village, people were getting hungry. Robert went out hunting and got lost. He avoided a group of large, floating, glowing jellyfish, almost starved, shot a huge chromatic peacock with sparkling feathers and found his way back to the village after three days.

The group prepared to return to the Inn furniture with all their loot. Lauriel (one of the more lucid town guards) agreed to be their guide back to the Grandfather Tree in exchange for the group's promise to bring back more metal weapons & equipment for the village. A few initial gifts cemented the promise, and they headed back, only deviating once to avoid another pack of 12 floating jellyfish. Robert left small stone trail markers along the way, hoping these would help them find their way back later.

Returning to the Grandfather Tree, the group listened to it ramble for a while:

"A lion & a white hart roam the woods, escaped from the Mad King's preserve. One is evil, one good, but nobody is sure which."

"Many great knights were in the Mad King’s retinue. Alart The Handsome was the greatest of them all, but I have not seen him in many years. Please say hello if you see him."

Gorr asked Grandfather Tree to create a 'perfect branch' for him to make a bow with, if he would plant its seeds in far-off places. The old tree agreed to this and some acorns clattered to the ground. It said it would take some time to grow such a branch, though.

Back at the Inn, James Everbleed told the group that only one day had passed since they entered the Forest of Dreams!

He helped the group buy some more equipment, which they picked up at the carriage house from Garden - a hulking man of few words with a hat obscuring his face, who didn't think much of the group's look. They donated Philotheos Sten's stolen harp to the inn, and James was happy to take it, but seemed to see through the group's attempt to hide their gains in a safe place. They asked him about Gordzu-Kor (the name printed on the coins they found), and he said it was the home of some of the Inn's patrons, including a member named Habakkuk.

Meep the Dwarf decided to become a member of the Night Wolf Inn Excursionist's Guild (a happier tattooing event than last time), and a small celebration was had in the tavern. Three pale, heavily-armed and tattooed warrior women were drinking heavily, singing songs about fighting wolves & beheading men. Gorr attempted to hang out with them, and could follow along with their music with a bit of effort. 

Forest of Dreams

The group managed to follow Robert's trail of small stone structures to the Forgotten Village. Shandril wasn't around, and Baran (missing his right hand, he is the head of the guards) said he couldn't spare anyone to guide them to see the Sage of Lune, and anyway it was too dangerous to go, it wasn't worth it. He was willing to draw them a crude map in charcoal of the local region, though.

Black areas are Moonlit Zones.

Grey area is the river.

The crescent is the Temple of Lune.

The group ventured out into the forest, guided only by this map. They got lost at first, ending up at the great crevasse looking over the ruined coliseum. Reorienting themselves after a few days, they came to a square structure on a hill.

[sorry about the fog of war, the picture has a cutaway view of stuff inside. You'll have to discover it yourselves!]

Venturing inside, vision and hearing were reduced to 20' by thick clouds of heliotrope incense. The smell of melons and summer rain induced a tranquil calm.

The group investigated some strange wooden boards that had been set into the wall for unknown purposes, and a fat yellow candle resting on a stone sphere. In the third room they were ambushed by two groups of shadowy humanoids: four feet high, unarmed, with the heads of dogs. Pinned in a narrow corridor, the group used flaming oil to good effect to keep the pressure off. Eventually the beasts broke and ran, but not before Eric was bitten several times. The party backed into a previous room and regrouped. 

Treasure:

none

Monsters Defeated:

9 shadowy dog-men - 90 xp

TOTAL

15 experience each

Note - For those new to the system. Observe how a life-or-death struggle against triple your numbers still gives a paltry sum of xp. Combat can sometimes be a bad idea, and the world is dangerous. For characters to advance, they must obtain treasure and bring it back home.

Players To-Do:

-Send me your character's alignment (needed from Viegar, Aladar IX, Tullius Jr), race including human subtype (Aladar IX, Tullius Jr), religion if applicable for any non-clerics, and stats (Viegar, Aladar IX, Tullius Jr please).

-Send me your character's AGE if I don't already have it. I have only Viegar, Gorr and Suba-Jin's right now. There are tables in the book HERE (page 23), you can pick something in an acceptable range, or I can roll for you.

-The first 3 people to message me with the phrase "Blue Rose" get 200 xp. [This offer is expired]